英语散文范文1 A.canB.doesC.thenD.and 答答案是A。这是一道非常特殊的反意疑问句。首先我们注意到主句中的主语和宾语从句中的主语是一致的，而think又表示对某件事的看法，因此要反意在宾语从句。第二，情态动词can在表示寻求答案的时候，通常用can she来疑问。在回答反意疑问的时候，我们既要掌握一般的规则，又不能忽视特殊的用法。 问We have sweaters in all colors at$50 each./We have great bags for just$4!At和for表价格时的用法有何不同？ 答At只是表明具体的价格是多少。有时候我们还可以运用短语at the price of...for主要强调等价交换。比如：We bought this bag for only$4！ 问I dislike the book.想表示“他也不喜欢”时，倒装句是用So还是Neither？ 答这句话是表示否定意义的肯定句。因此要用So。 问We each______a ticket.是用have还是用has？ 答这个问题主要是考查语法中的主谓一致性。本句中的主语是we,each是一个同位语，判断谓语动词应该看主语是单数还是复数，不受同位语的影响。所以应该用have。 问Come down to Huaxing and see for yourself!可不可以用by yourself？ 答for oneself表示“亲自”；by oneself表示“独自一人”，相当于alone。本句话的意思是“亲自下来看看”。 问―I don’t know______with this problem.It’s too hard.―You can ask Mr.Wang for help. A.which to doB.when to toC.what to doD.how to do 答答案是C。先来熟悉两个短语：do with和deal with，都表示“处理”。但因为do是及物动词，do sth.with...表示“通过做一些事情处理某个问题”。而deal是一个不及物动词要与with搭配成deal with sth.，因此在提问的时候，正确的方法是：what to do with和how to deal with。 问―How far is Jiuzi Square from your home? ―About 3 kilometres______. A.away B.long C.far D.around 答答案是A。当有具体数字的时候，应该用away。没有数字用far。比如：It’s far from my house. 问fruit是否可以用做可数名词？ 答当表示种类的时候，fruit可以用复数形式。比如：In Autumn,all kinds of fruits appear in the market. 问Every table and every chair______made of wood. A.isB.areC.wereD.be 答这又是一道主谓一致的题。正确答案是A。当主语为each/every+单数名词时，谓语动词符合形式一致原则，用单数。 问他是我们4个之中最忙的人。这句“我们4个之中”该怎么表示？ 答应该写成among us four。 英语散文范文2 Laba rice porridge was first introduced to China in the Song Dynasty about 900 years ago. Buddhism was well accepted in the areas inhabited by the Han Chinese，who believed that Sakyamuni the first Buddha and founder of the religion，attained enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth month.Sutras were chanted in the temples and rice porridge with beans，nuts and dried fruit was prepared for the Buddha.With the passing of time the custom extended，especially in rural areas where peasants would pray for a plentiful harvest in this way. There is，however，another touching story：When Sakyamuni was on his way into the high mountains in his quest for understanding and enlightenment，he grew tired and hungry.Exhausted from days of walking，he fainted away by a river in India.A shepherdess found him there and fed him her lunch--porridge made with beans and rice.Sakyamuni was thus able to continue his journey. 英语散文范文3 Wherever you are,you can see many people equipped with mobile phones.It seems that the world becomes smaller nowadays.You could be found wherever you are so long as you take the mobile phone with you.Some people wonsider the mobile phone necessary and useful to them,while others may dislike it. People who like the mobile phone are much more concerned about its advantages.It is convenient,for you can connect others easily and quickly.You don’t have to wait for an important call at home all day long.The youth of today send messages,surf on the net,listen to music and even take photos by using the mobile phone.People find it advanced for its attractive functions.In some countries,it even stands for a person’s status. However,some people don’t like it.Imagine that you go to spend your holiday with your family after days of busy and tiresome work.When you lay on the beach comfortably,your phone rings.Then you have to go back to your office only to find an unimportant customer waiting for you.At that moment,you may even want to throw your phone away,for you just want to relax and get rid of your work. However,whether you like the mobile phone or not,it has alresdy affected our lives and played an important role in the history of human beings. [初三的英语作文范文]： 英语散文范文4 First and foremost,I have a pet.It is my dog,It is name is coco,It is color is as white as snow,and have a two big eyes.It is very nice and loyalty.It makes me stress reliever,and forget about the busy thing in the school.For example,when I feel sadness,it?will accompany with me,I will talk about my feeling, not only share happy thing,but also share upset events.Therefore,this also lets me have a comfortable. By the way,when I go out,coco in order to wait me at the door.Visible it very loyalty.In addition,in order for the dog can make some new friends,I will help it to join many activities.Such as when I often take a walk with Coco,it will very happy.Since it can make some news friends. Last but not least,my dog makes me so happy,it can make me reduce an anxiety. 