(实用)英语经典美文15篇
在平时的学习、工作或生活中，大家都知道美文吧？什么是美文？就像一千个人心中就有一千个哈姆雷特一样，每个人心目中都有自己衡量美文的标准。相信很多人都觉得美文很难写吧？以下是小编精心整理的英语经典美文，欢迎阅读，希望大家能够喜欢。
英语经典美文1
I am dancing with my father at my parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. The band is playing an old-fashioned waltz as we move gracefully across the floor. His hand on my waist is as guiding as it always was, and he hums the tune to himself in a steady, youthful way. Around and around we go, laughing and nodding to the other dancers. We are the best dancers on the floor, they tell us. My father squeezes my hand and smiles at me.
As we continue to dip and sway, I remember a time when I was almost three, and my father came home from work, swooped me into his arms and began to dance me around the table. My mother laughed at us, told us dinner would get cold. But my father said, “She's just caught the rhythm of the dance! Dinner can wait!” And then he sang out “Roll out the barrel, let's have a barrel of fun,” and I sang back, “Let's get those blues on the run.” That night he taught me to polka, waltz and do the fox trot while dinner waited.
We danced through the years. When I was five, my father taught me to “shuffle off to Buffalo”. Later we won a dance contest at a Campfire Girls Round-Up. Then we learned to jitterbug at the USO place downtown. Once my father caught on to the steps, he danced with everyone in the hall — the women passing out doughnuts, even the GI's. We all laughed and clapped our hands for my father, the dancer.
One night when I was fifteen, lost in some painful, adolescent mood, my father put on a stack of records and teased me to dance with him. “C'mon,” he said, “let's get those blues on the run.” I turned away from him and hugged my pain closer than before. My father put his hand on my shoulder, and I jumped out of the chair screaming, “Don't touch me! Don't touch me! I am sick and tired of dancing with you!” The hurt on his face did not escape me, but the words were out, and I could not call them back. I ran to my room sobbing hysterically.
We did not dance together after that night. I found other partners, and my father waited up for me after dances, sitting in his favorite chair, clad in his flannel pajamas. Sometimes he would be asleep when I came in, and I would wake him saying, “If you were so tired, you should have gone to bed.”
“No, no,” he'd say. “I was just waiting for you.”
Then we'd lock up the house and go to bed.
My father waited up for me all through my high school and college years while I danced my way out of his life.
One night, shortly after my first child was born, my mother called to tell me my father was ill. “A heart problem,” she said. “Now, don't come. Three hundred miles. It would upset your father. We will just have to wait. I'll let you know.”
My father's tests showed some stress, but a proper diet restored him to good health. Little things, then, for a while. A disc problem in the back, more heart trouble, a lens implant for cataracts. But the dancing did not stop. My mother wrote that they had joined a dance club. “You remember how your father loves to dance.”
Yes, I remember. My eyes filled up with remembering.
When my father retired, we mended our way back together again; hugs and kisses were common when we visited each other. But my father did not ask me to dance. He danced with the grandchildren; my daughters knew how to waltz before they could read.
“One, two, three and one, two, three,” my father would count out, “won't you come and waltz with me?” Sometimes my heart would ache to have him say those words to me. But I knew my father was waiting for an apology from me, and I could never find the right words.
As the time for my parents' fiftieth anniversary approached, my brothers and I met to plan the party. My older brother said, “Do you remember that night you wouldn't dance with him? Boy, was he mad! I couldn't believe he'd get so mad about a thing like that. I'll bet you haven't danced with him since.”
I did not tell him he was right.
My younger brother promised to get the band.
“Make sure they can play waltzes and polkas,” I told him.
“Dad can dance to anything,” he said. “Don't you want to get down, get funky?” I did not tell him that all I wanted to do was dance once more with my father.
When the band began to play after dinner, my parents took the floor. They glided around the room, inviting the others to join them. The guests rose to their feet, applauding the golden couple. My father danced with his granddaughters and then the band began to play the “Beer Barrel Polka.”
“Roll out the barrel,” I heard my father sing. Then I knew it was time. I knew the words I must say to my father before he would dance with me once more. I wound my way through a few couples and tapped my daughter on the shoulder.
“Excuse me,” I said, almost choking on my words, “but I believe this is my dance.”
My father stood rooted to the spot. Our eyes met and traveled back to that night when I was fifteen. In a trembling voice, I sang, “Let's get those blues on the run.”
My father bowed and said, “Oh, yes. I've been waiting for you.”
Then he started to laugh, and we moved into each other's arms, pausing for a moment so we could catch once more the rhythm of the dance.
