English Flavor

The motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose. Napoleon Hill wrote, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” 成功的行动来自于那燃烧着的想要达成目的的欲望。拿破仑·希尔写道：“成功的意念能够到达个人的构想与信念所能到达的任何地方。” A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met. [...]

Mr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple, even off the ground, because old Dawson, they said, would come after you with his ball bullet gun. 道森先生是个坏脾气的老头子，镇上的每个人都知道这个。小孩们知道不能到他的院子里摘美味的苹果，甚至掉在地上的也不能捡，因为据他们说，老道森会端着他的弹丸猎枪跟在你后面追。 One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with [...]

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the [...]

Once there lived a king of great strength and wealth.Yet he was not happy.He told his servants to find him things to make him happy,but each came back saying,”Noting in the world can match the wonderful things you have already.”Then in that land,there lived a poor man with a patch over one eye and a [...]

Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a mere acquaintance. I have forgotten the name of an old lady, who was a customer on the paper route in my home town when I was a twelve-year-old boy. Yet it dwells in my memory that she taught me a lesson in [...]

什么叫做non-crying cry？这是男人们专有的一种哭泣方式。也许在婚礼上，女儿和妈妈可以互相抹去眼泪，但是爸爸只能一个人默默回到自己的房间，默默去想念，因为男人是不允许在大庭广众下轻易掉眼泪的。这也是为什么一个父亲会教自己的儿子，如何学会non-crying cry。大家有没有觉得，父亲节或者老爸的生日那天，不管你花多少心思，都难得看到老爸像老妈那样大动感情呢？其实，他只是用另一种方式，流下了作为男人和父亲的眼泪。 Real men don’t cry. We just get something in our eye A short walk from my house in Hampshire, on a hill overlooking the heathland, is a plaque marking the spot where Richard Pryce Jones deliberately crashed his Halifax bomber during the war. He could have parachuted to safety, but that would [...]

In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle’s means. Five dollars would buy almost a week’s groceries（杂货，食品） for his family. Reuben couldn’t ask his father for the money. Everything Mark Earle made through fishing in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Canada. [...]

Recently, I heard a touching story which illustrates（阐明，说明） the power that words have to change a life — a power that lies right in the hands of those reading this article. Mary had grown up knowing that she was different from the other kids, and she hated it. She was born with a cleft palate（腭裂） [...]

“If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn’t be sorry!” I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. The clothing was already destroyed from burn holes and vomit stains（污点） after a [...]

For years I wanted a flower garden. I’d spend hours thinking of different things I could plant that would look nice together. But then we had Matthew. And Marvin. And the twins, Alisa and Alan. And then Helen. Five children. I was too busy raising them to grow a garden. Money was tight, as well [...]