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A light drizzle was falling as my sister Jill and I ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents that Santa had left for us and our baby sister, Sharon. Across the street from the church was a Pan American gas station where the Greyhound bus stopped. It was closed for Christmas, but I noticed a family standing outside the locked door, huddled under the narrow overhang in an attempt to keep dry. I wondered briefly why they were there but then forgot about them as I raced to keep up with Jill.
天上下着毛毛细雨,我和姐姐吉尔跑出卫理公会教堂,满心只想着快点回到家玩圣诞老人给我们和小妹妹莎伦准备的礼物玩具。教堂的对面是泛美油站,灰狗长途汽车会在那里中途停站。因为是圣诞节,那天油站没开,不过我发现在紧锁的站门外站着一家人,他们挤在狭小的檐篷下,想尽量不被雨淋湿。我闪过一个疑问,他们为什么站在那里呢?但在我赶上吉尔的时候也就把这个疑团抛诸脑后了。
Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
回到家后其实根本没时间让我们尽情把玩礼物,因为我们马上又得去爷爷奶奶家共进一年一度的圣诞大餐。在开车经过刚才那条大路时,我看到那一家人仍然站在紧闭的油站门外。
My father was driving very slowly down the highway. The closer we got to the turnoff for my grandparents' house, the slower the car went. Suddenly, my father U-turned in the middle of the road and said, "I can't stand it!"
在那主干道上爸爸的车开得很慢。越接近去爷爷奶奶家的分岔路口,车子就越慢。突然,爸爸在半路中途来了个180度转弯,把车子原路驶回,他说:"我实在不忍心!
"What?" asked my mother.
"什么?"妈妈问他。
"It's those people back there at the Pan Am, standing in the rain. They've got children. It's Christmas. I can't stand it."
"那几个在雨中站在泛美油站外的人。他们还带着小孩呢。圣诞节当前,我真的不忍心啊。"
When my father pulled into the service station, I saw that there were five of them: the parents and three children - two girls and a small boy.
爸爸把车开到油站旁停下,我看见那一家总共有5个人:父母俩和三个孩子--两个女孩跟一个小男孩。
My father rolled down his window. "Merry Christmas," he said.
爸爸摇下车窗对他们说:"圣诞快乐!"
"Howdy," the man replied. He was very tall and had to stoop slightly to peer into the car. Jill, Sharon, and I stared at the children, and they stared back at us.
"你好,"那个男人回了一句。他长得很高,要稍微弯下腰来往我们车里瞧。我和吉尔、莎伦盯着那几个小孩,他们也瞪眼看着我们。
"You waiting on the bus?" my father asked.
"你们在等汽车吗?"爸爸问他们。
The man said that they were. They were going to Birmingham, where he had a brother and prospects of a job.
男人回答说是,他们准备去伯明翰,他有个哥哥在那边,而且期望能谋到一份工作。
"Well, that bus isn't going to come along for several hours, and you're getting wet standing here. Winborn's just a couple miles up the road. They've got a shed with a cover there, and some benches," my father said. "Why don't y'all get in the car and I'll run you up there."
"汽车起码要好几个小时后才到这里,站在这儿等车你们都会淋湿的。往前几英里就是温邦站,那儿有个棚屋,有地方避雨,还有些板凳。不如上车我送你们到那里吧。"
The man thought about it for a moment, and then he beckoned to his family. They climbed into the car. They had no luggage, only the clothes they were wearing.
男人想了一下然后示意他家人过来。他们钻进车里,除了身上穿着的衣服,他们没有任何行李。
Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
#p#副标题#e#等他们坐好了,爸爸转过头来问那几个孩子,圣诞老人找到他们没有。三张忧郁的脸无声地回答了他。
"Well, I didn't think so," my father said, winking at my mother, "because when I saw Santa this morning, he told me that he was having trouble finding all, and he asked me if he could leave your toys at my house. We'll just go get them before I take you to the bus stop."
"我看不是吧,"爸爸边说边向妈妈眨眼暗示,"早上我碰到圣诞老人了,他说找不到你们,想把给你们的礼物暂时放到我们家里来。现在咱们就去拿礼物吧,待会儿我再送你们去车站。
All at once, the three children's faces lit up, and they began to bounce around in the back seat, laughing and chattering.
三个孩子的脸顿时阴霾尽散,还在后排座位蹦蹦跳跳,笑笑嚷嚷起来。
When we got out of the car at our house, the three children ran through the front door and straight to the toys that were spread out under our Christmas tree. One of the girls spied Jill's doll and immediately hugged it to her breast. I remember that the little boy grabbed Sharon's ball. And the other girl picked up something of mine. All this happened a long time ago, but the memory of it remains clear. That was the Christmas when my sisters and I learned the joy of making others happy.
到了我家一下车,那三个孩子穿过大门就直奔摆在圣诞树下的礼物。其中一个小女孩发现了吉尔的洋娃娃礼物,马上把它抱入怀中。我记得那小男孩抓走了莎伦的小球,而另外一个女孩就挑走了一件我的东西。这些都是很久很久以前的事了,然而回忆起来还是那么清晰,因为在那个圣诞日我和我的姐妹领会到了让别人快乐而获得的愉悦。
My mother noticed that the middle child was wearing a short-sleeved dress, so she gave the girl Jill's only sweater to wear.
妈妈看到他们家老二穿着的裙子是短袖的,便把吉尔仅有的毛衣给了她穿。
My father invited them to join us at our grandparents' for Christmas dinner, but the parents refused. Even when we all tried to talk them into coming, they were firm in their decision.
爸爸邀请他们一起去爷爷奶奶家吃圣诞大餐,但他们两夫妇拒绝了。就算怎么游说,他们还是坚拒了我们的好意。
Back in the car, on the way to Winborn, my father asked the man if he had money for bus fare.
回到车里在去温邦的路上爸爸问那男人有没有钱买车票。
His brother had sent tickets, the man said.
他说哥哥寄了车票来。
My father reached into his pocket and pulled out two dollars, which was all he had left until his next payday. He pressed the money into the man's hand. The man tried to give it back, but my father insisted. "It'll be late when you get to Birmingham, and these children will be hungry before then. Take it. I've been broke before, and I know what it's like when you can't feed your family."
爸爸从口袋里掏出仅有的两美元,本来是我们要熬到下次发工资的,他却把这钱塞到了男人的手里。男人想把钱推回来,但爸爸硬要他收下。"等你们到伯明翰就已经很晚了,路上孩子们会饿的。收下吧,我以前也曾一贫如洗,让家人挨饿的滋味不好受,我知道的。"
We left them there at the bus stop in Winborn. As we drove away, I watched out the window as long as I could, looking back at the little gihugging her new doll.
把他们送到温邦的车站后,我们就开车离开了。我从车窗回望良久,凝望着那小女孩拥着她的新洋娃娃。
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Often heard people complain about, why not my face, why so bad weather today, why do I live in such a poor family, why God told me ... ... why should we complain about it complained that it? Life was not all the best, life was not perfect, on the contrary, the ups and downs, is the routine As the saying goes:愁愁a white head; laugh less decade. Do not complain, everyone's life will not be easy, but precisely because of these twists and turns in folding wave, acquired a colorful life.
If we can often look at the issue from another angle, you might easily find themselves still very exciting life. You can not change the face, smile why do not you think about indulgence; you can not change the weather, why do not you change the mood. As the saying goes: after the storm. The same is true of life, after training can often make life wonderful.
