
在英语教学过程中,英语阅读是不容忽视的环节和内容。通过阅读,有助于学生保持学习英语的兴趣,增长知识和提升能力。我整理了经典优美的英语短文,欢迎阅读!
生命之坚持
Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.
The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives. Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.
一些人坚持认为只有今日与明日最重要。可要按这条规则来生活的话,我们将会变得更加可怜。今天我们所做之事有多少是琐碎无功的,很快就被人遗忘.又有多少我们明天要为之事将会成为泡影。 过去是一所银行。我们将最可贵的财富——记忆珍藏其中,这些记忆赋予我们生命的意义和厚度。真正珍惜过去之人不会为美好时光逝去而哀叹。那些珍藏于记忆的时光是永远不会消失的。死亡本身也无法止住记忆中的声音,或擦除记忆中的微笑。对于已经长大成人的小男孩来说,那儿将会有一个池塘。它不会因时间和潮汐而改变,可以让他大继续在阳光下享受静谧的时光。
读书之乐
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.
读书是愉悦心智之事。在这一点上它与运动颇为相似:一个优秀的读者必须要有热情、有知识、有速度。读书之乐并非在于作者要告诉你什么,而在于它促使你思考。你跟随作者一起想像,有时你的想象甚至会超越作者的。把自己的体验与作者的相互比较,你会得出相同或者不同的结论。在理解作者想法的同时,也形成了自己的观点。
每一本书都自成体系,就像一家一户的住宅,而图书馆里的藏书好比城市里千家万户的居所。尽管它们都相互独立,但只有相互结合才有意义。家家户户彼此相连,城市与城市彼此相依。相同或相似的思想在不同地方涌现。人类生活中反复的问题也在文学中不断重现,但因时代与作品的差异,答案也各不相同。
如果你希望的话,读书也能充满乐趣。倘若你只读那些别人告诉你该读之书,那么你不太可能有乐趣可言。但如果你放下你不喜欢的书,试着阅读另外一本,直到你找到自己中意的,然后轻轻松松的读下去,差不多一定会乐在其中。而且,当你通过阅读变得更加优秀,更加善良,更加文雅时,阅读便不再是一种折磨。
任教印象
The main impression growing out of twelve years on the faculty of a medical school is that the No.1 health problem in the U.S. today, even more than AIDS or cancer, is that Americans don’t know how to think about health and illness. Our reactions are formed on the terror level.
We fear the worst, expect the worst, thus invite the worst. The result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs, a self-medicating society incapable of
distinguishing between casual, everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention.
Early in life, too, we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury. Equal emphasis, however, is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons and the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible life-style.
在医学院任教十二年来,我获得的主要印象是,当今美国头号健康问题——一个比艾滋病或癌症更为严重的问题——是美国人不知道如何去认识健康与疾病。我们的反应是惊恐万状。我们怕最坏的事,想着最坏的事,而恰恰就召来了最坏的事。结果 ,我们变成了一个孱弱不堪,总疑心自己有病的民族,一个分不清哪些是日常偶发症状,哪些是需要治疗的症状,而自己擅自用药的社会。
我们年轻的时候还染上了一种奇怪的观念:一种肉眼看不见的叫做细菌的小妖怪在不断向我们进攻,我们必须长备不懈地保护自己不受其伤害。然而,对另一个重要事实,我们却未能给予同样的重视,那就是,我们的身体装备精良,足以对付这些小妖怪,而且防止妖怪进攻的最佳途径就是保持合理的生活方式。
文,不禁浮现出一个美丽的情境,赋予优美的语境和丰富的情感;美文,不禁联想到一种美幻的意境,充满情感的体验和丰富的表达。美文,大概就是美的化身,它是一种情感,一种体验和一种表达。下面是我带来的唯美的英文美文,欢迎阅读!唯美的英文美文篇一 Love of Self When I was younger, I thought that to love one's self was vanity and not a virtuous trait. As I have grown old, that belief has passed away, as have so many others. There is a vast deviation between being vain and loving one's self. We are all in this world together striving for more or less the same things. To contribute and have our lives count for some thing. to love and be loved, To laugh and yes, to cry. We seek shelter, nourishment, a mate, warmth, clothing, family, friends; we seek approval, love and self-esteem. We are all imperfect. Often during our search we forget to simply enjoy what life is. We become so caught up in what could have been, what should be, what might be, that many of our todays are lost. let yesterday rest, live for today, hope and dream for your tomorrows If there is some part of you that lessens your self-image, some part of you that prevents you from loving yourself, change it for only you can. Life is filled with things we have no control over, but ourselves, we can control. You are the clay, you are the sculptor and you have the ability to create a masterpiece. The shape and form are there. You have only to refine the work. Is the task an easy one? No. There will be slips and flaws and you will be required to work and rework just as the sculptor must rework the clay before the piece is completed. Should the sculptor through out the piece condemning it as worthless because of a blemish or nick? Of course not, where then would all the world's treasures art be? I doubt we would have any. How many masterpieces do you think have been created in one fell swoop, a first effort compeletely successful without error, without change? Is it possible we fail to see that mankind is the most marvelous of all works of art? A living, continuous developing work of art. How often have you heard the question” What is the human race coming to?” The answer, in my mind at least, is whatever we make it, for we are the weavers of tomorrow. You are a treasure, beyond price, one of a kind, irreplaceable. Not perfect but well on your way to being a masterpiece. Do not let your yesterdays hinder tomorrow's achievements. Again I said to you that these words are merely feelings and thoughts, one person's outlook and subject to change with tomorrows setting sun, as I too continue to sculpt the lump of clay given to me at birth, called self. 