经典美文作为传统文化的精粹,对健全学生人格的发展有着深远的意义。我整理了200字英语美文，欢迎阅读!
Too many people think of hiness as the ultimate goal of life. But, if you?re waiting for hiness to arrive then it?s likely that it never will!
有太多人把幸福当作人生的终极目标，但如果你只是等待幸福来敲门，幸福可能永远都不会到来!
You?re always wanting something more, always looking forward to a time when you?ll behy?. And, if you fall into this trap, you?ll never reach that goal. Hiness should not be your life?s goal, it should be your life! The only time to be hy is right now! It?s state of mind, not a set of accomplishments or the accumulation of material things. You must accept that life will always he challenges and things will not always go your way.
你总是期待得到更多，总是期待着你变?幸福?的那一刻。然而，如果你陷入这种思维陷阱，那你永远也达不到这个目的。幸福不该是生活的目标，它应该是生活本身!幸福唯一该存在的时刻，就是每时每刻的现在!它是一种心态，而不是一连串的成就，或者物质财富的积累。你必须要接受的是：生活中总会有挑战，事情不会总朝着你期望的方向发展。
Instead of feeling disointed when things don?t work out the way you?d hoped, feel grateful for the experience. Instead of dreaming of a brighter, hier, richer tomorrow, make today as wonderful as you can.
事情的发展不如你所愿时不要沮丧，你要对拥有这次体验心存感激。不要幻想着明天会更美好、更幸福、更富有，要尽可能精彩地过好今天。
Hiness is a conscious decision and that I can make it right now. Thinking of the future and hing aspirations is essential to leading a hy and fulfilled life. The trick is not to let thoughts of the future overshadow your enjoyment of the present and the reciation of the things and people you he in your life right now!
幸福是我此刻就能做出的有意识的决定。思考未来、胸怀大志是幸福美满生活的基础，关键在于不要让对未来的思考掩盖当下的快乐和对现在生活中人和事的感激!
There is no way to hiness: hiness is the way!
没有通往幸福的路：幸福本身就是一条路!
Stop waiting for hiness to arrive and simply decide to be hy! It?s not some great goal or destination, it?s a journey and a way of life.
不要再等着幸福登门了，你需要做的仅仅是决定幸福地活着!这不是什么伟大的目的目标，只是生命的旅程和道路。
200字英语美文篇二A woman baked chapatti for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way:The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!?
一个女人给家人烤薄饼，还留出一个给饥肠辘辘的路人。她总是把留出的那个放在窗台上，每天都有一个驼背的人来拿走薄饼。他没说过一句?谢谢?，反而总是边走边咕哝着：?善有善报，恶有恶报!?
The woman felt irritated.Not a word of gratitude,? she said to herself Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean One day, she decided to do away with him. She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him!
女人很生气，她自言自语地说：?这个驼背人从没说过谢谢，却每天都重复这句话，是什么意思呀一天，她决定弄死他，就在为他准备的薄饼上下了毒。
As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled.What is this I am doing she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words:The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!?
她正要把饼放在窗台上，手就开始颤抖了，她说：?我在做什么她马上把饼扔进了火里，重新做了一张。一切照旧，驼背人来了，拿起薄饼，咕哝着：?善有善报，恶有恶报!?
Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune.
每天女人把饼放窗台上时都为去远方赚钱的儿子祈祷。
That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He was hungry and weak. As he saw his mother, he said,Mom, it?s a miracle I?m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would he died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. He was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. He said,Your need is greater than mine!?
那天晚上，有人敲门，她打开门惊讶地发现儿子站在门口，他很饿很虚弱。一看见妈妈他就说：?妈妈，我能回来真是奇迹。离家还有一英里远的时候，我太饿了走不动了。我差点儿就死了，但就在那时一个老驼背人路过，他很善良给了我一整张饼。他说：?你比我更需要它?。?
She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would he been eaten by her own son!
她想起了那天早上做的有毒的饼，要不是她把饼烧了，就会被她儿子吃了!
It was then that she realized the significance of the words:The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!? Do good and don?t ever stop doing good, even if it is not reciated at that time.
那时她才意识到这句话的重要性：?善有善报，恶有恶报!?多行善举，即使当时不被人感激也要坚持下去。
200字英语美文篇三"I worked as a bartender/waitress at a bar inside an upscale health-food grocery store (it's a real thing, I promise). Most of our clientele was well-off retirees and 30-something recently divorced men hoping to get a date with someone coming in after a yoga class. Generally a nice group of customers, but definitely rich, uptight people. Forgetting to bring salt to some might be a huge offense, but automatically bringing it causes others to give you a lecture about sodium intake. It was a difficult balancing act.
?我曾在一家高档健康食品杂货店里面担任酒吧的酒保兼服务生(真的是健康食品，我保证)。我们的大多数客户是富裕的退休人员和30岁刚离婚并希望与一个刚上完瑜伽课的女人约会的男人。基本上都是些很友善的顾客，不过都真的有钱，而且要求比较高。忘记给他们送上盐可能会引起他们的强烈反感，但拿了盐的话他们又会给你上一门有关钠摄入量的课。这个动作的轻重真的很难拿捏。?
"It was St. Patrick's Day. There was also a March Madness game with the local university team playing and we were short-staffed. Needless to say, it was an insane evening with me rushing around serving corned beef and cabbage, pouring Guinness, and making sure no one was becoming belligerent.
?那天是圣帕特里克节，当时正在进行?疯狂三月?的比赛，当地大学的校队有参加，我们人手不够。不用说，这是一个疯狂的夜晚，我不断奔波着为客户提供腌牛肉和卷心菜，以及吉尼斯黑啤酒，并确保没有人要斗殴。?
"For some reason, the bar supervisor always liked to he food specials on display for people to see. While I get the concept, it generally just caused us to get mean looks when we told people they probably shouldn't eat it, as it wasn't a sample and had been sitting out for hours. Since it was St. Patrick's Day, we had a giant display of the corned beef and cabbage dinner special, complete with gry, potatoes, and Irish beer bread.
