【精品】英语背诵范文

1、a great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certai n atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within t hemselves. this sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to u s from the past. many modern people do not have it, a

2、nd i think it is a good thin g that they do not.许多人在谈到家的时候往往将它和某种气範，某种环境及内心的某些情 感态度联系在一起这种对家的依恋情感古己有之，代代相传许多现代人不再有了，我认为这 是件好事.in the old days life was difficult. enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. people did not live in well-built houses whe re

3、doors could be locked. they did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could summ on the police instantly. how did this in flue nc e the way people felt about home? small family groups clung tightly together for pr otection against beasts and against other men. only

4、 the bravest went beyond the small family area even in the middle ages only the most daring went to lands bey ond sea the human pursuit of security conditioned men to love their homes i am sure that this feeling must have been very strong among the early settlers of the united states who were oblige

5、d, by famine and oppression, to take the plunge and go to the new land where they knew no one and where they were subject to indi an attack. we can see this even today in the attitudes of minority groups who, bee ause of a feeling of insecurity, still preserve cohesive family ties在遥远白勺过去， 人彳门 生活十分艰难

6、.敌人可能会攻击你，杀害你或抢动你的财富，而你却毫无还手之力.人们并 不住在可以锁门闭户的构造坚固的房子里.他们没有一支有组织的警察队伍的保护，也不能 随时打电话报警.这些怎样影响人们对于家的感悄呢？小小家庭的成员紧密团结，聚在一起, 共同抵御野兽和敌人.只有最勇敢的人才离开小小的家族管辖区.甚至在中壯纪也只有最勇 敢的人才敢涉足海外.人类对安全的追求决定了人们对家的热爱.我相信，美国的早期定居 者对此一定深有感触他们被饥莞压迫得走投无路，只好毅然决定冒险来到这个举目元亲.易 爱卬第安人攻击的陌生的地方甚至今天，我们从少数民族团体的态度也可以看出这一点.由 于缺乏安全感，他们仍然保持着富有凝聚

7、力的家庭纽带.today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the ofte ner they do so, the less sentime nt they are likely to have for those surroundi n gs. i lived in england for three years, an

8、d i noticed that boys and girls left their p arents5 homes and lived in dwellings of their own. there they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. how has the meaning of this word home been altered by such activity? w hat does home m

9、ean to those people or to families who often move about, living i n first one hotel and then another? i believe that for them home means a place w here they can have privacy.今天，由于有了现代交通和纟fl织良好的社会，成t上万的人 们愿意并【1渴望离开他们出生的环境.而且，他们离家外出越频繁，对出生的环境的情感就 可能越少.我曾经在英国，他们只需拿起电话，要求一家房地产经销处提供一幢房子或一个 套间，那就是他们的家了.家这

10、个词的意义是如何被这种行为改变的呢？家对于那些经常流 动，从一家旅馆到另一家旅馆居住的人们或家庭成员又意味着什么呢？我认为，家对他们来说是一个离群独外不受t扰的地方.this idea of home as being a place of privacy is emerging in my country, saudi a rabia, where the young are abandoning their parents5 homes to live their own life. as for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the pla

11、ce where my parents live h ave no sentimental attachment. home is where i can shut the door and be by mys elf. at the moment itis a room in eaton hall.when i leftmyparents several years ago, i was anxiousto leave you might callit unfeeling,butthat was the way ifelt. on the day of my departure for th

12、e united states, my grandmother sobbed an d wept. my father, however, indicated that heunderstoodhowi felt. “sorv' he said,“i am not sorry thatyou are leaving us. i only hope thatyoumake the most of your time.在我的国家沙特陈拉伯，年轻人放弃父母的家去过他们口己的生活.这种把家作 为私人独处这地的看法正在我的国家形成.我对父母居住z地的气氛，环境没有眷恋的情 感.家就是一个我能关起

13、门来独处的地方.现在我的家就是伊登宿舍的一个房间.儿年前当 我离开父母时，我没有恋恋不舍，巴不得快快离开.你也许会觉得这是无情无义，然而那确 实是我的感受.我离家去美国寻卫，祖母呜咽，泪流不止.但我的父亲却表时他能理解我的 心情.”孩子”他说”我对于你的离去并觉得悲伤.我只希望你能充分利用吋间”family lifejane brown has been maried for 12 years.she has three children and lives in a s uburb outside columbus3ohio.when her youngest child reached s

