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英语经典美文(15篇)

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英语经典美文(15篇)

英语经典美文1

　　As you slowly open your eyes,look around,notice where the light comes into your room;listen carefully,see if there are new sounds you can recognize;feel with your body and spirit,and see if you can sense the freshness in the air.

　　Yes,yes,yes,it’s a new day,it’s a different day,and it’s a bright day!And most importantly,it is a new beginning for your life,a beginning where you are going to make new desicisions,take new actions,make new friends,and take your life to a totally unprecedented level!

　　In your mind’s eye,you can see clearly the things you want to have,the paces you intend to go,the relationships you desire to develop,and the positions you aspire to reach.

　　You can hear your laughters of joy and happiness on the day when everything happens as you dream.

　　You can see the smiles on the people around you when the magic moment strikes.

　　You can feel your face is getting red,your heart is beating fast,and your blood is rushing all over your body,to every single corner of your being!

　　You know all this is real as long as you are confident,passionate and committed!And you are confident,you are confident,passionate and committed!

　　You will no longer fear making new sounds,showing new facial expressions,using your body in new ways,approaching new people,and asking new questions.

　　You will live every single day of your life with absolute passion,and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take.

　　You will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life.You will never succumb to challenges of hardships.

　　You will never waver in your pursuit of excellence.After all,you are the best,and you deserve the best!

英语经典美文2

　　New English Tests Are Better, but Harder

　　Scores on English tests are very important to students around the world. In order to make sure that they do their best, both students and teachers should stay informed of how these tests are changing.

　　Clive Roberts is a director at ELS Educational Services, one of the companies that trains students in English. Mr. Roberts says the tests are changing greatly in response to the global growth in the use of English as a lingua franca – the common language used among people with different native languages.

　　Mr. Roberts says English "is one of the keys now to international student mobility. So, for that reason, a lot of new tests are being developed; old tests are being revamped to meet the needs of universities and employers worldwide."

　　In other words, students increasingly need English in order to study and work in other countries. So, schools and businesses are asking for more accurate tests.

　　Changes in language testing

　　Mr. Roberts says several parts of standardized tests have changed recently. Now, many tests are given on computers. And, he says, tests measure all four skills of language learning: reading, listening, speaking and writing.

　　"A lot of are now delivered online, all four skills are being tested, in some cases, by computer, in particular speaking and writing skills, which are the most difficult to assess on a computer environment."

　　Computer testing will reduce the length of time required for testing, because the tests adjust to the test-taker's ability. These computer-adaptive tests also increase accuracy in scoring. Computer-adaptive tests change depending on the test-taker's responses. They can become more or less difficult during the testing session. For this reason, the set of correct answers will be different for each test-taker.

　　Cultural sensitivity

　　Another change to language testing relates to cultural sensitivity. The term refers to material on a test that is based on a certain culture or is hard for test-takers from different cultures to understand.

　　Mr. Roberts says test development companies are now hiring people with intercultural communication backgrounds to review test items. The companies want to make sure the test does not upset test-takers. Having negative feelings may affect a student's performance on the test.

　　Accuracy in language testing

　　Changes to English proficiency tests make them better at measuring the learners' ability. However, Mr. Roberts says the changes may mean the tests are more difficult for some students.

　　"The tests have become more proficiency-oriented. The items are being designed in such a way that they test real-world proficiency and not simply sort of an artificial environment or a specific set of skills that are taught in a classroom. So a lot of authentic texts, a lot of authentic listening passages are being used."

　　The changes mean students have to be able to understand English the way it is used in everyday life, not just in textbooks.

　　What the tests measure

　　Another big change is the way in which a student's performance on the tests is measured. Mr. Roberts says that many tests are measured according to the Common European Frame of Reference (CERF) scale of language proficiency.

　　This measurement, Mr. Roberts says, "is similar to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) guidelines, which are used by American universities and government agencies, respectively."

　　The rating scales and guidelines are designed to show what the learner is able to do in the areas of speaking, reading, listening and writing.

　　Mr. Roberts says, "It gives a description of what they can do with the language and then assigns a numerical value to that particular level."

　　Mr. Roberts says he believes linking the scores and the scales means the tests provide more useful information about a learner's ability than they did before.

　　In addition, changes to the tests will encourage schools to teach their students to use English for everyday life and study.

　　I'm Jonathan Evans.

　　Dr. Jill Robbins reported and wrote this story for VOA Learning English. Ashley Thompson was the editor.