唯美的英文美文篇二 Five Ways to Buff Up Your Love Ones (让爱人心情愉快的五个 方法 ) 1.Acknowledge the big and the little things. People want to be seen. They want their actions, attitudes, feelings, aspirations, etc. to be noticed and acknowledged. Become a person who notices. 2.Give thanks and appreciation. Thank somebody for something and they are more likely to do the same thing again or to do something else you can thank them for. Why? Because being thanked feels good. Tell them you appreciate it too. 3.Give just to show appreciation for who they are. Make a list of what you admire about your partner or another person. Now tell them you don't have to wait for a special occasion. Surprise that special person any time. 4.Take an active interest. Take a real interest in the things important to your special someone. Listen to him or her and have a conversation about their hobbies, career etc. Learn something new about the topic. It will make them feel understood. 5.Do special things just for them. Find out what that special person likes. Do they like cards, flowers, foot rubs, special books,or magazines? You may not like or want the same things. That's ok. Do something or give something they like. Make them feel special. (See how many of these you can practice in one week with special people in your life and watch your relationships and intimacy grow.) 唯美的英文美文篇三 Love is Special It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. 爱一个人却得不到爱的回报是令人伤心的。更痛苦的是,爱上一个人却没有勇气让这人知道你的感受。 Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. 也许上帝希望我们在邂逅合适的人以前先遇到一些不合适的人。这样当我们遇到合适的人时,我们将知道对这份礼物心怀感激了。 Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship and find out you still care for that person. 爱是当你抽离了感情,激情和浪漫后,却发觉你依然关注着的那个人。 A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never means to be and you just have to let go. 生命中的伤悲莫过于遇到了一个对你很重要的人,却最终发现错与无缘,终究不得不放弃。 When the door of happiness closes, another opens but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us. 当幸福的一扇门关闭时,另一扇门便会敞开,因为我们通常都凝视着那扇紧闭的门太久了,却没注意到另一扇门已经为我们敞开。 The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word,and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you’ve ever had. 最好的朋友即时只是同你一起坐在门廊前默默地打秋千,然后离开,也会让你感觉到那是你有过的最好交谈。 It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. 事实上直到失去的时候我们才知道自己曾拥有过什么;但另一个事实是,只有等到出现使我们才知道自己所盼望的是什么。 Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they’ll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. 将你全部的爱都给与一个人,并不能保证别人会回报以爱!不要期待爱的回报;仅仅等待爱在你们的心中成长。如果事与愿违,你也应该为你心中有爱而满足。 There are things you’d love to hear that you would never hear from the person whom you would like to hear them from, but don’t be so deaf as not to hear it from the one who says it from his heart. 也许你喜欢的人没有从你说出那些你爱听的话,但是对你的肺腑之言你却不要充耳不闻。 Never say good-bye if you still want to try. Never give up if you still feel you can go on. Never say you don’t love a person anymore if you can’t let go. 如果还想努力,你就别说再见。 如果仍想继续,你就别轻易放弃。 如果不能放弃,你就别说再也不爱他。 It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. 迷上一个人只需一分钟,喜欢上一个人需要一小时,爱上一个人需要一天,但是忘记一个人却需要一辈子。 Don’t go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. 不要追求外表,它们具有欺骗性;不要追求财富,它最终也会消亡。寻找使你欢笑的那个人吧,因为仅仅一个微笑就会使黑暗变得光明。 Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you wants to do. 梦着你的梦想,去你想去的地方,做你想做的人吧,因为你只有一生和一个机会去做所有你想做的事情。 May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough hope to make you happy. 你可能已经拥有了足够多的兴奋让你感到甜蜜,有足够多的磨难让你磨练得更坚强,有足够多的悲哀让你更富有同情心,有足够的希望让你更想快乐。 Always put yourself in others’ shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the person too. 经常设身处地为他人着想。己所不欲,勿施于人。 A careless world may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life; a timely word may level stress; a loving word may heal and bless. 无心之语可能导致不和;无情的话可能毁掉一生;及时的良言可以缓解紧张;爱的心声可以宽慰心灵。 The beginning of love is to let those we love be just themselves, and not twists them with our own image-otherwise; we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. 爱之初,让我们所爱的人保持他们的本色,不要把他们扭曲成我们自己的模样,否则我们所爱的仅仅是我们在他们身上的影子。 The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. 最快乐的人不必事事尽善尽美,他们只会让大部分事情顺其自然。 When you were born, you were crying and everything around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. 当你呱呱落地时,你大声地哭泣,你周围的每个人都朝你微笑。而当你走完余生时,你是唯一微笑的人,你周围的人却要为你落泪。 The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t get on well in life unless you let go of your past failures and heartaches. 锦绣前程建立在对过去的宽怀之上,如果往昔的事物与烦恼总也不能释怀,生活就难以顺心如意