英语背诵美文3篇带翻译-英语美文短篇带翻译.doc

1、英语背诵美文3篇带翻译:英语美文短篇带翻译社会生活的信息化和经济活动的全球化使外语,特别是英语,已经成为我国对外开放和与国际交往的重要工具。英语成为、经济和文化全面走向国际化的不可或缺的战略性工具.下面是WTT带来的英语背诵美文带翻译，!英语背诵美文带翻译篇一A happy discoveryAntique shops e_ert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.The more e_pensive kind of antique shop where rare objects are beautifully displayed in

2、 glass cases to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place.But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms a real rarity will be found amongst the piles of assorted junk that litter t

3、he floors.No one discovers a rarity by chance.A truly dedicated searcher for art treasures must have patience, and above all, the ability to recognize the worth of something when he sees it.To do this, he must be at least as knowledgeable as the dealer.Like a scientist bent on making a discovery, he

4、 must cherish the hope that one day he will be ly rewarded.My old friend, Frank Halliday, is just such a person.He has often described to me how he picked up a masterpiece for a mere &5.One Saturday morning, Frank visited an antique shop in my neighbourhood.As he had never been there before, he

5、found a great deal to interest him.The morning passed rapidly and Frank was about to leave when he noticed a large packing-case lying on the floor.The dealer told him that it had just e in, but that he could not be bothered to open it.Frank begged him to do so and the dealer reluctantly prised it op

6、en.The contents were disappointing.Apart from an interesting-looking carved dagger, the bo_ was full of crockery, much of it broken.Frank gently lifted the crockery out of the bo_ and suddenly noticed a miniature Painting at the bottom of the packing-case.As its position and line reminded him of an

7、Italian painting he knew well, he decided to buy it.Glancing at it briefly, the dealer told him that it was worth &5.Frank could hardly conceal his e_citement, for he knew that he had made a real discovery.The tiny painting proved to be an unknown masterpiece by Correggio and was worth thousands

8、 of pounds.古玩店对许多人来说有一种特殊的魅力。高档一点的古玩店为了防尘，把文物漂亮地陈列在玻璃柜子里，那里往往令人望而却步。而对不太装腔作势的古玩店，无论是谁都不用壮着胆子才敢往里进。人们还常常有希望在发霉、阴暗、杂乱无章、迷宫般的店堂里，从杂乱地摆放在地面上的、一堆堆各式各样的破烂货里找到一件稀世珍品。无论是谁都不会一下子就发现一件珍品。一个到处找廉价的人必须具有耐心，而且最重要的是看到珍品时要有鉴别珍品的才能。要做到这一点，他至少要像古董商一样懂行。他必须像一个专心致志进展探究的科学家那样抱有这样的希望，即终有一天，他的努力会获得丰硕的成果。我的老朋友弗兰克.哈利戴正是这样一个

9、人。他屡次向我详细讲他如何只花50英镑便买到一位名家的杰作。一个星期六的上午，弗兰克去了我家附近的一家古玩店。由于他从未去过那儿，结果他发现许多有趣的东西。上午很快过去了，弗兰克正准备离去，突然看见地板上放着一只体积很大的货箱。古董商告诉他那只货箱刚到不久，但他嫌费事不想把它翻开。经弗兰克恳求，古董商才勉强把货箱撬开了。箱内东西令人绝望。除了一柄式样别致、雕有花纹的匕首外，货箱内装满陶器，而且大局部都已破碎裂。弗兰克轻轻地把陶器拿出箱子，突然发如今箱底有一幅微型画，画面构图与纸条使他想起一幅他所熟悉的意大利画，于是他决定将画买了下来。古董商漫不经心一眼那幅画，告诉弗兰克那画值50英镑。弗兰克几

10、乎无法掩饰自己兴奋的心情，因为他明白自己发现了一件珍品。那幅不大的画原来是柯勒乔的一幅未被发现的杰作，价值几十万英镑。英语背诵美文带翻译篇二Justice was doneThe word justice is usually associated with courts of law.We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt.Justice is part of the ple_ machinery of the law.Th

