朱賓忠編著的《長壽的秘訣》精選了適合青少年學生心理、認知特點和知識架構的英文故事多則。《長壽的秘訣》保持原文原汁原味的前提下對影響故事整體理解的難點部分進行而來改寫或添加了簡明的漢語注釋，力求讓所有中學生、大學生在“無詞典、無詞表、無譯文”的狀態下一口氣看完每一個完整的故事。
《長壽的秘訣》的編寫方式不僅降低了學生對於漢語的依賴性，而且為閱讀的連續性創造了條件。一口氣看完本書中的一個個動人的故事也是學生真實體驗“欣賞與自我欣賞”的一個新奇歷程，即在欣賞優美英語故事的同時，不知不覺開始欣賞自己英語水平的提高。
總之，本書在提高學生閱讀興趣、養成英語閱讀習慣、增強英語閱讀信心、擴展英語文化知識、培養英語敏捷思維等方面起到積極的推動作用。

01.A Smart Fishing Boy
02.Fish and Cat Story
03.HOw Mankind Earned Longeuity
04.The Cost of Woman
05 God Mode Man
06 Giving Away a Horse
07.Gathering Chickens
08.How Are You Feeling?
09.Dem' Smart City Folk
10.Ten Dollars Is Ten Dollars
11.What is Two Plus Two?
12, Death of Partner
13.Tolented Dog
14.Warm, Soft, &Gooey
15.Grocery Shopping
16.Don't Step on Them
17 Irish Wi fe
18.Smart Irrshman
19.Dying Confession
20.Baked Beans
21.Legless Frog
22.Knowing the Facts
23.The Rabbit and the Snake
24.I Want to Take Money with Me
25.Advice from Lawyers
26.Elk Hunting
27.Robbit Test
28.Getting Out of a Ticket
29.Back Seat Driver
30.I Know You Were Drunle Yesterday
31.An Atheist
32.Lacking All Religion
33.Finally Got to Heauen
34.What Is Easter
35.Blonde Escapee
36.Beor with Me
37.Settling a Cow Case
38.The Bushes and Clintons on a Train
39.Election Tie-Breaker
40.Take the Bait
41.The Nonconformist Bird
42.Chattv Parrot
43.Not Quite Ready
44.You Need to Haue a Bad Day to Get into Heauen
45.A Slap in the Dark
46.Olympic Ice Skating
47.Do You Knoln Me?
48.Lawyers on a Jury
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