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经典英语美文欣赏

The Last Leaf

最后的一片叶

I saw him once before, as he passed by the door

他曾从门前经过，我在一旁观望

And again, the pavement stones resound

如今，石板路又哒哒作响

As he totters o'er the ground with his cane

他蹒跚走来，手里拄着拐杖

They say that in his prime

人们说他当时年轻力壮

Ere the pruning-knife of time cut him down

时光的剪刀虽有锐利锋芒，尚未削去他的青春模样

Not a better man was found

周围的人们有口皆碑

By the Crier on his round through the town

满城数他最为善良

But now he walks the streets

如今，他却在街头流浪

And he looks at all he meets sad and wan

看着别人的面孔，憔悴忧伤

And he shakes his feeble head

虚弱的脑袋，不断摇晃

That it seems as if he said, "They are gone!"

似乎在说：“他们已不在世上”？

The mossy marbles rest on the lips that he has prest in their bloom

他曾热吻过的姑娘，就在这墓中安葬

And the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb

一块生苔的石碑，立在墓旁，刻着他所爱慕的芳名，岁月悠长

My grandmamma has said-- poor old lady, she is dead, long ago--

我年迈的祖母久已过世，话音还在耳边回荡

That he had a Roman nose

说他长着高高的鼻梁

And his cheek was like a rose in the snow

说他的面颊像一朵玫瑰，在雪中绽放

But now his nose is thin, and it rests upon his chin like a staff

可是现在，他的鼻子干瘪瘦长，贴近下巴像纤细的棍棒

And a crook is in his back, and a melancholy crack in his laugh

弯腰驼背，沙哑的笑声带着不尽的凄凉

I know it is a sin for me to sit and grin at him here

坐着笑看他的模样，一种负罪的感觉在我心底隐藏

But the old three-cornered hat

可那破旧的尖顶小帽

And the breeches, and all that

还有马裤，所有的衣装

Are so queer!

实在是奇形怪状！

And if I should live to be

假如我的生命十分久长

The last leaf upon the tree in the spring

能够成为最后的叶片挂在春天的树上

Let them smile, as I do now

让人们冲着我悬挂的残枝发笑吧

At the old forsaken bough where I cling

就像我现在这样那残枝久已被人们淡忘

I Saw Thee Weep

我曾见你哭泣

I saw thee weep---the big bright tear came o'er that eye of blue

我曾见你哭泣，碧眼里晶莹的泪珠滚落下来

And then me thought it did appear a violet dropping dew

那简直是紫罗兰滴露，我不禁这样冥想暗猜

I saw thee smile---the sapphire's blaze beside thee ceased to shine

我曾见你微笑，绚丽的蓝宝石辉耀不再

It could not match the living rays that filled that glance of thine

难比那灵动的光芒充满你顾盼的神态

As clouds from yonder sun receive a deep and mellow dye

犹如云朵面朝太阳，借得深沉、柔和的色彩

Which scarce the shade of coming eve can banish from the sky

即使黄昏将至的阴影也无法把它驱除天外

Those smiles unto the moodiest mind, their own pure joy impart

那微笑向我郁闷的内心，注入清纯的欢快

Their sunshine leaves a glow behind that lightens o'er the heart

Forever Eighteen

永远十八岁

The years may come and the years may go

花开花落，韶华易逝

But many things still stay the same

许多事物却依旧如故

Just like the beautiful young woman

正如这位姿容绰约的女士

Whom I chose to share my name

这位我最初相识相知的人

Each year we grow a little older

无奈，岁月催人老

And our eyesight may not be as keen

视线，也变得模糊

But when I look at my lovely wife

但每当我凝视可爱的妻子时

She is always forever eighteen

她却好似永远定格在十八岁

I look forward to many more birthdays

我渴望和她度过无尽余生

With my best friend, my lover, my wife

只因她是挚友，亦是爱人

And I thank God he brought us together

感恩上帝让我们彼此相遇

And made me happy for the rest of my life

感恩上帝让我们快乐永生

As we continue to grow old together

我们会继续一起变老

And share what life has to bring

一起回顾生活的百味

We'll get slower, grayer with more wrinkles,

我们会变得行动迟缓，华发苍颜

But you'll always forever be eighteen

但于我来说，你永远停留在十八岁

Miss Me, But Let Me Go

想念我，但是让我走

When I come to the end of the road

当我走到了路的尽头

And the sun has set for me

太阳为我落下

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room

请不要给我那充满忧伤的仪式

Why cry for a soul set free?

为什么要为一个获得自由的灵魂而哭泣？

Miss me a little -- but not too long

想念我一点点，但不要太久

And not with your head bowed low

不要低头沮丧

Remember the love that we once shared

记住我们曾一起享有过的爱

Miss me -- but let me go

想念我，但是让我走

For this is a journey that we all must take

这是我们都必经的旅程

And each must go alone

每个人必须独自走到尽头

It's all a part of the Master's plan

这是上天意旨的一部分

A step on the road to home

是通往家的路的一步

When you are lonely and sick of heart

当你孤独心痛

Go to the friends we know

去找那些我们认识的朋友

And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds

请把你的悲伤埋葬在帮助他人的善行中

Miss Me -- But Let me Go!

想念我，但是让我走

Be the Best of Whatever You Are

做最好的自己

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill

如果你当不了山巅的一棵劲松

Be a scrub in the valley

就做山谷里的灌木

But be the best little scrub by the side of the rill

但一定要做溪边最棒的一棵

Be a bush if you can't be a tree

当不了一棵树，就做一丛灌木

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of grass

如果你当不了灌木，就做一株小草

And some highway happier make

给路边带去更多欢笑

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass

如果你当不了大梭鱼，就做一尾小鲈鱼

But the liveliest bass in the lake

但要做湖里最活泼的那条

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew

我们不能全当船长，总得有人做船员

There's something for all of us here

但我们每个人都有事可做

There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do

有大事去做，有小事去做

And the task you must do is the near

我们必须着眼于眼前

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail

如果你当不了大道，就做一条小径

If you can't be the sun, be a star

如果你当不了太阳，就做一颗星星

It isn't by size that you win or you fail

胜负不在于大小

Be the best of whatever you are!

不论做什么，一定要做到最好

What are the 10 hardest things in life?

生活中最艰难的10件事是什么？

1. To decide whether to "leave" or "try harder".

决定是“离开”还是“更加努力”。

2. Quit a good money job to pursue one's dreams.

辞掉高薪工作去追求自己的梦想。

3. Apologize to people you have hurt.

向你曾伤害过的人道歉。

4. Admit your own mistakes.

承认自己的错误。

5. Staying positive when you have lost everything you ever had.

拥有过的一切都轰然倒塌时，依然乐观向上。

6. Living away from family.

离家生活。

7. Bouncing back when you have fall rock bottom.

当你坠入人生低谷时重新振作。

8. Making others smile when one has not smiled for ages.

让一个很久没有笑过的人笑出来。

9. Keep a low profile despite being extremely knowledgeable about his/her profession.

尽管自己在专业相关领域知识非常渊博，却仍能保持低调。

10. Attending a loved one's funeral.

出席所爱之人的葬礼。

When you face above things, firstly, you have to know, you must accept the fact.

如果你遇到了上述的事情，首先，你需要知道，你必须接受这个事实。

Some people are just not meant to be in your life.

有些人只是命中注定不属于你。

Everything happens for a reason, every damn thing.

每件事都事出有因，每件事。

People want you to do well but not better than them.

别人希望你做得好，但是不要比他们更好。

Of course, when you experience above things, you could come to a decision:

当然，当你经历了以上的事情中的一件或者两件，你会得出一个结论：

no matter 10 or 100 hardest things like list,

无论10件或是100件类似于我们列出的最艰难的事情，

in fact, just the two most difficult things in your heart, persevering and letting go.

事实上，仅仅有两件事情你迈不过自己那道坎——坚持不懈和放手离开。

At last, if you ask me is there anything harder than them?

最后，如果你问我还有什么事情比这些更难吗？

I could tell you one thing ultimate hard, know when to do and what to do.

我可以告诉你，还有一件顶级难的事情——知道什么时候该做什么事。

Let it Be Me

让我爱着你

I bless the day I found you

感谢上天让我遇到你

I want to stay around you

我想和你一起厮守

Now and forever

不管天荒地老

Let it be me

让我爱着你

Don't take this heaven from one

不要让我的梦想破灭

If you must cling to someone

如果你真的需要温暖怀抱

Now and forever

不管天荒地老

Let it be me

让我爱着你

Each time we need love

当生命中出现爱

I found complete love

那一定是完整的爱

Without your sweet love

没有你的甜美笑容

For what would life be

我的生活将暗无天日

So never leave me lonely

请不要离开我

Say that you love me only

说你只爱我一人

And that you'll always

并且你会永远

Let it be me

让我爱着你

Say you will always

并且你会永远

Let it be me

让我爱着你

Happy Wedding Anniversary

结婚纪念日快乐

A rose for every year

每一年的那支玫瑰

Many smiles for every tear

每滴泪水都为笑容

Way more of the first than ever of the latter

比起前者更优先后者

What's deep in our hearts is all that really matters

内心深处才是我们重要的一切

We've learned a lot, yet still a lot to learn

我们学到了很多，但还有很多要学

For that "smile in your eyes" my heart still yearns

“你眼中的笑意”仍是我内心的渴望

Keep giving me a chance to show you my love

请给我机会让我继续表达我对你的爱

We've always found a way to rise above

我们总是能找到克服问题的方法

We know what we have and we've made it this far

我们知晓我们所拥有的一切并走到了现在

We often say to each other just how lucky we are

我们总是和彼此诉说自己有多么幸运

To have what we have when we look in their eyes

当我们看向他们的目光，我们就拥有了一切

We both know we've been given the ultimate prize

我们都知晓我们已经得到了最棒的战利品

A family who cares and can say how they feel

一个互相关爱、直言不讳的家

There is no doubt this family is real

毫无疑问这个家是存在的

It's a life full of hustle that is crazy sometimes

有时生活奔波而疯狂

But I can honestly say these are the "BEST of times"

但我会诚实地说这些都是“最棒的时光”

You have in your heart what I can't live without

你的心中拥有我赖以生存的力量

These past few years have been so special to me

过去的几年对我而言都是那么独一无二

I think I see now what everyone else can see

我想我知晓了每个人都能看到的一切

HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

结婚纪念日快乐

For it is a pleasant day

今天是美好的一天

Come, my children, come away

来啊孩子们，出来玩

For the sun shines bright today

今天的阳光无比灿烂

Little children come with me

小朋友们，快跟我来

Birds, and brooks, and posies see

鸟儿小溪鲜花多可爱

Get your hats and come away

快拿好帽子，出来玩

For it is a pleasant day

今天是美好的一天

Everything is laughing, singing

四处都是欢歌和笑语

All the pretty flowers are springing

花儿开放，桃红柳绿

See the kitten full of fun

快来看那可爱的小猫

Sporting in the pleasant sun

在阳光下面尽情奔跑

Children too may sport and play

孩子们啊，快出来玩

For it is a pleasant day

今天是美好的一天

Bring the hoop and bring the ball

拿出皮球，拿出铁环

Come with happy faces all

小朋友们都喜眉笑眼

Let us make a merry ring

兴高采烈站成一个圈

Talk and laugh, and dance and sing

跳舞唱歌，欢笑交谈

Quickly, quickly, come away

快啊，快啊，出来玩

For it is a pleasant day

今天是美好的一天

A letter to our daughter

扎克伯格写给刚出生小女儿的信

A

letter to our daughter

一封给我们女儿的信

Dear August,

亲爱的八月：

Welcome to the world!

欢迎来到这个世界！

Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will become.

我和你妈妈迫不及待地想要知道你会成长为一个怎样的人。

When your sister was born, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up into

你姐姐出生的时候，我们给她写了一封信，告诉她我们希望她在怎样的一个世界里成长。现在，你也将要在这个我们希冀中的世界里成长。

a world with better education, fewer diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality.

在这个世界里，教育更完善，疾病更少，社会更团结，也更公平。

We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology,

我们写道，因为科学和技术的进步，

your generation should live dramatically better lives than ours, and we have a responsibility to do our part to make that happen.

你们这一代人的生活应当远远好于我们，我们有责任将这个愿景实现。

Even though headlines often focus on what's wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out.

虽然人们经常关注负面消息，但我们仍相信进步的趋势会占上风。

We're optimists about your generation and the future.

我们对你们这一代人、对未来都十分乐观。

But rather than write about growing up, we want to talk about childhood.

不过，相较于成长的话题，我们还是更想跟你说说童年。

The world can be a serious place.

世界终究是个严肃的地方。

That's why it's important to make time to go outside and play.

所以抓紧时间出去玩耍很重要。

You will be busy when you're older, so I hope you take time to smell all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now.

一旦长大，你就会变得很忙。所以我希望你能尽情地去嗅嗅所有的花朵，把你喜欢的叶子都放进小桶里。

I hope you read your favorite Dr. Seuss books so many times you start inventing your own stories about the Vipper of Vipp.

我希望你能翻来覆去读你最爱的苏斯博士的书，直到你灵感涌动，开始创造自己关于Vipper of Vipp的故事。

I hope you ride the carousel with Max until you've tamed every color horse.

我希望你跟Max（扎克伯格的大女儿）一起骑旋转木马，直到你们驯服每一匹彩色马为止。

I hope you run as many laps around our living room and yards as you want.

我希望你可以在我们的客厅和后院里自由奔跑，想跑多少圈就跑多少圈。

And then I hope you take a lot of naps. I hope you're a great sleeper.

我还希望你能好好睡觉。我希望你是一个能睡的小姑娘。

And I hope even in your dreams you can feel how much we love you.

我希望即使在梦里，你依然能感受到爸爸妈妈是多么爱你。

Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don't spend it worrying too much about the future.

童年时光充满魔力。你只有一次童年，别把它都花在担心未来上。

You've got us for that, and we'll do everything we possibly can

那些事情，留给爸爸妈妈，我们会竭尽所能地

to make sure the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.

让这个世界变得更好，为了你，也为你们这一代的所有小朋友。

August, we love you so much and we're so excited to go on this adventure with you.

宝贝，爸爸妈妈非常爱你，我们满心激动地和你踏上这段探险旅程。

We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.

祝愿你这一生欢喜、有爱，充满希望，如同你带给我们的一样。

Love, Mom and Dad

爱你的，妈妈爸爸

英语美文欣赏1

　　The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial. Given these factors, some areas have become a treasury of well-preserved ichthyosaur fossils.

　　The deposits at Holzmaden, Germany, present an interesting case for analysis. The ichthyosaur remains are found in black, bituminous marine shales deposited about 190 million years ago. Over the years, thousands of specimens of marine reptiles, fish and invertebrates have been recovered from these rocks. The quality of preservation is outstanding, but what is even more impressive is the number of ichthyosaur fossils containing preserved embryos. Ichthyosaurs with embryos have been reported from 6 different levels of the shale in a small area around Holzmaden, suggesting that a specific site was used by large numbers of ichthyosaurs repeatedly over time. The embryos are quite advanced in their physical development; their paddles, for example, are already well formed. One specimen is even preserved in the birth canal. In addition, the shale contains the remains of many newborns that are between 20 and 30 inches long.

　　Why are there so many pregnant females and young at Holzmaden when they are so rare elsewhere? The quality of preservation is almost unmatched and quarry operations have been carried out carefully with an awareness of the value of the fossils. But these factors do not account for the interesting question of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth.

英语美文欣赏2

　　Most parents would probably be extremely grateful to be shown an easy way to inSffll into their children an appreciation of the value of money and a better understanding of how to make it,According to somecrities, they can find the answer by reading a new bestselling book by financial wizard Robert T. Kiyosaki.

　　如果有个简单的方法，该方法能帮助家长给孩子灌输重视钱的价值，以及更好地了解挣钱的办法，相信多数家长都会十分感激的。根据评论家的观点，父母可以在一本由财经奇才罗伯特.清崎所著的畅销书中找到答案。

　　Rich Dad, Poor Dad has the title of a novel rather than a how-to treatise, and indeed, much of the book is written in story form. Its central theme is summed up by the subtitle What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not. The author also strongly disparages the tendency ofmost people to work for money rather than letting money work for them .

　　《富爸爸，穷爸爸》有点像小说的书名，而不像是一部入门的专著。的`确，书的大部分内容是以故事的形式写成。书的副标题-《富人教给孩子有关金钱的观念和穷人与中产阶级所教的相左)》，归纳了该书的主题。作者也强烈蔑视大多数人为钱工作而不是 让钱为人工作 的倾向。

　　Kiyosaki illustrates his point in the first part ofthe book by narrating a story based on his childhood experiences, The title refers to the authors own highly educated father, the poor dad who always had to work hard to meet the familys and the rich dad , a neighbor who had dropped out of high school but those financial acumen turned him Into a multhnillionaire. whose financial acumen turned him.

英语美文欣赏3

　　Raising Oysters

　　In the past oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes - by transplanting them. First, farmers selected the oyster bed, cleared the bottom of old shells and other debris, then scattered clean shells about. Next, they planted fertilized oyster eggs, which within two or three weeks hatched into larvae. The larvae drifted until they attached themselves to the clean shells on the bottom. There they remained and in time grew into baby oysters called seed or spat. The spat grew larger by drawing in seawater from which they derived microscopic particles of food. Before long, farmers gathered the baby oysters, transplanted them in other waters to speed up their growth, then transplanted them once more into another body of water to fatten them up. Until recently the supply of wild oysters and those crudely farmed were more than enough to satisfy peoples needs. But today the delectable seafood is no longer available in abundance. The problem has become so serious that some oyster beds have vanished entirely. Fortunately, as far back as the early 1900s marine biologists realized that if new measures were not taken, oysters would become extinct or at best a luxury food. So they set up well-equipped hatcheries and went to work. But they did not have the proper equipment or the skill to handle the eggs. They did not know when, what, and how to feed the larvae. And they knew little about the predators that attack and eat baby oysters by the millions. They failed, but they doggedly kept at it. Finally, in the 1940s a significant breakthrough was made. The marine biologists discovered that by raising the temperature of the water, they could induce oysters to spawn not only in the summer but also in the fall, winter, and spring. Later they developed a technique for feeding the larvae and rearing them to spat. Going still further, they succeeded in breeding new strains that were resistant to diseases, grew faster and larger, and flourished in water of different salinities and temperatures. In addition, the cultivated oysters tasted better!

英语美文欣赏4

　　The White Envelope

　　It's just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree. No name, no identification, no inscription. It has peeked through the branches of our tree for the past 10 years or so.

　　It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas — oh, not the true meaning of Christmas, but the commercial aspects of it — overspending... the frantic running around at the last minute to get a tie for Uncle Harry and the dusting powder for Grandma — the gifts given in desperation because you couldn't think of anything else.

　　Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to bypass the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so forth. I reached for something special just for Mike. The inspiration came in an unusual way.

　　Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended; and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match against a team sponsored by an inner-city church. These youngsters, dressed in sneakers so ragged that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together, presented a sharp contrast to our boys in their spiffy blue and gold uniforms and sparkling new wrestling shoes.

　　As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears. It was a luxury the ragtag team obviously could not afford. Well, we ended up walloping them. We took every weight class. And as each of their boys got up from the mat, he swaggered around in his tatters with false bravado, a kind of street pride that couldn't acknowledge defeat.

　　Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them.”

　　Mike loved kids — all kids — and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball and lacrosse. That's when the idea for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought an assortment of wrestling headgear and shoes and sent the anonymously to the inner-city church.

　　On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me. His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in succeeding years.

　　For each Christmas, I followed the tradition — one year sending a group of mentally handicapped youngsters to a hockey game, another year a check to a pair of elderly brothers whose home had burned to the ground the week before Christmas, and on and on.

　　The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to reveal its contents.

　　As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn't end there. You see, we lost Mike last year due to dreaded cancer. When Christmas rolled around, I was still so wrapped in grief that I barely got the tree up. But Christmas Eve found me placing an envelope on the tree, and in the morning, it was joined by three more.

　　Each of our children, unbeknownst to the others, had placed an envelope on the tree for their dad. The tradition has grown and someday will expand even further with our grandchildren standing around the tree with wide-eyed anticipation watching as their fathers take down the envelope. Mike's spirit, like the Christmas spirit, will always be with us.

　　May we all remember the reason for the season, and the true Christmas spirit this year and always. God bless — pass this along to your friends and loved ones.

　　Happy Holidays！

　　December is one of my favorite months as it's the month of lights, and the month of giving, and thanking. I received this mail from my friend Debra this evening, and wanted to share it. I really think it touches all of us in many ways. As it is said you can never give or receive too many mizvot (in Jewish it's the act of giving) Maybe it could be your “WHITE ENVELOPE”.

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　　In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of remote ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. A great-grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother, after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to women's higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women. She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. She inquired the cause of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his two grandchildren. "Good gracious," she exclaimed, "I have seventy-two grandchildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence!" "Madre snaturale," he replied. But speaking as one of the seventy-two, I prefer her recipe. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep, so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to 3 a.m. in reading popular science. I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old. This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young. If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the probable brevity of your future.

　　As regards health, I have nothing useful to say since I have little experience of illness. I eat and drink whatever I like, and sleep when I cannot keep awake. I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.

　　Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One's thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; one's own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that one's emotions used to be more vivid than they are, and one's mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true.

　　The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are unusually callous. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one's interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic, but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of infancy, find this difficult.

　　I think that a successful old age is easier for those who have strong impersonal interests involving appropriate activities. It is in this sphere that long experience is really fruitful, and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive. It is no use telling grown-up children not to make mistakes, both because they will not believe you, and because mistakes are an essential part of education. But if you are one of those who are incapable of impersonal interests, you may find that your life will be empty unless you concern yourself with your children and grandchildren. In that case you must realize that while you can still render them material services, such as making them an allowance or knotting them jumpers, you must not expect that they will enjoy your company.

　　Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in a battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it----so at least it seems to me----is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river----small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer form the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

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　　As a teenager，I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious1 out－side，but I wanted to be liked inside.

　　Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn?t easy，and there were many times I didn?t feel safe. One situation in particular kept me grateful to still be alive. When I returned home，I was different，not so outwardly sure of myself.

　　I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope，who was staying with us，was wearing my clothes. And my family seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be missed if I weren?t there. I told my mom，and she explained that though Penelope was a lovely girl，no one could replace me. I pointed out，“Ｓhe is more patient and is neater than I have ever been.” My mom said these were

　　wonderful qualities，but I was the only person who could fill my role. She made me realize that even with my faults—and there were many－I was a loved member of the family who couldn?t be replaced.

　　I became a searcher，wanting to find out who I was and what made me unique. My view of myself was changing. I wanted a solid base to start from. I started to resist3 pressure to act in ways that I didn?t like any more，and I was delighted by who I really was. I came to feel much more sure that no one can ever take my place.

　　Each of us holds a unique place in the world. You are special，no matter what others say or what you may think. So forget about being replaced. You can?t be.

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　　First, academic The total three-year academic ranking: 5 Comprehensive results of three years the total ranking: 2 (See schedule number: 45) English proficiency: Sophomore English 4 adopted by the outstanding certificates, achievement 89.5 6 sophomore through English, or a certificate of achievement 75 Junior English through interviews in Hong Kong, access to Hong Kong to participate in training opportunities (see below) Third, to participate in the research and social practice activities

　　1999 July ~ August Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd. Shanghai Bio-engineering Co., Ltd. Green A marketing project

　　Yunnan Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd., Shanghai, Green A Biological Engineering Co., Ltd.

　　Successfully assisted in the establishment of the Yangpu District, Shanghai sales network

　　In which I played a more crucial role

　　20xx August

　　Eastern China to investigate the use of rural land

　　Zhejiang University School of Management

　　College teachers to assist first-line investigation

　　Paradise Valley students of Zhejiang University Business Plan Competition

　　Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, Zhejiang University

　　To enter the finals and achieved rank

　　Specific place Are not yet available

　　20xx July ~ August

　　New era in the management of the fourth training program

　　Chinese University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce

　　To obtain a diploma, as the main members of which a number of crown

　　In the training scheme, I outstanding performance demonstrated the presence of Zhejiang University

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　　Words from the Heart

　　Most people need to hear those "three little words" I love you. Once in a while, they hear them just in time.

　　I met Connie the day she was admitted to the hospice1 ward, where I worked as a volunteer. Her husband, Bill, stood nervously nearby as she was transferred from the gurney2 to the hospital bed. Although Connie was in the final stages of her fight against cancer, she was alert and cheerful. We got her settled in. I finished marking her name on all the hospital supplies she would be using, then asked if she needed anything.

　　"Oh, yes," she said, "would you please show me how to use the TV? I enjoy the soaps so much and I dont want to get behind on whats happening." Connie was a romantic. She loved soap operas, romance novels and movies with a good love story. As we became acquainted, she confided how frustrating it was to be married 32 years to a man who often called her "a silly woman."

　　"Oh, I know Bill loves me," she said, "but he has never been one to say he loves me, or send cards to me." She sighed and looked out the window at the trees in the courtyard. "Id give anything if hed say ‘I love you, but its just not in his nature."

　　Bill visited Connie every day. In the beginning, he sat next to the bed while she watched the soaps. Later, when she began sleeping more, he paced up and down the hallway outside her room. Soon, when she no longer watched television and had fewer waking moments, I began spending more of my volunteer time with Bill.

　　He talked about having worked as a carpenter and how he liked to go fishing. He and Connie had no children, but theyd been enjoying retirement by traveling, until Connie got sick. Bill could not express his feelings about the fact that his wife was dying.

　　One day, over coffee in the cafeteria, I got him on the subject of women and how we need romance in our lives; how we love to get sentimental1 cards and love letters.

　　"Do you tell Connie you love her?" I asked (knowing his answer)，and he looked at me as if I was crazy.

　　"I dont have to," he said. "She knows I do!"

　　"Im sure she knows," I said, reaching over and touching his hands rough, carpenters hands that were gripping the cup as if it were the only thing he had to hang onto "but she needs to hear it, Bill. She needs to hear what she has meant to you all these years. Please think about it."

　　We walked back to Connies room. Bill disappeared inside, and I left to visit another patient. Later, I saw Bill sitting by the bed. He was holding Connies hand as she slept. The date was February 12.

　　Two days later I walked down the hospice ward at noon. There stood Bill, leaning up against the wall in the hallway, staring at the floor. I already knew from the head nurse that Connie had died at 11 A.M.。

　　When Bill saw me, he allowed himself to come into my arms for a long time. His face was wet with tears and he was trembling. Finally, he leaned back against the wall and took a deep breath.

　　"I have to say something," he said. "I have to say how good I feel about telling her." He stopped to blow his nose. "I thought a lot about what you said, and this morning I told her how much I loved her.。. and loved being married to her. You shoulda2 seen her smile!"

　　I went into the room to say my own good?bye to Connie. There, on the bedside table, was a large Valentine card from Bill. You know, the sentimental kind that says, "To my wonderful wife.。. I love you."

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　　Hercules and the waggoner

　　A waggoner was once driving a heavy load on a very muddy road.

　　Suddenly the wheels of the wagon sank into the mire, and the horse could not pull them out.

　　The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules. "Hercules, help me,please," he said.

　　But Hercules appeared to him, and said, "Man, don't kneel there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel."

　　大力神与车夫

　　●一名车夫赶着货车沿着一条非常泥泞的小路前行。

　　●突然,马车的轮子陷入了泥潭,马无法将它们拉出来。

　　●车夫扔下鞭子,跪在地上,祈求大力神出现,“大力神啊,请来帮助我。”他说。

　　●大力神出现了,却说:“朋友,用你的肩膀把车轮扛起来,再驱赶马拉车出来。跪在那里祈求我有什么用呢?”

　　寓意: 当我们遇到困难时,不能只期望得到别人的'帮助,而应该首先依靠自己的力量。

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　　What is Love? The eternal question we all carry around deep within our heart. Love is the eternal search. Love is eternal when we find it. But do we really ever find it ? When we define it do we negate it? When we set limits on what we believe to be love do we begin to destroy it by hoping to understand or own it for ourselves? We offer it through all of our relationship we vary our giving, often by what we hope to receive in return. But is this really love?

　　I recently overheard someone say in a conversation that there is no such thing as “ unconditional love .” I would have to agree, although for different reasons. Love within itself is unconditional. Anything else is only an attempt to love, a learning to get us nearer to the one true knowing of love. It may be honorable, well-intentioned, passionate and desiring, courageous and pure. It may be felt as temporary, but if lost easily it may not have been love at all. Love cannot be thwarted and often fall short of what we hope love will be. This is where we learn we are human.

　　Love has been experienced as a life of living poetry. Love has been experienced as being the very notes of song, uplifting and generous to the wanting ear. Love has been experienced as the final act of giving one’s life for another in battle. Love has been experienced as an endless passionate over flow of emotion in the arms of waiting lover.

　　What do you do with the love granted to you each day? How many times do we deny its expression for others because we fear what our own expressions will bring? Are we not denying our creator every time we deny the expression of love?

　　Lost, empty, alone and searching. As individuals who have experienced separation or divorce, or even the loss of a loved one to death, the separation can be the most traumatic experience we live through. The heart-wrenching pain that seems to never really go away, the enormous waves that hit us daily, the times we hit the wall right after a strong and uplifting experience reminds us that we are learning. We are learning about strength, passion for our own life, about our own sincerity in our beliefs, about our loyalty to who we are, and certainly about our own genuineness. We search for that day when love will come again. We search everywhere, everyday, almost every hour.

　　It has been said for centuries that “ love is where the eyes meet with passion, for the eyes cannot hide what the heart feels.” So we have learned to look outward for this eternal love that will fulfill us, forgetting that it must first fill our own hearts. Perhaps that is why we fall into such pain and agony and sorrow when a love affair fails. It is at that moment that we realize we did not fail the other person we expressed love to , but we have somehow not fulfilled ourselves once again. We combat failure with a misunderstood unfulfilled promise. We lade it, not knowing if we will ever find it again. The emotion tides life and fall ,crash and settle, then lift again.

　　No one else, no matter how much we talk or cry, can pull us through the anxious hours of soul repair and growth. It is our own fire within that needs rekindling, guarding against the winds that would blow it out and leave us dark, cold and helpless. It is at this time that we find the lobe that binds us together with every other being that surrounds us on the planet. Eventually we find the sun still rises to meet in the morning and the stars continue to show us the way each night. The rivers still flow downstream into oceans that will never turn them away. The trees still reach upward every day praising the God that made them. We stand up straight and take a lesson from it all.

　　What if you woke up one morning and realized that you were the only person left on the face of the earth? Who would you love? Why do we wait so long to start the journey that begins in the same place that it ends？Love, in all its endlessness, unboundedness and failed definitions is this experience.

　　Love doesn’t ask why. It doesn’t come. It doesn’t go. It just is. It is not only in our hands, it is our hands. It isn’t only in our heart, it is what makes our heart beat every beat. It wraps itself around us so securely that all we need to do to survive against all odds is to recognize it as the very breath we just drew, and the last breath we just let go.

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　　Develop Your Own Helping Rituals

　　伸出你的友爱之手

　　If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it' s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my favorite ways to do this is by developing my own helping rituals. These little acts of kindness are opportunities to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be kind and helpful.

　　如果你想让自己的生活安宁祥和，最好做一些友善平和的事情。我最喜欢的一种方式是培养 自己乐于助人的习惯。这些小小的善行让你有机会去帮助别人，让你意识到待人友善、乐于助人的感觉有多好。

　　We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is be auty and nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the litter that some peop le throw out of their windows as they are driving on the rural roads. One of the few drawbacks to living out the boondocks is that public services, such as litter collection, are less available than they are closer to the city.

　　我们住在旧金山圣弗朗西斯科湾地区的郊外。我们目所能及的几乎都是美丽的`自然风光。与这美景不太和谐的是有人驱车行驶在乡间小路上时随手从车窗往外扔垃圾。而居住在这种偏远的地方的一个缺点就是缺少必要的公共服务，例如，垃圾的收集就不如靠近市区那样方便。

　　A helping ritual that I practice regularly with my two children is picking up li tter in our surrounding area. We' ve become so accustomed to doing this that my da ughters will often say to me in animated voices, "There' s some litter, Daddy, stop the car!" And if we have time, we will often pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to where we live. He smiled at me and said, "I saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good idea."

　　我跟我的两个孩子经常做的一件事就是捡拾我们周围地区的垃圾。对此我们已经习以为常，我的女儿们经常会兴奋地对我说，“爸爸，这儿有垃圾，请停一下车！”只要时间来得及，我们总是将车开到路边并将垃圾捡起来。这似乎有点不可思议，但我们真的喜欢这样做。我们在公园里，人行道上，几乎任何地方捡拾垃圾。曾经有一次，我在我们家附近看到一位陌生人在捡垃圾。他笑着对我说，“我看到你这么做了，看来是个好主意。”

　　Picking up litter is only one of an endless supply of possible helping rituals. You might like holding a door open for people, visiting lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or shoveling snow off someone else' s driveway. Think of something that seems effortless yet helpful. It' s fun, personally rewarding, and sets a good example. Everyone wins.

　　捡垃圾只不过是无数善意行为中的一种形式而已。你可以为别人开门，或者去敬老院看望那些孤独的老人，或者清除别人行车道上的积雪。总会想出一些似乎毫不费力但又非常有益的事情。这真的很有趣，自己会感觉很好，也为别人树立了榜样。每个人都会从中受益。

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　　The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that 8217;s the essence of inhumanity.——George Bernard Shaw?

　　Many people 8211;especially young people 8211;seem to have a hard time understanding other people 8217;s right to quiet. My wife and I worked as camp hosts at a small campground for one summer, and we were only a bit surprised to see just how many people were willing to stay up very late at night talking and laughing around the campfire, even though they were literally surrounded by the darkened tents of other people who were trying to sleep.

　　I can understand the positive feeling of companionship and enjoying other people 8217;s companies, but if we want to respect the rights of others, then it 8217;s important that we recognize that there 8217;s a time and a place for everything.

　　My wife and I had to spend a lot of time reminding people that quiet hours had started at ten because people simply weren 8217;t willing to respect those hours. They wanted to do what they wanted to do, and all of the other people who were affected by their actions simply didn 8217;t matter to them.

　　Many people know that the law of Karma eventually will cause some sort of return to the folks who don 8217;t respect the rights of others, but it 8217;s a shame that we even have to think of such a thing. What would life be like if our understanding of Karma were to be limited to the positive returns that life would provide because we only shared positive thoughts, words, and actions with our fellow humans and the other living beings on this planet?

　　We should not, of course, make decision about what we do and do not do simply because of what we think we 8217;ll get back. Our decisions should be made based on whether what we 8217;re doing is respecting the rights and needs of others.

　　Life, after all, is a cooperative effort, and the better we treat our fellow human beings, the more we respect them and their rights, the more positive and loving andcompassionate is this world going to be. It 8217;s a very simple and important principal for all of us to realize we 8217;re going to give to the world in positive ways.

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　　Written by: Babydoll

　　"I will take you out for dinner!" Said him.

　　Is it a date? To be honest, I don't really know. But, yes, I considered it as our first date, since we had a more than friend situation, having a dinner together would be in term of a Date.

　　Gals are always keen on what to wear. Me, too. I always spend long time on picking clothes and shoes, and doing my makeup and hair. That's what a mature woman do, my gay friend used to say that to me. None exception for this day, I spent more than a hour to prepare myself for going out.

　　Dress? Too formal for the bar where we might go after the dinner...

　　Skirt? I never really like to wear skirt, beside it is kind chill at night...

　　Jeans?? Isn't it too informal for that kind elegant restaurant??

　　... Hmm... never mind, I finally picked jeans and kind classical black top. I like to wear simple stuffs. Hey, simple doesnt mean cheap! Elegant is an expression, an elegant lady would look tiptop all the time even in some simple stuffs.

　　I pulled my hair back to send the hair bun and a wooden hairpin, simple and classical Asian style, one of my favorite hair styles. Asian women with the hairbun and hairpin are so sexy, my friends always say that. But hairpins are dangerous, it can be very sharp!

　　Makeup wouldn't be too hard for me, maybe I am very artistic, or maybe I am just plastic... I don't like to follow the fashion, but my own style. I like to wear different colors of eyeshadows and lipsticks in order to fit my clothes and my mood. Hmmm... this evening, I felt classical and sexy! Silver, gold, and rouge would be perfect. Makeups are women's magic! No wonder nowadays no matter how bleak the economy is, those stuffs have still been hot in the market! We women are the best consumers in this modern world!

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　　Work and Pleasure

　　To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

　　It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

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　　Country Spring

　　One spring I went a walking tour in the country. It was a glorious spring. Not the sort of spring they give us in these miserable times, under this shameless government -a mixture of east wind，blizzard, snow, rain, fog, frost, hail, sleet and thunder-storms, but a sunny, blue-skyed, joyous spring, such as we used to have regularly every year when I was a young man, and things were different.

　　It was an exceptionally beautiful spring, even for those golden days; and as I wandered through the waking land, and saw the dawning of the coming green, and watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge，deepening each day beneath the kisses of the sun, and looked up at the proud old mother trees, dandling their numerous baby buds upon their strong fond arms holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he passed laughing by, and marked the primrose yellow creep across the carpet of the woods, and saw the new flush of the field and saw the new light on the hills, and heard the new-found gladness of the birds, and heard from wood and farm and meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things, wondering to find themselves alive, and smelt the freshness of the earth, and felt the promise in the air, and felt a strong hand in the wind, my spirit rose within me.

　　Spring had come to me also, and stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope. I, too, was part of nature, and it was spring! Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart. Bright flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots. I felt new strength in all my limbs. New blood was running through my veins. Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain. As I walked, nature came and talked beside me, and showed me the world and myself, and the ways of God seemed clearer.

篇1：英语经典美文「赏析」

英语经典美文「赏析」

things do not change;we change.sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想

think it over……好好想想……

today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;

今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘;

we spend more,but enjoy less;

我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少;

we have bigger houses,but smaller famillies;

我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了;

we have more compromises,but less time;

我们妥协更多，时间更少;

we have more knowledge,but less judgment;

我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了;

we have more medicines,but less health;

我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意;

we have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values;

我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了;

we talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much;

我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了;

we reached the moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;

我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍;

we have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space;

我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心;

we have highter income,but less morals;

我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了;

these are times with more liberty,but less joy;

我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少;

we have much more food,but less nutrition;

我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了;

these are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase;

现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了;

these are times of finer houses,but more broken homes;

现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭;

that‘s why i propose,that as of today;

这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始;

you do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a special occasion.

不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别;

search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;

寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法;

spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love;

花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的`地方;

life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival;

生活是一串串的快乐时光;我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存;

use your crystal goblets.do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it.

举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧!

remove from your vocabulary phrases like“one of these days”or “someday”;

从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”;

let‘s write that letter we thought of writing “one of these days”!

曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧!

let‘s tell our families and friends how much we love them;

告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们;

do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;

不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情;

every day,every hour,and every minute is special;

每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别;

and you don't know if it will be your last.

你无从知道这是否最后刻。

美文欣赏:你可以选择自己想过的生活

Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica Heslop shares her powerful, inspiring journey from the worst times in her life to the new life she has created for herself:

生活有时候困难得难以置信，但又不容置疑。我们面临的挑战与困境似乎无法抵御，试图毁灭我们生活，甚至使你犹疑是否继续走下去。但是你总有选择的余地。从人生低谷走向新生活的杰西卡·赫斯乐普，在这里与我们分享她启迪心灵、充满震撼力的生活之旅。

篇2：英语经典美文赏析

英语经典美文赏析

Oregon Brewers FestivalJuly 28 - 30Hailed by many as the finest craft beer festival of America, the Oregon Brewers Festival celebrates the growth of North American microbrewing while showcasing some of the finest beers in the industry. Held each July, the Oregon Brewers Festival attracts 80,000 beer enthusiasts to Portlands Gov. Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Beer lovers from around the world visit Portland to sample some of the nearly 90 local and national craft brews.

Although admission to the event is free, there is a small charge for a souvenir mug and an additional fee for beer tokens, which are required for sampling brews. Festival-goers complement their thirst for beer with light meals and snacks available at the booths run by local restaurants.

The Oregon Brewers Festival is designed to promote the independent brewers of North America in a fun and educational fashion. In addition to beer-tasting, the event includes an educational tent where patrons can learn more about beer through industry exhibits by hop growers, maltsters, home brewers and national beer writers.

The first Oregon Brewers Festival in 1988 was a success despite a few glitches and challenges. The weather was unbearably hot, an unexpected 5,000 people showed up, and the main attraction - the beer - was foamy due to refrigeration problems. The dream of Art Larrance, co-founder of Portland Brewing Company, had been realized.