11、ose who seek it, undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes.There are rare instances when justice almost ceases to be an abstract conception.Reward or punishment are out quite independent of human interfe

12、rence.At such times, justice acts like a living force.When we use a phrase like it serves him right, we are, in part, admitting that a certain set of circumstances has enabled justice to act of its own accord.When a thief was caught on the premises of a large fur store one morning, the shop assistan

13、ts must have found it impossible to resist the temptation to say 'it serves him right'.The shop was an old-fashioned one with many large, disused fireplaces and tall, narrow chimneys.Towards midday, a girl heard a muffled cry ing from behind one of the walls.As the cry was repeated several t

14、imes, she ran to tell the manager who promptly rang up the fire-brigade.The cry had certainly e from one of the chimneys, but as there were so many of them, the firemen could not be certain which one it was.They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries.

15、After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney.As it was e_tremely narrow, the man was unable to move, but the firemen were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall.The sorry-looking, blackened figure that em

16、erged, at once admitted that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney.He had been there for nearly ten hours.Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.“正义”这个词常常是同法庭连在一起的。当某人被证据确凿地证明无罪的时候，我们也许会说正义得到了伸张。正义是复杂的法律机器组成局部。那些寻求正义的人走

17、的是一条崎岖的道路，从来没有把握他们最终将到正义。法官无论如何聪明与有名，毕竟也是人，也会出过失的。在个别情况下，正义不再是一种抽象概念。奖惩的施行是不受人意志支配的。在这种时候，正义像一种有生命的力量行使其职能。当我们说“他罪有应得”这句话的时候，我们局部成认了某种特定的环境使得正义自动地起了作用。一天上午，当一个小偷在一家大型珠宝店里被人抓住的时候，店员一定会忍不住说：“他罪有应得。”那是一座老式的、经过改造的房子，店里有许多废置不用的大壁炉和又高又窄的烟囱。快到中午的时候，一个女售货员听见从一堵墙里传出一种闷声闷气的叫声。由于这种喊叫声重复了几次，她跑去报告经理，经理当即给消防队挂了 。

18、喊叫声肯定是从烟囱里传出来的，然而，因为烟囱太多，消防队员无法确定到底是哪一个。他们通过叫击烟囱倾叫声而确定传出声音的那个烟囱。他们凿透了18英寸厚的墙壁，发现有个人卡在烟囱里。由于烟囱太窄，那人无法动弹。消防队员在墙上挖了个大洞，才终于把他挽救出来。那个看来满脸沮丧、浑身漆黑的家伙从烟囱里一出来，就成认头天夜里他企图到店里行窍，但让烟囱卡住了。他已经在烟囱里被困了将近10个小时。甚至在那人还没被送交给警察之前，正义就已得到了伸张。英语背诵美文带翻译篇三A chance in a millionWe are less credulous than we used to be In the ni

19、eenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -most of them wildly improbable.Readers happily accepted the fact that an obscure maid-servant was really the hero's mother.A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was real

20、ly alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's down- fall.And so on.Modern readers would find such naive solutions totally unacceptable.Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nieenth century novelist would find

21、 incredible.A German ta_i-driver, Franz Bussman, recently found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman.After they had gone on, Mrs Bussman mented on the workman's close resemblance to her husband an

22、d even suggested that he might be his brother.Franz poured scorn on the idea, pointingout that his brother had been killed in action during the war.Though Mrs Bussman was fully acquainted with this story, she thought that there was a chance in a million that she might be right.A few days later, she

23、sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman, Needless to say, the man's name was Hans Bussman and he really was Franz's long-lost brother.When the brothers were re-united, Hans e_plained how it was that he was still alive.After having been wounded towards the end of the

24、 war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit.The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot.Meanwhile, his unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed.Hans returned to hisfamily home, but the house had been bombed and no one in the neighbourhood knew what had bee of the in