英语专业晨读美文励志篇：Criteria of Excellency
日本耽美 [00:02.46]Criteria of Excellency [00:07.64]My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. [00:14.39]It was hanging on a rack at a condhand clothing store [00:17.76]in Northampton Mass, [00:19.82]crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, [00:23.66]woolen overcoats—a ro among thorns. [00:26.70]While the other coats drooped, [00:28.98]this one looked as if it were holding itlf up. [00:31.45]The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield [00:35.18]was soft and unworn, as though it had been prerved [00:38.61]in mothballs for years in dead old Uncle Henry’s steamer trunk. [00:42.46]The coat had a black velvet collar, beautiful tailoring, [00:46.08]a Fifth Avenue label and an unbelievable price of $28. [00:50.99]We looked at each other, saying nothing, [00:53.77]but John’s eyes gleamed. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular [00:58.83]just then with teenage boys, [01:00.45]but could cost veral hundred dollars new. [01:03.21]This coat was even better, [01:05.05]bearing that touch of classic elegance from a bygone era. [01:08.72]John slid his arms down into the heavy satin lining of the sleeves [01:13.06]and buttoned the coat. He turned from side to si
de, [01:16.55]eyeing himlf in the mirror with a rious, [01:19.65]studied expression that soon changed into a smile. [01:22.94]The fit was perfect. [01:24.92]John wore the coat to school the next day [01:27.75]and came home wearing a big grin. [01:30.03]“Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. [01:32.61]“标志607They loved it.” he said, carefully folding it [01:35.29]over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. [01:37.83]I started calling him “补子Lord Chesterfield” and “The Great Gatsby.” [01:42.50]Over the next few weeks, a change came over John. [01:46.03]Agreement replaced contrariness, quiet, [01:50.09]reasoned discussion replaced argument. [01:52.61]He became more judicious, more mannerly, [01:55.78]more thoughtful, eager to plea. [01:58.37]微信拉黑和删除的区别“Good dinner, Mom.” he would say every evening. [02:01.79]He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes [02:05.23]and lecture him on the niceties of behaviour; [02:08.14]without a word of objection, [02:10.32]he would carry in wood for the stove. [02:12.93]One day when I suggested [02:14.94]that he might start on homework before dinner, [02:17.29]John—a veteran procrastinator—said, [02:20.87]“颠倒歌pptYou’re right. I guess I will.” [02:23.39]When I mentioned this incident to [02:25.99]one of his teachers and rem
arked that I didn’t know [02:28.76]what caud the changes, she said laughing. [02:31.06]月下缠绵“It must be his coat!” Another teacher told him [02:34.26]she was giving him a good mark not only becau [02:37.35]he had earned it but becau she liked his coat. [02:39.89]At the library, we ran into a friend [02:42.87]who had not en our children in a long time, [02:45.12]斫轮“Could this be John?” he asked, [02:47.29]looking up to John’s new height, [02:49.31]asssing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, [02:52.98]one gentleman to another. [02:54.74]John and I both know we should never mistake a person’s clothes [02:58.23]for the real person within them. [03:00.30]But there is something to be said [03:02.24]for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to e, [03:05.11]for practising standards of excellence in thought, [03:07.91]speech, and behaviour, and for matching [03:11.04]what is on the inside to what is on the outside. [03:13.97]Sometimes, watching John leave for school, [03:17.12]I’ve remembered with a keen sting [03:19.53]what it felt like to be in the eighth grade-a time [03:22.52]when it was as easy to try on different approaches to life [03:25.80]as it was to try on a coat. The whole world, [03:28.99]the whole future is stretched out ahead, [03:31.87]a vast panora最坏的星座女
ma where all the doors are open. [03:35.55]And if I were there right now, [03:37.79]I would picture mylf walking through tho doors [03:40.55]wearing my wonderful, magical coat.