篇3：英语美文赏析

When times become difficult (and you know they sometimes will), remember a moment in your life that was filled with joy and happiness. Remember how it made you feel, and you will have the strength you need to get through any trial.

当你身陷困境的时候（你有时会），回想你生命中快乐和幸福的时刻。回想它是如何使你快乐，你便有了走出困境的勇气。

When life throws you one more obstacle than you think you can handle, remember something you achieved through perseverance and by struggling to the end. In doing so, you'll find you have the ability to overcome each obstacle brought your way.

当面对重重困难，你感觉举步维艰的时候，回想你以前是如何坚持到底战胜困难的最后时刻的。这样，你就会发现你有能力克服每个障碍。

When you find yourself drained and depleted of energy, remember to find a place of sanctuary and rest.

当你觉得精疲力尽的时候，暂时离开，让自己稍作休息。

Take the necessary time in your own life to dream your dreams and renew your energy, so you'll be ready to face each new day.

从你的生活中多抽出点时间去梦想，重振你的精力，你会完全准备好又去迎接新的一天。

When you feel tension building, find something fun to do. You'll find that the stress you feel will dissipate and your thoughts will become clearer.

当你感觉到紧张的压力，做一些有乐趣的事吧。你会发现压力在渐渐消逝，你的想法也渐渐明朗了。

You're listening to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I'm Faith. When you're faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole--and remember the positive things.

这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台节目。当你面对重重困难的时候，要意识到相对于你的整个生命，这些难题其实是微不足道的，请铭记你生命中美好的东西。

美文欣赏:你可以选择自己想过的生活

Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica Heslop shares her powerful, inspiring journey from the worst times in her life to the new life she has created for herself:

生活有时候困难得难以置信，但又不容置疑。我们面临的挑战与困境似乎无法抵御，试图毁灭我们生活，甚至使你犹疑是否继续走下去。但是你总有选择的余地。从人生低谷走向新生活的杰西卡·赫斯乐普，在这里与我们分享她启迪心灵、充满震撼力的生活之旅。

In I had the worst year of my life.

是我生活中最艰难的一年。

I worked in a finance job that I hated and I lived in a concrete jungle city with little greenery. I occupied my time with meaningless relationships and spent copious quantities of money on superficialities. I was searching for happiness and had no idea where to find it.

我做着讨厌的财务工作，住在难寻绿色的高楼林立的城市。我忙于无意义的交往，在一些肤浅表面的东西上大笔开销。我寻找快乐，却又不知道它在哪里。

Then I fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and became virtually bed bound. I had to quit my job and subsequently was left with no income. I lived with my boyfriend of then only 3 months who financially supported me and our relationship was put under great pressure. I eventually regained my physical health, but not long after that I got a call from my family at home to say that my father’s cancer had fiercely progressed and that he had been admitted to a hospice.

然后我患上了慢性疲劳综合症，几乎到了卧床不起的地步。我不得不辞掉工作，同时也就断了财源。我和那时仅相处了3个月的男友住在一起，经济上完全依赖于他，我们的'关系承受着巨大压力。终于我恢复健康，但不久，我接到家里的电话，父亲的癌症急剧恶化，已经住进了临终关怀中心。

篇4：英语美文赏析

Hungry for your love 真爱无限

我的心跳急剧加速，我径直地看着拉玛的眼睛，问她，“那个男孩是不是有一天告诉你，‘明天不要给我送苹果了，我要被送到另一个集中营了’？”

“对呀，你怎么知道的。”拉玛的声音有点颤抖，“告诉我，赫尔曼，你到底是怎么知道的啊？”

我抓住她的手说，“因为我就是那个男孩啊，拉玛。”透过时间的面纱，我们认出了那藏在眼睛深处的灵魂，那是我们永远也无法停止爱恋的亲人。最后，我说：“拉玛，我再也不想和你分开了。我想要永远和你在一起。亲爱的，你能嫁给我吗？”

It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shivering in my thin rags, still in disbelief that this nightmare is happening. I am just a young boy. I should be playing with friends; I should be going to school; I should be looking forward to a future, to growing up and marrying, and having a family of my own. But those dreams are for the living, and I am no longer one of them. Instead, I am almost dead, surviving from day to day, from hour to hour, ever since I was taken from my home and brought here with tens of thousands other Jews. Will I still be alive tomorrow? Will I be taken to the gas chamber tonight?

篇5：尝试不同英语美文赏析

尝试不同英语美文赏析

When we first read the following story, we had just begun teaching a course called “The Million Dollar Forum,” a course designed to teach people to accelerate their income up to levels of a million dollars a year or more. Early on we discovered people get locked into a rut of trying harder without trying smarter. Trying harder doesn't always work. Sometimes we need to do something radically different to achieve greater levels of success. We need to break out of our paradigm prisons, our habit patterns and our comfort zones.

I'm sitting in a quiet room at the Milcroft Inn, a peaceful little place hidden back among the pine trees about an hour out of Toronto. It's just past noon, late July, and I'm listening to the desperate sounds of a life-or-death struggle going on a few feet away.

There's a small fly burning out the last of its short life's energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly's strategy: Try harder.

But it's not working.

The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. Ironically, the struggle is part of the trap. It is impossible for the fly to try hard enough to succeed at breaking through the glass. Nevertheless, this little insect has staked its life on reaching its goal through raw effort and determination.

This fly is doomed. It will die there on the windowsill.

Across the room, ten steps away, the door is open. Ten seconds of flying time and this small creature could reach the outside world it seeks. With only a fraction of the effort now being wasted, it could be free of this self-imposed trap. The breakthrough possibility is there. It would be so easy.

Why doesn't the fly another approach, something dramatically different? How did it get so locked in on the idea that this particular route and determined effort offer the most promise for success? What logic is there in continuing until death to seek a breakthrough with more of the same?

No doubt this approach makes sense to the fly. Regrettably, it's an idea that will kill.

Trying harder isn't necessarily the solution to achieving more. It may not offer any real promise for getting what you want out of life. Sometimes, in fact, it's a big part of the problem.

If you stake your hopes for a breakthrough on trying harder than ever, you may kill your chances for success.

扩展：安全驾驶必备词汇

窄路 Narrow road

滑路 Slippery road

弯路 Curve road

此路不通 Blocked / Road closed

修路 Road works ahead

改道 Diversion / Detour

险陡 Dangerous ahead

危险弯路 Dangerous curves

三岔路 Road junction

十字路 Cross road

回车道 Loop road

左(右)弯 Left (Right) curve

弯曲路 Winding road

之字路 Double bend road

让车弯 Passing bay

小心火车 RR Crossing / Railroad crossing

前有工程 Men working

前有狭桥 Narrow bridge ahead

塌方 Landslide

当心行人 Caution pedestrian crossing

禁喇叭 No horn

禁闯红灯 No jaywalking

禁止通行 No passing / No through traffic

禁止越线 Keep in lane

禁止汽车 Auto not permitted

不准回转 No U turn

不准入内 No entry

林荫大道 Boulevard(Blvd)

不准停车 No parking

不准等候 No waiting

不准左转 Keep right

不准右转 Keep left

不准超车 No overhead

不准掉头 No turns

禁止鸣笛 No tooting

慢(快)车道 Slow(Quick) lane

单行道 One way only / Single lane

双车道 Two-way traffic

高速公路 Freeway(FWY) / motorway

公路 highway

收费站 Toll station

高架道路 Elevated road

入口 Entrance

出口 Exit

由此而入 Enter here

绕路而行 Detour

大路 Avenue

林荫大道 Boulevard(Blvd)

小路 Path

人行道 Pavement

三岔路 Road Junction

宁静区 Silent zone

徒步区 Walking area

拱桥 Arch bridge

停车处 Parking lot(zone)

地下道 Underpass

篇6：英语优秀励志美文赏析

英语优秀励志美文赏析

泥土的微笑

All over my garden Ive planted nothing but roses, fragrant and if looked at from afar-ablaze with colour like sunset clouds. I would be very happy if any one of my visiting friends should desire to pick and take some for their homes.I trust that any friend of nune carrying the roses would vanish into the distance feeling that his emotion had been rekindled.

我在花园里种满了芬芳的玫瑰花，远远望去，他们像一片燃烧的晚霞。如果来访的朋友想摘些花带回家，我会很高兴。我相信朋友捧着火红的玫瑰渐渐走远的背影，一定能点燃易感的情怀。

A close friend came for a visit the other day, I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants, and for that reason I told her at her departure that she should pick a bunch of roses to decorate her boudoir. I promised that the scent ofthe roses would be wafted far, far away.

有一天，一位非常要好的女友来探望我，我知道她平素最喜欢花花草草了，临别时我说，采一束玫瑰点缀你的闺房，保证十里飘香。

That girl friend of mine, tiptoeing into the garden in high spirits, sniffed here and smelt there, but in the end she didnt pick a single rose. I said there were so many of them tbat she could pick as many as shed like to, I told her that I was not a florist and didnt make a living out of them. While saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she vehemently stopped me, crying no, no, no!

女友轻轻地跨进花园，东闻闻，西嗅嗅，神采飞扬，就是不肯采摘。我说没关系，多的是，并让她尽管采摘。我告诉她我又不是花店的老板，不会靠玫瑰赚钱的，说完我就举起剪刀准备献美。女友急忙拦住，高声叫着不可不可。

To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said.With her hands clutching at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut. Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron hearted as to destroy a smile so exhilarating

这么美丽的玫瑰剪下来，让人心疼，她说道。她紧抓住我的袖子叮咛道：千万不能剪啊，玫瑰是泥土的微笑，谁忍心杀戮美得醉人的微笑

My mind was thoroughly boggled: the ugly earth, the humble earth,the plain earth-it is only because of the roses that it reveals an amazing and bright smile, and it is for the sake of that smile that it wins the care and pity of men.

我的灵魂悚然一惊，丑陋的泥土、卑微的泥土、朴素的泥土，因为玫瑰，它露出了惊艳一笑。因为这一笑，它让人爱惜非常。

Of late a friend of mine i_nvited me to appreciate a Tang Dynasty vase that he was fortunate enough to have bought at an auction. The vase, with its slim neck, plump body, and fine little flowers on a blue and white background, has a noble shape and a rich colouring, elegant, refined, proud, poised, and supercilious, an extreme embodiment of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. I was filled with wonder to think that while everyone present was talang great care not to cause the slightest damage to the Tang treasure, it was to me nothing but an object made of clay. It had only become a piece of classic art after being baked in a china kiln.

近日，一个朋友在拍卖会上有幸购得一个花瓶，花瓶细颈大肚，碎花蓝白图案，看上去流光溢彩。从造型到色彩，整个如唐朝盛世的化身，雍容、华贵、高傲、悠闲，目空一切。朋友邀请我们大家观赏。奇怪的是每一个参观者都小心谨慎，生怕碰坏这盛唐的宝贝。其实它不过是一撮泥土而已，在经过窑烧之后才干修百炼成瓷中经典的口.

Both the exqusiteness of the boccaro teapots made in south China, and the shockingly beautiful sculptures by Clay Sculptor Zhang of Tianjin arent they all smiles of the earth They are such exquisite treasures that-even if they look ugly, humble, plain, or whatever-they no doubt deserve respect and veneration.

江南的紫砂壶玲珑剔透，天津泥人张的彩塑令人拍案叫绝，它们不都是泥土的微笑吗它们弥足珍贵，即使曾丑陋，即使曾卑微，即使曾朴素，同样让人肃然起敬。

Now I understand that no one, however ordinary, should be condemned to anonymity, and that anyone who adds a dash of colour to life deserves our respect.

我懂得了，即使再平凡的.人，也没有理由被埋没，只要努力活出色彩，一定会叫人刮目相看。

天才养成攻略

Lesson one: New challenges require new ways of thinking

面对新挑战，要有新思路

Part car, part jet fighter, part spaceship, Bloodhound SSC aims to be the first land vehicle to break the 1,000mph barrier. One of the key challenges has been to design the wheels. How do you create the fastest wheels in history, make them stable and reliable at supersonic speeds, and with limited resources

部分汽车、部分喷气式飞机、部分宇宙飞船，猎犬号超级汽车的目标是做世界上第一辆时速突破1000英里的汽车。而这面临的一项关键挑战是车轮的设计。如果换做是你，你会如何在有限的资源下发明出超音速汽车上用的轮子呢

After much deliberation, and devising ideas that pushed the boundaries of material technology, Mark Chapman, chief engineer of the Bloodhound project said the team decided to take a step back and change the way they were trying to solve problems. Theres very little weve actually developed thats new, he says, whats unique is how we apply technologies.

猎犬号项目的总工程师马克查普曼思来想去，觉得材料还是不够好。最后他和他的团队决定退回一步、换个角度看有没有别的办法。我们实际创新的东西并不多，马克说：我们的独特之处在于应用技术的方式别具一格。

They adopted an approach called the design of experiments a mathematical technique of problem solving through doing lots of little experiments and then looking at the statistics all glued together. All of a sudden, where wed been knocking our head against the wall for maybe two, three, four months, we came up with a wheel design that would hold together and was strong enough, he says.

他们采用实验设计的方法做了很多的小实验，综合所得的数据再得出精确设计。花了三四个月绞尽脑汁做尽各种实验之后，很突然地我们做出了一个大胆的设计：把各种可用的(飞机、飞船所用的)技术都融合在一辆车上，从而使它足够强大。马克说。

Lesson two: Let evidence shape your opinion

观点要用证据来证明

Like his peers, geophysicist Steven Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed that water on Earth originated from comets. But by studying rocks, which allow scientists to peer back in time, he discovered water hidden inside ringwoodite, which lies in the Earths mantle, and which suggests that the oceans gradually made its way out of the planets interior many centuries ago.

美国西北大学地球物理学家史蒂文雅各布森曾认为，地球上的水源于彗星。但通过对岩石的研究，他发现地幔的林伍德石里面也藏有水，这一发现表明或许在N个世纪之前，海洋是从地球内部自己慢慢溢出来的。

I had a pretty hard time convincing others, he admits. Yet two key pieces of evidence uncovered this year seem to support his point of view. Time will tell whether the new theories are true, and there may be further twists to the tale. But thinking about the fact that you may be the first person to see something for the first time doesnt happen very often, he says. When it does its thrilling.

那时候我难说服别的学者相信这个。史蒂文说。但是今年新发现的两个关键证据似乎支持了他的理论。所以，一个新理论的正确与否可能需要时间来慢慢印证，在被世人接受前可能会经历很多曲折。但是如果你发现你是第一个发现这个规律的人，且时间又证明你是对的之后，你会倍受鼓舞的。史蒂文说。

Lesson three: It really is 99% perspiration

天才的99%确实是汗水

Sheila Nirenberg at Cornell University is trying to develop a new prosthetic device for treating blindness. Key to this was cracking the code that transmits information from the eye to the brain. Once I realised this, I couldnt eat, I couldnt sleep all I wanted to do was work, says Nirenberg.

康奈尔大学希拉尼伦伯格正在研究治疗失明的新型假体，其中破解眼睛与大脑的信息交流密码是最关键的。我意识到这一点之后，就吃不下饭、睡不着觉，只想全身心投入工作。尼伦伯格说。

Sometimes Im exhausted and I get burnt out, she adds. But then I get an email from somebody in crisis or somebody whos getting macular degeneration, and they cant see their own childrens faces, and it is like, How can I possibly complain It gives me the energy to just go back and keep doing it.

每次觉得筋疲力尽、江郎才尽的时候，我都会收到一些到正处于危险状态马上要失明的、或是患有黄斑部退化症的病人的邮件，这些人将没办法看清自己孩子的长相、无法看这五颜六色的世界。每当这个时候，我就跟自己说我怎么能够抱怨呢，然后就又动力十足的继续工作。

Lesson four: The answer isnt always what you expect

结果并不总是和预想的一样

Sylvia Earle has spent decades trying to see the ocean with new eyes. Her dream machine is a submarine that could take scientists all the way to the bottom of the deepest ocean floor. What sort of material could best withstand the types of pressure you would encounter thousands of miles below the ocean surface It could be steel, it could be titanium, it could be some sort of ceramic, or some kind of aluminium system, says Earle. But glass is the ultimate material. By her estimates, a glass sphere about four-to-six inches (10-15cm) thick should be able safely explore the ocean depths she dreams of exploring.

西尔维亚厄尔花了几十年的时间试图让人们用新的方式亲近海底，她的梦想号潜艇可以让科学家潜入到最深的海底。那种材料才能够承受住深海的巨大压力呢厄尔说：我想过用钢、钛、陶瓷等，但最终发现其实玻璃才是终极王者。根据她的预计，一块10-15厘米厚的玻璃板就能让她进入梦寐以求的那片深海世界。

Glass is the oldest material known to man and one of the least understood, says Tony Lawson, Earles engineering director at Deep Ocean and Exploration Research Marine. It has a higgledy-piggledy molecular structure a bit like a liquid, rather than the ordered lattices often found in other solids. As a result, when glass is evenly squeezed from all sides as it would be under the ocean the molecules cram closer together and form a tighter structure.

厄尔的项目技术总监称，虽然玻璃是人类已知的最古老材料，但是我们对它的了解却甚少。玻璃的分子结构有点像是液体，排列方式没有一般固体的有规律。因此，当玻璃被海洋里的压力从四面八方压迫时，它的分子会被压在一起，形成更紧密的结构。

Lesson five: A little luck goes a long way

偶尔的一点好运也可以维持很久

It was hailed as one of the biggest success stories in the history of space exploration 20 years of planning ended earlier this year with the Philae lander rendezvousing with Comet 67P over 300 million miles (480 million kilometres) away from Earth.

菲莱探测器被誉为太空探索史上最大跨越之一，历经的策划期终于在年初发射并成功在离地球四亿八千万公里的67P彗星上着陆。

The biggest challenge, says Stephan Ulamec, manager of the Philae lander programme, was how to design a probe to land on a body whose makeup they had little knowledge about. We had no idea of the size, we had no idea of the day-night cycle, which influences the thermal design, we had no idea of the gravity, so how fast would the lander impact, we had no idea how the surface looked, he says.

据菲莱项目的负责人斯蒂芬介绍，在这20年里遇到的最大挑战是对彗星构造了解较少，不知道该如何设计这个探测器。我们不知道彗星的昼夜循环情况会影响保热设计，不知道彗星的重力也无法预测探测器着陆后对转速的影响，甚至不清楚彗星表面的样子。

They needed to create design parameters that could cope with an extremely wide range of possible comet structures but banked on the comet being a relatively even potato shape with enough flat surfaces for the probe to land on. Even then, not everything went to plan, and two decades of meticulous planning could have failed within minutes at touchdown. Philaes anchoring harpoons didnt fire as planned, and it bounced off the comet before settling onto its icy surface and successfully beaming data back to its relieved creators.

科学家们需要建立尽可能符合多种彗星结构的设计参数，但是还是得寄希望于彗星的表面要够平坦。可即便是花了20年设计、缜密计划过的菲莱还是在着陆的几分钟里有点小失败：鱼叉系统未如计划打开，无法准确钉入彗星表面。不过幸运的是，菲莱还是成功地把数据发回了地球。

Lesson six: Genius is indefinable

天才定义不明

Its a funny word: the word genius, says Nirenberg. I just sort of ignore it and just go on with life. You just do what you do independent of whatever labels attached to you. I dont know really how else to explain it.

天才这个词很有趣，尼伦伯格说，我常常忽略这个标签继续走自己的路。只需要抛掉别人在你身上贴的各种标签做自己想做到的事就好了。因为所谓天才真是判断标准不一、无法解释的事情。

旅行的N种正能量

I am currently on a massive adventure with my family: we are seven months into a year-long trip around Australia.

我和家人正在一同展开一场声势浩大的冒险活动：全年畅游澳大利亚，这是其中的第七个月。

Coaching and traveling can bring up the same opportunities to shift long-held beliefs and ways of being.

无论是乘坐马车观光还是一般的旅行，都能为你提供许多机会，让你改变积习的顽信，改换陈旧的生活方式。

When we sit down with a coach of any kind, it is because we want to achieve a particular goal in our lives, be it work, relationships, wellbeing or something else.

当我们坐上一列马车无论是哪种马车，我们想要的是实现一种心愿，无论这心愿是工作顺遂，广结善缘，生活安康还是其他的心愿。

When we travel, we want to achieve a particular goal, be it experiences, connections, expansion or relaxation.

当我们外出旅行的时候，我们想要的是达到某一目标，无论这目标是积累经验，构建人脉，博闻强识还是休闲放松。

When we are travelling, we find ourselves in new places and new spaces, physically and internally; it is the same with coaching.

在我们的旅行途中，我们会发现自己置身于新的地理位置，也获得了新的心灵空间;乘马车观光亦是如此。

As travelers, we have to look at things in a different way; we need to draw on inner resources -- resources we may not have ever tapped into before. This builds inner confidence in other areas of our lives.

作为旅行者，我们会以不同的方式看待事物;我们要开放自己的内在感官这些内在感官或可能是我们从未开发过的矿藏。由此，我们能够充实内在的信心，以便应对生活的方方面面。

When we travel, we have to be willing to look at things in a new way, a different way. We need to see things from another perspective and work with what is right in front of us, not with what we hope it to be.

在旅程中，我们应学会用新的，不一样的眼光看待事物。我们应从不同的视角看待事情，接受当下所面对的人和事，而不是沉湎于自己所希冀的幻想之中。

One of the foundations of life coaching is knowing where you are starting from -- what is working in your life and what is not working -- and using that starting point to chart a course to where you need to go.

坐马车旅程也是从人生旅途的某个驿站开始的行程。你要知道自己从哪里出发你的生活中那些方面顺心如意，那些方面不尽人意你从这个点出发，向着你必须到达的目的地，开始一段旅程。

As a roaming traveler, you do not have room for extra baggage: extra baggage wears you down emotionally and physically, a weight you do not need. Coaching allows us to uncover baggage we may not even know we have.

作为一个随遇而安的旅人，你无需过多的行装：过重的行李会让你身体劳乏，心灵疲惫，你本可以避开这幅重担。乘着马车旅行，你会发现，原来你背负着许多包袱，自己从未意识到。

When traveling with others (as we are in life), we have to forgive quicker, let go longer and generate compassion to ourselves and others, as a group/family dynamic can be as changeable as the wind.

当我们与旁人结伴旅行的时候(正如我们在生命中共同走过一段人生一样)，我们应该原谅那些来去匆匆的人，放下独来独往的人，既要爱自己，也要爱他人，因为团队/家庭成员之间的关系和风一样善变。

When we move from one place to another we experience movement: I was in a different place yesterday to where I am today; tomorrow I can be somewhere completely different again.

当我们从一个地方来到另一个地方的时候，我们所体验到的就是无所不在的变动：昨天我曾在一个不同的地方;今天我正在这个地方;明天我会去另一个完全陌生的地方。

篇7：励志英语美文摘抄加赏析

Lesson four: The answer isn’t always what you expect

4.结果并不总是和预想的一样

Sylvia Earle has spent decades trying to see the ocean with new eyes. Her “dream machine” is a submarine that could take scientists all the way to the bottom of the deepest ocean floor. What sort of material could best withstand the types of pressure you would encounter thousands of miles below the ocean surface? “It could be steel, it could be titanium, it could be some sort of ceramic, or some kind of aluminium system,” says Earle. “But glass is the ultimate material.” By her estimates, a glass sphere about four-to-six inches (10-15cm) thick should be able safely explore the ocean depths she dreams of exploring.

西尔维亚・厄尔花了几十年的时间试图让人们用新的方式亲近海底，她的“梦想号”潜艇可以让科学家潜入到最深的海底。那种材料才能够承受住深海的巨大压力呢?厄尔说：“我想过用钢、钛、陶瓷等，但最终发现其实玻璃才是终极王者。”根据她的预计，一块10-15厘米厚的玻璃板就能让她进入梦寐以求的那片深海世界。

Glass is the oldest material known to man and one of the least understood, says Tony Lawson, Earle’s engineering director at Deep Ocean and Exploration Research Marine. “It has a higgledy-piggledy molecular structure a bit like a liquid, rather than the ordered lattices often found in other solids. As a result, when glass is evenly squeezed from all sides C as it would be under the ocean C the molecules cram closer together and form a tighter structure.

厄尔的项目技术总监称，虽然玻璃是人类已知的最古老材料，但是我们对它的了解却甚少。“玻璃的分子结构有点像是液体，排列方式没有一般固体的有规律。因此，当玻璃被海洋里的压力从四面八方压迫时，它的分子会被压在一起，形成更紧密的结构。”

Lesson five: A little luck goes a long way

5.偶尔的一点好运也可以维持很久

It was hailed as one of the biggest success stories in the history of space exploration C 20 years of planning ended earlier this year with the Philae lander rendezvousing with Comet 67P over 300 million miles (480 million kilometres) away from Earth.

菲莱探测器被誉为太空探索史上最大跨越之一，历经20年的策划期终于在年初发射并成功在离地球四亿八千万公里的67P彗星上着陆。

The biggest challenge, says Stephan Ulamec, manager of the Philae lander programme, was how to design a probe to land on a body whose makeup they had little knowledge about. “We had no idea of the size, we had no idea of the day-night cycle, which influences the thermal design, we had no idea of the gravity, so how fast would the lander impact, we had no idea how the surface looked,” he says.

据菲莱项目的负责人斯蒂芬介绍，在这20年里遇到的最大挑战是对彗星构造了解较少，不知道该如何设计这个探测器。“我们不知道彗星的昼夜循环情况会影响保热设计，不知道彗星的重力也无法预测探测器着陆后对转速的影响，甚至不清楚彗星表面的样子。”

They needed to create design parameters that could cope with an extremely wide range of possible comet structures C but banked on the comet being a relatively even potato shape with enough flat surfaces for the probe to land on. Even then, not everything went to plan, and two decades of meticulous planning could have failed within minutes at touchdown. Philae's anchoring harpoons didn't fire as planned, and it bounced off the comet before settling onto its icy surface and successfully beaming data back to its relieved creators.

科学家们需要建立尽可能符合多种彗星结构的设计参数，但是还是得寄希望于彗星的表面要够平坦。可即便是花了20年设计、缜密计划过的菲莱还是在着陆的几分钟里有点小失败：“鱼叉”系统未如计划打开，无法准确钉入彗星表面。不过幸运的是，菲莱还是成功地把数据发回了地球。

Lesson six: Genius is indefinable

6.“天才”定义不明

“It’s a funny word: the word ‘genius’,” says Nirenberg. “I just sort of ignore it and just go on with life. You just do what you do independent of whatever label’s attached to you. I don’t know really how else to explain it.”

“天才这个词很有趣”，尼伦伯格说，“我常常忽略这个标签继续走自己的路。只需要抛掉别人在你身上贴的各种标签做自己想做到的事就好了。因为所谓天才真是判断标准不一、无法解释的事情。”

篇8：超级经典的英语短文美文赏析

阅读一篇美文，让自己徜徉在文字的世界里，这无疑就是一种享受。

一、

Everyone has that period in which they find those who are close to them start to seem annoying .

每个人都会经历这样的时期：发现身边那些亲近的人开始变得有点烦了。

You suddenly realized that they've always been talking and talking.

你会突然意识到，长久以来他们就一直不停地在说啊说。

They never stopped.

他们从来就没有停过。

Some of us get angry with them, thinking they are trying too hard to intervene in our lives.

我们中的有些人，会开始变得愤怒，觉得他们对我们的生活介入太多。

But don't.

但是，请不要愤怒。

Only those who really care about you will bother saying so much to you.

只有那些真正关心我们的人才会费劲对我们说这么多。

It's just that maybe they don't know the right way to put it.

只是，他们可能并不知道正确的相处办法。

Some of them push too hard because they care too much.

他们中有些人逼得太紧，那是因为他们太在乎。

Some of them speak too much because they worry about you too much.

他们中的有些人说得太多，那是因为他们太担心你。

They do this because they love you.

他们这么做，都是因为爱你。

So don't push them away.

所以，不要将他们拒于千里之外。

Just find a way to let them know what you truly want.

去找一个办法告诉他们你真的想要的是什么吧。

And let them grow with you.

并且去让他们和你一起成长。

That will make both of you happy.

那会让你们双方都过得幸福。

Believe me.

相信我。

二、

Someone once told me that never underestimate anyone who doesn't lose temper.

有人曾经对我说：永远不要小看一个不发脾气的人。

This kind of people usually possess great capacity.

这样的人通常深不可测。

They can be really resourceful friends.

他们可以成为你长袖善舞的朋友。

And they can be really fierce enemies.

也可以成为你可怕的敌人。

Humans are emotional animals.

人类是一种感情动物。

It's our nature to have temper.

脾气是我们的天性。

And it's totally natural to lose it when something or somebody irritates us.

而当有什么激怒我们的时候，发脾气也是完全自然的事情。

But there are people who don't.

但是，就是有些人能做到不发。

And that's a fearsome skill.

这真的是一种令人生畏的技能。

The more incompetent a person is, the easier he is to get angry.

一个人越是无能，就越是容易动怒。

The stronger a person is, the less you see him throw away his calmness.

而一个人越是强大，你就越少能看到他失控。

Can you hold your temper?

你能管住自己的脾气吗?

If you want to achieve great things. Practice to do so.

如果你希望做成大事，就练习这么做吧。

三、

A person's purest charm comes from his manners.

一个人最根本的魅力，来自他的修养。

This kind of charm doesn't need any decoration. It comes out of your heart and reaches directly into others' hearts.

这种魅力不需要任何外在的修饰，它发源于内心，也直抵其他人的心。

Spending time with someone who has good manners makes one feel comfortable.

与一个有教养的人相处，会让人觉得舒服。

And isn't comfort what we want the most in our daily life?

而舒服难道不是我们在生活中最想得到的东西吗?

People like this know how to stand in others' shoes. They know when they should reach out a helping hand.

这样的人，知道怎样站在别人的角度想问题，知道什么时候应该伸出援手。

And what is the most basic manner that one can have?

而一个人最基本的修养是什么?

It's knowing to respect people.

那就是懂得尊重。

No one can survive in this world all by himself. We all need help sometimes.

没有谁能独立地生活在这个世界上，我们总会在某些时候需要别人的帮忙。

And it takes respect to make others help you.

而让别人帮忙的前提，就是尊重。

Respect is the most baseline manner.

尊重，是最基本的修养。

And manner is the last kind of charm which a person can afford to lose.

而修养，是最不可或缺的魅力。

经典英语短文美文欣赏4

Who can say that their lives are not insignificant?

谁的生活不琐碎呢?

Everyone's life is composed with one after another insignificant day.

我们的一生，都是由这一个个琐碎的一天构成的。

Some people got their willpower abraded in this endless loop of days.

有的人在这日复一日的循环中被消磨了意志。

They think this is how things can only be like.

认为一切也就这样了。

So they choose to reach a compromise and become mediocre. They become the background colors in others' eyes. They won't achieve anything great to be written down in history, nor can they bring any enjoyment to the people around them.

于是他们选择与平庸妥协，成为别人眼中的背景颜色，不光不会在历史上留下一笔伟绩，甚至无法为身边的人平添一抹色彩。

They are alive, but deep down in their hearts something important has died.

他们活着，但他们心中的一部分已经死了。

And there are another kind of people. They choose to live with dignity.

而另一些人，他们依旧选择有尊严地活着。

A graceful lifestyle is not a show for others to watch. You live it because you deserve it. Through it, you are avoiding to become a victim of this cruel world.

优雅的生活方式并不是为别人做的表演，而是为了对得起自己，让自己不会成为无情社会摧残下的牺牲品。

This kind of people know how to find joy in simple things. They know how to make a common day safisticated and meaningful.

他们懂得如何去发掘单纯事物中的喜悦，懂得如何将平凡的时光过得精致而充实。

Life has denied them some beauty. But they build them with their own hands.

那份生活中缺失的美丽，他们靠自己的双手创造了出来。

So which kind of these two are you? And which kind are you willing to be?

你的人生是哪种?你想过哪一种?

Have you find the answer?

你找到答案了吗?

最美的英文短文阅读 1

　　Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

　　青春不是年华，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

　　Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

　　青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

　　Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

　　岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

　　无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的'信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

　　When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

　　一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉希望。

　　青春不是年华，而是心境;我们都要保持住那可年轻的心，青春将一直与我们同在。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 2

　　Life is like a piano: white keys are happy moments and black keys are sad moments. But remember both keys are played together to give sweet music。

　　生活就像一架钢琴：白键是快乐，黑键是悲伤。但是，要记住只有黑白键的合奏才能弹出美妙的音乐。

　　Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to handle various situations。

　　人生好似一个包裹，这个包裹里藏着快乐与悲伤、成功与失败，希望与绝望。人生也是一个学习的过程。那些经历给我们上了全新的课，让我们变得更好。随着每一天的`过去，我们学会了处理各种各样的问题。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 3

　　Love

　　爱

　　Love plays a pivotal role on our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could go hayward and also become cruel and ferocious. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who shower us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad.

　　But we always tend to take this for granted.It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands and becomes sensitive to others feelings. Kids make a person responsible and mature and help us to understand life better.

　　爱在生活之外扮演了一个关键的角色。爱使你想要得到些什么。没有爱，一个人将走向不归路，变得凶暴、残忍。在我们最初的人生道路上，我们的父母给予了我们无条件的关爱，他们教会我们判断正确与错误、好与坏。

　　然而我们常常把这想当然了，只有等到我们结了婚并且有了孩子之后，一个人才会懂得并注意别人的感受。孩子让我们变得富有责任心、变得成熟稳重，并且更好的'理解人生。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 4

　　Happiness and Sorrow

　　快乐与悲伤

　　Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment. Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. No mind is happy without peace.

　　We realize the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, failure and despair.But these things are temporary and pass away。

　　物质上的快乐往往是短暂的，然而，当你给予他人一个微笑的时候，那种满足却是无与伦比的。心灵的平静往往是快乐的源泉。没有平和的心态就没有快乐的心情。

　　在伤心的时候，我们往往能够体会到快乐的真谛。悲伤基本都来自于一个爱人的'去世、失败还有绝望，但是这样的事情都是暂时的，总会过去的。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 5

　　Failure and Success

　　失败与成功

　　Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money, fame, pride and self-respect. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on out shoulder.

　　The only way to show our gratitude to God for bestowing success on us is by being humble, modest, courteous and respectful to the less fortunate ones。

　　失败是成功之母。它让我们触及蓝天，它教会我们如何生存，它给予我们一条特殊的.路。成功给予我们金钱、名誉、骄傲和自尊。这里，保持头脑清醒便显得尤为重要。

　　唯一能让我们感激上帝给予的成功便是始终卑微、谦虚、礼貌并且尊重没有我们幸运的人们。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 6

　　富二代形象

　　Since the end of last century, Chinese economy developed very fast and it brought some chances to part of people, helping them earn a lot of money. When their children was born, people called them the rich second generation. The public always read some negative news about these rich guys, their label seemed to be young and reckless. But it is not true for all.

　　自上世纪末以来,中国的经济发展非常快, 给一部分人带来了机遇,让他们赚了很多钱。他们的孩子出生时,人们称他们为富二代。公众对这些有钱人总是看到一些负面新闻,他们的标签似乎年轻和不计后果的。但并不是所有的富二代都这样。

　　We must realize that those second rich generation who are reported in the news are negative image. The rich people belong to small part of it and most people are still struggling in the well-off level. So these negative image can help to ease their jealousness. What’s more, the negative news is always easy to catch the public’s attention and raise them to discuss. That’s the value of news report.

　　我们必须意识到那些新闻报道中的富二代都是负面的形象。富人仍是属于小的一部分,大多数人仍苦苦挣扎在小康水平。所以这些富二代的负面形象可以缓解他们的嫉妒心。更重要的是,负面新闻总是容易吸引公众的注意力,引起他们的.讨论。这是新闻报道的价值。

　　Let’s take a look at the real rich second generation. They are born in the rich family and surely to win over most kids. But they know they have to learn, as so to compete with other excellent guys. They have the good resouces and they can make use of them, which help them to be skillful and knowledgable.

　　让我们看一看真正的富二代。他们出生在富裕的家庭,肯定赢过大多数的孩子。但他们知道必须学习,这样才能与其他优秀的人竞争。他们拥有好的资源可以利用,让他们变得有技能,并且知识渊博。

　　This is the true about these rich kids, as the common kid, we have no reason to give up studying.

　　这才是真正的富二代,作为普通的孩子,我们更没有理由放弃学习。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 7

　　There are thousands of pigeons in any big city in the world. But did you know that this common bird is able to find its way home from even a hundreds of kilometers away? Just how pigeons find their way home is a bit of mystery. Some people think that they use landmarks.

　　That is the pigeon knows what the land is like from the air and it uses this like a map. A landmark in Sydeny for example, is the Opera House, which can easily be seen from a long way off. Other possibilities are that pigeons use the position of the sun to work out directions or that they have some kind of built in compass. For quite a few years now, scientists have been caring out experiements on homing pigeons, but they still arent sure how pigeons find their way home. It seems likely, however, that pigeons like airline pilots use a number of different message to guide them on their long distance journeys. Perhaps, one day well learn their secret.

　　最美的英文短文阅读 8

　　The worlds forests are disappearing.As much as one third of the total tree cover has been lost, since agriculture began some ten thousand years ago.The remaining forests are home to half of the worlds species,thus becoming the chief resource for their survival.Tropical rain forests once covered 12% of the land of the planet,as well as supporting at least half of the worlds species of plants and animals. These rainforests are home to millions of people.

　　But there are other demands on them,as well.For example，much wood has been cut for timber.An increasing amount of forest land has been used for industrial purposes or for agriculture development such as crop growing.By the 1990s less than half of the earths original rainforests remained，and they continued to disappear at an alarming rate every year.As a result，the worlds forests are now facing gradual extinction.

　　最美的英文短文阅读 9

　　If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are any other time of year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington 1876 - 1947 concluded from other mans’ work and his own among peoples in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.

　　He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.

　　Spring appears to be the best time of the year for thinking. Fall is the next-best season than winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking.

　　最美的英文短文阅读 10

　　Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be taught to do a number or simple jobs. They say that in a film or on TV, we may see elephants or monkeys, dogs, bears or other animals doing a lot of things. If you watch carefully, you may find that those animals are always given something to eat in return for doing them. The scientists said that many different animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get something to eat in return. Of course, as we know, dogs can be used to guard a house.

　　And elephants can be used to do some heavy jobs. And we can also teach animals to work in factories. Apes, for example, have been used in America to help make cars. And scientists believe that these large monkeys may one day get in crops and even drive trains.

　　最美的英文短文阅读 11

　　Nowadays, a new type of love is not accepted in most situation, it is the office love. In some companies, there is the rule to forbid office love, because the boss believes that it is not good for running the business, the relationship will distract the employees’ attention.

　　现在,一种新型的爱情在大多数情况下是不待见的,那就是是办公室恋情。在一些公司,有规则禁止办公室恋情,因为老板认为这对业务发展是不好的,恋爱会分散员工的注意力。

　　Why office love is always happening, even the young people know it is not allowed. It is because when these young girls and boys work together all the day, they are easy to fall in love with each other. It is the natural reaction, they know each other well and realize the shinning point.

　　为什么办公室的爱情总是发生,即使是年轻人知道这是不允许的。这是因为当这些年轻女孩和男孩在一起整天工作,他们很容易爱上对方。这是自然反应,他们彼此了解熟悉,发现闪光点。

　　In order to keep the relationship, the young couples have to lie to everybody and pretend nothing is happening. But the awkward situations happen sometimes, they have to deal very carefully. But most companies won’t interfere the personal emotion, they believe that it is the employees’ right to handle their emotion. The companies have the job for the employees, they can do whatever they want when they finish their job.

　　为了维持恋情,年轻的情侣们不得不欺骗大家,假装什么也没有发生。但有时尴尬的情况会发生,他们必须非常谨慎地处理好。但大多数公司不会干涉个人的情感,他们认为这是员工的权利去处理他们的.情绪。公司分配给员工工作 ,当他们完成他们的工作，该干嘛就干嘛去。

　　Office love is nothing special, don’t give the pressure to the young people.

　　办公室爱情没什么特别的,不要给年轻人压力。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 12

　　It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in Okahoma City. My friend and proud father Bobby Lewis was taking his two little boys to play miniature golf. He walked up to her fellow at the ticket counter and said,” How much is it to get in?”

　　在俄克拉何马市，一个阳光明媚的周六下午。我的朋友-一个骄傲的'父亲鲍比.路易斯带着他的两个孩子玩小小高尔夫球，他走到售票员：“进去多少钱?”

　　The young man replied, “$3for you and $3 for any kid who is older than six. Wet let them in free if they are six or younger. How old are they?”

　　年轻人回答道：“你一个3美元，超过6岁的孩子也是3美元，6岁和6岁以下免票，孩子们几岁了?”

　　Boddy replied, “The lawyer’s three and the doctor is seven, so I guess I owe you $6.”