?由于某些原因，酒吧主管总是喜欢把特荐美食陈列出来给人看。虽然我懂这是为什么，但这对于我们(服务人员)来说真的很麻烦，总是让我们糟人冷眼，因为我们必须告诉顾客这些不是试吃品，而且它们已经被放在这里几小时了。由于当时是圣帕特里克节，我们摆出了大量的腌牛肉配卷心菜特餐，并且还配有肉汁、土豆和爱尔兰啤酒面包。
"As the night was beginning to slow down, I had an older couple sit at the only open seats -- adjacent to our food displays. I was clearing tables and leaned over to let them know I'd be right with them, and a plate slid off the mountain of dishes I was carrying, plopping right into the food display. The 12-hour-old gry and potatoes somehow still had some fluidity to them, and flew up, then dropped? right into the man's lap.
?随着当晚的高峰期开始结束，我让一对老夫妇坐在仅剩的空位上----与我们摆出的食物相邻。当时我正在清理桌子，但身体也向们倾斜好让他们知道我马上会去他们那里，就在这时，手里堆在最上面的一个盘子滑落了，正好砸向了陈列出的食物。那保存了十二小时的肉汁和马铃薯不知怎么居然还没凝固，溅了起来，而后又掉落，不偏不倚落到了男人的膝盖上。
"I was horrified and apologizing profusely while trying to set down the mountain of dishes. The man looked up and me and said, 'I just he one thing to tell you.' He slowly leaned in -- at which point I was thinking he was about to spit in my face -- and he said, 'I don't he to fart anymore, you scared it out of me.'
?我顿时感到了惊骇，一边放下手里堆积如山的盘子一边不停地道歉。那个男人抬头看了我说道，?我只想告诉你一件事。?他慢慢将身体倾斜------当我以为他要向我脸上吐唾沫时------然后他说，?我终于不用再放屁了，你已经把它吓出来了。?
"It was the laugh I needed that night, and he wouldn't even let me give him a free beer as an apology." -- Belinda Farragut
?于是我开怀大笑了起来，而这正是我当晚需要的，他甚至不要我给他免费的啤酒作为道歉。?------Belinda Farragut
My View on Life Value 人生价值何在
We all come to the world, but why do some of us make great achievements known forever and why are they remembered forever even though they lee the world? And why do some lee the world without anything valuable to his generation and the people? Every one of us will hope to he a significant and valuable life. But what kind of life is both significant and valuable? Answers to the questions are ... "If you cherish your value of your own life, you will create something valuable for the world." Johann Goth said. "The life value should be judged from his contribution rather than his profession." Einstein said. Lei Feng, a communist soldier, said, "one lives to make others a more beautiful life."
我们每一个人来到这个世界上,为什么有的人功业千秋,永垂不朽？为什么有的人悄悄而去，却没有给后人和社会留下一点儿有价值的东西？!人谁不希望自己的一生过得有意义、有价值？那么，怎样的人生才算是有意义有价值的人生呢？对于这个问题...... 歌德说："你若要喜爱自己的价值，就得给世界创造价值。"爱因斯坦说："一个人的价值，应当看他贡献什么，而不是看他得到什么。" 共产主义战士雷锋说："自己活着，就是为了让别人过得更美好。"
As we all know, Marx is an outstanding and great man. He founded his brilliant and scientific theory of communism. The theory guides the ways for the human being's liberation. Marx said, "If we can elect one suitable profession, we won't be demoralized with its pressure, because we make sacrifice for human beings. Only by this way will we not be addicted to the joy of narrow-minded and individualism.
马克思是历史上一个了不起的伟大人物，他创立了科学的、光辉的共产主义学说，为人类的彻底解放指明了前进的道路。马克思曾说："如果我们能选择一种最适合于人类工作的职业，那么，我们就不会在它的重压下变得意志消沉，因为我们是在为人类而作出牺牲，这样，我们就不会陷入到一种毫无意义的、狭小的、个人主义的欢乐之中。
Our hiness belongs to thousands upon thousands of people. I see, although it may be unknown, our cause will never be forgot forever. Even when we depart to God, the kind people will tear down upon our ashes." When he said these words, he was only 17 years old. He meant his word with his deeds in his late lifetime period. After his death, on his 100-birthday anniversary, the proletarian and the revolutionary people of the whole world still cherish the memory of Marx and mourn him respectively. It is his distinguishingable contribution to the mankind that his life is that significant. It is his great devotion to the human being that his life value is beyond measure.
我们的幸福属于成千上万的人们。我们的事业虽然是无声无息的，但它将永世长存，在我们死后，善良的人们将在我们的骨灰上洒下他们的热泪。"说这段话的时候，马克思只有17岁，而在以后的人生历程中，他用实际行动履行了他所说的话。他诞辰100周年时，全世界无产阶级和革命人民，不是还在深切地怀念他、悼念他吗？正因为马克思为人类作出了卓越的贡献，他的一生才有那样重大的意义，他的人生价值才那样无可估量地巨大。
We also know that Lu Xun is a man of great. Without his nobility "Fierce-browed, I wooly defy a thousand point fingers, head bowed like a willing ox I serve the children", and without his spirit of his loyalty and devotion to the last for the bright future of the Chinese people, his life would not he been so significant and so great. Actually, didn't those regarded as essence of human who live forever in the hearts of people make great contributions to the cause of the people? Wouldn't the people remember those whose great achievements for human are recorded in history?
鲁迅先生也是个伟大人物，如果他没有"横眉冷对千夫指，俯首甘为孺子牛"的崇高精神，如果他没有为中国人民的美好未来而鞠躬尽瘁，死而后已，其人生的意义和价值就不会这样伟大了。事实上，那些千古不朽、光照史册、堪称人类精英的伟大人物，又有哪个没有为人类的共同事业做出过巨大的贡献呢？
We know for certain that not every of us will be a second Marx or Lu Xun. However, a person of noble aspirations will do solid work. Struggle continuously and effortless. He will try to make his greatest contribution in his shortest time. He will try what he can to bring benefit to the people in his lifetime. We'd say it is impossible for one to live alone if he isolates society and people. If he hopes to make a benefit life, he will bring benefit and make contribution to people. As a socialist youth, he will devote his life to the cause of communism in order to make a benefit life.
