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英语作为学习生涯中必不可少的课程，想学好真的不容易。我在此献上英语美文，希望大家喜欢。

英文美文欣赏

布达佩斯之恋 Down in Budapest

The night is long,goes on and on

Before me lies the break of dawn

Another day to wonder

What I'll find along my way

Just what to do I wish I knew

So all alone I'm missing you

The blue Danube

The sun put color of my soul in you

Budapest....

The day begins,the gentle wnd

As sweet as lonesome violins

So clear and bright

I watched the river rolling out of sight

I can't define this home of mine

This home,I'm waiting for the sign

Will I be lessed to find you

Somewhere down in Budapest

I'm lost in memories down in Budapest

I'm lost in memories down in Budapest

......

夜漫漫，时间无休止地流逝

黎明在我眼降临

这一天我又会彷徨，不知道

沿着自己的生命轨道，我将找到什么

该做些什么，我希望我知道

我一直在独自想念你

蓝色的多瑙河

阳光把我灵魂的颜色照进你心里

布达佩斯……

这一天开始了，轻柔的风

和寂寞的小提琴一样美好

如此清澈明亮

我看见河流奔腾出视野之外

我无法给我的这个家下定义

这个家，我在等待着一个信号

上苍会不会保佑我找到你

在布达佩斯街道的某个地方

沿着布达佩斯的街道游走，我迷失在记忆里

沿着布达佩斯的街道游走，我迷失在记忆里

沿着布达佩斯的街道游走，我迷失在记忆里

经典优美英语文章

妙“想”生花 Getting behind the Creative Mind

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

——Henry David Thoreau

世界对富有想象力的人来说只是一块帆布。——亨利·大卫·梭罗

Creativity is not,as some would have us believed,something to be taken lightly.More than painting pictures or composing original music—creativity could rightly be considered a healing force for societies overwhelmed by the ongoing utilitarian struggles of humanity.Call it a cure for depression,an escape from working—class drudgery,catharsis for the stress and worry that accumulates within us all.Or just call it a fun and productive way to wile away an afternoon.

创造力并不像人们让我们相信的那样，是不以为然的东西。这不像绘画或者原创音乐那样，创造力可以看做是治愈被持续的社会功利斗争所压迫人性的力量.我们称之为治疗抑郁的良药，逃避工薪阶层的苦差事，积压在我们内心所有压力和忧虑的宣泄。或者只是一个消磨一个下午的有趣高效的方法。

But the spark of creativity is not always easily lit.As children,our creative zeal is generally encouraged and allowed to thrive,but as we move into adulthood that zeal tends to atrophy from neglect.Other things take over our lives,such as hectic career schedules and increased social pressure to achieve "status".According to Elisabeth Keating inPieces of Beauty,this is an unhealthy trend spawned from an overly materialistic culture.She gose on to detail the spiritual benefits of a more creative life.

但创造力的火花并不容易点燃。作为孩子，我们的创作热情容易受到鼓励和发展，但随着我们进入成年期，热情往往容易减退。其它事情占据了我们的生活，如简单忙碌的职业计划和为了获得地位产生的社会压力。根据伊丽莎白.基庭的《美丽碎片》，这是由过度的物质文化产生的一种不健康趋势。她继续深究更有创造性的生活的精神上的益处。

Tongue in cheek,Melvin Durai exposes creativity from a more "everyday" and practical angle in his humorous piece,Let the Beer Come to You.Not only have great minds invented personal computers and cell phone technology,they might also bless us with beertossing refrigerators and couches that spit out lost remote controls.

Melvin Durai在用他的诙谐作品《让啤酒来到你的身边》开玩笑似的从日常和实践的角度剖析创造性。

Clearly,the expression of artistic creativity throughout history has been just a instrumental in improving the human condition as any business venture or economic boom.Without it there would be no great works of art to enjoy and puzzle over,no songs to sing badly in the shower,no ho new fashion trends,no novels to read.I ask you,is that the sort of world you want to live in?

显然，纵观历史，艺术创作的表达一直只是一个改善人类生存条件成为一切商业风险和经济繁荣的工具。没有创造力就不会有伟大的艺术作品供欣赏和思索，就没有糟糕的洗澡歌，就没有潮流趋势，就没有小说可以读。我问你们，那是你们想要生活的那种世界吗?