英语散文范文5 Du ancient times issued"tens of thousand,the largest shelter scholars of the world all smile,"he,as the poor of one of those very closely;and Bai singing"to people I do not know cold to warm,leclothing for lichens man"when I think he bit Gaojue thick though,but also from genuine.Because we have too poor,it is always a good faith may emerge in the dream of luxury. China is now gradually to prosperity,so the credibility suddenly emerged around us almost full of all types of integrity businesses and individuals,all highly imaginative deception,for example,put some washing powder to the bread in;to Pigs fed clenbuterol or lots of water injection point;to the turtle eel feed point of contraceptives and so amazing.False advertising various businesses,products and profits,it is endless,so look for the Chinese stock market was launched respected companies such a thing.Why the sudden lack integrity and we so eager to call credit? The desire in people to the faith,in fact,have some prophetic nature.If we still have nothing or to Dousipixiu,then our own respect for life,property and freedom of consciousneis still sleeping on unawakened,exactly 20 years of reform and opening up,wake up the consciousneof people sleeping inside,but when we woke up in the age of the cake is not big enough yet,so there are a variety of bad faith disputes,in fact,behind the word,but is a benefit!But this is still a step forward,not backwards.We often say that the United States in the national level of credibility to the more silly,but a century ago Americans had not been so honest in the past the motels in the United States,toilet pa-pe-r,cups and even towels missing,almost commonplace,in very abundant material wealth,the theft of a small property so much lebehavior.The same is true in many parts of China,such as Fujian Jinjiang,Wenzhou and so on,a local product who is synonymous with counterfeiting,but now the development of local economy and the rule of law to a certain stage,they are themselves up to good faith,and has,and then the Wu made the next big difference Amon.This is probably what we call adequate food,clothing and bred,and know etiquette Depository real meaning of it! 英语散文范文6 I like reading in my free time.I've read all kinds of books which are written by many famous writers from all over the world.But I like a Chinese writer best.His name is Xu Zimo. Xu Zimo was born in a big family.His parents were good at writing and his father taught little Xu by himself.When Xu Zimo was very young,he was interested in reading.Fables,stories or novels were his favorites and he often nearly forgot eating and sleeping. When Xu was about six years old,he began to write some short stories.He was always practising writing and he did better and better.But he still kept on reading,because he always believed that“Reading makes a full man,a ready man and an exact man.” When he grew up,his life dream came true.He became a world-famous writer.Not only Chinese but also people from other countries worshiped Xu Zimo.His writing was enjoyed by all the people.Everybody thought that Xu's works were so nice and great.From his writing,people can understand a lot.I have learnt that if someone wants to be a great person,he must work hard! Now,let's enjoy one of Xu's verses: On Leaving Cambridge Again Quietly I leave,Just as I quietly come,I quietly wave,Saying goodbye to the bright clouds of the western sky. 