当然，我们不可能都成为马克思、鲁迅第二，但真正的有志之士，总是在最短的时间内去做出伟大的成绩，在有生之年尽自己的全部力量去为人类造福。一个人是不可能离开人类、离开社会而独立生活的，要使人生有价值，就得造福于人类，为社会做出贡献。作为一个社会主义社会的青年，要使人生有价值，就得把自己的生命融入伟大的共产主义的事业之中。
Moreover, we say that a value of life will be only in direct proportion to achievement and contribution he makes to our society. In our real life, we can see many revolutionary martyrs die young for the people. Don't you think they cherish the life? Yes. They do. They are sentimentally attached to life; they are full of hope and desire. But they confront the death brely and resolutely in order to make many more people live. Their brilliant status will be living in the hearts of people. They die glorious and great. The life of those who die busy about his lifetime without any achievements can not be compared with their life.
人生的价值只能和一个人对社会做出的贡献的多少、立下的功绩的大小成正比。许多革命烈士，年纪轻轻就为人民献出了生命，难道他们就不爱人生？不，对人生，他们也充满了眷恋，充满了渴望。但是，他们为了更多人的生，面对死亡毅然决然。他们的光辉形象将永远耸立在人们的心中！他们死得光荣，死得伟大，他们的人生价值是那些碌碌无为而寿终正寝的人不可比拟的。
In our real life, we he many cases like those. Life is endless and tackling key problems will be continuous. Let's take these as examples. Mr. Jing Zhuying worked for the Chinese science causes to the last of his life. Mr. Zhang Hua sacrificed his own young life for the sake of others, which set a good example of the communist. Mr. An Ke died for fulfillment for the duty as a citizen. Ms Zhang Haiti, compared to be Paul of our time, worked very hard and faced frustrations of her life, though she was disabled. She still continues to live on brely. All these are the strong of their life. Their value of life is precious. My fellow students, don't you say what a beautiful life they he? Beethoven once said; "I must learn to control my life which will never make me give myself up. Oh, If only I can live more than thousands times!" Paul Cocking also had a golden saying, "Life is but one." I think every youth of us keep this in our minds. let's turn it into reality with our deeds.
在今天的现实生活中，这样的事例也是很多的。生命不息，攻关不止，为中华的科学事业战斗到最后一刻的蒋筑英；用美好壮丽的青春，谱写舍己救人共产主义之歌的张华；用生命去履行一个公民职责的安柯；更有身残志坚、顽强学习，面对坎坷的人生之路，仍然勇猛前进的当代保尔张海迪。他们都是人生征途上的强者。他们的人生价值是可贵的。朋友们，这样的人生是多么美好啊！ 贝多芬曾说："我必须学会掌握自己的命运，我决不会屈服于命运。能把生命活上千次百次真是很美！"然而生命只有一次，保尔·柯察金那段至理名言，我们每个青年都应当牢牢记住，并把它变为自己的实际行动。
Let's not be a man full of promises but without any deeds, like Lusting, one of the characters by Dougeshefol. My fellow students, let's not wander. Let's not hesitate. Only lament and vexation does not mean consideration and exploration. Only lament and vexation does not mean advancing and does not mean mature at all. Let's not kill our lifetime by playing cards. Let's not waste our youth by drinking. Let's not destroy our will without any achievements. Let's make great contribution to human. And only by these can we create benefit life.
千万不要像屠格涅夫笔下的罗亭那样，成为语言的巨人、行动的矮子！ 亲爱的朋友们，一味地徘徊、彷徨，一味地哀叹、烦恼，并不等于思考、探索、前进，更不是成熟的标志。我们不能让生命在纸牌中磨灭，不能让青春在酒精中溶化，不能让斗志在空想中瓦解，而应当在为祖国和人民的贡献中创造自己的价值！
Every one will he to die and every body will be rotten. But every one may make achievements and contributions. We hate being rotten. Let's brighten up! Up! And up!
人生可能腐朽，也可能燃烧，我们不愿腐朽，让我们燃烧起来吧！燃烧起来吧！燃烧起来吧！
英语现在已经发展成为一个在世界范围内使用最广泛的语言。我精心收集了300-400字的英语美文摘抄，供大家欣赏学习!
300-400字的英语美文摘抄篇1
Me:
The clock is ticking and tomorrow is my special day.
时钟滴滴答答的走着，明天对我来说意义非凡。
I wonder what people will say.
我想知道人们会怎么说。
Will they greet me or just say hi.
他们会欢迎我吗?还是仅仅说声?你好?。
Ha-ha as if they all remember my natal day.
哈哈，说得好像他们都记得我出生那天一样。
Mther:
Oh! One thing I realize as I get little older is that we should value our lives and spend it meaningfully.
当大一点的时候，我开始意识到，我们应该珍惜当下生活，让它变得有意义。
Dream big and set plans.
放胆做梦，并为此指定。
I thank God for helping me to achieve my goal each year.
感谢上帝，让我每年的目标都得以实现。
Although not everything is perfect, but somewhat closer to that. I surpassed my 2016 with a #goalmet and proudly to say that building my own family is a gift.
虽不是所有的目标都实现得非常完美，但是多少都在朝着目标迈进。2016年的目标我都已经达成，而且还为家庭建设孕育了一个礼物为此我很傲娇。
Thank you God for the most special gift I got last year. Soon I will get to see it. I do promise to take good care of it.
感谢上苍在2016年就给我了这个特别的礼物，不久我就会见到TA了而且我发誓我会好好照顾TA
Me and my husband waiting for our fruit. A fruit made with love. A fruit that we dream of. A special gift that forever we will treasure. A baby I will name as baby Z.。
丈夫和我都在等待我们的结晶，我们都梦寐以求的爱的结晶.这份特别的礼物我们都会永远珍惜。我们会给这个宝贝取名叫Z。
300-400字的英语美文摘抄篇2I'm just sitting here in my room today, listening to music while it rains outside my window, and I can't stop thinking about how hy I am and how great my life is. There's nothing particularly special about it - I'm not rich or famous, I'm not exceptionally talented, and I don't do anything particularly fabulous for a living. But I feel somewhat organized, I he a clean room and a car and a job, and most of all what makes it great is the mere fact that I feel hy.
今天我坐在自己的房间里，听着音乐，窗外下着雨，我不由得感到自己是多么愉快、生活是多么美妙。尽管我不是什么大富大贵，社会名流，也没有智力超群，或是做什么伟大的事情来营生。但是我感觉一切井井有条，我有一个干净的房间、一辆车以及一份工作。但是最重要的是，我单纯觉得快乐。
I know this may not seem like the most interesting story in the world, but when I was twelve, I was deeply suicidal.
