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There once was a rose bush in full bloom in a big garden. An elf was living in the most beautiful rose in the garden, and she was so small that people could not see her. She had long blond hair to her toes and beautiful wings.
One day, it got dark before she got home. She had been dancing and flying around so she didn't have time to get back to the rose bush. Suddenly, the weather got cold, evening dew started to fall, and a strong wind began to blow. She could not stay in the other flowers because they were all closed up.
"What am I going to do now? It's too cold." She got scared because she had never stayed outside at night. There was a twinkling light from the other side of the garden. "It's too cold, and I am scared. Maybe I should spend tonight there."
The elf flew to a pavilion on the other side of the garden in a hurry. But there were already two people in the pavilion. A beautiful young lady and a handsome man were praying that they would never be apart from each other. They were in love. "But we must go far away from each other soon." "Your brother is sending me away because he does not like our marriage. Oh my bride, please wait for me until I come back to you!" She sobbed and nodded her head.
She pulled off a rose from the bush which was aside her and kissed it. Then she gave him the rose as a token of her love. At that moment, the rose opened up. The elf went into the rose secretly.
At that moment, a horrible looking man entered the pavillion. He was the brother of the young lady. "What? You want to marry my sister?" He drew his sword and cut the young man and buried him under a linden-tree.
"He is gone forever now, and he will forget my sister. How dare the poor little boy want to marry my sister? It is common to die during a trip, so nobody will suspect me of murdering him." The brother brushed up his clothes and disappeared.
The elf woke up and found she was in the middle of a dark forest. "Oh my! The forest is moving!" But it was not a forest. It was the hair of the young lady's brother. She shivered with fear and anger.
When they got in the house, the young lady from the garden was crying. The man looked at his sister and gave her a chilly smile, and went to bed. "Oh my lover, my dear fiance, please come back safely." She sobbed sadly and fell asleep.
The elf sat down quietly spreading her wings and told the young lady what she saw that day. "What I am trying to say now is not a dream. If you dig under the linden-tree in the garden, you will find your fiance. It is your brother who killed him." The beautiful young lady woke up. She secretly went out of her room and dug under the linden-tree as the elf had said.
Her lover was lying in the ground, cold dead. She cried out sadly and killed herself right next to her fiance. After some time passed, a flower called, 'Jasmine' came into bloom at the place where the two lovers had died. The Jasmine had big white flowers on the branch and had a sweet smell.
Incidentally, the young lady's brother was walking down the road and he pulled off a branch of the jasmine and put it near his bedside. When night fell, two bees with poison stingers came out of the jasmine flowers and bit the brother's ears and mouth, and then they vanished.
伪劣产品的危害 The Dangers of the Fake Products
“Shan Zhai” is the new words to express fake products, people use it to express the highly imitated products, some manufacturers produce the Shan Zhai products to make great profit, but it is so unfair to the customers, they pay so much money in the purpose of buying the genius stuff instead of the fake products. Fake products not only cheats people’s money, but also brings people dangers. Such as the medicine, if people buy the fake one, once they eat it, they will feel uncomfortable and get the illness, the most terrible situation is that they will kill themselves. Fake product is so harmful, though the government has taken some action to ban it, still people sold it, it is the temptation of profit that makes people sold it. What if their relatives have bought the products, so in order to keep people healthy, fake products should be banned.
“山寨”是用来表达伪劣产品的新代言词，人们使用它来表达高仿产品，一些生产商生产山寨产品以此来获取巨大的利润，但是这对于顾客来讲是不公平的，他们花费了这么多的钱，只为了买到真的产品而不是假的产品。伪劣产品不仅欺骗了人们的钱，而且给人们带来了危害。比如药，如果人们买到伪劣的，一旦服用，就会感到不舒服，生病，最严重的情形就是因此失去生命。伪劣产品是如此的有害，虽然政府已经采取了一些措施来禁止售卖，但是仍然有人兜售，他们是抵挡不住金钱的诱惑。如果他们的亲戚买了这些产品，会怎样呢，因此为了人们的健康，不要再卖伪劣产品了。
Chinchillas are, without a doubt, one the cutest animal species ever. With their bushy tails, tiny ears, long whiskers, and adorably fluffy fur, the little creatures can truly make you say "awww"。 In fact, it is said that their fur is the softest out of all land mammals!南美栗鼠（龙猫）无疑是最萌的动物之一。毛茸茸的尾巴，小耳朵长胡须，蓬松的皮毛惹人爱。这一小生灵真的可以让你“哇”一声惊叹。事实上，据说其皮毛是所有陆地动物里最柔软的。
So, to celebrate the beauty of these little rodents, a list of cute baby chinchillas has been put together. Beware - it's a cuteness overload waiting to happen!所以，为庆贺这小小啮齿动物之美，把一溜列可爱的栗鼠宝宝集中在了一起。小心，眼前会超乎想象萌化你。
What I Have Lived For
我的人生追求
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
有三种简单然而无比强烈的激情左右了我的一生：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难以忍受的怜悯。这些激情像飓风，反复地吹拂过深重的苦海，濒于绝境。
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy, ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found.
