新概念英語(yǔ)――一生必讀英文經(jīng)典美文

1、兩分鐘做個(gè)小測(cè)試,看看你的英語(yǔ)水平一生必讀英文經(jīng)典美文篇一真實(shí)的高貴In a calm sea every man is a pilot.在風(fēng)平浪靜的大海上,每個(gè)人都是領(lǐng)航員。But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn.Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns

2、. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.但只有陽(yáng)光沒(méi)有陰影,只有快樂(lè)沒(méi)有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來(lái)說(shuō),他的生活也是一團(tuán)纏結(jié)在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現(xiàn),使得我們一會(huì)悲傷一會(huì)高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛(ài)。在人生清醒的時(shí)刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實(shí)的自我最為接近。In the affairs of life

3、 or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.在生活和事業(yè)的種種事務(wù)之中,性格比才智更能指導(dǎo)我們,心靈比頭腦更能引導(dǎo)我們,而由判斷獲得的克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。I have always believed that the man who has begun to

4、live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.我一向認(rèn)為,內(nèi)心生活開(kāi)始更為嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)娜?他的外在生活也會(huì)變得更為簡(jiǎn)樸。在物欲橫流的年代,但愿我能向世人表明:人類(lèi)的真正需求少得多么可憐。To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them

5、 is true repentance.There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.反思自己的過(guò)錯(cuò)不至于重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并沒(méi)有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是優(yōu)于過(guò)去的自已。一生必讀英文經(jīng)典美文篇二讓個(gè)性大放異彩In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live -his existence is

6、 unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.在茫茫宇宙間,每個(gè)人都只有一次生存的機(jī)會(huì),都是一個(gè)獨(dú)一無(wú)二、不可重復(fù)的存在。正像盧梭所說(shuō)的,上帝把你造出來(lái)后,就把那個(gè)屬于你的特定的模子打碎了。Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving f

7、or them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of y

8、ours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.名聲、財(cái)產(chǎn)、知識(shí)等等是身外之物,人人都可求而得之,但沒(méi)有人能夠代替你感受人生。你死之后,沒(méi)有人能夠代替你再活一次。如果你真正意識(shí)到了這一點(diǎn),你就會(huì)明白,活在世上,最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味來(lái)。你的人生是否有意義,衡量的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)不是外在的成功,而是你對(duì)人生意義

9、的獨(dú)特領(lǐng)悟和堅(jiān)守,從而使你的自我閃放出個(gè)性的光華。It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be identified as anything either his job, his status or his social role that shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he d

10、oesn't know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or done on others' sugg estions; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't beable to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He

11、is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing business.真正成為自己不是一件容易的事。世上有許多人,你說(shuō)他是什么都行,例如是一種職業(yè),一個(gè)身份,一個(gè)角色,惟獨(dú)不是他自己。如果一個(gè)人總是按別人的意見(jiàn)生活,沒(méi)有自己的獨(dú)立思索,總是為外在事務(wù)忙碌,沒(méi)有自己的內(nèi)心生活,那么,說(shuō)他不是他自己就一點(diǎn)兒也沒(méi)有冤枉他。因?yàn)榇_確實(shí)實(shí),從他的頭腦到他的心靈,你在其中已經(jīng)找不到絲毫真正屬于他自己的東西了,他只是別人的一個(gè)影子或一架辦事的機(jī)器罷了。一生必讀英文經(jīng)典美文篇三追求人生的完整

12、Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different piec

13、es, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perf

14、ect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When itrealized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.從前有個(gè)圓圈,它丟失了一小段。它想變得完整,于是它到處尋找它所丟失的那部分。由于不完整,它只能滾的非常慢。在路上,它羨慕

15、過(guò)花兒,它與蟲(chóng)子聊過(guò)天,它享受了陽(yáng)光的照耀。它遇到過(guò)很多不同的小段,可是沒(méi)有一個(gè)適合它。所以它把它們丟在路邊,繼續(xù)尋找。有一天,圓圈找到了可以與它完美結(jié)合的一小段,它非常高興。它現(xiàn)在終于完整了,不缺任何東西了。它把丟失的那段裝到自己身上,然后滾了起來(lái)。它現(xiàn)在是個(gè)完整的圓圈了,它可以滾的很快,快到忽視了花兒,快到?jīng)]有時(shí)間和蟲(chóng)子們說(shuō)話。當(dāng)它意識(shí)到由于它滾的太快,世界變得如此的不同時(shí),它便停了下來(lái),把找到的那段卸下丟在路邊,慢慢地滾走了。The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that in some strange sense we are more w

16、hole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who loves him give him something he has alwa

17、ys wanted or never had.我想這個(gè)故事告訴我們,從某種奇怪的意義上說(shuō),當(dāng)我們?nèi)鄙偈裁礀|西時(shí),我們反而是更完整的。一個(gè)擁有一切的人在某些方面也是個(gè)窮人,他永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)知道什么是渴望、什么是期待;永遠(yuǎn)不知道用渴求更美好的東西來(lái)充實(shí)他的靈魂。他永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)知道一個(gè)愛(ài) 他人送給他一樣他所夢(mèng)寐以求的東西時(shí)是怎樣的一種感覺(jué)。 There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic

18、 dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person. 人生的完整性，在于接受自己的缺陷，勇敢地丟棄不切實(shí)際的幻想，并且不覺(jué)得這 樣做是失敗的;人生的完整性，在于知道自己足夠強(qiáng)大，可以承受人生的苦難，可以在 失去一個(gè)人時(shí)仍然覺(jué)得自己是完整的。 Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for fai