China, a writer came to the United States, he saw a flower of the old lady is always very happy, very strange. He would pick a flower asked: Why are you always so happy? Replied the old lady to make the writer stand in amazement. Jesus was crucified is the world's darkest day, three days later to Easter. All the trouble to wait for three days as long as the right not to vanish into thin air? Writer for the old lady answered and moved an old lady could look at this free and easy life, could see so thoroughly to life. King inventors - Edison filament do in order to find the best materials have been done a 1000 experiment many times and failed. Have a laugh at his neighbor: Do you how to do 1000 experiments have failed many times? Edison said: I am not found more than 1000 kinds of inappropriate material filament so it? Edison failed to look at from another angle, am quite sure that it can be the most suitable materials, is precisely because of this self-confidence, they are able to make unremitting efforts, finally successful.
People to love life, love life, to have self-confidence, it is necessary to make unremitting efforts towards the target, like Ai Qing said, Even if we are a candle, wax should be dry before the torch ashes tears; even though we are a match should be at the crucial moment there is a ray of light , if so, will the meaning of our lives, our lives will be able to issue a strange glory. Finally, I had to remind you that in the face of setbacks, do not complain about it complained that the old, and to learn how to transform the issue of perspective, so that life is not susceptible to rain by knockout.
常常听见有人抱怨,为什么我的容颜不是国色天香,为什么今天天气这么糟糕,为什么我生活在这么贫穷的家庭里,为什么老天爷这样对我……为什么要抱怨这抱怨那呢?生活本来就不是事事如意,生活本来就不会十全十美,相反,起起落落,悲欢离合才是家常便饭。俗话说的好:愁一愁,白了头;笑一笑,十年少。不要抱怨,每个人的人生都不会是一帆风顺的,而正是因为有这些波波折折,才练就出异彩纷呈的人生。
如果能常换个角度来看问题,你可能会很容易发现自己的人生照样很精彩。你不能改变容颜,你何不想一想放纵笑容;你不能改变天气,你何不改变心情。俗话说:风雨之后才见彩虹。人生也是如此,历经磨练往往能造就精彩的人生。
中国的一位作家来到美国,他看见一个卖花的老太太总是很高兴,很是奇怪。他就挑了一支花问:“您为什么总是如此的开心呢?”老太太的回答使作家愣住了。“耶稣被钉在十字架上是全世界最黑暗的一天,可三天后就是复活节。一切的烦恼只要等待三天不就烟消云散了吗?”作家为老太太的回答而感动,一位老太太竟能这样洒脱地看待人生,竟能把人生看得如此透彻。发明家大王——爱迪生为了寻找做灯丝的最好材料曾做了1000多次实验,并且都失败了。有一邻居嘲笑他:“你怎么做1000多次实验都失败了?”爱迪生说:“我不是发现了1000多种不合适做灯丝的材料了吗?”爱迪生能换个角度看待失败,深信一定能获得最合适的材料,正因为有这自信,所以能不懈努力,最后终于获得成功。
人要热爱生活,热爱生命,要有自信,要朝着既定目标不懈努力,要像艾青所说的那样,“即使我们是一支蜡烛,也应该蜡炬成灰泪始干;即使我们是一根火柴,也应该在关键时刻有一丝光亮”,如果能这样,那么我们的人生就会意义,我们的人生就能发出异样的光彩。最后要提醒大家,在遇到挫折的时候,不要老报怨这报怨那,而要学会变换角度思考问题,这样就不易被人生的“风雨”所击倒。
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1.Life, free to soar
by Wayne B.Lynn
One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites.Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting anddancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.
Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. Theyshook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow,facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and kept them in tow, facingupward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, theyseemed to say,” Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” they soared beautifully even as theyfought the restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Freeat last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. Itfluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string againsta dead bush. ”Free at last”, free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along theground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction.
How much like kites we sometimes are. The heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules tofollow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to thewinds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach theheights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise highenough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafeunder are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.
自由的代价
在一个有风的春日,我看到一群年轻人正在迎风放风筝玩乐,各种颜色、各种形状和大小的风筝就好像美丽的鸟儿在空中飞舞。当强风把风筝吹起,牵引线就能够控制它们。
风筝迎风飘向更高的地方,而不是随风而去。它们摇摆着、拉扯着,但牵引线以及笨重的尾巴使它们处于控制之中,并且迎风而上。它们挣扎着、抖动着想要挣脱线的束缚,仿佛在说:“放开我!放开我!我想要自由!”即使与牵引线奋争着,它们依然在美丽地飞翔。终于,一只风筝成功挣脱了。“终于自由了,”它好像在说,“终于可以随风自由飞翔了!”
然而,脱离束缚的自由使它完全处于无情微风的摆布下。它毫无风度地震颤着向地面坠落,落在一堆乱草之中,线缠绕在一颗死灌木上。“终于自由”使它自由到无力地躺在尘土中,无助地任风沿着地面将其吹走,碰到第一个障碍物便毫无生命地滞留在那里了。
有时我们真像这风筝啊!上苍赋予我们困境和约束,赋予我们成长和增强实力所要遵从的规则。约束是逆风的必要匹配物。我们中有些人是如此强硬地抵制规则,以至我们从来无法飞到本来能够达到的高度。我们只遵从部分戒律,因此永远不会飞得足够高,使尾巴远离地面。
让我们每个人都飞到高处吧,并且认识到这一点:有些可能会令我们生气的约束,实际上是帮助我们攀升和实现愿望的平衡。
#p#2.A New Look from Borrowed Time
#e#
By Ralph Richmond
Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. “Yes,” he said, “there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case…” I listened, stunned, as he continued, “You’ll have to give up work at once and go to bed. Later on, we’ll see.” He gave no assurances.
Feeling like a man who in mid-career has suddenly been placed under sentence of death with an indefinite reprieve, I left the doctor’s office, walked over to the park, and sat down on a bench, perhaps, as I then told myself, for the last time. I needed to think. In the next three days, I cleared up my affairs; then I went home, got into bed, and set my watch to tick off not the minutes, but the months. 2 ½ years and many dashed hopes later, I left my bed and began the long climb back. It was another year before I made it.
I speak of this experience because these years that past so slowly taught me what to value and what to believe. They said to me: Take time, before time takes you. I realize now that this world I’m living in is not my oyster to be opened but my opportunity to be grasped. Each day, to me, is a precious entity. The sun comes up and presents me with 24 brand new, wonderful hours—not to pass, but to fill.
I’ve learned to appreciate those little, all-important things I never thought I had the time to notice before: the play of light on running water, the music of the wind in my favorite pine tree. I seem now to see and hear and feel with some of the recovered freshness of childhood. How well, for instance, I recall the touch of the springy earth under my feet the day I first stepped upon it after the years in bed. It was almost more than I could bear. It was like regaining one’s citizenship in a world one had nearly lost.
Frequently, I sit back and say to myself, Let me make note of this moment I’m living right now, because in it I’m well, happy, hard at work doing what I like best to do. It won’t always be like this, so while it is I’ll make the most of it—and afterwards, I remember—and be grateful. All this, I owe to that long time spent on the sidelines of life. Wiser people come to this awareness without having to acquire it the hard way. But I wasn’t wise enough. I’m wiser now, a little, and happier.
