-
- the Potomac
- Across the Potomac along I-395. Closest Metro Pentagon. Mon每Fri 9.30am每5pm, last tour 3.30pm. 703/695-1776. Admission free. The headquarters of the US military establishment is one of the la...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Windsor Castle
- Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A royal palace and fortress for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today. Vi...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- 最豪华的狗厕
- A US dog lover bought her pampered French Poodle its own bathroom complete with a specially commissioned￡500 painting. The dog, named Pierre Deux, lives in an Indianapolis apartment with own...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Good Trade in Bad Times
- Virkven Sargu's phone has been ringing all afternoon as anxious Singaporeans ask him to forecast when the city state's recession will end.But with a vermilion caste mark on his forehead and he...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- professional basketball player
- Kobe Bryant first started turning heads on the basketball court when he was in middle school. His talents dominated the game so much that high schools from all over the Philadelphia area watch...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- honoring mothers
- So who came up with the idea of honoring mothers nation-wide on the second Sunday in May？ EARLY CELEBRATIONS Some historians claim that the predecessor of the Mother's Day holiday was the an...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Minneapolis-St. Paul
- If you want to really celebrate Halloween, try taking a trip to Anoka, Minn., a town just north of Minneapolis-St. Paul that touts itself as the "Halloween Capital of the World." The town's...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Mini-Biography for Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, Belgium, with the given name of Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston. She really was blue-blood from the beginning with her father, a w...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- the whole of Pearl Harbor
- Almost the whole of Pearl Harbor, the principal base for the US Pacific fleet （just over one hour from Waikiki, beyond the airport, on TheBus #20）, is off limits to visitors. However, the surpri...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- the most beautifulbridge
- The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge 每 probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world 每 are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Franc...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Chinatown is prosperous
- On the surface, Chinatown is prosperous 每 a "model slum," some have called it 每 with the lowest crime rate, highest employment and least juvenile delinquency of any city district. Walk throu...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (10)
- Of Love The stage is more beholding to love, than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies： but in life, it doth much mischief： som...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (11)
- Of GreatPlace Men in great place, are thrice servants： servants of the sovereign or state； servants of fame； and servants of business. So as they have no freedom； neither in their persons； nor i...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (12)
- Of Boldness It is a trivial grammar school text, but yet worthy a wise man/'s consideration. Question was asked of Demosthenes； what was the chief part of an orator？ He answered. Action； wh...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (13)
- Of Goodness, & Goodness of Nature I take goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia； and the word humanity （as it is used） is a lit...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (14)
- Of Nobility We will speak of nobility, first as a portion of an estate； then as a condition of particular persons. A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (15)
- Of Seditions & Troubles Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests in state； which are commonly greatest, when things grow to equality； as natural tempests are greatest about...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (16)
- Of Atheism I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle to...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (17)
- Of Superstition It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion, as is unworthy of him： for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely：and certainly superstition is the...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (18)
- Of Travel Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education； in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (19)
- Of Empire It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire, and many things to fear： and yet that commonly is the case of kings； who being at the highest, want matter of desire,...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (20)
- Of Counsel The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life； their lands, their goods, their children, their cred...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (21)
- Of Delays Fortune is like the market； where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. And again, it is sometimes like Sybilla/'s offer, which at first offereth the commodity...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (22)
- Of Cunning We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom. And certainly, there is great difference, between a cunning man, and a wise man； not only in point of honesty, but in point of ab...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文 -
- Collection of Bacon (23)
- Of Wisdom for a Man/'s Self An ant is a wise creature for itself； but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard, or garden. And certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste the public...
2018-12-13 英语短文_英语美文_英文美文
