第一篇：A Grain of Sand
一粒沙子
　　　　William Blake/威廉.布莱克
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild fllower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

     
　热爱生活
　　　　Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fa

     
That must be the story of innumerable couples,and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.It reminds you of a placid rivulet,meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant tree

     
A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head,when she fell into the following train of reflections."The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to

     
The day is cold,and dark,and dreary;
It rains,and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

     
-and see no end to the landscape,new objects presenting themselves as we advance;so,in the commencement of life,we set no bounds to our inclinations.nor to the unrestricted opportunities of grastifying them.we h

      　　Ladies and gentlemen:
国王、王后陛下，诸位殿下，尊敬的诺贝尔奖得主们，女士们、先生们:
One of the things that happen to people who get the Nobel Prize, is that they also get a lot of media attention. Many interviews, too

      ''Kyoto'' era(历史上重要的时代) begins
The still-controversial Kyoto Protocol（议定书）, a pact（协约，协定） among 35 countries, aims to curb（抑制） industrial pollution.
By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Chr

      　　Three passions, simple but overwhelming1y strong, have governed my life :the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, in a wayward course,over a dee

      GO to church, then have a big lunch, then go out to play while mum does the housework. That was a typical British Sunday in the 1960s. But things now could not be more different.
A typical British Sunday today is

      　　Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends, Spirit. And you''re keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understan

      　　这篇散文讲了各种各样的沉默，有因腹中空空引起的沉默，有因冷漠绝望引起的沉默，有阅历丰富但深思不语的沉默…… 沉默表现形式不同，内涵更是不尽相同。文章对沉默的分析很有启发意义。
从译法上来讲，由于文章的写法比较有特点，翻译还是有一定难度的。首先文章虽然讲的是人的各种各样的沉默，但文中并没有明确地说出谁，连“人”字都少有。这给翻译造成的困难是显而易见的。中文可以随心所欲地像本文这样使用无主句，英文却万万行不通。每句必

      He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family’s 1)cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.
On the day before the 2)bass season 3)opened, he and his father

      Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they will bloom again. Now, you the wise, tell me, why shoul

      Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel.
All claimed that they were the best.
The most important.
The most useful.
The favorite.
Green said:
"Clearly I