英文书摘精选 伟人传记01：一开始就与众不同

Different from the Start 一开始就与众不同 Five-year-old Albert Einstein stared at his hand as if it held magic. Cupped in his palm was a small，round instrument with a glass cover and a jiggling needle. Albert's father called it a compass. A

英文书摘精选 名家日记05：亚伯拉罕·林肯

Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕林肯 August 12th, 1879 1879年8月12日 I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps at the White House during the hot season, but has qua

英文书摘精选 名家日记03：漫步巴西森林

Wandering in Brazilian Forest 漫步巴西森林 February 29th, 1832 1832年2月29日 The day has past delightfully. Delight itself,however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the tirst time, has been wandering by himself

英文书摘精选 名人书信03：苏珊·布朗内尔·安东尼致伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

Ogden Nash to His Daughters February 6, 1930 奥格登纳什致女儿 My sweet girls, 我可爱的女儿们: I wish so that you were here with us.the next time we must surely bring you along. so remember to practice your manners and (learn to eat all

英文书摘精选 名人书信02：苏珊·布朗内尔·安东尼致伊丽莎白·凯迪·斯坦顿

Susan Brownnell Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton 苏珊布朗内尔安东尼致伊丽莎白凯迪斯坦顿 October,1902 My dear Mrs. Stanton, 我亲爱的斯坦顿太太: I shall indeed be happy to spend with you November 12, the day on which you ro

英文书摘精选 名人书信04：威廉·罗斯科·塞耶致西奥多·罗斯福

William Roscoe Thayer to Theodore Roosevelt 威廉罗斯科塞耶致西奥多罗斯福 Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 17, 1901 To President Roosevelt White House, Washington Dear Mr. President: 致罗斯福总统 白宫，华盛顿 亲爱的总统先生: Jus

英文书摘精选 名人书信05：约翰·亚当斯致妻

John Adams to His Wife 约翰亚当斯致妻 Prince Town New Jersey Aug.28 th, 1774 My Dear: 我亲爱的: I received your kind letter, at New York, and it is not easy for you to imagine the pleasure it has given me. I have not found a single opportu

英文书摘精选 名人书信06：切斯特菲尔德勋爵致儿子

Lord Chesterfield to His Son 切斯特菲尔德勋爵致儿子 London, March 6, 1747 Dear boy, 亲爱的孩子: Whatever you do, will always affect me, very sensibly, one way or another, and I am now most agreeably by two letters, which I have lately

英文书摘精选 名家日记01：珍之死

Death of Jean 珍之死 Christmas Eve, 11 A.M. 1909 1909年12月24日上午11时 Jean is dead! 珍死了! Has any one ever tried to put upon paper all the little happenings connected with a dear one-happenings of the twenty-four hours preceding the s

英文书摘精选 名家日记02：睡谷经历

At the Sleepy Hollow 睡谷经历 August 12, 1841 1841年8月12日 After leaving the book at Mr. Emerson's, I returned through the woods, and entering Sleepy Hollow, I perceived a lady reclining near the path which bends along its verge. It was Marga

英文书摘精选 名人书信01：阿尔伯特.施韦策至父母

Barcelona Wednesday, 2: 00 P. M 22 October, 1908 My dear parents, 亲爱的爸爸、妈妈： The worst is behind us! That was last night's organ concert and the lecture preceding it. Quite frankly I was somewhat worried about this lecture Since I am

英文书摘精选 名家日记04：同行者

Fellow Travelers 同行者 August 28th, 1931 1931年8月28日 The next day in the afternoon four of us started out for the hop-fields. The most interesting of the men with me was a youth named Ginger, who is still my mate when I write this. He is a s

英文书摘精选 选择约会电影

In this Moment of Science Don and Yael discuss a scientific way to choose the perfect date movie. Don: Okay, Yael, if you were me, would you take your date to a violent action flick or a romantic movie? Yael: A romance, of course. D: Well, there migh

英文书摘精选 选择适合你的电子邮箱

Web-based email accounts are becoming more and more popular for international communication because many services are free, and they often offer features formally only found in higher-end applications. First of all, consider the reputation and longev

英文书摘精选 买不起订婚戒指

Dear Annie: My girlfriend and I have been together for three years. When we first started dating, Mary unexpectedly became pregnant and we now have a beautiful child who is our life's joy. I would like to ask Mary to become my wife. Here's the proble

英文书摘精选 数学婚姻预测

The mathematical marriage predictor. You might not think that mathematicians have anything particularly relevant to say about your love life. But you'd be wrong--if we're talking about James Murray, a mathematician at the University of Washington in

英文书摘精选 蚂蚁社会

Ants have an amazing ability to communicate with each other and work together to accomplish complex tasks. Their specialized behavior due to chemical communication is so well developed, in fact, that humans can learn a lot from them about how best to

英文书摘精选 血型不是问题

Yael: I just read about an exciting technique. Researchers found a way to convert types A and B blood into type O blood--the type that can be transfused into any patient. This advance could help avoid blood shortages in the future. Don: Wow, that is

英文书摘精选 鱼喝水吗

Fish live in water, but do they drink it? The answer is yes, but how fish drink water depends on where they live. Water gets into a fish's body through osmosis, the process in which water diffuses from a higher to a lower concentration. For example,

英文书摘精选 和鲨鱼同游

In the immortal words of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, My father always taught me: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Perhaps no creature has taken this advice more literally then the remora, also known as the sucker fish