我知道这看起来不像是什么世间的奇闻异事，但是在我12岁的时候，我非常想自杀。
I'm sharing my good mood today because I know there are tons of people out there who struggle with life.
今天我和大家分享这种岁月静好的心情，是因为我知道还有很多人都遭受生活的苦楚和折磨。
Not even necessarily the outward details of their lives, but the inner demons that exist within their minds.
不仅仅有生活中的外在琐事给他们添堵，还有内心的怪兽在作祟。
I want you to know - if that's you - that the mere possibility of reaching a place of inner peace is worth it. It is worth hanging on for.
我想让你们知道的是，很少有人能真正达到内心平和，但是这种为达到这种状态值得坚持磨炼。
I was probably 25 when hiness and contentment became my default emotions. It took a long time, and it took a lot of change, pain and growth. But now that I'm here, it feels permanent. And the emotions of the past feel like they hened to someone else. They are so foreign and distant to me. For some, it may take even longer, and it may take even more. But I cannot imagine even for a second that the struggle wouldn't be worth it if this is the end result.
我可能直到25岁才让知足常乐变成一种情绪上的常态。这中间需要很长的时间，很多的改变，痛苦让你成长。现如今我的情绪变得稳定而长久，回忆起之前的种种好像是发生在别人的身上，对于现在我来说是那么的陌生和遥远。对于有些人来说，获得这种安定的心境要花更长的时间，做更多的改变。但是如果经历了所有折磨还是无法改变什么，结果一点都不值得，关于这个我想都不敢想。
That's it. I just wanted to share my positive vibes with everybody. The world can be an amazing place if you let it, and you can be an amazing person. You probably already are. Good luck, and please never give up. I hope that today, you all feel a little bit of love. Thanks for reading.
我想用这种积极的情绪感染大家。只要你想世界就会变得美好，同样的你也可以成为更好的人。也许你已经足够好了。那么好运，要保持不要放弃。我希望我的分享能够让你感觉到一点小温柔。
300-400字的英语美文摘抄篇3Being Thankful Despite The Odds
不管未来怎样，我都要过得快乐。
My name is Judy and I am doing a GoFundMe campaign for my mom, everyone knows her as, Kelly.
我叫朱迪，我为我妈妈参加了一个?去找到我?的活动，每个人都因此认识她，凯利。
My mom has been through a tremendous amount of pain and suffering given her ongoing, serious medical issues.
我妈妈在她前进道路上经历过许许多多疼痛与痛苦，包括严重的病痛。
She is beating the odds and fights everyday.
她不给任何困难机会，每天与病魔抗争。
Despite everything, she felt it important to make and deliver fruit gift baskets to all of the doctors and rehab facility offices a couple days ago, just to say "Thank you" for helping her.
尽管如此艰难，她还是认为，在前几天给所有医生和康复办公室的工作人员制作果篮并送给他们，是非常重要的，一切只为了对帮助她的人说声?谢谢?。
She has been in bed since as it wiped her out for days.
从她被隔离有一段时间开始，她就一直卧床。
She continues to struggle everyday.
她仍然坚持每天与病魔抗争。
She tries to find the little things she is thankful for and I think this helps her continue to put one foot in front of the other.
她试着发现每一个微不足道却值得她感激的细节，我觉得这些帮她一步一步艰难地坚持着向前走。
She's a trooper! My mom and I are so grateful and reciative of everyone's help and support so far.
她是一个骑士!我妈妈和我都特别感激至今为止，每个人的努力和支持。
Up to this point, with what we he raised, we he been able to pay some of the bills so far including one of the rehab center bills. Yeah!
说到这里，在筹集到的善款的帮助下，到现在为止我们已经能够付得起一些账单了，包括一笔来自康复中心的账单。太好了!
But, we still he a lot more bills and collection company notices to pay.
但是，我们仍然有许多账单和讨债公司的催款要还。
Reaching our goal would help decrease her enormous stress and worry that I know cannot be helping her recover and get stronger.
实现我们的目标会帮助减轻妈妈的巨大压力和担忧，我知道这些东西是不会帮她恢复和变得坚强的。
Asking for help, especially in such a public forum, is very difficult for both of us.
寻求帮助，尤其是在这样一个公共平台上，对我们来说太难了。
Please share our story on facebook, twitter, your email contacts and so on.
请大家在Facebook，Twitter，邮箱连接中分享我们的故事吧。
Thank you for reading our story and for your donation, if possible.
如果可以的话，谢谢大家阅读我们的故事，也谢谢大家的捐赠。
Our hope is that you all he a Hy, Healthy 2017!
我们的愿望是大家都可以拥有一个快乐，健康的2017年。
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第一篇：Youth?青春?
Youth?
Youth?is?not?a?time?of?life;?it?is?a?state?of?mind;?it?is?not?a?matter?of?rosy?cheeks,?red?lips?and?supple?knees;?it?is?a?matter?of?the?will,?a?quality?of?the?imagination,?a?vigor?of?the?emotions;?it?is?the?freshness?of?the?deep?springs?of?life.?
Youth?means?a?temperamental?predominance?of?courage?over?timidity,?of?the?etite?for?adventure?over?the?love?of?ease.?This?often?exists?in?a?man?of?60?more?than?a?boy?of?20.?Nobody?grows?old?merely?by?a?number?of?years.?We?grow?old?by?deserting?our?ideals.?
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.?
Whether?60?or?16,?there?is?in?every?human?being’s?heart?the?lure?of?wonders,?the?unfailing?etite?for?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,?courage?and?power?from?man?and?from?the?infinite,?so?long?as?you?are?young.?
When?your?aerials?are?down,?and?your?spirit?is?covered?with?snows?of?cynicism?and?the?ice?of?pessimism,?then?you’ve?grown?old,?even?at?20;?but?as?long?as?your?aerials?are?up,?to?catch?wes?of?optimism,?there’s?hope?you?may?die?young?at?80.?
译文：?
青春?
青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。?
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。?
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。?
无论年届花甲，拟或芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。?、?
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。?
•第二篇：?Three?Days?to?See(Excerpts)如给我三天光明（节选）?
Three?Days?to?See?