“Look thy last on all things lovely, every hour.” With these words, Walter de la Mare sums up for me my philosophy and my belief. God made this world—in spite of what man now and then tries to do to unmake it—a dwelling place of beauty and wonder, and He filled it with more goodness than most of us suspect. And so I say to myself, Should I not pretty often take time to absorb the beauty and the wonder, to contribute a least a little to the goodness? And should I not then, in my heart, give thanks? Truly, I do. This I believe.
第二次生命的启示
拉尔夫.里士满
十年前的一天,我坐在一名手持听诊器的医生对面。“你的左肺叶上部确实有一处坏损,而且病情正在恶化”——听到这里,我整个人一下懵了。“你必须停止工作卧床休息,有待观察。”医生对我的病情也是不置可否。
就这样,事业方面方兴未艾的我仿佛突然被人判了死刑,却说不准何时执刑。我离开医生的办公室,来到公园的长椅上坐下。这也许是最后一次来这儿了,我对自己说。我真得好好整理一下思绪。
接下来的三天我把手头的事务全部处理完毕。我回到家,躺到床上,然后把手表从显示分钟改为显示月份。
两年半的时间过去了,在无数次的失望之后,我终于可以离开病床,艰难地向从前的生活状态回归。一年之后,我做到了。
我之所以谈起这段经历,是因为那段度日如年的岁月让我懂得应该珍惜什么,信仰什么。那段岁月让我明白一个道理:牢牢抓住时间,而不是让时间将你套牢。
现在我终于明白,我生活着的这个世界不是等待我去打开的一扇牡蛎,而是需要我去抓住的一个机会。每一天我都视若珍宝,每一轮太阳带给我的崭新的二十四小时都鲜活而精彩,我绝不可将其虚度。
从前,我终日忙碌,无暇顾及生活中某些重要的细节,诸如水波上的光影,松林间的风吟——现在,我终于学会去欣赏它们的美好。
如今,我仿佛重返童年,又觉得自己所见所闻所感的一切都那么新鲜。当我卧床数年后重新将双脚踏在大地上的那一刻,脚下那久违了的松软土壤让我激动得情难自抑,仿佛重新拥有我差一点就失去的世界。
我现在时常舒舒服服地坐着,提醒自己要记住当下的每分每秒,因为现在的我健康、快乐,能努力做自己最爱做的工作。这一切如此美好,却终将消逝,在如此美好的生活消逝之前,我一定要倍加珍惜。在它逝去之后,我会记得曾经拥有的美好,并心存感激。
这一切改变都得益于我在生命边缘徘徊的那几年。智者无需被逼到如此境地也能明白这些道理——可惜我从前太愚钝。现在的我比从前多了几分睿智,我也因此更加快乐。
英国诗人沃尔特·德拉·梅尔曾说过:“时刻记住,最后看一眼所有美好的事物!”这句诗正好总结了我的人生哲学与信仰。上帝创造的这个世界——这个人类时常试图毁灭的世界——是个美丽奇妙的家园。这里充满了上帝所赐予的美好事物,超过我们大多数人的想象。我于是常常自问,难道自己不应该去细细品味这些美丽与奇迹,尽绵薄之力去创造世间的美好吗?难道我不应心存感激吗?我确实应该——这就是我的信仰。
#p#3.I Wish I Could believe
#e#
by C. Day Lewis
"The best lack all conviction,
While the worst are full of passionate intesity."
Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought up in the Christian church. Later I believed for a while that communism offered the best hope for this world. I acknowledge the need for belief, but I cannot forget how through the ages great faiths have been vitiated by fanaticism and dogmatism, by intolerance and cruelty, by the intellectual dishonesty, the folly, the crankiness or the opportunism of their adherents.
Have I no faith at all, then? Faith is the thing at the core of you, the sediment that's left when hopes and illusions are drained away. The thing for which you make any sacrifice because without it you would be nothing - a mere walking shadow. I know what my own core is. I would in the last resort sacrifice any human relationship, any way of living to the search for truth which produces my poem. I know there are heavy odds against any poem I write surviving after my death. I realize that writing poetry may seem the most preposterously useless thing a man can be doing today. Yet it is just at such times of crisis that each man discovers or rediscovers what he values most. My poet's instinct to make something comes out most strongly then, enabling me to use fear, doubt, even despair as creative stimuli. In doing so, I feel my kinship with humanity, with the common man who carries on doing his job till the bomb falls or the sea closes over him. Carries on because of his belief, however inarticulate, that this is the best thing he can do.
But the poet is luckier than the layman, for his job is always a vacation. Indeed, it's so like a religious vacation that he may feel little need for a religious faith, but because it is always trying to get past the trivial and the transient or to reveal these as images of the essential and the permanent, poetry is at least a kind of spiritual activity.
Men need a religious belief to make sense out of life. I wish I had such a belief myself, but any creed of mine would be honeycombed with confusions and reservations. Yet when I write a poem I am trying to make sense out of life. And just now and then my experience composes and transmutes itself into a poem which tells me something I didn't know I knew.
So for me the compulsion of poetry is the sign of a belief, not the less real for being unformulated ... a belief that men must enjoy life, explore life, enhance life. Each as best he can. And that I shall do these things best through the practice of poetry.
我希望我能相信
塞(西尔)·戴·刘易斯
“优秀的人们信心尽失,
坏蛋们则充满了炽烈的狂热。”
对我来说,叶芝的这两行诗概括了今天的现实,信仰的货币似乎已经贬值了。我是在__的熏陶下长大的。后来有一段时间我相信共产主义给这个世界带来了最大的希望。我承认信仰的必要性,但我无法忘记历代的伟大信仰是如何因其拥护者的狂热、教条、褊狭、残忍、学术欺诈、愚蠢、偏执或机会主义而遭到损害的。
那么,难道我就没有信仰吗?信仰存在于你的心灵深处,当希望和幻想渐渐枯竭,沉淀下来的就是信仰。为了它,你甘愿做出任何牺牲,因为没有它,你的存在就毫无意义——你只不过是一个会行走的影子。我知道我的内心深处有什么。在别无选择的情况下,我愿意牺牲任何人际关系、任何生活方式去寻找使我能创作诗歌的真理。我知道很有可能我写的每一首诗在我死后都不能流传。我也明白诗歌创作在今天或许是一个人所能做的最荒谬、最无用的事情。然而,正是在这样的危难之时,每一个人才能发现或重新发现他最珍视的东西。于是我那诗人渴望创作的本能在胸中涌动,使我能让恐惧、怀疑,甚至绝望激发自己创作。在诗歌创作中,我觉得我和人类,和平凡的人紧密相连,他们坚守着自己的岗位,直到炸弹落下或是海浪席卷而来将他们淹没。坚守是因为他相信这是他最能做的事情,尽管这信仰难以用语言传达。但诗人比普通人幸运,因为他的工作始终是他的天职。他就像肩负着一种宗教使命一样,或许并不需要有宗教信仰,但因为诗歌或是不涉及琐事和瞬息即逝的事物,或是将它们作为本质和永恒的意象,诗歌至少是一种精神活动。
人需要有一种宗教信仰使他的生活有意义。我希望我也能有这样的信仰,但我的任何信念总会充满困惑和保留看法。然而,我写诗就是努力发掘生活的意义。偶尔,我用诗歌表现自己的经历和感受,从中也明白了我不曾意识到自己已经懂得的道理。因此,对我来说,诗歌创作的冲动表现出来的,不是因为不系统而不太真实的东西……而是一种信仰,那就是,人必须享受生活,探索生活的真谛,提高生活的品质。人可各尽其能,而我则通过写诗尽善尽美地完成我的使命。
#p#4.Chain of Love
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"How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?" Queen Victoria of Englandasked Helen Keller. "How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind anddeaf, you were able to accomplish so much?"
