世界上最美麗的英文——閱讀背誦20篇

1、世界上最美麗的英文人生短篇20篇All That Is BeautifulPoems and Passages of Life 閉上眼睛，細數(shù)你生命中最美麗的瞬間 在寒冷的日子里接到遠方朋友暖暖的問候； 讀到一篇優(yōu)美的詩歌，馨香繞懷久久不忘； 看到白浪銀沙和地平線，第一次來到海邊； 小雨點與莫扎特的音符一起跳躍在深院中； 走在街上，偶然的一景觸動了深藏的希望； 還有，流星雨劃過天際的弧線； 還有，夜場電影喚醒的靈感； 這是你的人生，它和四季一樣有揚有落，然而當中的美從不遜色。翻開這本書，它也成為了你的一個瞬間； 閱讀的快樂，學(xué)習的快樂，生之快樂。Thing do not change; we

2、change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。-Henry David Thoreau 第一篇：A Grain of Sand By William Blake/威廉.布萊克第二篇：Youth By Samuel Erman第三篇：Love Your Life 熱愛生活Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛(wèi).梭羅第四篇：Three Days to See 假如擁有三天光明Helen Keller/海倫.凱勒第五篇: The life I desired 我所追求的生活 W

3、illiam Somerset Maugham/威廉.薩姆塞特.毛姆 第六篇: I Have a Dream我有一個夢想 Martin Lurther King Jr.第七篇: The Gettysburg Address葛底斯堡演說By Abraham Lincoln 第八篇: Be Happy！勞埃德 莫里斯（1613-1680）第九篇： Facing the Enemies Within直面內(nèi)在的敵人第十篇： On the Feeling of Immortality in youth 有感于青春常在William Hazlitt/威廉.赫茲里特第十一篇：What is Your Rec

4、overy Rate ? 你的恢復(fù)速率是多少？By Graham Harris第十二篇：Genius at Work 天才在工作第十三篇：Friends 朋友第十四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就會生銹By Orison Marden第十五篇：The Goodness of Life生命之美第十六篇：Of Studies 論讀書By Francis Bacon. (15611626)第十七篇：These Things Shall Never Die 這些美好不會消逝Charles Dickens/查爾斯.狄更斯第十八篇： Love 愛情第十九篇：&#

5、160;Words To Live By 生活的忠告Anonymous/無名氏第二十篇： A psalm of life 人生禮頌Henry Wordsworth Longfellow/享利.沃茲渥斯.朗費羅第一篇：A Grain of Sand 一粒沙子William Blake/威廉.布萊克To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. 從一粒沙子看到一個世界， 從一朵

6、野花看到一個天堂， 把握在你手心里的就是無限， 永恒也就消融于一個時辰。第二篇：Youth By Samuel ErmanYouth 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 spring of

7、life. 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 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years; we grow old by deserting our idea. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to gi

8、ve 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 beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart a

9、nd my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from the infinite, so long as you are young. When the aerials are down, and your spirits are covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism. Then youve grown old even at 20, bu

10、t as long as your aerials are up to catch waves of optimism, theres hope you may die young at 80. 青春 青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉意志，恢宏想象，炙熱戀情；青春是生命深泉在涌流。 青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。 歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。 無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡

11、，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。 一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。第三篇：Love Your Life 熱愛生活Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛(wèi).梭羅However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. I

12、t is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. 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 bri

13、ghtly 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. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are s

14、imply 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. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourse

15、lf much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, turn to the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上

16、一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨立不羈的生活。也許因為他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們；可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當?shù)氖侄蝸韺Ω渡?，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那里去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。第四篇： Three Days to See 假如擁有三天光明Helen Keller/海倫.凱

17、勒All of us have 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 twenty-four hours, but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I

18、speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness s

19、hould we find in reviewing the past, what regrets? Sometimes I have 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 a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation whi

20、ch 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,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. 我們都讀過這樣一些動人的故事，故事里主人公