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　　Words in This Story

　　lingua franca – n. a language that is used among people who speak various different languages

　　four skills - n. the language abilities involved in reading, listening, speaking, and writing

　　assess – v. to make a judgment about (something); used to describe testing activity

　　computer-adaptive - adj. tests that are designed to adjust their level of difficulty—based on the responses provided—to match the knowledge and ability of a test taker.

　　proficiency: n. advancement in knowledge or skill

　　authentic - adj. real or genuine : not copied or false; in language education: material that is developed for native speakers, not specially created for learners

　　Now it's your turn. Write to us in the comments section on your views about the recent changes in language testing.

英语经典美文3

　　Er 8230; the loveliest house that I’ve ever lived in was one that I lived in with my grandparents when I was a child. And the name of the house was Crosslands. And I have some very happy memories of Crosslands.

　　It was, it seemed so huge to me as a child. And it had a lovely living room with a piano in it and a lovely sort of hall with lots of carpets and chests and antiques and so on. And there was a mysterious room, it was the drawing room, and we only used it on Sundays, or when the vicar came for tea, or Christmas Day or Easter Day, and I was 8211; used to be amazed about this room because it had the best furniture in it but it was covered up with sheets 8211; it was as if all the furniture was wearing clothes 8211; and it seemed to me ridiculous that we couldn’t en- joy this beautiful furniture all the week through really.

　　And probably my favorite room was the kitchen. It had a lovely red flagstone floor, which was always highly polished, and an Aga, you know one of those big cookers that heats the whole room so it was always warm there, and there was a kind of clothes-horse above it that we used to hang all our clothes on, and it was just 8211; it was lovely. It was a very warm room with baked bread and 8211; my grandmother used to make ice cream and we’d eat it in there and 8230; there was a vegetable garden leading from there so I spent a lot of time in the vegetable garden picking peas and eating them 8211; my grandmother used to get really cross with me because I used to pick all the vegetables and the fruit for our meals and then I’d eat half of them, because they tasted so delicious coming fresh from the garden.

　　Now, I went back to it a few years ago and it was a big mistake. They’ve modernized it inside, they’ve got rid of those lovely old fire- places 8230; have just gone. And they’ve knocked a wall down so the drawing room and the living room have become one big modern plastic kind of room.

　　But I think what upset me most about it was the feeling that the house had shrunk, it had become smaller and that my memory of this lovely large warm comfortable house had turned into an old house with modernized rooms inside it. And it taught me a lesson really, that you can’t go back on the past and recapture it. But there’s a beautiful memory there.

　　呃……我住过的最可爱的房子，就是小时侯和爷爷奶奶一起住的房屋了。房子的名字叫“十字地带”，它留给我一些令人非常愉快的回忆。

　　房子，在儿时的我眼里，感觉真是好大啊!可爱的起居室里摆放着一架钢琴，漂亮的大厅里有各种各样的地毯、柜子、古董等东西。还有一间很神秘的房间，就是会客厅，我们只在周日，以及牧师来喝茶、圣诞节或者复活节的.时候才用它。里面有最好家具，却总是覆盖着东西―― 就好像所有的家具都穿上了外衣，因此，那时候我一直对这间房子很好奇。不过，令我感到荒谬的是，这么漂亮的家具我们却一个星期都不能连续享用。

英语经典美文4

　　The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day--- a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-sevenjsquirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, "Yes, sir," "No,sir," whenever a trustee spoke.

　　It was a destressing time; and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the brunt of it. But this particular first Wednesday, like its predecessors, finaly dragged itself to a close. Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the asylum"s guests, and truned upstairs to accomplish her regular work. Her special care was room F, where eleven little tots, from four to seven, occupied eleven little tots set in a row. Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks, wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly and willing line towards the dinning-room to engage themselves for a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune pudding.

　　Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned throbbing temples against the cool glass. She had been on her feet since five that morning, doing everybody"s bidding, scolded and hurried by a nervous matron. Mrs. Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of trustees and lady visitors. Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undualting ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.

英语经典美文5

　　One morning a man was crossing a narrow bridge when he saw a fisherman on the shady bank of the deep,smooth river under him,so he stopped to watch him quietly.

　　After a few minutes,the fisherman pulled his line in.There was a big,fat fish at the end of it.

　　The fisherman took it off the hook and threw it back into the water.

　　Then he put his hook and line in again.After a few more minutes he caught another big fish.Again he threw it back into the river.Then,the third time,he caught a small fish.He put it into his basket and started to get ready to go.The man on the bridge was very surprised,so he spoke to the fisherman.He said,"Why did you throw those beautiful,big fish back into the water,and keep only that small one?"

　　The fisherman looked up and answered,"Small fryingpan."

英语经典美文6

　　Friendship is a diamond

　　buried in the earth;

　　a treasure of great worth.

