20-09-28 Fortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good luck penny in her path. Not a golden penny, exactly, but I doubt if half a million would have given more real happiness then did the little sum that came to her in this wise. Every few weeks she wo...

20-09-03 短语 to be able to read each others minds 或 can read each others minds 以及 to finish each others sentences 都可以用来描述两个人的友情尤为亲密，彼此心意相通。 如果你能 read someones mind（读懂某人的心思） 或者 finish their sentences（说完某人想要说...

17-01-04 Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they always change their minds? Me neither. In fact, people seem to double down on their beliefs in the teeth of overwhelming evidence agai...

16-05-26 Weve all done it. Run upstairs to get your keys, but forget that it is them youre looking for once you get to the bedroom. Open the fridge door and reach for the middle shelf only to realise that we cant remember why we opened the fridge in the firs...

15-11-13 The Hinds Kathleen Jamie Walking in a waking dream I watched nineteen deer pour from ridge to glen-floor, then each in turn leap, leap the new-raised peat-dark burn. This was the distaff side; hinds at their ease, alive to lands held on long lease i...

15-06-08 1.two heads are better than one 人多智广;三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮 例句：After all, two heads are better than one. Two people working together can get better results. 毕竟三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮，两个人一起工作能取得更好的成果。 2.put two and two togeth...

15-05-27 Then maybe it's time you brought her into line. 那也许现在是该让她懂点规矩了。 Cubby Broccoli just made a spy movie with some Scottish fellow he's raving about. 艾伯特布罗克里刚跟一个他极力称赞的苏格兰人做了一个间谍片。 People don't just speak their...

14-11-24 Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised...

12-11-29 Last summer I picked up The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle for the first time, and at once something clicked. With incredibly lucid（明晰的） , unadorned（朴素的） prose, he describes exactly how we perpetuate our own suffering in our minds, keeping...

12-10-23 When I first conceived of Earth Day, a global holiday to celebrate the wonder of life on our planet, I thought long and hard about the day on which it should fall. It must be meaningful. One that might be accepted universally for all of humankind. W...