ON HER FIRST DAY 阿莉莎卡帕西在第一天 tutoring students from low-income families at an after-school program in New York City, 参加纽约市的一个课外项目为低收入家庭的学生做家教时， Alyssa Kapasi noticed how many kids...
Today, thanks to Joyner's zeal, 时至今日，感谢乔伊纳的热忱、 as well as organizations such as the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 感谢基督教长老会（美国）等组织、 and the Conservation Fund, which supplied logistical and fin...
Joyner ran a youth camp through his church, so that summer, 乔伊纳在他的教堂里组织了一个青年营，所以那个夏天， using land, equipment, and seed donated by the community, 他利用社区捐赠的土地、设备和种子， he s...
BY THE SUMMER OF 2005, 2005年夏天， the Reverend Richard Joyner of Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church 小镇传教浸信会的牧师理查德乔伊纳 realized he was conducting funerals twice a month 意识到自己一个月主持两次葬礼...
THE DEFINITION of a perfectionist: 完美主义者的定义： someone who wants to go from point A to point A+. 想要从A到A+的人。 OMG! MY MOM JUST SAID ... 天啊 ！妈妈说 In the good old days, a mother might utter something a little, 过去...
WHEN MY LOCAL barista handed me my change, one coin stood out. 当地的咖啡师把零钱递给我时，一枚硬币脱颖而出。 Look at that. You rarely get one of these old wheat pennies nowadays, 看那，现在很少有这种老式小麦便士了...
10. Your opportunities are limited only by your desire to work and your imagination. 10、工作欲望和想象限制了你的机会。 Once you come through this crucible, you can guide your own life course. 一旦通过了考验，你就可以主宰自...
2. Give 100 percent and 10 percent effort all the time. Everyone and anyone can give 100 percent. More effort means more stripes. 2、付出110%的努力，每个人都可以付出100%的努力，更多的努力意味着得到的条形徽会更多。...
A decade ago, when my son raised his hand and vowed to support and defend the Constitutionwhile being sworn in to the U.S. armed forces, 十年前，我的儿子在向美国武装部队宣誓就职时，举手宣誓支持和捍卫宪法， I felt a c...
I collapsed at work, he says. And all of a sudden I was 4-F. 服兵役的时候我崩溃了，他说。突然间我成了4-F。 4-F: unfit to serve. 4-F意思是不适合当兵。 Gary's father had served during World War II and some of his high scho...
It was awful, says Gary's wife, Joanie Marquardt, with a laugh. 有点害怕，加里的妻子琼妮马夸特笑着说。 The Marquardts' neighbors, Bruce and Carol Hedblom, were exposed to Gary's playing too. No inhibitions, Bruce says diplomaticall...
The commuters in Excelsior, Minnesota, are too busy rushing to work to notice the lone figure climbing up to old Oak Hill Cemetery. 明尼苏达州的上班族们正赶着去上班，根本没有注意到一个长长的身影正爬上老橡树山的墓...
After he got home from a trip to the car wash, a six-year-old in Massachusetts called 911 to report a crime. 从洗车店回来后，马萨诸塞州的一名六岁的小孩回家拨打了911报警电话。 The perpetrator was his father. 犯罪者是他...
Like any college student, Connor Cox was excited when he received a package from home. 和其他大学生一样，康纳考克斯收到家里寄来的包裹很是兴奋。 He assumed it was filled with food and other goodies. He tore open the box and...
A sporting-goods business in Bemidji had been one of my sponsors, and one evening I gave a public slide show at its store. 伯米吉的一家体育用品商一直是我的一个赞助商，一天晚上，我在他的店里做了一个公开的幻灯片...
