英语美文30篇(中英)

1、英语美文30篇01-YouthYouth原文Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple kn ees; it is a matter of the will, aquality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a tempera-me ntal pre

2、do minance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adve nture over the love of ease. This ofte n exists in a man of 60 more tha n a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a nu mber of years. We grow old by desert ing our ideals.Years may wrin kle the skin, but to give up en thusiasm wrin kles t

3、he soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spri ng back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being' s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of whatn ext and the joy of the game of liv ing. In the cen ter of your heart and my heart there is a

4、wireless stati on: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as

5、 your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.名家译文青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人

6、人心中皆有一 台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只 要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。英语美文 30 篇 02-Three Days to SeeThree Days to See假如拥有三天光明(感谢大耳朵网友不怕”提供！ ！)Helen Keller/ 海伦.凯勒All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and

7、 specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always wewere in terested in discoveri ng just how the doomed man chose to spe nd his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whos

8、e sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set up thinking, won deri ng what we should do un der similar circumsta nces.What even ts, what experie nces,what What associati ons should we crowd into those last hours as mortal bein gs? What happ in ess should we find in review ing the pa

9、st, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a kee nn ess of appreciati on which are ofte n lost whe n time s

10、tretches before us in the con sta nt pano rama of more days and mon ths and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurea n motto of“ Eat,be merry, ” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last m

11、inute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is cha nged. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its perma nent spiritual values. It has ofte n bee n no ted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweet ness to everyth ing

12、they do.Most of us take life for gran ted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future, whe n we are in buoya nt health, death is all but uni mag in able. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out i n an endless vista. So we go about our petty task, hardl

13、y aware of our listless attitude towards life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight an

14、d hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, without concentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being gratef

15、ul for what we have until we lose it, as not being con scious of health un til we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time duri ng his early adult life. Darkn ess would make him more appreciative of sight; sile n

16、ee would teach him the joys of sound.英语美文30 篇 03-Companionship of BooksCompa nion ship of Books (Samuel Smiles- The political reformer and moralist was born)A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the compa ny (playmates) he keeps; (Birds of a feather flock together) for there

17、 is a companionship (friendship) of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best compa ny, whether it be of books or of men. - the author has con trast of books and frien ds.A good book may be among the best of frien ds.(a good book is like our best friend) It is the same today th

18、at it alwayswas, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us(abandon) in times of adversity or distress.(in times of misfortunes or poverty) It always receives us with the samekindn ess, amus ing and in struct ing us in youth, and co

19、mfort ing and con soli ng us in age.( in old age)一本好书就像是一个最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在仍然如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心、 最令人愉快的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒、临危遭难的时候，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一往情深。在我们 年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识；至娥们年老时，它又给我们以安慰和勉励。Men ofte n discover their affin ity (close relati on ship) to each other by the love they have each for a book -

20、just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb,“ Love me, and love my dog. ” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book. ” The book is a trhigher bond of union. (un it ing force) Men can think, feel, and sympathize

21、 (share the feeli ngs or ideas of ano ther) with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he (lives) in them. -they can find their opinions from books, in reverse, the ideas of the author in flue nce them too.人们常常因为同爱一本书而结为知己，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而交为朋友一样。古谚说：爱屋及乌”。但是，爱我及书”这

22、句话却有更深的哲理。书是更为坚实而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同爱好的 作家沟通思想感情，彼此息息相通。他们的思想共同在作者的著述里得到体现，而作者的思想反过来又化为 他们的思想。“ Books, ” said Hazlitt, “ Wind into the heart; the poet's verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them when young, we remember them whe n old. We feel that it has happe ned to ourselves. They ar

23、e to be very cheap and good.We breathe but the air of books.”哈兹利特曾经说过：书潜移默化人们的内心，诗歌熏陶人们的气质品性。少小所习，老大不忘，恍如身历其事。书籍价廉物美，不啻我们呼吸的空气。A good book is often the best urn (a vase with foot and round body, especially as anciently for storing ashes of the dead.有腳之圓形缸，古時以此缸盛人屍體之骨殖。 )of a life en shri ning (in cl

24、osi ng or preservi ng as in shri ne.保而藏之(如帝王駕崩，高僧圓寂之後，藏其遺骸於神龕中).)the best that life could thi nk out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries (a place wherevaluable things are kept. ) of good words, the golde n (preci

25、ous, excelle nt) thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our con sta nt compa nions and comforters (a thi ng that gives comfort).“ They are n ever aSir Philip Sidn ey,“ that are accompa nied by no ble thoughts.”好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人的一生思想的精华。人生的境界，主要就在于他思想的境界。所以，最好的书是金玉良言的宝库，若将其中的崇高思想铭记于心，就成为我们忠实

26、的伴侣和永恒的慰籍。菲利普悉尼爵士说得好：有高尚思想作伴的人永不孤独。 ”The good and true thought may in times of temptati on (lure) be as an an gel of mercy purify ing and guard ing the soul. It also en shri nes the germs of action, for good words almost always in spire to good works.当我们面临诱惑的时候，优美纯真的思想会像仁慈的天使一样，纯洁并保卫我们的灵魂。优美纯真的思想也 蕴

27、育着行动的胚芽，因为金玉良言几乎总会启发善行。Books possess an esse nee of immortality (the n ature of en dless life). They are by far the most lasti ng products of huma n effort. Temples and statues decay (rot), but books survive. Time is of no acco un t (of no importa nee ) with great thoughts, which are as fresh today

28、as whe n they first passed through their author's min ds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out (make sth bad away) the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what i

