品味人生篇15：Sweet-Pea Summers 甜豌豆的夏天

Each summer in the late 1960s， my two sisters and I would ride the Greyhound bus from Arizona to Arkansas to stay with our father. 二十世纪六十年代末的时候，每个夏天我和我的两个姐妹都会乘坐从亚里桑那州到阿肯色州

品味人生篇14：Look Around You 看看你周围

A very special teacher in a high school had a husband who died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she shared some of her thoughts with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight shined through the classroom windows

品味人生篇13：Gold and Diamond黄金和钻石

A long time ago, in Egypt lived a famous mystical person named Zun-Nun. A young man came to visit him and asked,Teacher, I do not understand why people like you when you dress in such a simple way? 很久以前，在埃及生活着一位著名的神秘

品味人生篇12：What will matter? 什么才重要？

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. 无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到

品味人生篇07：The Echo人生的回音

A son and his father were were walkeing on the mountains. Suddenly, the son falls, hurts himself and screams, AAAhhhh!!! To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain, AAAhhh!!! Curious, he yells, Who are you? He receives t

品味人生篇02：Humor Can Save Your Life幽默的意义

The story goes that a certain court jester went too far one day and insulted his king. The king became so infuriated he sentenced the jester to be executed. His court prayed upon the king to have mercy for thes man who had served him well for so many

品味人生篇04：The Fire一场火灾

A couple, John and Mary, had two lovely children. John had just been asked to go on a business trip and would be gone for several days. Mary would go along too. They hired a reliable woman to care for the children and made the trip, returning home a

品味人生篇05：Playing a Violin with Three Strings断弦的小提琴

On Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is not a small achievement for him. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he walks wit

品味人生篇06：Unlovely不被爱的人

生活中的我们总是过多地关注我们身边的人，我们的家人和朋友，而对于陌生的人，我们大多选择冷漠。我们已经习惯冷漠，可是，你可曾经想过那些你认为与你毫无关系的人正是别人深爱的

品味人生篇08：Life throws a brick at your head生活中的砖头

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. 一位年轻的总裁，

品味人生篇09：Puppies for Sale待售的小狗

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes

品味人生篇10：The Touchstone 试金石的故事

When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers. 故事从亚历山大图书馆被付诸一炬开始。有一本书

品味人生篇11：Building your house 建造自己的房子

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire.He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurel life with his wife and enjoy his extended family.He would miss the paycheck each week ,but he wanted to

品味人生篇03：The Miller and His Son磨坊主和儿子

A miller and his son were one day taking their donkey to the market for sale. 一天，磨坊主和他的儿子牵着驴去集市，准备把驴卖掉。 On the road they met a man riding a horse who said to them, How stupid you are; you have a donke

思想的珍珠篇01：Give Love Wings将爱放飞

There was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving songbirds. She took them home and put them in a small cage. She cared them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning

思想的珍珠篇02：The Cobbler and the banker皮匠和银行家

A cobbler passed his time in singing from morning till night;it was wonderful to see,wonderful to hear him; he was more contented in shoes,than was any of the seven sages.his neighbor,on the contrary,who was rolling in wealth, sung but little and sle

思想的珍珠篇03：Catch of a Lifetime一生的收获

He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his familys cabin. 他11岁那时，只要一有机会，就会到他家在新汉普郡湖心岛上的小屋的码头上钓鱼。 On the day before the bass season opened, he and his fat

思想的珍珠篇04：The Cookie Thief偷曲奇饼的人

A woman was waiting at an airport one night. With several long hours before her flight, she hunted for a book in the airport shop, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitt

思想的珍珠篇05：Weakness or Strength 弱点还是强项

Sometimes our biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take, for example, the story t of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that the had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident. 有的时候，你的弱项可

思想的珍珠篇07：The Buzzard, the Bat and the Bumblebee美洲鹫、蝙蝠与大黄蜂

If you put a buzzard in a pen six or eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of his ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten or twel