A Half 一半 Doctor, lately I only hear half as well as I suppose to. 医生，最近我的听力只有我应该听到的一半。 I don't understand that, but let's try a small test. ...

My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not read music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could pla...

Let Me Show You How 让我教你 A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. 一家超市雇用了一个年轻人，他第一天上班报到。 The manager greeted him wi...

A light drizzle was falling as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents that Santa had left for us and our baby sister, Sh...

If you thought your life was over when you hit 30 or 40, then bad news–it may have happened much earlier. 如果你觉得30岁或者40岁的时候人生就无望了，那么坏消息来了。这个时间...

  I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I am still in the middle of it. This habit annoyed first my Mom, then my friends, an...

。   When I was a tiny baby crying all night, my mom sang to me and stayed by my side. When I was tired and hungry, she gave me food and warm arms to sleep in. 当我是...

英语晨读 A Reason, Season, or Lifetime   People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to ...

When you try too hard but you don't succeed; 当你竭尽全力还是没有成功的时候， when despite all your efforts you don't get the results you need, give up and move on. ...

。 英语夜读：   Consider...YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the en...