作家英语散文短篇

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All things in their being are good for something. · 天生我才必有用。 · Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. · 困难坎坷是人们的生活教科书。

· Failure is the mother of success. -- Thomas Paine · 失败乃成功之母。 · For man is man and master of his fate. · 人就是人，是自己命运的主人。

· The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates · 混混噩噩的生活不值得过。 -- 苏格拉底 · None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -- Erasmus · 只有每天再度战胜生活并夺取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。

· Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon · 命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。因此，让我们毫无畏惧，满心愉悦地把握命运。

-- 尼克松 · Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin · 生活没有目标，犹如航海没有罗盘。-- 罗斯金 · What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot · 没有了目的，生活便郁闷无光。

-- 乔治 · 埃略特 · Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln · 卓越的天才不屑走旁人走过的路。他寻找迄今未开拓的地区。

· There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. -- Balzac · 没有伟大的意志力，便没有雄才大略。 -- 巴尔扎克 · The good seaman is known in bad weather. · 惊涛骇浪，方显英雄本色。

· Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. --J.H. Newman · 不要害怕你的生活将要结束，应该担心你的生活永远不会真正开始。 -- 纽曼 · Gods determine what you're going to be. -- Julius Erving · 人生的奋斗目标决定你将成为怎样的人。

-- 欧文 · An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson · 生活的目标，是唯一值得寻找的财富。-- 史蒂文森 · While there is life there is hope. · 一息若存，希望不灭。

-- 英国谚语 · Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. -- A. Einstein · 不要为成功而努力，要为做一个有价值的人而努力。 -- 爱因斯坦 · You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success. -- Charles Chaplin · 人必须有自信，这是成功的秘密。

-- 卓别林 · Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably. · 不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。 · We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Mattin Luther King · 我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无穷的。

-- 马丁 · 路德 · 金 · Energy and persistence conquer all things. -- Benjamin Franklin · 能量加毅力可以征服一切。 -- 富兰克林 · Nothing seek, nothing find. · 无所求则无所获。

· Cease to struggle and you cease to live. -- Thomas Carlyle · 生命不止，奋斗不息。 -- 卡莱尔 · A thousand-li journey is started by taking the first step. · 千里之行，始于足下。

· Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. -- Swetchine · 只有强者才懂得斗争；弱者甚至失败都不够资格，而是生来就是被征服的。 -- 斯威特切尼 · The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they cannot find them, make them. -- Bernara Shaw · 在这个世界上取得成就的人，都努力去寻找他们想要的机会，如果找不到机会，他们便自己创造机会。

-- 萧伯纳 · A strong man will struggle with the storms of fate. -- Thomas Addison · 强者能同命运的风暴抗争。 -- 爱迪生 · He who seize the right moment, is the right man. -- Goethe · 谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成。

-- 歌德 · Victory won't come to me unless I go to it. -- M.Moore · 胜利是不会向我们走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。 -- 穆尔 · Man struggles upwards; water flows downwards. · 人往高处走，水往低处流。

· Man errs as long as he strives. -- Goethe · 失误是进取的代价。 -- 歌德 · The failures and reverses which await men - and one after another sadden the brow of youth - add a dignity to the prospect of human life, which no Arcadian success would do. -- Henry David Thoreau · 尽管失败和挫折等待着人们，一次次地夺走青春的容颜，但却给人生的前景增添了一份尊严，这是任何顺利的成功都不能做到的。

-- 梭罗 · A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. -- J. Burroughs · 一个人可以失败很多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。 -- 巴勒斯。

1、For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warmgreetings to my friends whom I miss so much.

一份不渝的友谊，执着千万个祝福，给我想念的朋友，温馨的问候。

2、Never quit because something went wrong; Quit because you tried your hardest and nothing made it better.

不要因为有了难题就马上放弃；一定要竭尽全力，如果这样还不行，才可以选择放弃。

3、You can go as far as you want to go.

