英語(yǔ)美文欣賞

1、精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上美文欣賞"We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite."I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve ou

2、t of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at

3、all.I want the future to be better than the past. I dont want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change

4、 it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it. Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.參考譯文“我們正在讀一本書(shū)的第一章第一行，這本書(shū)的頁(yè)數(shù)是無(wú)限的”我不知道是誰(shuí)寫(xiě)的，可我很喜歡這

5、句話，它提醒我們未來(lái)是由自己創(chuàng)造的。我們可以把神秘、不可知的未來(lái)塑造成我們想象中的任何模樣，猶如雕刻家將未成形的石頭刻成雕像。我們每個(gè)人都像是農(nóng)夫。灑下良種將有豐收，播下劣種或生滿野草便將毀去收成。沒(méi)有耕耘則會(huì)一無(wú)所獲。我希望未來(lái)比過(guò)去更加美好，希望未來(lái)不會(huì)沾染歷史的錯(cuò)誤與過(guò)失。我們都應(yīng)舉目向前，因我們的余生要用未來(lái)書(shū)寫(xiě)。往昔已逝，靜如止水；我們無(wú)法再作改變。而前方的未來(lái)正生機(jī)勃勃；我們所做的每一件事都將會(huì)影響著它。只要我們認(rèn)識(shí)到這些，無(wú)論是在家中還是在工作上，每天我們的面前都會(huì)展現(xiàn)出新的天地。在人類(lèi)致力開(kāi)拓的每一片領(lǐng)域上，我們正站在進(jìn)步的起跑點(diǎn)。美文欣賞To a large degree,

6、the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live on the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are - always!Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic ar

7、t of spending much of our lives worrying about variety of things - all at once. We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate your present moments, so much so that we end up anxious, frustrated, depressed, and hopeless. On the flip side, we also postpone our gratification, our stated priori

8、ties, and our happiness, often convincing ourselves that "someday" will be much better than today. Unfortunately, the same mental dynamics that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that 'someday' never actually arrives. John Lennone once said, "Life

9、 is what is happening while we are busy making other plans." When we are busy making 'other plans', our children are busy growing up, the people we love are moving away and dying, our bodies are getting out of shape, and our dreams are slipping away. In short, we miss out on life.Many p

10、eople lives as if life is a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn't. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. When our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our minds

11、. Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future - we won't have enoughh money, our children will get into trouble, we will get old and die, whatever.To combat fear, the best stradegy is to learn to bring your attention back to the present. Mark Twain said,"I have been thro

12、ugh some terrible things in life, some of which actually happened." I don't think I can say it any better. Practice keeping your attention on the here and now. Your effort will pay great dividends.參考譯文我們內(nèi)心是否平和在很大程度上是由我們是否能生活在現(xiàn)實(shí)之中所決定的不管昨天或去年發(fā)生了什么，不管明天可能發(fā)生或不發(fā)生什么，現(xiàn)實(shí)才是你時(shí)時(shí)刻刻所在之處。毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，我們很多人掌握了一種神

13、經(jīng)兮兮的藝術(shù)，即把生活中的大部分時(shí)間花在為種種事情擔(dān)心憂慮上而且常常是同時(shí)憂慮許多事情我們聽(tīng)?wèi){過(guò)去的麻煩和未來(lái)的擔(dān)心控制我們此時(shí)此刻的生活，以至我們整日焦慮不安，委靡不振，甚至沮喪絕望而另一方面我們又推遲我們的滿足感，推遲我們應(yīng)優(yōu)先考慮的事情，推遲我們的幸福感，常常說(shuō)服自己“有朝一日”會(huì)比今天更好不幸的是，如此告戒我們朝前看的大腦動(dòng)力只能重復(fù)來(lái)重復(fù)去，以至“有朝一日”不會(huì)真的來(lái)臨約翰列儂曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)：“生活就是當(dāng)我們忙于制定別的計(jì)劃時(shí)發(fā)生的事”當(dāng)我們忙于指定種種別的計(jì)劃時(shí)，我們的孩子在忙于長(zhǎng)大，我們摯愛(ài)的人離去了甚至快去世了，我們的體型變樣了，而我們的夢(mèng)想也在消然溜走了一句話，我們錯(cuò)過(guò)了生活。許多

14、人的生活好象是某個(gè)未來(lái)日子的彩排，并非如此。事實(shí)上，沒(méi)人能保證他或她肯定還活著?，F(xiàn)在是我們所擁有的唯一時(shí)間，現(xiàn)在也是我們能控制的唯一的時(shí)間。當(dāng)我們將注意力放在此時(shí)此刻時(shí)，我們就將恐懼置于腦后?？謶志褪俏覀儞?dān)憂某些事情會(huì)在未來(lái)發(fā)生我們不諱有足夠的錢(qián)，我們的孩子會(huì)惹上麻煩，我們會(huì)變老，會(huì)死去，諸如此類(lèi)。若要克服恐懼心理，最佳策略是學(xué)會(huì)將你的注意力拉回此時(shí)此刻。馬克吐溫說(shuō)過(guò)：“我經(jīng)歷過(guò)生活中一些可怕的事情，有些的確發(fā)生過(guò)?！蔽蚁胛艺f(shuō)不出比這更具內(nèi)涵的話。經(jīng)常將注意力集中于此情此景，此時(shí)此刻，你的努力終會(huì)有豐厚的報(bào)償。美文欣賞Everybody has blue days.These are mise

