10 The Importance of Scientific Experiments 科学实验的重要性 William Stanley Jevons 威廉斯坦利杰文斯 The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far back as the time of Roger Bacon(1), the wonderful monk and philos...
9 The Flight of Youth 青春的飞逝 Richard Henry Stoddard 理查德亨利斯托达德 There are gains for all our losses. There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs(1) It takes something from our hearts, And it never come...
8 An Hour before Sunrise日出前的一小时 Charles Dickens查尔斯狄更斯 An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a...
7 On Etiquette 论礼仪 William Hazlitt 威廉黑兹利特 Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society...
6 The House Cricket屋内蟋蟀 Gilbert White吉尔伯特怀特 Crickets are fond of kitchens and bakers ovens on account of (1) their warmth. Tender insects that live abroad (2) either enjoy only the short period of one summer, or else doze away (3)...
5 Reading Good Books 阅读好书 Henry Addington Bruce H爱丁顿布鲁斯 Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book-...
4 Trees 树 Joyce Kilmer 乔埃斯基尔默 I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is prest(1) Against the earths sweet flowing breast(2); A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms(3) to pra...
3 Pines 松树 John Ruskin 约翰拉斯金 The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, brings into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow bre...
2 THE HUMMING-BIRD 蜂鸟 George Louis Leclerc Buffon 乔治路易勒克莱尔布封 Of all animated beings this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to(1) this je...
1 The first snow 初雪 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 享利?沃兹沃思?朗费罗 The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves...