　　But first it must be mined

　　then faceted and shined.

　　It takes pick and shovel and strain,

　　encompassing time and enduring pain,

　　until its grace is seen;

　　a glittering gift of love

　　that’s shared between we three:

　　First God,

　　and you,

　　then me.

　　—-Sally J. Knower

　　中文翻译：

　　友情是钻石

　　友情是一枚埋在泥土里的钻石；

　　是一笔巨额的`财富。

　　不过起初它一定被埋在泥土里，

　　后经雕琢继而发出耀眼的光芒。

　　它经历千锤百炼，经受着时间的考验，

　　直到有一天它的美丽被发现；

　　爱是件闪光的礼物

　　我们三人共同分享：上帝，你和我。

英语经典美文7

　　After dinner Marcy announced the water tank was low and that she would take the Bronco down to the pump and get water. Ruth was nervous about her young granddaughter driving down the narrow dirt road by herself, but Judy reminded her that Marcy had been driving vehicles up there on the ranch roads since she was 12.

　　"Just be careful, Marcy," her mother warned. "They‘ve had a dry spell up here and the cliff side is pretty shaky. Be sure to hug the mountain side."

　　Ruth said a quick prayer as she and Judy watched Marcy from the big window where they could see the road winding down the mountainside. Fifteen minutes later Judy was still watching when suddenly she screamed, "Oh no! God help us! She went over the cliff, Momma! The Bronco and Marcy - they went over! We have to help her! Come on!"

　　The cabin door slammed and Judy took off running. Ruth ran behind her, but Judy was quickly out of sight after the first turn in the road. Ruth raced down the steep hill, breathing hard. She ran on and on, down the hill, up the next, trying to catch up with her daughter. It was getting harder and harder to see anything at dusk. Ruth stopped cold and looked around.

　　She screamed into the darkness "Judy, where are you?" Off to her immediate right and down the cliff she heard, "Down here, Mother! Don‘t come near the edge! I slipped on loose rocks and fell over. I‘m down about twenty feet."

　　"Oh dear God, Judy, what can I do?"

　　"Just stay back, Momma! The road is giving out all over! I think I can crawl back up. I saw the white roof of the Bronco when I was falling, Momma, and I heard Marcy calling for help. She‘s alive! But she‘s way down there in the ravine. You have to go back to the cabin and phone for help. Tell them to send a helicopter. We have to get Marcy out!"

　　Ruth resisted looking over the edge to make sure Judy was really okay. She turned around and started running back up the hill she‘d just stumbled down. Up one hill, down the next. She had one hill left to climb when she stumbled on loose dirt and rocks and fell on her face. Chest pains took her breath away. She started to sob. "Dear God," she prayed, "please help me get back to the cabin so I can call for help!"

　　At that moment something went through Ruth. It was like a powerful energy and she knew for certain that somebody was there to help her. She heard the words, "I am here." She stood up, completely relaxed and rested. A surge of pain-free energy propelled her forward.

　　Ruth ran on confidently, faster than she had before, and up that last big hill. She turned into the cabin driveway, pushed through the front door and dialed 911. She sputtered out the details of the disaster but unfortunately, she had no idea where she was. The dispatcher was totally confused. Ruth had to get Judy up to the phone so she could give directions. Ruth stepped out of the cabin into total darkness. She grabbed a three-foot-long walking stick propped against the cabin door and started running back down the switchback road.

　　She continued to run with energy and determination through the darkness. Up the hill, down the hill, up the second hill. Suddenly she stopped, not knowing where she was. "Marcy! Judy!" she shouted.

　　A faint voice cried from directly below. "I‘m here, Grandma."

　　Another voice. "Momma!" It was Judy.

　　Ruth dropped to her knees, then lay flat on her belly as she scooted herself closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. She held the walking stick over the edge and asked Judy if she could see it.

　　"I see it, Momma, I‘m almost there."

　　Ruth heard gravel rolling around where Judy was climbing. Within minutes, Judy grabbed the other end of the stick and Ruth pulled her 140-pound daughter up and over that cliff. Judy crawled into her mother‘s lap, shaking and sweating and immediately passed out.

　　Ruth held her close and stroked her wet forehead. "Judy, Judy, wake up. We have to get help for Marcy!" Ruth kept talking and rubbing her daughter‘s head. Finally, Judy came to. Ruth pulled her to her feet, and the two women started walking. Dazed and bleeding, Judy fell three times as they worked their way back to the cabin in the darkness.