All?of?us?he?read?thrilling?stories?in?which?the?hero?had?only?a?limited?and?specified?time?to?live.?Sometimes?it?was?as?long?as?a?year,?sometimes?as?short?as?24?hours.?But?always?we?were?interested?in?discovering?just?how?the?doomed?hero?chose?to?spend?his?last?days?or?his?last?hours.?I?speak,?of?course,?of?free?men?who?he?a?choice,?not?condemned?criminals?whose?sphere?of?activities?is?strictly?delimited.?
Such?stories?set?us?thinking,?wondering?what?we?should?do?under?similar?circumstances.?What?events,?what?experiences,?what?associations?should?we?crowd?into?those?last?hours?as?mortal?beings,?what?regrets?
Sometimes?I?he?thought?it?would?be?an?excellent?rule?to?live?each?day?as?if?we?should?die?tomorrow.?Such?an?attitude?would?emphasize?sharply?the?values?of?life.?We?should?live?each?day?with?gentleness,?vigor?and?a?keenness?of?reciation?which?are?often?lost?when?time?stretches?before?us?in?the?constant?panorama?of?more?days?and?months?and?years?to?come.?There?are?those,?of?course,?who?would?adopt?the?Epicurean?motto?of?“Eat,?drink,?and?be?merry”.?But?most?people?would?be?chastened?by?the?certainty?of?impending?death.?
In?stories?the?doomed?hero?is?usually?sed?at?the?last?minute?by?some?stroke?of?fortune,?but?almost?always?his?sense?of?values?is?changed.?He?becomes?more?reciative?of?the?meaning?of?life?and?its?permanent?spiritual?values.?It?has?often?been?noted?that?those?who?live,?or?he?lived,?in?the?shadow?of?death?bring?a?mellow?sweetness?to?everything?they?do.?
Most?of?us,?however,?take?life?for?granted.?We?know?that?one?day?we?must?die,?but?usually?we?picture?that?day?as?far?in?the?future.?When?we?are?in?buoyant?health,?death?is?all?but?unimaginable.?We?seldom?think?of?it.?The?days?stretch?out?in?an?endless?vista.?So?we?go?about?our?petty?tasks,?hardly?aware?of?our?listless?attitude?toward?life.?
The?same?lethargy,?I?am?afraid,?characterizes?the?use?of?all?our?faculties?and?senses.?Only?the?deaf?reciate?hearing,?only?the?blind?realize?the?manifold?blessings?that?lie?in?sight.?Particularly?does?this?observation?ly?to?those?who?he?lost?sight?and?hearing?in?adult?life.?But?those?who?he?never?suffered?impairment?of?sight?or?hearing?seldom?make?the?fullest?use?of?these?blessed?faculties.?Their?eyes?and?ears?take?in?all?sights?and?sounds?hazily,?without?concentration?and?with?little?reciation.?It?is?the?same?old?story?of?not?being?grateful?for?what?we?he?until?we?lose?it,?of?not?being?conscious?of?health?until?we?are?ill.?
I?he?often?thought?it?would?be?a?blessing?if?each?human?being?were?stricken?blind?and?deaf?for?a?few?days?at?some?time?during?his?early?adult?life.?Darkness?would?make?him?more?reciative?of?sight;?silence?would?teach?him?the?joys?of?sound.?
译文：?
如给我三天光明（节选）?
我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而不是那些活动范围受到严格限定的死囚。?
这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？?
有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这感觉。当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。?
在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常注意到，那些生活在或曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什么都会感到幸福。?
然而，我们中的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有一天我们必将面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥远的将来。当我们身强体健之时，死亡简直不可想象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙于琐事，几乎意识不到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。?
我担心同样的冷漠也存在于我们对自己官能和意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用于那些成年后才失去视力或听力之苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物与声音，心不在焉，也无所感激。这正好我们只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一样，我们只有在生病后才意识到健康的可贵。?
我经常想，如果每个人在年轻的时候都有几天失时失聪，也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更加感激光明，寂静将告诉他声音的美妙。?
•第三篇：Companionship?of?Books?以书为伴（节选）?
Companionship?of?Books?
A?man?may?usually?be?known?by?the?books?he?reads?as?well?as?by?the?company?he?keeps;?for?there?is?a?companionship?of?books?as?well?as?of?men;?and?one?should?always?live?in?the?best?company,?whether?it?be?of?books?or?of?men.?
A?good?book?may?be?among?the?best?of?friends.?It?is?the?same?today?that?it?always?was,?and?it?will?never?change.?It?is?the?most?patient?and?cheerful?of?companions.?It?does?not?turn?its?back?upon?us?in?times?of?adversity?or?distress.?It?always?receives?us?with?the?same?kindness;?amusing?and?instructing?us?in?youth,?and?comforting?and?consoling?us?in?age.?
Men?often?discover?their?affinity?to?each?other?by?the?mutual?love?they?he?for?a?book?just?as?two?persons?sometimes?discover?a?friend?by?the?admiration?which?both?entertain?for?a?third.?There?is?an?old?proverb,?‘Love?me,?love?my?dog.”?But?there?is?more?wisdom?in?this:”?Love?me,?love?my?book.”?The?book?is?a?truer?and?higher?bond?of?union.?Men?can?think,?feel,?and?sympathize?with?each?other?through?their?forite?author.?They?live?in?him?together,?and?he?in?them.?
A?good?book?is?often?the?best?urn?of?a?life?enshrining?the?best?that?life?could?think?out;?for?the?world?of?a?man’s?life?is,?for?the?most?part,?but?the?world?of?his?thoughts.?Thus?the?best?books?are?treasuries?of?good?words,?the?golden?thoughts,?which,?remembered?and?cherished,?become?our?constant?companions?and?comforters.?
Books?possess?an?essence?of?immortality.?They?are?by?far?the?most?lasting?products?of?human?effort.?Temples?and?statues?decay,?but?books?survive.?Time?is?of?no?account?with?great?thoughts,?which?are?as?fresh?today?as?when?they?first?passed?through?their?author’s?minds,?ages?ago.?What?was?then?said?and?thought?still?speaks?to?us?as?vividly?as?ever?from?the?printed?page.?The?only?effect?of?time?he?been?to?sift?out?the?bad?products;?for?nothing?in?literature?can?long?survive?e?but?what?is?really?good.?
Books?introduce?us?into?the?best?society;?they?bring?us?into?the?presence?of?the?greatest?minds?that?he?ever?lived.?We?hear?what?they?said?and?did;?we?see?the?as?if?they?were?really?alive;?we?sympathize?with?them,?enjoy?with?them,?grieve?with?them;?their?experience?becomes?ours,?and?we?feel?as?if?we?were?in?a?measure?actors?with?them?in?the?scenes?which?they?describe.?