21、將不久于人世。長則一年，短則小時。但是我們總是很想知道這個即將離開人世的人是決定怎樣度過他最后的日子的。當然， 我所指的是有權(quán)作出選擇的自由人，不是那些活動范圍受到嚴格限制的死囚。這一類故事會使我們思考在類似的處境下，我們自己該做些什么？在那臨終前的幾個小時里我們會產(chǎn)生哪些聯(lián)想？會有多少欣慰和遺憾呢？ 有時我想，把每天都當作生命的最后一天來度過也不失為一個很好的生命法則。這種人生態(tài)度使人非常重視人生的價值。每一天我們都應(yīng)該以和善的態(tài)度、充沛的精力和熱情的欣賞來度過，而這些恰恰是在來日方長時往往被我們忽視的東西。當然，有這樣一些人奉行享樂主義的座右銘吃喝玩樂，但是大多數(shù)人卻不能擺脫死亡來臨的恐懼

22、。Most of us 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 task, hardly aware of our

23、 listless attitude towards life. The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in

24、adult life. But those who have 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 sound hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what w

25、e conscious of health until we are ill. I have 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 appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Now and then I

26、have tested my seeing friends to discover what they see. Recently I was visited by a very good friend who had just returned from a long walk in the woods, and I asked her what she had observed. “Nothing in particular,” she replied. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such resp

27、onses, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little. 我們大多數(shù)人認為生命理所當然，我們明白總有一天我們會死去，但是我們常常把這一天看得非常遙遠。當我們身體強壯時，死亡便成了難以相象的事情了。我們很少會考慮它， 日子一天天過去，好像沒有盡頭。所以我們?yōu)楝嵤卤疾?，并沒有意識到我們對待生活的態(tài)度是冷漠的。我想我們在運用我們所有五官時恐怕也同樣是冷漠的。只有聾子才珍惜聽力，只有盲人才能認識到能見光明的幸運。對于那些成年致盲或失陪的人來說尤其如此。但是那些聽力或視力從未遭受損失的人卻很少充分利用這些幸運的能力，他們對所見所

28、聞不關(guān)注、不欣賞。這與常說的不失去不懂得珍貴，不生病不知道健康可貴的道理是一樣的。我常想如果每一個人在他成年的早些時候，有幾天成為了聾子或瞎子也不失為一件幸事。黑暗將使他更珍惜光明；沉寂將教他知道聲音的樂趣。有時我會試探我的非盲的朋友們，想知道他們看見了什么。最近我的一位非常要好的朋友來看我，她剛剛在樹林里走了很長時間，我問她看見了什么。“沒什么特別的，”她回答說。如不是我早已習慣了這樣的回答，我也許不會輕易相信，因為很久以前我就相信了有眼人看不見什么。How was it possible, I asked myself, to walk for an hour through the wo

29、ods and see nothing worthy of note? I who cannot see find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine. In spring I touch the branches of trees hopefu

30、lly in search of a bud, the first sign of awakening Nature after her winters sleep I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me. Occasionally, if I am very fortunate, I place my hand gently in a

31、 small tree and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. I am delighted to have cool waters of a brook rush through my open fingers. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. To me the pageant of seasons is a thrilling and unending

32、drama, the action of which streams through my finger tips. At times my heart cries out with longing to see all these things. If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight. Yet, those who have eyes apparently see little. The panorama of color and action

33、 fill the world is taken for granted. It is human, perhaps, to appreciate little that which we have and to long for that which we have not, but it is a great pity that in the world of light and the gift of sight is used only as mere convenience rather that as a means of adding fullness to life. Oh,