　　When they reached the cabin they heard the phone ringing. It was the volunteer emergency crew on the other end. Judy sputtered out directions to where Marcy was. As soon as she hung up, she and her mother started down the mountain again to meet and guide the rescuers. They trudged up the hill, down the hill. Still full of energy, calm and confident, Ruth held on to Judy, for Judy‘s sake, not hers.

　　An hour later, the fire trucks, ambulance, paramedics and, finally, the Flight for Life helicopter arrived. It took 3.5 hours to cut Marcy free from the wreckage at the bottom of the cliff. At last the sheriff pulled her out of the back end of the Bronco and carried her to the waiting ambulance. She was rushed to the hospital for treatment of a crushed ankle and severely broken leg, foot and finger.

　　The next day, when the sheriff came to visit Marcy in the hospital, he shook his head and said, "That mountain didn‘t beat you."

　　Ruth Hagan knew the mountain didn‘t beat them because God was there that night, protecting her, guiding her, breathing strength into her frail body. Ruth, Judy and Marcy all have their lives to prove it.

英语经典美文8

　　It was a bitterly cold Denver morning. The weather was unpredictable. First, a warming trend gave the snow a chance to melt and run away, slipping from sight into the storm drains or running silently along the curbs, across side yards and under fences to the low-lying areas where it completed its vanishing act. Then the cold returned with a vengeance, bringing yet another coat of the white powdered precipitation, freezing what little remained from winter"s previous blast and hiding it, an icy trap for street people.

　　This was a day for staying home, for having a cold and waiting for Mom to bring a cup of soup. It was a day for listening to the all-news radio and imagining the possibility of being snowbound without being too inconvenienced. That was the way the day was supposed to be.

　　I had a job speaking at the Denver Convention Center to a couple hundred other people who, like me, were unable to have the sniffles and stay home for Mom to bring us soup. Instead, we gathered at the convention center, unable to do more about the weather than to talk about it.

　　I needed a battery for my wireless microphone. What a lousy time to have gotten lazy. . . I had failed to pack a spare. There was no choice, really. I needed a battery. So I headed into the wind, head bowed, collar up, shuffling in too-thin dress shoes.

　　Each step brought my thin suit pants close to my backside. The material was cold and reminded me that my mother would have never let me out of the house had she known I had dressed so foolishly.

　　Around the corner, I spotted a small sign announcing that a 7-Eleven convenience store was within sight. If I walked quickly and lengthened my stride, I could reach the front door and shelter from the brisk wind without drawing a breath of lung-burning air. People who live in Denver like to play with outsiders by telling them that winter in Denver means enduring a pleasant kind of cold. "It"s a much drier kind of cold," report the Denver folks, when their relatives ask how they like life in the Mile-High city. Drier, my foot! It"s cold enough to give the famous brass monkey reason to move. And humidity, or the lack of it, doesn"t seem all that important when gusts of 40-mile-an-hour Arctic reminders are blowing against your backside.

　　Inside the 7-Eleven were two souls. The one behind the counter wore a name badge saying she was Roberta. Judging by her appearance, Roberta probably wished that she were home bringing hot soup and soothing words to her own little one. Instead, she was spending her day manning an outpost for commerce in a nearly abandoned, downtown Denver. She would be a beacon, a refuge for the few who were foolish enough to be out and about on a day so cold.

　　The other refugee from the cold was a tall, elderly gentleman who seemed comfortable with his surroundings. He was in absolutely no hurry to step back through the front door and risk sailing through town at the mercy of the wind and ice-covered sidewalks. I couldn"t help but think that the gentleman had lost his mind or his way. To be out on such a day, shuffling through the merchandise of a 7-Eleven, the man must be completely daft.

　　I didn"t have time to be concerned with an old man who had taken leave of his senses. I needed a battery, and there were a couple hundred important people who had things left to do with their lives waiting for me back at the convention center. We had a purpose.

　　The old man somehow found his way to the counter ahead of me. Roberta smiled. He said not a single word. Roberta picked up each of his meager purchases and entered each amount into the cash register. The old man had dragged himself into the Denver morning for a lousy muffin and a banana. What a sorry mistake that was!

　　For a muffin and a banana, a sane man could wait until spring and then perhaps enjoy the opportunity to saunter the streets when they had returned to reasonableness. Not this guy. He had sailed his old carcass into the morning as if there were no tomorrow.

　　Perhaps there would be no tomorrow. After all, he was pretty old.

　　When Roberta had figured the total, a tired, old hand fished deep into the trench coat pocket. "Come on," I thought, "You may have all day, but I have things to do!"

　　The fishing hand caught a change purse as old as the man himself. A few coins and a wrinkled dollar bill fell onto the counter. Roberta treated them as though she were about to receive a treasure.