心有多远，你就能走多远。

4、Acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.It's all for myself to live better.

若无其事，原来是最好的报复。生活得更好，是为了自己。

5、Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

信仰就是不想知道真相是什么。

6、Byron: I am never away from you. Even now, I shall not leave you. In another land, I shall be still that one who loves you, loves you beyond measure beyond measure.

拜伦：我从未离开过你。即使现在，我也不会离开你。在另一个世界，我依旧是爱的那个人。爱你，无穷无尽，天长地久。

7、We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. Andthen begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to loveor how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will comeout, but this kind of waiting is the love itself.

在自己面前，应该一直留有一个地方，独自留在那里。然后去爱。不知道是什么，不知道是谁，不知道如何去爱，也不知道可以爱多久。只是等待一次爱情，也许永远都没有人。可是，这种等待，就是爱情本身。

8、If living on the earth is a mission from the lord… living with you is the award of the lord…

如果活着，是上帝赋予我最大的使命，那么活者有你，将会是上帝赋予我使命的恩赐……

9、I love you, love can not my world without you.

我爱你，爱到我的世界不能没有你。

10、east,west,home is the best!

金窝窝，银窝窝，不如自己的狗窝窝；家是最好的。

11、Until all is over one's ambition never dies.

不到黄河心不死。

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。

Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

Never frown, even when you are sad,

because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。

The sandflass remembers the time we lost

沙漏记得`我们遗忘的时光

) I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。

2) No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry. 没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。 3) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them. 失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。

4) Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。 5) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world 对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某个人，你是他的整个世界。

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.-Shakespeare 宁为聪明的愚夫，不作愚蠢的才子。

-莎士比亚 A light heart lives long . 豁达者长寿。 （英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.） Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect . 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。

（英国剧作家 莎士比亚.W.） In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure . 迁延蹉跎，来日无多，二十丽姝，请来吻我，衰草枯杨，青春易过。（英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.） The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . 人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的人生就太长了。

（英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.） Don't gild the lily. 不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。 （英国剧作家 莎士比亚 . W .） The empty vessels make the greatest sound . 满瓶不响，半瓶咣当。

（英国剧作家 莎士比亚. W.） The course of true love never did run smooth. 真诚的爱情之路永不会是平坦的。（莎士比亚） Love, and the same charcoal, burning, need to find ways to ask cooling. Allow an arbitrary, it is necessary to heart charred 爱，和炭相同，烧起来，得想办法叫它冷却。

让它任意着，那就要把一颗心烧焦 Laughter is the root of all evil. 笑是一切罪恶的根源 Love is the season Yizhenyin sigh; The eyes have it purified the lovers of Mars; Love it aroused waves of tears. It is the wisdom of madness, choking bitterness, it does not tip of honey. 爱情是叹息吹起的一阵烟；恋人的眼中有它净化了的火星；恋人的眼泪是它激起的波涛。它又是最智慧的疯狂，哽喉的苦味，吃不到嘴的蜜糖。

Love is like a game of tug-of-war competition not stop to the beginning 爱就像一场拔河比赛 一开始就不能停下来 I would like now to seriously indifferent room of wonderful 我只想现在认真过的精采 无所谓好与坏 Bianguai people suddenly started a gentle love, love when people understand the deterioration of the niggling over 爱让人变乖 突然间开始温柔了起来，爱让人变坏 懂得了什么时候该耍赖 Love to talk about a bit of a surprise to people to learn the total patient injury 谈一场恋爱 学会了忍耐 总有些意外 会让人受伤害 If you understand the value of love and love you have given me I have to wait for the future 只要你明白 珍惜爱与被爱 我愿意等待 你给我的未来 Sweet love you, precious, I disdained the situation with regard emperors swap 你甜蜜的爱，就是珍宝，我不屑把处境跟帝王对调 No matter how long night, the arrival of daylight Association 黑夜无论怎样悠长，白昼总会到来 Words can not express true love, loyalty behavior is the best explanation 真正的爱情是不能用言语表达的，行为才是忠心的最好说明 Love is a woman with the ears, and if the men will love, but love is to use your eyes 女人是用耳朵恋爱的，而男人如果会产生爱情的话，却是用眼睛来恋爱 I bogged down in a sea of blood back legs, unable to stop, go back, as far as like, people feel that there is no retreat. the future is a marshy area, people got in deeper and deeper 我两腿早陷在血海里，欲罢不能，想回头，就像走到尽头般，叫人心寒，退路是没有了，前途是一片沼泽地，让人越陷越深。

