Whenever we're introduced to strangers, we make snap decisions about them according to our first impressions. 每次我们结识陌生人的时候，都会根据第一印象快速对他们做出判断。 Whether they're attractive. 他们有没有吸引...
As the fifth-year college reunion approaches, we have been looking forward to it with equal parts excitement and unease. 期待已久的大学第五次聚会日益临近，我们激动满怀的同时又有些惴惴不安。 Of course there's the enjo...
1. Take accountability for your mistakes. If you find yourself blaming others, look for your part and take ownership. 1. 自己犯的错要承担责任。在责怪别人之前先找找自己的过错，承担责任。 2. Sometimes life puts you throu...
Have you ever been around someone who immediately put you at ease? Perhaps you may be one of those people who others feel safe around. 有没有遇到过那么个人，只要他/她在你身边，你立即就觉得安心？或许你就是让别人觉得...
A Mouse Trap 鼠夹 A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might this contain? He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. 一只老鼠透过墙上的裂缝看到农夫和他的妻...
He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small, mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, he'd been unemployed, and with winter...
10.The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish 许愿的小女孩 As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she collided with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction. 在艾米绕过她的教室对面的走廊...
The Brewer's Son 酿酒也疯狂 When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to dissuade me from becoming a brewer. He'd spent his life brewing beer for local breweries, barely making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him....
Courage 勇气 A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy. 一位父亲为儿子担心。儿子16岁了，却没有一点勇气。于是，父...
There are advantages and disadvantages to coming from a large family. Make that a large family with a single parent, and they double. The disadvantages are never so apparent as when someone wants to go off to college. Parents have cashed in life insu...
