英语美文30篇（中英）

英语美文30篇英语美文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 knees; it is amatter 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-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love ofease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. Wegrow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart andturns the spring back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of whatsnext and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as itreceives 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 aregrown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may dieyoung 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Helen Keller/海伦.凯勒All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it wasas long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always wewere interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, ofcourse, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events, whatexperiences,what What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness shouldwe find in reviewing the past, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such anattitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and akeenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more daysand months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, andbe merry,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his senseof values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everythingthey do.Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in thefuture, when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out inan endless vista. So we go about our petty task, hardly 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 whohave lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldommake the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, withoutconcentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until welose it, as not being conscious of health until 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 sometime during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him thejoys of sound.英语美文 30 篇03-Companionship of BooksCompanionship 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 company(playmates) he keeps;（Birds of afeather flock together）for there is a companionship (friendship) of books as well as of men; and one should alwayslive in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. - the author has contrast of books and friends.A good book may be among the best of friends.(a good book is like our best friend) It is the same today that 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 samekindness，amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling 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；到我们年老时，它又给我们以安慰和勉励。Men often discover their affinity (close relationship) to each other by the love they have each for a book - just astwo 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 truer andhigher bond of union. (uniting force) Men can think, feel, and sympathize (share the feelings or ideas of another) witheach other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he (lives) in them. -they can find theiropinions from books, in reverse, the ideas of the author influence 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 poets verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them whenyoung, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are 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 thedead. 有腳之圓形缸，古時以此缸盛人屍體之骨殖。) of a life enshrining (inclosing or preserving as in shrine. 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 think out; for the world of amans 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 golden (precious, excellent) thoughts, which, remembered andcherished, become our constant companions and comforters (a thing that gives comfort). “They are never alone,” saidSir Philip Sidney, “that are accompanied by noble 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 temptation (lure) be as an angel of mercy purifying and guarding the soul.It also enshrines the germs of action, for good words almost always inspire 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育着行动的胚芽，因为金玉良言几乎总会启发善行。Books possess an essence of immortality (the nature of endless life). They are by far the most lasting products ofhuman effort. Temples and statues decay (rot), but books survive. Time is of no account (of no importance ) withgreat thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors minds, ages ago. What wasthen said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been tosift out (make sth bad away) the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is 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 introduce us into the best society they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. Wehear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them,grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure (in some degree ) actorswith them in the scenes 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 (Spring 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 stilllistens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are asmuch 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-If I Rest,I RustIf I Rest,I Rust 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 who areafflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve asa reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rustand, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use,so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art,literature, agriculture-every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry,had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebratedmathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key toscience of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowedthe busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by astring of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all-not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward awell-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of nobleand enduring success.英语美文 30 篇05-AmbitionAmbition 抱负It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: without demands,without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would notbe for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tensionbecome a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purelycelebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or strokecaused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition longdeparted from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that successdoes not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of nosignificance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor allambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on ones own. Buteven the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the truemyth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that islikely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, andregard for posterity.We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country ofour birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choosethe time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live:courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important andwhat is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But nomatter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions 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 destiny iswhat ambition is about.英语美文 30 篇06-What I have Lived forThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search forknowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hitherand thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very 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 loneliness-that terrible loneliness in whichone shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have soughtit finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven thatsaints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this iswhat-at last-I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to knowwhy the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above theflux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me backto earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helplessold people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of whathuman 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 Beckons YouWhen Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield tohim, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him,though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even ashe ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our rootsand shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover yournakedness and pass out of loves threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of yourlaughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Lovepossesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient 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 and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then 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 SuccessAndrew CarnegieIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of theleading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I noticewe have janitors and jamtresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of abusiness education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius ofthe future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother inMichigan asked a young man whether he had even seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. Hesaid so, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause, What I shouldlike to see her do is sweep out a room. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I wasone of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is aim high. I would notgive a fig for the young man who has not already seen himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do notrest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matterhow extensive. Say to yourself, My place is at the top. Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusivelyupon the business in which your are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead init, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered theirbrains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere. Dont put all your eggsin one basket is all wrong. I tell you put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket. Look round youand take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry toomany baskets, that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which isapt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: Aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if