英语经典美文2
The sun fell down， the night became dark little by little， everything around me also became quiet …
太阳下山了，夜幕徐徐合拢，四周渐渐平静……
The tree says：“Dear land ，thank you for the things did for us。Even though how tall and strong we are in the future ，we also speak highly of you forever。”
树苗：土地，谢谢你为我们所做的一切。不管我们将来多么高大，多么魁梧，我们永远赞美你，歌颂你。
The land says：“But my dear kid ，I don’t think how wonderful I am 。Because also I give my love to the grasses ，the ocean ，the birds…。”
土地：可是，孩子，我却并不认为自己有多伟大。因为，我的爱，还给予了小草，给予了江海，给予了鸟雀……
The tree says：“Maybe it is so called universal love people say。Your universal love ，lets us have many friends ，the spring water that never stops ，the great singing sounds and so on。”
树苗：这大概就是人类说的博爱吧。你的博爱，让我们有了许多伙伴，有了不竭的甘泉，有了动听的歌声……
The land says：“What’s more ，I will take the snow ，the difficulties ，and so many challenges to you。”
土地：而且，我会给你们带来冰雪，带来挫折，带来许许多多的.磨难。
The tree says：“because of this， we just have steadfast determination ，the death—defying spint ，and the selfreliance power。”
树苗：所以，我们才有了坚定的意志，有了拼搏的精神，有了自强不息的力量。
The land says：“Sometimes ，I’m so bad ，I put a stone under your bottom ，let you not take root to grow easily ，make you have nowhere to live。”
土地：有时候，我很坏，会在泥土下面给你们一块岩石，让你们不能轻易扎根生长，让你们没有立足之地。
The tree says：“It’s taking much exercise ourselves。I know clearly that no trees can live without air all over the world。Although we live in the cliff ，there must be some earth under us that is unselfish。”
树苗：那是锻炼我们的生存能力。我清楚地知道，世界上，没有哪一棵树能够在真空中发芽，在真空中成长。即使生长在悬崖绝壁，树的脚下，也一定有一抔无私奉献的泥土。
英语经典美文3
I had just graduated from veterinary school, and I was volunteering at the local shelter in Twin Falls, Idaho. As I looked down at the dog napping in her run, I knew I was going to have to wake her up to put her to sleep. What a cruel euphemism.
She was a Heinz-57 mixed-breed with no name, no home, no hope. She was horrifically malnourished, and her coat was a mass of mats and burrs.
In a way, she was lucky to be here. Found on the side of the road - like living garbage – she"d been left to die in a remote area of our county.
The kind rancher who found her brought her to the local shelter where she joined dozens of other cuties and uglies pressing against the front of the cages hoping to catch the eye of someone who had a heart and home big enough to give them another chance.
Problem was there were too many homeless pets and not enough homes. Day after day for a week the dog waited and waited, her still-wagging tail marking the time.
But on this day, her time was up. No one had adopted her; like many in the shelter, the animals were too big, too small, too hairy, too young, too old. Without enough cages to hold all that came through our doors, we were prepared to end her life quickly and without suffering. "Better than starving to death in the country," I said, finding little solace in the words.
I was inspired to enter this profession because of a deep love of animals. I had been highly trained and entrusted to save lives and prevent pain and suffering. Yet here I was about to end the life of this innocent creature. I hated this part of the job, but I had to do it. Choking back my emotions, I readied myself to perform the procedure for which I"d been trained.
I set her on the table, and she wiggled her gaunt frame with delight as I spoke some soothing words and patted her head. The tempo of her tail quickened as she looked up at my face. Looking into her eyes, I saw total trust, unconditional love and absolute loyalty. I felt the cruel irony of what was taking place. God"s precious creatures, embodying the kindest virtues on the planet, being killed for the crime of not being wanted. She held out her leg for me to inject and licked my hand. She was ready. I wasn"t.
I collapsed onto the dog and held her tight as I bathed her with tears. Never, ever would I do a convenience euthanasia again. I"d euthanize a pet if it was suffering terribly, or had an incurable disease, but never again because of an uncaring owner"s mere request.
I took the dog back to my veterinary practice and named her G. H. - short for Good Home. I"d observed over the years that people who raised litters of puppies or kittens always said, "I just want to find them a "good home.""
I soon entrusted G. H. to a loving client who had a heart and home big enough to welcome yet another four-legged family member.
Saving G. H. set me on a new path as a veterinarian. Although my hands still held the power of death, my heart didn"t. Now, whenever I look into the dancing liquid eyes of a pet, brimming with love, I realize that looks can save. They did me.
英语经典美文4
30. The Enchantment of Creeks (2)
Above all, a creek offers the mind a chance to penetrate the alien universe of water, of tadpoles and trout. What drifts in creek water is the possibility of other worlds inside and above our own. Poet Robert Frost wrote: "It flows between us, over us, and with us. And it is time, strength, tone, light, life, and love.
Creeks lead one on, like perfume on the wind. A creek is something that disappears around a bend, into the ground, into the next dimension. To follow a creek is to seek new acquaintance with life.