　　鲍比回到道：“律师3岁，医生7岁了，我想我应该付你6美元。“

　　The man at the ticket counter said, “Hey, Mister, did you just win the lottery or something? You could have saved yourself three bucks. You could have told me that the older one was six. I wouldn’t have know the difference. ” Bobby replied, “Yes, that may be true, but the kids would have known the difference.”

　　售票员说道：“喂，先生，你是否刚中彩票了吧!你本来可以省3美元啊，你可以说大孩子6岁，我可以被蒙哄过关的。“鲍比回答道：“你说的没有错，但孩子们却不容易被蒙蔽。”

　　As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” In challenging times when ethics are more important than ever before, make sure you set a good example for everyone you work and live with.

　　就像爱默生所说的那样：“大声讲话的是谁，我听不清你在说什么。”在当今充满挑战的时代，道德比任何时候都重要，确信，为与你一起生活和工作的人树立一个好榜样。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 13

　　When Zhang Zi had no money, he went to a lord to borrow some grain.

　　庄子身无分文时,就到财主家去借点口粮。

　　“That’s all right, “said the lord. I shall soon have collected the taxes from my slaves, then I’ll lend you three hundred gold pieces. How about that?”

　　这财主说: “没问题,我马上就向我的奴隶们收税,到时候我就会借给你300个金币。你看如何?”

　　Zhuang zi told the story very angrily.

　　庄子气愤地讲了一个故事:

　　As I was coming here yesterday I heard a voice calling me, and looking round I saw a carp lying in the dried rut on the road.

　　“昨天我到这里来的路上,听见有人在喊我,回头一看,原来是一条鲤鱼躺在路上干涸的.车辙里 。 “

　　“How did you get there, carp?” I asked.

　　于是我问道: “鲤鱼,你怎么会躺在这里?”

　　“I am a native of the Eastern Ocean, “ he replied. “Do you have a barrel of water to save my life?”

　　他回答说: 我是东海龙王的臣民,你能用一桶水来救救我吗?”

　　“that’s all right,” I told him. “I shall soon he vistiing the King of Wu and Yue in the south, and I shall bring some water for yo9u from the East Sea. How about that ?”

　　我对他说: “好的,我就要去见南方的吴王和越王,我会从东海为你引来水源。你看如何?”

　　The carp was most angry..

　　鲤鱼非常气愤地说:

　　“I have no way but the say, one barrel of water would save me. But you give me nothing but empty promises. You’ll have to look for me later in the fish market.”

　　“我在说, 一桶水就可以救我,你却给我像风一般的诺言 。 很快你就会在鱼市上找到我。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 14

　　Educated for many years, college students bear expectations from society as senior intellectuals.

　　近年来大学生创业(entrepreneurship)问题越来越受到社会的关注,

　　Therefore, in recent years, society has paid more and more attention to the entrepreneurship of college students.

　　因为受过多年教育的大学生属于高级知识分子,他们背负着社会的种种期望。

　　With the development of our society and economy, entrepreneurship of college students has become anew phenomenon. Being innovative, college students in modern society have the confidence and desire to challenge the traditional ideas and professions. It is such spirit of innovation that makes college students motivated to establish a business and confident to achieve success. Bearing the dream of establishing a business, college students work hard to realize their ideals and prove themselves.

　　在社会经济繁荣发展的同时,大学生创业也成为新气象。现代大学生有创新精神,有对传统观念和传统行业挑战的信心和欲望,而这种创新精神也成为大学生创业的'动力源泉,成为成功创业的信心基础。大学生怀揣创业梦想,努力打拼,实现自己的理想,证明自己的价值。

　　最美的英文短文阅读 15

　　"Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come." - Unknown

　　“一定要记住，你目前的处境并非你的最终目标，最好的日子终将到来。”——匿名

　　If your life isnt where you want it to be, change it. Its what successful people have done for thousands of years. You may currently be struggling and frustrated with your life but its not going to stay like this forever, that is, unless you dont do anything to change it.

　　如果现在的生活并非如你所愿，那就去改变，数千年来成功人士都是这样做的。你现在可能正在挣扎，目前的生活使你沮丧，但生活不会一成不变，只要你可以行动起来做出改变。

　　The best time of your life may still be ahead of you but it wont just magically show up, you have to create it. Its in your power to create whatever future you want for your life. Even if your best days are truly behind you, you can still have plenty of great days ahead of you if you decide to make it so.

　　最好的生活仍在前方等着你，但它不会无缘无故出现，需要你亲手去创造。你拥有那种力量去创造自己未来想要的生活，即使最好的日子已经过去，但只要你下定决心未来仍有许多好日子等着你。

　　Instead of letting circumstances control and defeat you, use them to push you into action so that you can change your present situation. Bad times arent going to last forever but if you want more great times ahead of you instead of just good times, its time to start doing things that will make that a reality… its time to work toward your ideal destination.

　　不要让生活控制或打败你，你要把压力变成动力去改变目前的.处境。糟糕的情况不会永远持续下去，但如果你想要以后的生活更美好，那现在就要行动起来去把愿望变成现实，现在就要朝自己梦想的生活努力前行。

英语美文欣赏【一】

It was a bitter cold evening in northern Virginia manyyears ago. The old man’s beard was glazed bywinter’s frost while he waited for a ride across theriver. The wait seemed endless. His body becamenumb and stiff from the frigid north wind.
　　
多年前，在北弗吉尼亚的一个寒冷夜晚，一位老人正等着有人把他带过河，他的胡子已经被这冬日的严寒冻得像块玻璃了。这种等待好像遥遥无期。他的身体在这寒冷的北风中被冻得麻木而僵硬。
　　
He heard the faint, steady rhythm of approachinghooves galloping along the frozen path. Anxiously,he watched as several horsemen rounded the bend. He let the first one passed by without anyeffort to get his attention, then another passed by, and another. Finally, the last rider nearedthe spot where the old man sat like a snow statue. As this one draw near, the old man caughtthe rider’s eye and said, “sir, would you mind giving an old man a ride to the other side? Theredoesn’t appear to be a passage way by foot.”
　　
他听到了一阵模糊而又持续的、有节奏的马蹄声正从上冻的小路上缓缓传来。他焦虑地注视着几个骑马者转过路弯。当他们一个一个过去时，老人没有做任何努力来引起他们的注意。最终，最后一个骑马者驶近，老人站在那里已经成了一个雪雕。当骑手慢慢接近时，老人看到了骑马人的眼神，他说：“先生，你能把我带过河吗？这里没有可以步行的路了。”
　　
Reining his horse, the rider replied, “sure thing. Hop aboard.” Seeing the old man was unable tolift his half-frozen body from the ground, the horseman dismounted and helped the old manonto the horse. The horseman took the old man not just across the river, but to hisdestination, which was just a few miles away.
　　
骑马人拉住缰绳，回答说：“可以，上来吧。”看到老人不能移动他冻僵的身体，骑马人下马帮老人骑上马。骑马者不但把老人带过了河，还把他送到了几英里以外的目的地。
　　
As they neared the tiny but cozy cottage, the horseman’s curiosity caused him to inquire, “sir, I notice you let several other riders pass by without making an effort to secure a ride.Then I came up and you immediately asked me for a ride. I am curious why, on such a bitternight, you would wait and ask the last rider. What if I had refused and left you here?”
　　
当他们接近了一个很小、但很舒适的村舍时，骑马者好奇地问老人：“先生，我注意到您让那几个骑马者过去了，却没有请他们带你过河。而我来到时，您立刻向我寻求帮助。我很好奇这是为什么，在这个寒冷的夜晚，您宁愿等待着去向最后一个寻求帮助。如果我拒绝了，把您留在那里，您怎么办？”
　　
The old man lowered himself slowly down from the horse, looked the rider straight in the eyes,and replied, “I have been around these here parts for some time. I reckon I know people prettygood.” The old-timer continued, “I looked into the eyes of the other riders and immediately sawthere was no concern for my situation. It would have been useless even to ask them for a ride.But when I looked into your eyes, that your gentle spirit would welcome the opportunity togive me assistance in my time of need.”
　　
老人缓慢地下了马，目光直视着骑马人，回答道：“我徘徊在那里很久了。我看人是很准的。”老人又继续说道，“我望着他们的眼睛，立刻看出他们对我的处境没有丝毫关心。就算寻求他们的帮助，也只是徒劳。但望着你的眼睛，我看到了明显的善良和怜悯。当时我就知道，你仁慈的心灵会给予我所需要的帮助。”
　　
Those heart-warming comments touched the horseman deeply. “I’m so grateful for what youhave said, ” he told the old man. “May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail torespond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.”
　　
这些感人肺腑的话深深触动了骑马人的心。“我很感谢您所说的话。”他告诉老人，“我绝不会再因为事务繁忙而放弃给别人提供善良和怜悯的帮助。”
　　
With that, Thomas Jefferson turned his horse around and made his way back to the WhiteHouse.
　　
随即，托马斯·杰斐逊调转马头，奔向白宫。

英语美文欣赏【二】

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FAILURE

　　Robert H. Schuller
　　
Failure doesn t mean you are a failure,
　　
It does mean you haven t succeeded yet.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you have accomplished nothing,
　　
It does mean you have learned something.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you have been a fool,
　　
It does mean you had a lot of faith.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you ve been disgraced,
　　
It does mean you were willing to try.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you don t have it,
　　
It does mean you have to do something in a different way.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you are inferior,
　　
It does mean you are not perfect.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you ve wasted your life,
　　
It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you should give up,
　　
It does mean you must try harder.
　　
Failure doesn t mean you ll never make it,
　　
It does mean it will take a little longer.
　　
Failure doesn t mean God has abandoned you,
　　
It does mean God has a better idea.

　　失败的意义

　　失败并不代表你是个失败者，
　　
它只表明你尚未成功。
　　
失败并不代表你一无所获，
　　
它只表明你吸取了一次教训。
　　
失败并不代表你很愚蠢，
　　
它只表明你信心百倍。
　　
失败并不代表你无脸见人，
　　
它只表明你百折不回。
　　
失败并不代表你工夫白费，
　　
它只表明你的做事方法尚待改进。
　　
失败并不代表你低人一等。
　　
它只表明你并非完人。
　　
失败并不代表你浪费生命，
　　
它只表明你有理由重新开始。
　　
失败并不代表你应该放弃，
　　
它只表明你要加倍努力。
　　
失败并不代表成功永不属于你，
　　
它只表明你要付出更多的时间。
　　
失败并不代表上帝已经抛弃你，
　　
它只表明上帝还有更好的主意。

英语美文欣赏【三】

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
　　
“幸福并非那种已经拥有的东西，她源自于你自己的行动。”-----达赖喇嘛
　　
Having a happier life is something we all always strive for, and being happy encompasses so many aspects—mental, physical and spiritual—of our lives.
　　
幸福是我们一直都在追求的东西，但是幸福也包括很多方面----我们生活的心理、身理、和精神方面。
　　
What I’ve learned from being happy is that no matter how bad our days get, happiness can be found, especially when we consistently try to consciously be happy.
　　
在追求幸福的过程中我学到的就是不管生活多糟糕，幸福一直都在，特别是当我们一直坚持着想要幸福的时候。
　　
1.Learn how to relax when setbacks arise.
　　
在遇到困难的时候要学会放松
　　
We do not live in a perfect world. Some days are great; some days are not. Some days, the buses run extremely late, and you swear you’ll never take the public transport ever again. Accept the fact that that things may not go as planned. Instead of trying to change something you can’t, focus your energy on changing something that is within your control.
　　
我们生活的环境并不会一直如意。有些天还不错，有些天却很糟糕。有些天连公交车也走得出奇的慢，你发誓再也不会乘坐公共交通工具。要学着接受生活有时候不如您所愿的这一事实，与其试着去改变一些不可能的事情还不如将你的精力放在你能掌控的事情上。
　　
2.Laugh in the middle of a busy day.
　　
最忙的时候也要对自己微笑
　　
It’s 3 PM on a Friday afternoon and you’re desperate to leave the office. On top of the work you have, you’re running close to a super important deadline. Instead of blaming everything not going your way, take a moment to laugh.
　　
现在是周五下午的3点，你是拼了命的想要离开。但是你还有一堆的工作要做，有些很重要的事项眼看就要到截止日期了。与其抱怨一些不如你所愿的事情还不如忙里偷闲笑一笑。
　　
3.Do not compare yourself to others.
　　
不要拿自己和别人相比
　　
Measure your own successes based on your progress, and only yours. All of our lives are unique, and no one is better than any one else. Try not to think that you are better than anyone else as it promotes unhealthy superiority and can be detrimental to your happiness.
　　
基于你自己的努力来衡量一下你的成功，只是你自己的。我们都是独一无二的，没有人比其他任何人都要好很多的。不要觉得自己就比别人好，因为那样的想法会促成不良的优差意识，然后来影响你的幸福。
　　
4.See that colleague in the beautiful new dress? Compliment her.
　　
看见同事穿了一件漂亮的新裙子？赞美她一下。
　　
Everyone loves compliments, including that colleague who just walked in on a Monday morning in a beautiful dress. Being kind to others, like passing random compliments, it makes people happy, boosting self-esteem and confidence. Don’t be afraid to tell people how great they look, or how awesome their smile is. It’ll do good for them, and you!
　　
每个人都喜欢被赞美，包括周一的时候就穿着漂亮的新裙子走在路上的同事。对别人友好一点，像是在路上的时候你的随性赞美都会让别人感到快乐，让他们更自尊更自信。不要不敢告诉别人他们的外表有多美，笑容有多美。不仅有益于他人，还有益于你自己。
　　
5.Stop trying to please others.
　　
不要试着去取悦别人
　　
It’s tiring and you will soon run out of time to please yourself, period.
　　
很累，你也会没有时间取悦你自己。
　　
6.Focus on the present moment.
　　
关注当下
　　
Take some time every day to focus on the present moment; it is the only certain time we have in our life. Try not to think about the negative past experiences and embrace the time you have now. You’ll soon find that even the slightest thing that you do at this moment can bring about happiness for many hours and days to come.
　　
每天花点时间关注当下，这才是我们生活中最确定的时间。试着不要去回忆过去不美好的时光，好好利用你现在拥有的时光。很快你会发现哪怕这一刻的一件很细微的事情也会为你带来之后几小时甚至是几天的快乐。

1.经典英语美文欣赏 篇一

　　Love makes the world go around.

　　Love to us human is what water to fish.Love shines the most beautiful light of humanity,we born in it,we live by it.Too often we take it as granted,but we should know love is a priceless gift we should cherish.But how to cherish the love?I have heard a saying :the quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

　　It is important for us to learn to love as the first class in our life.Only when you know how to love than you will be a real man in this world.Love brings us warmth in the fearful coldness,love brings us bright when life gets hard and dark.Love brings us confidence toward life when we are tired out and want to give up.

　　Love deserves all the admiring words,and love is even beyond the life and death.That is what love is all about in my eyes.

2.经典英语美文欣赏 篇二

　　Nowadays，English is one of the most useful and popular language in the word.More and more people use English communicate with other foreigners.They exchange emotions and propagate cultures in the same language.Thus it can be seen that English is increasingly important.

　　First of all，strong English proficiency will make us have an advantage over the others and obtain the opportunity more easily.In the second place，commanding the skill of English will let us have a better understanding of our English professional literature.Further more，fluent oral English is even more important ，not only when we are traveling but also studying abroad.Only if we can communicate in English with no difficulty，can we conduct note exchange smoothly.Finally，English paper writing is hardest .The capacity of writing professional English paper directly affects the level of our paper.

　　In short，English is important to us.

3.经典英语美文欣赏 篇三

　　Would you prefer to go backpacking or have a package tour

　　I like traveling, I consider it can broaden my horizons and make my life more colorful. Now going backpacking is becoming more and more popular. As for me, I would prefer to have a package tour.

　　I am a cautious person. I want everything will follow my plans, So when I decide to go for a trip, I must make a detailed list about the things I would take with me, the flight and accommodation and the trip itinerary. I know going backpacking is more exciting and more free, however, it is likely to meet difficulties. You may not solve problems by yourself and you will be trapped. I don’t want to see the bad condition happen. Therefore , I always prepare for the worst before my trip. Maybe I can’t enjoy the natural views like backpackers, but I can be relaxed and would not worry more about my travel. I just put my heart to the travel.

　　That ’s why I would prefer to have a package tour.

4.经典英语美文欣赏 篇四

　　In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

　　在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。

　　But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn.Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

　　但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。

　　In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

　　在生活和事业的种种事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，心灵比头脑更能引导我们，而由判断获得的克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。

　　I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

　　我一向认为，内心生活开始更为严谨的人，他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。在物欲横流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。

　　To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

　　反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高贵是优于过去的自已。

5.经典英语美文欣赏 篇五

　　In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.

　　在茫茫宇宙间，每个人都只有一次生存的机会，都是一个独一无二、不可重复的存 在。正像卢梭所说的，上帝把你造出来后，就把那个属于你的特定的模子打碎了。

　　Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.

　　名声、财产、知识等等是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但没有人能够代替你感受 人生。你死之后，没有人能够代替你再活一次。如果你真正意识到了这一点，你就会明 白，活在世上，最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。你的人生是否有意义，衡 量的标准不是外在的成功，而是你对人生意义的独特领悟和坚守，从而使你的自我闪放 出个性的光华。

　　It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be identified as anything either his job, his status or his social role that shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn't know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or done on others' suggestions; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't be able to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing business.

　　真正成为自己不是一件容易的事。世上有许多人，你说他是什么都行，例如是一种 职业，一个身份，一个角色，惟独不是他自己。如果一个人总是按别人的意见生活，没 有自己的独立思索，总是为外在事务忙碌，没有自己的内心生活，那么，说他不是他自 己就一点儿也没有冤枉他。因为确确实实，从他的头脑到他的心灵，你在其中已经找不 到丝毫真正属于他自己的东西了，他只是别人的一个影子或一架办事的机器罢了。

　英语经典美文 1

　　There are many apple trees in a garden. Theyre good friends. One day an old tree is ill. There are many pests in the tree. Leaves of the tree turn yellow. The old tree feels very sad and unwell. Another tree sends for a doctor for him. At first, they send for a pigeon, but she has no idea about it. Then they send for an oriole, and she cant treat the old tree well. Then they send for a woodpecker. She is a good doctor. She pecks a hole in the tree and eats lots of pests. At last the old tree becomes better and better. Leaves turn green and green.

　　花园里有许多苹果树。他们是好朋友。一天，一棵老树病了。树上有许多害虫。树的叶子变黄了。老树感到很难过，很不舒服。另一棵树给他请了一位医生。起初，他们派人去抓一只鸽子，但她不知道。然后他们派人去找了一只黄鹂，她对这棵老树不好。然后他们派人去捉一只啄木鸟。她是一位好医生。她在树上啄了一个洞，吃了很多害虫。最后，这棵老树变得越来越好。树叶变绿了。

　　英语经典美文 2

　　Today is Sunday! On Sundays, I usually play the flute.My father usually reads the newspaper. My motherusuallycleansthe house. Buttoday my mother is in bed. She is ill. My father has to do the housework. Now, he is cleaning the house. “Sam, can you help me?” “Yes, Dad!” Now, were washing the car. Wheres my sister, Amy? She is playing my flute. What a lucky girl!

　　今天是星期天!星期天，我通常吹笛子。我父亲通常看报纸。我妈妈通常打扫房子。但是今天我妈妈在床上。她病了。我爸爸必须做家务。现在，他正在打扫房子。“萨姆，你能帮帮我吗?”“是的`，爸爸!”现在，我们正在洗车。我妹妹在哪里，艾米?她在吹我的笛子。多幸运的女孩啊!

　　英语经典美文 3

　　One day a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth was crossing a plank over a stream. As he walked along,helookedintowater,andhesawhis reflection. He thought this was another dog carrying a piece of meat. And he felt he would like to have two pieces. So he snapped at the reflection in the water, and of course, as he opened his mouth, the piece of meat disappeared quickly.

　　一天，一只狗嘴里叼着一块肉，正穿过一条小溪上的一块木板。他一边走一边朝水里望去，看到了水中的倒影。他以为这是另一只狗携带的.一块肉。他觉得他想要两块。于是他对着水里的倒影咬了一口，当然，当他张开嘴的时候，那块肉很快就消失了。

　　英语经典美文 4

　　Tony is seven years old. He is an honest and polite boy. One day, it was Sunday. Tony, his sister and his mother stayed at home. He was watching TV and his sister was reading books. His mother was washing clothes. Just then, his father came back with a bag of pears. Tony likes pears very much and he wanted to eat one. His mother gave him four and said, “Lets sharethem.” “Whichpeardo youwant, Tony?” asked his mother. “The biggest one, mum.” “What?” said his mother, “You should be polite and want the smallest one.” “Should I tell a lie just to be polite, mum?”

　　托尼七岁了。他是一个诚实而有礼貌的男孩。一天，是星期天。托尼，他的妹妹和他的`母亲呆在家里。他在看电视，他妹妹在看书。他的妈妈正在洗衣服。就在这时，他的父亲拿着一个包回来了的梨。托尼非常喜欢梨，他想要梨吃一个。妈妈给了他四个，说:“我们一起吃吧。”“你想要哪一个，托尼?”他妈妈问。“最大的那个，妈妈。”“什么?妈妈说，“你应该礼貌一点，要最小的那个。”“妈妈，我应该为了礼貌而撒谎吗?”

　　英语经典美文 5

　　Today is Susans birthday. She is nine years old. Her friends are in her home now. There is a birthday party in the evening. Look! Mary is listening to the music. And Tom is drinking orange juice. Jack and Sam are playing cards on the floor. Lily and Amy are watching TV. Someone is knocking at the door. Its Henry. He brings a big teddy bear for Susan. The teddy bear is yellow. Susan is very happy. All the children are happy. They sing a birthday song for Susan.

　　今天是苏珊的生日。她九岁了。她的朋友们现在在她家。晚上有一个生日聚会。看！玛丽正在听音乐。汤姆正在喝橙汁。杰克和萨姆正在地板上打牌。莉莉和艾米在看电视。有人在敲门。这是亨利。他给苏珊带来了一只大泰迪熊。泰迪熊是黄色的`。苏珊很高兴。所有的孩子都很高兴。他们为苏珊唱生日歌。

　　英语经典美文 6

　　It was a cold winter day.A farmer found a snake on the ground. It was nearly dead by cold. The Farmer was a kind man. Hepicked up thesnake carefully and put it under the coat. Soon the snake Began to move and it raised its mouth and bit the farmer. “Oh, My god!” said the farmer, “I save your life, but you thank me in that way. You must die.” Then he killed the snake with a stick. At last he died, too.

　　那是一个寒冷的冬日。一个农民在地上发现了一条蛇。它几乎冻死了。农夫是个善良的人。他小心翼翼地捡起那条蛇，把它放在外套下面。不久，蛇开始动了起来，它抬起嘴咬了农夫一口。“哦，我的天哪!农夫说，“我救了你的'命，你却用这种方式感谢我。”你必须死。”然后他用一根棍子杀死了那条蛇。最后他也死了。

　　英语经典美文 7

　　Two young trees are standing on the top of the hill. Their names are Tim and Alan.

　　One day, its sunny and warm. Some birds are singing in the trees. The wind blows, and the trees are talking. “What do you want to be when you grow up? asks Tim. “Im not sure. I think I want to be a chair or a desk.” answers Alan, “Maybe I want to be a toy box or a baseball bat. I like children.”“What do you want to be when you grow up?” asks Alan. “Me?” says Tim, “I just want to be a tree. I want to be a house for birds and spiders. I want to have many apples. And when its sunny and hot, people and animals can stand under me.”

　　两棵小树长在山顶上。他们的.名字是蒂姆和艾伦。

　　一天，阳光明媚，天气温暖。一些鸟在树上唱歌。风在吹，树在说话。“你长大后想做什么?”蒂姆问。“我不确定。我想成为一把椅子或一张桌子。艾伦回答，“也许我想成为一个玩具盒或棒球棒。我喜欢孩子。“你长大后想做什么?”艾伦问。“我?蒂姆说，“我只想成为一棵树。”我想成为鸟和蜘蛛的家。我想要很多苹果。当天气晴朗炎热的时候，人和动物都可以站在我下面。”

　　英语经典美文 8

　　Water is very important for living things. Without water, there must be no life on the earth. All the plants and animals need water to drink, to cook food and to clean ourselves. Water is needed in farms, factories, offices, schools, families and many other places.

　　Water is found in seas, rivers and lakes. It can be found everywhere in the world, and it also can be found in the air.

　　水对生物很重要。没有水，地球上就没有生命。所有的植物和动物都需要水来饮用，做饭和清洁自己。农场、工厂、办公室、学校、家庭和许多其他地方都需要水。

　　水存在于海洋、河流和湖泊中。它可以在世界各地找到，它也可以在空气中找到。

　　英语经典美文 9

　　This is the twins bedroom. It is a nice room. The two beds look the same. This bed is Lilys and that one is Lucys. The twins have one desk and two chairs. Their clock, books and pencil-boxes are on the desk. Their schoolbags are behind the chairs. Some nice flowers are on the desk. Some nice pictures are on the wall. Is there a kite? Yes, its under Lilys bed. The bedroom is very nice.

　　这是双胞胎的卧室。这是一个漂亮的房间。这两张床看起来一样。这张床是莉莉的，那张是露西的.。这对双胞胎有一张桌子和两把椅子。他们的钟、书和铅笔盒在桌子上。他们的书包在椅子后面。桌子上有一些漂亮的花。墙上有一些漂亮的画。有风筝吗?是的，它在莉莉的床底下。卧室很漂亮。

　　英语经典美文 10

　　One of the animals that help people a lot is the dog. In some countries, dogs pull wagons. In the cold north, dogs pull sleds.

　　There are other ways that dogs help us, too. Policemen use them to look for missing people. Soldiers use them to carry letters and medicine .On farms, dogs take care of sheep and keep them in the fields. At night, they take the sheep home. Dogs help the blind with work. Some dogs are good and kind. Some dogs are good at another skill.

　　帮助人们很多的动物之一是狗。在一些国家，狗拉马车。在寒冷的北方，狗拉雪橇。

　　狗也在其他方面帮助我们。警察用它们来寻找失踪的'人。士兵们用它们来运送信件和药品。在农场里，狗照顾羊，把它们留在地里。晚上，他们把羊带回家。狗帮助盲人工作。有些狗很善良。有些狗擅长另一项技能。

　　英语经典美文 11

　　Betty is a lazy girl. She doesnt study hard, and she doesnt help her mother with the housework, either. “What are you going to be when you grow up, Betty?” Mother asks. “Youre too lazy. No job will ever fit you.” “But I know one,” says the girl, “Im going to be Father Christmas,” “You want to be Father Christmas?” Mother is surprised, “But why?” “Because he works only one day in a whole year.”

　　贝蒂是一个懒惰的女孩。她不努力学习，也不帮妈妈做家务。“贝蒂，你长大后想做什么?”母亲问道。“你太懒了。没有适合你的工作。“但是我认识一个，”女孩说，“我要做圣诞老人。”“你想做圣诞老人吗?”妈妈很惊讶，“为什么?“因为他一年只工作一天。”

　　英语经典美文 12

　　A little monkey picks up a pumpkin and wants to takeithome.Butthepumpkinistoobig.The monkey cant take it home.

　　Suddenly he sees a panda riding a bike towards him. He watches the bike. “l have a good idea. I can roll the pumpkin. It likes a wheel.”

　　So he rolls the pumpkin to his home. When his mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised and says, “How can you carry it home?” The little monkey answers proudly, “l cant lift it, but l can roll it.” His mother smiles and says, “ What a clever boy!”

　　一只小猴子拿起一个南瓜想把它带回家，但是南瓜太大了，猴子不能把它带回家。

　　突然，他看到一只熊猫骑着自行车朝他走来。他看着自行车。“我有个好主意。我会滚南瓜。它像个轮子。”

　　所以他把南瓜滚回家。当他的妈妈看到大南瓜时，她很惊讶地说:“你怎么能把它带回家呢?”小猴子骄傲地回答:“我举不动它，但我可以滚动它。”他的`妈妈笑着说:“多聪明的孩子啊!”

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　　Have you ever wondered about the stars? In some ways, stars are like people. They are born. They grow old. And they die. A star is born from dust and gas. Slowly the dust and gas make a ball. The ball gets very hot. Then it starts to give off light. The young star grows into a giant. Many years go by. The older star begins to get small again. At last its light goes out. The stars life is over.

　　你曾经想过星星吗?在某些方面，明星和人很像。他们是天生的。他们会变老。然后他们就死了。恒星是从尘埃和气体中诞生的。慢慢地，尘埃和气体形成了一个球。球变得很热。然后它开始发光。这颗年轻的恒星长成了一颗巨星。许多年过去了。老恒星又开始变小。最后它的'光熄灭了。星星的生命结束了。

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　　Radio and television are very popular in the world today. Millions of people watch TV. Perhaps more people listen to the radio.

　　The TV is more useful than the radio. On TV we can see and hear what is happening in the world. However, radio isnt lost. It is still with us. And listeners are becoming more. Thatsbecause a transistor radio isnt lost. It is still with us. It is very easy to carry. You can put one in your pocket and listen to it on the bus or your bike when you go to work.

　　今天，广播和电视在世界上很流行。数百万人看电视。也许更多的人听收音机。

　　电视比收音机更有用。在电视上我们可以看到和听到世界上正在发生的.事情。然而，无线电并没有消失。它仍然与我们同在。听众也越来越多。这是因为晶体管收音机不会丢失。它仍然与我们同在。它很容易携带。你可以把它放在口袋里，当你上班的时候在公交车上或骑自行车的时候听。

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　　My dad works from Monday to Friday in a bank. he uses the computer to count money. His job is very important in the bank.

　　Dad is also busy at home. At weekends he cooks dinner. Usually he cooks Italian food. On Sundays he makesfive pieces of pizza. Sometimes hecooks chicken and makes Chinese food. My mum watches and helps him. I help my dad, too. I wash the dishes.

　　Many people think it is strange for a man to cook. But my dad enjoys his hobby. Cooking relaxes him. He is a weekend cook.

　　我爸爸从星期一到星期五在一家银行工作。他用电脑数钱。他在银行的工作很重要。

　　爸爸在家也很忙。周末他做饭。他通常做意大利菜。星期天他做五块披萨。有时他做鸡肉和中国菜。我妈妈看着并帮助他。我也帮助我爸爸。我洗盘子。

　　许多人认为男人做饭很奇怪。但是我爸爸喜欢他的爱好。烹饪使他放松。他是一个周末厨师。

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　　Jack is a good boy but he doesnt like to use his head. He often says something withou thinking.It makes others unhappy.

　　Mr. Black teaches math in a school. Hes old now and he likes children.On the Friday Mr. Black doesnt go to work, because hes ill in a hospital. And Jacks mother will see him after dinner. “I want to be there with you.” says Jack. “Youre a rude boy. I cant take you there. says his mother. “Dont worry, mum. I wont do that again. Please believe me. ” says Jack. In the hospital, Jack says nothing at first. When theyre leaving , he says to Mr. Black, “You look fine. The doctor says youre going to die, but I dont think so. ”

　　杰克是个好孩子，但他不喜欢动脑筋。他经常不假思索地说些什么。这会让别人不开心。

　　布莱克先生在一所学校教数学。他现在老了，他喜欢孩子。星期五，布莱克先生不去上班，因为他生病住院了。杰克的妈妈晚饭后会去看他。“我想和你在一起。杰克说。“你是个粗鲁的孩子。我不能带你去那里。他的.妈妈说。“别担心，妈妈。我不会再那样做了。请相信我。杰克说。在医院里，杰克一开始什么也没说。当他们离开时，他对布莱克先生说:“你看起来很好。医生说你要死了，但我不这么认为。”

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　　There are about fifty-two weeks in a year. And there are seven days in each week. The first day of a week is Sunday. The other days of a week between SundayandSaturdayare Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Monday is the second day, Tuesday is the third day, Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth day, and Friday is the sixth day. Whats the last day? Do you know?

　　一年大约有52个星期。一周有七天。一周的第一天是星期天。星期日和星期六之间的其他日子是星期一、星期二、星期三、星期四和星期五。星期一是第二天，星期二是第三天，星期三是第四天，星期四是第五天，星期五是第六天。最后一天是什么时候?你知道吗?

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　　I have a friend in the U.S. His name is Don Adams. I know him very well, but I have never met him. We write to each other all the time. My letters are very short. It is still hard for me to write in English. I received a letter from Don yesterday. It makes me very happy. He is coming to my country for a visit next summer. We are going to see each other for the first time.

　　我在美国有一个朋友，他的名字叫唐·亚当斯。我很了解他，但我从未见过他。我们一直互相写信。我的信很短。用英语写作对我来说仍然很难。昨天我收到唐的`一封信。这让我很开心。明年夏天他要来我国访问。我们要第一次见面了。

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　　My family lives on this street. In the morning, my father goes to work and all the children go to school. My mother takes us to school everyday. She does the housework. She always has her lunch at home, and sees her friends in the afternoon. In the evening all the children come home from school. They always get home early. My father goes home from work and he is often late. After supper my two brothers and I do our homework. We go to bed at ten.

　　我家住在这条街上。早上，我爸爸去上班，所有的孩子都去上学。我妈妈每天送我们去学校。她做家务。她总是在家里吃午饭，下午去看她的'朋友。晚上，所有的孩子都放学回家了。他们总是早早回家。我父亲下班回家，他经常迟到。晚饭后，我和我的两个兄弟做作业。我们十点上床睡觉。

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　　What do know about the sea? Some people have seen it but others havent. The sea looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very tough when there is a strong wind. What other things do you know about it? Of course, the sea is very large. In the world there is more sea than land. If you have swum in the sea, you know that the sea is salty. Rivers carry salt from the land into the sea. Some places of the sea are saltier than the other places. Do you know the Dead Sea? It is so salty that you cant sink when you are in the water! And fish cannot live in it!

　　你对大海了解多少?有些人看过，有些人没看过。在阳光明媚的日子里，大海看起来很美，而在刮大风的时候，它就会变得非常艰难。关于它你还知道些什么?当然，大海是很大的。世界上的海洋比陆地多。如果你在海里游过泳，你就知道海水是咸的'。河流把盐从陆地带进大海。海洋的一些地方比其他地方更咸。你知道死海吗?它很咸，当你在水里的时候你不会下沉!鱼也不能在里面生活!

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　　Li Hua is a Yong Pioneer. He is going to the park. Now he is waiting for a bus. Suddenly he finds a watchon theground.He askssome people, “Whose watch is it?” But the watch isnt theirs. So he gives the watch to a policeman.

　　Now Li Hua gets on the bus. He is sitting near the window. An old woman gets on the bus. She has no seat. So he stands up and says, “Here is a seat for you, Granny. Please sit here”

　　李华是一个勇者。他要去公园。现在他正在等公共汽车。突然，他发现地上有一个手表。他问一些人:“这是谁的手表?”但是手表不是他们的。所以他把手表给了警察。

　　现在李华上了公共汽车。他坐在窗边。一位老妇人上了公共汽车。她没有座位。于是他站起来说:“奶奶，这里有个座位给你。请坐这儿。”

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　　There are all kinds of horses in the world. But one of them you cant ride. It doesnt live on land, but in the sea. It looks like the head of horse. So the people call it sea horse. In fact, the sea horse is a small fish. It likes to live in warm water. A sea horse stands up in the water when it swims.

　　Father horse carries the eggs to keep them safe in its pouch. Whenthe eggsare hatched, the baby horses swim away.

　　世界上有各种各样的马。但其中一个你骑不了。它不生活在陆地上，而是生活在海里。它看起来像马头。所以人们叫它海马。事实上，海马是一种小鱼。它喜欢生活在温暖的.水中。海马游泳时是站在水里的。

　　马爸爸背着蛋，把它们安全地放在它的育儿袋里。蛋孵出来后，小马就游走了。

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　　There are three trees near the house. There is a big tree, and two small trees.

　　In the big tree there is a bird. Can the bird sing? Yes, it can. Whats under the big tree? Its a cat.

　　“I want some food,” thinks the cat. “Bird, my good friend, Come here! Its time to play games” says the cat.

　　“No today, thank you!” says the bird, “You cant catch me! Goodbye!” Look! The bird is flying!

　　房子附近有三棵树。有一棵大树和两棵小树。

　　在那棵大树上有一只鸟。这只鸟会唱歌吗?是的，它可以。大树下有什么?它是一只猫。

　　“我想要一些食物，”猫想。“小鸟，我的好朋友，过来!”是时候玩游戏了”猫说。

　　“今天不了，谢谢你!”小鸟说，“你抓不到我!”再见!”看！鸟在飞!

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　　A flying fox is not a fox at all. It is a bat. But this bat looks like a fox. A flying fox is very big. It likes to eat fruit. Sometimes the flying fox is called fruit bat.

　　The flying fox flies into fruit trees. Then the bat eats all the fruit. So fruit farmers do not like the flying fox.

　　飞狐根本不是狐狸。它是一只蝙蝠。但是这只蝙蝠看起来像狐狸。飞狐很大。它喜欢吃水果。有时飞狐被称为果蝠。

　　飞狐飞进了果树里。然后蝙蝠吃了所有的水果。所以果农不喜欢飞狐。

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　　Birds dont fly high up in the sky. The air is too thin.

　　It is hard for birds to breathe in thin air. Thin air doesnt hold them up.

　　Birds fly near the ground so that they can see where they are. The birds look for places they know. Then they do not get lost. Some birds fly so low over the ocean that the waves often hide them. Many birds fly a long distance in the spring and autumn.

　　鸟不会飞得很高。空气太稀薄了。

　　鸟类在稀薄的空气中呼吸困难。稀薄的'空气不能支撑他们。

　　鸟在靠近地面的地方飞行，这样它们就能看到自己在哪里。鸟儿会寻找它们熟悉的地方。这样他们就不会迷路了。有些鸟在海洋上飞得很低，海浪常常把它们遮住。许多鸟在春天和秋天飞很长一段距离。

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　　Air is all around us. It is around us as we walk and play. From the time we were born air is around us on every side. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we cannot live for more than a few minutes without air. We take in air. When we are working or running we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air. We live in air, but we cannot see it. We can only feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold an open book in front of your face, close it quickly. What can you feel? What you feel is air.

　　空气就在我们周围。当我们走路和玩耍时，它就在我们身边。从我们出生的那一刻起，空气就在我们周围。当我们坐下时，它就在我们身边。当我们上床睡觉时，空气也在我们周围。我们生活在空气中。没有食物和水，我们可以活几天，但是没有空气，我们不能活超过几分钟。我们吸入空气。当我们工作或跑步时，我们需要更多的空气。当我们睡觉时，我们需要更少的'空气。我们生活在空气中，但我们看不见它。我们只有在它运动的时候才能感觉到它。流动的空气叫做风。我们怎样才能使空气流动?这里有一种方法。把一本打开的书放在面前，迅速合上。你能感觉到什么?你感觉到的是空气。

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　　Swimming is a good sport. Its popular. People like swimming because the water makes people feel cool. But if they swim in a wrong place, it is very dangerous. These years, some people died when they were enjoying themselves in water and most of them were students. Summer holiday will be there again. I want to give you some advice. First, dont get into the water when you are alone. Second, dont get into the water if there is a No swimming sign. Third, you should be careful in the water. If you remember these, swimming will be safe and its good for your health.

　　游泳是一项很好的运动。它是受欢迎的.。人们喜欢游泳，因为水使人感到凉爽。但是如果他们游错了地方，那就很危险了。这些年来，有些人在水中玩耍时死亡，其中大多数是学生。暑假又要到了。我想给你一些建议。首先，一个人的时候不要下水。第二，如果有禁止游泳的标志，不要下水。第三，你在水里要小心。如果你记住这些，游泳将是安全的，它对你的健康有好处。

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　　I am a slow walker，but i never walk backward.

　　When i thought I could not go on,i forced myself to keep going.though the future is scary,you cant just run to the past because it is familiar.always remember,a man is not old as long as hes seeking something.a man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

　　我走得很慢，但我从不后退。

　　当我觉得自己走不下去的'时候，我强迫自己继续走下去。虽然未来是可怕的，但你不能因为过去是熟悉的就跑回过去。永远记住，只要一个人还有追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。

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　　Last week,we were go to the Laohutan marine park fall camp.We saws dolphins、seals、whale sharks and hippocampus…Then we were go to the happy-theater.The host was very humor,the animals star was very lovely and very clever.Then we were go to a small garden,we were played very happy.Back home after I very excited.

　　上周，我们去了老虎滩海洋公园的秋季夏令营。我们看了海豚、海豹、鲸鲨和海马体……然后我们去了快乐剧院。主持人很幽默，动物明星很可爱也很聪明。然后我们又去了一个小花园，我们玩得很开心。回到家后我很兴奋。

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　　Dragon boat racing is our the Chinese nation is a traditional activity.It is in the Dragon Boat Festival is to perform an activity.

