英语短文名人故事 文人骚客 第38期:魔法妈妈 J.K.罗琳

Magic Mother: J. K. Rowling 魔法妈妈：J.K.罗琳 Joanne Kathleen Rowling entered the world in Chipping Sudbury General Hospital in England, 乔.凯瑟琳.罗琳出生在英格兰的一家综合医院里， a fitting beginning for someone who wou

英语短文名人故事 文人骚客 第21期:商贾"天使"恩格斯

Business Angel Engels 商贾天使恩格斯 When the financial crisis took off last autumn, Karl Marxs Das Kapital, 去年秋天金融危机爆发之际， originally published in 1867， whooshed up bestseller lists. 卡尔.马克思的《资本论》

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第16期:诸葛亮

Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮 Liu Bei resided at Xinye while he was taking shelter under Jing Provinces governor, Liu Biao. 刘备依附于刘表，屯兵新野。 Liu Bei visited Sima Hui, who told him, Confucian academics and common scholars, how much do t

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第17期:乔治.布什

George Walker Bush 乔治布什 In his fathers presidential race in 1988, Bush Jr. became his fathers aid. 1988年在他父亲竞选总统时，小布什成为父亲的助手。 This was the first time the two had worked together closely as adults, a

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第18期:科林.鲍威尔

Colin Powell 科林.鲍威尔 Colin Powell has a hard time letting go of work, even when hes forced to play and sing. 鲍威尔平日一向是个工作狂，即便是放松一下 的时候，比如唱歌，也是出于工作的需要。 Since taking

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第20期:庄子

2 Zhuangzi 2 庄子 Zhuangzi was probably the poorest among the philosophers before the Qin Dynasty. 在先秦哲学家中，庄子可能算是最穷困的了。 During the difficult times, according to his disciples, 根据他弟子的说法，在生活

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第21期:苏格拉底

3 Socrates 3 苏格拉底 Socratic irony 苏格拉底的伪装 Socrates is talking to Hippias of Elis, a travelling sophist who sets up as a professional wise man， 苏格拉底正在和埃里斯的希比阿聊天。希比阿是云游四方的智术大

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第22期:大卫·休谟

8 David Hume 大卫休谟 Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve at a time when fourteen was normal. 休谟在年仅12岁时就进入爱丁堡大学就读，当时正常的入学年龄是14岁。 At first he co

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第23期:柏拉图

4 Plato 柏拉图 One day, Plato asked his teacher, What is love? How can I find it? 柏拉图有一天问老师苏格拉底：什么是爱情？我如何找到它？ His teacher answered, There is a vast wheat field in front. 老师回答说：前面有

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第24期:亚里士多德

5 Aristotle 亚里士多德 Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC. 亚里士多德于公元前384年出生于色雷斯的斯塔基拉， His father was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained and educa

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第25期:弗朗西斯·培根

6 Francis Bacon 6 弗朗西斯培根 Francis Bacon's words knowledge is power are well-known to us. 我们都知道弗朗西斯培根的名言知识就是力量。 This talented boy is so clever that he entered the Trinity College, Cambridge, at the

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第26期:勒内·笛卡儿

7 Rene Descartes 勒内笛卡儿 Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. 勒内笛卡儿是一名法国哲学家，成年后大部分时间却住在荷兰。 He has been dubbed the Fa

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第27期:伊曼努尔·康德

9 Immanuel Kant 伊曼努尔康德 Immanuels early childhood seems to have been idyllic. 康德小时候的生活像田园诗般优美。 The family was rather well off. The parents got along and loved their son. 家境殷实，父母恩爱，又疼爱

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第28期:弗里德里希·黑格尔

10 Friedrich Hegel 弗里德里希黑格尔 Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27,1770, the son of an official. 黑格尔于1770年8月27日出生于斯图加特，其父亲是一名官员， Urged by his pietist father to enter the clergy, he reg

英语短文名人故事 哲学思想家 第29期:叔本华

11 Schopenhauer 叔本华 Schopenhauer was the son of a wealthy merchant, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, and his wife, Johanna, who was a famous local writer. 叔本华出生在富有的商人之家，父亲名叫海因里希弗洛里斯叔本华，母亲

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第5期:亚伯拉罕·林肯

Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕林肯 Lincoln's face is familiar to people all around the world, at least his face when he was wearing a beard. 全世界的人们都熟悉林肯的脸，至少熟悉他留着大胡子的脸。 But he didn't wear a beard

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第15期:亚历山大大帝

Alexander Ⅲ of Macedon 亚历山大大帝 One day King Philip ( King of Macedon ) bought a fine horse called Bucephalus. 一天，国王菲利普（马其顿国王）买来一匹好马, 叫比塞弗勒斯。 He was a noble animal, and the king paid

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第12期:温斯顿.丘吉尔

Winston Churchill 温斯顿丘吉尔 Winston Churchill began his love affair with painting in his 40's, a mid disastrous circumstance. 温斯顿丘吉尔，在他四十多岁时开始迷恋上绘画，当时环境异常恶劣。 As First Lord of the

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第4期:托马斯·杰斐逊

Thomas Jefferson 托马斯杰斐逊 While the Presidential election was taking place in the House of Representatives, 当总统选举正在众议院进行的时候， amid scenes of great excitement, strife and intrigue, which was to decide whether J

英语短文名人故事 政界精英 第1期:尤里乌斯.凯撒

Julius Caesar 尤里乌斯.凯撒 Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man whose name was Julius Caesar. 大约两千年前，罗马有一个名叫尤利乌斯凯撒的人。 He was the greatest of all the Romans. 他是全体罗马人中