高三英语作文：How to keep healthy What is the most important thing in the world?I think it is health. You can take away our money,house,car,or even our clothes and we can survive.But if our health was taken away,we would surely die.That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly. In order to eat healthily,I usually avoid eating food high in fat,like French fries or cookies.I also eat little meat.I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruit which are full of vitamins. Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body.Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy. What's more,I think friends are an important part of one's health.Many studies show that people with a wide range of social contacts get sick less than those who don't.I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone.When I am with my friends,I always laugh.Laughing is also an important part of health.I like to laugh with my friends. By eating properly and exercising regularly,I can keep my body at a proper weight and keep healthy.By spending time with my friends,I can keep my mind as well as my body happy.These things sound easy to do,but not many people can manage them.I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy. 高三英语作文：How to keep healthy What is the most important thing in the world?I think it is health. You can take away our money,house,car,or even our clothes and we can survive.But if our health was taken away,we would surely die.That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly. In order to eat healthily,I usually avoid eating food high in fat,like French fries or cookies.I also eat little meat.I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruit which are full of vitamins. Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body.Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy. 1.窗 Random Thoughts on the Window 钱钟书 By Qian Zhongshu 又是春天，窗子可以常开了。春天从窗外进来，人在屋子里坐不住，就从门里出去。 It is spring again and the window can be left open as often as one would like.As spring comes in through the windows,so people--unable to bear staying inside any longer--go outdoors. 不过屋子外的春天太贱了!到处是阳光，不像射破屋里阴深的那样明亮;到处是给太阳晒得懒洋洋的风，不像搅动屋里沉闷的那样有生气。 The spring outside,however,is much too cheap,for the sun shines on everything,and so does not seem as bright as that which shoots into the darkness of the house.Outside the sun-sloshed breeze blows everywhere,but it is not so lively as that which stirs the gloominess inside the house. 就是鸟语，也似乎琐碎而单薄，需要屋里的寂静来做衬托。我们因此明白，春天是该镶嵌在窗子里看的，好比画配了框子。 Even the chirping of the birds sounds so thin and broken that the quietness of the house is needed to set it off.It seems that spring was always meant to be put behind a windowpane for show,just like a picture in a frame. 同时，我们悟到，门和窗有不同的意义。当然，门是造了让人出进的。但是，窗子有时也可作为进出口用，譬如小偷或小说里私约的情人就喜欢爬窗子。 At the same time it also becomes clear that the door has a different significance from the window.Of course,doors were made for people to pass through;but a window can also sometimes serve as an entrance or as an exit,and is used as such by thieves and by lovers in novels. 所以窗子和门的根本分别，决不仅是有没有人进来出去。若据赏春一事来看，我们不妨这样说：有了门，我们可以出去;有了窗，我们可以不必出去。 In fact the fundamental difference between a door and a window has nothing to do with them being either entrances or exits.When it comes to the admiration of spring,it could be put this way:a door makes it possible for one to go out,whereas a window makes it possible for one not to have to. 窗子打通了大自然和人的隔膜，把风和太阳逗引进来，使屋子里也关着一部分春天，让我们安坐了享受，无需再到外面去找。 A window helps to pull down the partition between man and nature.It leads breezes and sunlight in,and keeps part of the spring in the house.It allows one to sit and enjoy the spring in peace,and makes it unnecessary to go looking for it outside. 2.乐观与悲观 Optimism and Pessimistic 乐观者在每次危难中都看到了机会，而悲观的人在每个机会中都看到了危难。 The optimism all saw in each time the danger to the opportunity,but the pessimistic person all saw in each opportunity to the danger. 父亲欲对一对孪生兄弟作“性格改造”，因为其中一个过分乐观，而另一个则过分悲观。一天，他买了许多色泽鲜艳的新玩具给悲观孩子，又把乐观孩子送进了一间堆满马粪的车房里。 