英语经典美文

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英语经典美文

我们习惯用自己的语言表达情感,时而直接,时而含蓄。不妨用另一种语言来表达对亲情、友情、爱情、励志等感情,用一种和汉语差别较大的语言表达类似的情感,感受一下用英语表达出来的情感有何不同,也是一件有趣的事情。例如以下经过分类的英语经典美文,通过阅读、理解、诵读、摘抄,应该会别有一番滋味,而且能够从文字中体验外国人对情感的表达方式,加深对不同文化的理解和辨别。

有关亲情的英语经典美文

Thespringwindisblowngreenwillow,thewindinthehotsummer,the

autumnwindblowingyellowrice,winterwindblowingthewhiteearth,

awindblowingupmysoul.

Theexamiseverystudentworkachievementexhibition,performanceof

thedirectimpactonstudents'mood.Afterfinalexam,transcriptsofhomethat

day,I'mdisappointedurgently,myEnglishresultis78points,afterreadingthe report,Iwillnottoutterasinglewordtolieinbed,staringattheceiling......I donotknowhowlongafter,thedoorsuddenlyopened,mothercameinand

satdownbesideme,notlookingatme,suddenly,onmymotherangrily

shouted:"youstayinbeddoing?Youfailedtheexamisyoudon'tworkhard,

canthisstrangewho......"Waitingforhertofinish,Icried.

Tiredofcrying,todrythetears,Ilookedatmymother.Themothersaw

myheartcalmdown,shealsorestoredthetruecolours,sayaffectionatelyto

me:"theexamisimportant,butyoursubjectiveeffortismoreimportant,as

longasyoutryyourbest,yourlifeisno'.'"......"Myeyesarebright,spiritlifts,

confidenceandbacktomeagain.Loveislikethewind,takemybadmoodwas

nottheleasttracewasfound.Blowing,mymindblowingafresh.

春天的风吹绿了柳梢头,夏天的风吹散了炎热,秋天的风吹黄了稻谷,冬天的风吹白了大地,母爱的风吹醒了我的灵魂。

考试是每个学生劳动成果的展示,成绩的好与坏直接影响着学生的心情。在期末考试后,成绩单到家的那一天,我失望急了,我的英语成绩才78分,看完成绩单后,我就一言不发地躺在床上,看着天花板??不知过了多久,门忽然开了,妈妈进来坐在我的身边,不住打量我,突然,妈妈气愤地对我大声吼道:“你赖在床上干什么?你没考好是你自己不用功,这能怪谁??”等妈妈把话说完,我伤心地哭了。

哭累了,把眼泪擦干,我望着慈祥的妈妈。妈妈见我心已冷静下来,她也恢复了本来面目,深情地对我说:“考试的分数固然重要,但你的主观努力更重要,只要你尽力了,你的人生中就没“后悔”两字??”我的眼睛一亮,精神也好了起来,信心又回到我的身上。 母爱如风,把我的不良情绪吹得无影无踪,把我的精神吹得倍儿清爽。

WhenapersonislookingattheskyandtheImaginationoftheirownfuture,hefirstthoughtthe mostitshouldbetheirfuturehome.Thisislikepeopledesperatelysavingmoneytobuya

housenow,like,infact,peoplewantmorethanjustasimple"nests",butratherawarmhome.

Thishouseisaload-bearing,itisnottheexternalshowofitsmeaning,andtheimportantthing isthatoneofthestrongaffectionratherthangreasy.

Whensuddenlyfromthecoolbreeze,thereisalwayssomeoneputtheroomquietlyshutthe doorsandwindows;quiltsdroppedmytime,thereisalwayssomeonetohelpyougently

stamped.Worryworry,wewillconsolesomeonepatient;pleasurejubilationwhenwillthe blessingsofknowingsomeone.Whenagloryfelluponus,thefirstonemustbegladthatthe

U.S.arefamilymembers;whentheU.S.invasionoflonelylonelyhearts,thefirstonetosoothe U.S.alsomustbeourfamily.

