也许有些时候，我们过多的看重物质上的礼物，似乎只有那些看得见摸得着的可以换算为金钱的东西才是值得珍惜的。也许我们忽视了人生了本质，忘记了所谓"物质"只是介质而已。珍惜生命给与你的非物质财富吧，那才是永恒的。
The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a b

父母的爱总是那么无私和伟大，无论生活多么艰难，他们都会用自己的全力为孩子创造一个美好的未来。
The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents\' bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.
When the jar was filled, we would take the coins

生命中没有什么是不能原谅的，只要你心中有爱。因为有爱，才有了我们一个个鲜活的个体。无论发生了什么，我们内心深处总是希望爱的存在。正是这些不同形式的爱构成了我们完整的生活。爱的形式虽然因人而异，但爱的力量都是一样的伟大。
A gray sweater hung limply on Tommy\'s empty desk, a reminder of the dejected boy who had just followed his classmates from our third-grade room. Soon Tommy\'s parents, who had recently separated, wo

拥有丰富多彩的人生是一个人的幸福，但人往往身在福中不知福，不知道珍惜生命中的美好时光。智者对生命中最美好的时光的定义或许能对我们有所启示：幸福就存在于我们平凡的生活中的点点滴滴。
It was June 15, and in two days I would be turning thirty. I was insecure about entering a new decade of my life and feared that my best years were now behind me.
My daily routine included going to the

Why robots are getting smaller?为什么机器人在变小？
Scientists are building robots that can walk on two legs like a toddler. The researchers say the breakthrough will lead to robots with increasingly human characteristics that could one day become the everyday servants depicted for decades in science fiction.
科学家们正在建造能像一个

Stuff of dreams
梦想的精粹
Two exhibitions show how a pair of 18th-century painters, James Barry and Henry Fuseli, inspired the modern visual ★romance with[1] the gothic
两个画展展示的是，两位18世纪画家——詹姆斯•巴里和亨利•富塞利——如何唤起了现代人从视觉上对哥特式艺术的憧憬。
THIS spring the bad boys of Brit

The remark "the only good news story is a bad news story" is sometimes quoted by cynical journalists. Positive stories don\'t make interesting news, they say. And in Africa it often seems it is only the wars, droughts and diseases which are reported. But Milton Nkosi, the BBC\'s bureau chief in Africa, who is travel

童年的我们被呵护着，一双温柔白皙的手，带来无私的母爱。恍然间，那双手已经不再温柔了，甚至有些粗糙，但那双手依然给我们带来温暖。世界上有种最无私的爱，那就是母爱，无论沧海桑田，还是天涯海角，母爱永远难以割断。记忆深处的那一双手，总是母亲的手。
Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she\'d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my fore

在人生路途之上，我们的诚实在不时地接受着考验。公理自在人心。当诚实遭遇利益冲突，而又和亲情联系时，一个人还能保持诚实吗？在本文中，儿子在父亲指导的球队参加比赛时作计时员，他能否公平公正地完成自己任务呢？
As a high school coach, I did all I could to help my boys win their games. I rooted as hard for victory as they did.
A dramatic incident, however, following a game in which I officiated as

在所有的恐惧中，最有震慑力、最能攫住人心的就是那种害怕失去亲人的恐惧。当命运把这种苦难抛出，有人会痛哭失声，有人则在无言中经历那无助的凄楚。命运的事情我们管不了，我们能做到的是让亲人知道"我爱你"。
I discovered the power of fear when I became stuck to my driveway, as if my feet were crazy—glued to the cement. As much as I tried, I could not move them. The realization that my daughters were play

Orkney artist Sam MacDonald\'s work is becoming increasingly well known. Sam creates impressions of fish and sea-life in various states using the tactile. He has exhibited widely including most recently at the CLA Game Fair at Blenheim Palace.
Sam\'s interest tends towards the reputedly \'ugly\' and predatory s

不想当将军的士兵不是好士兵。一个人如果只想把事情做到最低的标准，那么他也许永远不会把一件事情做好；相反，如果事事都指望达到最好的标准，即使不是所有的事都能达到预期的效果，也会得到一个较好的结果。两者的区别在于一个是消极被动的接受，另一个是积极主动的努力。皮特o罗斯就是这样一个积极的人。
Pete Rose, the famous baseball player, whom I have never met, taught me something so valuable that changed my life. Pete was being interviewed in spring training t

The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible elements of order and precision.
松树几乎总是长在凌乱荒凉的地方，但它却把周围的景色点缀得井井有条，蔚然可观。
Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks l

Euro Coins Could Cause Skin Disease
Seven-month-old Sabrina reaches out to touch euro coins through a window in Munich. Two of the eight euro coins due to come into circulation in January release so much nickel that people allergic to the metal could develop hand eczema. [Reuters]
Two of the ei

Fallacies about Food
关于饮食的几种错误观点
Many primitive peoples believed that by eating an animal they could get some of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, for example, that eating deer would make them run as fast as the deer. Some savage tribes believed that eating enemies that