　　People play on the day.boat looks like a dragon.

　　Dragon Boat Race made us very happy that we are fully felt the joy of traditional festivals.

　　Everyone on this day to contest, display their skills, very lively.

　　赛龙舟是我们中华民族的一项传统活动。它在端午节是要表演的一项活动。

　　人们在这一天玩耍。船看起来像一条龙。

　　龙舟赛让我们非常开心，我们充分感受到了传统节日的`欢乐。

　　大家在这一天比赛，各显身手，热闹非凡。

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　　Do you love your mother? Do you know about her? Do you know how your mother is hard?Mom love you the most in the world. Mothers love is one of the greatest love in our live. It is like a bottle of wine, the longer it is kept, the sweeter it will be. When we are thirty, it will be our best choice.

　　No matter what you are rich or poor, your mother will always love you. So let us return to the mother. Thanks to all the mothers in the world. Thanks your love!

　　你爱你的妈妈吗?你知道她吗?你知道你妈妈有多严厉吗?妈妈在世界上最爱您。母爱是我们生命中最伟大的爱之一。它就像一瓶酒，保存的'时间越长，越甜。当我们三十岁的时候，这将是我们最好的选择。

　　不管你是富有还是贫穷，你的母亲永远爱你。所以让我们回到母亲的问题上来。感谢世界上所有的母亲。谢谢你的爱!

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　　I have a beautiful table lamp A year ago， my parents bought it for me. I use it when Im doing my homework. I like it very much. It is black and red. The light from it is soft; it isnt bad for my eyes. Every weekend I clean it， so its very clean all the time.

　　My brother also has a table lamp. But it is broken. Mine is very good because I take good care of it. My table lamp has a wonderful name. Its name is Hong Xin. It helps me a lot with my study. Its my best friend.

　　我有一个漂亮的台灯一年前，我的父母给我买了它。我在做作业的时候用它。我非常喜欢它。它是黑色和红色的。它发出的.光是柔和的;这对我的眼睛不坏。每个周末我都会打扫，所以它一直都很干净。

　　我哥哥也有一盏台灯。但它已经坏了。我的很好，因为我照顾得很好。我的台灯有一个美妙的名字。它的名字叫红心。它对我的学习有很大的帮助。它是我最好的朋友。

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　　Elephants are the biggest animals that live on land,Only some kinds of whale areebigger,but they live in the sea .The elephantis the second tallest animal in the world.Elephants are the only animas that have a long nose that is called a trunk.They can use the truck like a hand.With its trunk ,an elephant can pick up a 270kg tree,or pick up one peanut.Elephants have the biggest ears of all the animals.Their tucks are the biggest teech.

　　大象是陆地上最大的动物，只有一些鲸鱼比大象大，但它们生活在海里。大象是世界上第二高的'动物。大象是唯一一种有长鼻子的动物。他们可以把卡车当帮手用。大象可以用它的鼻子捡起一棵270公斤重的树，或者捡起一颗花生。大象的耳朵是所有动物中最大的。它们的臀部是最大的赘肉。

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　　My favourite sport is basketball.

　　I often play basketball,I wear a T-shirt,jeans and runnersto play basketball.

　　I usually play basketball with my uncle and my brother.My uncle and brother hit basketball very well.But I sometimes hurt my hands.

　　I like playing basketball very much ,but I now my leg is hurt,I cant play basketball.I feel sad.

　　Basketball is my favourite sport.

　　我最喜欢的运动是篮球。

　　我经常打篮球，我穿t恤，牛仔裤和跑步机打篮球。

　　我通常和我的叔叔和哥哥一起打篮球。我叔叔和哥哥篮球打得很好。但我有时会弄伤我的手。

　　我非常喜欢打篮球，但是我现在腿受伤了，不能打篮球了。我感到难过。

　　篮球是我最喜欢的.运动。

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　　One day, when it rained, I heard a ticking voice outside the window.

　　I went out of my dream. I got up and ran down. I went outside to watch. I saw that everyone was in a hurry with an umbrella. Some went to work and some went home. I walk on the sidewalk, quietly walking, I have been walking, suddenly heard the da da da under the downpour. I ran home. As soon as I got home, my clothes were all wet.

　　I listened to the call of autumn rain and fell asleep again.

　　有一天，下雨的时候，我听到窗外有滴答的'声音。

　　我离开了我的梦想。我起身跑了下去。我到外面去看。我看到每个人都匆匆忙忙地拿着伞。一些人去上班，一些人回家。我走在人行道上，静静地走着，我一直走着，突然听到哒哒哒下着倾盆大雨。我跑回家。我一到家，衣服就全湿了。

　　我听着秋雨的召唤，又睡着了。

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　　You see Lift eye looks, Road lined with trees on both sides, Past skyscrapers. At night, Neighborhood, A column column fountain splash. Casino in people mountain people sea! What is? Is the news of the horn, To our home, Wear new clothes, The gorgeous makeup! Ah! Is he, All citizens in weinan, There are old people, youth, children... Let us hand in hand, Weinan create a beautiful tomorrow!

　　举目望去，路两旁绿树成荫，过往摩天大楼林立。夜晚，街坊四邻，一柱一柱的喷泉水花飞溅。赌场在人山人海!是什么?是消息的号角，到我们家，穿上新衣服，化上华丽的'妆!啊!是他，渭南所有的市民，有老人，有青年，有孩子……让我们携手并进，共创渭南美好的明天!

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　　Summer holiday is from July to August .It s a long time for me to do all kinds of things . I like visiting some places of interest . And I like travelling by train . It takes me too much time , but it saves money .

　　Sometimes I stay at home and do my homework , sometimes I help my parents do some house work. When my parents are free , we often go to the park or the zoo , and we have a good time there .

　　I have a good summer holiday .

　　暑假是从七月到八月。这是一个很长的时间对我来说，做各种各样的'事情。我喜欢参观一些名胜古迹。我喜欢乘火车旅行。这花了我很多时间，但却节省了钱。

　　有时我呆在家里做作业，有时我帮助我的父母做一些家务。当我的父母有空的时候，我们经常去公园或动物园，我们在那里玩得很开心。

　　我有一个美好的暑假。

　　英语经典美文 38

　　We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old mushy cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war.We meet at the post office, and at the sociable,and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each others way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a factory-never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.The value of a man is not in his skin.

　　我们相聚的时间十分短暂，没有足够的时间让彼此获得任何有价值的新事物。我们在一日三餐的时候见面，我们就如陈腐的奶略，却让彼此相互品尝出新味道。我们必须一致同意若干条规则，也就是我们所谓的礼节和礼貌，使这种经常的聚会相安无事，我们还要一致同意我们没有争吵的必要。我们在邮局碰面，在社交场合碰面，每天晚上在炉火边碰面;我们生活得很拥挤，相互干扰，彼此牵绊，我想，我们因此失去了对彼此的尊重。当然，所有重要的、真诚的.沟通，次数少一些就足够了。想一想工厂里的女工——永远不会独处，甚至在梦中也难得是独自一人。如果一平方英里只有一个居民，就像我这样，那要好多了。一个人的价值不在于他的外在。

　　英语经典美文 39

　　Barcelona is regarded as Spain‘s second city，behind capital Madrid. The city is steeped in history，Barcelona was founded by Carthaginians and according to tradition，its name was derived from the great Barker family of ancient Carpage. After numerous different conquers，including the Romans and the Moores that ravaged the city，the Argons made Catalonia，of which Barcelona was the capital. Strong and prosperous. Since the 1970s，the city has reasserted its Catalon background. But it wasn’t until the summer Olympics in 1992 did Barcelona became the modern，vibrant city that it still is today. And with this prosperity has come luxury and fabulous hotels. The Raewon Callas the 1st was opened in 1992，by the King and Queen of Spain. It‘s situated in the north of the city，near the main University and it’s run by Jose Louise Torres.

　　巴塞罗那是西班牙第二大的城市，仅次于首都马德里。巴塞罗那处处透露着历史气息。城市由迦太基人建立，根据古传统，城市的名字由古迦太基的巴塞家族派生出来。在经过数不清的征服者，包括罗马人和摩尔人对这个城市的掠夺后，阿拉贡人建立了繁荣富强的加塞罗尼亚，定都于巴塞罗那。二十世纪七十年代以来，这个城市重新宣告了它的加泰罗背景。但是直到1992年举办夏季奥运会以后，巴塞罗那才成为现在这样的现代化的，有活力的城市。随着城市的日渐繁荣，豪华，大型的酒店不断出现。第一家雷文卡拉斯酒店是由西班牙国王和王后主持揭幕的。该酒店位于城北主要大学附近。有胡塞·路易斯·托尔斯经营。

　　With buildings like the Casa Cal Bain and the Casa Minga，Antony Gaudy is credited with making great impact of image of Barcelona. He also built the fantastic Park Quell. Antony Gaudy died in 1926，leaving an unfinished cathedral as his epitaph.

　　安东尼·高迪以卡尔维特和米拉之家等建筑物，塑造了巴塞罗那无以伦比的形象。他还建造了神奇的奎尔公园。安东尼·高迪在1926年逝世，为竟的大教堂是他的墓志铭。

　　What are the attractions of coming to Barcelona?

　　巴塞罗那有什么吸引人的地方?

　　There are many，many different attractions：culture，leisure，monuments，our architectures，and the gastronomy. Barcelona has commercial areas，shopping areas of five kilometers that goes around to the sea to the north，and on the street and continue at shop at the same time you find the shops. You see our architecture，you see our monuments，our museums，and our restaurants. So there is a mix between shopping and services.

　　它有很多不同的引人之处：文化，休闲，纪念碑，建筑，还有烹调。巴塞罗那有商业区，长五公里的'购物区绕着大海直到北部。走在大街上，你可以一边购物一边探店。你可以看看建筑，纪念碑，博物馆，饭店，既能购物又有玩的享受。

　　One label that‘s hot among fashion conscious is MIRO，and these trendy designs of clothing and shoes originate in Barcelona. The region itself now produces for other international labels，like for the Gallic giant Lacose.

　　米罗是时尚界中享有盛誉的一个品牌。这些鞋子和衣服的设计流行趋势来自巴塞罗那。该地区还生产其它国际知名品牌的产品。比如法国的名牌Lacose.

　　No visit to the city would be complete without a tour of the Nou Camp，the immense home of one of Spain‘s finest teams，Barcelona Football Club. FC Barcelona was founded in 1899 along with the other Spanish team，Real Madrid. It’s one of the greatest football teams in Europe. With players like Maradona and Ronaldo having played for Barca，it‘s easy to explain their success!FC Barcelona is credited to winning more trophy than any other team in European football history. The stadium，the Nou Camp，can hold one hundred and twelve thousand people，making it one of the greatest places to watch and play“the beautiful game”。

　　不到诺坎谱就不算到过巴塞罗那。诺坎谱是西班牙最好的球队之——巴塞罗那队的主场。巴塞罗那队与另外一支西班牙球队——皇家马德里队，欧洲最顶级的球队之一——同时成立于1899年。有马拉多纳和罗那尔多做为球员，这两支球队勇创佳绩。在欧洲足球史上。巴塞罗那队拿的奖牌比任何一支球队都多。诺坎谱球场可以容纳11万2千人，是观看和踢漂亮的球赛的最好场地之一。

　　英语经典美文 40

　　When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

　　当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。当爱的羽翼拥抱你时，请顺从她，尽管隐藏在其羽翼之下的剑可能会伤到你。当爱向你诉说时，请相信她，尽管她的声音可能打破你的梦想，就如同北风吹落花园里所有的'花瓣。

　　For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

　　爱会给你戴上桂冠，也会折磨你。爱会助你成长，也会给你修枝。爱会上升到枝头，抚爱你在阳光下颤动力的嫩枝，也会下潜至根部，撼动力你紧抓泥土的根基。

　　But if, in your fear, you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of loves threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

　　但是，如果你在恐惧之中只想寻求爱的平和与快乐，那你就最好掩盖真实的自我，避开爱的考验，进入不分季节的世界，在那里你将欢笑，但并非开怀大笑，你将哭泣，但并非尽情地哭。爱只将自己付出，也只得到自己。爱一无所有，也不会为谁所有，因为爱本身就已自足。

　　Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:

　　爱除了实现自我别无他求。但是如果你爱而又不得不有所求，那就请期望：

　　To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

　　将自己融化并像奔流的溪水一般向夜晚吟唱自己优美的曲调。

　　To know the pain of too much tenderness.

　　明了过多的温柔所带来的苦痛。

　　To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

　　被自己对爱的理解所伤害;并情愿快乐地悲伤。

　　To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

　　在黎明带着轻快的心醒来并感谢又一个有家的日子；

　　To rest at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy;

　　在中午休息并品味爱的喜悦在中午休息并品味爱的喜悦

　　To return home at eventide with gratitude;

　　在黄昏怀着感恩之心回家;

　　And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

　　然后为内心所爱之人祈祷，吟唱赞美之歌，并带着祷告和歌声入眠。

　英语美文欣赏 篇1

　　I want to fall in love in 2016.

　　在2016年我渴望坠入爱河

　　I want to fall head over heels this year. By the very end of it, I want to be bursting at the seams of all my scars with a love burning happily in my heart.

　　这一年我希望自己爱得死心塌地。待到年末之际，我希望冲破所有创伤，让爱的火焰在心中快乐地燃烧。

　　I want the authentic feeling that surpasses dreaming -- a love that is true and never fleeting. I want this for myself as well as for you. I'd like it for the world, if possible.

　　我渴望那种超越梦境的真实感觉——那种真正的、永不流逝的爱。我希望你我皆有这种感觉。如果可能的话，全世界都能享受这种感觉。

　　I want to be every fear I've ever held in the darkest parts of my heart transformed into the purest desire for truth. I want to feel the magic of love singing my soul to sleep.

　　我希望我内心最阴暗处曾拥有的每一份恐惧都转化为对真爱最热切的渴望。我期望感受到那种魔力，那种爱情唱着歌让灵魂入眠的魔力。

　　2016年我想这样去爱……

　　I want to fall in love before I fall for you.

　　在爱上你之前，我想先坠入爱河

　　So I would like to fall in love many times this year, so that I may know how extraordinary you are when you appear.

　　所以今年我想坠入爱河很多次，次数多到你一出现我就知道你是多么的与众不同。

　　I must fall in love this year so I can understand the magnitude of what you will be -- of what you will mean to me, and I to you.

　　我今年一定要坠入爱河，这样我才能知道你的出现是多么的重要——关于你对我、我对你意味着什么。

　　That's how I want to fall in love in 2016. I want to know love before I know you. I want to feel its essence and understand its woes. I want to fall in love this way so that I am full of so much love to hand to you, and I am waiting patiently for the day when I can give it all to you.

　　这些就是2016年我想去爱的方式。我想在认识你之前先懂得爱，我想感受到爱情的本质并懂得它的悲哀。我想如此去爱，这样我就会有足够的爱来传递给你，我会耐心地等待着那一天的到来，在那天我将把所有爱都传递给你。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇2

　　While there may be reasons in life to focus on just survival, to fully live, you must thrive!

　　尽管生活中有理由只关注生存，但如果要潇洒走一回，你必须活出精彩。

　　Here Are 5 Things to Do Every Day to Ensure You Thrive.

　　以下五件事情可以确保你活得精彩。

　　1. Create art, even if you're not an artist! Art comes in many forms. Art could be decorating your home, cooking meals and gardening.

　　1、创造艺术，即便你不是艺术家。艺术的形式多种多样。艺术可以是装饰你的家园、煮饭做菜和园艺。

　　2. Create beauty in thought and deed as well as creating beautiful surroundings. Enjoying the natural beauty in nature inspires us to bring that beauty indoors. Beautiful surroundings create beautiful thoughts.

　　2、创造漂亮的周边环境之外，也要在思维言行上创造美。享受自然之美激励我们把美带到室内，美好的环境会带来美好的想法。

　　3. Love boldly. Do something special, make others feel important.

　　3、大胆去爱。做些特别的事情，让别人感到自己的重要性。

　　4. Play more! It sounds easy; but is it really easy to set aside time just for fun when deadlines loom, and your phone keeps you alert to the fact that you have a very busy day ahead? Play is essential to your health and well-being. Get outside, chase your kids around, go dancing, watch a comedy act.

　　4、多玩!说起来容易，但当截止日期却步步临近、手机又不断提醒你接下来又是繁忙的一天时，真的让你匀出时间玩又谈何容易?玩乐对身心健康至关重要。去户外、和孩子追逐打闹、去跳舞、去看看喜剧吧。

　　5. Create margin. Create space in your day for the unexpected and space just to breathe.

　　5、留白。一天中给意外留点时间和空间，透透气儿。

　　Finding a bit of time each day to incorporate these simple ideas. It's time to regain control of your life, it's time to thrive!

　　每天匀一点时间把这些简单的想法付诸实践，该是重新把握人生、活出精彩的时候了!

　　英语美文欣赏 篇3

　　John and Bobby joined a wholesale company togther just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to theposotion of manager but John remained an ordinary employee. John could not take it anymore, tendered his resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not know how to delegate and did not value hard working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him.

　　The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said, "Thank you for your criticism, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your decision and take back your resignation."

　　John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg? John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to inform the boss $1.2 per kg.

　　Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone seling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, boss, only one person selling watermelon. $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10kg, he has inventory of 340 melons. On the table 58 melons, every melon weights about 2 kg, bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality.

　　John was very impresed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign but to learn from Bobby.

　　My dear friends, a more successful person is more observant, thinks more and explores in depth. Chances exists in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, while another sees only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365times, how could you win?

　　英语美文欣赏 篇4

　　Don't be too concerned about money, because all it will do is distract you from achieving happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness.

　　不要太在意金钱，因为金钱只会对你追寻幸福的过程造成干扰。最具讽刺意味的是，人们以为自己拥有金钱就会幸福。事实上金钱与幸福毫不相干。如果你感到幸福，同时又拥有金钱，你可以用金钱来换取幸福。

　　If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

　　然而如果你没有感到幸福，却拥有金钱，那么你的金钱只能换来更多的不幸。因为金钱只是一种中性的作用力。

　　Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is.

　　请别误会：我并非反对金钱。我不想反对任何对象。但是金钱仅仅是一种手段。金钱会让你按照已有的生活模式向前迈进，无论你此时的生活模式是好是坏。

　　But people keep looking for money as if money is going to bring happiness. People are ready, at any moment, to change their pattern, to change their ways, if more money is available somewhere else.

　　可是人们还是不停地寻求金钱，似乎金钱能带给他们幸福似的。任何时候，如果他们发现在生活之路的另一个岔路口上可以找到金钱，他们就会立刻扭转自己的生活模式，改变自己的生活道路。

　　Once the money is there, then suddenly you are no longer yourself; you are ready to change.

　　可是这些人一旦找到了金钱，却会立刻迷失自我，因为已经准备好了为金钱而改变自己。

　　This is the way of the worldly man. Remember, I don't call a person worldly because he or she has money. I call them worldly if they change their motives for money. This applies to people with no money as well - they may simply be poor. Just being poor is not equivalent to being spiritual; and just being rich is not equivalent to being a materialist. The materialistic pattern of life is one in which money predominates over everything.

　　这就是世俗中芸芸众生的生活方式。记住，我称其世俗并非因为他们拥有金钱，而是因为他们为了金钱而改变了自己的生活目标。对一文不名的人来说同样如此——或许他们仅仅是贫穷，而不是清贫。贫穷并不等于精神高尚，而富贵也并不等于拜金主义。真正的拜金主义生活方式是让金钱凌驾于一切之上。

　　The non-materialistic life is one in which money is just a means: happiness predominates, joy predominates, your own individuality predominates. You know who you are and where you are going, and you are not distracted.

　　而非拜金主义的生活方式，是将金钱仅仅视作一种手段：幸福、快乐和你的个体尊严都是高于金钱的。你知道自己是谁，知道自己的目标在何处，你不会受到旁骛的干扰。

　　Then suddenly you will see your life has a meditative quality to it.

　　能够如此，你就会发现，你的生活忽然有了一种禅意。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇5

　　I was in the Santa Cruz Mountains not long ago, speaking and singing at a women's conference. We were focusing on the theme of loving others in practical ways through our gifts, and something in particular happened during one of the sessions that will remain imprinted in my memory as a beautiful illustration of this practice.

　　不久前我在圣克鲁斯山脉，在一次妇女大会上有说有唱。我们关注的主题是通过送礼物等实用的方法来关爱他人。其中一个会议期间发生的一件特殊的事将成为最美的印迹永远铭刻在我的记忆中。

　　A young Syrian woman ("Lilith") had been invited to the conference at the last minute, and everyone seemed surprised and delighted that she'd actually come. Just a few days earlier, Lilith had fled her country and found refuge with one of the women attending the conference. As an Orthodox Christian in Syria, she and her loved ones had become targets of violent atrocities from radical terrorist groups in the country's ongoing civil war.

　　一位年轻的叙利亚女士（莉莉丝）在最后一分钟被邀请到会议上，大家看起来都很惊讶，也很高兴她真的来了。就在几天前，莉莉丝逃离她的国家，和另外一个参加会议的女士一起寻找避难所。作为叙利亚的一名东正教教徒，她和亲人们成为了这个国家正在进行的内战中激进的恐怖组织暴行的目标。

　　Lilith had witnessed horrors no one her young age should ever see. Despite the further danger it presented, she'd decided to leave her home and her family to find safety here in America. Knowing some of her story, and seeing her sitting through the sessions at the retreat -- head covered in a scarf, face bowed toward the floor -- broke my heart.

　　莉莉丝目击了她这个年纪的年轻人不该见到的恐怖。尽管要面临更大的危险，但她决定离开家和家人来美国寻求安全。知道了她的一些故事，看见她会议期间有些退却——头上包着围巾，脸朝着地面压得很低——我感觉心要碎了。

　　Lilith's story touched all of us, including Pam, an attendee who was a quilt maker. Pam had just finished a gorgeous, intricately-patterned quilt, and had brought it with her. She, along with a few of the leaders, decided to give it to Lilith as a symbol of their comfort and love. Lilith had left her own mother behind in her homeland, and I can't imagine how frightened and alone she felt. But in her absence I could see there were lots of "mamas" in this community of women who were more than ready to love on her.

　　莉莉丝的故事触动了我们所有人，包括与会的被子生产商帕姆。帕姆刚做出了一床华丽的、图案精致的被子，也带过来了。她和几位领导决定把它赠给莉莉丝，被子象征了他们的安慰和爱。莉莉丝把母亲留在了家乡，我无法想象她感到多么害怕孤单。但她的离开使我看到在这个女性团体中有很多“妈妈”，她们都准备好要把爱献给她。

　　During our last session together Lilith was called forward and prayed over, hugged, and wrapped up in that beautiful quilt. I thought of the many hours Pam undoubtedly spent working on it, unaware of the horrendous events that would lead Lilith to this moment--literally surrounded by the beauty and love the quilt embodied. I wept. When they told her it was for her, she wept. We all wept, honking our noses and wiping our eyes.

　　我们最后一次在一起开会时，莉莉丝被叫去站到前面，大家为她祈祷，拥抱她，把那条漂亮的被子围在她身上。我想到帕姆毫无疑问花了好长时间做这个被子，当时她根本不知道那些可怕的事会把莉莉丝带到这里——此时却被被子蕴含的美丽和爱所围绕。我哭了，她们告诉她这个被子是给她的时候，她哭了。我们都哭了，抽泣着擦着眼泪。

　　I thought about the words from 1 Peter 4:10: Serve one another with the particular gifts God has given each of you, as faithful dispensers of the magnificently varied grace of God. The words particular and varied suggest to me that there may be as many gifts as there are people and personalities. A quilt wrapped around a ravaged young woman is just one practical, loving act of service that demonstrates God's grace.

　　我想到了彼得前书的4章10节里的话：各人要照所得的恩赐彼此服侍，作神百般恩赐的好管家。这番话特别换了一种方式提醒我有多少人和个性就有多少礼物。一位受到伤害的年轻女子身上围的被子就是体现了上帝慈悲的一个充满爱意的行为。

　　It's the particular things we do that we sometimes think are too small or inconsequential compared to the overwhelming suffering we witness. But to do nothing when we see an opportunity--to serve, to comfort, to ease another's pain--is to withhold whatever facet of God's magnificently varied grace our gift offers.

　　这就是我们所做的特别的事，有时我们认为这和我们见到的势不可挡的苦难相比太过渺小或不重要。但有机会时-服务、安慰、缓解别人的痛苦-你什么都不做，就没有体现出上帝给予的恩赐所展现的各种慈悲的任何一面。

　　英语美文:加油，为了心中的梦想！

　　God puts dreams in our hearts. So, we must dream. We lose our sorrows and heartaches in dreams. And we live our fantasies in dreams. Some dreams are aborted while some come true.

　　上帝在我们的心中播种梦想。所以我们必须有梦。我们在梦想中丢弃悲伤与心痛，活在梦想的奇异世界里。一些梦想可能会夭折然而一些则会实现。

　　Most mornings, I'd sit by the Lake in my neighborhood just to witness the awesomeness of God; to be marveled at what Mother Nature is about to unfold... to shower us with her magnificence. The squirrels too gather by the edge of the Lake. The birds float effortlessly, circling the Lake in a beautiful ballet. The gators stand in awe. Yes, the gators! The leaves on the trees would suddenly stop their slow dance. Just like me, they are patiently awaiting for the grand entrance of the sun. The moon must go. Yes, the moon must go... to make room for the sun to rise. The sound of the gentle breeze is soothing, almost musical. I am filled with joy. I cannot describe the feeling of this awesomeness. You'd have to experience it to understand the feeling and joy of it. I know I am about to witness an amazing grace. So... I am silent. My spirit is at peace. The stage has been set. Behind those clouds, the sun awaits... waiting for the heavenly command. The ritual is in full bloom. Then I see a slice of sunlight, wafting through the clouds. Suddenly, the entire horizon is brightened, and the sun finally takes the center stage. Right there, I am still... humbled... to listen to God speak into my soul. When He's done, then, I share with Him all that my heart desires.

　　早晨我经常会静坐在家附近的`湖畔，只为见证上帝的神奇之力；惊叹大自然母亲将展现的事物。。。震撼我们以其雄伟壮丽之景。松鼠也在湖边聚集起来。鸟儿轻快的浮在湖面上，绕着湖转着圈，好似在跳优美的芭蕾。鳄鱼肃立着。没错，是鳄鱼！树上的叶子会突然地停下她们的曼舞，耐心地等待着太阳宏大的入场礼，就像我一样。月亮必须要离开啊。是啊，月亮必须要离开啊，得给太阳腾地方啊。徐徐微风，温婉静谧，如同和乐一般。喜悦之情，溢于言表。然此景之震撼实则无法用言语表达。人们须亲身经历才能明白这种感觉和其中的喜悦。知道即将亲眼见证这一奇妙的恩典，我没有出声。我心静如水，没有一丝涟漪。舞台已准备就绪。重重云雾背后，太阳静待，等着上天的召唤。礼教已经进入它的全盛时代。然后我看到了穿过云层透出来的一缕阳光。突然，整个地平线变得透亮，太阳最终站到了中心舞台上。然，就在那，我一动不动，谦卑地聆听着上帝对我灵魂的教导。待其结束，与上帝诉说着我的心愿。

　　Now, here's my personal dream story:

　　现在，为您呈上我关于梦的故事：

　　Eight years ago, a young couple very dear to my heart had a miscarriage after being attacked by armed robbers in their home. They were newly weds. They share the kind of love that makes one want to give love a second chance. Why? They truly love each other and, they take God on board with them in all that they do.

　　八年前，持械抢劫犯入室抢劫了一对跟我很亲近的年轻夫妻，他们因此而失掉了一个还未出生的孩子。他们刚结婚不久，之间有着使人想给爱第二次机会的那种爱。为什么呢？他们真心相爱，而且他们一切都与上帝同行。

　　I am your typical all-year-round-positive-kinda-girl. But, it doesn't mean I do not have my down moments. I stay positive and thankful because I know there's a reason for every season. Since the couple had that miscarriage, they felt empty. For awhile, they wondered if God had abandoned them. They fasted and prayed. They cried. They isolated themselves from family and friends. Basically, they were existing, and not living. They travelled far and wide, spending all their resources, seeing different OBGYNs. Nothing worked.

　　我是那种典型的一年到头都很乐天派女生，但这并不意味着我没有低落的时候。我乐观开朗，常怀感恩，是因为我知道每个季节都有存在的理由。自从那对夫妻遭遇那场不幸之后，就觉得很空虚。有那么一段时间，他们在想上帝是不是把他们抛弃了。他们禁食，祈祷，哭泣。离开家庭和朋友把自己孤立起来。基本上，他们只是单纯地存在着而不是生活着。他们倾尽所能，跋山涉水四处寻医问药，找各种妇产科医生。但毫无效果。

　　One day, I called them to say hello. The wife sounded like someone had died. When I asked, she said, "I am fine. Nobody died. Just tired." When I spoke with her husband, he shared with me that she had just seen her period, menstrual period, that is. I asked him if I could speak with her again. I believe till this day that it was the grace of God that led me to make that phone call. It was time to share my one dream with her.

　　有一天，我打电话过去问候他们。这位妻子的声音听起来就像谁去世了一样很是悲伤。当我问道她就说“我很好，没有谁去世。我只是累了.”当我跟她丈夫谈起时，他告诉我说她刚刚进入经期，仅此而已。我问道是否可以再跟他妻子聊会。我相信直到这一天是上帝恩惠让我拨打这个电话。是时候和她分享我的一个梦了。

　　"For eight years, I always had same dream, You were in it. You were always nursing a child while rocking him/her in a rocking chair. In the dream, there was always a celebration happening...like a Christening, and you were in it, with your husband by your side." She was silent. I had to share some life lessons with her. I also had to remind her that she must never allow her faith to be shaken, instead, it should be renewed with each sunrise because God is Hope.

　　“八年以来，我一直在做着同样的梦，你就在梦里面。而你总是在摇着摇椅照看一个孩子。在梦里，总是有那么一场庆祝活动在举办着，像是一场洗礼，而你在那里，你的丈夫站在你旁边。”她没出声。我必须说一些生活的经验给她听。同时我也必须要提醒她一定不能动摇信念，反之，信念应当在每次太阳升起的时候得到新生，因为上帝就是希望。

　　I read somewhere that when Life breaks us, "We are only broken to be made whole." Therefore, we must strive not to fall apart.

　　当生命将我们分开的时候我就会念到，“我们只有在要组成整体的时候才会被分离开来。”因此，我们必须努力不破裂。

　　I shared this dream with my mother. And each time, we got excited together and submitted this dream of mine to God in prayers and in songs of praise, after all, God is just a prayer away. And God sure loves to be praised.

　　我跟我母亲讲了这个梦境。每次我们都会变得很兴奋，并在祷文中和赞歌中与上帝分享我这个梦，毕竟，上帝是远方的一个祷告者。再者，上帝肯定也喜欢被称赞。

　　Many moons ago, I remember waking up in the middle of the night, covered in sweat. I was woken up by a sharp pain in my stomach. I had a dream. This time, I was the one pregnant. I went down on my knees in total submission to the Will of God...asking Him for my one dream to come true. And no, I did not wish to be pregnant (Laughs).

　　数月以前，我记得自己披着一件毛衣，在午夜醒来。我被腹部的一阵刺痛而惊醒，我做了一个梦。这回，怀孕的那个人是我。完全服从上帝的旨意，我跪了下来，请求上帝能实现我的一个梦--不，我不想怀孕。（此处有笑声）

　　I do know one thing for sure: Dreams really do come true when you believe in your dreams, when you give God something to work with (doing your part), and when you believe in and trust God.

　　有一件事我可以肯定：当你相信梦想，当你做出一些努力从而能让上帝能对你有所帮助，当你相信自己并信任上帝，梦想就一定会成真。

　　God finally granted me the dream of my heart. This winter, this man and wife are expecting their first child.

　　上帝终于恩赐了我心中的梦想。今年冬天，那个男人和他的妻子正期盼着他们第一个孩子的到来。

　　When I received this great news, I was not surprised. The awesomeness of God is immeasurable. I am always in total submission to His Will. I believed this dream was going to come true at God's own time. And, this is God's time. For this, I am most thankful and humbled by this amazing grace.

　　听到这个好消息的时候我并没有感到很惊讶。上帝的奇妙是无法估量的。我一直都服从着上帝的旨意。相信等时机到了，这个梦想就会成真。而现在就是那个时机。因为这个，我非常感谢并膜拜这奇妙的恩典。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇6

　　Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It is something that truly exists in all of us. The way it manifests itself in all of us differs from person to person.

　　“伟大”并不是什么特殊的人才能体会到的特质，也没有那么精妙奇异、难以捉摸，甚至被神化。他真实地存在于我们所有人当中。每个人所表现出来的方式又因人而异。

　　For those of us who are compassionate we sway others to our causes with our empathy.

　　那些富有同情心的，凭着自己的执着，号召他人加入自己的事业。

　　For those of us who are resourceful we complete our tasks without the resources we need.

　　那些足智多谋的，无需借助太多外力就能达成目标。

　　For those of us who are creative we find the solutions that no one else can think of.

　　那些勇于创新的，能找到独一无二的方法解决问题。

　　Creativity, communication, cooperation, decisiveness, leadership, love, passion, we are all born with different attributes that make us great, and it is our duty to discover that greatness. Discovering it is half the battle.

　　创造力、沟通能力、合作能力、决断力、领导力、爱与激情，我们与生俱来这些不同的特质，从而造就我们的伟大，发掘伟大的潜质是我们的责任。一旦发现了自己的潜质，我们就已经成功了一半。

　　When you do find out what it is that makes you great you will see the world before you and understand what opportunity lies in wait. It was waiting there for you all along, waiting for you to come to the realization that everything you needed to succeed in life was within you all along, and you will want to tell the whole world what you found, you will want to tell people about the greatness inside each of them, but they won't understand because each person must discover it and declare it on their own.

　　当你发现了造就你的伟大的特质，你就能看清眼前的世界，就能明白是什么样的机遇在等着你。它一直在这里等了你，等着你醒悟过来，认识到成功所需的一切品质都一直都蕴藏在自己的灵魂里。你会想要告诉整个世界自己的发现，你会想要告诉大家每个人蕴藏着的伟大，可是他们不会明白，因为伟大需要每个人自己去发现，去把自己的发现宣告给这个世界。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇7

　　A frail old man lived with his son, his daughter-in-law, and his four-year-old grandson. His eyes were blurry, his hands trembled, and his step faltered.

　　一位虚弱的老人和他的儿子、儿媳还有四岁的孙子住在一起。他双眼模糊，两手颤抖，步履蹒跚。

　　The family would eat together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon, drooping to the floor. When he grasped his glass of milk, it often spilled clumsily at the tablecloth.

　　这家人每晚会在餐桌前共用晚餐。但是年迈的爷爷双手颤抖，视力退化，连吃饭都困难。豌豆从他的勺子里滚出来，掉在了地上。去拿牛奶的时候，他行动笨拙，也常常会把牛奶洒在桌布上。

　　With this happening almost every night, the son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess.

　　这样的事每晚都在发生。他的儿子儿媳开始对这些繁杂的事情感到恼怒不已。

　　"We must do something about grandfather," said the son.

　　“我们应该对爷爷的问题想想办法了。”儿子说。

　　"I've had enough of his milk spilling, noisy eating and food on the floor," the daughter-in-law agreed.

　　“我受够了他了。他到处乱洒牛奶，吃东西很大声，还弄到地上。”儿媳也很同意。

　　So the couple set a small table at the corner.

　　所以这对夫妇在角落里又放了个小桌子。

　　There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed their dinner at the dinner table. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in wooden bowls. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather's direction, he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in silence.

　　从此，在其他人在餐桌上享用晚餐的时候，爷爷就一个人在边上吃。又由于爷爷打碎了一两个碟子，他的食物就被放在了木头碗里端给他。有时，当这家人不经意瞥向爷爷的时候，能看见他眼中的泪水。不变的是，爷爷掉了一支叉或者打翻食物的时候，这对夫妇只会严厉地警告他。四岁的孙子目睹着这一切，一言不发。

　　One evening, before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly: "What are you making?" Just as sweetly, the boy replied, "Oh, I'm making a little bowl for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up." The four-year-old smiled and went back to work.

　　有一天晚饭前，父亲注意到了他的儿子在玩木头屑。他亲切地问孩子：“你在做什么呢？”儿子同样亲切地答：“噢，我在做木碗呢。等我长大了，它们就是用来给爸爸妈妈吃饭的。”说完，四岁的儿子带着微笑，继续做他的木碗。

　　These words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears streamed down their cheeks. Though no words were spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening, the husband took grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table.

　　儿子的语出惊人让这对父母顿时语塞，泪水从脸颊流下。虽然没有说一句话，他们都下定决心要做什么了。那天晚上，那位丈夫挽起爷爷的手，缓缓地带他回到从前那个餐桌前。

　　For the remainder of his days, grandfather ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk was spilled or the table cloth was soiled.

　　接下来几天，每顿晚饭爷爷都和一家人一起吃。因为某些原因，这对夫妻再也不在乎掉下的叉子、洒出的牛奶或是弄脏的桌布了。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇8

　　We all find the rhythm.

　　我们终将会找到属于自己的节奏。

　　We all remember our first days of high-school, college, our first job.

　　这些场景都历历在目吧：高中第一天，大学第一天，上班第一天。

　　We all remember the feelings of butterflies in our stomachs when we took our first steps into those positions, the feeling that we were unqualified for what we were doing, that we didn't belong.

　　我们都记得迈出第一步时，心中的手足无措，担心自己不够格、担心自己不属于这个地方。

　　What if my coworkers don't like me?

　　要是同事们不喜欢我怎么办？

　　What if I'm terrible at my work?

　　要是我做出的工作成果很糟糕怎么办？

　　What if I mess everything up?

　　要是我把一切搞砸了怎么办？

　　These are the thoughts that run through your mind during those first few days as you tiptoe your way around the workplace, being careful that you don't do anything that will get you noticed, with the fear that when they notice you, you will mess up. But eventually you do get noticed, and you don't mess up, and soon you develop a rhythm.

　　这些都是工作的头几天里，脑海中会浮现出的想法。你小心翼翼地在公司里走着，恨不得踮起脚尖，生怕自己的一举一动会引起周围人的注意，生怕自己搞砸一切。然而，你终究还是受到了关注，但你并没有搞砸，并且你很快就找到了自己的节奏。

　　It has only been a week and you have already fallen into a rhythm. You walk into your workplace and say hello to the receptionist who now knows you by name, you get you morning coffee and strike up a conversation with a coworker who you've quickly developed a friendship with. Whereas before you looked around chaotically for the sugar and cream, now the location is familiar and your reach for it instinctual. You walk to your desk, take a rejuvenating sip of coffee, and look over your daily schedule that has become all too familiar to you.

　　仅仅过去了一周，你的节奏愈发自如。走进公司，你会很自然地和前台打招呼，而他们也叫得出你的名字。取咖啡的时候，你会和同事攀谈起来，不知不觉中你们已经建立了友谊。以前你焦头烂额地到处找糖和奶油，如今你可以轻松自如地找到它们。你走到办公桌前，小啜一口咖啡，一天的活力注满了全身。接着，你从容地翻阅着日程表，里面的内容都已太熟悉了。

　　You notice a new task that you haven't encountered before, but you no longer feel uncertainty and fear of messing it up. You have survived a week in this place without messing up, people have congratulated you on how good of a job you've done, and you belong here. A smirk creases over your face as you look forward to undertaking this new unproven challenge. The day begins and you fall into your rhythm.

　　即使接到以前从没接触过的任务，你也会胸有成竹，不再担心自己会搞砸了。你已在这个地方度过了一周，没有搞砸任何事，人们甚至为你出色的绩效而喝彩。你属于这里。所以在准备迎接这个未知挑战的时候，你的脸上露出了一丝得意的笑容。新的一天又开始了，你找到了属于自己的节奏。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇9

　　Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famousin all the literature of the world. They were spokenby Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are themost famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet wasspeaking not only for himself but also for everythinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live ornot to live, to live richly and abundantly andeagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. Aphilosopher once wanted to know whether he was aliveor not, which is a good question for everyone to putto himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: "I think, therefore am." But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: "To be is to bein relations." If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. Tolive abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations.Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regularoccupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, youare alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned--poetry and prose, music,pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.

　　Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a newaccomplishment--you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a largevariety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lostinterest.

　　Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, newfriends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are alsoalive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined onlyto your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in whichyou live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what isgoing on in China, then you are living in China~ if you're interested in the characters of agood novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently tofine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion andimagination.

　　To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!