I still find myself following creeks. In high mountain meadows I'll trace their course into the limegreen grass and deep glacial duff, marveling at the sparkle of quartz and mica. The pursuit liquefies my citified haste and lifts weight from my shoulders. Once, in the California desert, as hummingbirds darted from cactus blossoms, I heard the babble of rushing water. My ears led me over dusty hillsides and sown scabrous ravines to an unexpected ribbon of clear, cold water, leaping from rock to rock, filling little pools. The discovery seemed Biblical. It filled me with joy.
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by Peter Steinhart
英语经典美文5
"Time" says the proverb "is money". This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money. Let those who think nothing of wasting time, remember this; let them remember that an hour misspent is equivalent to the loss of a bank-note; an that an hour utilized is tantamount to so much silver or gold; and then they will probably think twice before they give their consent to the loss of any part of their time. Moreover, our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the . .
sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day of an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Let us bear this in mind, and waste of time will appear to us in the light of a crime as culpable as suicide itself. (250 words)
英语经典美文6
Failure is not good.
挫败没什么好的。
There is absolutely nothing good about failure. And there's nothing you can pretend to learn from failure.
挫败绝对不是什么好事。你也不能假装能从挫败当中学到什么东西。
You can't learn anything from failure because don't forget that every single moment in your past has added up to that one moment in your present - where you are lying on the floor moaning your painful and abysmal failure.
你从挫败里根本学不到东西，因为你别忘了，你躺在地上为你痛苦和糟糕的挫败而抱怨，而正是过去的每个瞬间加和所造成的。
Here are better things to learn from. Failure has many cousins. Learn from one of the cousins:
这有更好的东西值得去学习。很多东西都与挫败有关联，你只要从其中一个那里学习：
Curiosity: When something happens and you don't understand why, then ask, "Why?"Keep asking questions. Clearly, something confusing happened. Ask and ask and ask.Guess what will happen: you will get answers.
好奇心：当某些事发生了但你却不知道缘由时，你就要问：“为什么？”保持问问题的习惯。很明显，总会有让你困惑的事情发生，问、问、问就好。
Persistence: I get asked: how do I market my book? Or my app? Answer: write another book. Write another app.
持之以恒：别人问：“我怎么推销我的书呢？还有我的应用怎么办？”回答是：“再写本书，再做个应用。”
The best way to get better, to get more known, to learn the subtleties of your art or your field or your sport, is to simply do it again.
想要变得更好、知道得更多、学习培养艺术的敏感度或者开发属于你自己的领域或运动，最简单的就是重复做。
Forgiveness: I used to live in regret. One time I sold a business for $15 million. Within two years I had lost almost all of the money.
宽容：我生活中老爱后悔。有一次我做了一笔1500万美元的生意。两年之内，我几乎失去了我所有的钱。
And it wasn't money on paper. It was money in "real life". If I tell you how I lost it you would hate me forever. That's ok. But it's not important for this answer.
并且那不是理论上的钱，而是真真实实的钱。如果我告诉你我是怎么弄丢的'，你会恨我一辈子的。那没关系的，但是对这个回答并不重要。
"Failure" is a word used to label a past event. That's 100% up to you how you label a past event.
“挫败”这个词是用来标记过去的。那100%是在于你怎么去定义过去的事情。
When you label a past event "failure" it prevents you from moving beyond the past. You get stuck there. You keep time traveling to the moment of failure under the excuse that there is something to learn there.
如果你把过去的事情标记为“挫败”的话，你就不能从自己的过去中走出来了。你会一直停留在那里。你以“可以从中学到东西”为由不停地回到过去，回到挫败的那一刻。
The thing you learn first is forgiveness. Then you move back to the present. Get healthy. Be around people you love. Start being creative again.
