TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher hes a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he''s to
setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be nor coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.
[ 英 ] 罗伯特 . 赫里克
要摘玫瑰得趁早,
岁月在催人老:
花儿今天在含笑,
明天就会残凋。
太阳是天上华灯,
它正冉冉升空。
越高越快到终点,
越高越近黄昏。
豆蔻年华最美好,
青春热血方盛。
虚度光阴每况下,
时间永不停留。
抓紧时机别害羞,
早嫁个意中人,
青春一去不回头
蹉跎贻误一生。
在英国,9只在电视广告中的小飞猪一夜之间成为明星,它们因此被送到豪华的猪住所,享受隐退后的生活,并被保证永远不会被宰杀,所以没有成为咸肉之虞。
这条广告是苏里兹财务服务公司的广告片,在片子里,伴随着电影《633空军中队》主题音乐,小猪们沿着跑道加速快跑,最后飞了起来。它们因此俘获了英国人的心。
广告播出后,打给苏里兹财务服务机构询问小猪的福利的电话淹没了询问其公司财务服务的电话,使得这间公司不得不设立一个专门的"热线"回答关于小猪的问题。
该财务公司的一位发言人表示,这些小猪不太可能复出再表演一次飞行的壮举。她说:"它们非常享受泥地里的小猪生活。"
Nine flying pigs who became
overnight stars in Britain after featuring in a television commercial have moved into luxury
retirement quarters with a promise they will never end up as bacon.
Britons took the porkers to their hearts after
seeing them charge down a runway and take off to the theme tune from the film "633 Squadron" in an ad for Zurich Financial Services.
The number given out by Zurich for queries about its financial products was inundated by calls about the pigs'' welfare, forcing the company to set up a separate "hogline."
A spokeswoman for Zurich said it was
unlikely the pigs would come out of
retirement for an encore of their flying feat. She said: "They''re happy as pigs in mud."
[幽默]- Getting married
Top 14 Humor of Getting married
To those who are married and who are
reluctant to get married--
#CASE 1
Getting married is like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.
#CASE 2
At the
cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger??" The other replied, "Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."
#CASE 3
Before a man is married, he is
incomplete. Then when he is married, he is finished.
#CASE 4
Marriage is an institution in which a man losses his bachelor's degree and the woman gets her master's
status.
#CASE 5
A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married??" And the father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying for it."
#CASE 6
Young son : "Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa, a man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?" Dad : "That happens in most countries son."
#CASE 7
Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and then it was too late."
#CASE 8
A happy marriage is a matter of give and take; the husband gives and the wife takes.
#CASE 9
When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why. Affair ?
#CASE 10
Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbours listen.
#CASE 11
After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." And the Husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice it."
#CASE 12
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classified : "Wife wanted". The next day, he received hundreds letters. They all said the same thing "You can have mine."
#CASE 13
When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing : either the car is new or his wife is new.
#CASE 14
A woman was telling her friend : "It is I who made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" the friend asked.The woman replied, "A multimillionaire."
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