　　英语美文欣赏 篇10

　　In recent years, natural disasters happened frequently around the world and have caused enormous losses of life and property to human society. They pose a common challenge to all the countries in the world.

　　China suffers the most natural disasters of all countries. Along with global climate changes and its own economic takeoff and progress in urbanization, China suffers increasing pressure on resources, environment and ecology. The situation in the prevention of and response to natural disasters has become more serious and complicated.

　　Always placing people first, the Chinese government has all along put the security of people's lives and property on the top of its work, and has listed the disaster prevention and reduction in its economic and social development plan as an important guarantee of sustainable development. In recent years, China has been comprehensively implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, further strengthened legislation as well as the building of systems and mechanisms on dis-aster prevention and reduction, committed to building on disaster-prevention capacities, encouraged public contribution, and actively participated in international cooperation in this respect.

　　英语美文欣赏 篇11

　　You cannot change the laws of physics ... but could physics actually enable us to travel through time?

　　It might sound crazy, but according to Einstein‘s theories, there‘s no logical reason why time travel isn‘t possible.

　　Time travel is clearly a trickier proposition than space travel,though. And prior to Einstein, it would have been deemed utterly impossible！ That‘s because the old idea about time was that it was like a cosmic metronome keeping a regular and constant beat throughout the universe. And it was thought to move in one direction only .

　　However, what physicists now know is that time is rather more flexible than the old “ Clockwork Universe” ideas they had it. And it was Albert Einstein who set the cat among the pigeons.

　　Einstein‘s theories about time and space were revolutionary. He became a celebrity--and not just in scientific circles. It‘s only since he published his theories that scientists have been able to demonstrate that space and time really behave the way he said they did.

　　In 1971, after Einstein‘s death, two scientists were able to carry out a crucial experiment. They used two atomic clocks, synchronized them, and placed one on a plane, while the other stayed in the same location on Earth. The plane then flew around the world for 80 hours. According to Einstein‘s theory, the clock on the plane would be expected to have lost time, due to being in motion over 80 hours compared to the clock on the ground. When they brought the clocks together and made a comparison, the clock on the plane was indeed a few nanoseconds slower than the other clock. The experiment was replicated in 1996 with advanced technology, and it was proved again--with an even bigger time difference this time. Which proves that not only is time “ warp-able” , but Einstein was arguably the greatest thinker the world has ever seen.

　　If it were possible, however, it would present some pretty knotty paradoxes... For example, what if someone or something traveled back in time and changed the ensuing future? And have you heard the one about the time traveller who dots back and forward in time and by means of various medical technologies is able to be his own father AND mother?! And besides, if time travel is possible, where are all the people from the future--surely they‘d want to come and meet us poor stranded 21st century beings?

　　英语美文欣赏 篇12

　　如果你迷失了自我，请深呼吸，迷失或许能成为你人生的转折点，让你发现真正的自己，并让你知道自己想真正成为怎样的

　　“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~Henry David Thoreau

　　迷失自我，才能发现自我。——亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者）

　　Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to pay off that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no place for the possibility of a dream.

　　我们未来的一切似乎都模糊地设定好了，利用贷款上大学，然后为了还债被迫去找一份工作，还要为了买房买车背负更多的债务……这仿佛是一个无休止的循环，让我们的梦想没有实现的机会。

　　I want more—but not necessarily in the material sense of personal wealth and success. I want more out of life. I want a passion, a conceptual dream that wouldn't let me sleep out of pure excitement. I want to spring out of bed in the morning, rain or shine, and have that zest for life that seemed so intrinsic in early childhood.

　　我们想要的更多——并不是对于个人财富和成功等物质性需求，我们对于生活，想要更多。我想要热忱、有概念的梦想，让我不会空怀纯粹的兴奋入睡。我希望能在早晨一跃起床，无论是阳光普照还是刮风下雨，也能对生活充满热情，就像我们的童年时固有的一样。

　　We all have a dream. It might be explicitly defined or just a vague idea, but most of us are so stuck in the muck of insecurity and self-doubt that we just dismiss it as unrealistic or too difficult to pursue.

　　我们都有梦想，无论它是明确的目标还是模糊的主意，但我们大多数人都受困于不安全和自我怀疑的泥泞里，我们把梦想看做是不现实的、难以追求的，最后放弃了。

　　We become so comfortable with the life that has been planned out for us by our parents, teachers, traditions, and societal norms that we feel that it's stupid and unsafe to risk losing it for the small hope of achieving something that is more fulfilling.

　　我们变得满足于父母、老师、传统及社会规条为我们营造的安逸生活。为了那一点点能够为生活变得更充实的希望去冒险，我们会认为这是愚蠢和危险的。

　　“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru

　　过于谨慎才是最大的危险——贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁（印度开国总理）

　　Taking a risk is still a risk. We can, and will, fail. Possibly many, many, many times. But that is what makes it exciting for me. That uncertainty can be viewed negatively, or it can empower us.

　　冒险始终还是有风险。我们，也有可能失败，还有可能是失败很多很多次。但这会让我们更加兴奋。不确定因素看起来有不利，但同时也能激励我们。

　　Failing is what makes us grow, it makes us stronger and more resilient to the aspects of life we have no control over. The fear of failure, although, is what makes us stagnant and sad. So even though I couldn't see the future as clearly as before, I took the plunge in hopes that in the depths of fear and failure, I would come out feeling more alive than ever before.

　　失败能让我们成长，让我们更强大，让我们更能适应生活中难以控制的各个方面。对于失败的恐惧，让我们停滞不前，悲伤不已。尽管不能清晰地看见未来，在恐惧和失败的深渊里，我们也要保持希望，那么我们将活得更有生命力。

　　If you feel lost, just take a deep breath and realize that being lost can be turning point of finding out who you truly are, and what you truly want to do.

　　如果你迷失了自我，请深呼吸，迷失或许能成为你人生的转折点，让你发现真正的自己，并让你知道自己想真正成为怎样的人。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇13

　　Companionship of Books （Samuel Smiles-- The political reformer and moralist was born）

　　A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company（playmates） he keeps;（Birds of a feather flock together）for there is a companionship （friendship） of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. --- the author has contrast of books and friends.

　　A good book may be among the best of friends.（a good book is like our best friend） It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us （abandon） in times of adversity or distress.（in times of misfortunes or poverty） It always receives us with the same kindness，amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.（in old age）

　　一本好书就像是一个最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在仍然如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心、最令人愉快的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒、临危遭难的时候，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一往情深。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以安慰和勉励。

　　Men often discover their affinity （close relationship） to each other by the love they have each for a book --- just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, and love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. （uniting force） Men can think, feel, and sympathize （share the feelings or ideas of another） with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he （lives） in them. ---they can find their opinions from books, in reverse, the ideas of the author influence them too.

　　人们常常因为同爱一本书而结为知己，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而交为朋友一样。古谚说：“爱屋及乌”。但是，“爱我及书”这句话却有更深的哲理。书是更为坚实而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同爱好的作家沟通思想感情，彼此息息相通。他们的思想共同在作者的著述里得到体现，而作者的思想反过来又化为他们的思想。

　　“Books,” said Hazlitt,“Wind into the heart; the poet's verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them when young, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are to be very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books.”

　　哈兹利特曾经说过：“书潜移默化人们的内心，诗歌熏陶人们的气质品性。少小所习，老大不忘，恍如身历其事。书籍价廉物美，不啻我们呼吸的空气。”

　　A good book is often the best urn （a vase with foot and round body, especially as anciently for storing ashes of the dead. 有腳之圓形缸，古時以此缸盛人屍體之骨殖。） of a life enshrining （inclosing or preserving as in shrine. 保而藏之（如帝王駕崩，高僧圓寂之後，藏其遺骸於神龕中）。） the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries （a place where valuable things are kept. ） of good words, the golden （precious, excellent） thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters （a thing that gives comfort）。 “They are never alone,” said Sir Philip Sidney, “that are accompanied by noble thoughts.”

　　好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人的一生思想的精华。人生的境界，主要就在于他思想的境界。所以，最好的书是金玉良言的宝库，若将其中的崇高思想铭记于心，就成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰籍。菲利普·悉尼爵士说得好：“有高尚思想作伴的人永不孤独。”

　　The good and true thought may in times of temptation （lure） be as an angel of mercy purifying and guarding the soul. It also enshrines the germs of action, for good words almost always inspire to good works.

　　当我们面临诱惑的时候，优美纯真的思想会像仁慈的天使一样，纯洁并保卫我们的灵魂。优美纯真的思想也蕴育着行动的胚芽，因为金玉良言几乎总会启发善行。

　　Books possess an essence of immortality （the nature of endless life）。 They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay （rot）， but books survive. Time is of no account （of no importance ） with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out （make sth bad away） the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.

　　书籍具有不朽的本质，是人类勤奋努力的最为持久的产物。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关重要的。多少年代前初次闪现在作者脑海里的伟大思想今天依然清新如故。他们当时的言论和思想刊于书页，如今依然那么生动感人。时间唯一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。

　　Books introduce us into the best society they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure （in some degree ） actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

　　书籍引导我们与最优秀的人物为伍，使我们置身历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人。同他们情感交融，悲喜与共。他们的感受成为我们自己的感受，我们觉得有点象是在作者所描绘的人生舞台上跟他们一起粉墨登场了。

　　The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed （Spring embalms the woods and fields.春天使森林和田野吐露芬芳。） in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.

　　即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物，也是永生不灭的，他们的精神载入书册，传之四海。书是人们至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。所以，我们永远都是在受着历代伟人的影响。多少世纪以前的盖世英才，如今仍同当年一样，显示着强大的生命力。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇14

　　At the Backs of King's College there is a memorial stone in white marble commemorating an alumnus of the College, renowned Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. Moving to the UK in 1921, Zhimo spent a year studying at King's, where he fell in love not only with the romantic poetry of English poets like John Keats, but also with Cambridge itself.

　　在国王学院的后面，有一块汉白玉纪念石碑，纪念学院的一位校友，著名的中国诗人徐志摩。1921他移居英国，花了一年时间在国王学习，在那里他爱上的不只有英国诗人约翰.济慈的浪漫主义诗歌，还有剑桥本身。

　　His poem, 再别康桥 (variously translated as Second Farewell to Cambridge), is arguably his most famous poem, and is now a compulsory text on Chinese literature syllabuses, learnt by millions of school children across the country every year. The poem paints an idyllic portrait of King's and the River Cam, and serves as a reminder of Xu Zhimo's fondness for his time in Cambridge.

　　徐志摩的诗《再别康桥》可以说是他最著名的诗，它现在是中国语文教学大纲必修文本之一，中国每年有上百万学生学习。这首诗描绘了一幅田园诗般的国王学院和康河，并表现出徐志摩对剑桥时光的喜爱。

　　While the poem has been set to music many times before, King's has commissioned the first musical setting of the text by a mainstream classical composer. The new piece, by renowned English composer John Rutter, has been written and recorded in celebration of the near 100-year link between King's College and Xu Zhimo, and has been released on 26 January 2018 on a new album on the King's College Record Label.

　　虽然这首诗已多次被配乐演绎，但国王学院委托了主流古典作曲家根据诗的文字进行创作。新作品由著名的英国作曲家约翰.卢特(John Rutter)担纲，以铭记国王学院和徐志摩之间近100年的不解之缘，并已由国王学院的唱片公司于2018年1月26日发布。

　　“Many intellectual transformations happened for him while he was here and in some ways the whole seed of his development as a person who became an intellectual poet, through the medium of poetry, all sort of connected up with his visit to Cambridge and the people we met.”

　　“国王学院极大程度帮助徐志摩拓展了学识，并种下了日后成为一名才华横溢的诗人的种子，”国王学院副院长史蒂文.切力(Steve Cherry)表示，“通过对这首诗的音乐创作，我们把学院的美丽点滴和徐志摩本人在这里的美好体验结合起来，重新带给因他而寻访的中国人民。”

　　“John Rutter is a very resourceful composer, and I was delighted with the way he conceived of doing this, presenting most of the text through the tenor voice for which we engage the Chinese tenor. Well, I wanted to have a go myself at making an arrangement of it which would express something of what we do at King's.”

　　“很荣幸能够邀请到约翰.卢特(John Rutter)来为我们作曲。他是个经验丰富的作曲家，这次也通过与一名中国男高音歌唱家的合作充分体现了我们想表达的主题。其实我一直希望能够做出一首表达出国王学院气质的作品”，负责这首《再别康桥》曲目的编曲家，同时也担任国王学院合唱团总指挥的史蒂芬·克劳伯里(Stephen Cleobury)说。

　　“The inspiration I think came from the poem which is on the tablet by the bridge by the river camp here in the college. Apart from the tourist self and the words, which of course are quite big elements in it, it's not specifically intended to be a Chinese piece. It's the sort of arrangement I would make for something like that, and it's a very beautiful melody.”

　　“康桥边石板上篆刻的诗给我带来了灵感。除去诗歌本身是中文作品及大量因此而来的中国游客等因素，我并未刻意追求音乐本身的中国化。我只是觉得这样的编曲和旋律是最适合的。”

　　英语美文欣赏 篇15

　　Sitting on the drippy, cold steps of Penn Station, sharing a smoke with a boyfriend. This Saturday night is scattered with drunks, and for once, we are not the drunkest; we do not smell the worst. Late-night, paranoid tourists don't even stare—a few ask for directions. We are spreading our wet, waiting bodies all over that stone, watching stumbling silhouettes wrestle with the escalator.

　　She shuffles up the steps with the last of her strength. Her pink sweatpants are tinged with brown, and her feet are buried in city-stained bunny slippers. Her eyes look like they've seen so much sadness they're forever doomed to apathy. They are eyes dazed with the work it takes to stay warm, and weary of the excess of privileged people. I'm looking at those glass eyes and thinking that she reeks of survival; that I'm too cold to move, and all I'm doing is waiting for the first train home.

　　Out comes her wrinkled, begging hand. We turn out our pockets and find nothing. The mouth of the station swallows her descending, dejected frame.

　　Light another smoke. We are pushing reluctant time forward as it digs its heels in at the dusty smells and sounds of old stories, at the sucking of smoke, at our involuntary shivers.

　　She's back again. The wrinkled hand, heavy with pleading, is now answering.

　　She drops four warm quarters into my palm and says, “Get yourselves a cup of coffee. Merry Christmas.”

　　The station gulps her up again before we can say thank you.

英语美文赏析 篇1

　　Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica Heslop shares her powerful, inspiring journey from the worst times in her life to the new life she has created for herself:

　　生活有时候困难得难以置信，但又不容置疑。我们面临的挑战与困境似乎无法抵御，试图毁灭我们生活，甚至使你犹疑是否继续走下去。但是你总有选择的余地。从人生低谷走向新生活的杰西卡·赫斯乐普，在这里与我们分享她启迪心灵、充满震撼力的生活之旅。

　　In 2012 I had the worst year of my life.

　　2012年是我生活中最艰难的一年。

　　I worked in a finance job that I hated and I lived in a concrete jungle city with little greenery. I occupied my time with meaningless relationships and spent copious quantities of money on superficialities. I was searching for happiness and had no idea where to find it.

　　我做着讨厌的财务工作，住在难寻绿色的高楼林立的城市。我忙于无意义的交往，在一些肤浅表面的东西上大笔开销。我寻找快乐，却又不知道它在哪里。

　　Then I fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and became virtually bed bound. I had to quit my job and subsequently was left with no income. I lived with my boyfriend of then only 3 months who financially supported me and our relationship was put under great pressure. I eventually regained my physical health, but not long after that I got a call from my family at home to say that my father’s cancer had fiercely progressed and that he had been admitted to a hospice.

　　然后我患上了慢性疲劳综合症，几乎到了卧床不起的地步。我不得不辞掉工作，同时也就断了财源。我和那时仅相处了3个月的男友住在一起，经济上完全依赖于他，我们的关系承受着巨大压力。终于我恢复健康，但不久，我接到家里的电话，父亲的癌症急剧恶化，已经住进了临终关怀中心。

　　I left the city and I went home to be with him.

　　我离开了城市，回家陪父亲。

　　He died 6 months later.

　　6个月之后，他去世了。

　　My father was a complete inspiration to me. He was always so strong that, for a minute after he drew his last breath, I honestly thought he would come back to life. I couldn’t believe I would never again cuddle into his big warm chest and feel safe no matter what.

　　父亲的事让我彻底清醒。他一直很强壮，在他咽气之后一分钟里，我真的认为，他会活过来。我不能相信，我再也不能依偎在他温暖的怀抱里，享受他宽大的胸怀带给我的安全感。

　　The grief that followed was intense for all of us 5 children and our mother, but we had each other.

　　母亲和我们5个兄弟姐妹极为难过，但至少我们还拥有彼此。

　　But my oldest sister at that time complained of a bad back. It got so bad after 2 months that she too was admitted to hospital.

　　但是，那时我大姐开始抱怨着背痛，2个月后，因疼痛加剧也住进了医院。

　　They discovered that she had highly advanced cancer in her bones and that there was nothing that they could do.

　　医生们检查发现，她已是骨癌晚期，对此他们已无能为力。

　　She died 1 month later.

　　1个月之后，她也走了。

　　I could never put into words the loss of my sister in my life.

　　大姐的逝去让我陷入难以形容的痛苦之中。

　　She was a walking, talking angel and my favourite person in the whole world. If someone could have asked me the worst thing that could ever happen, it would have been losing her.

　　在这个世界上，她是一个能走路、会说话的天使，我最喜欢的人。如果有人问我，世界上发生的最坏的事情是什么，那就是失去她。

　　She was my soul-mate and I never thought I would journey this lifetime without her.

　　她是我的灵魂伴侣，我从来没有想过，我会走过没有她陪伴的生命旅程。

　　The Moment Of Deliberate Choice

　　抉择时刻

　　The shock and extreme heart break brought me to my knees. The pain was so great and my world just looked desolate. I had no real home, no money, no job, and no friends that cared. Not one person had even sent me a sympathy card for my loss.

　　我被打击和极度的心痛击挎了。强烈的痛苦使世界在我眼中变得如此凄凉。我没有真正意义上的家，没有钱，没有工作，也没有关心我的朋友。没有一个人因我失去亲人而寄给我慰问卡。

　　I made an attempt of my own life and I ended up in hospital.

　　我尝试着活下去，结果住进了医院。

　　I remember lying in the hospital bed, looking up at the ceiling and seeing my sister’s beautiful face. She stayed with me all night long.

　　我记得，躺在病床上，看着天花板，看到姐姐美丽的面庞。她整夜守候着我。

　　I realised during that night that I had a choice. I could choose to end my life or I could choose to live it.

　　那天晚上，我意识到我可以选择。要么结束生命，要么活下去。

　　I looked in my sister’s eyes and I made a decision not to go with her just yet. That I would stay and complete my journey here.

　　望着姐姐的眼睛，我决定不跟她走。我要留下来，走完我的生命旅程。

　　I also made the decision that, I wouldn’t just live any life. I would live the life that I absolutely LOVE and nothing less.

　　同时，我还决定，不只为生活而生活，我要完全以自己想要的方式生活。

　　In that moment, the clarity that descended around me was like a light shining in a dark room for the first time. As if the earth’s plates had shifted under my feet and everything suddenly looked real for the first time.

　　在那一刻，这一想法第一次清晰得如同一盏在黑暗闪烁的明灯。好像脚下的地球版块变换了，每一样东西在我眼前都真实得前所未有。

　　英语美文赏析 篇2

　　Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues:

　　Because I am the Vice-Chancellor of the oldest of the foreign universities represented here today, I have been chosen to speak on their behalf. I am pleased to be their voice in presenting our heartfelt congratulations to the professors, teachers, researchers and students of Peking University on the 100th anniversary of its foundation.

　　Our universities form a great intellectual community round the world. Science has no nationality; knowledge belongs to everyone.

　　Our universities creat new knowledge. They teah this knowledge, together with that of other universities and also the best of the great storehouse of knowledge, which those who came before us have uncovered, tested and accumulated.

　　All universities contibute to the prosperity and success of their country. They also conserve the culture and inheritance specific to their country's civization. But, they do more. Knowledge is secure only when it is hard won by the independent tests of accuracy, rational explanation and ture. So, when we teach our students skills, we also give them values. On the one side, these are values for personal and civic conduct. On the other side, these values underwrite the personal need for independent understanding which is the source of human creativity.

　　These duties give universities a high responsibility. They are rooted in a great and fine tradition of honesty. university is a beacon of light in its own society and, by its association with its sisters, its knowledge and its values are spread wide.

　　A tradition is not built easily ir quickly. During one hundred years, Peking University has been fashioning its tradition. Present and future members of the University! We hope to see you elaborate and consolidate your tradition. We hope to see you become a keystone of the intellectual community. In your next century, we hope to see you contribute to the international academic movement as a whole, as more and more of you numbers come to paticipate in the activities of your sister universities.

　　Congratulations, Peking University on your first century of achievement

　　英语美文赏析 篇3

　　”Your money or your life.” The choice traditionally presented by the highwayman is supposed to have only one sensible answer. Money is, after all, no use to a corpse. Yet economists often study something rather like the highwayman‘s offer in an attempt to uncover the answer to an important question: how much is your life actually worth?

　　Like many awkward questions, this is one that has to be answered. Safety regulations save lives but also raise the cost of doing business, a cost we all pay through higher prices. Are they worth it? Our taxes pay for life-saving spending on road safety and fire fighting. Are they high enough, or too high?

　　So how much are we willing to spend to save a life? A traditional planner‘s approach used to be to measure the value of wages lost due to death or injury. That‘s dreadful: it confuses what I think my life is worth with what my boss thinks my life is worth.

　　So an alternative is to ask people how much they would pay for a safer car or kitchen cleaner. But such surveys do not always produce sensible results. Our answers depend on whether we‘re being offered a safer ?10 household cleaner and then asked if we want the more dangerous ?5 version, or whether we‘re offered the ?5 brand and then asked if we‘ll pay ?10 for the safer product. People often answer ”no” to both questions, contradicting themselves. These inconsistencies mean that we‘re either irrational or lying to pollsters, and perhaps both.

　　Economists therefore tend to prefer observing real choices. If you‘re willing to cross a busy street to pick up a ?20 note, the economist who put it there can infer something about your willingness to accept risk. More orthodox approaches look at career choices: if you‘re willing to be a lumberjack, part of that decision is to accept risk in exchange for financial reward.

　　Being a soldier is risky; so is being a drug-dealer or prostitute. The difficulty, evidently, is to disentangle the health risk and the financial reward from all the other motivations to choose a particular way of life. That isn‘t easy but economists try.

　　World Bank economist Paul Gertler and his colleagues reckoned that Mexican prostitutes valued their lives at about $50,000 per year, based on willingness to take money not to use condoms. At five times their annual earnings, that‘s a similar figure to workers accepting risky jobs in rich countries.

　　There are anomalies. Steve Freakonomics Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh calculated that Chicago drug dealers seemed to value their entire lives at $50,000 to $100,000 - low indeed, even for poor young men whose career choice indicates a taste for risks.

　　Whatever the frailties of these calculations, they are the best we have. And far from cheapening life, this sort of research often highlights just how valuable our safer, healthier modern lives really are. Kevin Murphy of the Chicago Graduate School of Business recently visited London to present his research on the value of health improvements in the US since 1970. They‘re vast - about $10 trillion in today‘s money. Looking further back, if you had to choose between the material progress of the 20th century and the improvements in health, it would be a toss-up. The health gains are as valuable as everything else put together. Encouragingly, health in most developing countries has improved faster than in rich ones, suggesting that global inequality is falling.

　　And a more personal piece of good news: Murphy reckons the delicious cheeseburger I ate before interviewing him only cost me ?1 worth of health. Talk about a good deal.

　　英语美文赏析 篇4

　　我们常常把精力放在一些并不重要的事情上，把昨天难过的情绪带到今天，把明天未知的恐惧留给今天；可今天，我们本应该做的事情却完成不了。时间在不经意间悄悄流逝。所以，请记住，把握今天~今天才是最重要的。昨天的已经过去，明天的还未到来，过好今天的每一分钟，充实自己的现在时。

　　活得轻松--在现实中生活

　　To a large degree，the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment．Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year，and what may or may not happen tomorrow，the present moment is where you are －－always．

　　我们内心是否平和在很大程度上是由我们是否能生活在现实之中所决定的。不管昨天或去年发生了什么，不管明天可能发生或不发生什么，现实才是你时时刻刻所在之处。

　　Without question，many of us have mastered the neurotic1) art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things －－all at once．We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate our present moments，so much so that we end up anxious，frustrated，depressed，and hopeless．On the flip side，we also postpone our gratification，our stated priorities2)，and our happiness，often convincing ourselves that ‘someday’ will be better than today．Unfortunately，the same mental dynamics3) that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that ‘someday ’never actually arrives．John Lennon once said，‘Life is what’s happening while we’re busy making other plans．’When we’re busy making ‘other plans’，our children are busy growing up，the people we love are moving away and dying，our bodies are getting out of shape，and our dreams are slipping away．In short，we miss out4) on life．

　　毫无疑问，我们很多人掌握了一种神经兮兮的艺术，即把生活中的大部分时间花在为种种事情担心忧虑上---而且常常是同时忧虑许多事情。我们听凭过去的麻烦和未来的担心控制我们此时此刻的生活，以致我们整日焦虑不安，萎靡不振，甚至沮丧绝望。而另一方面我们又推迟我们的满足感，推迟我们应优先考虑的事情，推迟我们的幸福感，常常说服自己“有朝一日”会比今天更好。不幸的是，如此告诫我们朝前看的大脑动力只能重复来重复去，以致“有朝一日”永远不会真正来临。约翰·列农曾经说过：“生活就是当我们忙于制定别的计划时发生的事。”当我们忙于制定种种“别的计划”时，我们的孩子在忙于长大，我们挚爱的人离去了甚至快去世了，我们的体型变样了，而我们的梦想也在悄然溜走了。一句话，我们错过了生活。

　　Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal5) for some later date．It isn’t．In fact，no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow．Now is the only time we have，and the only time that we have any control over．When our attention is in the present moment，we push fear from our minds．Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future－－we won’ t have enough money，our children will get into trouble，we will get old and die，whatever．

　　许多人的生活好像是某个未来日子的彩排。并非如此。事实上，没人能保证他或她明天肯定还活着。现在是我们所拥有的惟一时间，现在也是我们能控制的惟一时间。当我们将注意力放在此时此刻时，我们就将恐惧置于脑后。恐惧就是我们担忧某些事情会在未来发生---我们不会有足够的'钱，我们的孩子会惹上麻烦，我们会变老，会死去，诸如此类。

　　To combat fear，the best strategy6) is to learn to bring your attention back to the present．Mark Twain said，‘I have been through some terrible things in my life，some of which actually happened．I don’t think I can say it any better．Practice keeping your attention on the here and now．Your efforts will pay great dividends7)．

　　若要克服恐惧心理，最佳策略便是学会将你的注意力拉回此时此刻。马克·吐温说过：“我经历过生活中一些可怕的事情，有些的确发生过。”我想我说不出比这更具内涵的话。经常将注意力集中于此情此景、此时此刻，你的努力终会有丰厚的报偿。

　　英语美文赏析 篇5

　　I have had so many teachers in my life, but those I have valued most are the teachers who taught me about love.www.xiao84.com

　　一生中,我有许多的老师,但最让我敬重的是那些教我懂得爱的老师。

　　The person who smiles happily when they drop money in a charity box is a teacher of love.

　　把钱放入慈善箱时露出幸福微笑的人是爱的老师。

　　The child who offers laughter and hugs more freely than an adult is a teacher of love. The person who gives corn to starving deer and feeds hungry birds with seeds in winter is a teacher of love. The big dog who shares half of its food and place in the doghouse with a little puppy on a cold night is a teacher of love. Everyone who spends their lives sharing great love through countless acts of kindness is a teacher of love.

　　慷慨地给予他人微笑和拥抱的孩子是爱的老师。给冬季里挨饿的鹿和饥饿的鸟食物的人是爱的老师。一只能在寒冷的夜晚与小狗分享食物和住处的大狗也是爱的老师。每一个通过友善行为分享爱的人都是爱的老师。

　　You can be a teacher of love too. You can be a person who gives encouragement and joy to soul in need. You can be a person who cares for a sick friend, comforts a hurting heart and shares cheer fullness and kindness with everyone everywhere. You can be what life wants you to be—a teacher of beauty, glory and unconditional love.

　　你也可以成为一名爱的老师。你可以给处于困境中的人鼓舞和快乐。你可以照顾生病的朋友、安慰受伤的心灵并与大家分享快乐与友善。你可以顺应天意,成为一名美丽、光荣、能无私奉献爱的老师.

　　英语美文赏析 篇6

　　I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can :see the folks,:” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day’s solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and :the blues:; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.

　　Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications. Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.

　　I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray?

　　And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

篇1：英文短文美文欣赏

We all find the rhythm.

我们终将会找到属于自己的节奏。

We all remember our first days of high-school, college, our first job.

这些场景都历历在目吧：高中第一天，大学第一天，上班第一天。

We all remember the feelings of butterflies in our stomachs when we took our first steps into those positions, the feeling that we were unqualified for what we were doing, that we didn’t belong.

我们都记得迈出第一步时，心中的手足无措，担心自己不够格、担心自己不属于这个地方。

What if my coworkers don’t like me?

要是同事们不喜欢我怎么办？

What if I’m terrible at my work?

要是我做出的工作成果很糟糕怎么办？

What if I mess everything up?

要是我把一切搞砸了怎么办？

These are the thoughts that run through your mind during those first few days as you tiptoe your way around the workplace, being careful that you don’t do anything that will get you noticed, with the fear that when they notice you, you will mess up. But eventually you do get noticed, and you don’t mess up, and soon you develop a rhythm.

这些都是工作的头几天里，脑海中会浮现出的想法。你小心翼翼地在公司里走着，恨不得踮起脚尖，生怕自己的一举一动会引起周围人的注意，生怕自己搞砸一切。然而，你终究还是受到了关注，但你并没有搞砸，并且你很快就找到了自己的节奏。

It has only been a week and you have already fallen into a rhythm. You walk into your workplace and say hello to the receptionist who now knows you by name, you get you morning coffee and strike up a conversation with a coworker who you’ve quickly developed a friendship with. Whereas before you looked around chaotically for the sugar and cream, now the location is familiar and your reach for it instinctual. You walk to your desk, take a rejuvenating sip of coffee, and look over your daily schedule that has become all too familiar to you.

仅仅过去了一周，你的节奏愈发自如。走进公司，你会很自然地和前台打招呼，而他们也叫得出你的名字。取咖啡的时候，你会和同事攀谈起来，不知不觉中你们已经建立了友谊。以前你焦头烂额地到处找糖和奶油，如今你可以轻松自如地找到它们。你走到办公桌前，小啜一口咖啡，一天的活力注满了全身。接着，你从容地翻阅着日程表，里面的内容都已太熟悉了。

You notice a new task that you haven’t encountered before, but you no longer feel uncertainty and fear of messing it up. You have survived a week in this place without messing up, people have congratulated you on how good of a job you’ve done, and you belong here. A smirk creases over your face as you look forward to undertaking this new unproven challenge. The day begins and you fall into your rhythm.

即使接到以前从没接触过的任务，你也会胸有成竹，不再担心自己会搞砸了。你已在这个地方度过了一周，没有搞砸任何事，人们甚至为你出色的绩效而喝彩。你属于这里。所以在准备迎接这个未知挑战的时候，你的脸上露出了一丝得意的笑容。新的一天又开始了，你找到了属于自己的节奏。

篇2：英文短文美文欣赏

珠宝充满无限的激情，能够引起思考，激发情感，也能挑起欲望!

Speaking of jewelry, people always attach the value of the material to it. They neglect the spiritual value of the art contained in a piece of jewelry. But Esther’s jewelry doesn’t conform to(符合，遵守) this practice. Esther herself gives people an impression of elegance, especially with her charming green eyes. You may want to stay a good distance away from her because she looks prickly (adj.多刺的，易生气的), but when you come closer to her, it is just wearing a ring she has designed, you feel free to lose yourself in her company without feeling threatened.

When people wear or see her work, they can easily read the message it contains. They are so original and unique, yet not too abstract for the common person to understand. We use jewelry to decorate and accentuate (v.强调) our physical features and complete ourselves. Esther’s jewelry can even inspire you mentally, making you feel better about yourself; bringing out an inner glow. Esther uses jewelry as a way expressing her feelings, and her own philosophy of life. Our souls and our minds should not be limited. Space and matter might be limited, but our imagination is not. When you are wearing a creative piece of jewelry there are no limits to what you can express through it.

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一说到珠宝，人们就想到它的物质价值，而忽略一件珠宝所蕴含的精神价值。但是，Esther的珠宝却没有向世俗屈服。她本人气质优雅，一双绿色的眼睛尤其迷人。由于她看起来不严而威，你可能不敢靠近她。但是当你走进她，感觉就像佩戴着她设计的戒指一样，能够安心地把自己托付给她。佩服或者见到其作品的人们都能轻易读懂其中要传达的信息。这些作品虽然独一无二，但又不会太抽象让普通人看不透。

篇3：英文短文美文欣赏

一、英文电影对英语教学的作用

2004年1月, 教育部颁布了《大学英语课程教学要求 (试行) 》将大学英语课程的教学目标确定为“培养学生的英语综合运用能力, 特别是听说能力, 使他们在今后工作和社会交往中能用英语有效地进行口头和书面的信息交流, 同时增强其自主学习能力, 提高综合文化素养, 以适应我国社会发展和国际交流的需要”。目前大学英语课上大多采用多媒体技术, 经常模拟真实情景进行语言交流练习, 但大多是在设定好的语境下进行的, 主要通过常规的听说材料培养学生的听说能力。学生大多是通过书面学习、阅读材料了解英美文化, 这种学习方式较为单一, 很难提高学生的学习兴趣。

电影集声音、文字、语言、图像为一体, 而且电影源于生活, 并借助各种艺术手法表现真实生活。英文电影把语言放到真实的交际情景中, 使语言学习更直接自然, 在潜移默化中培养学生的交际能力, 提高英语学习效率, 激发英语学习兴趣。另外, 英文电影让学生从多方面了解英美文化, 领悟中西方文化差异, 感受不同的思维方式, 为语言学习提供有力的保证。学生在欣赏英文电影的过程中, 既学习了文化, 又提高了语言能力。因为电影是一个国家社会生活和文化的缩影, 它包括了社会生活的各个方面。“英文电影作为沟通中西方文化便捷的桥梁, 是现实生活的浓缩, 蕴含了浓郁的文化特色, 是一个国家或民族社会文化、风土人情等多方面最直接、最生动的综合反映”。“有人说, 看一部美国老电影, 相当于在美国生活十天”。语言是文化的载体, 要想学好语言, 就必须了解其文化。这样才能正确理解和使用语言, 才能很好地进行跨文化交际。因此, 在大学英语教学中恰当地选用一些优秀的英文电影可以使学生置身于真实的语言环境中, 更好地了解西方文化, 对激发和培养学生的跨文化交际意识能起到积极的作用, 从而提高他们的文化素养和语言应用能力。

二、恰当选用英文电影

“外语教学是文化教学, 把大众文化引入大学英语教学非常重要.通过大众文化的三种主要表现形式:音乐、报刊和广播电视电影在英语教学中的应用研究, 说明大众文化教学是辅助大学英语教学的有效途径”。如何在大学英语教学中引用恰当的英文电影?笔者认为在选择英文电影时应依据教学目标、学生的实际英语水平、英文电影的语言规范、人物的发音地道和清晰、影片的思想内容健康、所选电影的内容与主题能帮助学生树立正确的人生观、价值观等。刘润清说:“如果只是将电影从头到尾放一遍, 无异于娱乐。”课上让学生欣赏英文电影并不是老师简单地播放、学生观看的过程, 而应结合教学要求有目的地提高学生的语言交际能力, 这样才能使他们在今后学习、工作和社会交往中有效地用英语进行交流。因此, 教师要根据英文水平不同的学生做好影片放映前、放映中及放映后的讲解、活动的开展及任务的布置。如低年级学生英语听说能力差, 应选择语言简单清晰、语速较慢的影片, 并在放映前对电影进行简单的介绍, 包括主要演员和导演及相关词汇和难句的讲解。对于高年级学生, 可选择一些由英美文学名著改编的影片或根据其不同专业, 选择一些与专业联系紧密的电影, 给学生分组, 让其课前自己搜集相关信息大致了解电影故事和演员。这样, 有助于培养学生的合作精神和自主学习能力。

三、恰当选用英文电影, 提高学生能力

大多数学生缺乏良好的英语氛围, 借助英文电影可以提高学生的英语听说水平。心理学研究表明, 人类获取的信息83%来自视觉, 11%来自听觉, 由其他器官获取的信息占6%。欣赏英文电影可以把学生的视觉和听觉充分调动起来, 比单一地听老师讲课效果强得多。影片中鲜活的画面、曲折的情节、生动的对白都给学生创造了良好的学习氛围, 使学生真实地感受到影片的文化背景信息, 弥补了传统教学中学生在听力学习方面的不足, 让单调乏味的听力学习变得生动有趣, 达到了更好的学习效果。

影片中的发音带有非常典型的英音或美音的特点, 在现实生活中很实用。地道的发音可以为学生的听说能力训练提供良好的氛围, 且电影极易为一般学生所喜爱, 可作为听力教材长时间进行练习。另外, 电影中的人物都使用正常的语速 (Normal speed) 说话, 是真实生活的交流体现。这与课堂英语是完全不同的, 通过欣赏英文电影, 学生模仿实际生活的正常语言, 同时体会英语口语中常用的缩短 (constructions) 和弱化 (reductions) 现象。在教学中要将视听说紧密结合, 听对白练听力, 角色扮演练口语。要求学生复述故事情节, 采用口语讨论、辩论演讲等形式全面提高学生的听说表达能力。

在提高学生英语听说能力的同时也要利用英文电影拓展学生的文化知识, 提高其跨文化交际能力。“优秀的英文影片是包罗万象的文化载体。它从多方面、多角度地展示了英语民族的文化”。优秀的英语影视作品是英美国家、民族特定时代文化的集中反映, 教师要有目的地对学生进行文化输入, 让学生学习语言的同时也了解文化, 切实把握作品传达的真实意图。这样学生不仅能提高文化修养, 而且能提高学习语言的积极性。

在欣赏英文电影的过程中应贯穿学生创新能力的培养, 教师应鼓励和引导学生进行反思和质疑, 或者要求学生续写影片结局, 并通过口头或书面的形式表达出来, 或要求学生改写影片并在情节上大胆创新, 达到培养学生思考问题和创新的能力。

欣赏优秀的英文电影可以促使学生树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观, 使学生形成健全的人格和良好的品德, 提高学生的审美情操, 培养独立的人格。例如, 学生在观看电影的过程中对故事情节及人物刻画的兴趣远远超过语言本身, 它的教化作用往往是在影片欣赏中不知不觉地接受的, 从而影响思想和精神面貌, 陶冶情操, 达到“寓教于乐”的教育效果。

综上所述, 英文电影不仅为学生学习英语提供了更轻松的环境, 激发了学生的学习兴趣, 而且提高了学生的综合能力, 丰富了学生的文化知识, 提高了跨文化交际能力。因此, 欣赏恰当的英文电影应该成为英语教学的一种辅助方式。

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篇4：怎样欣赏英文戏剧剧本

首先，戏剧作品作为一种文学形式，也和小说一样有plot（情节），character portrayal (人物)，setting (背景)，theme (主题) 和style (风格)，但他们的表现形式却与小说有所不同，阅读时自然需要不同的技巧。

小说分章（chapters）分节（sections），戏剧则分幕 (acts), 分场 (scenes)。幕，是剧本写作和演出的一个完整段落，按剧情发展的时间、地点划分。场，则是幕中的部分。有的剧只分幕，不分场。

小说中的对话、描写和评论说明都交织在情节发展的过程中，读者是在听人家讲故事。但剧本的故事却完全在角色的直接对话中展开，读者要通过这些直接对话的内容、遣词造句、语言风格（也包括一些简单的动作描述）去揣摩每个人物的性格、心理、为人、价值观念、教育程度和社会背景等等。其次，读者还要从这些对话中分析人物之间的关系或冲突，进而推断出作者的写作目的，即对某一类社会现象或某一类人的思想态度或赞扬或批评。因此，读英语戏剧作品必须仔细琢磨每个人物的每一句话，不但要看这句话的表面意义，还要看这句话的暗示意义，以及作者想通过这句话所展示剧中人的某个特点和它的社会意义。

下面以英国著名戏剧文学家萧伯纳（Bernard Shaw, 1856_1950 ）的作品“Augustus Does His Bit”(《奥古斯都尽了他的本份》)为例，看看如何欣赏剧本。这是一部讽刺剧，剧中主要人物奥古斯都是一个政府要员，一个上流社会的贵族。他与手下一个小职员和一位女士有这样一段对白：

The clerk: (entering) Are you engaged?