The father wants to pair of twin brothers to make"the disposition transformation",because of excessively optimistic,but another then is excessively pessimistic.One day,he has bought many lusters bright new toys for the pessimistic child,also feed-in the optimistic child between to pile up with the horse dung in the garage. 第二天清晨，父亲看到悲观孩子正泣不成声，便问：“为什么不玩那些玩具呢?” The second day early morning,the father witnesses to the pessimistic child is choking with sobs,then asked:"Why doesn't play these toys?" “玩了就会坏的。”孩子仍在哭泣。 "Played has been able bad."The child still was sobbing. 父亲叹了口气，走进车房，却发现那乐观孩子正兴高采烈地在马粪里掏着什么。 The father sighs,enters the garage,discovered actually that optimistic child jubilantly is pulling out any in the horse dung. “告诉你，爸爸。”那孩子得意洋洋地向父亲宣称，“我想马粪堆里一定还藏着一匹小马呢!” "Tells you,daddy."That child complacently declared to the father that,"I thought in the horse dunghill certainly also is hiding a pony!" 3.如果你可以选择 If You Could Choose 如果你可以选择在什么样的世界里生活,那么你将会选择怎样的世界呢? If you could choose what kind of world to live in,what kind of world would you choose? 如果你可以决定明日之事,你将会怎样充实它呢? If you could decide what would happen tomorrow,with what kinds of things would you fill it? 倘若你有力量决定自己的机遇,你会怎样选择呢? If you had the power to decide what types of opportunities would come your way,what opportunities would you select? 倘若你知道你的经历会如你所愿,那么你会如何期待呢? If you knew that your experiences would match your expectations,what would your expectations be? 事实上,你有能力选择你要走的路。 In fact,you do have the power to choose your own way. 是你自己决定你将要做的事、你将获得的经历、你将得到的机会和你将置身其中的环境。 You do have the ability to decide what kinds of events,experiences,opportunities and circumstances come your way. 你体验的这个世界和你的梦想、思维、期待甚至行为产生共鸣。 The world you experience is the world that your dreams,your thoughts,your expectations and your actions most closely resonate*. 你看到的世界和你时下生活的这个世界就是你真心期待见到的世界。 The world you see and live in is the world you most sincerely expect to see. 这个宇宙充满了无限的可能,这些可能每一分钟都在增加。 The universe is filled with endless possibilities,and those possibilities keep growing with every minute.The way you live determines which of those possibilities will come into your life. 你的生活方式决定了何种可能性会来到你的世界。 With your thoughts,your actions,your values,your dreams and expectations,you choose what kind of world you live in. 你所选择生活的世界取决于你的想法,你的作为,你秉持的价值理念,你的梦想还有对未来的期待。 The way you live is closely mirrored in the world you see. 你有什么样的世界观就会有什么样的生活方式。 4.再多一点点 A Little Bit More 今天就是你可以做改进的极好的一天。 Today is an excellent day for small improvements. 无论你在做什么,找一个方法去做一点点的改进。 Whatever is working for you,find a way to improve it just a little. 不用做太大的改变,只要一点点——你现在可以做到的一点点。 There’s no need to make a huge change,just a small one,something you can do right now. 如果你每天多给一个顾客打电话的话,一个月下来你会发现你又多认识了差不多二十个人。 If you called just one additional customer each day,over the course of the next month you would talk to about 20 new people. 如果每天多学会一个新词,过一年,你的词汇量将会增加300多个。 If you learned just one more new word each day,in the next year you would increase your vocabulary by more than 300 words. 小小的改进能够逐步积累成大的成就。 Small improvements can add up over time into big accomplishments. 观察你的周围。 Look around you. 思考你每天所做的工作。 Consider the work you do each day. 想一下你怎么能做得更好一点。 Think about how you could do it just a little bit better. 在马拉松比赛中,冠军的每一步都只比第一百名的选手的步伐大一点点、快一点点。但是在比赛过程中,那些小小的不同积累成了巨大的区别。 In a marathon race,each step the winner takes is just a little bit longer and a little bit faster than each stride taken by the 100th place finisher.Yet over the course of the race,that small difference adds up in a big way. 今天、明天、今后的每一天尽力做更多一点点。 Do just a little bit more today,and tomorrow too,and each day after that. Anyone can make just a small improvement,and that can make a big,big difference. 任何人都能做一点小小的改进,但那小小的改进将会起到非常大、非常大的作用。 5.A Better Tomorrow 人们常常心存疑虑,为什么历史学家要费尽周折地保存数以万计的书籍、文献和记录。People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books,documents and records. 我们为什么要有图书馆呢?这些文献和史书有何用处呢? Why do we have libraries?What good are these documents and history books? 我们为什么要记载并保存人类的行为、政府官员的谈判和战争中的事件呢? Why do we record and save the actions of men,the negotiations1 of government officials and the events during wars? 