英语美文积累初中

经典美文与英语写作是两项相对独立但又相互依赖、相辅相成的关系,这一结论对写作教学有很大启发。我整理了初中英语美文，欢迎阅读!

友谊

No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty of friends.

年轻人人生起步最好的资本莫过于拥有众多的朋友。

They will strengthen his credit support him in every great effort, and make him what，unaided, he could never be.

朋友可以增加他的声望，尽最大的努力支持他，并使他达到无朋友帮助时绝不可能达到的成就。

Friends of the right sort will help him more to be happy and successful than much money or great learning.

交对朋友将会比大笔的金钱或高深的学问更能让他快乐和成功。

Friendship is no one-sided affair.

友谊不是单方面的事。

There can be no friendship without reciprocity.

没有互惠就不能算是友谊。

One cannot receive all and give nothing，or give all and receive nothing，and expect to experience the joy and fullness of true companionship.

一个人不可能只是接受而不付出，只是付出而不回收，却期望能够享有真挚友谊的欢欣和满足。

Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are admired and which attract.

想交朋友必须培养受人赞赏和吸引人的特质。

If you are mean stingy and selfish，nobody will admire you.

如果你小气、吝啬又自私，没有人会欣赏你。

You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness; you must be magnanimous and tolerant;

你必须培养慷慨和宽宏大量的气度;你必须有雅量并对人容忍;

you must have positive qualities, for a negative, shrinking, apologizing，roundabout man is despised.

你必须要有积极的特质，因为消极、畏缩、爱赔不是和迁回不前的人总是让人瞧不起。

You must believe in yourself. If you do not, others will not believe in you.

你必须信任你自己，否则就不会获得别人的信任。

You must look upward and be hopeful，cheery, and optimistic.

你必须要向前看，充满希望，愉快且乐观。

No one will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist.

没有人会理会一个忧郁的悲观者。

快乐之钥

To help others，you don't have to be an efficient expert in the art; the main thing is theintention.

你若想助人，并不一定要在助人的艺术方面猛下工夫，重要的是你有没有一颗助人的心。

You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful and ineffective, but if you sincerely try to help, yourattempt produces nothing but good.

你或许粗里粗气，笨手笨脚，徒劳又无成效，但你若真心想帮忙，你的努力只会带来善果。

The one you are trying to help knows your intention and is strengthened and encouraged bythe magic of your sharing.

你想要帮助的人得知你有心相助时，会因为你共担困苦的魔力而变得坚强振作。

In nearly every case，your simple desire to help，converted into action，produces the goodsought.

你单纯的助人之心每次付诸行动时，几乎都会产生预期的善果。

But perhaps the greatest good is the good that you yourself get out of the attempt.

但或许最大的善果却是你从自己努力助人的企图中所得到的善果。

Service to others delivers more joy to you than the joy you deliver to them.

帮助别人所带给你的快乐要多过你带给别人的快乐。

In doing good，you free yourself from the terrible burden of self; you escape from yourself intoa clean world of joy and light.

行善时，你便摆脱了以自我为本位的可怕重担，而进入一个充满喜悦及光明的清新世界。

The good you simply try to do, regardless of the outcome, is always a success inside yourself.

你一心想行的善，不论结果如何，在你心中始终就是一种成功。

Unselfish giving is your most efficient formula for happiness, for you have embraced Eternityinstead of Self;

无私的施舍乃是获得快乐最有效的法则，因为你拥抱的是“永恒”而非“自我”;

you have felt Life, and you are now the world bigger than you were before you began theproject.

你感受到“生命”的存在，而你现在的世界也比你开始行善前还要开阔。

爱美

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.

爱美乃是所有正常的人性中不可或缺的一部分。

It is a moral quality.

它是心灵的特质。

The absences of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is aninvariable sign of goodness of heart.

不爱美并不一定是坏事，但爱美则象征了不变的善心。

In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which noblenessand beauty of character will be attained.

品德的高尚与美好所达到的程度可能与爱美的感受度成正比。

Natural beauty is an all一pervading presence.

大自然的美是随处可见的。

The universe is its temple.

宇宙即是其殿堂。

It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring.It waves in the branches of trees and the greenblades of grass.

美存在于春天无数的花蕊开放时，存在于随风摇曳的树枝与片片绿草中。

It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea.

在陆地及海底深处皆可见到美的芳踪。

It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone.

它绽放于贝壳以及宝石的色泽上。

And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, therising and the setting sun一all overflow with beauty.

不只是这些细微的东西，还有海洋、山庄、云朵、繁星、日升与日落，无一不美。

This beauty is so precious，and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings，

这样的美是如此珍贵，也如此适合我们最温柔与高尚的情感，

that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remainingalmost blind to it.

以至想到一大群人身处在美之中却几乎对之视若无睹就令人痛心。

All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature.

所有的人都应该设法去认识大自然之美。

There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumnwinds, but calls for our study and admiration.

我们所踩过的小虫以及秋风拂掠前飞舞的树叶，皆值得我们研究与赞赏。

The power to appreciate beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness一it enlargesour moral nature, too.

欣赏美的能力不仅可以增加我们快乐的来源，它也开阔了我们的灵性。

Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares.

美使我们不安的心平静下来，也驱散了我们的忧虑。

Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all yourlittle perplexities and anxieties will vanish.

走进田野或森林，在夏日的海边或山上待上一天，那么你所有微不足道的困惑与焦虑都会消失。

Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away.

倾听悦耳的音乐，那么你愚昧的恐惧感与微不足道的嫉妒心都会过去。

The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.

世界之美将有助于我们找到善良之美。