15、rable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach.You cant rise to the occasion.Just getting started seems impossible.On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.This is n

16、ot always such a bad thing.You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!On blue days you feel like youre floating in an ocean of sadness.Youre about to burst into tears at any moment and y

17、ou dont even know why.Ultimately, you feel like youre wandering through life without purpose.Youre not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting,“Will someone please shoot me!”It doesnt take much to bring on a blue day.You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,fi

18、nd some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.You could forget your dates name or have an embarrassing photograph published.You might get dumped,divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,or just have a plain old ba

19、d-hair day.Maybe work is a pain in the butt.Youre under major pressure to fill someone elses shoes,your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.You might have a splitting headache,or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache,chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toe

20、nail.Whatever the reason, youre convinced that someone up there doesnt like you.Oh what to do, what to do?參考譯文每個(gè)人都有憂郁的時(shí)候。那些日子真是慘透了，你覺(jué)得心里亂糟糟的、怨氣叢生、寂寞、整個(gè)人徹底的精疲力竭。那些日子總會(huì)讓你感到自己的渺小和微不足道，每件事情似乎都?jí)虿恢叀Ｄ愀緹o(wú)法振作起來(lái)。根本沒(méi)有力氣重新開(kāi)始。 在憂郁的日子里，你可能變成偏執(zhí)狂，覺(jué)得每個(gè)人都想要吃定你。 其實(shí)情況并不總是那么糟。你感到灰心、焦慮，可能開(kāi)始神經(jīng)質(zhì)地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救藥地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大塊巧克力

21、蛋糕的瘋狂！ 在憂郁的日子里，你會(huì)覺(jué)得自己在悲傷的海里沉沉浮浮。不論在什么時(shí)候，你總有種想哭的沖動(dòng)，卻不知道為了什么。最后，你覺(jué)得自己猶如行尸走肉，失去生活目標(biāo)。你不知道自己還可以撐多久，然后你想大喊一聲：“誰(shuí)來(lái)一槍把我打死吧！” 其實(shí)一點(diǎn)小事就讓你一天都郁悶難當(dāng)。也許只是一覺(jué)醒來(lái)，沒(méi)有感覺(jué)到或者看到自己最棒的一面，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己又多了幾條皺紋，又重了幾斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一個(gè)大包。你可能忘記了約會(huì)對(duì)象的名字，或是有張可笑的照片被登出來(lái)。你或許被人拋棄、離了婚，或是被開(kāi)除，當(dāng)眾出丑，被刻薄的綽號(hào)弄得心亂如麻，或許只因?yàn)槟愕谜祉斨粋€(gè)其丑無(wú)比的發(fā)型。 也許工作讓你痛苦得如坐針氈。你在強(qiáng)大的壓力下頂替

22、他人的位置，你的老板對(duì)你百般挑剔，辦公室里的每一個(gè)人都讓你發(fā)瘋。你可能會(huì)頭疼欲裂，或重心不穩(wěn)跌個(gè)正著，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥，或是指甲長(zhǎng)到肉里頭了。不管什么原因，你確定上面有人不喜歡你。 唉，該怎么辦，到底該怎么辦呢？美文欣賞“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite.”I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the futur

23、e can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and

24、 full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.I want the future to be better than the past. I dont want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will s

25、pend the remainder of our lives.The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it. Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the

26、 progress in every field of human endeavor.參考譯文“我們正在讀一本書(shū)的第一章第一行，這本書(shū)的頁(yè)數(shù)是無(wú)限的”我不知道是誰(shuí)寫(xiě)的，可我很喜歡這句話，它提醒我們未來(lái)是由自己創(chuàng)造的。我們可以把神秘、不可知的未來(lái)塑造成我們想象中的任何模樣，猶如雕刻家將未成形的石頭刻成雕像。我們每個(gè)人都像是農(nóng)夫。灑下良種將有豐收，播下劣種或生滿野草便將毀去收成。沒(méi)有耕耘則會(huì)一無(wú)所獲。我希望未來(lái)比過(guò)去更加美好，希望未來(lái)不會(huì)沾染歷史的錯(cuò)誤與過(guò)失。我們都應(yīng)舉目向前，因我們的余生要用未來(lái)書(shū)寫(xiě)。往昔已逝，靜如止水；我們無(wú)法再作改變。而前方的未來(lái)正生機(jī)勃勃；我們所做的每一件事都將會(huì)影響著它。

27、只要我們認(rèn)識(shí)到這些，無(wú)論是在家中還是在工作上，每天我們的面前都會(huì)展現(xiàn)出新的天地。在人類(lèi)致力開(kāi)拓的每一片領(lǐng)域上，我們正站在進(jìn)步的起跑點(diǎn)。美文欣賞Today I begin a new life.And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must

28、 not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity