英語經典美文3篇
英語經典美文(1)
英語經典美文
All that is beautiful poems and passages of life??things do not change;we 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
??think it over……好好想想……??today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;??今天我們擁有了更高層的樓宇以及更寬闊的公路，但是我們的性情卻更為急躁，眼光也更加狹隘；??we spend more,but enjoy less;??我們消耗的更多，享受到的卻更少；??we have bigger houses,but smaller famillies;??我們的住房更大了，但我們的家庭卻更小了；??we have more compromises,but less time;??我們妥協更多，時間更少；??we have more knowledge,but less judgment;??我們擁有了更多的知識，可判斷力卻更差了；??we have more medicines,but less health;??我們有了更多的藥品，但健康狀況卻更不如意；??we have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values;??我們擁有的財富倍增，但其價值卻減少了；??we talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much;??我們說的多了，愛的卻少了，我們的仇恨也更多了；??we reached the moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;??我們可以往返月球，但卻難以邁出一步去親近我們的左鄰右舍；??we have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space;??我們可以征服外太空，卻征服不了我們的內心；??we have highter income,but less morals;??我們的收入增加了，但我們的道德卻少了；??these are times with more liberty,but less joy;??我們的時代更加自由了，但我們擁有的快樂時光卻越來越少；??we have much more food,but less nutrition;??我們有了更多的食物，但所能得到的營養卻越來越少了；??these are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase;??現在每個家庭都可以有雙份收入，但離婚的現象越來越多了；??these are times of finer hou
ses,but more broken homes;??現在的住房越來越精致，但我們也有了更多破碎的家庭；??that‘s why i propose,that as of today;??這就是我為什么要說，讓我們從今天開始；??you do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a special occasion.??不要將你的東西為了某一個特別的時刻而預留著，因為你生活的每一天都是那么特別；??search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;??尋找更我的知識，多讀一些書，坐在你家的前廊里，以贊美的眼光去享受眼前的風景，不要帶上任何功利的想法；??spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love;??花多點時間和朋友與家人在一起，吃你愛吃的食物，去你想去的地方；??life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival;??生活是一串串的快樂時光；我們不僅僅是為了生存而生存；??use your crystal goblets.do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it.??舉起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝嗇灑上你最好的香水，你想用的時候就享用吧！??remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday";??從你的詞匯庫中移去所謂的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；??let‘s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!??曾打算“有那么一天”去寫的信，就在今天吧！??let‘s tell our families and friends how much we love them;??告訴家人和朋友，我們是多么地愛他們；??do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;??不要延遲任何可以給你的生活帶來歡笑與快樂的事情；??every day,every hour,and every minute is special;??每一天、每一小時、每一分鐘都是那么特別；??and you don"t know if it will be your last.??你無從知道這是否最后刻。
英語經典美文(2)
Never, Never Give Up 永不言棄
We often hear people say, “Never give up.” These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in them will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel discouraged and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow as people. Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we make a new effort. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better, more confident people. Furthermore, if we give up, we have non chance of attaining our goals, but if we keep trying, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.
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永不放棄
我們常聽到人們說：“永遠不要放棄。”這句話可能是要鼓勵別人，也可能是表示自己的決心。相信自己的人，不管經歷多少次失敗，都會不斷試著要達到目標。我認為，有成功的決心是每個人都應該有的重要特質。因此，我認為我們應該永不放棄。
其中一個理由是，如果我們太輕易放棄，就幾乎無法完成任何事。我們第一次嘗試新事物會失敗，這是很平常的事，所以我們不應感到氣餒，而應該要再試一次。而且，如果我們總是一失敗就放棄，就無法培養新技能并且不斷地成長。我們應該永不放棄的另一個原因是，只有再努力一次才能從錯誤中學習。如果我們不再試一次，那么我們所學到的教訓就白白浪費了。最后，我們應該永不放棄，因為當我們努力達到目標的時候，我們就會培養出自信，而這種自信將有助于我們在生活的其他領域中獲得成功。如果我們不挑戰自我，我們就會開始懷疑自己的能力。
簡言之，當我們努力追求目標時，永不放棄是很重要的。不管最后有沒有成功，我們都會學到一些東西，而我們所學到的東西，將會使自己成為一個更好、更有自信的人。而且，如果放棄的話，我們就沒有機會完成目標，如果我們不斷嘗試，總有將來某天成功的機會.
Never Give Up Hope
Life doesn"t always give us the joys we want. We don"t always get our hopes and dreams, and we don"t always get our own way. But don"t give up hope, because you can make a difference one situation and one person at a time.
Look for the beauty around you--in nature, in others, in yourself--and believe in the love of friends, family, and humankind. You can find love in a smile or a helping hand, in a thoughtful gesture or a kind word. It is all around, if you just look for it.
Give love, for in giving it you will find the power in life along with the joy, happiness, patience and understanding. Believe in the goodness of others and remember that anger and depression can be countered by love and hope.
Even when you feel as though there isn"t a lot you can do to change unhappiness or problems, you can always do a little--and a little at a time eventually makes a big difference.
Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear.
永不放棄希望
生活并非總是如你所愿。希望有時會落空，夢想有時會破滅，我們不能一切隨心所愿。但別放棄希望，因為事物并非一成不變；不同時間，不同場合，你會呈現不同的面貌。
處處留心你身邊的美麗：自然中的美，他人的美，你自己的美。請相信，美來自朋友、家庭乃至全人類的融融愛意。一個微笑，一雙援助之手，一個關心的舉止，一句友善的話語，無不傳達著愛。如果你有心去尋找，愛無所不在。
奉獻愛心吧，從中你會發現生活的力量，感受生活帶來的幸福快樂，學會忍耐和理解。相信人性本善。記住，愛心和希望能化解一切憤怒和沮喪。哪怕生活中揮之不去的不快和困難將你重重包圍，讓你力不從心，但你仍可以盡力而為。累積點滴努力，最終你將扭轉乾坤。
希望一直就在我們身邊。當我們遇到挫折時，請深呼一口氣并對自己說：我可以做到！
Love Your Life 熱愛生活
Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛.梭羅
However mean your life is，meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard is not so bad as you looks poorest when you are fault-finder will find faults in your life，poor as it may perhaps have some pleasant，thrilling，glorious hourss，even in a setting sun is reflected From the windows of the alms-house as brightly as From the rich man’s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there，and have as cheering thoughts，as in a town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of be they are simply great enough to receive without think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest should be more poverty like a garden herb，like not trouble yourself much to get new things，whether clothes or friends，Turn the old，return to do not change;we your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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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。大多數人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們；可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，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。
You are my soul mate;the one who could set my heart on fire with just
one look.
你是那用一個眼神就可以點燃我心火的靈魂伴侶!
More than anything in this world I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
和你共渡餘生,比任何一件事都重要!
Baby, as long as we keep each other in our heart, our love for each
other will never apart. 只要我們將彼此放在心中,我們的愛就永
不分離
How can I be so to have you in my life. You"ve made me a
strong and happy person.我如此幸運能擁有你,你使我成
為勇敢又快樂的人
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
?? 對于世界而言，你是一個人；但是對于某人，你是他的整個世界。
Don"t try to hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
?? 不要著急，最好的總會在最不經意的時候出現。
Don"t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
?? 不要因為結束而哭泣，微笑吧，為你的曾經擁有。
英語經典美文(3)
①If 1)eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness. But, is heaviness truly 2)deplorable and lightness splendid? The heaviest of burdens crushes us. We sink beneath it. It pins us to the ground. The heaviest of burdens is, therefore, 3)simultaneously an image of life’s most intense 4)fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth; the more real and truthful they become.
5)Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being and become only half real, his movements as free as they are 6)insignificant.
What then shall we choose; weight or lightness?
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I have been thinking about Tomas for many years. But only in the light of these reflections did I see him clearly. I saw him standing at the window of his 7)flat and looking across the courtyard at the opposite walls, not knowing what to do.
He had first met Tereza about three weeks earlier in a small Czech town. They had spent 8)scarcely an hour together. She had accompanied him to the station and waited with him until he boarded the train. Ten days later she paid him a visit. They made love the day she arrived. That night she came down with a fever and stayed a whole week in his flat with the flu. He had come to feel an 9)inexplicable love for this all but complete stranger. She seemed a child to him, a child someone had put in a 10)bulrush basket 11)docked with pitch and sent 12)downstream for Tomas to 13)fetch under the riverbank of his bed.
He knelt down next to her. Her feverous breath quickened and she gave out a weak 14)moan. He pressed his face to hers and whispered calming words into her sleep. And all at once he 15)fancied she had been with him for many years and was dying. He had a sudden clear feeling that he would not survive her death. He would lie down beside her and want to die with her. He pressed his face into the pillow beside her head and kept it there for a long time.
Now he was standing at the window trying to call that moment to account. What could it have been if not love declaring itself to him? But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly 16)exaggerated; he had seen her only once before in his life. Was it simply the 17)hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his 18)inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His 19)unconscious was so 20)cowardly that the best partner he could choose for his little comedy were this miserable 21)provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life.
He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he really wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
There is no means of testing which decision is better because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
②“Einmal ist keinmal”, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German 22)adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.