The?great?and?good?do?not?die,?even?in?this?world.?Embalmed?in?books,?their?spirits?walk?abroad.?The?book?is?a?living?voice.?It?is?an?intellect?to?which?on?still?listens.?
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以书为伴（节选）?
通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以最好的为伴。?
好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。?
人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。?
好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰藉。?
书籍具有不朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关紧要的。多年前初次闪现于作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。?
书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。?
即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物也永生不来。他们的精神被载入书册，传于四海。书是人生至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。
优美的文字于细微处传达出美感，并浸润着人们的心灵。通过英语美文，不仅能够感受语言之美，领悟语言之用，还能产生学习语言的兴趣。度过一段美好的时光，即感悟生活，触动心灵。下面是我为大家带来，希望大家喜欢!
精选励志美文：生命在时间的土壤里
What I believe, what I value most, is transitoriness.
But is not transitoriness - the perishableness of life - something very sad? No! It is the verysoul of existence. It imparts value, dignity, interest to life. Transitoriness creates time - and"time is the essence." Potentially at least, time is the supreme, most useful gift.
Time is related to - yes, identical with - everything creative and active, every process towarda higher goal.
Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either.Timelessness - in the sense of time never ending, never beginning - is a stagnant nothing. It isabsolutely uninteresting.
Life is possessed by tremendous tenacity. Even so its presence remains conditional, and as ithad a beginning, so it will he an end. I believe that life, just for this reason, is exceedinglyenhanced in value, in charm.
One of the most important characteristics distinguishing man from all other forms of nature ishis knowledge of transitoriness, of beginning and end, and therefore of the gift of time.
In man transitory life attains its peak of animation, of soul power, so to speak. This does notmean alone would he a soul. Soul quality pervades all beings. But man's soul is most awakein his knowledge of the interchangeability of the term "existence" and "transitoriness".
To man time is given like a piece of land, as it were, entrusted to him for faithful tilling; aspace in which to strive incessantly, achieve self-realization, more onward and upward. Yes,with the aid of time, man bees capable of wresting the immortal from the mortal.
Deep down, I believe - and deem such belief natural to every human soul - that in theuniversity prime significance must be attributed to this earth of ours. Deep down I believe thatcreation of the universe out of nothingness and of life out of inorganic state ultimatelyaimed at the creation of man. I believe that man is meant as a great experiment whose possiblefailure of man's own guilt would be paramount to the failure of creation itself.
Whether this belief be true or not, man would be well advised if he behed as though it were.
没有短暂，没有开始与结束、生与死，时间也就不复存在。永恒是毫无意义的停滞，它意味着时间永远没有结束，也永远没有开始，绝对令人乏味。
短暂是我的信仰，也是我认为最重要的东西。
然而短暂，如生命的消逝，不是非常哀伤的事情吗?不!它正是生命存在的精髓。它赋予了生命价值、尊严和情趣。短暂创造了时间——而“时间正是其本质”。至少，时间是至高的，是最有用的礼物。
时间与所有富有创造力和活力的事物，及每一个达到更高目标的进步息息相关——是的，它甚至等同于这一切。
没有短暂，没有开始与结束、生与死，时间也就不复存在。永恒是毫无意义的停滞，它意味着时间永远没有结束，也永远没有开始，绝对令人乏味。
生命顽强无比。即便如此，它的存在也依赖于一定的条件，正如它有始亦有终。也因如此，我坚信，生命的价值与魅力将会不断地增长。
人同自然界其他事物之间最重要的区别之一就是，人懂得短暂、始与终，所以也了解时间是一种恩赐。
可以这么说，在人身上，短暂的生命达到了其活力与精神力量的巅峰。这并不是说只有人拥有灵魂。万物皆有灵性。但是对于“存在”与“短暂”的可互换性，只有人的大脑才能最清楚地意识到。
对于人类来说，时间就如赐予的一片土地，等待他去辛勤耕种;是一个让他不断奋斗进取，实现自我价值，不断前进向上的空间。是的，在时间的帮助下，人可以从有限的生命中获得永恒。
在内心深处，我相信宇宙中最为重要的当属我们的地球，并认为这样的信念存在于每一个人的心中。从内心深处，我相信混沌中宇宙的创造，无机中生命的萌芽，最终都是为了创造人类。我相信人类本身便是一项伟大的实验，它可能会因人类自身的罪恶而失败，但这也成为创造本身最主要的失败。
无论这个信仰是否真实，人类如果能依此行事，将会获得更为有益的忠告。
精选励志美文：生命的精神支撑
The view of the high Sierra Lake, nestled in the snow and rock slightly below the timber line,was beautiful from my vantage point some five hundred feet above its shimmering surface. Iwas anxious to rejoin my panions and try the fishing before are afternoon shadow - edgingout from the surrounding array of peaks - entirely covered the lake. Just a short distancebeyond the intervening shale, the trail zigzagged down to the valley. I disliked the thought ofreturning by the long, tedious trail I had ascended, and decided to chance the shale - eventhough part of it lay above a sheer drop-off of several hundred feet.
I started working my way over the loose rock with considerable caution and had covered abouthalf the distance when I became aware of a slight but persistent yielding of the shale undermy feet. Desperately, I looked for something that would offer support and lurched forward tograsp a light outcropping of solid rock just as the surface shale underfoot - loosened from itsfoundation by the warm noonday sun - cascaded downward and diseared over the cliff.Several seconds passed before I heard it rattle into the lake.
Finally - after due consideration of the folly of short cuts - I managed to move from handholdto handhold and, at last, pulled myself to the trail by the aid of a dwarf juniper root. I heforgotten how many trout I caught that afternoon, but I he not forgotten the value ofhandhold.
Handholds are needed also during the course of everyday life. They provide security when thethings we depend upon seem to be slipping out from under us. What are the spiritualhandholds I he found to be most value?
First, the teachings of the humble carpenter of Nazareth - for their insistence on thesupreme worth of the individual, for their stressing of the significance of sympatheticunderstanding, and for their unsurpassed evidence of dauntless faith.
