When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as rootless and stemless. We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment（食物，营养） required of a seed. When it first shoots up（射出，发...
Mr. Dawson was an old grouch（心怀不满，抱怨） , and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his ball bullet gun. On...
He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised but due to being polite, she promised...
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrive...
Love is a telephone which always keeps silent when you are longing for（渴望） a call, but rings when you are not ready for it. As a result, we often miss the sweetness from the other end. Love is a telephone which is seldom program-controlled or...
If Rudyard Kipling 如果 拉迪亚德吉卜林 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难，你仍能镇定自若保持冷静； If you can trust yourself when...
I have frequented（常到，常去） the same chat line for more than three years now and have made some wonderful online friendships. However I have become bored with the typical chat and Internet all together. So, I decided to take a break. After...
These days, there are so many choices to labor through, from the most basic, such as paper or plastic at the grocery（食品杂货店） checkout counter, to the nearly suicide-inducing, such as the friends-and-family plan or unlimited texting. In t...
As I sat perched（栖息） in the second-floor window of our brick schoolhouse that afternoon, my heart began to sink further with each passing car. This was a day I'd looked forward to for weeks: Miss Pace's fourth-grade, end-of-the-year party. Mi...
Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates（阐明，说明） the power that words have to change a life -- a power that lies right in the hands of those reading this article. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the othe...