我们这么做的原因在于有时候经验之音能促使我们停步、观察和倾听。也因为有时候过去的记载经过正确地诠释,能帮助我们决定何事可为、何事不可为。We do it because,sometimes,the voice of experience can cause us to stop,look and listen.Sometimes,past records,when understood in the right way,can help us decide what to do and what not to do. 如果我们想要创造永久的和平,我们就必须从人类的经验以及人类历史的记载中去探索其渊源。 If we are ever to create lasting peace,we must seek its origins in human experience and in the records of human history. 从体现男性和女性勇敢和奉献精神的故事之中,我们获得了青春的启示。历史记载着人类的一切苦难、克己、忠诚和英勇的事迹。From the stories of courage and devotion of men and women,we create the inspirations of youth.History records the suffering,the self-denial2,the devotion,and the heroic deeds of people in the past. 这些记载在我们困惑和渴望和平时能对我们有所帮助。 These records can help us when we are confused and when we really need peace. 历史的主要目的是创造一个更加美好的世界。 The main purpose of history is to create a better world. 历史对那些力主战争的人给以警告,给予那些寻求和平的人以启示。 History gives a warning to those who promote war,and inspiration to those who seek peace. 简而言之,历史帮助我们学习。 In short,history helps us learn. 昨日的记载可以使我们避免重蹈覆辙。 Yesterday’s records can keep us from repeating yesterday’s mistakes. 这些历史学家们创作的像马赛克一样色彩缤纷的历史片断汇聚成了代表人类进步的伟大壁画。 And from the pieces of mosaic4 assembled5 by historians come the great murals6 which represent the progress of mankind. 经常阅读文章，可以增长我们的见识，加深我们对不同事物的理解程度，进一步拓宽我们的知识层面，可以修身养性哦! 人不必须要生得漂亮，但却必须要活得漂亮。以下小编为大家介绍英语优美文段摘抄大全，欢迎大家阅读参考! 优秀的英语散文:放下戒心，大自然如此和谐 I sat in the comfort of my grandparents’house,enjoying the rain and the“Cat Concerto”episode of Tom and Jerry with my grandfather. 那天，我正坐在奶奶家的安乐椅上，听着窗外的雨声，和爷爷一起看《猫和老鼠之猫的协奏曲》。 Munching on one of my grandmother’s fresh,scrumptious rotis,I saw a monkey suddenly swing onto the bars on our door. 嘴里嚼着奶奶做的印度烤饼，那饼真是新鲜又美味。这时，我看见一只猴子在门闩上荡秋千。 My grandfather encouraged me to offer it my roti;it gently accepted the gift. 爷爷鼓励我把手中的烤饼给它，猴子欣然接受了这份礼物。 Peering in,my new friend stared with interest at the TV. 隔着窗户，这位新朋友正饶有兴趣地盯着电视。 The curious monkey,my grandfather,and I watched the rest of Tom and Jerry’s adventure together,astonished at the harmony that exists between humans and animals in our world. 随后，我，爷爷，以及这个好奇的猴子一起看完了汤姆和杰瑞的冒险。我十分惊讶，没想到世界上人和动物之间还有如此和谐的一面。 优秀的英语散文:巴菲特最睿智的一句话 Warren Buffett is the current richest investor in the world.And he ranks No.2 among the world’s billionaires. 沃伦巴菲特是目前世界上最有钱的投资人，也是全球第2富有的富翁。 But,compared to his money,it’s those famous quotes of his that attract the public’s attention. 不过，与他的钱相比，他的名言往往才是大众关注的重点。 Though most people now see his words as jokes or anti chicken soup for the souls. 虽然现在很多人都把他的话当做笑谈，或者是毒鸡汤。 But I find his words really inspiring. 但我觉得，他说过的很多话真的很有道理。 And the one sentence which impressed me the most is the following: 而让我印象最深的一句就是这句： Once you have ordinary intelligence,what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. 如果你的智商平平，那你需要的就是控制那些让一般人投资失败的欲望。 The No.1 reason why most people fail to save is failing in controlling their desire. 大部分人存钱失败的根本原因，就是控制不了自己的欲望。 Desire makes you irrational. 欲望让人变得不理性。 And that’s exactly who I was. 而这就是从前的我。 Did I really need to drink a 30 RMB coffee just for several minutes’worth of vibe? 我真的需要为了那几分钟的气氛而去花30块喝一杯咖啡吗? Did I really need all those new garments every month? 我真的需要每个月买这么多新衣服吗? What did they bring me? 它们最终给我带来了什么? They only brought me poverty. 它们给我带来了贫穷。 And the people who are behind these businesses have made money through my stupidity. 而那些在背后经营这些生意的人，则从我的愚蠢中赚到了钱。 优秀的英语散文:学会拒绝，你才能走得更远 If you don't want to do something for somebody,you should manage to say"No."in the first place. 如果你不想为一个人做什么事情，你一开始就应该说“不。” The moment you give in,you've given them the impression that they can use your time as long as they try hard enough. 你一旦让步，就会让他们以为只要多做些努力就能占用你的时间。 No"Let me see." 不要说“我看看。” No"Maybe." 不要说“可能吧。” Just"No."and a"Sorry."if you want to be polite. 直接说“不。”，如果你想表现得礼貌点就加一个“抱歉。” Or you can ask"How much?"if it suits you. 或者，如果你觉得可行，也可以问问“你愿意出多少钱?” Time is the most precious thing that we have. 