Augustus: What business is that of yours? However, if you will take the trouble to read the society papers for this week, you willsee that I am engaged to the Honourable Lucy Popham, youngest daughter of...

The clerk: That isn't what I mean. Can you see a female?

Augustus: Of course, I can see a female as easily as a male. Do you suppose I'm blind?

The clerk：You don't seem to follow me, somehow. There's a female downstairs: what you might all a lady. She wants to know can you see her if I let her up.

Augustus: Oh, you mean am I disengaged. Tell the lady I'm busy.( The Clerk goes) Stop! Does she seem to be a person of consequence?

The clerk: A regular marchioness, if you ask me.

Augustus: Hm! Beautiful, did you say?

The clerk: A human chrysanthemum, sir, believe me.

Augustus: It will be extremely inconvenient for me to see her; but the country is in danger; and we must not consider our own comfort. Think how our gallant fellows are suffering in the trenches! Show her up. (The Clerk goes out. Augustus produces a mirror and a comb from the drawer of his writing-table, and sits down before the mirror to put some touches to his toilet. The Clerk returns, showing in a very attractive lady, brilliantly dressed. Augustus hastily covers up his toilet apparatus with The Morning Post, and rises in an attitude of pompous condescension.)

The clerk (to Augustus): Here she is. (to the lady) May I offer you a chair, lady? (He places a chair at the writing-table opposite Augustus and steals out on tiptoe.)

Augustus: Be seated, madam.

The lady: (sitting down) Are you Augustus Highcastle?

Augustus: Madam, I am.

The lady: (with awe) The great Lord Augustus?

Augustus: I should not dream of describing myself so, madam; but no doubt I have impressed my country-men-and (bowing gallantly) may I say my country-women—as having some exceptional claims to their consideration.

The lady: (emotionally) What a beautiful voice you have!

Augustus: What you hear, madam is the voice of my country.

通过这样一段简单的对白，你对主人公奥古斯都产生了什么样的印象？他有什么样的性格特点与价值观念？作者对主人公持什么态度，是褒还是贬？作者的写作目的是什么？作者是在讲一个人的故事，还是在讽刺抨击一种社会时弊？

在这里我们首先看到，当那位职员问道：“Are you engaged?”本意是“你现在忙吗？”奥古斯都却偏偏把这句话理解为“你订婚了吗？”（该句的另一个可能的意思）。这一问一答，不仅说明奥古斯都身为重要政府官员整天满脑子里只有个人私事，答非所问，也说明他不学无术，语言能力低下。因为，在英国的文化中，一名低级的普通政府职员是绝对不可能在公务场合直接问一个重要政府官员的婚姻状况的，那么，“Are you engaged?”的意义只能是“你现在忙吗？"

另外，奥古斯都的答话“What business is that of yours? However, if you will take the trouble to read the society papers for this week, you willsee that I am engaged to the Honourable Lucy Popham, youngest daughter of...”可以使我们清楚地看到，他一方面自恃清高，傲慢无理，不让人家多管它的私事，另一方面又迫不及待地向别人炫耀他的高贵身份。这又足见他的肤浅。

后来，当那个职员不得不改口说：“Can you see a female?”，本意是“你能否接见一位女士？”时，奥古斯都又错误地理解为“你能看见一位女士吗？。所以，他便回答说他的眼睛并不瞎，他能像看到男性那样容易地看到女性。这完全是驴唇不对马嘴。

对这样一个虚伪，傲慢，无知，低能的家伙，那位可怜的小职员只能选用适用于儿童的直白语言与奥古斯都对话：“You don't seem to follow me, somehow. There's a female downstairs: what you might call a lady. She wants to know can you see her if I let her up.”。

当奥古斯都终于明白有一位女士要见他时，先是推说公务繁忙: "Tell the lady I'm busy..."，后来, 听说是一位漂亮的女人时，又一心想见，却又要找出一堆根本不搭边的冠冕堂皇的理由：“It will be extremely inconvenient for me to see her; but the country is in danger; and we must not consider our own comfort. Think how our gallant fellows are suffering in the trenches! Show her up." 似乎他见这个女人是为了国家的利益而做出了重大的自我牺牲。好一付“高大无私的君子”形象。

很明显，作者是借奥古斯都来映射那些虚伪、傲慢、自私、无能的政府官僚阶层，用讽刺与夸张的手法来抨击时弊，让观众和读者在捧腹大笑的过程中像看漫画一样从中悟出了一个非常严肃的社会问题。

其实，读英语戏剧作品需要更多的创造性想象。同时，还要不断地变换自己的角度，不仅要找到每一个角色的感觉，还要找到作者与观众的感觉。不仅要去“听”对话，还要想象舞台的背景、演员的动作和神情。

另外，还要注意英语戏剧文学的特殊格式，调整自己的阅读习惯。如，有关地点、背景、动作等说明部分都用括号括起，一般用斜体字印出；每段话之前都标有说话人的名字；有时每行的文字很短，阅读时要频繁移行。

下面的剧本节选自挪威著名剧作家易卜生（Henrik Ibsen）作品《人民公敌》（An Enemy of the People）。 剧中主人公史塔克曼(Dr. Stockmann)是一位医生，是社会的一个支柱。他所住的小城是一个疗养圣地，其中心是该城的公共浴场。主人公发现浴场的水被当地的一个皮革厂污染了。他将他的发现公布后希望成为当地的英雄因为他挽救了小城的名声，防止了疗养的客人被感染。但相反地他被当地人视为"人民公敌"，后来甚至有人向他的家扔石头。最后他被迫离开了小城。对观众来说小城和医生都面临着一场显而易见的灾难，但当地的社会不愿面对事实。阅读时注意体会对话的内在意义，认真分析人物特征与作者的目的。然后试着回答后面的问题。

Excerpts from "An Enemy of the People"

by Henrik Ibsen

Dr. Stockmann: It is I who have the real good of the town at heart! I want to lay bare the defects that sooner or later must come to the light of day. I will show whether I love my native town.

Petra Stockmann: You, who in your blind obstinacy want to cut off the most important source of the town's welfare?

Dr. Stockmann: The source is poisoned, man! Are you mad? We are making our living by retailing filth and corruption! The whole of our flourishing municipal life derives its sustenance from a lie!

Petra Stockmann: All imagination -- or something even worse. The man who can throw out such offensive insinuations about his native town must be an enemy to our community.

Dr. Stockmann: (going up to him) Do you dare to -- !

Mrs. Stockmann: (throwing herself between them) Thomas!

Petra: (catching her father by the arm) Don't lose your temper, father!

Petra Stockmann: I will not expose myself to violence. Now you have had a warning; so reflect on what you owe to yourself and your family. Good-bye. (Goes out)

Dr. Stockmann: (walking up and down) Am I to put up with such treatment as this? In my own house, Katherine! What do you think of that!

Mrs. Stockmann: Indeed it is both shameful and absurd, Thomas --

Petra: If only I could give uncle a piece of my mind --

Dr. Stockmann: It is my own fault. I ought to have flown out at him long ago! -- shown my teeth! -- bitten! To hear him call me an enemy to our community! Me! I shall not take that lying down, upon my soul!

Mrs. Stockmann: But, dear Thomas, your brother has power on his side --

Dr. Stockmann: Yes, but I have right on mine, I tell you.

Mrs. Stockmann: Oh yes, right -- right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

Petra: Oh, mother! -- how can you say such a thing!

Dr. Stockmann: Do you imagine that in a free country it is no use having right on your side? You are absurd, Katherine. Besides, haven't I got the liberal-minded independent press to lead the way, and the compact majority behind me? That is might enough, I should think!

Mrs. Stockmann: But, good heavens, Thomas, you don't mean to -- ?

Dr. Stockmann: Don't mean to what?

Mrs. Stockmann: To set yourself up in opposition to your brother.

Dr. Stockmann: In God's name, what else do you suppose I should do but take my stand on right and truth?

1. The author's purpose in the scene is to establish the theme of the play: namely, that

a. a liberal-minded, independent press will always guarantee that the truth will be accepted

b. my country, be it right or wrong, is my country

c. right makes might

d. the compact majority is always right

2. Mrs. Stockmann interprets Dr. Stockmann's position as simply a desire on his part to oppose his brother: actually, the opposition is between

a. power and science

b. family and duty

c. the citizen and his government

d. pragmatism and truth

3. In general, Dr. Stockmann's attitude may be described as

a. hostile, aggressive, and unreasonable

b. selfishly oblivious of his family's welfare

c. extremely idealistic

d. naive and old-fashioned

4. Petra sides with her father because

a. she intensely dislikes her uncle

b. her mother chooses to support her uncle

c. she is a very obedient daughter

d. she sincerely believes in her father's principles

5. If this play is classified as realistic, then the reader may infer from this scene that later on

a. Mrs. Stockmann will divorce Dr. Stockmann

b. Peter Stockmann will relent and side with his bother out of family loyalty

c. the community will reject all economic advantage in favor of Dr. Stockmann's revelation of the truth

d. Mrs. Stockmann will eventually support her husband, but the town will turn against him

篇5：英文小短文

Different and meaningful lunch Every time when I came home, I always invite my best friends to have a special lunch.This time I came home, we held a different lunch and I think it’s meaningful to our lives.Before this, we usually find a restaurant, but we thought if we could prepare something to eat by ourselves, that was wonderful.I noticed my friends, we would hold a different lunch and asked for some delicious food that we all like.My friends liked it too, they positive to prepare some fruit and vegetables.Even though, we wanted to some barbecue.We took a lot of fruit to cook, obviously we took more and we couldn’t eat them.Then, we tried to cook them, put some salt, gourmet powder and various spices.The specific process was funny, we always forget some process, often have wrong order.The last, we found a regular, we were not suitable for cooking.But we all enjoy it.When we finish it, we still did a few more delicious meal, it’s noodles, and we had a same idea: it just like instant noodles!Now I’m think if we want to do something best, we just practicing, a simple thing that we think is not easy.Edward

Exciting video games Before Spring Festival, my friends and I went to a video games city.The video games city has all kinds of games, no matter what you want to play and you can find it.In my first sight was a racing game just like kart race.It seemed that easy to control, but when I drove it and play it, I found it very hard and difficult to control.The steering wheel was hard to control, it’s very big to me.And the brake system or speed of the system were difficult to grasp.Soon the time out.If I wanted to play it again, I should put more coin into this game machine.My friends found an exciting game, just like gambling.Maybe it is real gambling.In the first place, you should put some game coin into the game, and then you choose a right picture that you think.Later the game begins and last the system would find a right picture.If you right you can get more game coin, and you wrong you would the coin, of course put more coin into it and finally you can get more or lose more coin.Time passed quickly, we were very happy and feel excited in it.But we cost a lot of money.I don’t want to usually go to there, and just sometimes is better.Edward

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Tom Cruise is a famous movie super star in the world, especially the movie Mission Impossible.Fortunately the movie theater release in the winter vocation.So my friends and I went to watch it.Before watch the exciting movie, we must prepare something to eat or drink, we bought some popcorn and drinks.Then an exciting and justice movie had begun.In my memory the story told about some terrorists made nuclear and wanted use it to make the world war, agent got the information and took action to prevent them.Specific plot were not attract me but in some strange and cut breathtaking scene attracted me.Such as in the Kremlin they use an amazing way to hide themselves.In Dubai the tallest building Cruise’s action made me without breath.It’s so excited.I am sure if you had watched it, you would have same feeling.But we had a little pity that we can’t watch the English dubbing just Chinese, and I guessed it maybe let us easy to understand the speaking, pay more attention to the plot not word.I like watch movie in the theatre, because I like the big screen, good voice and comfortable visual feast.Edward

Bad weather As we know, in the winter, the weather is very cold, we don’t want to move, just want to stay at the warm home.But as a teenager, without sport like body without blood.So I design…

I picked a sunny day and with my friends take the basketball to play.We started warming up, but later we felt so cold, then we running and playing.To our surprised that was couldn’t make our hands become warm, on the opposite turn cold, and still our hands became ice and we couldn’t touch the ball.What a bad weather that we played!

We still wanted to play basketball, we began to run.Our body became warm slowly, it was felt well, and then we started to play basketball.At this moment, we found we were tired and almost can’t breathe, so we couldn’t play…

Finally, we just ride the bike go home.This evening, my friends tell me running seemed a good way to sport, I agree.Next day, we run in the morning, bodies were warm but breathe is very cold and bad, I couldn’t hold on, neither did my friends…

My god, please give me some sunshine, give me some warm, I don’t want to sport in the cold winter again.Edward

Hometown Every year, my father will take my mom and me to go back hometown and look after grandparents, I like it.Because I like my grandparents, they always tell some different things to me.I like play with my brothers, such as playing billiards or computer games together.My hometown is a village in Shandong province.Though it’s a village, there are very rich, people like labor.So very rich, and now I can’t image what a big change my hometown have.It almost every year is another village.I still remember or in my deep memory, when I was young, I liked to play with mud and play beside pond, always shuttle between the fields and home.At the moment I remember an interesting memory about my little brother.One day, brother and me went to a pond in the winter, on the surface has a layer of ice but the deep is very low, maybe a half meter.Because of my brother had little fat, he felt in but just a feet, then he was crying, I didn’t go to help him, later he thought, he couldn’t get drowned and turned to smile.It was a little funny, isn’t it? I like my hometown, and I would arrive at hometown soon or later.I am very excited and full of expectations.Edward

Great changes in my hometown When I came hometown, my uncle and little brother came to pick us.To my surprised my brother so tall, over me a head…and the car is very beautiful and big.This is my first impression of changes in my hometown.My uncle drove car in Weifang city, in my sight were a lot of tall buildings, supermarkets and cars.Half an hour we arrived at my hometown, a different village.Why because it different, because it became an industrialization village and very rich.Many modern factories and a lot of advanced technology and equipment made me see the dazzling.In my hometown, for me the deepest impression is the mountain behind the village.Before this time I always climb it.Though it usually makes me tired, when I reached the top of the hill, my sight would very broad and mood also becomes good.I would shout loudly to express my love of home.I known about my hometown would build some tall department buildings beside the mountain, I thought it would comfortable to my family.In the next few days, my big family had lunch together, kept in the relatives.I was very tired but in my heart, I felt very sweet.Edward

One of my friends Before the Spring Festival, my friends Kong got a serious disease.I felt very sorry to him and my other friends with me would go to see him.Best wishes to him.In all we bought a box of milk, a box of egg rolls and a lot of apples.Totally, if we wanted to visit patient, we must take the apple.Because apple in the Chinese pronunciation, means safe.Just like sheep same as sleep.Then we went to his home, but to our surprised, he was playing games with music.So comfortable he had, we may cancel our concerns.He was good enough and he was very happy to enjoy his winter holiday.The whole afternoon we were playing mahjong.I would not as long as mahjong, I learned and found it simple, so easy.Then we played it, we couldn’t win and lost all the chips, of course chips just poker card.I could make sure that in the mahjong game contains a lot of skills that I couldn’t control.In the evening, his parents prepared a big dinner, we all liked it, and then we said goodbye each other.Edward

篇6：保护环境英文短文

DEC.13.2010 TU XIONG

Pollution of environment

These days we often hear that our living conditions are getting more and more serious because of the destruction of our environment.It is common that many trees and animals are near extinction, and the all-important food chain has been destroyed.Why does such circumstance occur in spite of social protects

英语美文欣赏 篇1

　　是你点燃了我的生命 You Light Up My Life

　　Be good to everyone who becomes attached to us; cherish every friend who is by our side;

　　善待，每一个和我们结缘的人;珍惜，我们身边的每一个朋友;

　　love everyone who walks into our life.

　　爱，生命中，每一个和我们结缘的人。

　　It must be fate to get acquainted in a huge crowd of people…

　　茫茫的人海中，相识，其实，就是缘分……

　　I feel, the love that Osho talks about, maybe is a kind of pure love beyond the mundane world, which is full of divinity and caritas, and overflows with Buddhist allegorical words and gestures,

　　感觉，奥修所说的，也许是一种纯净、超越世俗和男女，充满神性和佛性的博爱，弥发，一种禅性和机锋，

　　but, it seems that I cannot see through its true meaning forever…

　　而我，却好像永远，都，无法参透……

　　Maybe, I do not just “absorb” your love; but because the love overpowers me and I am unable to

　　dispute and refuse it…

　　也许，我并不只是”接受”;而是，因为那种爱，让我，情不自禁、无法抗拒、不能拒绝……

　　Do you know? It’s you who light up my life! And I stubbornly believe that such love can only be experienced once in my life.

　　知道吗?是你，点燃了我的生命!而我，固执的相信，这种情感，在我的生命中，只有一次。

　　Because of love, we won’t be lonely anymore; because of yearning, we taste more loneliness.

　　因为爱，我们，不再孤单;因为思念，品尝，更多的寂寞。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇2

　　清理心灵的空间 Clear Your Mental Space

　　Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration.What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?

　　想下你最近一次感受到的消极情绪，例如压力，愤怒或挫折。当你处于那种消极情绪时你在想些什么?是充满了混乱的思绪?还是陷于麻木，无法思考?

　　The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop. Yes, that’s right, stop. Whatever you’re doing, stop and sit for one minute. While you’re sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.

　　下次当你发现自己处于非常紧张的状态时，或是你感到气愤或受挫时，停下来。是的，对，停下来。不管你在做什么，停下来坐上一分钟。坐着的时候，让自己完全沉浸在那种消极情绪之中。

　　Allow that emotion to consume you. Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion. Don’t cheat yourself here. Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.

　　让那种消极情绪吞噬你，给自己一分钟的时间去真切地体会那种情绪，不要欺骗自己。花整整一分钟的时间 – 但只有一分钟 – 去体会那种情绪，别的什么也不要做。

　　When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”

　　当一分钟结束时，问自己：“我是否想在今天余下的时间里继续保持这种消极情绪?”

　　Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.

　　一旦你允许自己完全沉浸在那种情绪当中并真切体会到它，你就会惊奇地发现那种情绪很快就消失了。

　　If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer, that is OK. Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.

　　如果你觉得还需要点时间来保持那种情绪，没关系，再给自己一分钟的时间去体会它。

　　When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion, ask yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath. As you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.

　　如果你觉得自己已经充分体会了那种情绪，那就问自己是否愿意在今天余下的时间里继续保持这种消极情绪。如果不愿意，那就深呼吸。呼气的时候，把所有的消极情绪都释放出去。

　　This exercise seems simple---almost too simple. But, it is very effective. By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it. You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs. When you immerse yourself in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its control. You can clear your head and proceed with your task.

　　这个方法似乎很简单 – 几乎是太过简单了，但却非常有效。通过给自己空间真正体会消极情绪，你是在处理这种情绪，而不是将其压制下去然后尽量不加理会。通过给予消极情绪所需的空间和关注，你实际上是在消解其力量。当你沉浸在那种情绪之中，并且明白它只是一种情绪时，你就摆脱了它的控制。你可以清理头脑并继续做事。

　　Try it. Next time you’re in the middle of a negative emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens. Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:

　　Stop. Immerse for one minute. Do I want to keep this negativity? Breath deep, exhale, release. Move on!

　　你下次笼罩消极情绪时，试一下这种做法，给自己一点空间来体会那种情绪并看看会发生什么。随身带一张写着如下字句的纸条：

　　停下来。沉浸一分钟。我想保持这种消极情绪吗?深吸气，呼气，放松。继续做事!

　　This will remind you of the steps to the process. Remember; take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release it---really let go of it. You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do!

　　这会提醒你该怎样去做。记住，要花你所需要的时间去真正沉浸于那种情绪之中。然后，当你感到自己已经充分体会到了它。你会惊奇地发现，你很快就能摆脱消极情绪，并开始做你真正想做的事情!

　　英语美文欣赏 篇3

　　差距

　　John and Bobby joined a wholesale company togther just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to theposotion of manager but John remained an ordinary employee. John could not take it anymore, tendered his resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not know how to delegate and did not value hard working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him.

　　约翰和博比同年大学毕业后，被同一家批发公司录用。他们二人工作都很努力。然而，几年后，老板提拔博比为部门经理，而约翰还是一名普通员工。约翰再也无法忍受，学习英语的网站，冲动之下写了一封辞职信，并抱怨老板不会用人，不重用那些敬业的员工，只提升那些奉承他的人。

　　The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said, "Thank you for your criticism, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your decision and take back your resignation."

　　老板知道这几年约翰工作确实很努力。他想了一会儿说：“谢谢你对我的批评。但是我只有一个请求，我希望在你离开之前再为公司做一件事情。或许到时你会改变决定，收回辞呈。”

　　John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg? John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to inform the boss $1.2 per kg.

　　约翰答应了。 老板让他去市场找到一个卖西瓜的人。约翰去了并很快回来。他说他找到了一个卖西瓜的人。老板问他每公斤多少钱？约翰摇摇头，回到市场去问，然后又回来告诉老板每公斤1.2美元。

　　Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone seling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, boss, only one person selling watermelon. $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10kg, he has inventory of 340 melons. On the table 58 melons, every melon weights about 2 kg, bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality.

　　老板让约翰等一会儿，这时他把博比叫到办公室。他让博比去市场找到一个卖西瓜的人。博比去了，回来之后说：“老板，只有一个卖西瓜的人，每公斤1.2美元，每10公斤卖10美元。这个人一共有340个西瓜，其中58个放在货架上，每个西瓜重约2公斤，免费学英语网站，都是两天前从南方运来的，新鲜，红瓤，质量好。”

　　John was very impresed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign but to learn from Bobby.

　　约翰受到很大的触动，他意识到自己与博比之间的差距。他决定收回辞呈并向博比学习。

　　My dear friends, a more successful person is more observant, thinks more and explores in depth. Chances exists in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, while another sees only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365times, how could you win?

　　亲爱的朋友们，成功的人更善于观察，好的英语学习网站，勤于思考和孜孜探求。机遇就存在于生活的细节中。同样的一件事，一个成功的人会看得更多更远。有人看到一年后的情景，而你只看到明天。一年与一天的差距是365倍，你怎么能赢呢？

　　英语美文欣赏 篇4

　　You cannot change the laws of physics ... but could physics actually enable us to travel through time?

　　It might sound crazy, but according to Einstein‘s theories, there‘s no logical reason why time travel isn‘t possible.

　　Time travel is clearly a trickier proposition than space travel,though. And prior to Einstein, it would have been deemed utterly impossible！ That‘s because the old idea about time was that it was like a cosmic metronome keeping a regular and constant beat throughout the universe. And it was thought to move in one direction only .

　　However, what physicists now know is that time is rather more flexible than the old “ Clockwork Universe” ideas they had it. And it was Albert Einstein who set the cat among the pigeons.

　　Einstein‘s theories about time and space were revolutionary. He became a celebrity--and not just in scientific circles. It‘s only since he published his theories that scientists have been able to demonstrate that space and time really behave the way he said they did.

　　In 1971, after Einstein‘s death, two scientists were able to carry out a crucial experiment. They used two atomic clocks, synchronized them, and placed one on a plane, while the other stayed in the same location on Earth. The plane then flew around the world for 80 hours. According to Einstein‘s theory, the clock on the plane would be expected to have lost time, due to being in motion over 80 hours compared to the clock on the ground. When they brought the clocks together and made a comparison, the clock on the plane was indeed a few nanoseconds slower than the other clock. The experiment was replicated in 1996 with advanced technology, and it was proved again--with an even bigger time difference this time. Which proves that not only is time “ warp-able” , but Einstein was arguably the greatest thinker the world has ever seen.

　　If it were possible, however, it would present some pretty knotty paradoxes... For example, what if someone or something traveled back in time and changed the ensuing future? And have you heard the one about the time traveller who dots back and forward in time and by means of various medical technologies is able to be his own father AND mother?! And besides, if time travel is possible, where are all the people from the future--surely they‘d want to come and meet us poor stranded 21st century beings?

　　英语美文欣赏 篇5

　　At the Backs of King’s College there is a memorial stone in white marble commemorating an alumnus of the College, renowned Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. Moving to the UK in 1921, Zhimo spent a year studying at King’s, where he fell in love not only with the romantic poetry of English poets like John Keats, but also with Cambridge itself.

　　在国王学院的后面，有一块汉白玉纪念石碑，纪念学院的`一位校友，著名的中国诗人徐志摩。1921他移居英国，花了一年时间在国王学习，在那里他爱上的不只有英国诗人约翰.济慈的浪漫主义诗歌，还有剑桥本身。

　　His poem, 再别康桥 (variously translated as Second Farewell to Cambridge), is arguably his most famous poem, and is now a compulsory text on Chinese literature syllabuses, learnt by millions of school children across the country every year. The poem paints an idyllic portrait of King’s and the River Cam, and serves as a reminder of Xu Zhimo’s fondness for his time in Cambridge.

　　徐志摩的诗《再别康桥》可以说是他最著名的诗，它现在是中国语文教学大纲必修文本之一，中国每年有上百万学生学习。这首诗描绘了一幅田园诗般的国王学院和康河，并表现出徐志摩对剑桥时光的喜爱。

　　While the poem has been set to music many times before, King’s has commissioned the first musical setting of the text by a mainstream classical composer. The new piece, by renowned English composer John Rutter, has been written and recorded in celebration of the near 100-year link between King’s College and Xu Zhimo, and has been released on 26 January 2018 on a new album on the King’s College Record Label.

　　虽然这首诗已多次被配乐演绎，但国王学院委托了主流古典作曲家根据诗的文字进行创作。新作品由著名的英国作曲家约翰.卢特(John Rutter)担纲，以铭记国王学院和徐志摩之间近100年的不解之缘，并已由国王学院的唱片公司于2018年1月26日发布。

　　“Many intellectual transformations happened for him while he was here and in some ways the whole seed of his development as a person who became an intellectual poet, through the medium of poetry, all sort of connected up with his visit to Cambridge and the people we met.”

　　“国王学院极大程度帮助徐志摩拓展了学识，并种下了日后成为一名才华横溢的诗人的种子，”国王学院副院长史蒂文.切力(Steve Cherry)表示，“通过对这首诗的音乐创作，我们把学院的美丽点滴和徐志摩本人在这里的美好体验结合起来，重新带给因他而寻访的中国人民。”

　　“John Rutter is a very resourceful composer, and I was delighted with the way he conceived of doing this, presenting most of the text through the tenor voice for which we engage the Chinese tenor. Well, I wanted to have a go myself at making an arrangement of it which would express something of what we do at King’s.”

　　“很荣幸能够邀请到约翰.卢特(John Rutter)来为我们作曲。他是个经验丰富的作曲家，这次也通过与一名中国男高音歌唱家的合作充分体现了我们想表达的主题。其实我一直希望能够做出一首表达出国王学院气质的作品”，负责这首《再别康桥》曲目的编曲家，同时也担任国王学院合唱团总指挥的史蒂芬.克劳伯里(Stephen Cleobury)说。

　　“The inspiration I think came from the poem which is on the tablet by the bridge by the river camp here in the college. Apart from the tourist self and the words, which of course are quite big elements in it, it’s not specifically intended to be a Chinese piece. It’s the sort of arrangement I would make for something like that, and it’s a very beautiful melody.”

　　“康桥边石板上篆刻的诗给我带来了灵感。除去诗歌本身是中文作品及大量因此而来的中国游客等因素，我并未刻意追求音乐本身的中国化。我只是觉得这样的编曲和旋律是最适合的。”

　　英语美文欣赏 篇6

　　如果你迷失了自我，请深呼吸，迷失或许能成为你人生的转折点，让你发现真正的自己，并让你知道自己想真正成为怎样的

　　“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~Henry David Thoreau

　　迷失自我，才能发现自我。——亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者）

　　Everything about my future was ambiguously assumed. I would get into debt by going to college, then I would be forced to get a job to pay off that debt, while still getting into more and more debt by buying a house and a car. It seemed like a never-ending cycle that had no place for the possibility of a dream.

　　我们未来的一切似乎都模糊地设定好了，利用贷款上大学，然后为了还债被迫去找一份工作，还要为了买房买车背负更多的债务……这仿佛是一个无休止的循环，让我们的梦想没有实现的机会。

　　I want more—but not necessarily in the material sense of personal wealth and success. I want more out of life. I want a passion, a conceptual dream that wouldn’t let me sleep out of pure excitement. I want to spring out of bed in the morning, rain or shine, and have that zest for life that seemed so intrinsic in early childhood.

　　我们想要的更多——并不是对于个人财富和成功等物质性需求，我们对于生活，想要更多。我想要热忱、有概念的梦想，让我不会空怀纯粹的兴奋入睡。我希望能在早晨一跃起床，无论是阳光普照还是刮风下雨，也能对生活充满热情，就像我们的童年时固有的一样。

　　We all have a dream. It might be explicitly defined or just a vague idea, but most of us are so stuck in the muck of insecurity and self-doubt that we just dismiss it as unrealistic or too difficult to pursue.

　　我们都有梦想，无论它是明确的目标还是模糊的主意，但我们大多数人都受困于不安全和自我怀疑的泥泞里，我们把梦想看做是不现实的、难以追求的，最后放弃了。

　　We become so comfortable with the life that has been planned out for us by our parents, teachers, traditions, and societal norms that we feel that it’s stupid and unsafe to risk losing it for the small hope of achieving something that is more fulfilling.

　　我们变得满足于父母、老师、传统及社会规条为我们营造的安逸生活。为了那一点点能够为生活变得更充实的希望去冒险，我们会认为这是愚蠢和危险的。

　　“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” ~Jawaharlal Nehru

　　过于谨慎才是最大的危险——贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁（印度开国总理）

　　Taking a risk is still a risk. We can, and will, fail. Possibly many, many, many times. But that is what makes it exciting for me. That uncertainty can be viewed negatively, or it can empower us.

　　冒险始终还是有风险。我们，也有可能失败，还有可能是失败很多很多次。但这会让我们更加兴奋。不确定因素看起来有不利，但同时也能激励我们。

　　Failing is what makes us grow, it makes us stronger and more resilient to the aspects of life we have no control over. The fear of failure, although, is what makes us stagnant and sad. So even though I couldn’t see the future as clearly as before, I took the plunge in hopes that in the depths of fear and failure, I would come out feeling more alive than ever before.

　　失败能让我们成长，让我们更强大，让我们更能适应生活中难以控制的各个方面。对于失败的恐惧，让我们停滞不前，悲伤不已。尽管不能清晰地看见未来，在恐惧和失败的深渊里，我们也要保持希望，那么我们将活得更有生命力。

　　If you feel lost, just take a deep breath and realize that being lost can be turning point of finding out who you truly are, and what you truly want to do.

　　如果你迷失了自我，请深呼吸，迷失或许能成为你人生的转折点，让你发现真正的自己，并让你知道自己想真正成为怎样的人。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇7

　　In recent years, natural disasters happened frequently around the world and have caused enormous losses of life and property to human society. They pose a common challenge to all the countries in the world.

　　China suffers the most natural disasters of all countries. Along with global climate changes and its own economic takeoff and progress in urbanization, China suffers increasing pressure on resources, environment and ecology. The situation in the prevention of and response to natural disasters has become more serious and complicated.

　　Always placing people first, the Chinese government has all along put the security of people's lives and property on the top of its work, and has listed the disaster prevention and reduction in its economic and social development plan as an important guarantee of sustainable development. In recent years, China has been comprehensively implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, further strengthened legislation as well as the building of systems and mechanisms on dis-aster prevention and reduction, committed to building on disaster-prevention capacities, encouraged public contribution, and actively participated in international cooperation in this respect.

　　英语美文欣赏 篇8

　　Friendship is indispensable to people's life. A man without friends is an angel without wings, whose life will suffer in the long tolerance of loneliness and depression. Friendship is the mother of our psyche, who'll warm her kid when hurt occurs. We have much to share with our friends in life, perplexity, excitement, bitterness etc. Alas, it's magnificent to maintain a genuine friendship.

　　It takes many special qualities to make a friend. Understanding should come first. Only when we get a better understanding of each other can we gain an authentic and meaningful friendship. We may find our hobbies of common interests. This feeling of affinity gets us closer and closer.

　　It also takes a special kind of love that seems to know no end. Never hesitate to show your heartfelt care and kindness to your friend when he/she is in trouble. Love is not selfish. Love is endowed by God that we should treasure all our life.

　　Tolerance is the third essential part in friendship. We are absolutely different persons. This individual distinction may cause conflict between us in every aspect of our life. Don't immerse ourselves in this infliction too long. Try to tolerant his/her in an introspective mood. Saints are not perfect, let alone those ordinary people like us. Afterwards, we should get a good communication. Never shy to confess.

　　Understanding, love and tolerance are the first three essences that comes to an authentic friendship. Other qualities are also concerned such as thoughtfulness, trust and patience. Remember, friendship is your psyche's guard, treasure it.

　　英语美文欣赏 篇9

　　英语美文欣赏 篇10

　　We always convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, thenanother. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content whenthey are. After that we' re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly behappy when they are out of that stage.

　　我们总是相信，等我们结了婚，生了孩子生活会更美好。等有了孩子，我们又因为他们不够大而烦恼，想等他们大些时，我们就会开心了。可等他们进人青少年时期，我们还是同样地苦恼，于是又相信等他们过了这一阶段，幸福就会到来。

　　We always tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her acttogether, when we get a nicer car, and are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire. Thetruth is, there's no better time than right now. If not now, when? Our life will always be filledwith challenges. It's best to admit this to ourselves and decide to be happy anyway.

　　我们总是告诉自己，等夫妻间任一方肯于合作，等我们拥有更好的车，等我们能去度一次美妙的假期，等我们退休后，我们的生活一定会完美的。而事实的真相是，没有任何时刻比现在更宝贵。倘若不是现在，又会是何时?我们的生活每时每刻都会有挑战。最好是让自己接受这一事实，无论如何使自己保持快乐的心境。

　　One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred Souza. He said, "For a long time it had seemed tome that life was about to begin-real life.But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, someunfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last itdawned onto me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see thatthere is no way to happiness.

　　我很欣赏艾尔弗雷德?苏泽的一段名言。他说："长期以来，我都觉得生活--真正的生活似乎即将开始。可是总会遇到某种障碍，如得先完成一些事情。没做完的工作，要奉献的时间，该付的债，等等。之后生活才会开始。最后我醒悟过来了，这些障碍本身就是我的生活。"这一观点让我意识到没有什么通往幸福的道路。

　　Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment that you have.And remember that time waits for no one. So stop waiting until you finish school, until you goback to school; until you get married, until you get divorced; until you have kids, until your kidsleave home; until you start work, until you retire; until you get a new car or home; untilspring; until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to behappy....

　　幸福本身就是路，所以，珍惜你拥有的每一刻，且记住时不我待，不要再作所谓的等待;你上完学，等你再回到学校;等你结婚或离婚;等你有了孩子或孩子长大离开家;等你开始工作或等你退休;等你有了新车或新房;等春天来临;等你有幸再来世上走一遭才明白此时此刻最应快乐……

　　Happiness is a journey, not a destination. So,Work like you don't need money,

　　幸福是一个旅程，不是终点站;所以工作吧，如同不需要金钱一样;

　　Love like you've never been hurt,And dance like no one's watching.

　　去爱吧，如同从未受过伤害一样;跳舞吧，如同没有人注视一样。

　　to love, like never been hurt,to dance,like no one appreciate;

　　去爱吧，就像不曾受过伤一样;跳舞吧，像没有人会欣赏一样。

　　to sing, like no one listen to,to work, like no need of money;

　　唱歌吧，像没有人会聆听一样。干活吧，像是不需要金钱一样。

　　to life, like today is the end.

　　生活吧，就像今天是末日一样。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇11

　　Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.

　　我们的潜意识里藏着一派田园诗般的风光! 我们仿佛身处一次横贯大陆的漫漫旅程之中! 乘着火车, 我们领略着窗外流动的景色：附近高速公路上奔驰的汽车、十字路口处招手的孩童、远山上吃草的牛群、源源不断地从电厂排放出的烟尘、一片片的玉米和小麦、平原与山谷、群山与绵延的丘陵、天空映衬下城市的轮廓, 以及乡间的庄园宅第!

　　But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering --waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

　　然而我们心里想得最多的却是最终的目的地! 在某一天的某一时刻, 我们将会抵达进站! 迎接我们的将是乐队和飘舞的彩旗! 一旦到了那儿, 多少美梦将成为现实, 我们的生活也将变得完整, 如同一块理好了的拼图! 可是我们现在在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去, 咒骂火车的拖拖拉拉! 我们期待着, 期待着, 期待着火车进站的那一刻!

　　"When we reach the station, that will be it! "we cry. "When I'm 18. ""When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz! ""When I put the last kid through college. ""When I have paid off the mortgage!""When I get a promotion.""When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after! "

　　"当我们到站的时候, 一切就都好了! "我们呼喊着! "当我18岁的时候! ""当我有了一辆新450SL奔驰的时候! ""当我供最小的孩子念完大学的时候! ""当我偿清贷款的时候! ""当我官升高任的时候! ""当我到了退休的时候, 就可以从此过上幸福的生活啦! "

　　Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

　　可是我们终究会认识到人生的旅途中并没有车站, 也没有能够"一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正乐趣在于旅行的过程, 而车站不过是个梦, 它始终遥遥领先于我们!

　　"Relish the moment "is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118：24："This is the day which the Lord hath made;we will rejoice and be glad in it. "It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.

　　"享受现在"是句很好的箴言, 尤其是当它与《圣经·诗篇》中第118页24行的一段话相映衬的时候, 更是如此："今日乃主所创造;生活在今日我们将欢欣、高兴! "真正令人发疯的不是今日的负担, 而是对昨日的悔恨及对明日的恐惧! 悔恨与恐惧是一对孪生窃贼, 将今天从你我身边偷走!

　　So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. In stead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough.

　　那么就不要在过道里徘徊吧, 别老惦记着你离车站还有多远! 何不换一种活法, 将更多的高山攀爬, 多吃点儿冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴, 经常光着脚板儿溜达溜达, 在更多的河流里畅游, 多看看夕阳西下, 多点欢笑哈哈, 少让泪水滴答! 生活得一边过一边瞧! 车站就会很快到达!

　　英语美文欣赏 篇12

　　Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don't act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion,“I love you”is too luxurious for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine's Day is even more out of the question. Finally my father has a bad temper. When he's very tired from the hard work, it is easy for him to lose his temper.

　　有时候，我真的怀疑父母之间是否有真爱。他们天天忙于赚钱，为我和弟弟支付学费。他们从未像我在书中读到，或在电视中看到的那样互诉衷肠。他们认为“我爱你”太奢侈，很难说出口。更不用说在情人节送花这样的事了。我父亲的脾气非常坏。经过一天的劳累之后，他经常会发脾气。

　　One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat down beside her and looked at her.

　　一天，母亲正在缝被子，我静静地坐在她旁边看着她。

　　“Mom, I have a question to ask you,”I said after a while.

　　过了一会，我说：“妈妈，我想问你一个问题。”

　　“What?”she replied, still doing her work.

　　“什么问题？”她一边继续缝着，一边回答道。

　　“Is there love between you and Dad?”I asked her in a very low voice.

　　我低声地问道：“你和爸爸之间有没有爱情啊？”

　　My mother stopped her work and raised her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn't answer immediately. Then she bowed her head and continued to sew the quilt.

　　母亲突然停下了手中的活，满眼诧异地抬起头。她没有立即作答。然后低下头，继续缝被子。

　　I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was in a great embarrassment and I didn't know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:

　　我担心伤害了她。我非常尴尬，不知道该怎么办。不过，后来我听见母亲说：

　　“Susan,”she said thoughtfully,“Look at this thread. Sometimes it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there. Love is inside.”

　　“苏珊，看看这些线。有时候，你能看得见，但是大多数都隐藏在被子里。这些线使被子坚固耐用。如果生活就像一床被子，那么爱就是其中的线。你不可能随时随地看到它，但是它却实实在在地存在着。爱是内在的。”

　　I listened carefully but I couldn't understand her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness.

　　我仔细地听着，却无法明白她的话，直到来年的春天。那时候，我父亲得了重病。母亲在医院里待了一个月。当他们从医院回来的时候，都显得非常苍白。就像他们都得了一场重病一样。

　　After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road. My father had never been so gentle. It seemed they were the most harmonious couple. Along the country road, there were many beautiful flowers, green grass and trees. The sun gently glistened through the leaves. All of these made up the most beautiful picture in the world.

　　他们回来之后，每天的清晨或黄昏，母亲都会搀扶着父亲在乡村的小路上漫步。父亲从未如此温和过。他们就像是天作之合。在小路旁边，有许多美丽的野花、绿草和树木。阳光穿过树叶的缝隙，温柔地照射在地面上。这一切形成了一幅世间最美好的画面。

　　The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldn't walk by himself. All of us were worried about him.

