英文美文中英对照

美文,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。我整理了英语美文摘抄带翻译，欢迎阅读!

英语励志短文

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, 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.

无论是60岁还是16岁，你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、永不熄灭的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事业成功的欢乐与热情。在你我的心底，有一座无线电台，它能在多长时间里接收到人间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、鼓舞和力量的信息，你就会年轻多长时间。

An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders 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.

人的生命应当像河流，开始是涓涓细流，受两岸的限制而十分狭窄，尔后奔腾咆哮，翻过危岩，飞越瀑布，河面渐渐开阔，河岸也随之向两边隐去，最后水流平缓，森森无际，汇入大海之中，个人就这样毫无痛苦地消失了。

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

青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅是岁月流逝所致，更主要的是不思进取的结果。

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

光阴可以在颜面上留下印记，而热情之火的熄灭则在心灵上刻下皱纹。烦恼、恐惧、缺乏自信会扭曲人的灵魂，并将青春化为灰烬。

眼睛会说话

Much meaning can be conveyed, clearly, with our eyes, so it is often said that eyes can speak.

我们的眼睛能准确地传达一些信息，所以人们常说，眼睛会说话。

Do you have such kind of experience? In a bus you may look at stranger, but not too long. And if he is sensing that he is being stared at, he may feel uncomfortable.

你有过类似的体验吗?在公共汽车上，你可能会看着一个陌生人，但时间不会太长。而且，如果他能感觉到有人盯着他，会觉得浑身不自在。

The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is anything wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel angry toward other’s stare with you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

日常生活中亦如此。如果别人一直盯着你看，你就会不由自主地审视自己，看看是不是有什么地方弄错了。如果一切正常，你就会对别人的这种盯梢很气愤。眼睛确实能说话，不是吗?

Looking too long at someone may seem to be rude and aggressive. But things are different when it comes to stare at the opposite sex. If a man glances at a woman for more than 10 seconds and refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.

过久的盯着别人看会给人一种粗鲁和侵犯的感觉。但异性之间的凝视就不同了。如果一个男人盯着一个女人超过10秒钟，还不想挪开视线的话，他的意思就十分明显了，他想引起她的注意，想让她知道他爱慕她。

However, the normal eye contact for two people engaged in conversation is that the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, in order to make sure that the listener does pay attention to what the former is speaking, to tell him that he is attentive.

正常情况下，两人交谈时，目光接触能传达这样的意思：说者偶尔看看听者，以此确认听着是否在认真倾听。而对于听者来说，他会一直看着说话的人，以此告诉他，自己正专心致志的听着。

If a speaker looks at you continuously when speaking, as if he tries to dominate you, you will feel disconcerted. A poor liar usually exposes himself by looking too long at the victim, since he believes in the false idea that to look straight in the eye is a sign of honest communication. Quite the contrary.

假如与你说话的那个人直直的盯着你，好像要镇住你似的，你便会感到惶恐不安。一般地，说谎者往往就是看别人的时间过长，而令人起疑。因为他们以为直视别人的眼睛是诚实沟通的表现，结果恰恰相反。

In fact, continuous eye contact is confined to lovers only, who will enjoy looking at each other tenderly for a long time, to show affection that words cannot express.

实际上，长时间的相互凝视仅适合情人之间，他们喜欢温柔的对视，用目光来传达言语无法表达的爱意。

Evidently, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the specific situation.

显然，目光交流应该根据双方的关系和特定场合来进行。

热爱生活

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not as bad as you are.

不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。

It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮;在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.

城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们;可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them.

视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧!不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。

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。

精彩词句学起来：1. She saw the world not always as it was, with just a little bit of magic.因为一点点魔法，她眼中的世界于是变得与众不同。2. True, she had no title, nor crown, nor castle, but she was the ruler of her own little kingdom, whose borders were the house and meadow on the forest's edge where her people had lived for generations.的确，她没有头衔，没有皇冠，也没有城堡，但她管辖着自己的小小王国，国界就在那森林边际的屋子和牧场，她的子民世代生活在那里。3. I want to tell you a secret. A great secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer. You must always remember this. Have courage and be kind.我要告诉你一个秘密，这个巨大的秘密能帮你度过，人生所有的艰难困苦。你一定要好好记住。秘密就是，要勇敢，要善良。4. Time passed, and pain turned to memory. In her heart, Ella stayed the same.时光流逝，伤痛已成为往事，艾拉的内心从未改变。5. His widow, an honorable woman, finds herself alone, though still in the prime of her life.他的遗孀是位令人尊敬的女士，日子过的很寂寞，其实她还风华正茂。6. She's skinny as a broomstick! And that stringy hair!她瘦得像个扫把。头发像乱麻。7. Ella's stepmother, high-spirited lady that she was, set out to restore life and laughter to the house.艾拉的继母是个充满活力的女士，打算把活力和笑声重新注入这所房子。8. Bring me the first branch your shoulder brushes on your journey.给我带回第一支划过你肩头的树枝。9. Sometimes I could scratch your eyes out!有时候我都想把你眼珠子挖出来。10. I think they're finding the sleeping quarters rather confining.我想她们肯定觉得房间太挤了。11. Can't you see? None of that matters. We're ruined.你们还不懂吗 那些都不重要。我们完蛋了。12. And by and by they considered Ella less a sister than a servant.渐渐地，她们不把艾拉当家人看待，而是当作佣人。13. And punctuality is the...politeness of princes.守时是王子应有的礼貌。14. Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done.只因一直如此，并不代表就该如此。15. If I must marry, could I not wed, say, a good, honest country girl?要是我一定要结婚，我能不能娶一个善良又诚实的乡村姑娘呢?