时间是我们所拥有的最珍贵的东西。 Once you lose a piece of it,you can never get it back. 一旦你失去了一段时间，你永远不可能重新得到它。 And you have the freedom to decide how to use each piece of it. 而你有权利自由支配自己的每一份时间。 So if someone want a piece of your time,they have to be worth it,either by being someone you truly care about or by providing enough payment. 所以，如果有人想动用你的时间，那他们最好配得上它：要么，他们是你真正关心的人;要么，他们愿意付足够多的报酬。 Let me say it once again. 让我再说一遍。 Time is the most precious thing that we have.Learn to refuse when people ask for your time. 时间是我们所拥有的最珍贵的东西。当有人想要你的时间的时候，学会拒绝。 01 Youth 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 a matter of the will,a quality of the imagination,a vigor of the emotions;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow 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 and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16,there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders,the unfailing appetite for what’s next 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 it receives messages of beauty,hope,courage and power from man and from the infinite,so long as you are young. When your aerials are down,and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,then you’ve grown old,even at 20;but as long as your aerials are up,to catch waves of optimism,there’s hope you may die young at 80. 译文：青春 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。 图片 图片 02 Three Days to See(Excerpts) All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year,sometimes as short as 24 hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak,of course,of free men who have a choice,not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking,wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events,what experiences,what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings,what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentleness,vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those,of course,who would adopt the Epicurean motto of“Eat,drink,and be merry”.But 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 sense of values is changed.He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live,or have lived,in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us,however,take life for granted.We know that one day we must die,but usually we picture that day as far in the future.When we are in buoyant health,death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endless vista.So we go about our petty tasks,hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy,I am afraid,characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses.Only the deaf appreciate hearing,only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight.Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties.Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily,without concentration and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it,of 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 some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him the joys of sound. 译文：假如给我三天光明（节选） 我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而不是那些活动范围受到严格限定的死囚。 这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？ 有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种子感觉。当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。 在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的幸运而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常注意到，那些生活在或曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什么都会感到幸福。 然而，我们中的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有一天我们必将面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥远的将来。当我们身强体健之时，死亡简直不可想象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙于琐事，几乎意识不到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。 我担心同样的冷漠也存在于我们对自己官能和意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用于那些成年后才失去视力或听力之苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物与声音，心不在焉，也无所感激。这正好我们只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一样，我们只有在生病后才意识到健康的可贵。 