　　When the meager purchases had been placed into a plastic bag, something remarkable happened. Although not a word had been spoken by her elderly friend, an old, tired hand slowly extended over the counter. The hand trembled, then steadied.

　　Roberta spread the plastic handles on the bag and gently slipped them over his wrist. The fingers that dangled into space were gnarled and spotted with the marks of age.

　　Roberta smiled larger.

　　She scooped up the other tired, old hand and in an instant, she was holding them both, gathered in front of her brown face.

　　She warmed them. Top and bottom. Then sides.

　　She reached and pulled the scarf that had flown nearly off his broad but stooped shoulders. She pulled it close around his neck. Still he said not a single word. He stood as if to cement the moment in his memory. It would have to last at least until the morrow, when he would once again shuffle through the cold.

　　Roberta buttoned a button that had eluded the manipulation of the old hands.

　　She looked him in the eye and, with a slender finger, mockingly scolded him.

　　"Now, Mr. Johnson. I want you to be very careful." She then paused ever so slightly for emphasis and added sincerely, "I need to see you in here tomorrow."

　　With those last words ringing in his ears, the old man had his orders. He hesitated, then turned, and one tired foot shuffling barely in front of the other, he moved slowly into the bitter Denver morning.

　　I realized then that he had not come in search of a banana and a muffin. He came in to get warm. In his heart.

　　I said, "Wow, Roberta! That was really some customer service. Was that your uncle or a neighbor or someone special?"

　　She was almost offended that I thought that she only gave such wonderful service to special people. To Roberta, apparently, everyone is special.

英语经典美文9

　　Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown，Marylanddecided to find out whether?as many smokers say smoking helps them to -think and concentrate. Spilich put young non-smokers,active smokers and smokers deprived of cigarettes through a series tests.

　　In the first test,each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test，smokers，deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well.

　　The next test was more complex,requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine ，active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.

　　In the third test of short-term memory?non-smokers made the fewest errors，but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers.

　　The fourth test required people to read a passage then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers，and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories,but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details.

　　As our tests became more complex, sums up Spilich，-non-smokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins. He predicts? smokers might perform adequately at many jobs until they got complicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose but if something went wrong,smoking might damage his mental capacity.

英语经典美文10

　　From August 1st to August 15th I fasted from complaining. Yes, that's right. No more "I'm tired" grumbles at 3 p.m. at the office. No more yelling at cars that cut me off on 440. No more snapping at people for not listening. The highlight of the two week period? I validated that I'm not a terrible, negative person, AND optimistic people tend to live longer according to some studies. And I'm optimistic enough to believe these studies are the correct studies.

　　从8月1日那天起直到8月15日，我停止了对生活一切的抱怨。是的，没错。下午三点的办公室，再也不会听见我哀叹着：“我好累”。在440地区被抢了车道，我不会再大喊大叫。有人无视我的话，我也不会勃然大怒。这两周来最重要的发现是什么？我证明了自己不是个糟糕的、充满负能量的人。有研究表明乐观的人一般更长寿，而且我足够乐观，相信这些研究是正确的。

　　So here you go: The top five things that occurred when I stopped complaining, both the good and the bad.

　　那么接下来，我想谈谈自己停止抱怨生活之后的五个变化，其中有正面的，也有负面的。

　　1. I realized that I don't sleep enough. The biggest complaint that I had to bite my tongue on?

　　1、我意识到自己睡眠不足，这是最不该挂在嘴边的抱怨吗？

　　"I'm tired." Or a variation of "I'm exhausted." American culture leaves us seeking to thrive off of no sleep and Starbucks. And is it really worth it to feel that negativity quite literally every day? I found myself almost getting annoyed with myself for being so tired. On the same note, I annoyed myself when I felt like uttering the complaint, "I'm starving." No, Alexii. You don't actually know what it really means to be hungry (so maybe you aren't THAT tired either).

　　“我好累”，或者，“我要累死了”。美国文化迫使我们在不足的睡眠和一杯杯咖啡中度日。每天生活在这样的负面环境中真的值得吗？连我自己都很烦恼，为什么要把自己折腾得这么累。同样，当我想要喊出“我要饿死了”的时候，也十分烦恼。不，Alexii，你并不知道什么叫真正的饿吧（所以也许你也并没有自己说得这么累）。

　　2. I argued less.

　　2、我吵架的频率变少了。

　　I'm not exactly one to pick a fight, but I noticed how many stupid arguments I can have in a week. If my fiancé Alex said something I disagreed with, I couldn't immediately react. This helped me not snap -- and more importantly it made me think before anything came out of my mouth. I'm pretty sure we've been told since kindergarten, "Think before you speak" but I noted how often I neglect this simplest piece of advice.