14、hool age,jane dec ided to to back to work.she thought that she should contribute to the household fin ances.her salary could make a d if fere nee between a finan cial struggle and a secur e financial situation for her family.jane also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a homemaker and wanted t

15、o be more involved in life outside her home.jane was worried about her children's adjustment to this new situation,but she arranged for t hem to go to stay with a woman nearby after school each after noon .they seemed to be happy with the arrangement.the problem seemed to be between jane and h e

16、r husband bill.when jane was at home all day,she was able to clean the house, go grocery shopping ,wash the clothes,take care of the children and cook two or t hree meals each day.she was very busy,of course3but she succeeded in getting ev erything done.now the same things need to be done,but jane h

17、as only evenings a nd early mornings to do them.both jane and bill are tired when they arive home a t 6p.m.bill is accustomed to sitting down and reading a paper of watching tv until dinners is ready .this is exactly what jane feels like doin g,but some one has to fi x dinner and bill expects it to

18、be jane.jane is becoming very angry at bill;s feels that everything should be the same as it was before jane went back to work（参考译文）家庭生活简布朗已经结婚2年了。她有三个孩子，住在俄亥俄州州府哥伦布市郊。最小的孩子够上 学年龄时，她决定返回工作岗位。她想她应该为家庭经济做出贡献。她的薪水可能改变家庭 经济拮据、节衣缩食这种困境，使家庭经济状况趋于稳定。简対她的家庭主妇的角色也感到 极度厌倦、非常失望了，因此渴望更多地参与到家庭以外的社会生活屮去。简担心她的孩了 们

19、适应不了这种新的变化，于是做出安排，让孩了们每天下午放学后去跟邻近一位妇女在一 起。孩了们似乎对这样的安排很满意。问题好像在于简和她的丈夫比尔z间。以前简整天在 家的时候，她清扫屋子，去百货店购物，清洗衣服，照料孩子，每天煮两三顿饭，样样事情 都能干。不用说，她忙个不停，但她把家务活都干好了。现在，一样的家务需要人做，可是 简只冇在傍晚和早晨才能做家务。简和比尔下午六点回到家里，两人都觉得劳累了。比尔习 惯于处下来看报或看电视，直到晩餐做好为止。这恰恰也是简希望做的事。但总得有人准备 晩餐。比尔盼望这个人是简。简対比尔的态度很生气。她觉得他们两人应该共同分担家务, 但比尔认为-切应该照旧，就像

20、简重返工作岗位以丽那样my mother is a kind and gentle woman. she is very busy from morning till night. as a teacher she works diligently and efficiently. as mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort i have an elder brother. he and i both love her dearly, as she loves us.my mother has been tea

21、ching maths at a middle school in my home town. she goes to the school early in the morning and does n ot return home until late in the after noon. she loves her students , cares for them. she treats them with patienee and teaches them well for her excellent qualities and very good teaching results,

22、 she is always praised and respected by both her students and colleagues alike and she has been chosen or elected as a model teacher several times.my mother is a thrifty and industrious woman. she never buys expensive or fancy dresses for herself; she goes occasionally to buy some inexpensive and hi

23、gh-quality clothes for us. she never goes to luxurious restaurants to have expensive meals. she merely eats a humble meal outside when she is too busy she lives a busy yet simple life, without any complaints. as soon as she comes back from school, she sets about doing housework: sweeping the living

24、room and bedreooms or cleaning the furniture, and putting everything in good order. besides, she prepares nice dishes for us to eat. she seems to be on the go all the time as she has been very busy working hard every day, she looks older than she really is. her face is wrinkled, and her hair has tur

25、ned silver white but she looks as cheerful and happy as ever.often she says to us, '"work while you work, and play while you play. that is the way to be happy and gay if you do not work, you will become lazy and of no use to society/' what a piece of good advice this is! i never forget

26、it and always bear it in my mind this advice of hers will always serve as a guide to my action. my mother is great indeed, and i always feel proud of her。my mother's gifti grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk fro m my house and in an age , not so long ago , w