Ms. Keller's answer is a tribute to her dedicated teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan,the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown."
According to speaker Zig Ziglar, "Little Annie" Sullivan, as she was called when she was young,was no stranger to hardship. She was almost sightless herself (due to a childhood fever) andwas, at one time, diagnosed as hopelessly "insane" by her by caregivers. She was locked in thebasement of a mental institution outside of Boston. On occasion, Little Annie wouldviolently attack anyone who came near. Most of the time she generally ignored everyone in herpresence.
An elderly nurse believed there was hope, however, and she made it her mission to show love tothe child. Every day she visited Little Annie. For the most part, the child did not acknowledgethe nurse's presence, but she still continued to visit. The kindly woman left cookies for her andspoke words of love and encouragement. She believed Little Annie could recover, if only shewere shown love.
Eventually, doctors noticed a change in the girl. Where they once witnessed anger andhostility, they now noted an emerging gentleness and love. They moved her upstairs whereshe continued to improve. Then the day finally came when this seemingly "hopeless" child wasreleased.
Anne Sullivan grew into a young woman with a desire to help others as she, herself, was helpedby the kindly nurse. It was she who saw the great potential in Helen Keller. She loved her,disciplined her, played with her, pushed her and worked with her until the flickering candlethat was her life became a beacon of light to the world. Anne Sullivan worked wonders inHelen's life; but it was a loving nurse who first believed in Little Annie and lovinglytransformed an uncommunicative child into a compassionate teacher.
"If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remainedunknown." But if it had not been for a kind and dedicated nurse, the name of Anne Sullivanwould have remained unknown. And so it goes. Just how far back does the chain ofredemption extend? And how for forward will it lead?
Those you have sought to reach, whether they be in your family or elsewhere, are part of achain of love that can extend through the generations. Your influence on their lives, whether ornot you see results, is immeasurable. Your legacy of dedicated kindness and caring cantransform lost and hopeless lives for years to come.
爱的涟漪
英国维多利女王曾问海伦·凯勒:“ 你一生中获得如此卓越成就的原因是什么?你又聋又盲,你是如何取得如此巨大的成就的?”
凯勒女士将这一切归功于她那赋予奉献精神的老师。“如果没有安妮·沙利文, 海伦凯勒的名字也许永远不会为人所知。”
据金克·金克拉说,小安妮——沙利文幼时的名字——可是没少经历苦难。她自己因为儿时发高烧而几乎双目失明,且一度被看护者们诊断为精神失常,无法医治。她被所在波士顿城外一个精神医院的地下室里。有时,小安妮惠狂暴的攻击每一个靠近她的人,但多数时候她则对身边的每一个人不理不睬。
尽管如此,一位上了年纪的护士认为仍有希望。她把爱护这个孩子作为自己的职责,每天都去看小安妮。大多数时候,这孩子都意识不到护士的存在,但她仍旧不断地去看她。这位好心的女士给孩子留下饼干,对她说鼓励和慈爱的话语。她坚信,只要有爱,小安妮就一定能恢复正常。
终于,医生发现了小姑娘身上的变化。以往他们看到的是愤怒和敌意,但现在看到的确是逐渐显现的温顺和爱意。他们把她搬到了楼上,在那里,她的情况继续好转。终于有一天,这个看来无药可救的孩子出院了。
安妮·沙利文长成了一个大姑娘。她热切地渴望去帮助别人,就像她自己被那位好心的护士帮助一样。正是她看到了身上的潜质。她爱护她,教育她,和她一起玩耍,该她鼓励,和她一起工作,直到她生命微弱的烛光变成了照亮世界的一束强光。安妮·沙利文创造了海伦生命的奇迹,但首先是一位好心的护士相信小安妮,并慈爱的绛一个无法交流的孩子变成了一个有爱心的老师。
“如果没有安妮·沙利文,海伦·凯勒的名字也许永远不为人知。”但是如果没有那个好心且赋予奉献精神的护士,安妮·沙利文的名字也会远不为人所知。这样推下去,这条救助的链条会绵延到哪里?它又会向前延伸多远?
那些你所想到的人,不管他们在你的家里或是其他什么地方,都是这条在几代人间延续的爱的链条上的一环。你对他们生命的影响,不管你是否看到结果,都是无法估量的。你所奉献的爱心与关怀将会在未来的岁月中转变那些处于迷失和绝望之中的生命。
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秋天是一个美丽的季节,很多人都用中文、英文对这个季节进行了描述。下面就和读文网小编一起来看看关于秋天中英文版的散文吧。
Autumn dusk, floating patches of dead leaves. Piece of the falling yellow leaves are always people feel sad and depressed.
Fu Guo Dang Qi autumn slightly leisurely in my mind the layers of memories! Looked forward to, read the. Like an elegant lilies, bursts of fragrance exudes. I know that you want to feel like your taste. Acacia 1000 speech, did not say tears into beads! Autumn is always reminiscent of the lot. Every autumn since ancient times, sad lonely and Liao, I made autumn Sheng-chun Chao! Who suddenly forget that this is a poem. Yes ah, every autumn since ancient times, sad lonely Liao! True that I do not want to have the kind of broad reach of the harbor - "I made the spring towards autumn wins." Maybe I am a sentimental person bar!
Hands on trouser pocket inside, it is so leisurely walk, thoughts fly with. Flew to the clouds, look at Kazamaki云舒, flew to the beach, listening to waves from ebb tide. This is thousands of miles of the Autumn clouds thousands of miles, panoramic view. Is Zaibu Dong Toryu is PASSING! Akin to finding away, the tears look for flowers, the world is to make autumn, full Hitomi bleak. I look forward to gently, but you draw down quietly! I waited quietly, but you drifting away in the tree branches!
You come secretly, so that even in red maple leaf, but also to make it more the storm alone. Cecil cool, so charming the sweet-scented osmanthus in autumn withdrew earlier stage. Your arrival like a beautiful a performance of the first, floating in the earth's heart, floating in a lonely heart, floating in the mind of the Iraqis, floating in the love inside, floating in a farewell, you floating in the lives of all ri! Choice banging every household of the window lattice, are you tapping into everyone's hearts. Reward human music, fluttering autumn leaf Sasa rain.
Past history behind, life is way far apart? Iraqi tears! He cut through language? Autumn Thoughts Amid the tears are like rain. Always felt the rain, yes I am depressed to worry Tuozhao, unrestrained flying. If flying between Pipa Qu sleeves, hit the autumn, bringing more trouble and that little episodes, staid state of mind. Spring flowers residual cardiac deficiencies go, how autumn over vagrant hearts? Desolate Baptist Yin foreign land passengers, pipa-hyun on the full luxuriant desolate.
秋天的黄昏,飘着片片枯叶。片片飘落的黄叶,总是让人感到伤感、忧郁。
秋风微微的扶过荡起我心中悠悠的层层往事!翻阅着、解读着。犹如一朵淡雅的百合花,散发着阵阵清香。我知道那是想你的感觉,想你的味道。相思千言语,未说泪成珠!秋天总是让人想起很多很多。自古逢秋悲寂廖,我言秋日胜春朝!突然忘记这是谁的诗句了。是啊,自古逢秋悲寂廖!我何尝不想有那种阔达的心怀——“我言秋日胜春朝。”或许我就是一个多愁善感的人吧!