你要学会的第一件事就是宽容。然后你才能回到当下，变得健康，回到你爱的人身边，重新开始去创造一切。
英语经典美文7
We cannot travel every path． Success must be won along one line．We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate（服从）．
我们不可能把每条路都走一遍。必须执着于一条道路才能获得成功。我们必须有一个终生追求的目标，其他的则从属于这个目标。
I hate a thing done by halves（不完全的）． If it be right, do it boldly．If it be wrong， leave it undone．
我痛恨做事半途而废。如果这件事是对的，就大胆勇敢地去做；如果这件事不对，就不要去做。
The men of history were not perpetually（不断地） looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size． Absorbed in their work they did it． They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great， and labeled them accordingly．
历史长河中的伟人并不是靠终日瞻观镜中的自己来衡量自身的形象的。他们的形象来自对事业全身心的投入与追求。他们是如此的卓越超凡，于是芸芸众生觉得他们很伟大，并因此称他们为伟人。
To live with a high ideal is a successful life． It is not what one does， but what one tries to do， that makes a man strong． “Eternal vigilance，” it has been said， “is the price of liberty．” With equal truth it may be said， “Unceasing effort is the price of success．” If we do not work with our might， others will； and they will outstrip（超过） us in the race， and pluck the prize from our grasp．
为崇高的理想而活着是一种成功的生活。使人变强大的，不是这个人做了什么，而是他努力尝试去做什么。有人说过，“恒久的警惕是自由的代价”，那同样也可以说，“不懈的努力是成功的代价。”倘若我们不尽全力工作，别人会尽全力，随后他们将在竞争中超越我们，从我们手中夺取胜利的果实。
Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance．Self－distrust is the cause of most of our failures．
成功越来越不依赖于运气和巧合。丧失自信是我们失败的主要原因。
The great and indispensable help to success is character． Character is a crystallized habit， the result of training and conviction． Every character is influenced by heredity， environment and education． But these apart， if every man were not to be a great extent the architect of his own character， he would be a fatalist， and irresponsible creature of circumstances．
性格是取得成功不可或缺的`重要助力。性格是一种固化成形的习惯，是不断培养并坚信于此的结果。每个人的性格都会受到遗传因素、环境和教育的影响。但除此之外，如果人在很大程度上不能成为自己性格的构筑者，那么他就会沦为宿命论者，从而成为环境的失败造物。
Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance， it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance． From the same materials one man builds palaces， another hovel． Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks， until the architect can make them something else．
与其说人是环境的造物，不如说人是环境的建筑师更贴切些。同样的材料，有人能用其建造出宫殿，而有人只能建成简陋的小屋。在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依然是砖泥。
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much．
想得到的多就永远不要奢望太多。
Wise men don't care for what they can't have．
智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。
英语经典美文8
In all one 8217;s lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of. When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. When you are going downhill you tend to underestimate yourself. It 8217;s likely that you think it wise for yourself to know your place and stay aloof from worldly wearing a mask of cowardice, behind which the flow of sap in your life will be retarded.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to gain a correct view of oneself and be a sober realist — aware of both one 8217;s strength and shortage. You may look forward hopefully to the future but be sure not to expect too much, for ideals can never be fully realized. You may be courageous to meet challenges but it should be clear to you where to direct your efforts.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself needs self-appreciation. Whether you liken yourself to a towering tree or a blade of grass, whether you think you are a high mountain or a small stone, you represent a state of nature that has its own reason of existence. If you earnestly admire yourself you 8217;ll have a real sense of self-appreciation, which will give you confidence. As soon as you gain full confidence in yourself you 8217;ll be enabled to fight and overcome any adversity.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself also requires doing oneself a favor when it 8217;s needed. In time of anger, do yourself a favor by giving vent to it in a quiet place so that you won 8217;t be hurt by its flames; in time of sadness, do yourself a favor by sharing it with your friends so as to change a gloomy mood into a cheerful one; in time of tiredness, do yourself a favor by getting a good sleep or taking some tonic. Show yourself loving concern about your health and daily life. Unless you know perfectly well when and how to do yourself a favor, you won 8217;t be confident and ready enough to resist the attack of illness.
To get a thorough understanding of oneself is to get a full control of one 8217;s life. Then one will find one 8217;s life full of color and flavor.
英语经典美文9
"I'm going to marry you one day." Beth said to her long time crush Jake. She wore her favorite blue teddy bear shirt. Her four-year-old blue eyes shined in the sun.
"No you're not, you're a girl." Jake said.
The California afternoon wind blew his light brown hair. Jumping off the monkey bars he laughed back to class.
Sitting alone and confused she didn't know what to do. Beth sat high on the monkey bars crying. How can her future husband just leave like that?
She was going to get him, but how? "I will not let him get away! I won't! I won't!"
15 years later:
"I love you, too, Jake." Hanging up the phone she caught her mom smiling. "What?"
"When is he coming in from France? He's been there for awhile." She sat down on her black leather couch. The house was made up of different Indian stuff. On the walls were different dream catchers. Her mother was a full blood Cherokee Indian. She passed away when Beth was eight.
"He has a lot of schooling to do right now. Maybe this Saturday."
Fixing her short overalls she thought of Jake. Who would have thought they were going to date when she turned five?
"Is he still living in Colorado?" Her mother Kay wore a white tank top with tan pants. And long blonde hair with pretty blue eyes. She was the most beautiful woman on Earth. And Beth is looking like her by the minute.
"Yeah, I hate having a long distance relationship." She plopped on a leather chair.
"It's ok baby, you know he loves you more than anything in this world. Love will keep you together."
Beth could not help but smile. Her mother is and will always be her best friend.
Jake sat in his hotel the school rented for him. School of law. He loved going overseas for everything. But he missed being with Beth. That hurt him the most.
Spending the lonely nights in the hotel made him think of how much it would hurt to spend the rest of his life without her in it.
Getting up off his bed he went into the bathroom. Watching his reflection in the mirror, all he could think about was Beth. He would leave Thursday, and get there Friday night.
Turning off the light he jumped into the cold bed. On a coffee table near his bed rested a frame with them in it. It was taken at a beach about two years ago. It was the best time of their lives.