27、hen children could go home for i unch and find their mothers waiting.at the time, i did not consider this a luxury, although today it certainly would be. i took it for granted that mothers were the sandwich-makers, the finger-painting app reciators and the homework monitors i never questioned that t

28、his ambitious, intellig ent woman, who had had a career before i was born and would eventually return t o a career, would spend almost every lunch hour throughout my elementary school years just with me.i only knew that when the noon bell rang, i would race breathlessly home my mot her would be stan

29、ding at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me with a look that suggested i was the only important thing she had on her mind for this, i am for ever grateful.some sounds bring it all back: the highpitched squeal of my mother's teakettle, the rumble of the washing machine in the basement and t

30、he jangle of my dog's licen se tags as she bounded down the stairs to greet me. our time together seemed d evoid of the gerrymandered schedules that now pervade my lifeone lunchtime when i was in the third grade will stay with me always i had been picked to be the princess in the school play, an

31、d for weeks my mother had pains takingly rehearsed my lines with me. but no matter how easily i delivered them at home, as soon as i stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head finally, my teacher took me aside she explained that she had written a narrator's part to the play, and asked

32、me to switch roles. her word, kindly delivered, still stu ng, especially when i saw my part go to another girl.i didn't tell my mother what had happened when i went home for lunch that day. but she sensed my unease, and instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she a sked if i wanted to walk i

33、n the yard.it was a lovely spring day and the rose vine on the trellis was turning green. unde r the huge elm trees, we could see yellow dandelions popping through the grass in bunches, as if a painter had touched our iandscape with dabs of goldwatched my mother casually bend down by one of the clum

34、ps ”1 think i'm going to dig up all these weeds, hshe said, yanking a blossom up by its roots”from now on, well have only roses in this garden. ”“but i like dan delions, h i protested ” all flowers are beautiful-even dan delio ns. nmy mother looked at me seriously. "yes, every flower gives

35、pleasure in its own way, d oesn't it?'1 she asked thoughtfully. i nodded, pleased that i had won her over. “and that is true of people too, h she added. nnot every one can be a princess, but the re is no shame in that.relieved that she had guessed my pain, i started to cry as i told her what

36、 had ha ppened. she listened and smiled reassuringly.“but you will be a beautiful narrator, n she said , reminding me of how much i lov ed to read stories aloud to her hthe narrator's part is every bit as important as t he part of a princess”over the next few weeks, with her constant encourageme

37、nt, i learned to take pride in the role. lunchtimes were spent reading over my lines and talking abut what i would wear.backstage the night of the performance, i felt nervous a few minutes before the pl ay, my teacher came over to me. ”your mother asked me to give this to you, " sh e said, hand

38、ing me a dandelion. its edges were already beginning to curl and it flo pped lazily from its stem but just looking at it, knowing my mother was out there and thinking of our lunchtime talk, made me proud .after the play , i took home the flower i had stuffed in the apron of my costume my mother pres

39、sed it between two sheets of paper toweling in a dictionary 3 laug hing as she did it that we were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking weed .i often look back on our lunchtimes together , bathed in the soft midday light . th ey were the commas in my childhood , the pauses th

40、at told me life is not savored in premeasured increment , but in the sum of daily rituals and small pleasures we casually share with loved ones . over peanut-butter sandwiches and chocolate-chi p cookies 、 i learned that love , first and foremost , means being there for the littl e things .a few mon

41、ths ago , my mother came to visit , i took off a day from work and tre ated her to lunch. the restaurant bustled with noon time activity as businesspeople made deals and glanced at their watches in the middle of all this sat my mother,now retired , and i . from her face i could see that she relished

42、 the pace of th e work world .hmom , you must have been terribly bored staying at home when i was a child , ki said .'bored? housework is boring . but you were never boring . ni didn't believe her , so i pressedsurely children are not as stimulating as a ca reer. 11ha career is stimulating ,

43、 h she said 'tm glad i had one but a career is like an open balloon. it remains inflated only as long as you keep pumping . a child is a seed you water it you care for it the best you can and then it grows all by itself into a beautiful flower ”just then , looking at her , i could picture us sit

