2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

I was lying on the slick tile floor of my college dorm room chatting with my younger sister (by a year and a half) about the latest gossip in our little community while twirling the black phone cor

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

Some people are just doomed to be failures. That's the way some adults look at troubled kids. Maybe you've heard the saying, "A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high." I'm sure t

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

"Will you tell Daddy for me?"That was the worst part. At seventeen, telling my mom I was pregnant was hard enough, but telling my dad was impossible. Daddy had always been a constant sour

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

Justin was a climber. By one and a half, he had discovered the purple plum tree in the backyard, and its friendly branches became his favorite hangout.At first he would climb just a few feet and ma

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

Writing, painting or music can often capture the splendor of the best of life, but occasionally life mirrors art. An experience occurred recently that brought this home to me: Our student son Mark

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

A lot of girls grow up thinking that a Prince Charming roams the skies and the plains just waiting for that special moment to zoom into their lives, snatch them up and carry them away from a world

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

This past Christmas season, my husband, two daughters and I traveled to Spencer, West Virginia, to visit my parents. During this visit, I decided to explore their attic. They have lived in their ho

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

“Hey, ‘Bones,’ ” my brother, Parker, asked me, "what are you going to be for Halloween?" The elementary school party started at 7:00 PM. The winner of the prize fo

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was standing there with a huge box of food, a giant turkey and even some pans to c

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

I grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium and just fell in love with baseball.When Roger Maris came to the New York Yankees from the Kansas City Athletics in 1960, I was eleven. I had been burned i

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

They huddled inside the storm door—two children in ragged outgrown coats.
"Any old papers, lady?”
I was busy. I wanted to say no—until I looked down at their feet. Thin litt

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

During the Persian Gulf War, I was stationed aboard the naval amphibious ship USS Nassau. As a senior Marine intelligence analyst, my workdays were routinely twelve to sixteen hours long. Like all

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

The wipers struggled to push the heavy, wet snowflakes off the windshield while they kept rhythm to Wllie Nelson singing "On the Road Again."Trint hit the eject button on the tape player.

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

My bubbe, may she rest in peace, was one sharp lady. If she’d been born in a different time and place, she could have been president of the United States-or the world’s greatest stand-u

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

When I broke up with yet another boyfriend, this time after a three?year relationship, I decided it was time for me to face the facts-I was just not lucky in love. Yet even though I had given up on

2008-03-06 所属栏目:英语故事

I saw my first professional football game at age twelve, when the Los Angeles Rams were playing in the Coliseum. This experience fueled my dream of one day playing pro football. I wanted to be like

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
After Ball-Carrier had managed to drown the Bad One so that he could not do any more mischief, he forgot the way to his grandmother's house, and could not find it again, though

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
In a small hut, right in the middle of the forest, lived a man, his wife, three sons and a daughter. For some reason, all the animals seemed to have left that part of the countr

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a poor knight who had a great many children, and found it very hard to get enough for them to eat. One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth,

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a miller who was so rich that, when he was going to be married, he asked to the feast not only his own friends but also the wild animals who dwelt in the hills and w

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
A fox lay peeping out of his hole, watching the road that ran by at a little distance, and hoping to see something that might amuse him, for he was feeling very dull and rather

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived two peasants who had three daughters, and, as generally happens, the youngest was the most beautiful and the best tempered, and when her sisters wanted to go out she

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There lived a man who had nearly as many children as there were sparrows in the garden. He had to work very hard all day to get them enough to eat, and was often tired and cross

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood- cutter and his wife and children. He was very poor, having only his axe to depend upon, and two mules to carry the

2008-03-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Once upon a time...
There was once a lad who went to look for a place. As he went along he met a man, who asked him where he was going. He told him his errand, and the stranger said, 'Then you can