The Life I Desired
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 trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so infifferent, that you a

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.
My life is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains and the wind is never weary;
My though still cling to the moldering past,
But the hop

These Things Shall Never Die
The pure.the bright,the beautiful, 一切纯洁的，辉煌的，美丽的，
That stirred our hearts in youth, 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的，
The impulses to wordless prayer, 推动着我们做无言的祷告的，
The dreams of love and truth; 让我们梦想着爱与真理的；
The longing after something's lost, 在失去后为之感到珍惜的,
The spirit's

原文出自朱自清
　　燕子去了，有再来的时候；杨柳枯了，有再青的时候；桃花谢了，有再开的时候。但是，聪明的，你告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？--是有人偷了他们罢：那是谁？又藏在何处呢？是他们自己逃走了：现在又到了哪里呢？
　　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 s

　　Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. People who have this joy don not need to talk about it; they radiate it. They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glow into other

　　I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
　　The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was th

原文出自徐志摩
　　Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again
Very quietly I take my leave,
　　As quietly as I came here;
　　Quietly I wave good-bye,
　　To the rosy clouds in the western sky.
　　The golden willows by the riverside,
　　Are young brides in the setting sun;
　　Their reflection

　　There's a spot in my heart
　　which no colleen may own;
　　There's a depth in my soul
　　never sounded or known;
　　There's a place in my memory
　　my life that you fill;
　　No other can take it
　　no one ever will;
　　Every sorrow or care
　　in the dear days gone by;
　　Wa

　　You Will be My Ain True Love
You'll walk unscathed through musket fire,
　　No ploughman's blade will cut thee down,
　　No cutler's horn will mark thy face,
　　And you will be my ain true love,
　　And you will be my ain true love.
　　And as you walk through death's dark veil,
　　The ca

[6] Most recently, for example, the State Department approved a license for a US company to help bolster security in Equatorial Guinea, an African country of half a million people that is run by a military dictator and has no US embassy.
Former four-star generals
[7] Defenders the PMCs note that they are staffed mostly by retired

The Rise of the Private-Sector Military
私营军事公司的兴起
In era of shrinking armed forces, America turns to private firms to carry out foreign military aid.
在武装部队缩减的时代，美国转而求助私营公司履行军事援外工作。
[1]Washington--faced with more overseas commitments and fewer resources, the US is increasingly relying on private m

"Coming,"Alan looked at his watch. Five, The crickets would start singing soon. He walked on, the sweat pouring into his eyes. Knowing she had opened the bottle of mineral water. Would she let him catch up with her? An even greater misery seized him. It reminded him of the night he made himself drunk on the rough local wine his parents bought in

"I do not remember very much more about that day, except that the sun seemed to have stopped shining and the country no longer looked beautiful and full of promise, but bleak and desolate as it sometimes does in winter or in times of drought. Late that afternoon, Jantje, the little Hottentot herd boy, came up to me and handed me a letter , which he

She paused, as though she did not quite know how to begin.
Then she seemed to give herself, mentally, a little shake. "You must have wondered ", she said, "why I was so upset at the thought of young George's going to England without you. I am an old woman, and perhaps I have the silly fancies of the old, but I should like to tell you my own love

As I grew older I found, rather to my surprise, that I had become genuinely fond of my aloof old great-aunt. But to this day I do not know what strange impulse made me take George to see her and to tell her, before I had confided in another living soul, of our engagement. To my astonishment, she was delighted.
让我感到吃惊的是，随着我逐渐长大，我发现打心眼里喜欢起我那位孤伶伶