44、ting at her kitchen table once agai n , and i understood why i kept that flaky brown dandelion in our old family dictio nary pressed between two crumpled bits of paper towel.母亲的礼物我是在一个小镇上长大的，从镇上的小学校到我家，只需步行10分钟。离当前不算太太 久远的那个时代，小学生可以回家吃午饭，而他们的母亲，则会老早在家等候着。 这一切对如今的孩子来说，无疑是一种奢望了，可是那时的我，却并不以为然。我觉得做 母亲的给

45、她的孩子制作三明治，鉴赏指画，检杏他们的家庭作业，都是理所当然的事。我从 来没有想过：像我母亲这样一个颇有抱负又很聪明的女人，在我降生z前，她有一份丄作, 而且后来她又谋了份差事，可是，在我上小学那几年，她却几乎天天陪着我吃午饭，一同打 发午餐时的每一分钟。只记得，每当午时铃声i响，我就一口气地往家里跑。母亲总是站在门前台阶的最高层，笑 盈盈地望着我-那神情分明表示：我便是母亲心目屮唯一最重要的东西了。为此，我一辈了 都要感谢我的母亲。如今，每当我听到一些声音，像母亲那把茶歳水开时发出的尖叫声，地卜-室洗衣机的隆隆声, 还有，我那条狗蹦下台阶冲我摇头摆尾时它脖子上那牌照发出的撞击声，便会勾起我

46、对往 事的冋忆。和母亲在一起的岁月，全然没有充斥于我的生活屮的、事先排定的虚情假意的li 程表。我永远忘不了在我上三年级时的那一顿午饭。在那天之前，我被学校选中，要在一个 即将演出的小剧屮扮演公主的角色。一连好几个礼拜，母亲总是不辞辛劳地陪着我，一起背 诵台词。可是，不管在家里怎么背得滚瓜烂熟，只要一上舞台，我的脑了里就成了一片空白。 终于，老师把我叫到了一边。她说剧中旁白这个角色的台词已写好了，想把我替换下来当旁 白。尽管老师这些话说得和和气气，可还是刺痛了我的心，特别是当我发觉自己扮演的公主 角色让另外一个女孩顶替时，更是如此。那天冋家吃午饭时我没有把这事告诉母亲。然而, 母亲见我心神不定

47、，因此没冇再提练习背台词的事儿，而是问我愿意不愿意到院了里散散步。 那真是一个可爱的春日，棚架上蕎薇的藤蔓正在转青。在一些髙大的榆树下而，我们可以看 到，一丛丛黄色的蒲公英冒出草坪，仿佛是一位画家为了给眼前的美景增色而着意加上的点 点金色。我看到母亲在-簇花丛旁漫不经心地弯下身來。”我看得把这些野草都拨了，”她说 着，一边使劲把一从蒲公英连根拨岀。”往后咱这园子里只让长蔷薇花。”5j是我喜欢蒲公 英，”我不满地说，”凡是花都好看“蒲公英也不例外。”母亲严肃地看着我。”噢，这么说，每朵花都自有它令人赏心悦目的地方喽？ “她若有所思地 问道。我点了点头，总算说服了母亲，这使我很得意'可是人

48、也一样呀，”母亲接着乂发话, ”不见得人人都能当公主，但当不了公主并不丢脸。”母亲猜到了我的苦恼，这使我的情绪安 定下来。我哭了起来，把事情的经过讲给母亲听。母亲专注地听着，脸上带着安详的微笑。 ”但你会成为一名顶呱呱的解说员，”母亲乂说。她说平常我是多么喜欢朗诵故事给她听，还 说”从哪方面看，旁白这个角色都和公主那个角色一样重要”。往示的几个星期，在母亲的一 再鼓励下，我渐渐地以担任旁白的角色感到骄傲。利用午饭时间，我们又一起念台词，议论 到时候我该穿什么样的演出服装。到了演出那个晚上，当我登上后台，心里还感到紧张。离演出还有儿分钟的时候，老师朝我 走了过来。”你母亲让我把这个交给你，”说着

