Fragrance Forever
The smell of wood, refreshingly sweet, greeted me even before I sat down at the round table. As if breathing along with the trees, I felt a simple, primitive（原始的，简单的） joy when admiring those furniture and home articles shaped and c
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Advice for Good Little Girls
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This kind of retaliation（报复，反击） should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravating circumstances.If you have nothing but a rag doll stuffed
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Everything happens for the best
"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment
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Peeling Away Artifice For the Pure Original
Sarah came running in. "Look what I found." Over the top of the paper I was reading came a crispy（易碎的） , crumbling long object that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin that had been shed by one of our many garden snakes."Isn't it be
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A big effort to make it a happy birthday
I like birthdays. I like fuss（大惊小怪） , a grand gesture. X can't understand the fuss. It's about upbringing, I think: his parents unceremoniously hand him something – not even wrapped – at some point within a few months of the date. I
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Thanks for everything
In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who'd lived those years with us. In fact, we don't have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closet to us—the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about
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Praying for Rainfall
The last flock of pigeons have also gone out of sight after doing their final circling in the soft breeze, the sound of their whistles barely audible. They are hastening back to their warm wooden dovecote（鸽房） earlier than usual perhaps
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A lesson for living
"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment.&qu
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全力以赴
Concentration and perseverance（坚持不懈） built the great pyramids on Egypt's plains . The matter of a single trade can sppuort a family.The master of seven trades cannot support himself. Now I know that in order to grow and flourish I m
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My Forever Valentine
The traditional holidays in our house when I was a child were spent timing elaborate（精心制作的） meals around football games. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during halftime. At Christmas he found tim
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积极看待每一天
If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view. By training your thoughts to concentrate on the bright side of things, you are more l
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Setting my resolutions for Chinese New Year
With the Year of the Snake practically upon us, and with the solar New Year fast fading into distant memory, I have been ruminating（反刍，沉思） over the habit that so many people have of making new year resolutions ... and then breaking t
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How to Prepare for the First Time at Anything
Forget what others think In order to decrease the stress you feel about your first time, just forget what others are thinking of you. First, many people don't really care that much if you happen to fail at something. If you are open about
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German Black Forest Cake
Black forest gateau（奶油蛋糕） is a chocolate layer cake, heavy with cherries and swathed（包围，裹） in loads of whipped cream. The sour cherries and sweet chocolate are so good together that one can understand why this has become one of
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A word for autumn
Last night the waiter put the celery（芹菜） on with the cheese, and I knew that summer was indeed dead. Other signs of autumn there may be -- the reddening leaf, the chill in the early-morning air, the misty（模糊的） evenings -- but none
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Forever Friend
"A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out." Sometimes in life, You find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop; Someone who make
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Mum and growing days
Those Teenage Years When you were 11 years old, she took you and your friends to the different movies. You thanked her by asking to sit in a row. When you were 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain TV shows. You thanked her by
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Difference Because of Gender
If you scold him, you are like a nanny to him; If he scolds you, it is because he cares for you. If you break your promise, you cannot be trusted; If he breaks his, he is forced to do so. If you smoke, you are a bad girl; If he smokes,
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Touring around the World
It is a strange thing that the sea voyages was there nothing to be seen but the sky see men should make diaries. But in a land travel, was there so much to observe. For the most part, they omitted as a chance or a feature to be registered t
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As High As A Kite
I was sitting on the beach the other day watching a kite (In the shape of a two winged aircraft) flying high in the sky. It made wonderful acrobatic maneuvers as if piloted by a person with a lifetimes experience of flying. However, we all
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