手放在裤兜里,就这样悠闲地走着,思绪飞着。飞到云端,看风卷云舒,飞到海边,听浪起潮落。这千里的秋色万里的白云,尽收眼底。却载不动东流的是逝水!山高路遥,泪寻百花,天下尽秋,满眸苍凉。轻轻地我期盼,你却悄悄划落!静静地我等待,你却在枝头飘过!
你偷偷的降临,使枫叶更加地红了,也使它更加的萧瑟孤独了。丝丝凉凉,让娇美的桂花早些退下了秋的舞台。你的到来如一首幽美的古曲,飘在大地的心里,飘在了孤独者的心里,飘在了伊人的心里,飘在了爱情里,飘在了离别里,你飘在了一切的生命里!秋雨敲打着每家每户的窗棂,你叩开了每个人的心扉。赏人间曲,飘飘秋叶洒洒雨。
往事不可追,人生路天南地北?伊人泪!划破何语?秋思如雨绵绵涕。总感觉这雨,是驮着我郁郁的愁,潇洒飞扬。如飞天袖间的琵琶曲,袭着秋风,惹出那滴滴点点,静如止水的心境。春心未尽花残去,秋风怎过荡子心?悲凉浸洇他乡客,琵琶炫上满萋凄。
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National Song
Of the motherland,
You have gone through an extraordinary 55 years,
As long a baby has become the prime of life,
Today, you are full of vitality, and the distribution of vigor and
You have all kinds of hardships, there were laughter.
After a rough and rugged, tomorrow will be better.
In the past 55 years,
You earthshaking changes have taken place,
Your growing prosperity of the people.
Your strength is growing stronger and stronger.
With the combination of the Chinese people the world is your heart ah!
You won the respect of the world's attention.
Now you are our emotions and work hard,
Entering the new century,
Today, in celebrating this festival,
From the heart, I say to you,
Hello,mother !
《国庆颂》
祖国,
你走过了不平凡的55年,
像一个婴儿长成了壮年,
今日您正充满活力,散发着蓬勃的朝气,
您有过磨难,也有过欢笑.
历经了崎岖坎坷,明天将更加美好.
55年来,
你发生了翻天覆地的变化,
你的人民日益富强.
您的国力日益强大.
你凝聚了天下炎黄子孙的心啊!
您赢得了世界尊重的目光.
现在您正意气奋发,
走进了新的世纪,
今天,在这欢庆的节日里,
我从心底里向您说一声,
祖国,您好!
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诗歌由于用词典雅、句法精炼、形式别致以及意象丰富等缘故,让很多人不知如何去赏析。今天,读文网小编为大家推荐英文诗歌短篇美文鉴赏,欢迎阅读英文诗歌原文附赏析。
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 未选择的路 罗伯特•弗罗斯特
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, 黄色的树林里分出两条路
And sorry I could not travel both 可惜我不能同时去涉足
And be one traveler, long I stood 我在那路口久久伫立
And looked down one as far as I could 我向着一条路极目望去
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 直到它消失在丛林深处
Then took the other, as just as fair, 但我却选择了另外一条路
And having perhaps the better claim, 它荒草萋萋,十分幽寂
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; 显得更诱人,更美丽
Though as for that the passing there 虽然在这两条小路上
Had worn them really about the same, 都很少留下旅人的足迹
And both that morning equally lay 虽然那天清晨落叶满地
In leaves no step had trodden black. 两条路都未经脚印污染
Oh, I kept the first for another day! 呵,留下一条路等改日再见
Yet knowing how way leads on to way, 但我知道路径延绵无尽头
I doubted if I should ever come back. 恐怕我难以再回返
I shall be telling this with a sigh 也许多少年后在某一个地方
Somewhere ages and ages hence: 我将轻声叹息把往事回顾
Two roads diverged in a wood,and I— 一片森林里分出两条路
I took the one less traveled by, 而我却选择了人迹更少的一条
And that has made al lthe difference.从此决定了我一生的道路
诗歌赏析:
(1)诗歌特点:全诗共4节,可分两层:1—3节为第一层,在树林里,“我”面临着两条路,而经过思考决定选择了一条人迹罕至的路。在这一层中,诗人描述了选择人迹罕至的路并不是草率决定的,而是经历了复杂的心理历程。描述了“我”站在岔路口,为不能同时涉足两条路而遗憾,“我在那路口久久伫立”,写出“我”的犹豫和久久思索:一条路平坦通畅,极目可望见它的尽头;而另一条路幽寂荒凉,充满着引人探索的诱惑,但“无限美景在险峰”,
“我”终于选择了那条人迹更少的路,就让另一条路留待后日去走,这显然是作者做出抉择后的一种自我安慰,因为“我知道路径延绵无尽头,/恐怕我难以再回返”,虽然如此,但依然义无返顾。 第4节为第二层,是作者多年以后的感慨,
“我选择了人迹更少的一条,/从此决定了我一生的道路”。这告诉我们,人的一生面临着无数的选择,而每一次选择都会对人生产生重要影响;一个人的一生怎样度过,就看他在人生的岔路口做出了怎样的选择,选择不同,命运就会不同。
(2)弗罗斯特在诗歌风格上的一个最大特点是朴素无华,含义隽永,把深刻的思考和哲理寓于平淡无奇的内容和简洁朴实的诗句之中。本诗堪称是这方面的典范。这首诗的语言质朴自然,但在构思上却非常巧妙。我们不难看出,诗歌中所描写的岔路就是人生岔路的象征。它说明,在人生的旅途中,我们时常必须要在两条道路、两种思想或两种行动中做出选择,不同的选择将决定不同的人生方向。面对选择时,我们往往会变得犹豫不决,反复权衡,拿不定主意。最后,我们终究会选择其中的一条路。这首诗,描绘的是一个面临选择的人和他进行选择时的心态,至于选择的具体内容并没有写出,诗人的着眼点是选择本身。每一个读者都能够在这首诗中发现自己的生活体验,体味其中的哲理。因为这首诗具有丰富的内涵,给读者留下了想像的空间,从而受到触动,引发深深的思索。这种每个人都有过的复杂的心理体验,被弗罗斯特敏感地捕捉到了,并谱写成一首脍炙人口的佳作.
选择了荒芜的路,经历痛苦、磨难,旅途中不断回想起那条未选择的路。“要是我走那条未选择的路,也许我就不会这般痛苦?”诗人写出了漫长人生路中的种种迷惘、惆怅。全诗最后并没有指出诗人选择那条路以后最终的结局,只是说“And that has made all the difference”......
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多阅读一些英语散文,对于我们英语阅读能力的提高会有所帮助,今天读文网小编在这里为大家分享一些英语散文名篇欣赏,希望大家会喜欢英语美文!
A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as Christmas present. On Christmas eve, when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was looking around the shining new car, admiring it.
我有个朋友,保罗,在圣诞节那天收到了一份来自他哥哥的礼物,一辆轿车。在圣诞前夜,当保罗从他的办公室走出来时,一个街头顽童正围着他的新车打转地看,非常羡慕。
"Is this your car, Mister?" he said.
“这是您的汽车吗,先生?”他说。
Paul nodded, "My brother gave it to me for Christmas."
保罗点了点头,“我哥哥给我的圣诞礼物。
The boy was astounded, "You mean your brother gave it to you, and didn't cost you anything?"