It was Thursday morning and Beth waited for Jake's morning phone call. He would call at eight — it was ten.
Beth got out of bed and got her favorite blue tank top. She took off her shirt and screamed at the top of her lungs.
"What? What?" Her mother came rushing into her room. Staring at her naked daughter she saw the lump of her breast. "Does it hurt?"
Beth could only say "No." Looking at the lump, she cried in pain.
"Let's get you to the doctor."
"Ok, let me get dressed."
Shutting the door behind her, the room became silent. Shaking she put on her shirt, and ran out into the living room.
"Mom, where are my blue shorts?"
"In the dresser, second drawer."
Finishing getting dressed she hopped into her car. Her red mustang drove like a baby.
They waited for the doctor to come in. Beth could not begin to think she had cancer. As her mind drifted off her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" Her heart skipped a beat, hoping it was Jake.
"Hey, how are you?" He asked out of breath.
"Could be better. Why didn't you call me this morning?"
"Sorry, school got ahold of me today."
"Why are you out of breath?" Looking stunned she stared at her mother.
"I'm so sorry, he'll call back." Her mother gave Beth a hug.
The doctor came in, and greeted his self. "Hello. I'm Kevin Baker." He smiled while examining her breast.
英语经典美文10
Gracious giving requires no special talent, nor large amounts of money. It is compounded of the heart and head acting together to achieve the perfect means of expressing our feelings. For, as Emerson explains, "The only gift is a portion of thyself."
一份贴心的礼物并不需要非常特别，也不需要花大价钱去买。一份礼物应该包涵我们的心意，传达我们的思念。爱默生曾说过：“最好的礼物就是你自己。”
A little girl gave her mother several small boxes tied with bright ribbons. Inside each were slips of paper on which the child had printed messages such as, "Good for two flower-bed weedings," "Good for two floor-scrubbings." She had never read Emerson, but unconsciously she put a large part of her small self into her gift.
一个小女孩给了她妈妈几个用漂亮缎带打包好的小盒子，每个盒子里都装着小女孩打印好的纸条，上面写着比如“给花坛除草两次”、“洗两次地板”之类的字。她没有读过爱默生的那句话，但是她把自己的心意放进礼物里送给了妈妈。
A young bride received a wedding present from an older woman. With it went a note, "Do not open until you and your husband have your first tiff."
一位年轻的新娘从一位老妇人那里收到一份结婚礼物，还有一张纸条：“在你和你丈夫第一次吵架时打开。”
When there finally came a day of misunderstanding the bride remembered the package. In it she found a card box filled with her friend's favorite recipes--and a note, "You will catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar." It was a wise woman indeed who gave of her experience with her gift.
后来有一天，他们发生了争吵，这是新娘想起了这份包裹，于是她找到它，发现里面装满了老妇人最喜欢的食谱，还附着一张纸条：“蜂蜜比醋能招来更多苍蝇（甜言蜜语比尖酸刻薄更得人心）。”这位智慧的老妇人把自己的生活经验当做礼物送给了新娘。
Family gifts should be the most satisfying because we know each member's wish and whim. Yet how often we make the stereotyped offerings--ties, candy, or household utensils. One man I know is planning an unusual present for his wife. When I saw him coming out of a dancing studio, he explained: "I got tired of hearing my wife complain about my dancing. It's going to be a lasting birthday present for her--my dancing well."
来自家人的礼物应该是最令人满意的了，因为我们知道每位家庭成员的喜好和念想。但是我们却经常送一些千篇一律的礼物——领带、糖果或是家用器皿。我曾见过一个男人为他的妻子准备了一份不同寻常的`礼物，当他走出舞蹈培训班的时候，他告诉我：“我受够了我妻子对我舞技的抱怨，我精进的舞技对她来说会是一份永恒的礼物。”
An elderly lady on an Iowa farm wept with delight when her son in New York had a telephone installed in her house and followed it up with a weekly long-distance call.
一位住在爱荷华州的农场的老妇人喜极而泣，因为她在纽约的儿子在她家里装了部电话，而且在接下来每一周都打长途电话回家。
All gifts that contain a portion of self signify that someone has been really thinking of us. One of the most useful and thoughtful travel presents a girl ever received was currency of the country to which she was going. A friend bought her some pesos from a bank so that she would have the correct money for tips and taxi fare when she first arrived in Mexico.
所有包含了自己的心意的礼物都表示着礼物主人对我们的思念。对一位要去旅行的姑娘来说，最实用、最贴心的礼物莫过于要去的那个国家的货币了。她的一位朋友从银行兑换了一些比索给她，这样她就可以在初到墨西哥的时候有钱付小费和车费了。
Chances for heroic giving are rare, yet every day there are opportunities to give a part of yourself to someone who needs it. It may be no more than a kind word or a letter written at the right time. The important thing about any gift is the amount of yourself you put into it.