当一个人仰望天空,畅想着自己的前程的时候,他第一个想到的最应该是自己未来的家。这就好比现在人们拼命攒钱买房一样,其实人们所要的不仅仅是一个单纯的“巢穴”,而更是一个温暖的家。这处房子是家的承载,它的外在显现不出它的深意,而重要的是其中那浓而不腻的亲情。

凉风忽起的时候,总会有人把房间的门窗悄悄地关上;被子翻掉的时候,总会有人轻轻地帮你盖上。烦恼忧心的时候,会有人耐心的劝慰;欢腾喜悦的时候,会有人会心的祝福。当一个荣耀降临我们身上的时候,第一个为之庆幸的必是我们的家人;当孤独落寞侵袭我们的心灵的时候,第一个抚慰我们的也必是我们的家人。


第二篇:英语经典美文赏析与背诵


Three passions 三种激情 -----罗素

《三种激情》是选自《伯特兰·罗素自传》的一篇优秀散文。它既是作者心灵的抒发,也是生命体验的总结。作者以深刻的感悟和敏锐的目光,分析了人生中的三种激情,即对爱的渴望,对知识的追求和对人类苦难的同情。对爱的渴望,使人欣喜若狂,既能解除孤独,又能发现美好的未来。对知识的追求,使人理解人心,了解宇宙,掌握科学。爱和知识把人引向天堂般的境界,而对人类的同情之心又使人回到苦难深重的人间。作者认为这就是人生,值得为此再活一次的人生。这篇散文似乎信手拈来,但却耐人寻味。充满激情,充满感慨,充满智慧,情文并茂,逻辑性和感染力极强。

伯特兰·罗素(Bertrand Russell,1872-1970)是英国声誉卓著,影响深远的哲学家、数学家、逻辑学家和散文家。他生于威尔士的特莱雷克,就读于剑桥三一学院,在其漫长的一生中完成了40余部著作,涉及哲学、数学、伦理、社会、教育、历史、宗教及政治等许多领域。他早年的成就主要在数学和逻辑学,中年关注伦理道德、教育、政治,激励和启发富有进取精神的人。在19xx年曾来中国,在北京大学作过讲座。他在19xx年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。在政治上,他反对侵略战争,主平,晚年参加反战示威。主要著作有《数学原理》、《哲学大纲》、《教育与美好生活》、《罗素自传》三卷本。

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These ?

passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy –ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what- at last- I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flu.

A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoesek?u 重复 of cries of pain reverberate ri'v?:b?reit 回响in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate?'li:vieit减轻 the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

三种激情 -----罗素

三种激情虽然简单,却异常强烈,它们统治着我的生命,那便是:对爱的渴望,对知识的追求,以及对人类苦难的难以承受的同情。这三种激情像变化莫测的狂风任意地把我刮来刮去,把我刮入痛苦的深海,到了绝望的

边缘。

我曾经寻找爱,首先是因为它能使我欣喜若狂——这种喜悦之情如此强烈,使我常常宁愿为这几个小时的愉悦而牺牲生命中的其他一切。我寻求爱,其次是因为爱能解除孤独——在这种可怕的孤独中,一颗颤抖的良心在世界的边缘,注视着下面冰凉、毫无生气、望不见底的深渊。我寻求爱还因为在爱的融合中,我能以某种神秘的图像看到曾被圣人和诗人想象过的天堂里未来的景象。这就是我所追求的东西,虽然这似乎对于人类的生命来说过于完美,但这确实是我最终发现的东西。 我怀着同样的激情去寻找知识,我曾渴望着理解人心,我曾渴望知道为何星星会闪烁,我还企图弄懂毕达哥拉斯所谓的用数字控制变化的力量,但在这方面,我只知道一点点。

爱的力量和知识的力量引我接近天堂,但同情之心往往又把我拉回大地。痛苦的哭泣回响、震荡在我的心中。饥饿的儿童,被压迫、受折磨的人们,成为儿孙们讨厌的包袱的、无助的老人们,充斥着整个世界的孤独的气氛,贫穷和苦难,所有这一切都是对人类生活原本该具有的样子所作的讽刺。我渴望消除一切邪恶,但我办不到,因为我自己也处于苦难之中。 这就是我的生活,我认为值得一过。而且,如果有第二次机会,我将乐意地再过一次。