小男孩诧异了,“你是说你哥哥给你的,不用花你一分钱?”
"Boy, I wish..." he hesitated.
“兄弟,我希望...”他迟疑了。
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he has a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paull all the way down his heels.
保罗当然清楚他希望什么,他希望他也有个那样的哥哥。但这个小家伙说的话,使保罗大吃了一惊。
"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that."
“我希望,”小男孩继续说道,“我可以做一个那样的哥哥。”
Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then inpulsivly he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my car?"
保罗惊奇地看着小男孩,然后激动地说了句,“你想不想做我的车去兜兜风?”
"Oh, yes. I'd love that."
“哦,想!我喜欢!”
After a short ride, the boy turned his eyes aglow, said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?"
跑了一小段路后,小男孩眼光水灵闪闪地说道,“先生,您可以把车开到我家门前吗?”
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again.
保罗微微一笑。他觉得他知道这个小家伙想要干什么,他想要向他的邻居炫耀他可以坐一辆大汽车回家。但是,保罗又一次想错了。
"Would you stop at those with two steps?" the boy asked.
“您可以在那有两个台阶的房子前停下吗?” 小男孩问道。
He ran up stairs. Then in a little while, Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He set him down on the bottom step. Then a sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.
他跑着上楼去了。然后一小会儿,保罗听到他回来的脚步声,但他没再用跑的了。保罗看见他正搀扶着他的跛脚的弟弟,他扶着他坐在最底层的台阶上,然后拥抱着他,指着这部车。
"There she is, buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and didn't cost hime a cent. And some day, I'm gonna give you one just like it. Then you can see for yourself all the prettiest things in the windows that I was trying to tell you about."
“小弟,那就是我在楼上跟你说的那部车。他哥哥给他的圣诞礼物,不用花他一分钱。将来某天我也要给你一部像那样的车,那样你就可以自己去看我以前尽力想让你知道的那些窗边的圣诞饰品了。”
Paul got off and lifted the lad into the front of his car. The shinning eyed old brother crimbed in beside him. And three of them began a memorable holiday ride.
保罗下车把跛脚的小孩抱上了车的前座,他的眼睛水灵灵的哥哥爬上了车,坐到了他旁边。然后他们三个开始一段令人难忘的旅程。
That Christmas eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant, when he said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive..."
那个圣诞前夜,保罗收获了很多,他真正体会了耶稣所说的那句话,“施舍比接受更有福...”
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Be good to everyone who becomes attached to us; cherish every friend who is by our side;
love everyone who walks into our life.
It must be fate to get acquainted in a huge crowd of people…
I feel, the love that Osho talks about, maybe is a kind of pure love beyond the mundane world, which is full of divinity and caritas, and overflows with Buddhist allegorical words and gestures,
善待,每一个和我们结缘的人;珍惜,我们身边的每一个朋友;
爱,生命中,每一个和我们结缘的人。
茫茫的人海中,相识,其实,就是缘分……
感觉,奥修所说的,也许是一种纯净、超越世俗和男女,充满神性和佛性的博爱,弥发,一种禅性和机锋,
but, it seems that I cannot see through its true meaning forever…
Maybe, I do not just “absorb” your love; but because the love overpowers me and I am unable to dispute and refuse it…
Do you know? It’s you who light up my life! And I stubbornly believe that such love can only be experienced once in my life.
Because of love, we won’t be lonely anymore; because of yearning, we taste more loneliness.
而我,却好像永远,都,无法参透……
也许,我并不只是”接受”;而是,因为那种爱,让我,情不自禁、无法抗拒、不能拒绝……
知道吗?是你,点燃了我的生命!而我,固执的相信,这种情感,在我的生命中,只有一次。
因为爱,我们,不再孤单;因为思念,品尝,更多的寂寞。
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My Dad's a Secret Agent
——Kenn Nesbitt
My dad's a secret agent.
He's an undercover spy.
He's the world's best detective.
He's the perfect private eye.
He's a Pinkerton, a gum shoe,
我的爸爸是特工
——Kenn Nesbitt
我的爸爸是特工
我的爸爸是暗探
他是世界上最优秀的间谍
他是十全十美的私家侦探
他是位名探,他是位密探
He's a snoop and he's a sleuth.
He's unrivaled at detecting
and uncovering the truth.
He's got eyesight like an eagle.
He's got hearing like a bat.
He can out-smell any bloodhound.
他追踪寻迹
明察秋虚,发现真相
无人能敌
他有雄鹰一般的眼睛
他有蝙蝠一样的听力
他的嗅觉胜过警犬
He's as stealthy as a cat.
He can locate nearly anything
with elementary ease.
But no matter how he looks and looks
My dad can't find his keys!
他的行动如猫一般诡秘
他几乎能查出一切
而又毫不费力
但不管他怎样找啊找
却找不到自己的钥匙
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下面是读文网小编为大家带来英语优美散文:In Springtime,希望大家喜欢!
Each spring, the urge to plant something—a flower or vegetable or anything that would blossom and produce—pulled at her. It must have been a legacy from her grandmother who had, long ago, kept a garden of small and neat proportions.
There had been cabbage-sized roses and delicate white pea blossoms. And in the fertile earth hid golden carrot spears and round white onions, layered and pearly.
The garden gave forth its best from early spring, when the frost still powdered the ground, until late autumn amidst the flaming leaves. And Alice came to believe her grandmother had found the secret to life itself buried deep in the soft black earth.
There had been space and light for things to grow at her grandmother’s house—unlike here in the city where even weeds had a difficult time breaking through the ever-present asphalt.
There was no place for Alice to grow even a single flower—not in front of the brownstone building, where angled cracks only hinted at the earth below, not inside her small dark apartment where the life-giving sunlight would have to traverse an impossibly long distance just to reach her grimy windows.
She had tried, that first year she had come to the city, when hope blossomed in her heart and the future seemed filled with promise. She had carried to her rooms a red clay pot of patio tomatoes, guaranteed to produce scarlet globes hanging in abundance from the dark green stems.
But the lack of sunlight and fresh air turned the green to faded brown, and by summer’s end, the tomatoes themselves were shriveled and misshapen—a nightmare version of what nature intended.
Alice threw the plant away, and never brought home another. Instead, every spring, when the desire for life burned in her, she would stop at the flower sellers waiting patiently outside the subway entrance and buy armfuls of freesias and roses and carnations.
Tenderly, she would carry the paper-wrapped bundle home, to arrange the fragrant rootless blossoms in a crystal vase to die.