49、她递过來了一朵蒲公英。那花儿四周已开始打 蔦，花瓣儿从梗上向下有气无力地奁拉着。可是，只要看一眼，知道母亲就在外面呆着，i叫 想起和母亲用午饭时说的那些话，我就感到胸有成竹。演出结束示，我把塞在演出服国裙电 的那朵蒲公英拿回了家。母亲将花接了过去，用两张纸山将它压平，夹在了一本字典里。她 一边忙碌着，一边笑，想到也许只有我们俩会珍藏这么一朵打了驚的野草花。我常常回想起 和母亲在一起度过的那些沐浴在和煦阳光之中的午餐时光。它们是我孩提时代的一个个小插 曲，告诉我一个道理：人生的滋味，就在于和我们所爱的人在一起不经意地共度的h常生活、 分享的点点滴滴的欢乐，而不在于某种事先测量好的”添加剂”。在享

50、用母亲做的花生酱、三 明治和巧克力碎末小甜饼的时候，我懂得了，爱就体现在这些细微这处。儿个月前，母亲乂來看我。我特意请了天假，陪母亲吃午饭。中午，饭馆里熙熙壤攘，做生 意的人忙不迭地从事交易活动，他们不时地看看手表。如今已经退休的母亲和我就坐在这群 人中间。从母亲的表情中，我看得出，母亲打心眼里喜欢上班族这种生活的节奏。”妈，我 小的时候，您老呆在家里一定觉得很烦吧？ “我说。”烦？做家务是令人心烦，不过，你从来 没使我感到心烦过。”我不相信这是实话，于是我又想法子套她的话。”看孩子哪会像t作那 样富有刺激性呢？ “”工作是富有刺激性的，”母亲答道，”很高兴我也有过工作。可是工作好 比开了口的

51、气球，你只有不停地充气，它才能鼓着劲。可是一个孩子就是一粒种子，你浇灌 了它，全心全意地爱护它，然后，它就会独立白主地开出美丽的花朵來。“此时此刻，我凝 望着我的母亲，脑海里又浮现出儿时的我和母亲一起坐在饭桌旁的情景，也明白了为什么我 还珍藏着夹在我们家里那木i 口字典中的那朵用两小块皱皱巴巴的纸巾压平的蒲公英。5： my forever valentinethe traditional holidays in our house when i was a child were spent timing elabora te meals around football games. my fa

52、ther tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during halftime. at christmas he found time to have a cup o r two of holiday beer and do this holly-shaped bow tie. but he didn't truly shine un til valentines dayi don't know whether it was because work at the office slowed du

53、ring february or because the football seas on was over. but vale ntines day was the time my fat her chose to show his love for the special people in his life. over the years i fond ly thought of him as my hvalentine mart.my first recollection of the magic he could bring to valentines day came when i

54、 was six. for several days i had been cutting out valentines for my classmates e ach of us was to decorate a ”mailbox” and put it on our desk for others to give u s cards that box and its contents ushered in a succession of bittersweet memorie s of my entra nee into a world of popularity con tests m

55、arked by the nu mber of card s received, the teasing of boyfriends/girlfriends and the tender care i gave to the c ard from the cutest boy in class.that morning at the breakfast table i found a card and a gift- wrapped packag e at my chair. the card was signed “love, dad'1, and the gift was a ri

56、ng with a sm all piece of red glass to represent my birthstone, a ruby there is little differenee b etween red glass and rubies to a child of six, and i remember wearing that ring wi th a pride that all the cards in the world could not surpassas i grew older, the gifts gave way to heart-shaped boxes

57、 filled with my favorit e chocolates and always in eluded a special card signed "love, dad,fn those years my "thank-yous” became more of a perfunctory response. the cards seemed less important, and i took for granted that the valentine would always be there long p ast the days of having a

58、”mailbox” on my desk, i had placed my hopes and drea ms in receiving cards and gifts from “signifiesnt others", and jove, dadh just didn't seem quite enoughif my father knew then that he had been replaced, he never let it show. if he sensed any disappointment over valentines that didn't

59、 arrive for me, he just tried th at much harder to create a positive atmosphere, giving me an extra hug and doing what he could to make my day a little brighter.my mailbox eventually had a rural address, and the job of hands delivering ca ndy and cards was relegated to the u.s postal service never in ten years was m y father's package late- nor was it on the valentines day eight years ago when i r eached into the mailbox to find a card addressed to me in my mother's handwritin g-it was the kind of card that comes i