一 輕與重
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如果永劫回歸是最沉重的負擔，那么我們的生活就能以其全部輝煌的輕松，來與之抗衡。可是，沉重便真的悲慘，而輕松便真的輝煌嗎？最沉重的負擔壓得我們崩塌了，沉沒了，將我們釘在地上。由此，最沉重的負擔同時也是一種生活最為充實的象征。負擔越沉，我們的生活也就貼近大地，越趨近真切和實在。
相反，完全沒有負擔，人變得比大氣還輕，會高高地飛起，離別大地亦即離別真實的生活。他將變得似真非真，運動自由而毫無意義。
那么我們將選擇什么呢？沉重還是輕松？
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多少年來，我一直想著托馬斯，似乎只有憑借回想的折光，我才能看清他這個人。我看見他站在公寓的窗臺前不知所措，越過庭院的目光，落在對面的墻上。
他與特麗莎初識于三個星期前捷克的一個小鎮上，兩人呆在一起還不到一個鐘頭，她就陪他去了車站，一直等到他上火車。十天后她去看他，而且兩人當天便做愛。不料夜里她發起燒來，是流感，她在他的公寓里呆了一個星期。對于這個幾乎是完全陌生的人，他慢慢地感到了一種莫名其妙的愛。對他來說，她像個孩子，被人放在樹脂涂覆的草筐里順水漂來，而他在床榻之岸順手撈起了她。
他跪在她的床邊，見她燒得呼吸急促，微微呻吟。他用臉貼在她的臉，輕聲安慰她，直到她睡著。剎那間，他幻想著自己與她在一起已有漫漫歲月，而現在她正行將死去。他突然清楚地意識到自己不能挺過她死去的這一劫，他得躺在她身邊，與她一同赴死。他挨著她的頭，把臉埋在枕頭里過了許久。
現在他站在窗前，極力回想那一刻的情景。若他所清楚感受到的這種感情不是愛，又會是什么呢？但這是愛嗎？那種想死在她身邊的情感顯然有些夸張：在這以前他僅僅見了她一面！那么，明明知道這種愛不甚適當，難道這只是一個歇斯底里的男人感到自欺之需而作出的偽舉嗎？他的無意識是如此懦弱，一個小小的玩笑就使他選擇了這樣一個可憐的、壓根兒不可能進入他生活的鄉間女招待，來作為他的最佳伴侶！
他生著自己的氣，直到他弄明白自己的茫然無措其實也很自然。我們是永遠也不知道自己要什么的，因為人的生命只有一次，我們既不能把它與我們前世相比較，也無法使其在后世完美度過。
沒有比較的基點，因此沒有任何辦法可以檢驗何種選擇更好。我們經歷著生活中突然臨頭的一切，毫無防備，就象演員進入初排。如果生活的第一排練便是生活本身，那生活有什么價值呢？
“Einmal ist Keinmal”托馬斯自言自語。這句德國諺語說，只發生過一次的事就象壓根兒沒有發生過。如果生命屬于我們只有一次，我們當然也可以說根本沒有過生命。
（譯文參考自作家出版社譯本）
① 這里提到“eternal return”是指尼采學說里著名的永劫回歸觀，套用一個現在用得頗泛的佛家名詞，就是“無間道”：我們的生命、甚至歷史都只是在反復地重復而已。本選段出自全書的第一章，是作者為全書定的一個基調——大環境不斷輪回、不可逆轉的無奈。
② 我認為這句德國諺語是作者對人類實境的反擊。對于沉重的現實，我們只有選擇輕裝上陣，人生沒有可比性，生命屬于我們只有一次，一切選擇都失去了充足理由的同時，一切結果也都變得十分合理。抓住自己幸福的選擇就是合理的！
美式發音 適合泛讀 聽2 說2 讀2寫3 詞3
《生命中不能承受之輕》（1984），是全世界公認最受歡迎的暢銷書之一，也是作者昆德拉才華得到集中體現的一部作品。
這是一部小說，描述了在1968年蘇聯入侵捷克時期（史稱“布拉格之春”），民主改革的氣息演變成專橫壓榨之風潮，捷克普通的知識分子在這個大時代中命運多變的復雜故事。主線有兩條：其一是著名外科醫生托馬斯對國家的誠實和對妻子特麗莎的愛——很重，因為他要為此付出巨大的犧牲，名利、自由皆失。其二是托馬斯的情人薩賓娜對生活方式的選擇，以及對托馬斯和弗蘭茨的感情——很輕，因為她隨心而為，追求無限制的自由。
這更是一部哲學小說，人物不過是哲學中的代碼，情節也不過是哲學中的情境。作者以一個哲人的睿智將人類的生存情景加以描述和思辯，使故事與哲學渾然一體。或許我們也是這些代碼之一吧，是那沉重卻踏實的“重”呢，還是那輕盈卻虛無的“輕”呢？如何選擇？
About Author:
Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech and French writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile[逃亡] in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting[笑忘書], and The Joke[玩笑].
In 1985, Kundera received the Jerusalem Prize. It has also been rumored[傳聞] that he was considered for the Nobel Prize for literature In 2000, he was awarded the international Herder Prize. In 2007, he was awarded the Czech State Literature Prize.（對于一個被放逐多年的作家，得到本國的承認應是個莫大的安慰。）
Chapter One Lightness and Weight