译文:春天
每到春天,艾丽丝便渴望种点什么——鲜花,或蔬菜或一切能开花能生长的东西。很久以前,从她祖母那儿遗留下来一个整洁的小花园。
那里,春季的时候,簇簇洋白菜大的玫瑰和丛丛散发着幽香的雪白的豌豆花竞相开放。肥沃的土地下埋藏着金色的胡萝卜的幼苗以及珍珠样又白又圆的洋葱。
早春的花园冲破严寒霜冻,把最美的景色带给人间,晚秋时节则呈现在一片火红的树叶中。艾丽丝确信祖母已经发现深埋在柔软的黑色土地下的生命本身的秘密。
祖母的房屋外面有足够的空间和阳光适合植物的生长,不像这城市里,种子要从布满沥青的地上破土而出非常艰难。
在城里,爱丽丝找不出一点地方哪怕是种一株花,褐石房屋外面不行,那里只是从房屋之间的夹缝中透进少许的阳光,在她狭小而黑暗的公寓更不行,哺育生命的阳光不可能穿过那么远的距离,最多只能到达昏暗的窗户。
来到城里的第一年,她曾努力去尝试,那时她心中充满希望,对未来似乎也有点盼头。她种了一砵西红柿放在房间外的露台上,里面盛满红色的粘土,指望那深绿的枝桠上定会挂满又圆又红的果实。
但是因为缺乏阳光和新鲜空气,绿叶褪变成了褐色,直到夏末,西红柿也变得干瘪且畸形,当初的美好愿望成了一场空。
爱丽丝扔掉西红柿,从今往后不往家里带任何其它的植物了。然而,每当春天来临,她的心里依然充满对生命的渴望,她耐心地等在地铁入口处,流连于卖花人面前,买了一大束小苍兰、玫瑰和康乃馨,抱在臂弯里。
她小心翼翼地捧着这束用纸包装好的花回了家,把这芬芳的无根的鲜花插在水晶瓶子里,直到枯萎。
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许多人从幼儿园就开始接触英语,这个时候多阅读一些英语故事是很有好处的,今天读文网小编在这里为大家分享一些幼儿园英语故事,欢迎大家阅读!
A Clever Panda
聪明的熊猫
A little panda picks up a pumpkin and wants to take it home. But the pumpkin is too big. The panda can’t take it home.
一只小熊猫摘了一只大南瓜,想把它拿回家。但是这只南瓜太大了,她没有办法把这么大的南瓜带回家。
Suddenly she sees a bear riding a bike toward her. She watches the bike. “I know! I have a good idea.” she jumps and shouts happily, “I can roll a pumpkin. It’s like awheel.”
突然她看见一只狗熊骑着一辆自行车朝她这边来。她看着自行车,跳着说:“有了!我有办法了。我可以把南瓜滚回家去。南瓜好像车轮。
So she rolls the pumpkin to her home. When her mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised, “Oh, my God! How can you carry it home?” the little panda answers proudly, “I can’t lift it, but I can roll it.” Her mother smiled and says,“What a clever girl!”
于是她把那瓜滚回家。当她妈妈看到这只大南瓜的时候,很惊讶:“天啊!这么食的南瓜!你是怎么把它带回家来的?”小熊猫自豪地说;“我拎不动它,可是我能滚动它啊!”她妈妈微笑着说:“真聪明啊!”
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英语诗歌是英语语言的精华,它以最凝练的文字传递时间与空间、物质与精神、理智与情感。下面读文网小编为大家带来精选的经典英文短诗,欢迎大家阅读!
What instinct forces man to journey on,
Urged by a longing blind but dominant!
Nothing he sees can hold him, nothing daunt
His never failing eagerness. The sun
Setting in splendour every night has won
His vassalage; those towers flamboyant
Of airy cloudland palaces now haunt
His daylight wanderings. Forever done
With simple joys and quiet happiness
He guards the vision of the sunset sky;
Though faint with weariness he must possess
Some fragment of the sunset's majesty;
He spurns life's human friendships to profess
Life's loneliness of dreaming ecstasy.
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英语散文的发展历程十分曲折,散文大家风格多变,兼之中英语言个性殊异,若要成功地把英语散文大家的作品翻译到中文,既须了解英语散文发展的概况,又须注意保证气韵逻辑通畅,文气沛然,才能传神译出,曲尽其妙,令汉语读者获得相同或相近的审美感受。下面读文网小编为大家带来英语短篇散文精选,欢迎大家阅读!
英语短篇散文精选:童真记趣
Oh God! I think I was about seven and half when my sisters and I pulled this stupid stunt. I remember watching television with them and the show on happened to be our favorite program to watch. All of a sudden we heard my brother, Chris, yelling from the backyard. So we all headed out there to see what happened. When we finally located him, he was in a tree hanging from the highest tree branch. Crying, he explained to us that he had climbed up the tree and couldn't get down. We thought, okay, one of us should climb up and get him off, but we couldn't manage to get him moving down.
It was then my youngest sister, Ka, who was five and a half at the time had seen a similar situation. She suggested we grab a sheet, hold it under the branch Chris was hanging off of, and tell him to drop so we can catch him. My other sister, Yams, who is one year younger than me, peered at me to confirm the idea and I said "Yeah, let's try that".
So we grabbed a sheet from the closet and went to hold it beneath the tree. Now mind you, the ages holding this blanket were ranging from seven and a half to five and a half, thus the sheet was probably being held up to our waist and also close to touching the ground. But we were confident it could work.
We looked up to Chris and he looked down at us a bit hesitant. I don't blame him the poor guy. It was then we told him to let go and to fall on his back. Chris looked at me and asked "Are you sure I'll land on the blanket?" Now, my brother at the age of four, had a cute squeaky voice. But because of a problem at birth with his tongue being a bit attached to the mouth, it came out more like this, "Ah you sho awill lan on da blanked?", "Yup!", I told him, "We're sure!" and he let go.
Now when I think about Chris letting go of that branch, I think of his faith in me and my sisters and I also think how stupid he was to trust us, cause when that boy let go he was in for a big surprise. Chris fell right through that sheet and landed right on his stomach. And no matter how tight we held on to the sheet, he still managed to get through.
We were shocked and a bit worried and we looked at the ground where he landed. This tiny seventy pound boy had made a hole right through the sheet and landed. He was positioned like one of those chalk drawings you find after a homicide, with one arm near the head another to the side and the knee bent a bit. We might as well have drawn an outline because he wasn't moving. So we bent down to check if he was still alive and when we asked him if he was okay he uttered these five words… "Ah stee hi da flow" in other words, "I still hit the floor!" Poor little man! But before you condemn us, Chris is fourteen now and he still bugs us about it, any tree he climbs he gets down on his own and, strangely, he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. Now he can write that he had personal experience about jumping and catching. See, no harm done…
In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who’d lived those years with us. In fact, we don’t have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closet to us—the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! while your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world’s happiness.
Saying thanks not only brightens someone else’s world, it brightens yours. If you’re feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need.
Of course, there are times when you can’t express gratitude immediately. In that case don’t let embarrassment sink you into silence-speak up the first time you have the chance.
Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. The Indians, he had been told, did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had exceptional generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks.
I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive, more caring?
Thankfulness sets in motion a chain reaction that transforms people all around us—including ourselves. For no one ever misunderstands the melody of a grateful heart. Its message is universal; its lyrics transcend all earthly barriers; its music touches the heavens.
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在演讲前多背几篇初一英文短篇演讲稿稿是非常有必要的,下面小编就分享初一英文短篇演讲稿稿给你们,希望对你们有用。
students, guests , teachers and honorable judges
good morning !
my great pleasure to share my dream with you today. my dream is to become a teacher....
as the whole world has its boundaries, limits and freedom coexist in our life. i don’t expect complete freedom, which is impossible. i simply have a dream that supports my life.
i dream that one day, i could escape from the deep sea of thick schoolbooks and lead my own life. with my favorite fictions, i lie freely on the green grass, smelling the spring, listening to the wind singing, breathing the fresh and cool air and dissolve my soul in nature at last. simple and short enjoyment can bring me great satisfaction.
i dream that one day the adults could throw their prejudice of comic and cartoon away. they could keep a lovely heart that can share sorrow and happiness with us while watching cartoon or doing personal things. that’s the real communication of heart to heart.
i have the belief that my dreams should come true. i am looking forward to some day coming when i am like a proud eagle, which flies to the blue and vast sky.