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. 别人都走开的时候 朋友仍与你在一起 Sometimes in life, you find a special friend； 有时候在生活中 你会找到一个特别的朋友 Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. 他只是你生活中的一部分内容 却能改变你整个的生活 可以到官网看，这里只是部分：英语美文朗读《永远的友谊》。

1。如果只是遇见，不能停留，不如不遇见。

If we can only encounter each other rather than stay with each other,then I wish we had never encountered.

2。宁愿笑着流泪，也不哭着说后悔。心碎了，还需再补吗？

I would like weeping with the smile rather than repenting with the cry,when my heart is broken ,is it needed to fix?

3。没有谁对不起谁，只有谁不懂得珍惜谁。

No one indebted for others,while many people don't know how to cherish others.

4。命里有时钟需有 命里无时莫强求

You will have it if it belongs to you,whereas you don't kvetch for it if it doesn't appear in your life.

5。当香烟爱上火柴时，就注定受到伤害

When a cigarette falls in love with a match,it is destined to be hurt.

6。爱情…在指缝间承诺 指缝…。在爱情下交缠。

Love ,promised between the fingers

Finger rift,twisted in the love

7。没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

8。记住该记住的，忘记该忘记的。改变能改变的，接受不能改变的。

Remember what should be remembered, and forget what should be forgotten.Alter what is changeable, and accept what is unchangeable.

1、No matter how familiar we used to be with each other,as long as we are apart then we become strangers. 原来只要分开了的人，无论原来多么熟悉，也会慢慢变得疏远。

2、The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 未来属于那些相信梦想之美好的人。3、You'll never find the right person, if you can't let go of the wrong one. 紧抓着错误的人放不了手，又怎么可能找到对的那个人呢？4、Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory——有时候，直到一些珍贵的时刻成为了回忆，你才会真正意识到它的价值所在。

5、Perseverance is not a long race:it is many short races,one after another. 坚持不懈不是一个长跑，而是一个接着一个的短跑！6、Eternity is not a distance but a decision. 永远不是一种距离，而是一种决定。 7、Knowledge can't replace friendship,I'd rather be an idiot than lose you,Spongebob知识不能取代友谊，即使变成笨蛋我也不愿意失去你，海绵宝宝。

——派大星8、It all comes to the end about the past and you. For the future, about me, to be continued。 关于过去，关于你，告一段落。

关于未来，关于我，敬请期待9、Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving——人生就像骑单车，想保持平衡就得往前进。10、What does it matter where I am if you are not with me. 如果没有你，我在哪里又有什么所谓。

11、Your kiss still burns on my lips, everyday of mine is so beautiful. 你的吻在我的唇上依旧炽热，我的每一天都是如此的美好.12、Real girls aren't perfect. Perfect girls aren't real. 真实的女孩不完美，完美的女孩不真实。 13、Perhaps you get worse today, but tomorrow will always be new——或许今天你过得很糟糕，但是明天总会是崭新的！ 14、When I wake up every morning, the greatest joy is gazing upon you and sunshine, that is the future I desire. 每天早上醒来，最大的愉悦就是看到你和阳光都在，这就是我想要的未来15、Sometimes, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. 有时候占据我们内心最多空间的，往往是那些最细小的事16、It's an amazing feeling to realize how one person who was once just a stranger suddenly meant the world to you——很奇妙的一种感觉是，曾经的陌生人，突然之间成为了你的整个世界 17、Sometimes you need to step outside, clear your head, and remind yourself of who you are and where you wanna be. 有时候你需要退开一点，放空一下，然后提醒自己，我是谁，要去哪里。

18、If you hate me, you're the loser,not me.----Avril Lavigne 如果你恨我，那么你就是失败者，而不是我。----艾薇儿19、Time to get our hearts and minds right, and make today the best day ever, because it will never come again！ 是时候让我们的心回到正轨上来， 让今天成为最棒的一天吧， 因为，今天一去不回来20、Three killers for the time: delay, hesitation ,uncertainty.【时间的三大杀手】1.拖延。

2.犹豫不决。3.目标不明确。

第一篇我介绍英国散文史祖培根的 《论读书》， 这绝对是经典中的经典，有一点难，但是有中文应该还可以理解。 “Of Studies”英文原版： Of Studies is writen by Francis Bacon Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best form those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning (pruning) by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in/ by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in morse. (Studeis go to make up a man’s character. '?-be-"unt-'stü-dE-"?-"in-'mO-"rAs) Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. (Hair-splitters sim-mini sek-torr-es) If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.--培根 论读书(reference: 英语语言学文学网站：） [编辑本段]"of studies"中文译文： 读书可以作为消遣，可以作为装饰，也可以增长才干。孤独寂寞时，阅读可以消遣。高谈阔论时，知识可供装饰。处世行事时，知识意味着才干。 懂得事务因果的人是幸运的。有实际经验的人虽能够处理个别性的事务，但若要综观整体，运筹全局，却唯有学识方能办到。读书太慢的人驰惰，为装潢而读书是欺人，完全按照书本做事就是呆子。求知可以改进人性，而经验又可以改进知识本身。人的天性犹如野生的花草，求知学习好比修剪移栽。学问虽能指引方向，但往往流于浅泛，必须依靠经验才能扎下根基。 狡诈者轻鄙学问，愚鲁者羡慕学问，聪明者则运用学问。知识本身并没有告诉人怎样运用它，运用的智慧在于书本之外。这是技艺，不体验就学不到。 读书的目的是为了认识事物原理。为挑剔辩驳去读书是无聊的。但也不可过于迷信书本。求知的目的不是为了吹嘘炫耀，而应该是为了寻找真理，启迪智慧。 书籍好比食品。有些只须浅尝，有些可以吞咽，只有少数需要仔细咀嚼，慢慢品味。所以，有的书只要读其中一部分，有的书只须知其梗概，而对于少数好书，则应当通读，细读，反复读。有的书可以请人代读，然后看他的笔记摘要就行了。但这只应限于不太重要的议论和质量粗劣的书。否则一本书将像已被蒸馏过的水，变得淡而无味了。 读书使人充实，讨论使人机敏，写作则能使人精确。因此，如果有人不读书又想冒充博学多知，他就必须很狡黠，才能掩人耳目。如果一个懒于动笔，他的记忆力就必须强而可靠。如果一个人要孤独探索，他的头脑就必须格外锐利。 读史使人明智，读诗使人聪慧，学习数学使人精密，物理学使人深刻，伦理学使人高尚，逻辑修辞使人善辩。总之，"知识能塑造人的性格"。不仅如此，精神上的各种缺陷，都可以通过求知来改善——正如身体上的缺陷，可能通过适当的运动来改善一样。例如打球有利于腰背，射箭可扩胸利肺，散步则有助于消化，骑术使人反应敏捷，等等。同样道理，一个思维不集中的人，他可以研习数学，因为数学稍不仔细就会出错。缺乏分析判断的人，他可以研习而上学，因为这门学问最讲究细琐的辩证。不善于推理的人，可以研习法律案例。如此等等。这种心灵上的缺陷，都可以通过学习而得到改善 第二篇也是很经典的是塞缪尔·约翰逊的《致切斯特菲尔德伯爵书 》这是一篇很讽刺的作品，讲的是切斯特菲尔德伯爵当年拒绝了帮助塞缪尔·约翰逊出版后者的字典，后来塞缪尔·约翰逊通过自己的努力终于将他传世的字典付梓。就在这时，切斯特菲尔德伯爵无耻地写信给他要求自己成为这本字典的出版者，于是塞缪尔·约翰逊就写了这封经典的讽刺信表达对伯爵无耻行为的厌恶和憎恨。 Samuel Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield 致切斯特菲尔德伯爵书 To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Chesterfield 7th February, 1755. My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre;—that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patrons my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON 伯爵大人： 近日从《世界报》馆主得知，该报刊载了两篇文章，对拙编词典颇多举荐滥美之词，这些文章据悉均出自阁下您的手笔。