新概念英语――一生必读英文经典美文

1、两分钟做个小测试,看看你的英语水平一生必读英文经典美文篇一真实的高贵In a calm sea every man is a pilot.在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。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.但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。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.在生活和事业的种种事务之中,性格比才智更能指导我们,心灵比头脑更能引导我们,而由判断获得的克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。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.我一向认为,内心生活开始更为严谨的人,他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。在物欲横流的年代,但愿我能向世人表明:人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。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.反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高贵是优于过去的自已。一生必读英文经典美文篇二让个性大放异彩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.在茫茫宇宙间,每个人都只有一次生存的机会,都是一个独一无二、不可重复的存在。正像卢梭所说的,上帝把你造出来后,就把那个属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.名声、财产、知识等等是身外之物,人人都可求而得之,但没有人能够代替你感受人生。你死之后,没有人能够代替你再活一次。如果你真正意识到了这一点,你就会明白,活在世上,最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。你的人生是否有意义,衡量的标准不是外在的成功,而是你对人生意义

9、的独特领悟和坚守,从而使你的自我闪放出个性的光华。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.真正成为自己不是一件容易的事。世上有许多人,你说他是什么都行,例如是一种职业,一个身份,一个角色,惟独不是他自己。如果一个人总是按别人的意见生活,没有自己的独立思索,总是为外在事务忙碌,没有自己的内心生活,那么,说他不是他自己就一点儿也没有冤枉他。因为确确实实,从他的头脑到他的心灵,你在其中已经找不到丝毫真正属于他自己的东西了,他只是别人的一个影子或一架办事的机器罢了。一生必读英文经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.从前有个圆圈,它丢失了一小段。它想变得完整,于是它到处寻找它所丢失的那部分。由于不完整,它只能滚的非常慢。在路上,它羡慕

15、过花儿,它与虫子聊过天,它享受了阳光的照耀。它遇到过很多不同的小段,可是没有一个适合它。所以它把它们丢在路边,继续寻找。有一天,圆圈找到了可以与它完美结合的一小段,它非常高兴。它现在终于完整了,不缺任何东西了。它把丢失的那段装到自己身上,然后滚了起来。它现在是个完整的圆圈了,它可以滚的很快,快到忽视了花儿,快到没有时间和虫子们说话。当它意识到由于它滚的太快,世界变得如此的不同时,它便停了下来,把找到的那段卸下丢在路边,慢慢地滚走了。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.我想这个故事告诉我们,从某种奇怪的意义上说,当我们缺少什么东西时,我们反而是更完整的。一个拥有一切的人在某些方面也是个穷人,他永远不会知道什么是渴望、什么是期待;永远不知道用渴求更美好的东西来充实他的灵魂。他永远不会知道一个爱 他人送给他一样他所梦寐以求的东西时是怎样的一种感觉。 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，勇敢地丢弃不切实际的幻想，并且不觉得这 样做是失败的;人生的完整性，在于知道自己足够强大，可以承受人生的苦难，可以在 失去一个人时仍然觉得自己是完整的。 Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for fai