My dictation:     Now the VOA special English program - words and their stories.    Expressions about water are almostly as common as water itself. But many of the expressions using water  have unpleasent meannings.   The expression

七月流火的季节，玩橄榄球的男孩邂逅心仪已久但未敢表白的碧眼金发女郎，两人不言不语，漫步海滩，男孩献出毕生难忘的初吻。IT was a hot summer day in July . I had been playing football with my friends all afternoon and was on my way home to take a

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved; it is God's finger on man's shoulder.--Charles MorganI was married three times before I was seven years old.My older brother Gary performed the ceremonies in our basement.

导读：春天来了，夏天也不远了，衣柜里的衣服还穿的下吗？商店橱窗里的美丽不想尝试？男孩子们还拥有去年夏日矫健的身姿吗？赶快开始调整饮食吧，抛弃冬日的臃肿，吃出健康，吃出美丽，成为别人眼中的亮丽风景吧！Lose weight, eat less junk food -- they to

 A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual a

The BlanketBy Floyd Dell Floyd Dell, born June 28, 1887, Barry, Ill., U.S. died July 23, 1969, Bethesda, Md. novelist and radical journalist whose fiction examined the changing mores in sex and politics among American bohemians before and

It was an unusually quiet day in the emergency room on December 25. Quiet, that is, except for the nurses who were standing around the nurses' station grumbling about having to work Christmas Day.I was triage nurse that day and had just bee

Beautiful angel from the dark, dark sky,I don't want to ask Why, Why?Why so far and so high?Why so unfair?Spark, SparkDispear in the bule, blue paradise.Fire, fire the mother of mine,Born me bravery and power to shine.Lightning day and nigh

You are enrolled in a full-time school called "life". Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum. Why are you here? Wh

有时候，你的弱势恰恰会成为你的优势。来听一个10岁男孩的故事：这个男孩在一次惨烈的车祸中失去了左臂，但他仍然决定学习柔道，……在他的第一次比赛中，男孩夺得了比赛冠军。你一定会追问其中的过程，其实，道理很简单：上帝为你关上一扇门的同时，又为你打

This was written by the CEO of Coca-Cola Brian G. Dyson.It was used as Georgia Tech's Commencement Address:Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit a

It takes only a minute to get crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone. But it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone w

You are enrolled in a full-time school called "life". Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.Why are you here? Wha

I was always a little in awe of Great-aunt Stephina Roos. Indeed, as children we were all frankly terrified of her. The fact that she did not live with the family, preferring her tiny cottage and solitude to the comfortable but rather noisy