承蒙您如此的推崇，本应是一种荣耀，只可惜在下自来无缘得到王公大人的青睐，所以真不知道该如何来领受这份荣耀，也不知道该用些什么言辞来聊表谢意。 回想当年，也不知哪来的勇气，我竟第一次拜访了大人阁下。我像所有的人一样，深为大人的言谈丰采所倾倒，不禁玄想他年能口出大言“吾乃天下征服者之征服者也。”——虽知此殊荣是举世学人所欲得，仍希望有朝一日能侥幸获取。然而我很快发现自己的趋走逢迎根本没有得到鼓励。不管是出于自尊也好，自矜也好，我反正无法再周旋下去。我本是一个与世无争、不善逢迎的书生，但那时我也曾用尽平生所学的阿谀奉承的言辞，当众赞美过阁下。能做的一切我都做了。如果一个人在这方面付出的一切努力（不管是多么微不足道）受到完全的忽视，他是绝不会感到舒服的。 大人阁下，从我第一次候立于贵府门下，或者说被您拒于门外时算起，已经7年过去。7年多来，我一直苦苦地撑持着我的编撰工作。这些苦楚，现在再来倾诉，已经没有用处。所幸我的劳作而今终于快要出版，在这之前我没有获得过一个赞助的行为，一句鼓励的话语，一抹称许的微笑。我固然不曾指望这样的礼遇，因为我从未有过一位赞助人。 维吉尔笔下的牧童最后终于和爱神相识，这才发现所谓爱神只不过是岩穴土人而已。 大人阁下，有的人眼见落水者在水中拼命挣扎而无动于衷，等他安全抵岸之后，却才多余地伸出所谓援手，莫非这就叫赞助人么？大人而今忽有雅兴来关照在下的劳作，这原本是一桩美意，只可惜太迟了一点。迟到我已经意懒心灰，再无法快乐地消受；迟到我已经是孤身一人，无从与家人分享；迟到我已经名闻海内，再不需阁下附丽张扬。我既然本来就没有得到过实惠，自然母需怀感恩之心；既然是上帝助我独立完成这桩大业，我自然不愿让公众产生错觉，似乎我曾受惠于某一赞助人。但愿上面这番话不致被认为太苛刻、太不近人情。 我已经在根本没有所谓学术赞助人赞助的情况下使自己的工作完成到目前这个地步，那么，尽管我将要在更艰难无助的情况下—假如还有可能更艰难无助的话—完成全稿，我也绝不会感到沮丧。因为我已经早就从那个赞助的美梦里幡然猛醒；曾几何时，我还在那梦中得意非凡地自诩是大人 您门下最卑微 最驯顺的仆人 塞缪尔·约翰逊 1755年2月7日 如果这两篇太长或太难的话，我再介绍一篇比较短的是英国女作家伍尔夫的这篇文章很短，虽然有的词的用法可能会深一点，但是有翻译对照一下相信你可以理解大部分，文章主要是讲要怎么读好书的，像这种和学习比较贴近的文章的读后感我想会比较好写。其实如果你真的要写这篇的话，那有的看不懂的词语或者用法就跳过去，对照中文理解一下中心思想就好。 About reading books It is simple enough to say that since books have classes fiction, biography, poetry—we should separate them and take from each what it is right that each should give us.Yet few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. If you hang back, and reserve and criticize at first, you are preventing yourself from getting the fullest possible value from what you read. But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other. Steep yourself in this, acquaint yourself with this, and soon you will find that your author is giving you, or attempting to give you, something far more definite. （既然书籍有不同的门类，如小说、传记、诗歌等，我们就应该把它们区分开来，并从每种中汲取它应当给我们提供的正确的东西;这话说起来固然容易。）然而，很少有人要求从书籍中得到它们所能提供的东西，通常我们总是三心二意地带着模糊的观念去看书：要求小说情节真实，要求诗歌内容虚构，要求传记阿谀奉承，要求历史能加深我们自己的偏见。如果我们读书时能抛弃所有这些成见，那将是一个极可贵的开端。我们对作者不要指手划脚，而应努力站在作者的立场上，设想自己在与作者共同创作。假如你退缩不前，有所保留并且一开始就批评指责，你就在妨碍自己从你所读的书中得到最大的益处, 然而，如果你能尽量敞开思想，那么，书中开头几句迂回曲折的话里所包含的几乎难以觉察的细微的迹象和暗示，就会把你引到一个与众不同的人物的面前去。（如果你深入下去，如果你去认识这个人物，你很快就会领悟作者正在给你或试图给你某些明确得多的东西。）