　　医生说父亲将在两个月后康复。但是两个月之后，他仍然无法独立行走。我们都很为他担心。

　　“Dad, how are you feeling now?”I asked him one day.

　　有一天，我问他：“爸爸，你感觉怎么样？”

　　“Susan, don't worry about me.”he said gently.“To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.”Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

　　他温和地说：“苏珊，不用为我担心。跟你说吧，我喜欢与你妈妈一块散步的感觉。我喜欢这种生活。”从他的眼神里，我看得出他对母亲的爱之深刻。

　　Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm..

　　我曾经认为爱情就是鲜花、礼物和甜蜜的亲吻。但是从那一刻起，我明白了，爱情就像是生活中被子里的一根线。爱情就在里面，使生活变得坚固而温暖。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇13

　　Since the pre-historic times, man has had an urge to satisfy his needs. Be it hunger, shelter or search for a mate, he has always manipulated the circumstances to the best of his advantages. Probably this might be the reason why we human are the most developed of all living species on the earth, and probably also in the universe. As we climbed the steps of evolution with giant leaps, we somehow left behind common sense and logical thinking — we forgot that we have stopped thinking ahead of times.

　　自史前时代起，人类就已有满足自己需求的强烈欲望。无论是饥饿、避难或寻觅配偶，人类总是操纵着环境使其达到最利于自己的状态。这或许解答了为什么人类是地球上甚至是宇宙中最高级的现存物种。然而在进化的阶梯上取得巨大飞跃之时，我们却不知何故将一些常识和逻辑思维抛诸脑后了——我们忘记了自己已经停止了超前思维。

　　If you are hungry, what do you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like your stomach, even your mind is hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently began to heed to your needs and never let itself grow. When mind looses its freedom to grow, creativity gets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think "What happens next?", "Why can't I think?", "Why am I always given the difficult problems?" Well this is the aftermath of our own karma of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.

　　如果你饿了，你会怎么做？抓起你最喜爱的美食饱餐一顿，然后静静地呆在那里？而你的大脑也像你的胃，是会感到饥饿的，但它却从不让你知道，因为你让它一直想着你的梦中情人、你最喜爱的明星和许多诸如此类的荒唐事。因此它只是默默地留意着你的需要却从不让自己成长。当思维恣意成长时，创造力就嘎然而止。这也许就是为什么我们有时会想“下一步该如何”、“为什么我想不到？”、“为什么我总是碰到难题？”的原因吧。这也是我们的大脑总在考虑那些毫无价值的事情产生的后果。

　　Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to take help of reading. You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your “How to?” questions. Once you read a book, you just don't run your eyes through the lines, but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams! This is nothing but creativity. More the number of books you read, your mind will open up like never before. Also this improves your oratory skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary. Within no time you start speaking English or any language fluently with your friends or other people and you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.

　　事实上，思维的饥荒可以通过广泛的阅读来满足。为什么是阅读而不是选择看电视呢？因为自孩提时代起，读书就已经是最具教育性的工具了。正如人生发展的其他方面一样，我们不得不求助于阅读。世界上有无数书籍可以回答你“如何做”的问题。读书时不仅要用眼睛浏览文字，还要用脑去解读、诠释。书中有趣的部分就会像种子一样贮存在你的脑海里。将来你会不自觉地运用这粒种子引发新的想法。多次运用这粒种子将有助于你把许多事情联系起来，即使你做梦都想不到这些！这不是别的，就是创造力！你读的书越多，你的心智就会前所未有地开阔。而且这还会大幅度地提高你的演讲能力、丰富你的词汇量。你很快就能用流利的英语或别的语言与你的朋友或别人交谈，而且你再也不会在适合的场合缺少适合的词语。

　　Actually, I had a problem in speaking English fluently, but as I read, I could improve significantly. I am still on the path of improvement to quench my thirst for satisfaction. So guys do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. Now what are you waiting for? Go, grab a book, and let me know!

　　实际上，我的英语还是不够流利，但只要我阅读，我就会取得显著进步。现在我仍在“自我提高”、为头脑“解渴”的长路上跋涉。请加入到我的行列吧！通过阅读、阅读、再阅读来为你的思想“喂食”。你还在等什么？现在就拿起一本书让我瞧瞧！

　　英语美文欣赏 篇14

　　Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

　　从前有个圆圈，它丢失了一小段。它想变得完整，于是它到处寻找它所丢失的那部分。由于不完整，它只能滚的非常慢。在路上，它羡慕过花儿，它与虫子聊过天，它享受了阳光的照耀。它遇到过很多不同的小段，可是没有一个适合它。所以它把它们丢在路边，继续寻找。有一天，圆圈找到了可以与它完美结合的一小段，它非常高兴。它现在终于完整了，不缺任何东西了。它把丢失的那段装到自己身上，然后滚了起来。它现在是个完整的圆圈了，它可以滚的很快快到忽视了花儿，快到没有时间和虫子们说话。当它意识到由于它滚的太快，世界变得如此的不同时，它便停了下来，把找到的那段卸下丢在路边，慢慢地滚走了。

　　There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

　　人生的完整性，在于接受自己的缺陷，勇敢地丢弃不切实际的幻想，并且不觉得这样做是失败的；人生的完整性，在于知道自己足够强大，可以承受人生的苦难，可以在失去一个人时仍然觉得自己是完整的。

　　英语美文欣赏 篇15

　　Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe， a moment that will never be again … And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four， and that Paris is the capital of France.

　　我们活着的每一秒都是独一无二的

　　When will we also teach them what they are?

　　我们活着的每一秒都是世界上独一无二、不可重现的。我们应该教给我们的孩子些什么呢?2+2=4，法国的首都是巴黎?

　　We should say to each of them： Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed， there has never been another child like you. Your legs， your arms， your clever fingers， the way you move.

　　我们活着的每一秒都是世界上独一无二、不可重现的。我们应该教给我们的孩子些什么呢?2+2=4，法国的首都是巴黎?

　　You may become a Shakespeare， a Michelangelo， a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes， you are a marvel. And when you grow up， can you then harm another who is， like you， a marvel?

　　你可以成为莎士比亚，米开朗琪罗，或者是贝多芬。你有成就一切的能力。是的，你是一个奇迹。而当你长大之后，你会忍心去伤害另一个如你一般的奇迹么?

　　You must work — we must all work — to make the world worth of its children.

　　我们必须同心协力，让这个世界成为值得孩子们生活的乐土。

　　经典英语美文 1

　　When we come in the human world will never be destined to face human interaction, with the years of gradual but more and more mature.

　　Sophisticated or not a persons age are not just, perhaps too many are referring to awareness of emotions and grasp the extent of emotion.

　　The three conditions in life: affection, friendship, love. Perhaps these three emotions, the only love in life, the interpretation of a more exciting and rich. Affection and friendship it is a relationship between groups, but also can be a relationship between monomer. Only the doomed love between two people are emotional, but are only different from the affection and friendship, which only exist in the heterosexual feelings.

　　Love, there is no wrong, love is what everybody has a right to a free, a kind of instinct, a private affair, no one can hinder. Because love is a kind of emotional depth, is also a kind of emotional touch with the initiation. Love is diverse, and are multiple choice, we can have a love, love can also choose a. We can love any one person, whether some people love themselves, but also may refuse to love any one person, no matter how other people love their own.

　　Love is a kind of consciousness and emotion, perhaps the first love, did not go too much about whether you win some and lose. It is undeniable that, regardless of the outcome of Department爱之深what, who can deny this love that feeling of it really?

　　Love is a spiritual and emotional depths of the edge of real experience, and this feeling of human Forever is a very sweet, very touching. Walking in the human world, in the face from the side with the vision of the vast flow of people walked in, people can really love, but for the love and infatuated and also how much? So falling in love with a person is a happy thing, and get other peoples love is also a lucky thing.

　　Love, there was no mistake! Although the face of reality, too many secular, ethical, moral, false imprisonment and regullations of the interpretation of love. But if we want to cool one, this is a responsible love and protection. Love because love and cherish are required, as there is no rules, how can draw a perfect circle it?

　　Love never is an indulgence, indulgent love with the true depth of less degree, this might love Forever is not the true meaning of love and nature.

　　Two unfamiliar people originally came together because of love, it is not easy, because it is required of each others true feelings and trust to pay in order to form the true love. Which is due to the existence of love in between, but also the most vulnerable to injuries, but also very fragile, so it should be better cherish and protect the love of primary colors, rather than its loss.

　　Love, has never been wrong! Love is a very real emotion and soul of that pulsating!

　　Love is a kind of icing on the cake of life, true love is a distillation of the precipitate after. Forever love because henme are emotional, it is doomed to love is not a harm, nor is it an incomplete. Whether because of their love and love, that is another matter.

　　As we often say: edge in man-made, were in an act of God, we should not contend with Gods arrangements. Sometimes more in need of love is a natural formation, rather than contributing to allocate Miller. Because love has its growth and a sophisticated process slowly.

　　Love does not have a gain or loss because of the nature and positioning of love. To have this love, it is happiness, even if the loss, but also learn to calm. Regardless of gain and loss, are we to deny their love, the beauty that the feeling of it? Are we on the negation of their love is true or it?

　　经典英语美文 2

　　Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a . .

　　new nation in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, ca n long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

　　But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, heave consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that form these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (268 words) By Abraham Lincoln 9. A Little Girl (1)

　　Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So completely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. . .

　　As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely. (159 words)

　　经典英语美文 3

　　Passage 5 Declaration of Independence

　　When in the Course of human events,it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands

　　which have connected them with another,and to assume among the powers of the earth,the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Natures God entitle them,a decent respect to the opinions of mankindrequires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,and to institute new Government,laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and , indeed, will dictate that Governments long establishedshould not be changed for light and transient causes;and accordingly all experience has shown,that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are when a long train of abuses and usurpations,pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce themunder absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of history of the present King of Great Britainis a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

　　经典英语美文 4

　　Springs are not always the same, In some years, April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap—and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight.

　　In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, overcome by shyness, like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight, giggling in the hallway. "I know youre out there," I cry. "Come in!" And April slips into arms. The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. With in the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. Once examined the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago The apples display their milliners scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged. All the sleeping things wake up-primrose, baby iris, blue phlox. The earth warms-you can smell it, feel it, crumble . .

　　April in your hands.

　　The dark Blue Mountains in which I dwell, great-hipped, big-breasted, slumber on the western sky. And then they stretch and gradually awaken. A warm wind, soft as a girls hair, moves sailboat clouds in gentle skies. The rain come-good rains to sleep by-and fields that were dun as oatmeal turn to pale green, then to Kelly green.

　　All this reminds me of a theme that runs through my head like a line of music. Its message is profoundly simple, and profoundly mysterious also: Life goes on. That is all there is to it. Everything that is, was; and everything that is, will be. (259 words)

　　by James J. Kilpatrick

　　经典英语美文 5

　　A huge applause echoed in the huge carpeted and Corinthian room as Jane, the most celebrated female model of the city gracefully walked along the pathway.

　　After the speech, the most awaiting moment of the salient event came- It was the question time.

　　“Well ma’am since you are the finest, the most elegant model of the city, there must be something that sprinkles some magic portion in your success, is it the watch necklace that you always wear?”

　　With a low gaze, moist eyes and a soft voice Jane said, “This watch necklace is an epitome of my lost lover Edward whose life ebbed away to the cradle of death two years ago. Yet what this Jane still have today is a symbol of a conglomeration of time and love that though Edward is physically far from my life, his presence is felt by the tinkering of this two cm needle.”

　　Time gone is like the flowing water of a gurgling river, where even if one wishes one cannot touch the same water again. What it takes and flows is a plethora of memories of our dear ones where a little something can symbolize a profound importance in someone’s life-just like the necklace watch of Jane from the gone lover-Edward.

　　经典英语美文 6

　　Be sure that you have never had any regrets in your life which only lasts for a few decades. Laugh or cry as you like, and it is meaningless to oppress yourself.

　　Among thousands of people, you meet those you’ve met. Through thousands of years, with the boundlessness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late.

　　Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten. Alter what is changeable, and accept what is mutable.

　　Apart from tears, only time could wear everything away. While feeling is being processed by time, conflicts would be reconciled as time goes by, just like a cup of tea that is being continuously diluted.

　　“You couldn’t see my tears CauseI am in the water.” Fish said to water. “But I could feel your tears cause you are in me.” Answered water.

　　It‘s true that we have been leading a difficult life, for we need not only to be under various external pressures, but also to be in the face of internal

　　perplexities. You would be affected by the warmth of life if someone gives you an understanding look during your bitter struggle. Even a mere glance would make you moved and inspired.

　　I wouldn‘t care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn‘t care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.Penitence is something that enervates our spirit, causing a greater loss than loss itself and making a good words !

　　Penitence is something that enervates our spirit, causing a greater loss than loss itself and making a bigger mistake than mistake itself, so never regret.

　　Happiness is accompanied by sorrow, and it would turn sunny after rain as well. If rain remains after rain and sorrow remains after sorrow, please take those farewells easy, and turn to smilingly look for yourself who is never to appear.

　　There is someone that is coming or passing away in your life around the clock, so you may lose sight of those seen, and forget those remembered. There is gain and loss in your life, so you may catch sight of those unseen, and remember those forgotten. Nevertheless, doesn‘t the unseen exist for sure? Will the remembered remain forever?

　　经典英语美文 7

　　All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our faculties and capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away unutilized, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. As we grow older, our power of acquisition gets blunted, so that the art or science which is not acquired in childhood or youth will never be acquired at all. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood . .

　　and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages. "Every moment you lose" says Lord Chesterfield "is so much character and advantage lost; as on the other hand, every moment you now employ usefully is so much time wisely laid out at prodigious interest."

　　A proper employment of time is of great benefit to us from a moral point of view. Idleness is justly said to be the rust of the mind and an idle brain is said to be Satans workshop. It is mostly when you do not know what to do with yourself that you do something ill or wrong. The mind of the idler preys upon itself. As Watt has said:

　　In works of labour or of skill

　　Let me be busy too;

　　For Satan finds some mischief still

　　For idle hands to do. (249 words (686 words)

　　By Robert William Service

　　经典英语美文 8

　　It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom,and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices,and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning,the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.

　　Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started,my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk,or foreman,or general manager in any concern,no matter how extensive. Say to yourself,“My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.

　　And here is the prime condition of success,the great secret: concentrate your energy,thought,and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line,resolve to fight it out on that line,to lead in it,adopt every improvement,have the best machinery,and know the most about it.

　　The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital,which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this,or that,or the other,here there,and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket,and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice,men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head,which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.

　　To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor,or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket,and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly,be not impatient,for as Emerson says,“no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”

　　Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of encouragement or an act of confidence by a loved one or a trusting friend. Had it not been for a confident wife,Sophia,we might not have listed among the great names of literature the name of Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Nathaniel,a heartbroken man,went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in a customhouse,she surprised him with an exclamation of joy.

　　"Now," she said triumphantly,"you can write your book!"

　　"Yes," replied the man,with sagging confidence,"and what shall we live on while I am writing it?"

　　To his amazement,she opened a drawer and pulled out a substantial amount of money.

　　"Where on earth did you get that?" he exclaimed.

　　"I have always know you were a man of genius," she told him. "I knew that someday you would write a masterpiece. So every week,out of the money you gave me for housekeeping,I saved a little bit. So here is enough to last us for one whole year."

　　From her trust and confidence came one of the greatest novels of American literature,The Scarlet Letter.

　　经典英语美文 9

　　Sports and games do a lot of good to our health. They can make us strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep healthy and fit. Especially they can be of great value to people who work with their brains most of the day, for sports and games give people valuable practice in exercising the body.

　　What’s more, they make our life richer and more colorful. If we do not have a strong body, we will find it hard to do whatever we want. So persons of all ages enjoy watching and taking part in various kinds of sports-track and fields, swimming, skating, football, volleyball and basketball, etc.

　　Sports and games are also very useful in character training. They demand not only physical skills and strength but also courage, endurance, discipline and usually teamwork. For boys and girls, what is learned in the playground often has a deep effect on their character. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.

　　A healthy citizen makes a strong country. Let’s all take part in sports and games.

　　经典英语美文 10

　　Catch the star that holds your destiny, the one that forever twinkles within your heart. Take advantage of precious opportunities while they still sparkle before you. Always believe that your ultimate goal is attainable as long as you commit yourself to it.

　　Though barriers may sometimes stand in the way of your dreams, remember that your destiny is hiding behind them. Accept the fact that not everyone is going to approve of the choices you’ve made. Have faith in your judgment. Catch the star that twinkles in your heart and it will lead you to your destiny’s path. Follow that pathway and uncover the sweet sunrises that await you.

　　Take pride in your accomplishments, as they are stepping stones to your dreams. Understand that you may make mistakes, but don’t let them discourage you. Value your capabilities and talents for they are what make you truly unique. The greatest gifts in life are not purchased, but acquired through hard work and determination. Find the star that twinkles in your heart—for you alone are capable of making your brightest dreams come true. Give your hopes everything you’ve got and you will catch the star that holds your destiny.

　　经典英语美文 11

　　If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect -- every action has a consequence. This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this world and the next. We Chinese have a saying: "If a man plants melons, he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans." And this is true of every mans life: good begets good, and evil leads to evil.

　　True enough, the sun shines on the saint and sinner alike, and too often it seems that the wicked wax and prosper. But we can say with certitude that, with the individual as with the nation, the flourishing of the wicked is an illusion, for, unceasingly, life keeps books on us all.

　　In the end, we are all the sum total of our actions. Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to meet the whim of the moment. Like the markings on wood which are ingrained in the very heart of the tree, character requires time and nurture for growth and development. Thus also, day by day, we write our own destiny, for inexorably we become what we do. This, I believe, is the supreme logic and the law of life.

　　经典英语美文 12

　　The United States is a sports-loving nation. Sports in America take a variety of forms: organized competitive struggles, which draw huge crowds to cheer their favorite team to victory; athletic games, played for recreation anywhere sufficient space is found; and hunting and fishing. Most sports are seasonal, so that what is happening in sports de-pends upon the time of year. Some sports are called spectator sports, as the number of spectators greatly exceeds the number playing in the game

　　Baseball is the most popular sport in the US. It is played throughout the spring and summer, and professional baseball teams play well into the fall. Although no other game is exactly like baseball, perhaps the one most nearly like it is the English game of cricket.

　　Football is the most popular sport in the fall. The game originated as a college sport more than 75 years ago. It is still played by almost every college and university in the country, and the football stadiums of some of the largest universities seat as many as 80,000 people. The game is not the same as European football or soccer. In American football there are 11 players on each team, and they are dressed in padded uniforms and helmets because the game is rough and injuries are likely to occur.

　　经典英语美文 13

　　Starbucks, thirsty for some social media magic, is releasing its latest sugary concoction: the fortune-telling Crystal Ball Frappucino.

　　The candy-sparkles festooned drink will be available for five days in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It follows similar limited-time drinks, such as the coffee chain’s color-changing Unicorn Frappuccino.

　　Starbucks hopes the cream-based new drink, which is infused with peach flavor, will be photographed by customers, posted on social media and spread around. It’s a strategy that’s worked for other chains, such as Taco Bell with its cheese-powdered Doritos tacos.

　　Analysts at Stifel, however, are skeptical that buzz will boost Starbucks sales. It’s unclear if the chain’s past gimmicks worked, and analysts called the timing of the new drink “seemingly random.” Starbucks’ Zombie Frappuccino, for instance, came out before Halloween.

　　经典英语美文 14

　　In recent years, natural disasters happened frequently around the world and have caused enormous losses of life and property to human society. They pose a common challenge to all the countries in the world.

　　China suffers the most natural disasters of all countries. Along with global climate changes and its own economic takeoff and progress in urbanization, China suffers increasing pressure on resources, environment and ecology. The situation in the prevention of and response to natural disasters has become more serious and complicated.

　　Always placing people first, the Chinese government has all along put the security of peoples lives and property on the top of its work, and has listed the disaster prevention and reduction in its economic and social development plan as an important guarantee of sustainable development. In recent years, China has been comprehensively implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, further strengthened legislation as well as the building of systems and mechanisms on dis-aster prevention and reduction, committed to building on disaster-prevention capacities, encouraged public contribution, and actively participated in international cooperation in this respect.

　　经典英语美文 15

　　a group of colleagues got together to visit their old university professor.conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life .offering his guests coffee ,the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and many styles -porcelain,plastic,glass ,some expensive, some exquisite ,telling them to help themselves to the coffee.when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand ,the professor said:if you noticed ,all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. while it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves ,that is the source of your problems and stress.

　　indeed, what all of us really want is coffee, not the cup .we consciously go for the best cups,and then we begin eying others cups.so is our life. life is the coffee,the jobs ,money and position in society are the cups. they are just tools to hold our life and the cups cant change the quality of the life we live.

　　sometimes,by concentrating only on the cup ,we fail to enjoy the coffee god has provided us .god just brews the coffee ,not the cups. so enjoy our coffee!

　　the happiest people dont have the best of everything,and they just make the best of everything.so love generously !care deeply! live simply! leave the rest to the god !

　　经典英语美文 16

　　You have a choice I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.

　　My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

　　Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.

　　Today I can fell sad that I don’t have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide me away from waste.

　　Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive.

　　Today I can lament over all that my parents didn’t give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.

　　Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses.

　　Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new relationships.

　　Today I can murmur dejectedly because I have to do housework or I can feel honored because the Lord has provided shelter for my mind, body and soul.

　　Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped. And here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.

　　What today will be like is up to me. I get to choose what kind of day I will have!

【篇一】英语优秀经典的美文赏析

　　The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, that costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

　　那能赋予生命价值、代价廉而回报多的东西，不过一个令人心畅的微笑而已。

　　The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again.

　　由衷地热爱同胞的微笑，会驱走心头阴郁的乌云，心底收获一轮夕阳。

　　It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent; it’s worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent.

　　它充满价值和美好，混合着坚毅的仁爱之心;它价值连城却不花一文。

　　There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile; It always has the same good look; it's never out of style; It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue;

　　当我们看到喜悦的微笑，忧伤就会一扫而光;它始终面容姣好，永不落伍;失败令我们沮丧之时，它鼓励我们再次尝试;

　　The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you.It pays the highest interest — for it is merely lent;

　　鼓励的笑靥于你我大有裨益。它支付的利息高昂无比──只因它是种借贷形式;

　　It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent.

　　它价值连城却不花一文。

　　A smile comes very easy — you can wrinkle up with cheer. A hundred times before you can squeeze out a salty tear. It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug, and always leaves an echo that is very like a hug.

　　来一个微笑很容易──嘴角欢快翘起来，你能百次微笑，可难得挤出一滴泪;它的涟漪深深波及心弦，总会留下反响，宛若拥抱。

　　So, smile away! Folks understand what by a smile is meant. It’s worth a million dollars, and it doesn’t cost a cent.

　　继续微笑吧!谁都懂得它意味着什么。它价值连城却不花一文。

【篇二】英语优秀经典的美文赏析

　　Time is running out for my friend. While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of starting a family. "We're taking a survey, “she says, half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby?"

　　时光任苒，朋友已经老大不小了。我们坐在一起吃饭的时候，她漫不经心地提到她和她的丈夫正考虑要小孩。“我们正在做一项调查，”她半开玩笑地说。“你觉得我应该要个小孩吗?”

　　"It will change your life," I say, carefully keeping my tone neutral. "I know," she says, "no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous holidays..."

　　“他将改变你的生活。”我小心翼翼地说道，尽量使语气保持客观。“这我知道。”她答道，“周末睡不成懒觉，再也不能随心所欲休假了……”

　　But that's not what I mean at all. I look at my friend, trying to decide what to tell her. I want her to know what she will never learn in childbirth classes. I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but becoming a mother will leave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will be vulnerable forever.

　　但我说的绝非这些。我注视着朋友，试图整理一下自己的思绪。我想让她知道她永远不可能在分娩课上学到的东西。我想让她知道：分娩的有形伤疤可以愈合，但是做母亲的情感伤痕却永远如新，她会因此变得十分脆弱。

　　I consider warning her that she will never again read a newspaper without thinking: "What if that had been MY child?" That every plane crash, every house fire will haunt her. That when she sees pictures of starving children, she will wonder if anything could be worse than watching your child die. I look at her carefully manicured nails and stylish suit and think that no matter how sophisticated she is, becoming a mother will reduce her to the primitive level of a bear protecting her cub.

　　我想告诫她：做了母亲后，每当她看报纸时就会情不自禁地联想：“如果那件事情发生在我的孩子身上将会怎样啊!”每飞机失事、每一场住宅火灾都会让她提心吊胆。看到那些忍饥挨饿的孩子们的照片时，她会思索：世界上还有什么比眼睁睁地看着自己的孩子饿死更惨的事情呢?我打量着她精修细剪的指甲和时尚前卫的衣服，心里想到：不管她打扮多么考究，做了母亲后，她会变得像护崽的母熊那样原始而不修边幅。

　　I feel I should warn her that no matter how many years she has invested in her career, she will be professionally derailed by motherhood. She might arrange for child care, but one day she will be going into an important business meeting, and she will think her baby's sweet smell. She will have to use every ounce of discipline to keep from running home, just to make sure her child is all right.

　　我觉得自己应该提醒她，不管她在工作上投入了多少年，一旦做了母亲，工作就会脱离常规。她自然可以安排他人照顾孩子，但说不定哪天她要去参加一个非常重要的商务会议，却忍不住想起宝宝身上散发的甜甜乳香。她不得不拼命克制自己，才不至于为了看看孩子是否安然无样而中途回家。

　　I want my friend to know that every decision will no longer be routine. That a five-year-old boy's desire to go to the men's room rather than the women's at a restaurant will become a major dilemma. The issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that a child molester may be lurking in the lavatory. However decisive she may be at the office, she will second-guess herself constantly as a mother.

　　我想告诉朋友，有了孩子后，她将再也不能按照惯例做出决定。在餐馆，5岁的儿子想进男厕而不愿进女厕将成为摆在她眼前的一大难题：她将在两个选择之间权衡一番：尊重孩子的独立和性别意识，还是让他进男厕所冒险被潜在的儿童性骚扰者侵害?任凭她在办公室多么果断，作为母亲，她仍经常事后后悔自己当时的决定。

　　Looking at my attractive friend, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the added weight of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself. That her own life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child. She would give it up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for more years—not to accomplish her own dreams—but to watch her children accomplish theirs.

　　注视着我的这位漂亮的朋友，我想让她明确地知道，她终会恢复到怀孕前的体重，但是她对自己的感觉已然不同。她现在视为如此重要的生命将随着孩子的诞生而变得不那么宝贵。为了救自己的孩子，她时刻愿意献出自己的生命。但她也开始希望多活一些年头，不是为了实现自己的梦想，而是为了看着孩子们美梦成真。

　　I want to describe to my friend the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to hit a ball. I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog for the first time. I want her to taste the joy that is so real it hurts.

　　我想向朋友形容自己看到孩子学会击球时的喜悦之情。我想让她留意宝宝第触摸狗的绒毛时的捧腹大笑。我想让她品尝快乐，尽管这快乐真实得令人心痛。

　　My friend's look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes. "You'll never regret it," I say finally. Then, squeezing my friend's hand, I offer a prayer for her and me and all of the mere mortal women who stumble their way into this holiest of callings.

　　朋友的表情让我意识到自己已经是热泪盈眶。“你永远不会后悔，”我后说。然后紧紧地握住朋友的手，为她、为自己、也为每一位艰难跋涉、准备响应母亲职业神圣的召唤的平凡女性献上自己的祈祷.

【篇三】英语优秀经典的美文赏析

　　A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

　　从前，有位年轻人即将大学生毕业。数月来，他一直渴望得到某汽车商产品陈列室中的一辆跑车。他知道，他那富有的父亲肯定买得起这辆车，于是，他便跟父亲说他很想得到那辆漂亮的跑车。

　　As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

　　在毕业典礼即将来临的日子里，年轻人等待着父亲买下跑车的消息。终于，在毕业典礼那天上午，父亲将他叫到自己的书房，并告诉他，有他这么出色的儿子自己感到非常自豪而且非常爱他这个儿子。接着，父亲递给儿子一个包装精美的礼品盒。年轻人感到好奇，但带着些许失望地打开礼品盒，却发现里面是一本精美的精装本《圣经》，上面以金子凸印着年轻人的名字。看罢，年轻人怒气冲冲地向父亲大喊道：“你有那么多钱，却只给我一本《圣经》?”说完，便丢下《圣经》，愤怒地冲出房子。

　　Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

　　多年以后，年轻人已事业有成。他拥有一所漂亮的房子，一个温馨的家庭。但当得知父亲年事已高，他想，或许应该去看看他。自从毕业那天起他就一直不见父亲。就在起程时，他收到一封电报——父亲已逝世，并已立下遗嘱将其所有财产转给儿子。他要立即回父亲家处理后事。

　　When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words... "PAID IN FULL".

　　在父亲的房子里，他突然内心感到一阵悲伤与懊悔。他开始仔细搜寻父亲的重要文件，突然发现了那本《圣经》——还跟几年前一样崭新。他噙着泪水打开《圣经》并一页一页地阅读着。忽然，从书的背面掉出一把钥匙。钥匙上挂着一个标签，上面写着一个汽车经销商的名字——正是他曾渴望的那辆跑车的经销商。标签上还有他的毕业日期及“款已付清”的字样。

　　How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

　　我们多少次地与祝福擦肩而过，仅仅因为他们没有按我们想象中的样子包装好?不要在渴望得到没有的东西时损坏你已经拥有的东西，但要记住一点：你现在所拥有的恰恰正是你曾经一心渴望得到的。

　　Sometimes we don't realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect "the packaging" to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.

　　有时，我们并没有意识到我们已经拥有或本该拥有的好运，仅仅因为它的外表与我们想象中的有所不同。其实，表面上看起来像是坏运气的东西或许正是等待开启的幸运之门。

　英语经典美文 1

　　She left her shoes: she took everything else--her toothbrush, her clothes, and even that stupid little silver vase on the table we kept candy in. Just dumped it out on the table and took the vase. The tiny apartment we shared seemed different now:her stuff was gone. It wasnt much really, although now the room seemed like a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing incomplete. The closet seemed empty too most of it was her stuff anyway. But there they were at the bottom, piled up like they usually were ,every single one of them,Why did she leave her shoes?She could have forgotten them, I knew too well that she took great pride in her shoe collection, but there they still were, right down to her favorite pair of sandals.They were black with a design etched into the wide band that stretched across the top of them,the soles scuffed and worn,a delicate imprint of where her toes rested was visible in the soft fabr.

　　It seemed funny to me she walkcd out of my life without her shoes. Is that irony or am thinking of something else? In a way I was glad they were still here, she would have to come back for them, right?I mean how could she go on with the rest of her life without her shoes? But shes not coming back,I know she isnt. she would rather walk barefoot over glass than have to see me all of her shoes! All of them. every sneaker, boot and sandal, every high heel and clog, every flip-Ilop.What do I do? Do I leave them here or bag them up and throw thorn in the a trash? Do I look at them every morning when I get dressed and wonder by she left them? She knew it" she knows what she"s doing. I cant throw them out for fear she may return for them today. I cant be rid of myself of her completely with all her shoes still in my life, cant dispose of them or the person that walked in them.

　　Her shoes left deep foot print up my heart, and I cant sweep it away.All I can do is stare at them and wonder, stare at their laces and straps, their buttons and tread.They still connect me to her though, in come distant bizarre way.I cant remember the good times we had,which pair she was wearing at that moment in time.They are hers and no one elses.She wore down the heels,and she scuffed their sides, its her fragile footpaint imbedded on the insole .I sit on the floor next to them and wonder how many places had she gone while wearing,these shots, how many miles had she walked in them, which pair was she wearing when she decided to leave me? I pick up a high heel she often wore and absently smell it.I dont think it is disgusting.Its just the last tangible link I have to her, the last bit of reality I have of her. She left her shoes; she took everything else except her shots.They remain at the bottom of my closet, a shrine to her memory.

　　英语经典美文 2

　　Life in the world, who can not know yourself? An old song sings well, "friend and friend, have you ever remembered me?" If you are suffering from misfortune, please tell me. " A friend can feel dependent on your helplessness. It can help you to feel sorrow when you are most miserable. A friend is such a person. Do you have a bosom friend?

　　My popularity is pretty good. The so-called "friends" pile up, but there are not many of them, but they are not. Jiang Dan, a girl in my neighborhood, is my real confidant.

　　She has thick eyebrows, bright eyes, not tall but slender. When we are in the same primary school, we can say that it is inseparable. The entrance to the middle school is separated, but on the holiday, we stick together like a plaster. A lot of things have happened to me and her.

　　Remember that autumn, my father went to the field trip, mom and a temporary home to work overtime, I am the only one person, perhaps is a ghost story to see more, feel the house ghosts, the wind blew out of the trees rustling, I heard is frightened. Has more than seven points, I am afraid, then try holding the psychological to call Dan Jiang, she sought the consent of the parents, with the fastest speed and rushed to my house, he asked me not to eat dinner at home, advised me not to be afraid of such problems, and chat with me homework. Then she came back too late, and she slept in my house all night, and that night her every detail really touched me for a while.

　　Recently, because of some of my trivial things, we were unpleasant. At the beginning, no one would like to talk to anyone, but I realized for a few days that, because my mistake might lose this good friend, I sincerely apologized to her, or she magnanimous, immediately forgave me.

　　I have experienced a lot of bitterness and joy with Jiang Dan, I like her, she is my intimate friend!

　　英语经典美文 3

　　Why is setting goals important? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life. Instead of just letting life happen to you, goals allow you to make your life happen.

　　Successful people imagine how their life should be and set lots of goals. By setting goals you are taking control of your life. It"s like having a map to show you where you want to go. Think of it this way. There are two drivers. One has a destination in mind which can be found on a map. She can drive straight there without any wasted time of wrong turns. The other driver has no goal, or destination or map. She starts off at the same time from the same place as the first driver, but she driver aimlessly around, never getting anywhere, just using up gas. Which driver do you want to be?

　　Winners in life set goals and follow through on them. They decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and setting goals. Unsuccessful people just let life happen by accident. Goals aren"t difficult to set and they aren"t difficult to reach. It"s up to you to find out what you goals really are. You are the one who must decide what to achieve and in what direction to aim your life.

　　Research tells us that when we write a goal down we are more likely to achieve it. Written goals can be reviewed regularly, and have more power. Like a contract with yourself, they are harder to neglect or forget. Also when you write your goals in a particular way you are able to make yourself continuously aware of situations that will bring you nearer to your goal.

　　英语经典美文 4

　　John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way1 through Grand Central Station2.

　　He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun 12 months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself absorbed3, not by the words of the book, but by the notes penciled in the margin4. The soft handwriting showed a thoughtful soul and insightful5 mind.

　　In the front of the book, he discovered the previous6 owner s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he found her exact address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to write him. The next day he was shipped to another country for service in World War II.

　　During the next year and one month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile7 heart. A love began to develop. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She explained: “If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won t matter. Suppose I m beautiful I d always be worried by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would make me sick. Suppose I m plain 8(and you must admit that this is more likely). Then I would always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. No, don t ask for my picture. When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your own decision. Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that—whichever we choose... ”

　　英语经典美文 5

　　I feel very presumptuous and uncomfortable about trying to explain out loud the things Ibelieve in. But I do think that all human problems are in some way related to each other, soperhaps if people compare their experiences they may discover something in common in huntingthe answers.

　　I am a very fortunate man for I lead a full and what is for me a happy life. I say this eventhough I happen to have had, in the course of it, a couple of severe personal blows.

　　My first wife collapsed and died one day while she and I were ice skating, after eighteen years ofa most happy existence together. My only son, a sergeant in the army combat engineers, waskilled in Italy in the last war. Nevertheless, these tragedies did not throw me completely and Ihave been able to fill my life anew with happiness.

　　I do not mean to sound calloused. Those blows hurt me deeply. I guess that two basicallyimportant things helped me most to recover. One is the fact that I have come to see life as agamble. The other is a belief in what some people call the hereafter. I try to live fully so thatwhen and if my luck changes there will be little room for regret or recrimination over time lost ormisspent. My belief in the hereafter is wrapped in the intangible but stubborn thoughts of alayman. Very likely I would get lost in trying to describe or defend, by cold logic, my belief inGod but nobody could argue me out of it.

　　I have come to believe that I owe life as much as it owes me, and I suppose that explains thisfine satisfaction I get out of endeavoring to do a job to the best of what ability I have, and outof helping somebody else.

　　As a kid I used to ride a rake in the hayfields. I got a tremendous kick out of trying to sweepevery field clean as a whistle. Here I made a surprising and happy discovery: that there couldbe actual enjoyment in the exercise of thoroughness and responsibility, and that duty didn’thave to be a drudge.

　　I don’t know exactly why, but I like to do things for other people. Not only familyresponsibilities, work on a hospital board, and various church organizations but also the mostinconsequential things that might hardly seem worth the time. My office happens to be onIndependence Square and now and then I have occasion to direct a tourist to the Liberty Bell orfill him in on a little of the history of Philadelphia. The tourist doesn’t seem to mind and it makesme feel good. I’m afraid I’m not very profound. I have tried to comprehend why somethingso simple and so sound as the Golden Rule is so often forgotten or held in disrepute. I canonly say—and I say this quite selfishly—that I have found it a good investment. It has paid me avery high return, undoubtedly more than I deserve.

　　英语经典美文 6

　　What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness.

　　But is not transitoriness - the perishableness of life - something very sad? No! It is the verysoul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest to life. Transitoriness creates time - and"time is the essence." Potentially at least, time is the supreme, most useful gift.

　　Time is related to - yes, identical with - everything creative and active, every process towarda higher goal.

　　Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either.Timelessness - in the sense of time never ending, never beginning - is a stagnant nothing. It isabsolutely uninteresting.

　　Life is possessed by tremendous tenacity. Even so its presence remains conditional, and asit had a beginning, so it will have an end. I believe that life, just for this reason, is exceedinglyenhanced in value, in charm.

　　One of the most important characteristics distinguishing man from all other forms of nature ishis knowledge of transitoriness, of beginning and end, and therefore of the gift of time.

　　In man transitory life attains its peak of animation, of soul power, so to speak. This does notmean alone would have a soul. Soul quality pervades all beings. But mans soul is most awakein his knowledge of the interchangeability of the term "existence" and "transitoriness".

　　To man time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; a spacein which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, more onward and upward. Yes, with theaid of time, man becomes capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.

　　Deep down, I believe - and deem such belief natural to every human soul - that in the universityprime significance must be attributed to this earth of ours. Deep down I believe that creation ofthe universe out of nothingness and of life out of inorganic state ultimately aimed at thecreation of man. I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possible failure ofmans own guilt would be paramount to the failure of creation itself.

　　Whether this belief be true or not, man would be well advised if he behaved as though it were.

　　英语经典美文 7

　　Part car, part jet fighter, part spaceship, Bloodhound SSC aims to be the first land vehicle to break the 1,000mph barrier. One of the key challenges has been to design the wheels. How do you create the fastest wheels in history, make them stable and reliable at supersonic speeds, and with limited resources?

　　After much deliberation, and devising ideas that pushed the boundaries of material technology, Mark Chapman, chief engineer of the Bloodhound project said the team decided to take a step back and change the way they were trying to solve problems. “There’s very little we’ve actually developed that’s new,” he says, “what’s unique is how we apply technologies.”

　　They adopted an approach called the design of experiments – a mathematical technique of problem solving through doing lots of little experiments and then looking at the statistics all glued together. “All of a sudden, where we’d been knocking our head against the wall for maybe two, three, four months, we came up with a wheel design that would hold together and was strong enough,” he says.

　　英语经典美文 8

　　He rounded the corner where cornstalks still stood, tattered heroes of the garden patch. Late-afternoon sunlight filtered through a canopy of bare branches, laying down a grid of shadows. Underfoot, the crunch of dry, caramel-colored leaves sounded the music of a Colorado autumn.

　　It was the season for "after harvest." Or, what Emma called their "time of plenty." A time to count their many blessings. Long after the last sun-ripened tomato was picked, the last of the autumn raspberries eaten and the garden put to bed for the winter, his wife always insisted on seeking out the later gifts of nature.

　　Fred knew the best places to start. Hadn"t he searched and gathered on every square foot of this property for forty-four years now? Planted it? Tended it? If Emma were here, she"d be out here with him.

　　But Emma wasn"t here. So he would do alone what they had always rejoiced in doing together.

　　At the grape arbor, Fred took out his pocketknife and cut away aged vines, careful to take only the overgrowth. When he had enough, he tucked and plaited, wove and wrapped, shaping the supple lengths to form a wreath.

　　At the lip of their hand-dug pond, Fred pawed through the disheveled heads of cattails. Finding two still nappy and whole, he snapped them from their stalks and laced them through one side of the circle.