我经常想，如果每个人在年轻的时候都有几天失时失聪，也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更加感激光明，寂静将告诉他声音的美妙。 图片 图片 03 Companionship of Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps;for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;and one should always live in the best company,whether it be of books or of men. A good book may be among the best of friends.It is the same today that it always was,and it will never change.It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always receives us with the same kindness;amusing and instructing us in youth,and comforting and consoling us in age. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third.There is an old proverb,‘Love me,love my dog.”But there is more wisdom in this:”Love me,love my book.”The book is a truer and higher bond of union.Men can think,feel,and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.They live in him together,and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out;for the world of a man’s life is,for the most part,but the world of his thoughts.Thus the best books are treasuries of good words,the golden thoughts,which,remembered and cherished,become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.Temples and statues decay,but books survive.Time is of no account with great thoughts,which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds,ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products;for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society;they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.We hear what they said and did;we see the 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 actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die,even in this world.Embalmed in books,their spirits walk abroad.The book is a living voice.It is an intellect to which on still listens. 译文：以书为伴（节选） 通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以最好的为伴。 好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。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，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。 人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。 好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰藉。 书籍具有不朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。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，时间是无关紧要的。多年前初次闪现于作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟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。 书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。 即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物也永生不来。他们的精神被载入书册，传于四海。书是人生至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满着活力。 图片 图片 04 If I Rest,I Rust The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest,I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that,if one allows his faculties to rest,like the iron in the unused key,they will soon show signs of rust and,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 celebrated mathematician,Edmund Stone,would never have published a mathematical dictionary,never have found the key to science of mathematics,if he had given his spare moments to idleness,had the little Scotch lad,Ferguson,allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string 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 a well-directed purpose.Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. 04译文：如果我休息，我就会生锈 在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。对于那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。 有些人想取得伟人所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运用自身才能，以便开启知识的大门，即那些通往人类努力探求的各个领域的大门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，文学，农业等。 勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休•米勒在采石场劳作一天后，晚上的时光用来休息消遣的话，他就不会成为名垂青史的地质学家。著名数学家爱德蒙•斯通如果闲暇时无所事事，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙。如果苏格兰青年弗格森在山坡上放羊时，让他那思维活跃的大脑处于休息状态，而不是借助一串珠子计算星星的位置，他就不会成为著名的天文学家。 劳动征服一切。这里所指的劳动不是断断续续的，间歇性的或方向偏差的劳动，而是坚定的，不懈的，方向正确的每日劳动。正如要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一样，要想取得伟大的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努力。 