我们很少有机会送出华丽的礼物，但是我们每天都有机会把自己的一部分送给需要的人，也许是一句贴心的话语，也许是一封来得正好的信，但不管送什么礼物，最重要包含自己的心意。
英语经典美文11
She Asked Dad How He Met Mom. His Response Is The Best Thing You'll Read Today
女儿问爸爸和妈妈是如何认识的，爸爸的回答精彩绝伦
A high school senior named Sydney is writing an essay about her parents, so she asked Dad how he and Mom fell in love.
一位名叫Sydney的高中生要写一篇关于她父母的文章，所以她问了她爸爸是如何与妈妈相爱的
Dad texted her the story, and now it's being shared all over the world.
Sydney的爸爸用短信叙述了他们的故事，如今这段故事已经在全世界范围内被转发分享。
This is why...
这就是为什么这段故事风靡世界的原因...
Dad:
爸爸发来短信说：
Your mom basically asks me to marry her. We both thought it would be funny to tell our friends since no one would believe it. So at first our engagement was a joke.Two weeks later I was absolutely madly in love with your mother. She was more than a dream come true for me. You guys only see her as R2D2. I get to see her as my best friend, my hilarious wife, and my beautiful queen when we get the chance to be away from here and work.
你妈妈直接就跟我说让我娶她。我们两个人当时都觉得把这件事告诉朋友会很有趣，因为没有人会相信。所以一开始我们的订婚就是个笑话。不过，两周后我就几近疯狂地爱上了你的妈妈。爱上她对于我来说，简直比梦想成真还高兴。你们可能只是把她看作是一个R2D2（一个典型的机智、勇敢、而又鲁莽的宇航技工机器人）。但当我们有机会远离生活杂事和工作的时候，我在她身上看到的是我最好的朋友、我逗逼的妻子和美丽的皇后。
You’ve probably seen the great side of mommy while alone with her at tourneys…idk?
你可能已经在她独自参加比赛的.时候见识过了你妈妈伟大的一面…其实我也不清楚？
Married a year later. Had Brytt, first child。 A daddy’s girl, made me cry. Had Q, my son and future and the future of the Willoughby name, plus someone I could teach to be a man. But … your mom wanted another and I didn’t at first.
婚后一年。有了Brytt，我们的第一个孩子。因这是爸爸的第一个女儿，这让我激动得哭了出来。之后有了Q，这是我的儿子和未来的儿子与威洛比的名字，也是以后我可以将他抚养成人的人的名字。不过……你妈妈想要另一个孩子，而我起初并不想要。
I’ll admit at that time l was working days and going to school at night and weekends. Mommy was working nights so we were sort of having a rough time. Not seeing enough of each other.
我承认那段时间我一直忙于工作，晚上和周末的时候都要去上学。你妈妈那时候也要上晚班，导致那段时间我们过得非常辛苦。甚至没有足够的时间见面。
So you were the way to bring us back together. Didn’t know it at the time but you changed our lives. We chose to have mommy quit working. By doing so, l lost R2D2 and got back my truly perfect wife.
所以是你的出现把我们又拉拢在了一起。但当时没有意识到，后来才发现是你改变了我们的生活。我们达成了一致让你妈妈辞职。做出这样的决定后，R2D2机器人般的妻子消失了，而那个真实的完美的妻子又回到了我的身边。
It allowed us to focus on each other and our finally complete family. l also had to go to school for three months. Being away from your mom and my kids ripped the heart out of me. l couldn’t live without R2D2 even though l love my funny queen so much more.
这让我们又把生活重心放在彼此身上，我们完整的家庭也变得越来越有凝聚力。而我依然需要在那三个月里去学校工作。在离开你妈妈去工作的那段时间里，我的心始终紧紧地牵挂着你们。即使我更爱那个有趣的她，我却无法离开像R2D2一般无所不能的妻子结果是。
Bottom line, we fell into each other’s lap under odd circumstances but it resulted in the coolest family ever. You three kids are our personalities all wrapped up. Our heart, soul, humor, kindness, respect, integrity and a million other neat stuff about us. We would not be the same without everyone we have.
我们都在奇怪的情况下，拜倒在了对方的石榴裙下，但这也成就了我们这样一个最酷的家庭。你们三个孩子的性格完满地包涵了我跟你们妈妈的性格。我们的心，灵魂，幽默，善良，尊重他人，正直和其他很多优点。没有彼此，我们就不会有如此多的共同点。
And it keeps growing. l’ve had the perfect life because of your mom. A perfect life. Give me 1 billion dollars. Make the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Make me president. None of those would be worth of without her. She doesn’t just without her. She doesn’t just “complete me” she came into my life when l was young and immature, completed me and then made me so much better of a person. l dated and married an angel.