Relish the moment 拥抱今天

Tucked away in our subconscious is an 我们的潜意识里藏着一派田

idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long 园诗般的风光! 我们仿佛身处一次trip that spans the continent. We are 横贯大陆的漫漫旅程之中! 乘着火traveling by train. Out the windows, we 车, 我们领略着窗外流动的景色:drink in the passing scene of cars on 附近高速公路上奔驰的汽车、十字nearby highways, of children waving at a 路口处招手的孩童、远山上吃草的crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant 牛群、源源不断地从电厂排放出的hillside, of smoke pouring from a power 烟尘、一片片的玉米和小麦、平原plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, 与山谷、群山与绵延的丘陵、天空of flatlands and valleys, of mountains 映衬下城市的轮廓, 以及乡间的庄and rolling hillsides, of city skylines 园宅第!

and village halls.

But uppermost in our minds is the final 然而我们心里想得最多的却是destination. On a certain day at a certain 最终的目的地! 在某一天的某一时hour, we will pull into the station. Bands 刻, 我们将会抵达进站! 迎接我们will be playing and flags waving. Once we 的将是乐队和飘舞的彩旗! 一旦到get there, so many wonderful dreams will 了那儿, 多少美梦将成为现实, 我come true and the pieces of our lives will 们的生活也将变得完整, 如同一块fit together like a completed jigsaw

puzzle. How restlessly we pace the

--waiting, waiting, waiting for the

station.

"当我们到站的时候, 一切就都

"When we reach the station, that will be 好了! "我们呼喊着! "当我18岁的it! "we cry. "When I'm 18. ""When I buy 时候! ""当我有了一辆新450SL奔a new 450SL Mercedes Benz! ""When I put 驰的时候! ""当我供最小的孩子念the last kid through college. ""When I 完大学的时候! ""当我偿清贷款的have paid off the mortgage!""When I get 时候! ""当我官升高任的时候! ""a promotion.""When I reach the age of 当我到了退休的时候, 就可以从此retirement, I shall live happily ever 过上幸福的生活啦! "

after! "

Sooner or later, we must realize there 可是我们终究会认识到人生的is no station, no one place to arrive at 旅途中并没有车站, 也没有能够"once and for all. The true joy of life is 一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正乐趣the trip. The station is only a dream. It 在于旅行的过程, 而车站不过是个constantly outdistances us. 梦, 它始终遥遥领先于我们! 理好了的拼图! 可是我们现在在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去, 咒骂火车着, 期待着火车进站的那一刻! aisles, damning the minutes for loitering 的拖拖拉拉! 我们期待着, 期待

"Relish the moment "is a good motto, "享受现在"是句很好的箴言, especially when coupled with Psalm 118:尤其是当它与《圣经·诗篇》中第24:"This is the day which the Lord hath 118页24行的一段话相映衬的made;we will rejoice and be glad in it. 时候, 更是如此:"今日乃主所创"It isn't the burdens of today that drive 造;生活在今日我们将欢欣、高兴! men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday "真正令人发疯的不是今日的负担, and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear 而是对昨日的悔恨及对明日的恐are twin thieves who rob us of today. 惧! 悔恨与恐惧是一对孪生窃贼,

将今天从你我身边偷走!

So stop pacing the aisles and counting 那么就不要在过道里徘徊吧, the miles. In stead, climb more

mountains, eat more ice cream, go 别老惦记着你离车站还有多远! 何不换一种活法, 将更多的高山攀barefoot more often, swim more rivers, 爬, 多吃点儿冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴, 经watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. 常光着脚板儿溜达溜达, 在更多的Life must be lived as we go along. The 河流里畅游, 多看看夕阳西下, 多station will come soon enough. 点欢笑哈哈, 少让泪水滴答! 生活

得一边过一边瞧! 车站就会很快到

达!By Robert J. Hastings 李端奇

Beautiful Smile and Love

作者介绍: 特蕾莎修女(Mother Teresa,1910-1997),印度著名的慈善家,印度天主教仁爱传教会创始人,在世界范围内建立了一个庞大的慈善机构网,赢得了国际社会的广泛尊敬。19xx年被授予诺贝尔和平奖。本文所选即好在领取该奖项时的演讲辞,语言简洁质朴而感人至深。诺贝尔奖领奖台上响起的声音往往都是文采飞扬、热烈、激昂。而特雷莎修女的演说朴实无华,其所举事例听来似平凡之至,然而其中所蕴含的伟大而神圣的爱感人至深。平凡中孕育伟大,真情才能动人。我们作文时,要善于从自己所熟知的平凡中