　　我不是那种喜欢挑事的人，但我还是会发现一周里自己有过多少次愚蠢的争吵。如果我的未婚夫艾利克斯说了一些我反对的话，我不会马上回应他。这样我就不会大声吼他，更重要的是，这样我就有时间在说话前多思考思考了。我确信从幼儿园开始，大人们就告诉我们“三思而后言”，但我觉得我还是很容易忽视这个最简单的建议。

　　3. Angst builds up.

　　3、焦虑感增加了

　　Here's the deal: this experience was overall a positive experience for me. It truly made me reflect on my reactions to situations. That being said, sometimes people just need to vent. There was one day that I came home completely exhausted and slightly emotionally distraught. Instead of engaging in conversation with my friend that was at my house or my fiancé, I straight up shut down. It's almost as if I didn't know how to be positive in that moment. It was strange. And I went to bed early that night. But on a lighter note...

　　是这样的：这种体验对我来说是有好处的，它真的使我反省自己在特定处境下的行为。话虽如此，有时人们只是需要释放情绪而已。记得有一天我回到家，身心俱疲，心烦意乱。我没有找当时在我家中的朋友或是未婚夫聊天，而是直接陷入沉默。仿佛那时我根本不知道怎样让自己乐观起来，太奇怪了。那晚我很早就睡了，但反而感觉轻松了很多……

　　4. Negativity is a state of mind.

　　4、负能量是一种心境

　　When you stop yourself from uttering negative speech, you begin to notice how negative your thought process tends to be. Sure I didn't verbally complain when I was tired or annoyed -- but I still continued thinking them. And as much as negative speech can wear you down, negative thoughts are just as dangerous.

　　当你不再说出那些消极的话语，你会发现自己还是会有那些消极的想法。诚然，我言语上没有抱怨疲劳或是烦躁，但我依然有着这样的想法。和消极的话语一样，消极的想法一样会消磨你的意志。

　　5. I prayed more.

　　5、我尝试更多的祈祷

　　If I was forced to turn the negative into the positive, I turned to God. Perhaps its from prior experience--but for whatever reason, it happened. And my spirit felt nourished.

　　如果我一定要把负能量转为正能量，我会向上帝求助。也许是从前的'经验吧，不管怎样，我感受到了精神上的洗礼。

　　And at the end of the day? Shit happens. After my fast from complaining, I had what may have been one of the worst days I had experienced. Imagine tough conversations that were draining but necessary (and even worse after the conversation, nothing was resolved) compiled with other people's negativity. Then add a few "first world" problems as I like to call them -- a poor night's sleep, a shattered phone, and a stalling car. What did I do? I complained. Where did it get me? Not too far. I noted a day later that things really aren't that bad. People have good days and people have bad days -- but the truth is? It's all about your outlook.

　　最后怎样了呢？糟糕的事情还是发生了，在我拒绝抱怨之后，我经历了非常糟的一天。想象一下：艰难的谈话使你心力交瘁（更可恶的是谈完之后什么都没有解决），你不得不承受着别人的负能量。接着还有那些我称之为“第一世界”的麻烦困扰着你——睡眠不足，手机被摔坏，车子抛锚。我是怎么应对的？我抱怨了。持续了多久呢？没有多久，因为后来我明白其实事情也没有想象的那样不堪。世事无常嘛，关键在于你怎样看待这个世界。

英语经典美文11

　　On beauty

　　Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the 1)weaver of your speech?

　　The 2)aggrieved and the 3)injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own 4)glory she walks among us."

　　And the 5)passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of 6)might and 7)dread. Like the 8)tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

　　The tired and the 9)weary say, "Beauty is of soft 10)whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice 11)yields to our silences like a 12)faint light that 13)quivers 14)in fear of the shadow."

　　But the 15)restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the 16)roaring of lions."

　　At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."

　　And at 17)noon-time the 18)toilers and the 19)wayfarers say, "We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."

　　In winter say the 20)snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."

　　And in the summer heat the 21)reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

　　All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an 22)ecstasy. It is not a mouth 23)thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart 24)enflamed and a soul 25)enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the 26)sap within the 27)furrowed 28)bark, nor a wing attached to a 29)claw, but rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

　　Beauty is life when life 30)unveils her holy face.