而且这种共同点在不断变多。有了你妈妈的陪伴，我拥有了完美的生活。一个真正美好的生活。即使给我十亿美元，即使让我成为达拉斯牛仔队的四分卫，或是让我成为总统，若是没有她，这对我来说都毫无意义。没有她我就什么都不是。她不只在我年轻还未成熟的时候走进了我的生活“让我的生活更完整”，也使我成为了一个更好的人。我与你妈妈约会，并最终娶到了这样一位天使。
"Hearing this from my dad about my mom made me cry," Sydney wrote on Twitter. "27 years of marriage."
“听到爸爸叙述的关于妈妈的故事后，我哭了”， Sydney在推上写道。“这长达27年的婚姻。”
Yeah, we're crying too.
是的，看到这里，我们也抑制不住眼泪了。
英语经典美文12
1.Prose of its very nature is longer than verse,and the virtues peculiar to it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is justice; and, whereas love makes you act and speak on the spur of moment, justice needs inquiry, patience, and a control even of the noblest passions. By justice here I do not mean justice only to particular people or ideas, but a habit of justice in all the processes of thought, a style tranquillized and a form moulded by that habit.
本质上，散文长于韵文，散文独有的品质逐渐显现。若诗歌的主要品质是爱，那散文的主要品质就是正义;而且，尽管爱会让你一时心血来潮的去动作和表达，但正义则需要质询，耐心和对强烈感情的控制。这里所说的正义，并非专对某些人或思想，正义是所有思想过程中的习惯，以及由此习惯铸就的形态和沉静的风格。
2.The master of prose is not cold, but will not let any word or image inflame him with a heat irrelevant to his purpose. Unhasting, unresting, he pursues it, subduing all the riches of his mind to it, rejecting all beauties that are not germane to it; making his own beauty out of the very accomplishment of it, out of the whole work and its proportions, so that you must read to the end before you know that it is beautiful.
散文大家并不冷漠，但也不会因头脑发热，让任意与其目的无关的词汇或形象扰乱自己。从容不迫，坚持不懈，他追寻着它，献出自己毕生的'智慧，赶走所有与它无关的浮华。成就散文创造自己的美，美渗透于整体和部分，所以你只有把它读完，才能发现它的美。
3.But he has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for being hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative or argument, we are so led on as we read, that we do not stop to applaud the writer, nor do we stop to question him.
但他也有所回报，因为人们信任他，他也使人们信服，这正是那些靠口才的人所不能得到的;他不露声色而给人更大的愉悦。最好的散文，无论是叙述或辩论，都使我们着迷，已无心停下来为作者叫好，亦或质询什么。
英语经典美文13
1、A strong will and enthusiasm are the wings of pioneering work; self-confidence and perseverance are the steps to success.壮志与热情是创业的羽翼，自信和坚忍是成功的阶梯。
2、We are not afraid of being incompetent, but are fearful of being impersistent.不怕无能，就怕无恒。
3、People always say that it’s too late. However, in fact, now is the best appropriate time. For a man who really wants to seek for something, every period of life is younger and timely.有人总说已经晚了。实际上，现在就是最好的时光。对于一个真正有所追求的人来说，生命的每个时期都是年轻和及时的。
4、Life is a comedy, written by a sadistic comedy writer though.生活是一出喜剧，只不过出自一位虐心的喜剧家之手。
5、Give up can findten thousand reasons, adhere to just a belief.放弃可以找到一万个理由，坚持只需一个信念。
6、A little learning is a dangerous thing.学问浅薄，如履薄冰。（蒲柏）
7、Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing.生命中任何一件事，都值得全力以赴。
8、The winner is not necessarily the one who runs the fastest but the one who holds on to the last.胜利者不一定是跑得最快的人，而是最有耐力的`人。 ?
9、I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.我可以接受失败，但我不能接受无动于衷。
10、Science only bestows the grandest favour on those who concentrate on it.科学只把最高的恩典赐给专心致志献身于它的人。
11、Do what makes you happy. Be with who makes you smile. Laugh as much as you breath. Love as long as you live.做让你开心的事，和让你欢笑的人在一起。笑声要像呼吸一样频繁，爱要和生命一般长久。
12、May there be enough clouds in your life to make a beautiful sunset.愿你的生命中有足够的云翳，来编制一个美丽的黄昏。
13、It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.长大，成为你自己，是件需要很大勇气的事情。
14、There is no right choices in this world at all. We just need to strive and work hard to make the original choice right.这个世界上根本没有正确的选择，我们只不过是要努力奋斗，使当初的选择变得正确。
15、There is nothing which human courage will not undertake, and little that human patience will not endure.人的勇气能承担一切重负，人的耐心能忍受大部分痛苦。 ?
16、It is up to you to give life a meaning.生命的意义由你自己来赋予。
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
18、Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.不要因渴望得不到的而错过已经拥有的。
19、Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.生活就像巧克力，你永远不知道下一个是什么。
20、We must repeat a thousand and one times; perseverance is the only road to success.我们必须重复一千零一次，坚韧不拔是唯一的成功之路。 ?