　　At the fence line, Fred clipped a few twigs of juniper berries and harvested two feathery plumes from the towering pampas grass. Thick fingers knew automatically where to put them, how to secure them.

　　He paused beneath a flaming mountain ash. Its clumps of jack-o"-lantern orange berries added a festive touch. Satisfied, he studied the wreath, inspecting it for soundness. For balance. For beauty.

　　The drive to the Alzheimer"s unit was short and pleasant. Humming under his breath, Fred nodded a greeting at the nurses" station and walked into the day room.

　　Emma stared unseeingly out the bank of windows while her veined hand plucked rhythmically at her blouse. Fred laid his offering on a round table and leaned to kiss her.

　　"Look what I made today, sweetheart. It"s "after harvest," and the property is brimming with all your favorite things." Fred pointed to the circle. Emma"s bleached blue eyes focused on the wreath.

　　"Just see how thick and sound the grapevines are now, Emma. Remember how you insisted we plant those spindly things the very first year we moved to the farm?" Stilling her hand with his own, he guided her fingers around the broad circle.

　　"Why, looky here. Pampas grass. And cattails, two of them. One for you and one for me." Her tentative finger traced the velvety lengths.

　　"And, oh, sweetie, these beauties are clustered thick on the mountain ash. Nearly had to fight off the grackles to get to them this year!"

　　Emma was smiling. Fred squeezed her hand and grinned back. If she couldn"t tromp through the seasons herself, then he would bring those blessings to her. After all, it was a "time of plenty" - plenty of memories.

　　And Fred had gathered enough for both of them.

　　英语经典美文 9

　　As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant of success in times of uncertainty.

　　Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind. Whats worse, the animal instinct dormant deep in our sub-conscious will come to life.weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization.

　　Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

　　英语经典美文 10

　　As Anna looked out the window of her old beach house on the edge of the emerald sea, she bedpan to remember all the beautiful memories she had there throughout her many years. One memory in particular seemed to come to mind It was about 70 years ago late in the month of.August. Anna was 16 years old and that was her first summer together with Peter. Although she felt that she had been with him forever, it had only been a short month since then had tirst met on that very beach. This particular day was so memorable that Anna found herself thinking about it all the time, since Peter ha、passed away.

　　Early that morning at about 5:45, Anna awoke to the sound of a tapping on her window. When she opened the window, to her surprise Peter was standing there with a

　　picnic basket and a blanket. Peter told Anna that since it was his last day at the beach this summer that he wanted to spend the entire day with her. from the time of the sunrise to after the sunset on the horizon. After they watched the sunrise early that and ate their romantic picnic breakfast. they一sat on the swing at the nearby park.They talked for hours on end, telling each other how they would keep in touch until they could be together the following summer.

　　It was a beautiful day and the aun beamed down on them in the early afternoon as they swam in the waves of the crystal clear water at the beach. Anna could remember them splashing and playing in the water for what has seemed like a million years and not knowing where all the time had gone.

　　It was already starting to get dark on the beach. So then, Anna and Peter dried off and found a pretty spot at the top of a hill they had often gone to talk throughout the summer. They set out their blankets and laid in each others arm until all of sudder it began to pour. Most people would have thought that the rain would put a damper on their prfect day, but Anna still remembers the strike of excitement it sent through her, as the drops poured down.The way Peter had taken her by the hand and led her down the side of muddy hill to the beach sent chills up her spine.They began to dance right there on the sand, in th a pouring rain. As they danced. in each other strong embrace.Anna could still remember Peters exact words. He said to her.‘f love you Anna and f want to be with you and only you for the rest of my life’At that very moment. Anna knew that she felt exactly the same and that they would be together for the rest of their lives.

　　As the rain bedpan to stop and the clouds cleared from the sky, Peter and Anna sat down to watch the most beautiful sunset that either of them had ever seen. Peter walked Anna home that night and regardless of how hard it was for the both of them to say good-bye; they both knew it had to happen eventually. Throughout that year, Anna still remembers sending and receiving dozens of letters and pictures to keep in touch.

　　Thinking back through the 69 wonderful years that they had together, that one day is the one that stands out most in her mind Although she had many more memories that are unforgettable with Peter, she still thinks back to the way he looked that night. The way his wet dark hair fell over his sapphire blue eyes still put butterflies in Annas stomach’!In addition, the way that his strong body made her feel so safe as they danced in the rain, like ht would never let her go.

　　Anna spent many days and nights for the past nine months since Peter had passed away reminiscing" about that one special day they had together, she never regretted any of the time they had spent together. She only cherished the way that sun looked as it raised and tell over the horizon. Anna continued to sit by her windowsill and dream of yesterday and she would continue to until the day she could be with her one true love, Peter again.

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　　There’s a word for this rainy winter day. That word is sullen. It describes the lead-gray sky pressing down upon us. It describes the fire smoldering in the hearth, mysteriously seeming to suck every bit of warmth out of the bleak, dank room.

　　But most of all it describes my spirit. I stare longingly out the window at the frost-wilted princess tree, and at the bare brown flower beds. Not so very long ago I was outside in the sunshine, inhaling the fragrance of rosemary and lavender, and picking a nosegay of penstemon and anemone. My mind remembers it, but my heart has forgotten it.

　　The rank smell of rotting garbage yanks me rudely into the kitchen. A milk carton, heaped with browning banana peels, onionskins and broccoli ends, reproaches me.

　　Last summer, the one I’m struggling to recall, my husband built me my heart’s desire: a compost bin. I delighted in my daily trip down the hill to dump the refuse on the pile.

　　But that was then, this is now. Now the wind slashes rain against the windows. I shiver. I don’t want to go out. But one thing is plain (and I may embroider it on a sampler): the compost pile waits for no woman.

　　Reluctantly I gear up in a hooded rainproof coat and heavy black boots. Snatching the milk carton, I shut the door behind me, a little harder than necessary.

　　The wet slaps my face like the tail of a fish. It steals my breath. I gasp and pull my hood so low over my eyes that I can barely see, and slip and stumble down the driveway. My garbage spills, and I crouch, buffeted by the lashing storm.

　　And there, not two feet from me, is a yellow crocus, and behind it, a purple one, each satin tube swelling and preparing to open. Deep, deep within me I feel a similar softening. I glance up to see an iridescent-green hummingbird hunkered down a fir branch, sheltered against the tree’s trunk. He doesn’t seem as surprised to see me as I am to see him.

　　I fling my waste on the compost pile. On the way back up the hill, I taste the sweetness of the sharp, sodden wind.

　　Tender green daffodil leaves poke through the grass, some even showing yellow buds. The blossom of one azure dwarf iris reflects the summer sky present only in my imagination. A maroon-and-orange salamander stalks across my path—a miniature dinosaur on a mission.

　　Back at the front door, I stop with the cold doorknob clutched in my even colder fist. Why go in? I certainly couldn’t get any wetter.

　　So I slosh through the yard, leaning against the wind and discovering more joys: a witch hazel sporting pale-yellow pompom-like blossoms, with a brisk citrusy scent. Dark-eyed juncos feasting at the suet cake. The tiniest unfurling of pale green at the tips of the alder trees’ branches. One lone azalea blooming brilliant red against the gray.

　　A jay scolds me shrilly from high within the wildly whipping branches of a cedar. “What are you looking at?” he seems to ask. “What’s there to see?”

　　This is what I see, I tell him silently. I see winter on the wane, slowly counting down to spring. I see that I will, someday, kneel again in my flower bed with a shawl of sunshine upon my shoulders and the scent of rosemary so sharp I taste it. I see sprouting, crawling, flying life, undeterred by weather.

　　But mostly what I see is that there’s glory to be found even in a sullen winter’s day.

　　英语经典美文 12

　　A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

　　A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

　　Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

　　A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.

　　Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.

　　Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

　　The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.

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　　Ive been acting like an egg striking a rock. What is this egg? Its the campaign against the old-fashioned way of teaching . And what s the rock? It s the old-fashioned way of setting exams. So long as the old type of I.R. examination remains in force, the campaign against the old method of teaching I.R. cant win. Its like an egg striking a rock. Many people agree： Yes, this old-fashioned I.R. (OFIR) is certainly intensive; it calls for most intensive work by the students. But it doesnt teach them how to read. The more intensively the students study, the fewer books they read. And OFIR doesnt teach them language well either. Learning a language means learning to use it. OFIR doesnt do that. It teaches mainly about the language.

　　Well, if so many teachers and students agree that OFIR doesnt teach people how to read, why arent they willing to give it up? Because of that rock - the rock of the old examination system. If that rock is not smashed, the egg is smashed. The campaign against OFIR cant be won.

　　Many I. R. exams, until now, have actually includec reading material studied during the term. Does that examim how well the students have learnt to read? No. It examine how well they have learnt by heart the reading texts and the explanations the teacher has given them. A student might ge high marks on such .a test without having learnt to read much better than before she took the course. A true test would consist of unseen passages. That would show how well a studew could read and how much she had learnt.

　　英语经典美文 14

　　A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the persons unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely. A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still enjoy lifes exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain.

　　Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity indifferent to fame or wealth. There is no need to resort to hair-dyeing；the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elders company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with. As long as one singing, as if in rivalry.

　　As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely. Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way, and these matched in hue her eyebrows, and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the sunlight. All this I did not take in at once; for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.

　　英语经典美文 15

　　Both are so much related to each other． And both are so dissimilar！ What are the differences between friendship and love? Is platonic friendship possible between persons of opposite sex? Let us try and understand．

　　What is friendship? Why do we call a person our friend? When do we call someone a very good friend? If we care for a person， if we are always ready to help that person and if we share most of our thoughts with a person， they are our good friends． We can always count upon our good friends in an emergency． We are always sure that our friend will understand why we acted in a certain way． We need not explain anything to our very good friends． The friendship is so deep and the relationship is so intimate， that most of the things are automatically understood by our friends．

　　What about love? In a relationship of deep love， all the sharing that we discussed above are taken for granted． But love transcends all this． During love， we are attached with a particular person， while in friendship， one may have many friends． A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other， that one gets pained if his/her beloved is hurt！ Love also involves a physical element． Friendship does not have that． This is a vital difference． Nature gives us love so that the specie can go forward． Nature does not give us friendship．

　　Your heart beats will never increase in anticipation of meeting your friend． You will not lie awake at night thinking about your friend． You will not feel totally lost， if you dont meet your friend for a few days． You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend． But in love， you will do all this and much more． Indeed， there is no comparison between love and friendship．

　　英语经典美文 16

　　It was New Years night .An aged man was standing at awindow. He raised his mournful eyes towards the deep blue sky,where the stars were floating like white lilies on the surface of aclear calm lake. When he cast them on the earth where fewmore hopeless people than himself now moved towards theircertain goal-the tomb. He had already passed sixty of the stagesleading to it, and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and remorse. Now his healthwas poor, his mind vacant, his heart sorrowful, and his old age short of comforts.

　　The days of his youth appeared like dream before him, and he recalled the serious moment whenhis father placed him at the entrances of the two roads One leading to a peaceful, sunny placecovered with flowers, fruits and resounding with soft, sweet songs; the other leading to a deepdark cave which was endless, where poison flowed instead of water and where devils and poisonsnakes hissed and crawled.

　　He looked towards the sky and cried painfully,"0h youth, return! Oh, my father, place me oncemore at the entrance to life and III chose the better way!

　　"But both his father and the days of hisyouth had passed away.

　　He saw the lights flowing away in the darkness, and these were the days of his wasted life; he saw astar fall from the sky and disappeared, and this was the symbol of himself .His remorse which waslike a sharp arrow struck deeply into his heart. Then he remembered his friends in his childhood,which entered life together with him. But they had made their way to success and were nowhonored and happy on this New Years night.

　　The clock in the high church tower struck and the sound made him remember his parents earlylove for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his good. But he chose the wrong waywith shame and grief he dared no longer to look towards the heaven where his father lived. Hisdarkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort. He burst out a cry:"Come back, myearly days! Come back! "

　　英语经典美文 17

　　Italians know and love good food. Its at the heart of their culture. They dont like to rush through their meals, either.

　　In 1986, something happened in Italy. A McDonalds opened in Rome. Many Italians were surprised and angry. They thought, "This is an attack on Italian culture!" one man, Carl Petrini, decided to fight back. "Fast food is the enemy," he said. He started a group called Slow Food. Today about 80 000 people from over 100 countries belong to the group. It began as a humorous but determined attempt to preserve Italian foods and support small restaurants from the pressures of international fast food companies. It has grown into an international movement to preserve local foods and culinary traditions and to conserve agricultural biodiversity.

　　Fast food is reaching more and more parts of the world. But Slow Food is getting its message to more and more people, too.

　　英语经典美文 18

　　I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column, holding skirts and cling subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grass-land, while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.

　　The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumns mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father.

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　　A very old song tells us that "you are my sunshine".

　　It‘s all right to believe that someone brings sunshine into your life. That someone might have enough to spread round. But, if you really have to wait for someone else to be your sunshine, your good feelings, then you might wait for a long time.

　　Now is the time to be of good cheer, this very moment. Don’t wait for anyone else to determine your mood. You have completely control of your own disposition. You have the choice. There is no other way.

　　Your present moment of good cheer will carry you to the next, and you will be in control of that moment also. You are worth having good. Go for it!

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　　Whether you are thinking about your personality or your life in general, success means focusing on the here-and-now. While it is important to acknowledge the choices and experiences which resulted in you being where you are today, it is equally important to not allow yourself to become so caught up in thoughts of the past that the present day passes you by.

　　Self-motivation is the key to ensuring that you do not continue repeating the same mistakes. You may have had one or more errors in judgment which led you to take the wrong path, or to make mistakes that were not in your best interest. You can acknowledge this without rehashing them over and over again in your mind, and simply be determined to make different, better decisions today.

英语短文美文欣赏 篇1

　　Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials---capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being---a productive person, a winner.

　　The word “winner” and “loser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.

　　Winners do not dedicated their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence and manipulating others. They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.

　　Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinions and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.

　　Winners do not play “helpless”, nor do they play the blaming game. Instead, they assume responsibility for their own lives. They don’t give others a false authority over them. Winners are their own bosses and know it.

　　A winner’s timing is right. Winners respond appropriately to the situation. Their responses are related to the message sent and preserve the significance, worth, well-being, and dignity of the people involved. Winners know that for everything there is a season and for every activity a time.

　　Although winners can freely enjoy themselves, they can also postpone enjoyment, can discipline themselves in the present to enhance their enjoyment in the future. Winners are not afraid to go after what he wants, but they do so in proper ways. Winners do not get their security by controlling others. They do not set themselves up to lose.

　　A winner cares about the world and its peoples. A winner is not isolated from the general problems of society, but is concerned, compassionate, and committed to improving the quality of life. Even in the face of national and international adversity, a winner’s self-image is not one of a powerless individual. A winner works to make the world a better place.

　　人皆生而为新，为前所未有之所存在；人皆生而能赢。人皆有其特立独行之方式去审视，聆听，触摸，品味及思考，因而都具备独特潜质-能力和局限。人皆能举足轻重，思虑明达，洞察秋毫，富有创意，成就功业。

　　“成者”与“败者”含义颇多。谈及成者我们并非指令他人失意之人。对我们而言，成者必为人守信，值得信赖，有求必应，态度诚恳，或为个人，或为社会一员皆能以真诚回应他人。

　　成者行事并不拘泥于某种信条，即便是他们认为应为其奉献一生的理念；而是本色行事，所以并不把精力用来表演，保持伪装或操控他人。他们明了爱与装家，愚蠢与装傻，博学与卖弄之间迥然有别。成者无须藏于面具之后。

　　成者敢于利用所学，独立思考，区分事实与观点，且并不佯装通晓所有答案。他们倾听，权衡他人意见，但能得出自己的结论。尽管他们尊重，敬佩他们，但并不为他们所局限，所推翻，所束缚，也不对他人敬若神灵。

　　成者既不佯装“无助”，亦不抱怨他人。相反，他们对人生总是独担责任，也不以权威姿态凌驾他人之上。他们主宰自己，而且能意识到这点。

　　成者善于审时度势，随机应变。他们对所接受的信息做出回应，维护当事人的利益，康乐和尊严。成者深知成一事要看好时节，行一事要把握时机。

　　尽管成者可以自由享乐，但他更知如何推迟享乐，适时自律，以期将来乐趣更盛。成者并不忌惮追求所想，但取之有道，也并不靠控制他们而获取安然之感。他们总是使自己立于不败。

　　成者心忧天下，并不孤立尘世弊病之外，而是置身事内，满腔热情，致力于改善民生。即使面对民族，国家之危亡，成者亦非无力回天之个体。他总是努力令世界更好。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇2

　　To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

　　It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

　　要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一个人至少应该有两三种业余爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到了晚年才开始说“我要培养这个或那个兴趣”是毫无用处的，种这种尝试只会增加精神上的重担。在与自己日常工作无关的领域中，一个人可以获得渊博的知识，但却很难有所收益或得到放松。做自己喜欢的事是无益的，你得喜欢自己所做的事。广言之，人可以分为三个类别：劳累而死的人，忧虑而死的人和无聊而死的人。对于那些体力劳动者来说，一周辛苦的工作使他们精疾力竭，因此在周六下午给他们提供踢足球或者打棒球的机会是没有意义的。对于政界人士，专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为棘手的事务操劳或者烦恼了六天，因此在周末请他们为琐事劳神同样毫无意义。

　　或者可以这么说，理智的，奋斗的，有用的人可以分为两类：对第一类人而言，工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；对于第二类人而言，工作和娱乐是合二为一的。很大一部分人属于前者。他们可以得到相应的补偿。在办公室或工厂里长时间的工作，不仅带给他们维持生计的金钱，还带给他们一种渴求娱乐的强烈欲望，哪怕这种娱乐消遣是以最简单，最淳朴的方式进行的。而第二类人则是命运的宠儿。他们的生活自然而和谐。在他们看来，工作时间永远不够多，每天都是假期；而当正常的假日到来时，他们总会抱怨自己有趣的休假被强行中断。然而，有一些东西对于这两类人来说都十分必要，那就是变换一下视角，改变一下气氛，尝试做点不同的事情。事实上，那些把工作看作娱乐的人可能是需要以某种方式将工作不时地驱赶出自己的大脑。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇3

　　A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

　　Mirrors have a very particular function. They reflect the image in front of them. Just as a physical mirror serves as the vehicle to reflection, so do all of the people in our lives.

　　When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden serves as a reflection. In order to see the beauty in front of us, we must be able to see the beauty inside of ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. We have often heard things like “I love how I am when I’m with that person.” That simply translates into “I’m able to love me when I love that other person.” Oftentimes, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we “click”. Sometimes it’s as if we’ve known each other for a long time. That feeling can come from sharing similarities.

　　Just as the “mirror” or other person can be a positive reflection, it is more likely that we’ll notice it when it has a negative connotation. For example, it’s easy to remember times when we have met someone we’re not particularly crazy about. We may have some criticism in our mind about the person. This is especially true when we get to know someone with whom we would rather spend less time.

　　Frequently, when we dislike qualities in other people, ironically, it’s usually the mirror that’s speaking to us.

　　I began questioning myself further each time I encountered someone that I didn’t particularly like. Each time, I asked myself, “What is it about that person that I don’t like?” and then “Is there something similar in me?” in every instance, I could see a piece of that quality in me, and sometimes I had to really get very introspective. So what did that mean?

　　It means that just as I can get annoyed or disturbed when I notice that aspect in someone else, I better reexamine my qualities and consider making some changes. Even if I’m not willing to make a drastic change, at least I consider how I might modify some of the things that I’m doing.

　　At times we meet someone new and feel distant, disconnected, or disgusted. Although we don’t want to believe it, and it’s not easy or desirable to look further, it can be a great learning lesson to figure out what part of the person is being reflected in you. It’s simply just another way to create more self-awareness.

　　充满爱意人的生活在充满爱意的世界里，充满敌意的人则生活在充满敌意的世界里。你所遇到的每一个人都是你的镜子。

　　镜子里有一个非常独特的功能，那就是映射出在其前面的影像。就像真正的镜子具有反射功能一样，我们生活中的所有人也都能映射出他人的影子。

　　当我们看到美丽的事物时，例如一座花园，那这花园就起到了反射作用。为了发现我们面前美好的事物，我们必须能发现在自己内在的美。我们爱某个人，也正是我们爱自己的表现。我们经常听到这样的话：“当我和那个人在一起的时候，我爱那时的自己。”这句话也可以简单地说成：“在我爱那个人的同时，我也能爱我自己。”有时，我们遇见一个陌生人，感觉仿佛是一见如故，就好像我们已经相识甚久。这种熟悉感可能来自于彼此身上的共同点。

　　就像“镜子”或他人能映射出我们积极的一面一样，我们更有可能注意到映射出自己消极方面的“镜子”。例如，我们很容易就能记住我们碰到自己不太喜欢的人的时刻。我们可能在心里对那个人有些反感。当我们认识自己不喜欢与之相处的人时，这种情况就更为明显。

　　具有讽刺意味着的是，通常当我们厌倦别人身上的某些特质时，那就说明你其实厌倦自己身上相类似的特质。

　　每次，当我遇到不太喜欢的人时，我就开始进一步质问自己。我会扪心自问：“我不喜欢那个人的哪些方面？”然后还会问：“我是不是有和他相似的地方？”每次，我都能在自己身上看到一些令我厌恶的特质。我有时不得不深刻地反省自己。那这意味着什么呢？

　　这意味着，就像我会对其他人身上令我厌恶的特征感到恼怒或不安一样，我应该更好地重新审视自己的特质，并考虑做一些改变。即使我不想做大的改变，至少我会考虑该如何修正自己正在做的一些事情。

　　我们时常会遇到陌生人，并感到疏远或厌恶。尽管我们不想去相信，不容易也不想去深究，但是弄清楚别人的哪些特质在自己身上有所体现是非常有意义的一课，这也正是增强自我意识的另一个途径。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇4

　　A person's purest charm comes from his manners.

　　一个人最根本的魅力，来自他的修养。

　　This kind of charm doesn't need any decoration. It comes out of your heart and reaches directly into others' hearts.

　　这种魅力不需要任何外在的修饰，它发源于内心，也直抵其他人的心。

　　Spending time with someone who has good manners makes one feel comfortable.

　　与一个有教养的人相处，会让人觉得舒服。

　　And isn't comfort what we want the most in our daily life?

　　而舒服难道不是我们在生活中最想得到的东西吗？

　　People like this know how to stand in others' shoes. They know when they should reach out a helping hand.

　　这样的人，知道怎样站在别人的角度想问题，知道什么时候应该伸出援手。

　　And what is the most basic manner that one can have?

　　而一个人最基本的修养是什么？

　　It's knowing to respect people.

　　那就是懂得尊重。

　　No one can survive in this world all by himself. We all need help sometimes.

　　没有谁能独立地生活在这个世界上，我们总会在某些时候需要别人的帮忙。

　　And it takes respect to make others help you.

　　而让别人帮忙的前提，就是尊重。

　　Respect is the most baseline manner.

　　尊重，是最基本的修养。

　　And manner is the last kind of charm which a person can afford to lose.

　　而修养，是最不可或缺的魅力。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇5

　　Who can say that their lives are not insignificant?

　　谁的生活不琐碎呢？

　　Everyone's life is composed with one after another insignificant day.

　　我们的一生，都是由这一个个琐碎的一天构成的。

　　Some people got their willpower abraded in this endless loop of days.

　　有的人在这日复一日的循环中被消磨了意志。

　　They think this is how things can only be like.

　　认为一切也就这样了。

　　So they choose to reach a compromise and become mediocre. They become the background colors in others' eyes. They won't achieve anything great to be written down in history, nor can they bring any enjoyment to the people around them.

　　于是他们选择与平庸妥协，成为别人眼中的背景颜色，不光不会在历史上留下一笔伟绩，甚至无法为身边的人平添一抹色彩。

　　They are alive, but deep down in their hearts something important has died.

　　他们活着，但他们心中的一部分已经死了。

　　And there are another kind of people. They choose to live with dignity.

　　而另一些人，他们依旧选择有尊严地活着。

　　A graceful lifestyle is not a show for others to watch. You live it because you deserve it. Through it, you are avoiding to become a victim of this cruel world.

　　优雅的生活方式并不是为别人做的表演，而是为了对得起自己，让自己不会成为无情社会摧残下的牺牲品。

　　This kind of people know how to find joy in simple things. They know how to make a common day safisticated and meaningful.

　　他们懂得如何去发掘单纯事物中的喜悦，懂得如何将平凡的时光过得精致而充实。

　　Life has denied them some beauty. But they build them with their own hands.

　　那份生活中缺失的美丽，他们靠自己的双手创造了出来。

　　So which kind of these two are you? And which kind are you willing to be?

　　你的人生是哪种？你想过哪一种？

　　Have you find the answer?

　　你找到答案了吗？

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇6

　　I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be happy. Well, I thought we were. But the truth was that you had been 2)longing to leave me, not daring to tell me. On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely 3)conscious, you said: “Our story is ending.”

　　The rain was killing the last days of summer. You had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago. I still don’t think I’m gonna make it through another love story. You took it all away from me. And there I stand, I knew I was going to be the one left behind. But still I’m watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending.

　　我仍清晰地记得故事发生的时候。秋叶翻飞，飘落一地。我们曾经孩子般戏水畅游过的小湖盖满落叶，在太阳下闪着光。那时我们幸福过。哦，我是这样认为的。可事实上你早就想离开我，你只是不敢告诉我罢了。在那美丽的夜晚，眼望湖水，恍惚中听见你说：我们的故事已到尽头。

　　雨水扼杀着所剩无几的夏日，而你很久以来也在扼杀我奄奄一息的爱。但我仍不认为自己会再去经历另一段爱情故事。你把一切都带走了。我只有悄然伫立，早已明白自己将会是那个被遗弃的人。而我依然凝望着湖水，恍惚中，我知道生命正离我而去。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇7

　　Welcome to Germany---German Chancellor's Greetings to FIFA 2006

　　德国默克尔的问候

　　There are many dimensions to football's allure and appeal: top-class moves, thrilling goals, majestic star players, thunderous encounters and passionate fans. Football stirs the emotions all over the globe, brings people from contrasting cultures together, and promotes solid virtues such as fairness, team spirit and tolerance. All these facets will emerge in their most intense form at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany next summer.

　　足球的魅力是多方面的：高质量的比赛、激动人心的进球、神奇的球星、残酷的遭遇战、热情的球迷。足球激发了全球的热情，把不同文化背景的人们集合在一起，弘扬了公平、团队精神和宽容等诸多美德。所有的这些方面都会在2006 FIFA德国世界杯上强烈地表现出来。

　　Millions of people will be transfixed by this unique festival of sport and friendship. We are thoroughly looking forward ro football of the highest quality. We're delighted to welcome the biggest names in the sport as well as those nations set to appear at the finals for the first time. And we're looking forward to greeting fans from all over the world as they fill our cities with even more colour and life A heartfelt welcome to everyone!

　　众人将沉浸在这独一无二的友谊和竞技的.节日里。我们急切期待最高质量的足球比赛。我们高兴地欢迎球场上名声如雷贯耳的球队，同样也欢迎第一次出现在世界杯决赛阶段的球队。我们期待来自世界各地的球迷来到我们的城市，不论肤色和生活方式。衷心欢迎你们的到来!

　　Germany is a cosmopolitan country with a passion for football. The people will devote themselves to the job of ensuring the 2006 FJFA World Cup is an unforgettable experience, a fact demonstrated by the thousands of ordinary folk who have come forward as volunteers.

　　德国是一个充满了足球激情的大国。人们忘我地工作，以确保2006 FIFA世界杯成为一次难忘的经历，事实上，成千上万的普通百姓成为了志愿者。

　　Germany is well prepared to host the FJFA World Cup. We have finished constructing our new, modern stadiums and an outstanding transportation infrastructure. The organization is in the enormously capable hands of the Organizing Committee headed by Franz Beckenbauer. The slogan "A time to make friends" perfectly describes our intention to ensure everyone revels in a secure and peaceful festival of football.

　　德国为FIFA世界杯的举办做好了充分的准备。我们已经完成了现代化新场馆的建设，建成了优良的运输基础设施。弗朗茨·贝肯鲍尔领导下的世界杯组委会运转非常出色。本届世界杯口号“友谊的盛会”极好地描述了我们的意思，我们要确保每个人都度过一个安全、和平的足球节日。

　　The FIFA World Cup is a unique opportunity for Germany to present herself as a hospitable, joyful and modern nation bursting with ideas. I am convinced that the flames of passion and togetherness engendered by the FIFA World Cup in Germany will spread to the entire world.

　　FIFA世界杯足球赛给了德国一次绝佳的机会，展示她的热情、快乐、现代化和充满丰富的想象。我确信，德国FIFA世界杯足球赛带来的团结和激情的火焰会散布到全世界。

　　I'm personally looking forward to a festival of goals, excitement and fair play. We Germans will be right behind our national team, but our aim is to act as welcoming hosts and friends to every team and their fans. Passionate and cosmopolitan Germany is delighted to welcome visitors to the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

　　我个人希望，这是一次进球、激情和公平竞赛的节日。我们德国人当然坚定支持自己国家队，但是，我们的目标是当好热情的东道主和每支球队及其球迷的朋友。充满热情、敞开怀抱的德国热烈欢迎所有参与2006 FIFA世界杯足球赛的朋友们。

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇8

　　Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come." - Unknown

　　If your life isn't where you want it to be, change it. It's what successful people have done for thousands of years. You may currently be struggling and frustrated with your life but it's not going to stay like this forever, that is, unless you don't do anything to change it.

　　The best time of your life may still be ahead of you but it won't just magically show up, you have to create it. It's in your power to create whatever future you want for your life. Even if your best days are truly behind you, you can still have plenty of great days ahead of you if you decide to make it so.

　　Instead of letting circumstances control and defeat you, use them to push you into action so that you can change your present situation. Bad times aren't going to last forever but if you want more great times ahead of you instead of just good times, it's time to start doing things that will make that a reality… it's time to work toward your ideal destination.

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇9

　　You are Absolutely Unique

　　你绝对是独一无二的。

　　Enjoy that uniquenesss1. You do not have to pretend in order to seem more like someone else. You do not have to lie to hide the parts of you that are not like what you see in anyone else.

　　享受uniquenesss1。你不必假装为了看起来更像其他人。你不必为了隐藏你的部分而撒谎，而不是像你在别人身上看到的那样。

　　You were meant to be different. Nowhere, in all of history, will the same things be going on in anyone’s mind, soul and spirit as are going on in yours right now.

　　你注定与众不同。在历史的任何地方，任何人的思想、灵魂和精神都不会像现在一样在你的身上发生同样的事情。

　　If you did not exist, there would be a hole in creation, a gap2 in history, and something missing from the plan for humankind. Treasure your uniqueness. It is a gift given only to you. Enjoy it and share it!

　　如果没有你的存在，就在创造一个洞，一个历史GAP2，和一些人类计划失踪。珍惜你的独特性。这是只送给你的礼物。享受它并分享它！

　　No one can reach out to others in the same way that you can. No one can speak your words. No one can convey your meanings. No one can comfort others with your kind of comfort. No one can bring your kind of understanding to another person. No one can be cheerful and light-hearted3 and joyous4 in your way. No one can smile your smile. No one else can bring the whole unique impact of you to another human being.

　　没有人能以同样的方式与他人接触。没人会说你的话。没有人能表达你的意思。没有人能用你的安慰来安慰别人。没有人能把你的理解带到别人身上。没有人可以在你的快乐和light-hearted3和joyous4。没有人能笑你的笑容。没有人能把你对他人的独特影响带到另一个人身上。

　　Share your uniqueness. Let it flow out freely among your family and friends, and the people you meet in the rush and clutter of living, wherever you are. That gift of yourself was given to you to enjoy and share. Give yourself away!

　　分享你的独特性。让它自由地在你的家人和朋友之间，以及你在繁忙和混乱的生活中遇到的人，无论你在哪里。你送给自己的礼物是享受和分享的。放弃自己！

　　See it! Receive it!

　　看到它！接受它！

　　Let it inform you, move you and inspire you!

　　让它告诉你，感动你，激励你！

　　You are unique!

　　你是独一无二的！

　　英语短文美文欣赏 篇10

　　James Cameron: Failure is an Option, but Fear is not

　　詹姆斯·卡梅隆：失败是人生的选项之一，但畏惧不是

　　And you know, along the way in this journey of discovery, I learned a lot. I learned a lot about science. But I also learned a lot about leadership. Now you think director has got to be a leader, leader of, captain of the ship, and all that sort of thing.

　　在发现的旅途中，我学到了很多。我学到的不仅仅是科学知识，还有领导力。很多人以为作为导演，就一定具有很高的领导力，就像船长带领整艘船一样。

　　I didn't really learn about leadership until I did these expeditions. Because I had to, at a certain point, say, "What am I doing out here? Why am I doing this? What do I get out of it?" We don't make money at these damn shows. We barely break even. There is no fame in it. People sort of think I went away between "Titanic" and "Avatar" and was buffing my nails someplace, sitting at the beach. Made all these films, made all these documentary films for a very limited audience.

　　但我却是从这些探险中学到如何带领团队。在探险时，有时候我会问自己，“我为什么会在这里?为什么要做这些纪录片?我从中得到了什么?”我们并没有从这些纪录片中赚钱，还差点亏了本。我也没有赚到名声。很多人以为我在《秦坦尼克号》之后《阿凡达》之前就一直躺在沙滩边享受。这些纪录片只有很少的观众。

　　No fame, no glory, no money. What are you doing? You're doing it for the task itself, for the challenge---and the ocean is the most challenging environment there is, for the thrill of discovery, and for that strange bond that happens when a small group of people form a tightly knit team. Because we would do these things with 10-12 people working for years at a time. Sometimes at sea for 2-3 months at a time.

　　没有名声，没有荣耀，没有利润。那我在做什么呢?我做这些其实只是为了这件任务本身。为了挑战——海洋是现存最危险的环境;为了发现;也为了一种奇怪的关系，这发生在一个很少人组成的紧密团队中。我们这10到12个人在一起工作了很多年。有时要在海里一起工作2到3个月。

　　And in that bond, you realize that the most important thing is the respect that you have for them and that they have for you, that you've done a task that you can't explain to someone else. When you come back to the shore and you say, "We had to do this, and the fiber optic, and the attenuation, and this and that all the technology of it, and the difficulty, the human performance aspects of working at sea, you can't explain it to people. It's that thing that maybe cops have, or people in combat that have gone through something together and they know they can never explain it. Creates a bond, creates a bond of respect."

　　在这种关系中，我发现最重要的东西就是尊重。你尊重他们，他们也尊重你，每个人做的工作都无法向其他人解释。当你从岸边回来的时候，你说：“我们不得不这样做，光纤眼、钝化、这个、那个，所有的技术、困难和在海边表演的各方面，你没法跟大家说清楚。这很像警察经历的那种事情或是格斗中人们经历的，他们知道他们解释不清。创造一种关系，建立起一种尊重关系。”

篇1：经典英语美文欣赏

1. Having more joy does not necessarily require a life overhaul―you may just need to create more space in your life for moments of joy.

1. 生活中要有更多乐趣不一定要大改生活方式――你只需要在生活中多留点时间给娱乐就行。

2. I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to think about it.

2. 我开始明白追寻幸福并不是无足轻重的想法，它值得被尊敬，也是必要的。而且很多人甚至不会想到这件事。

3. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

3. 人生最幸福的是确定自己被人爱着。

4. Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

4. 相信自己的真诚，这会是你所做的最好的决定。

5. We generate the results in life we believe we deserve.

5. 在人生中，我们获得的结果是我们认为自己应得的。

6. You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.

6. 你知道为什么在开车时路是曲折的么?曲折是因为如果上帝给我们看了从起点通向终点的路，我们会觉得太远。

7. Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

7. 深呼吸释放出恐惧可以帮助你到达你想要的高度。

8. Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

8. 万事自有其道。如果我们能原谅，我们的思想和内心都会放得开，就能看到其他可能性。

9. When you stand and share your story i, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

9. 当你愿意站出来分享你的故事，你的故事会治愈你，也同样会治愈其他人。

10. Home is a refuge, not only from the world but a refuge from my worries, my terrible concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful, because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

10. 家是避难的港湾，不只是躲避世界纷扰也可躲避自己的忧虑和担心。我喜欢周围美好的事物。我想变得漂亮，因为这能让我眼中充满美好，思想也会受到鼓舞。

篇2：经典英语美文欣赏精选

一、《准备好爱你》

Sometimes it takes adverse conditions

for people to reach out to one another

Sometimes it takes bad luck

for people to understand their goals better

Sometimes it takes a storm

for people to appreciate the calm

Sometimes it takes being hurt

for people to be more sensitive to feelings

Sometimes it takes doubt

for people to trust one another

Sometimes it takes seclusion

for people to find out who they really are

Sometimes it takes disillusionment

for people to become informed

Sometimes it takes feeling nothing

for people to feel everything

Sometimes it takes our emotions and feelings to be completely penetrated

for people to open up to love

I have gone through many of these things

and I now know that

not only am I ready to

love you

but I do

有时需要逆境

人们才能彼此靠近

有时需要厄运

人们才能更清楚自己的目标

有时需要暴风雨

人们才能珍惜宁静

有时需要受到伤害

人们才能对感情多一份敏感

有时需要怀疑

人们才能信任彼此

有时需要独处

人们才能发现真实的自我

有时需要醒悟

人们才能明智

有时需要毫无感觉

人们才能感受万物

有时需要我们的情感和知觉

全被浸透

人们才能敞开心扉体验爱

我已历经这种种心路历程

所以现在我知道

我不仅已准备好

爱你

我是的的确确爱你

篇3：英语美文欣赏

After enduring three years of abuse, and seeing it turn to my children I could not take it any more.

在忍受了三年的虐待之后，眼看着我的孩子也要受到虐待之时，我再也受不了了。

Strength is more than the measure of muscle. Strength is the courage you muster to do even the things that seem impossible.

力量不仅仅取决于肌肉。力量就是你鼓起勇气去做那些看似不可能的事情。

That year there were 22,000 reported cases of abuse against children in my state.

那一年，在我的国家，有2起虐待儿童案。

Taking my children from statistics to survivors was the greatest thing I’ve ever done in my life.

我一生中做过的最伟大的事情是把我的孩子从受害者变成幸存者。

Not being afraid to speak out against domestic violence any more empowers me. Jump out on that limb and reach for the greatness you deserve, you’re not just a statistic, you are a human, you are survivor just waiting to break free.

勇敢地说出反对家庭暴力更使我充满力量。跳出这一步，达到你应得的伟大，你不只是一个统计数据中的受害者，你是一个人，你是一个等待获得自由的幸存者。

篇4：英语美文欣赏

I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1）measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be happy. Well, I thought we were. But the truth was that you had been 2）longing to leave me, not daring to tell me. On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely 3）conscious, you said: “Our story is ending.”

The rain was killing the last days of summer. You had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago. I still don’t think I’m gonna make it through another love story. You took it all away from me. And there I stand, I knew I was going to be the one left behind. But still I’m watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending.

我仍清晰地记得故事发生时。秋叶翻飞，飘落一地。我们曾经孩子般戏水畅游过的小湖盖满落叶，在太阳下闪着光。那时我们幸福过。哦，我是这样认为的。可事实上你早就想离开我，只是不敢告诉我罢了。在那美丽的夜晚，眼望湖水，恍惚中听见你说：我们的故事已到尽头。

雨水扼杀着所剩无几的夏日，而你很久以来也在扼杀我奄奄一息的爱。我仍不认为自己会再去经历另一段爱情故事。你把一切都带走了。我只有悄然伫立，早已明白自己将会是那个被遗弃的人。而我依然凝望着湖水，恍惚中，生命正离我而去。

篇5：英语美文欣赏

The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All with save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion!

Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.

初雪飘临。多么美啊！它整日整夜那么静静地飘着，落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在世人的屋顶上，落在死才的坟墓上！在一片白茫茫之中，只有河流在美丽的画面上划出一道曲曲弯弯的黑线；还有那叶儿落净的树木，映衬着铅灰色的`天空，此刻更显得枝丫交错，姿态万千。初雪飘落之时，是何等的宁谧，何等的幽静！一切声响都趋沉寂，一切噪音都化作柔和的音乐。再也听不见马蹄得得，再也听不见车轮辚辚！唯有雪橇的铃铛，奏和谐的乐声，那明快欢乐的节拍犹如孩子们心房的搏动。

篇6：英语经典美文欣赏

英语经典美文欣赏

As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal(肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.

Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic.

As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed -- his land, house, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Al's death, I thought, “What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! ”

As time went by , I began to revalue my earlier rough judgement . I knew Al's now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring , most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere .

I hadn't heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly, “As a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ”love you, son."

Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.