　　1) weaver n. 编织者，织工

　　2) aggrieved a. 苦恼的，悲伤的 the aggrieved指苦恼的人，悲伤的人

　　3) injured a. 受伤的，受损害的 the injured指受伤的人，受损害的人

　　4) glory n. 荣誉，光荣

　　5) passionate a. 热情的 the passionate指充满热情的人

　　6) might n. 力量，威力

　　7) dread n. 惧怕，担心

　　8) tempest n. 暴风雨

　　9) weary a. 疲倦的 the weary指疲倦的人

　　10) whispering n. 耳语

　　11) yield to 屈服于，屈从于

　　12) faint a. 微弱的，模糊的

　　13) quiver v. 颤抖

　　14) in fear of 对……惧怕，担忧

　　15) restless a. 不能安静的 the restless指好动的人

　　16) roaring n. 咆哮，呼喊

　　17) noon-time n. 正午，白昼

　　18) toiler n. 辛劳者

　　19) wayfarer n. 旅人，徒步旅行者

　　20) snow-bound a. 被大雪困阻的 the snowbound指被大雪困阻的人

　　21) reaper n. 收割者

　　22) ecstasy n. 入迷

　　23) thirsting a. 口渴的

　　24) enflame v. 燃烧

　　25) enchant v. 施魔法，使迷惑

　　26) sap n. 树液

　　27) furrowed a. 有犁沟的，有皱纹的

　　28) bark n. 树皮

　　29) claw n. 爪

　　30) unveil v. 揭开，除去面纱

　　美

　　如果美不以自身为途径，为向导，你们到哪里，又如何能找到她呢？如果她不是你们言语的编织者，你们又如何能谈论她呢？

　　伤心痛苦者说：“美是善良而温柔的。她像一位因自己的荣耀而半含羞涩的年轻母亲，走在我们的身边。”

　　热情奔放者说：“不，美是强烈而令人惊畏的。她如暴风雨般震动我们脚下的大地，摇撼我们头上的天空。”

　　疲惫怠倦者说：“美是温柔的低语，她在我们的心中诉说。她的声音波动在我们的沉默中，犹如一道微弱的`光在对阴影的恐惧中颤抖。”

　　但活泼好动者说：“我们曾听到她在山谷中大声呼叫，随其呐喊而来的是足蹄踏地、翅膀拍击和雄狮怒吼的声音。”

　　夜晚，城市的守夜人说：“美将与晨光一同从东方升起。”

　　正午，辛勤劳作者和长途跋涉者说：“我们曾看到她透过黄昏之窗眺望大地。”

　　严冬，困在风雪中的人说：“她将与春同至，雀跃于山峦之间。”

　　酷暑，收割庄稼的人说：“我们曾看到她与秋叶共舞，雪花点缀于她的发梢。”

　　你们谈到关于美的所有这些，实际并非关于她本身，而是关于你们未被满足的需求，但美并不是一种需求，而是心醉神迷的欣喜。她不是焦渴的唇，也不是伸出的空空的手，而是一颗燃烧的心，一个充满喜悦的灵魂。她不是你们想看到的形象，也不是你们想听到的歌声，而是你们闭上眼睛看到的形象，堵住耳朵听到的歌声。她不是伤残树皮下的树液，也不是悬在利爪下的翅膀。而是一座鲜花永远盛开的花园，一群永远在天空飞翔的天使。

　　当生命摘去遮盖她圣洁面容的面纱时，美就是生命。

英语经典美文12

　　一位伟大的朋友A Great Friend

　　As I am now a senior high school student, I have a great many friends，but there is one whom I prize over all the rest. I first made his acquaintance when I began to go to school. He has been my constant companion ever since.

　　Though he is serious in appearance, he never fails to be interesting. Often he is clever, sometimes even merry and gay. He is the most knowledgeable friend a person could have. He knows virtually every language of the world，

　　all the events of history，and the words of all the great poets and philosophers. A kindly benefactor，he is admired and enjoyed by everyone who makes his acquaintance.

　　To me，he has been a great teacher as well as a friend. He first taught me the secrets of my own language and then those of others. With these keys he showed us how to unlock all the arts and sciences of man.

　　My friend is endlessly patient. Dull though I may be, I can return to him again and again，and he is always ready to teach me. When I am bored，he entertains me. When I am dispirited, he lifts me up. When I am lonely, he keeps me company. He is a friend not only to me but to millions around the world. Shall I tell you his name？His name is “reading”.