21、When you"re sleeping, I"ll be working. When you"re working, I"ll be twice as hard.当你在睡觉的时候，我一直在工作。当你在工作的时候，我已经付出了双倍于你的努力。 ---何猷君?
22、Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.不要只因一次挫败，就放弃你原来决心想达到的目的。
23、No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.无论你感觉怎样，你都要起床，打扮好自己，然后开始新的一天。
24、The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好!
25、Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.不管追求什么目标，都应该坚持不懈。
英语经典美文14
Tears of Joy
To cry is uniquely human, to weep for joy even more so. I cry every day.
I cry for all the years I wanted and needed to cry and didn"t. I cry for the loneliness and pain I"ve felt. I cry for the sheer delight of being alive. I cry for the pleasure that moving my body brings, and for the ability to dance and stretch and sweat. I cry in gratitude for the life I have now.
I was a cute little girl. I loved laughing and playing with my friends. Then, when I was eight years old, I experienced the devastating trauma of incest. In order to cope with that physical, mental and emotional nightmare, I made two unconscious decisions: First, I wanted to be as ugly as possible; second, I didn"t want to think or feel. I knew if I let myself feel anything, it would be too much for me.
So I started eating. When the fear came, I ate; when the pain came, I ate. By the time I was 12, I weighed 200 pounds.
I spent most of my time by myself, doing things with my hands or watching TV. Even with my brothers and sisters, I felt alone. I was never asked out to a dance or to a movie or on a date. I was socially invisible.
By the time I was 25, I weighed 420 pounds. My doctor gave me six months to live. My body couldn"t support the fat I was carrying. I didn"t leave my house for two years. I literally couldn"t move. I had to lose the weight if I wanted to live. And I decided I would do whatever the doctor told me to do to lose it.
I lost my first 100 pounds and I felt so light I wanted to dance. But I started to gain it back, and I realized I had to go deeper and deal with the root of my problem - the unfelt pain. I began therapy, joined a Twelve-Step program and accepted the love and support of my family and friends. At 35, I cried for the first time since I was eight. Feeling my pain was the true secret of my weight loss.
Once I turned that corner, it was up to me to continue the work and to be conscious one day at a time. It was a process of growing self-knowledge and self-acceptance. I continued my therapy. I started to study nutrition, and I learned that for me, eating fat is a sedative. I watched my behavior and monitored what brought on my need to eat. When I found myself knee-deep in Haagen-Dazs, I stopped and asked myself how I got there.
Though there were times when I would backslide, it was my acceptance of myself in all my strengths and weaknesses that helped me get back up and keep going. My goal was to be better - not perfect.
When I see childhood obesity now, it breaks my heart. We wouldn"t dream of laughing at a child who has no arm or leg or who uses a wheelchair. But people will tease and ostracize a child who has an eating disorder and is obese. We still don"t understand that the weight such a child carries is the weight of that child"s own pain.
Healing my life wasn"t just about losing weight. I had to learn how to live life as an adult. I had never learned basic social skills - once, at work, a man talked to me at the water cooler and I giggled like a 14-year-old girl. I started the process of learning about relationships and growing up.
Now, at 46, I am an adult. I have become a person I truly love. My weight is in the average range, I exercise regularly and I have a career I love as a motivational speaker. I recognize the good things that came from my years of childhood pain and isolation: my love for classical music, my ability to sew and to do stained glass - to create beauty with my hands. Even my ability to speak well and engagingly can be traced to the many hours I spent watching such great entertainers as Lucille Ball and Milton Berle on TV.
I am grateful for the blessings in my life now, and I accept the events in my life as gifts of growth that create strength of character and strength of faith. Today I cry in gratitude for the life I have.
英语经典美文15
Hungry for your love 真爱无限
我的心跳急剧加速，我径直地看着拉玛的眼睛，问她，“那个男孩是不是有一天告诉你，‘明天不要给我送苹果了，我要被送到另一个集中营了’？”
“对呀，你怎么知道的。”拉玛的声音有点颤抖，“告诉我，赫尔曼，你到底是怎么知道的啊？”
我抓住她的手说，“因为我就是那个男孩啊，拉玛。”透过时间的面纱，我们认出了那藏在眼睛深处的'灵魂，那是我们永远也无法停止爱恋的亲人。最后，我说：“拉玛，我再也不想和你分开了。我想要永远和你在一起。亲爱的，你能嫁给我吗？”
It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shivering in my thin rags, still in disbelief that this nightmare is happening. I am just a young boy. I should be playing with friends; I should be going to school; I should be looking forward to a future, to growing up and marrying, and having a family of my own. But those dreams are for the living, and I am no longer one of them. Instead, I am almost dead, surviving from day to day, from hour to hour, ever since I was taken from my home and brought here with tens of thousands other Jews. Will I still be alive tomorrow? Will I be taken to the gas chamber tonight?
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