经典英语美文

毕业，继续前进 Graduation and Moving On

At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations.It’s a time when a lot of people move on,from where they were, to another school or another class,or out into a real world.To graduate means to take a step forward, to move onward.I can remember my high school graduation,my graduation from university,and even my graduation from graduated school.Each of those graduations was nice.I took pictures, I got flowers, I hug my parents.I had the motions to moving on, I want to stay and have more fun.But I also want to move on.When we hear the word graduation, we naturally think of graduating from school.But I think it’s possible to graduate from different places, or stages in life.I worked in a company in New York for about three years.In one point I felt I couldn’t learn anything else from the company,where the people I was working with.Then I had hit a ceiling, I felt that was time to move on.The way that I describe that moving on is a graduation.Some times we are thrown out into the world or to the next level,whether we are ready or not.Other times we get the truth when we want to move on.I have experienced both.I preferred the second one, where I have a choice,I like the truth when and how, but we don’t always get what we want,since we can learn from every experience that we have,each experience can be a stepping stone for us to be better people.I know that I take lessons with me every time I graduated,but some times I can be a slow learner.I wonder when my next graduation is going to be.

至少每年一次,会有很多的毕业典礼。这是一个很多人继续前行的时刻，他们从现在的地方到另一个学校或者另一个班级，或者走出学校真正步入社会。毕业就以为这向前迈一步，继续前行。我还记得我高中，大学，甚至是研究生的毕业典礼。每一次毕业典礼都很棒。我拍了照片，收到了花，拥抱了父母。我曾有想继续下去的动力，我希望留下并获得更多的乐趣。但我也想继续前行。当我们听到毕业一词的时候，我们会自然而然的想到学校的毕业典礼。但是我认为我们有可能从人生的不同地方不同阶段毕业。我在纽约一家公司工作了快三年。在某种程度上,我觉得我无法从公司和同事身上学到东西。然后我已经达到了一种上限,我觉得是时候继续前行了。我所描述的继续前行的方式是毕业。有时我们被带入世界或进入下一个阶段，不管我们是否为此做好了准备。其他时候，我们得知当我们想继续前进的事实。我已经都经历过了。我更喜欢第二个，我可以选择，我喜欢这个何时以及如何的事实，但我们不能总是得到我们想要的东西，因为我们可以从我们每次的经历中学到东西，每次经历都可以成为我们成为更好的人的一块垫脚石。我知道每次毕业我都要学习一些东西，但有时候我可以是一名缓慢的学习者。我想知道我的下一次毕业是何时。

英语美文有助于我们培养对英语学习的兴趣，也能提高我们的写作能力。以下是我整理的3篇英语精美短文，供大家学习和参阅。

一：为什么你存不下钱

Don’t save what is left after spending. But spend what is left after savings.

不要把花剩下的钱拿来存，而是把存剩下的钱拿来花。

Wanting to save money is not enough. Anyway, there are a lot of things which didn’t come true although you wanted them to.

想存钱是远远不够的，毕竟你希望发生的事情并不一定就能发生。

Saving is a technique . It’s simple. It’s just not easy.

存钱是一门技术，这门技术很简单，只是不容易实现。

If you only come to think about saving after you spend, there is no chance for you to accumulate a considerable fortune, because spending is always irrational.

如果你总是在消费之后才想着应该存钱，那你肯定存不下钱，因为任何消费都是非理性的。

The way that works is to make plans in advance.

真正可行的方法，是事先计划好自己的消费方式。

Would it be too much to use 40% of my income to rent an apartment?

每个月用收入的40%租房子会不会太多?

Is it really enough to save just 20% every month?

每个月只存收入的20%会不会太少?

Only by making it clear how much you want to save can you come to know how much you can actually spend.

你只有先计划好要存多少钱，才能知道自己实际上可以花多少钱。

二：真正有意义的生活

What will matter?

什么才重要?