图片 图片 05 Ambition It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition.It would probably be a kinder world:with out demands,without abrasions,without disappointments.People would have time for reflection.Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity.Competition would never enter in.conflict would be eliminated,tension become a thing of the past.The stress of creation would be at an end.Art would no longer be troubling,but purely celebratory in its functions.Longevity would be increased,for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor.Anxiety would be extinct.Time would stretch on and on,with ambition long departed 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 success does not really exist?That achievement is at bottom empty?That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success,obviously,is worth esteeming,nor all ambition worth cultivating.Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own.But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging.It is,in its implications,to remove all motives for competence,interest in attainment,and regard for posterity. We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not choose our historical epoch,the country of our birth,or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.We do not,most of us,choose to die;nor do we choose the 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 and what is trivial in life.We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do.But no matter how 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 is what ambition is about. 译文：抱负 一个缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样，这不难想象。或许，这将是一个更为友善的世界：没有渴求，没有磨擦，没有失望。人们将有时间进行反思。他们所从事的工作将不是为了他们自身，而是为了整个集体。竞争永远不会介入；冲突将被消除。人们的紧张关系将成为过往云烟。创造的重压将得以终结。艺术将不再惹人费神，其功能将纯粹为了庆典。人的寿命将会更长，因为由激烈拼争引起的心脏病和中风所导致的死亡将越来越少。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝，抱负却早已远离人心。 啊，长此以往人生将变得多么乏味无聊！ 有一种盛行的观点认为，成功是一种神话，因此抱负亦属虚幻。这是不是说实际上并不丰在成功？成就本身就是一场空？与诸多运动和事件的力量相比，男男女女的努力显得微不足？显然，并非所有的成功都值得景仰，也并非所有的抱负都值得追求。对值得和不值得的选择，一个人自然而然很快就能学会。但即使是最为愤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就的意义举足轻重，而把世上男男女女的所作所为说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽之谈。认为成功不存在的观点很可能造成混乱。这种观点的本意是一笔勾销所有提高能力的动机，求取业绩的兴趣和对子孙后代的关注。 我们无法选择出生，无法选择父母，无法选择出生的历史时期与国家，或是成长的周遭环境。我们大多数人都无法选择死亡，无法选择死亡的时间或条件。但是在这些无法选择之中，我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式：是勇敢无畏还是胆小怯懦，是光明磊落还是厚颜无耻，是目标坚定还是随波逐流。我们决定生活中哪些至关重要，哪些微不足道。我们决定，用以显示我们自身重要性的，不是我们做了什么，就是我们拒绝做些什么。但是不论世界对我们所做的选择和决定有多么漠不关心，这些选择和决定终究是我们自己做出的。我们决定，我们选择。而当我们决定和选择时，我们的生活便得以形成。最终构筑我们命运的就是抱负之所在。 图片 图片 06 What I Have Lived For Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course,over a deep 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 of my life for a few hours for this joy.I have sought it,next,because it relieves loneliness---that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.This is what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what---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 know why the stars shine.And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.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 it brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors,helpless old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the 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. 译文：我为何而生 我的一生被三种简单却又无比强烈的激情所控制：对爱的渴望，对知识的探索和对人类苦难难以抑制的屿。这些激情像狂风，把我恣情吹向四方，掠过苦痛的大海，迫使我濒临绝望的边缘。 我寻求爱，首先因为它使我心为之着迷，这种难以名状的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去换取哪怕几个小时这样的幸福。我寻求爱，还因为它能缓解我心理上的孤独中，我感觉心灵的战栗，仿如站在世界的边缘而面前是冰冷，无底的死亡深渊。我寻求爱，因为在我所目睹的结合中，我仿佛看到了圣贤与诗人们所向往的天堂之景。这就是我所寻找的，虽然对人的一生而言似乎有些遥不可及，但至少是我用尽一生所领悟到的。 我用同样的激情去寻求知识。我希望能理解人类的心灵，希望能够知道群星闪烁的缘由。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的“数即万物”的思想。我已经悟出了其中的一点点道理，尽管并不是很多。 爱和知识，用它们的力量把人引向天堂。但是同情却总把人又拽回到尘世中来。痛苦的呼喊声回荡在我的内心。饥饿的孩子，受压迫的难民，贫穷和痛苦的世界，都是对人类所憧憬的美好生活的无情嘲弄。我渴望能够减少邪恶，但是我无能为力，我也难逃其折磨。 这就是我的一生。我已经找到它的价值。而且如果有机会，我很愿意能再活它一次。