Second, the conviction that, while every person should delight in making a courageous andself-reliant effort to live up to his capabilities, there are well-springs of power outside himselfthat can be ted - if he will ail himself of them.
Third, that the nature of this world and of the people in it is determined more by ourindividual vision, understanding and conduct than by any material environmental factors, andthat - in other words - nothing will produce the good world but the good man.
These are the principal spiritual handholds I he found to possess enduring value. Theyoffer both an exciting challenge and a calm assurance. They are the things I believe.
坐落在高山上的谢拉湖，依偎在积雪与岩石的怀抱中，岩层往上是一片森林。从高出湖面约500英尺的观景点看下去，湖面微波荡漾，美不胜收。我着急与同伴再次会合，准备在午后周围群山的阴影尚未笼罩全湖之前，一起钓鱼。离错层的页岩不远，便是一条通往山谷的蜿蜒小路。我不想再走上山时所走的那条漫长而乏味的小道，便决定试着走上页岩——虽然这其中一段路的下面是几百英尺的垂直峭壁。
我小心翼翼地走在松动的页岩上。大约走到一半时，我发现脚下的页岩正一点点地不断下滑。我急忙寻找可以抓住的东西。我向前一扑，抓住了一块露出地表的坚硬岩石。就在这时，脚下被午后阳光照射的发热的页岩表层开始松动，从山上滑了下去，消失在峭壁上。几秒钟后，我听到它落进湖中的声音。
稍微考虑了一下抄近路这愚蠢行为的后果后，我想办法从一个支撑点挪到另一个支撑点，最终借助一棵矮松的根将自己拉到小路上。那天下午钓了多少鲑鱼，我已经不记得了，但我绝对忘不了支撑点的重要性。
在日常生活中，支撑点也是非常重要的。当我们的依靠即将从脚下溜走时，支撑点会带给我们安全的保障。我发现的最有价值的精神支撑是什么呢?
首先，是拿撒勒卑微的木匠的教诲——他坚决主张个人价值至上，强调同情与理解的重要性，并为坚定的信仰提供了无可厚非的证明。
其次，尽管我们每个人都应该乐于勇敢、独立地发挥自己的能力，但也要相信，只要我们愿意，我们也能从外界获得力量之源。
再次，除了物质环境因素外，世界和人类的本质更多的是取决于我们个人的视野、理解和行为。也就是说，唯有出色的人才能创造出美好的世界。
这些便是我所发现的精神支撑点，它们具有永恒的价值。它们给予我们的不仅是 *** 的挑战，还有令人安心的承诺。这就是我信仰的一切。
人生美文成功地展现了现代作家对生与死的意义与价值的探索和思考,反映了他们怎样由苦闷而思考,由思考而奋起,终于在生活的实践和磨练中,认识人生丰富而深刻的内涵。我分享优秀英语美文，希望可以帮助大家!
优秀英语美文：艰辛的人生
A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual.
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts,
the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to he tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing se by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely meansthat there has been effort stored up in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him he worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure,
he shows he deserves his good fortune.
But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period, not of preparation, butof mere enjoyment, even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer on the earth’s surface; and he surely unfits himself to hold his own place with his fellows, if the need to do so should again arise. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.
As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that hy is the nation that has no history. Thrice hy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in the gray twillight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
优秀英语美文：住在大都市
Why are so many people so anxious to get away from the *** all town or village where they brought up,and to make for the big cities? They usually describe their hometown as "boring" or "dead",or the harshest critici *** of all as"provincial".
If we examine the question from a distance, as if we were viewing the whole country from a long way off,westart to get a clue about what it is that lures us into the big cities.
The main point to notice about big cities is that they are big: there are a lot of people,and there are a lot of things going on. If you look down on a city, literally from a great distance,from an airplane at night, you will be struck by the incredible brightness of a are so many lights that you cannot help feeling that all the bright things of life are down there waiting for you.But a feeling of disointment will set in shortly after you land,because you will discover as you drive into the city center from theairport that the lights are just , miles and miles of street lights and neon signs.They are notin themselves sources of joy and hiness: city lights are not friendly, they are merely lights.In fact, the effect will probably be to make you feel lonely and isolated.
And yet the city lures us, because it is not provincial like the dead little town we he left behind us.“Provincial” is in fact our way of describing not the town but the attitude of the people. In our littletown,we know ***or think we know*** everybody. And what we know about them is that they do not want to go anywhere,or to do anything outside to normal routine of their everyday lives. Unlike us, they he no sense ofadventure,no longing for new experiences or new horizons.
So we look down on them, pity or despise them, pack our bags, and make for the big world which we know is out there,where the bright lights are. Then a curious thing hens. We find a job, make a *** all circle offriends and acquaintances,and move into some cramped acmodation. Gradually we get to know our section of the city, its shops and its people,and for a while, we begin to feel at home. It is *** all enough, our part of the city, for us not to feel lost or anonymous.We, in effect, create another little village for ourselves within the big city.The ultimate irony es when we rent a television set so that we can stay in atnightand watch exactly the same programs that our despised country cousins watch.Soon we too bee “provincial”, and others who live round us will be glad to get up and lee us behind.
优秀英语美文：成功是一种选择
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks thatcrop up everyday. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to oid that impulse toquit. But even ifyou are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work,sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will pletely knock you on your back.
Whether it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some othertraumatic event in your life these major setbacks lee you douing yourself and wondering ifthings can ever changefor the better again.
Adversity hens to all of us, and it hens all the time. Some form of major adversity iseither going to be there or it’s lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is tosuccumb to the ultimate self-delusion.
But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achievedgreatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could he crashed their spirit and leftthem lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God.Abraham Lincoln overes a difficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons, andconstant ridicule during the Civil War to bee arguably our greatest president ever. HelenKeller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.Franklin Roosevelt had polio.
There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face butlearned valuable lessons about overing difficult circumstances and were able to moveahead.
美文不仅能让学生培养良好的语言表达技能,还能在更深入地理解文字的过程中受到思想品德以及审美的教育。下面是我带来的，欢迎阅读!
1
狮子座香奈儿
The lion is majestic.
狮子霸气逼人。
One can admire it, fear it, chase it, conquer it.
人们仰慕它，敬畏它，征服它。
Gabrielle Chanel decided to tame it.
而Gabrielle Chanel决心驯服它。
The lion is Coco.
这只狮子就是可可。
Born August 19th under the fifth sign of the zodiac.