29、s really good.书籍具有不朽的本质，是人类勤奋努力的最为持久的产物。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对 于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关重要的。多少年代前初次闪现在作者脑海里的伟大思想今天依然清新如故。他们当时的言论和思想刊于书页，如今依然那么生动感人。时间唯一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真 正的佳作才能经世长存。Books in troduce us into the best society they bring us into the prese nee of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what

30、they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experie nee becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure (in some degree ) actors with them in the sce nes which they describe.书籍引导我们与最优秀的人物为伍，使我们置身历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其

31、行，如见其人。同他 们情感交融，悲喜与共。他们的感受成为我们自己的感受，我们觉得有点象是在作者所描绘的人生舞台上跟 他们一起粉墨登场了。The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed (Spri ng embalms the woods and fields. 春天使森林和田野吐露芬芳。 )in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still liste ns. Hence

32、we ever remai n un der the in flue nce of the great men of old. The imperial in tellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物，也是永生不灭的，他们的精神载入书册，传之四海。书是人们至今仍在聆 听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。所以，我们永远都是在受着历代伟人的影响。多少世纪以前的盖世英才， 如今仍同当年一样，显示着强大的生命力。英语美文30篇04-lf I RestRustIf I Rest,I Rust

33、如果我休息，我就会生锈The significant inscription found on an old key-"If I rest, I rust” -would be an excellent motto for those 'afflicted with the slightest bit of idle ness. Even the most in dustrious pers on might adopt it with adva ntage to serve as a remin der that, if one allows his faculties t

34、o rest, like the iron in the unu sed key, they will soon show sig ns of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would atta in the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by con sta nt use, so that they may uni ock the doors of kno wledge,

35、the gate that guard the entrances to the professi ons, to scie nce, art, literature, agriculture-every departme nt of huma n en deavor.In dustry keeps bright the key that ope ns the treasury of achieveme nt. If Hugh Miller, after toili ng all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and rec

36、reati on, he would n ever have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematicia n, Edm und Stone, would n ever have published a mathematical dicti on ary, n ever have found the key to scie nce of mathematics, if he had give n his spare mome nts to idle ness, had the little Scotch lad, Fergus o

37、n, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he ten ded sheep on the hillside in stead of calculat ing the positi on of the stars by a stri ng of beads, he would n ever have become a famous astr ono mer.Labor vanquishes all-not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremittin

38、g, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and en duri ng success.英语美文30篇05-AmbitionAmbition 抱负It is not difficult to imagi ne a world short of ambiti on .It would probably be a kin der world:

39、without dema nds, without abrasi ons, without disappo in tme nts. People would have time for reflect ion. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of crea

40、ti on would be at an end. Art would no Ion ger be troubli ng, but purely celebratory in its fun cti ons. Lon gevity would be in creased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long depa

41、rted from the huma n heart.Ah, how un relieved bori ng life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambiti on therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achieveme nt is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and wome n are of no sig ni

42、fica nee alon gside the force of moveme nts and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteem ing, nor all ambiti on worth cultivat ing. Which are and which are not is someth ing one soon eno ugh lear ns on one even the most cyn ical secretly admit that success exists; that achieveme nt cou

43、nts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be dera ngin g. It is, i n its implicati ons, to remove all motives for compete nee, in terest in atta inment, and regard for posterity.

44、We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our pare nts. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumsta nces of our upbri nging. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or con diti ons of our death. But with in all this realm of

45、 choiceless ness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how in di

46、ffere nt the uni verse may be to our choices and decisi ons, these choices and decisi ons are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own dest iny is what ambiti on is about.英语美文 30 篇 06-What I have Lived forThree passions, si

47、mple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search forkno wledge, and un bearable pity for the sufferi ng of mankind. These passi on s, like great win ds, have blow n me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very

48、verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest oflife for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves Ioneliness-that terrible Ioneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over

49、 the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it fin ally, because in the union of love I have see n, in a mystic mini ature, the prefiguri ng visi on of the heave n that saints and poets have imagi ned. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for hu

50、ma n life, this is what-at last-I have found.With equal passi on I have sought kno wledge. I have wished to un dersta nd the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehe nd the Pythagorea n power by which nu mber holds sway above the flux. A little of this, b

51、ut not much, I have achieved.Love and kno wledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heave ns. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burde n to their sons,

52、and the whole world of Ion eli ness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what huma n life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.英语美文 30 篇 07-When Love

53、Beckons YouWhen Love Beck ons YouWhen love beck ons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And whe n his wings en fold you, yield to him, though the sword hidde n among his pinions may wound you. And whe n he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as

54、 the n orth wind lays waste the garde n.For even as love crow ns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he asce nds to your height and caresses your ten derest bran ches that quiver in the sun, so shall he desce nd to our roots and shake them in

55、 their cli nging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love' s peace and love ' s pleasure, then it is better for you that you covn aked ness and pass out of love' s thresh in g-floor, i nto the seas onl ess world where you shall laugh, but not all of yourlaughter, and w

56、eep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficie nt unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt an

57、d be like a running brook that sings its melody to the ni ght.To know the pain of too much tendern ess.To be woun ded by your own un dersta nding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at daw n with a win ged heart and give tha nks for ano ther day of lovi ng;To rest at the noon hour an

58、d meditate love' s ecstasy;To retur n home at even tide with gratitude;And the n to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.英语美文 30 篇 08-The Road to SuccessAn drew Carn egieIt is well that young men should begi n at the begi nning and occupy the most

59、subord in ate positi ons. Many of the lead ing bus in essme n of Pittsburgh had a serious resp on sibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were in troduced to the broom, and spe nt the first hours of their bus in ess lives sweep ing out the office. I no tice we have janitors and jamtresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a bus in ess educatio n. But if b