发掘伟大,以真情来打动读者。

The poor are very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most

terrible condition,and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three. I take care of this one who looked worse. So I did for her all that my love can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand as she said just the words “thank you” and she died. I could not help but examine my conscience[良心]before her and I asked what would I say if I was in her place. And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more-she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. As did that man whom we picked up from the drain[阴沟、下水道], half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. “I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. Like an angel-this is the greatness of our people. And that is why we believe what Jesus had said: I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to me.

穷人是非常了不起的人。一天晚上,我们外出,从街上带回了四个人,其中一个生命岌岌可危。于是我告诉修女们说:“你们照料其他三个,这个濒危的人就由我来照顾了。”就这样,我为她做了我的爱所能做的一切。我将她放在床上,看到她的脸上绽露出如此美丽的微笑。她握着我的手,只说了句“谢谢您”就死了。我情不自禁地在她面前审视起自己的良知来。我问自己,如果我是她的话,会说些什么呢?答案很简单,我会尽量引起旁人对我的关注,我

会说我饥饿难忍,冷得发抖,奄奄一息,痛苦不堪,诸如此类的话。但是她给我的却更多更多――她给了我她的感激之情。她死时脸上却带着微笑。我们从排水道带回的那个男子也是如此。当时,他几乎全身都快被虫子吃掉了,我们把他带回了家。“在街上,我一直像个动物一样地活着,但我将像个天使一样地死去,有人爱,有人关心。”真是太好了,我看到了他的伟大之处,他竟能说出那样的话。他那样地死去,不责怪任何人,不诅咒任何人,无欲无求。像天使一样――这便是我们的人民的伟大之所在。因此我们相信耶稣所说的话――我饥肠辘辘――我衣不蔽体――我无家可归――我不为人所要,不为人所爱,也不为人所关心――然而,你却为我做了这一切。

I believe that we are not real social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives[修行者、沉思冥想的人] in the heart of the world. For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours…And I think that in our family we don’t need bombs and guns, to destroy, to bring peace, just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

我想,我们算不上真正的社会工作者。在人们的眼中,或许我们是在做社会工作,但实际上,我们真的只是世界中心的修行者。因为,一天24小时,我们都在触摸基督的圣体。我想,在我们的大家庭时,我们不需要枪支和炮弹来破坏和平,或带来和平――我们只需要团结起来,彼此相爱,将和平、欢乐以及每一个家庭成员灵魂的活力都带回世界。这样,我们就能战胜世界上现存的一切邪恶。

And with this prize that I have received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people who have no home. Because I

believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread. And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace be the good news to the poor. The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be wove with prayer. They have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share. Because to be woven with Christ is to be able to understand, to be able to share. Because today there is so much suffering…When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society-that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable…And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.

我准备以我所获得的诺贝尔和平奖奖金为那些无家可归的人们建立自己的家园。因为我相信,爱源自家庭,如果我们能为穷人建立家园,我想爱便会传播得更广。而且,我们将通过这种宽容博大的爱而带来和平,成为穷人的福音。首先为我们自己家里的穷人,其次为我们国家,为全世界的穷人。为了做到这一点,姐妹们,我们的生活就必须与祷告紧紧相连,必须同基督结结一体才能互相体谅,共同分享,因为同基督结合一体就意味着互相体谅,共同分享。因为,今天的世界上仍有如此多的苦难存在……当我从街上带回一个饥肠辘辘的人时,给他一盘饭,一片面包,我就能使他心满意足了,我就能躯除他的饥饿。但是,如果一个人露宿街头,感到不为人所要,不为人所爱,惶恐不安,被社会抛弃――这样的贫困让人心痛,如此令人无法忍受。因此,让我们总是微笑想见,因为微笑就是爱的开端,一旦我们开始彼此自然地相爱,我们就会想着为对方做点什么了。

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