34、the things that I should see if I had the power of sight for three days! 噢，假如我擁有三天光明，我將會看見多少事物??！ 我問自己在樹林中走了一小時，怎么可能什么值得注意的東西都沒有看到呢？而我一個盲人僅僅通過觸摸就發(fā)現(xiàn)了數(shù)以百計的有趣的東西。我感到樹葉的對稱美，用手摸著白樺樹光滑的樹皮或是松樹那粗糙的厚厚的樹皮。春天里我滿懷著希望觸摸著樹枝尋找新芽，那是大自然冬眼后醒來的第一個征象。我感到了花朵的可愛和茸茸的感覺，發(fā)現(xiàn)它層層疊疊地綻開著，大自然的神奇展現(xiàn)在我的面前。當我把手輕輕地放在一棵小樹上，如果幸運的話，偶爾會感到歌

35、唱的小鳥歡快的顫動。我會愉快地讓清涼的溪水從手之間流過。對我來說，滿地厚厚的松針和松軟的草坪比奢華的波斯地毯更惹人喜愛。對我來說四季變換的景色如同一場動人心魄的不會完結(jié)的戲劇，劇中的人物動作從我的指尖流過。我的心不時在吶喊，帶著對光明的渴望。既然僅僅通過觸摸就能使我獲得如此多的喜悅，那么光明定會展示更多美好的事物啊?？上У氖悄切┯醒劬Φ娜朔置骺吹胶苌伲麄€世界繽紛的色彩和萬物的活動都被認為是理所當然。也許不珍惜已經(jīng)擁有的，想得到還沒有得到的是人的特點，但是在光明的世界里只把視覺用做一種方便的工具，而不是豐富生活的工具，這是令人多么遺憾的事情啊。第五篇： The life I desired 我

36、所追求的生活威廉.薩姆塞特.毛姆/William Somerset Maugham That must be the story of innumerable couples ,and the pattern of life of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vast sea;

37、 but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness. Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value. I s

38、aw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the exciteme

39、nt of unforeseen. 這一定是世間無數(shù)對夫妻的生活寫照，這種生活模式給人一種天倫之美。它使人想起一條平靜的溪流，蜿蜒暢游過綠茵的草場，濃蔭遮蔽，最后注入煙波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太過平靜，太過沉默，太過不動聲色，你會突然感到莫名的不安。也許這只是我自己的一種怪誕想法，在那樣的時代，這想法對我影響很深：我覺得這像大多數(shù)人一樣的生活，似乎欠缺了一點兒什么。我承認這種生活有社會價值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的沖動卻渴望一種更桀驁不馴的旅程這樣的安逸中好像有一種叫我驚懼不安的東西我心渴望一種更加驚險的生活。只要生活中還能有變遷以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，

40、奔赴暗礁滿布的海灘。第六篇: I Have a DreamThe Lincoln Memorial Address was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28,1963. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Dr. King, the famous civil rights leader in the 1960s, was assassinated in 1968. 馬丁·路德·金（公元1929-1968年），美國黑人律師，著名黑人民權(quán)運動領(lǐng)袖。一

41、生曾三次被捕，三次被行刺，1964年獲諾貝爾和平獎。1968年被種族主義分子槍殺。他被譽為近百年來八大最具有說服力的演說家之一。1963年他領(lǐng)導(dǎo)25萬人向華盛頓進軍"大游行"，為黑人爭取自由平等和就業(yè)。馬丁·路德·金在游行集會上發(fā)表了這篇著名演說。I am very happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score ye

42、ars ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long nigh

43、t of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst

44、of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize the shameful condition. In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check

45、. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the

46、inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come

47、 back marked “insufficient funds”. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are “insufficient funds” in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So weve come to cash a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the secur

48、ity of justice. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of poli

49、ce brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cit

50、ies, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we must face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dre

51、am that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down togeth

52、er at the table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in

53、 a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, one day

54、 right in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers; I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places shall be made pla

55、in, and the crooked places shall be made straight and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with.With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith

56、 we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to go to jail together, knowing that we will be free one day.This will be the day when all of God's children will be able

57、 to sing with new meaning-"my country 'tis of thee; sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride; from every mountain side, let freedom ring"-and if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.So let freedom ring - from t

58、he prodigious hill tops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring; from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring - from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.But not only that, let free