英语散文：雨雪时候的心情

糖－－它会催人衰老

Sugar-It Could Age You

　　吃糖一向被视为肥胖者的大忌，除此以外，一般读者可能还知道吃糖与蛀牙、与某些心血管疾病的关系。可你是否想到过吃糖与人的衰老也有关系呢？本文则报道了这方面的最新研究成果，读后令人大长见识。

眼泪的奇迹(A Miracle of Tears)

         It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. If we didn't see some rain soon, we would lose everything. It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes.
　　I was in the kitchen making lunch when I saw my six-year old son, B
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爱的力量

    A guard came to the prison shoe shop where Jimmy Valentine was working and took him to the prison office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. He took it quietly; he was too tired to show excitement. He had been in prison nearly ten months and he had been sentenced to four years. True, he had expected to stay only about three months, at the longest. He had a lot of friends and he had been sure they would help him.看
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手The Hand

过感恩节的真正意义并不在于收受他人给予我们的有形物质，
而是借此机会回馈他人，无论是如何的微小的付出。
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幸福人生

     Life's Balance Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them: work, family, health, friends, and spirit, and you're keeping all of them in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls--family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They w
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　　Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as "silent", the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was suffi
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选择快乐所以快乐

    Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" 
    He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. the reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee ho
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小贝入乡随俗 改称足球为soccer

         English superstar David Beckham, brought to the Los Angeles Galaxy to preach the gospel of football to US sports fans, may have to overcome a language barrier to get the message across.  
         Beckham, who acquired a smattering of Spanish in four years with Real Madrid, told some 5,000 fans at the Galaxy's Home Depot Center that he was looking forward to the challenge of making the game "as big here as it is everywhere around t
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永远别放弃希望

Never give up hope

Life doesn’t always give us the joys we want.
生活并非总是如你所愿。

We don’t always get our hopes and dreams, and we don’t always get our own way. 
希望有时会落空，梦想有时会破灭，我们不能一切随心所愿。