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。 那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟。 你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手中。

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

你的怨恨、愤慨、挫折和妒忌最终也将消失。

So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

因此，你的希望、抱负、计划以及行动日程表也将全部结束。 当初看得比较重的成功得失也会消失。

It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

你来自何方，住在穷人区还是富人区也都不重要了。

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

你昔日的漂亮与辉煌也都不重要了，你的性别、肤色、种族地位也将消失。

So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

因此，什么重要呢? 怎么衡量你有生之年的价值呢?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.

重要的不是你买了什么，而是你创造了什么; 不是你得到了什么，而是你给予了什么。

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

重要的不是你成功了，而是你生命的意义。

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

重要的不是你学到了什么，而是你传授了什么。

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

重要的是每个行动之中都有正直和勇气的气概，伟大的同情心和牺牲精神，并且鼓励他人遵从榜样。

What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

重要的不是你认识多少人，而是在你离开后，多少人会怅然若失。

What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.

重要的不是你的回忆，而是爱你的人对你的追思。

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

重要的是别人会记你多长时间，谁记着你，为什么记着你。

Living a life that matters doesn’ t happen by accident.

过有意义的生活不是一桩偶然。

It s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

是因为你选择了它。

Choose to live a life that matters.

选择有意义的人生吧!

三：难道真要工作一辈子吗?

Warren Buffet once said: "If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."

沃伦·巴菲特曾经说过：“如果你不想个办法在你睡觉的时候赚钱，那你就得一直工作到死。”

Sounds ridiculous in the first place, right? Isn’t that obvious?

这句话初听下来有点荒.唐，这不是明摆着的吗?

And how on earth can it be possible to make money while you sleep?

而且，怎么可能在睡觉的时候赚钱?

If you want to have an income, you have to work, right?

如果需要有收入，当然就得一直工作，对不对?

But no, what he said is not wrong.

不，其实他说的并没有错。

That way which he described as to make money while you sleep is called investing.

他所说的那种“在睡觉时赚钱”的方法，就是投资。

Normal middle-class use their skills and time to make money. But the rich use their money to make money. They invest the money that they own now to make ROI, which means return on investment.

普通的中产阶级靠技能和时间换钱，而有钱人是靠钱赚钱的，他们用自己现有的钱去赚取投资回报。

It’s not a hard thing to do, because there are a lot of ways to manage your personal finance.

这个方法并不难，因为理财的方式有很多。

In the past, I usually spent as much as I could earn in a month.

从前，我是一个大手大脚的月光族，每个月赚多少就花多少。

But when I saw this quote of Buffett, I suddenly realized: Isn’t that making all my efforts in vain? Because I have nothing left. I didn’t make anything for my future.

但自从看到了巴菲特的这句话，我才恍然大悟：这样一来，我每个月不就白工作了吗?因为什么都没有剩下，我并没有为自己的未来创造什么。

That’s why I started to face the truth of how I was living. And I made some bold changes and began to save money.

这也就是为什么我开始正视自己的生活方式，并进行了大刀阔斧的改变，开始存钱。

I wish that there is a day when I no longer need to work and can use money to make money.

我希望有一天能不再工作，而是用钱来赚钱。

还记得小时候顽皮的你吗？还记得那时妈妈的谆谆教导爸爸的严厉批评呢？还记得你大声地哭泣安慰你，擦掉眼泪的那个人吗？孩子，当我老去时，请试着了解我。Dear son...孩子…The day that you see me old and I am already not， have patience and try to understand me …哪天你看到我日渐老去，身体也渐渐不行，请耐着性子试着了解我……If I get dirty when eating… if I cannot dress… have patience.如果我吃的脏兮兮，如果我不会穿衣服……有耐性一点……Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.你记得我曾花多久时间教你这些事吗?If， when I speak to you，I repeat the same things thousand and one times…如果，当我一再重复述说Do not interrupt me… listen to me同样的事情…不要打断我，听我说….When you were small， I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…你小时候，我必须一遍又一遍的读着同样的故事，直到你静静睡着……..When I do not want to have a shower，neither shame me nor scold me…当我不想洗澡，不要羞辱我也不要责骂我……Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented， in order that you wanted to bath…你记得小时后我曾编出多少理由，只为了哄你洗澡…..When you see my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile…当你看到我对新科技的无知，给我一点时间，不要挂着嘲弄的微笑看着我