可可生于8月19日，在黄道宫排第五。
The two numbers would bee her good luck charm.
这两个数字会成为她的符。
The lion would be her constellation.
狮子将是她的星座。
The lion is a personality.
狮子是一种化身。
Audacious, instinctive, passionate, radiant.
勇敢，本能，热情，耀目。
I’m a Leo and like him.
我是狮子，我来了。
“I show my claws to protect myself”, Mademoiselle declared,
“我伸出利爪保护自己，”香奈儿女士宣称，
“But believe me, I suffer more by clawing than being clawed” She added.
“但相信我，抓挠比被抓要疼痛的多，”她补充道。
The lion is an inspiration,
狮子是一种灵感，
A forite subject of Chanel jewelry.
是香奈儿珠宝的宠儿。
It roars from necklaces, pendants and brooches,
从项链、吊坠，到胸针，
As if to protect the secrets of Mademoiselle, and watch over her for all eternity.
这一切都像在保护着香奈儿女士的秘密，并守卫着她直到永远。
The lion, is the spirit of Chanel.
狮子是香奈儿的灵魂。
2
如给我三天光明
All of us he read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time tolive.
我们大家都读过一些令人激动的故事，这些故事里的主人公仅仅活在有限并且特定的时间内。
Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours.
有时长达一年，有时短到24小时。
But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend hislast days or his last hours.
但我们总是有兴趣去发现，那些命中注定要死的人选择怎样去度过他们最后的时光。
I speak, of course, of free men who he a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere ofactivities is strictly delimited.
当然我所说的是那些有选择自由的人，而不是那些活动范围被严格限定了的判了刑的。
Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.
这样的故事让我们思考，在相似的情况下，我们该怎么办。
What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours a *** ortal beings, what regrets?
作为终有一死的人，在那最终的几个小时内安排什么，什么经历，什么交往?在回顾往事时，我们该找到什么快乐?什么悔恨?
Sometimes I he thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should dietomorrow.
有时我想到，过好每一天是个非常好的习惯，似乎我们明天就会死去。
Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.
这种态度鲜明地强调了生命的价值。
We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of reciation which areoften lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and monthsand years to e.
我们应该以优雅、精力充沛、善知乐趣的方式过好每一天。而当岁月推移，在经常瞻观未来之时日、未来之年月中，这些又常常失去。
There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and bemerry”.
当然，也有人愿按伊壁鸠鲁的信条“吃、喝和欢乐”去生活。
But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
但绝大多数人还是被即将面临死亡的必然性所折磨。
In stories the doomed hero is usually sed at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, butalmost always his sense of values is changed.
在故事里，注定要死的主人公往往在最后一刻由某种命运的突变而得救，但几乎总是他的价值观被改变了。
He bees more reciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.
他们对生活的意义和它永恒的精神价值变得更具欣赏力了。
It has often been noted that those who live, or he lived, in the shadow of death bring amellow sweetness to everything they do.
常常看到那些生活或已生活在死亡的阴影之中的人们都赋予他们所做的每件事以芳醇甜美。
Most of us, however, take life for granted.
但是，我们大多数人把生活认为是理所当然的。
We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future.
我们知道，某一天我们一定会死，但通常我们把那天想象在遥远的将来。
When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable.
当我们心宽体健时，死亡几乎是不可想象的。
We seldom think of it.
我们很少想到它。
The days stretch out in an endless vista.
时日在无穷的展望中延展着。
So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
于是我们干著琐碎的事情，几乎意识不到我们对生活的倦怠态度。
The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses.
恐怕，同样的懒散也存在于我们对自己的所有的官能和意识的使用上。
Only the deaf reciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight.
只有聋子才珍惜听力，唯有瞎子才体会到能看见事物的种种幸福。
Particularly does this observation ly to those who he lost sight and hearing in *** life.
这种结论特别适合于那些在成年阶段失去视力和听力的人们。
But those who he never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest useof these blessed faculties.
而那些从没有遭受视觉或听觉损伤之苦的人却很少充分利用这些天赐的官能。
Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with littlereciation.
他们模模糊糊地眼观八方，耳听各音，毫无重点，不会鉴赏。
It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we he until we lose it, of not beingconscious of health until we are ill.
还是那相同的老话，对我们所有的官能不知珍惜，直至失去它，对我们的健康意识不到，直至生病时。
I he often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaffor a few days at some time during his early *** life.
我常常想，如果每个人在他成年的早期有一段时间致瞎致聋，那会是一种幸事。
Darkness would make him more reciative of sight, silence would teach him the joys ofsound.
黑暗会使他更珍惜视力，寂静会教导他享受声音。
3
我喜欢你是寂静的
I like for you to be still, it is as though you are absent.
我喜欢你是寂静的，仿佛你消失了一样。
And you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.
你从远处聆听我，我的声音却无法触及你。
It seems as though your eyes had flown away, and it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth.
好像你的双眼已经飞离远去，如同一个吻，封缄了你的嘴。
As all things are filled with my soul, you emerge from the things, filled with my soul.
如同所有的事物充满了我的灵魂，你从所有的事物中浮现，充满了我的灵魂。
You are like my soul, a butterfly of dreams, and you are like the word Melancholy.
你像我灵魂，一只梦的蝴蝶，你如同忧郁这个字。
I like for you to be still, and you seem far away.
我喜欢你是寂静的，好像你已远去。
It sounds as though you are lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove.
你听起来像在悲叹，一只如鸽悲鸣的蝴蝶。
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you.
你从远处听见我，我的声音无法企及你。
Let me e to be still in your silence.
让我在你的沉默中安静无声。
And let me talk to you with your silence, that is bright as a lamp, simple as a ring.
并且让我借你的沉默与你说话，你的沉默明亮如灯，简单如指环。
You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations.
你就像黑夜，拥有寂静与群星。
Your silence is that of a star, as remote and candid.
你的沉默就是星星的沉默，遥远而明亮。
I like for you to be still, it is as though you are absent, distant and full of sorrow, as thoughyou had died.
我喜欢你是寂静的，仿佛你消失了一样，遥远且哀伤，仿佛你已经死了。
One word then, one *** ile, is enough.
彼时，一个字，一个微笑，已经足够。
And I'm hy, hy that it's not true.
而我会觉得幸福，因那不是真的而觉得幸福。