人生如旅

Written by Jack London

From the hell to the heaven,

There's no straight way to walk.

Sometimes up, sometimes down.

Hope creates a heaven for us,

Despair makes a hell for us.

地狱天堂路遥遥，

理想捷径无处寻。

起起落落前行路，

一线希望造天堂，

千般绝望坠地狱。

Some choices are waiting for me,

Which one on earth is better?

No God in the world can help me,

Choosing is the 1)byname of freedom,

Different choice makes different future.

前行歧路须选择，

究竟哪条会更好?

绝无上帝可依凭，

自由别名乃选择，

不同抉择造异境。

It's stupid to put eyes on others.

I have to make up my own mind,

Going my way to the destination.

盲随他人不明智，

吾须定夺前行路，

不达目标誓不休。

Facing success or failure,

It's no need to care too much.

Only if I've tried my best,

It’s enough for my simple life.

纵然面对成与败，

谨记无须太在意。

只要吾已竭全力，

淡然此生无所系。

1) byname n. 别名, 绰号

赏析

这个忙碌的社会盛行抄袭、复制，这看似最便捷的 方法 加快了我们的工作“效率”和行动步伐。就连个人生活也不例外，我们习惯了从他人失败或成功的经历上收获 经验 ，祈求少走些弯路。

我们都有过这样的经历，我们的选择都没有遵照自己最感兴趣的角度出发，但却无计可施。表面上每件事情都还不错，但是内心里却翻江倒海不能平静，但同时用别的借口搪塞自己，告诫自己别去犯傻了。

然而，没有人知道哪条是正道，变或不变，只有你自己才知道原因和答案。

“Choosing is the byname of freedom. 自由别名乃选择。”

内心的需求与选择比众人习以为常的选择更趋合理。别说你没有机会或运气不够，你现在有的是热情，缺的是信念而已，冒一点点险，作些细微的改变。机会是你迈出的第一步，而运气，是后来的事情。

作者简介

杰克·伦敦(Jack London, 1876~1916)，美国著名作家，著有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《海狼》、《白牙》和《热爱生命》等50多本书。

虽然时常过着流浪、冒险和艰苦劳动的生活，杰克·伦敦的读书热忱却丝毫不减。他没有受过正规 教育 ，但他努力自学到的知识和写作能力却胜过了从高等学府 毕业 的文科学生。他那带有传奇历险色彩的短篇小说，描述了太平洋岛屿和阿拉斯加冰天雪地的土著人和白人生活，大部分都可以说是他短暂一生的历险记。