英语经典美文13

　　3. Pines

　　The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight. of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight. (160 words)

　　From Modern Painters

　　By John Ruskin

英语经典美文14

　　Values Needed for the Future

　　Currently there is a widespread belief that the trend in the future is quick profits， quick growth and everything accomplished quick。 This， however， is not the right message to our young people， because it gives them nothing but an illusion。 Just look at those apparently impressive constructions which proved to be fragile in an earthquake。 True， social changes bred of ever faster flows of information and advances in technology are irresistible today， but they do not always translate into wealth or success overnight。 Steady and sure progress will still be the mainstream in the future growth。

　　Such solid progress is no contradiction with new developments in information and other technologies。 The latest and fast changing technologies will help maintain and facilitate growth， yet our growth must be reliably down—to—earth to ensure sustainable success。 Traditional values in our heritage that are proven viable should be retained and developed into “new values” needed for the future。

　　Given the ever—changing technologies and fast—flowing information， we should do away with the slow changes， sluggish actions and time—consuming decision—making in the old days。 Yet we must maintain a steady orientation for our growth。 This is the new value we need。

　　We used to label various enterprises as large or small， traditional or high—tech， but that classification is no longer valid。 If a company makes traditional products by high—tech means， then it is a high—tech enterprise。 Traditional products do not disqualify the producer from high—tech。 On the other hand， high—tech industries cannot grow without support from traditional products。 In this light， one can see that there is no point in classifying the various enterprises so long as they all function towards prosperity and well—being in this land and better life for the people。 In their progress， enterprises should move towards alliance———not only within the same industries， but also across industry borders———for better mutual support and cooperation。

　　未来需要的理念

　　目前有一个广泛流行的观念：快速赢利，快速发展，做一切事情都要快速是未来的趋势。然而，这不能给年轻人有益的启示，只能造成幻觉。看看那些表面辉宏的建筑物，一遇到地震就土崩瓦解。的确，信息的迅速传播和技术进步孕育着势不可挡的社会变革，但这一切并不能在一夜之间变成财富和成就。稳步扎实的前进仍然是未来发展的主流。

　　这种稳步发展与资讯、技术的新成就并不矛盾。日新月异的技术有助于保证和促进发展，而发展只有稳步扎实才能确保持久的成功。事实证明，传统价值观中有很多理念是可取的，我们必须在继承中发展未来需要的新价值观。

　　既然有不断创新的技术和快速传播的信息，我们就应该摒弃过去那种缓慢的改进，迟缓的行动和旷日耗时的.决策，并坚持认准的发展方向。这才是我们所需的新价值观。

　　过去总是给企业贴上大企业、小企业、传统企业、高科技企业的标签，这种分类不再实用。如果一家公司利用高科技手段制造传统产品，那么它就是一家高科技企业。传统产品并不表示它的生产者没利用高科技，另一方面高科技企业没有传统产品的支撑也难以发展。由此可见，没有必要对各种不同的企业进行分类，只要各种企业都致力于这块土地的繁荣和福祉，致力于人们生活的改善。在企业发展过程中应趋于联合——不仅是同一产业也包括跨产业的联合——以便更好地相互支持与合作。

英语经典美文15

　　Cost of Love

　　One night when my wife was preparing dinner, our little son took a piece of paper to her which read:

　　For washing the car....................................................$5.00

　　For making my own bed this week..............................$1.00

　　Going to the provision shop........................................$0.50

　　Playing with little sister................................................$0.25

　　Taking out the rubbish................................................$1.00

　　Getting a good report card..........................................$5.00

　　And for sweeping the common corridor.......................$2.00

　　Total............................................................................$14.75

　　His mother looked at him standing there expecting payment. I could see a thousand memories flashed through her mind. So she picked up the pen and turning the paper over, this is what she wrote:

　　For 9 months I carried you, growing inside me.............................No Charge

　　For the nights I sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you.....No Charge

　　For the toys, food and clothes and wiping your nose...................No Charge

　　When you add it all up, the full cost of my love............................No Charge

　　Well, when he finished reading, he had great big tears in his eyes. He looked at his mother and said, "Mummy, I love you." Then he took the pen and in great big letters wrote on the "bill" "All paid."

　　一天晚上，妻子在厨房准备晚餐的时候，我们的小儿子拿着一张纸走向他母亲。上面写道：

　　洗车---------------------------------5美元

　　本周整理我的房间----------------1美元

　　为你去商店-------------------------0.5美元

　　照管小妹妹-------------------------0.25美元

　　外出倒垃圾-------------------------1美元

　　成绩报告单获得良好--------------5美元

　　打扫通道----------------------------2美元

　　总计----------------------------------14.75美元

　　他母亲看着他儿子满怀希望地站在那儿等着拿钱。我能看到她脑子里翻腾着记忆的浪花。她拿起钢笔把儿子写过的纸翻过来。在上面写道：

　　你呆在我的腹中，我为你怀胎九月------------------------------免费；

　　晚上陪伴着你，为你求医，为你祈祷----------------------------免费；