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在演讲前多背几篇初中英文短篇演讲稿稿是非常有必要的,下面小编就分享初中英文短篇演讲稿稿给你们,希望对你们有用。
Never give up
Nothing is difficult if you put your heart on it. Nothing is easy if you don’t try your best.
We often hear people say, “Never give up.” This can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in them will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel discouraged and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow as people. Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we make a new effort. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives.
Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln. Born into poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown.
He could have quit many times - but he didn't and because he didn't quit, he became one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country.
Lincoln was a champion and he never gave up.
In short, it is important that we don’t give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better, more confident people. Furthermore, if we give up, we have no chance of attaining our goals, but if we keep trying, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.Thank you very much!
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在演讲前多背几篇短篇英文演讲稿是非常有必要的,下面小编就分享短篇英文演讲稿给你们,希望对你们有用。
Thirteen Names of Virtues
十三项美德
I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my case was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method.
我曾想出一个达到完美品德的大胆而又费力的计划。我希望这一辈子都不犯任何错误,我要克服所有的缺点,不管它们是由天生的爱好而引起的,还是由于习惯或交友不慎引起的。因为我知道,或者自以为知道,什么是对的、什么是错的,所以我觉得自己能够只做好事而不做坏事。但不久我发现,自己想做的工作比原先料想的要困难得多。正当我的注意力放在克服某一缺点时,另一个缺点却出乎意料地冒了出来。习惯利用一时的疏忽,而理智有时又绝非癖好的敌手。后来,我终于得出结论,仅仅抽象地相信完美的品德对我们是有利的,但还不足以防止我们的过失,坏习惯必须打破,好习惯必须培养和建立起来,然后我们才能希望我们的举止能够坚定不移、始终如一地正确。为了这个目标,我想出了下面这个方法。
In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating of every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short percept, which fully expressed the extend I gave to its meaning.
我在阅读的过程中,发现在列举各种道德品质时,各种分类都或多或少地存在分歧,因为对于同一个词的涵义,不同的作者可以做或多或少的阐释。例如“节制”这个词,有人把它的意义限于饮食,而另外一些人却把它的意义扩展到调节其他快乐、欲望、癖好和肉体的或精神的情欲,甚至将其推广到贪婪和野心上面。我总结出了13种美德,这是我当时认为必需的或适合的所有美德条目,并在每一项底下加了一条简单的箴言,它充分说明了我认为这个词的涵义所应有的范围。
These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:
这些道德的名目及其涵义如下:
1.Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
1.节制。食不过饱,饮酒不醉。
2.Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
2.沉默。说话必须对自己或他人有益;避免无益的聊天。
3.Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
3.生活秩序。将每一样东西放在它们应该放的地方;安排好做每件日常事务的时间。
4.Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
4.决心。做该做的事;决心做的事应坚持不懈。
5.Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i. e. waste nothing.
5.俭朴。花钱必须于人于己有益;换言之,切忌浪费。
6.Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
6.勤勉。不浪费时间,只做有用的事,戒掉一切不必要的行动。
7.Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
7.诚恳。不欺骗人;思想纯洁公正;说话也要如此。
8.Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
8.公正。不做害人的事情,不要忘记履行对人有益而且又是你应尽的义务。
9.Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
9.中庸适度。避免极端;要容忍你认为别人应得的处罚。
10.Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanness in body, clothes, or habitation.
10.清洁。身体、衣服和住所力求清洁。
11.Tranquility.Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
11.镇静。不要因为小事或普通的、不可避免的事故而惊慌失措。
12.Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
12.贞节。除非为了健康或生育后代,不常进行房事,切忌房事过度,伤害身体或损害你自己或他人的安宁或名誉。
13.Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
13.谦逊。仿效耶稣和苏格拉底。
My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my on of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand above.
我的目标是养成一切美德的习惯,因此我认为,为了不至于分散注意力,最好还是不要立即全面尝试,而是在一段时期内集中精力于其中之一。当我掌握了那项美德之后,接着再开始注意另外一项,如此这样,直到我做满13条为止。因此先获得的一些美德可以方便其他美德的培养,而我就按照这个主张把它们排列起来,就像上面的次序一样。
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在演讲前多背几篇高中英文短篇演讲稿是非常有必要的,下面小编就分享高中英文短篇演讲稿给你们,希望对你们有用。
You learn 中英对照
After a while you learn
不久你就会明白
The subtle difference
握住一只手和拴住一颗心
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul;
其间有着微妙的区别;
And you learn that love doesn't mean learning,
你明白爱并不意味依靠
And company doesn't mean security.
陪伴并不意味安全。
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
你开始明白亲吻不是契约
And presents aren't promises;
礼物不是诺言;
And you begin to accept your defeats
你也开始接受你的失恋
With your head up and eyes open,
扬起头,睁大眼,
With the grace of a woman,not the grief of a child.
展示你女人的风度,而不是孩子的悲伤。
And you learn to build all roads
你明白应该在今天
On today because tomorrow's ground
将你所有的道路铺建
Is too uncertain for plains,and futures have
因为明天的地面是那么起伏不定,难以设计,
A way of falling down in mid flight.
而未来常常突然出现在眼前。
After a while you learn that even sunshine
不久你就会明白即使是阳光
Burns if you get too much;
如果拥有太多,也会灼伤
So plant your own garden and decorate
所以种植自己的花园,
Your own soul,instead of waiting
美丽自己的灵魂,
For someone to bring you flowers.
而不是等待别人给你带来鲜花和芳香。
And you learn that you really can endure…
你明白你真的可以忍耐……
That you really are strong
你确实十分坚强
And you rally do have worth.
你的确有自己的价值。
And you learn and learn
你不断明白更多
With every good bye you learn,you relieve…
每一次分手你都有新的感悟,新的释然……
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月亮是环绕地球运行的一颗固态卫星,也是离地球最近的天体。那么你知道月亮的英文是什么吗?下面读文网小编为大家带来月亮的英文表达和相关例句,希望对你有所帮助。
1. In Norse mythology the moon is personified as male.
在斯堪的纳维亚神话里,月亮被赋予了男性身份。
2. The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.
半轮月亮躲在淡淡的云彩之后。
3. Look at that moon. Is that beautiful or what?
看看那月亮,它真漂亮,不是吗?
4. The moon was casting a rainbow through the spray from the waterfall.
月亮在瀑布溅起的水雾上照出了一道彩虹。
5. The moon was waning, and each day it rose later.
月亮渐亏,每天出现的时间也越来越晚。
6. The moon shone, shedding a ghostly light on the fields.
月亮闪耀,田野上洒下幽幽的亮光。
7. The moon disappeared behind a cloud.
月亮消失在云后。
8. The moon was rising in the inky sky.
月亮升起在墨似的夜空中。
9. There will be no moon.
月亮不会出来了。
10. A dog suddenly howled, baying at the moon.
一只狗突然对着月亮狂吠不止。
11. The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
银盘似的月亮悬挂在空中.
12. The moon finally peeped out from behind the clouds.
月亮终于从云层后面露了出来.
13. The sky was dark blue and clear when the moon came up.
月亮出来时,天空是深蓝色的,非常晴朗.
14. He looked at the moon and made the time to be midnight.
他看了看月亮,估计时间是半夜了.
15. The fog cleared away and the full moon appeared.
雾消散了,整个月亮出现了.
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