我寻找爱，首先是因为它使人心醉神迷——这种陶醉是如此的美妙，使我愿意牺牲所有的余生去换取几个小时这样的欣喜。我寻找爱，还因为它解除孤独——在可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊。最后，我寻找爱，还因为在爱的交融中，神秘而又具体而微地，我看到了圣贤和诗人们想象出的天堂的前景。这就是我所寻找的，而且，虽然对人生来说似乎过于美妙，这也是我终于找到了的。
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
以同样的激情我探索知识。我希望能够理解人类的心灵。我希望能够知道群星为何闪烁。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的数字力量，它支配着此消彼涨。仅在不大的一定程度上，我达到了此目的。
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can't, and I too suffer.
爱和知识，只要有可能，通向着天堂。但是怜悯总把我带回尘世。痛苦呼喊的回声回荡在我的内心。忍饥挨饿的孩子，惨遭压迫者摧残的受害者，被儿女们视为可憎的负担的无助的老人，连同这整个充满了孤独、贫穷和痛苦的世界，使人类所应有的生活成为了笑柄。我渴望能够减少但是我无能为力，而且我自己也在忍受折磨。
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
这就是我的一生。我发现它值得一过。如果再给我一次机会，我会很高兴地再活它一次。
Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon?
I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest long on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you in the night that loomed before you.
I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness and companionship have made my life worth living. First I should like to gaze long upon the face of my teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and opened the outer world to me. I should want not merely the outline of her face, so that I could cherish it in my memory, but to study that face and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to me so often.
Oh, the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for just three days!
And that is the reason why, when youth is gone, every man will look back upon that period of his life with infinite sorrow and regret. It is the bitter sorrow and regret of a man who knows that once he had a great talent and wasted it ， of a man who knows that once he had a great treasure and got nothing from it ， of a man who knows that he had strength enough for everything and never used it.
青春消逝，蓦然回首，无论是谁，心中都会充满无尽的忧伤，充满无穷的懊悔。曾经才智卓越，却白白浪费了，曾经财富殷实，却一无所有，曾经本事高强，却从未利用。一个认识到自己失落青春的人回忆起来总是充满悲伤和懊悔。
On Achieving Success
关于获得成功
We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate.
我们不可能把每条路都走一遍。必须执着于一条道路才能获得成功。我们必须有一个终生追求的目标，其他的则从属于这个目标。
I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone.
我痛恨做事半途而废。如果这件事是对的，就大胆勇敢地去做；如果这件事不对，就不要去做。
The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it. They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great, and labeled them accordingly.
历史长河中的伟人并不是靠终日瞻观镜中的自己来衡量自身的形象的。他们的形象来自对事业全身心的投入与追求。他们是如此的卓越超凡，于是芸芸众生觉得他们很伟大，并因此称他们为伟人。
To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong.“Eternal vigilance,” it has been said,“is the price of liberty.” With equal truth it may be said,“Unceasing effort is the price of success.” If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and indispensable help to success is character.
为崇高的理想而活着是一种成功的生活。使人变强大的，不是这个人做了什么，而是他努力尝试去做什么。有人说过，“恒久的警惕是自由的代价”，那同样也可以说，“不懈的努力是成功的代价。”倘若我们不尽全力工作，别人会尽全力，随后他们将在竞争中超越我们，从我们手中夺取胜利的果实。成功越来越不依赖于运气和巧合。丧失自信是我们失败的主要原因。性格是取得成功不可或缺的重要助力。
Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and irresponsible creature of circumstances.
性格是一种固化成形的习惯，是不断培养并坚信于此的结果。每个人的性格都会受到遗传因素、环境和教育的影响。但除此之外，如果人在很大程度上不能成为自己性格的构筑者，那么他就会沦为宿命论者，从而成为环境的失败造物。
Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovel. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else. The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much. Wise men don’t care for what they can’t have.
与其说人是环境的造物，不如说人是环境的建筑师更贴切些。同样的材料，有人能用其建造出宫殿，而有人只能建成简陋的小屋。在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依然是砖泥。想得到的多就永远不要奢望太多。智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。
I Love Summer
It is true that summer is hot, very hot. But the wicked summer sun is nothing to me, for I don't usually go out. What I like to do best during the long summer vacation is to stay in my own little room and read. I love to read, but during the school year I could hardly find a free moment for reading. Endless assignments press down upon me like a mountain. I feel confined and imprisoned. Once the summer vacation comes, however, I have all the time in the world to read and read and read. I read everything I want to read. I read to my heart's content. My room maybe small, and the sun maybe hot, but I'm free, I'm happy, I'm really living! Oh, how I love summer!
夏天的确很热，非常热。但是夏天的太阳对我来说不算什么，因为我通常不出去。在漫长的暑假里，我最喜欢做的就是呆在自己的小房间里看书。我喜欢读书，但在学年里我几乎找不到空闲的时间读书。无尽的任务像山一样压在我身上。我感到被束缚和监禁。然而，一旦暑假来了，我就有了世界上所有的时间去阅读，阅读，阅读。我想读的都读了。我尽情地读书。我的房间可能很小，太阳可能很热，但我很自由，我很快乐，我真的很有活力！哦，我多么喜欢夏天！
幸福是你，是我，是幸运地活着。幸福是一种内心力量，幸福是你对世界的感恩，幸福是你对自己的爱。
Happiness is universal. It can be found in you, in me, in the simple good fortune of survival. Happiness is a strength that comes from within, the appreciation for the world around us and the love we have for ourselves.
幸福是你的家，在你的床榻前，在你的躺椅上，在你举手束发的瞬间，在你曼妙的呼吸里。幸福说她去过你曾到访的任何地方，在你前进的时空里，幸福是一条为你铺设的路。
Happiness can be found wherever you are. It lies in your bed and sits on your favorite chair. Happiness can be found in lifes most simple pleasures like combing your hair or drawing a breath of fresh air. Happiness says she accompanied you to all the places you have been and in the future, happiness will pave a splendid path for your journey through life.
幸福是你读过的书，在心灵底处散发芳菲。幸福是世界在你瞳孔里的倒映，鲜明的不仅是颜色和空气，还有蓬勃的梦想，璀璨的微笑。
Happiness is found in all that you have read. All you have learned will emanate from the bottom of your heart. Happiness is an image of this world reflected in your eyes. Its vividness lies not only in the vibrant colors and air but also in the exuberance of your dreams and smiles.
幸福是老人的唠叨，幸福是儿女的眼神，幸福是窗前呢喃的春燕，幸福是陌生人的微笑，幸福是扬帆在海上。
Happiness can be found in the love and concern from your parents; happiness can be found in the innocence of your childs eyes. Happiness is the spring swallows song carried to your ears by a gentle warm breeze. Happiness is a warm smile from a stranger as he passes by. Happiness is the feeling derived from challenges faced and overcome.
旅行者的幸福不在终点，旅行者的幸福在路上。你我都是生命的旅行者，我们的幸福不在未来，而在今天的每一个瞬间。
Happiness is not found in ones destination, but rather on the road to that destination. We are all travelers in lifes journey. Our happiness lies not in the future, but in every moment of each day.
幸福是上天分给每个人的一片花园，人人都可以让花园烂漫，她不需要你每天浇水施肥，她只需要你有一颗同样烂漫的心。
Happiness is a garden granted by God to every one. You can maintain the gardens beauty as intended by keeping that beauty within your heart.
幸福是思想的高度，幸福与金钱无关，幸福是富贵不淫，幸福是贫贱不移，幸福是你自己的坚守，幸福是一扇为你而开的们。幸福啊，是我们默契的对视和密语。
Happiness is derived from our attitude; it is not something that is bought or sold. Happiness is found when we resist temptation, when we maintain our lofty ideals even in the face of adversity. Happiness is a belief in yourself. Happiness is a key with which we open doors to opportunity. It is a code by which we live.
伸出你的手，我把幸福交给你，她永久的伴随，让身心远行却不疲惫，让爱变得蓦然生动，给世界上的你我，共同拥有幸福的家。
You need only reach out to find happiness. With happiness both your heart and soul will be invigorated to achieve more than you ever dreamed and more than you ever thought possible. With happiness in your heart, love blossoms for every one in our life, and the world becomes your home.