超值得背诵的英语美文

超值得背诵的英语美文（共5篇）

篇1：超值得背诵的英语美文

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1.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 uponus 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 love they have each for a book.The book is a truer and higher bond of union.Men can think, feel, and sympathize7 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 threasuries 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 authors’ minds, ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividlyas ever from the printed page.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 them as if they were really alive;we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them;their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.—Samuel Smiles

2.Peace

Today we seek a moral basis for peace.It cannot be a real peace if it fails to recognize brotherhood.It cannot be a lasting peace if the fruit of it is oppression or starvation, or cruelty or human life dominated by armed camps.It cannot be a sound peace if small nations must live in fear of powerful neighbors.It cannot be a moral peace if freedom from invasion is sold for tribute.It cannot be an intelligent peace if it denies free passage to that knowledge of those ideals which permit men to find common ground.It cannot be a righteous peace if worship of God is denied.Peace, no less than war, must offer a spirit of comradeship, a spirit of achievement, a spirit of unselfishness, and indomitable will to victory.Peace, no less than war, must offer a spirit of comradeship, a spirit of achievement, a spirit of unselfishness, and indomitable will to victory.Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.—Franklin D.Roosevelt

3． To Spring

Oh you, sweet Spring, alight from cherub’s wing,And put the ugly winter full to flight;

And rouse the earth to smile, and larks to sing,With skies so bright and hearts of youth so light.Your gentle and genial breaths each blossom blow,While bees in gardens hum the lullabies.The hills and dales are stripp’d of mantles of snow,And streams and rivers freed from irons of ice.May seasons all be Spring—the pride of years,That all the things would e’er in glories gleam!

May men be ever in the prime of years!

But dream, however sweet, is but a dream.If happy when you come and sad when gone,Would that you’d never come or never gone!

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4．Night

Night has fallen over the country.Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen.In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend.I sit at the open window to enjoy them;and hear only the voice of the summer wind.Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy see of grass.I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there.Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles①.The tramp of horses’ hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge.Then all is still save the continuous wind of the summer night.Sometimes I know not if it be the wind or the sounds of the neighboring sea.The village clock strikes;and I feel that I am not alone.How different it is in the city!It is late, and the crowd is gone.You step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, dewy night as if you folded her garments about you.Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent darkness the spirit plunges, and floats away some beloved spirit clasped in its embrace.The lamps are still burning up and down the long street.People go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill.The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang.There are footsteps and loud voices;—a tumult;—a drunken brawl;—an alarm of fire;—then silence again.And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night.The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to welcome her.The moonlight is broken.It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets—angular like blocks of whit e marble.By Nathanial Hawthorne

①the Charles: 美国马萨诸塞州的一条河流

5．The Road Not Taken

By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.6．Smile of the Earth

All over my garden I’ve planted nothing but roses, fragrant and---If looked at from afar---ablaze with colour like sunset clouds.I would be very happy if any one of my visiting friends should desire to pick and take some for their homes.I trust that any friend of mine carrying the roses would vanish into the distance feeling that his emotion had been rekindled.A close friend came for a visit the other day.I know her to be a lover of flowers and plants, and for that reason I told her at her departure that she should pick a bunch of roses to decorate her boudoir.I promised that the scent of the roses would be wafted far, far away.That girl friend of mine, tiptoeing into the garden in high spirits, sniffed here and smelt there, but in the end she didn’t pick a single rose.I said there were so many of them that she could pick as many as she’d like to;I told her that I was not a florist and didn’t make a living out of them.While

saying so I raised the scissors for the sacrifice of the flowers, but she vehemently stopped me, crying no, no, no!

To cut such beautiful roses would hurt one, she said.With her hands clutching at my sleeves, she told me that by no means should they be cut.Roses are the smiling face of the earth, and who could be so iron-hearted as to destroy a smile so exhilarating?

My mind was thoroughly boggled: the ugly earth, the humble earth, the plain earth---it is only because of the roses that it reveals an amazing and bright smile, and it is for the sake of that smile that it wins the care and pity of men.Of late a friend of mine invited me to appreciate a Tang Dynasty vase that he was fortunate enough to have bought at an auction.The vase, with its slim neck, plump body, and fine little flowers on a blue and white background, has a noble shape and a rich colouring, elegant, refined, proud, poised, and supercilious, an extreme embodiment of the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.I was filled with wonder to think that while everyone present was taking great care not to cause the slightest damage to the Tang treasure, it was to me nothing but an object made of clay.It had only become a piece of classic art after being baked in a china kiln.Both the exquisiteness of the boccaro teapots made in south China, and the shockingly beautiful sculptures by Clay Sculptor Zhang of Tianjin---aren’t they all smiles of the earth? They are such exquisite treasures that---even if they look ugly, humble, plain, or whatever---they no doubt deserve respect and veneration.Now I understand that no-one, however ordinary, should be condemned to anonymity, and that anyone who adds a dash of colour to life deserves our respect.7．Home

What makes a home? Love and sympathy and confidence.It is a place where kindly affections exist among all the members of the family.The parents take good care of their children, and the children are interested in the activities of their parents.Thus all of them are bound together by affection, and they find their home to be the cheeriest place in the world.A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man.Every civilized person is a social being.No one should live alone.A man may lead a successful and prosperous life, but prosperity alone can by no means insure happiness.Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes.Your home may be poor and humble, but your duty lies there.You should try to make it cheerful and comfortable.The greater the difficulties, the richer will be your reward.A home is more than a family dwelling.It is a school in which people are trained for citizenship.A man will not render good service to his country if he can do nothing good for his home;for in proportion as he loves his home, will he love his country.The home is the birthplace of true

patriotism.It is the secret of social welfare and national greatness.It is the basis and origin of civilization.8． Choice of Companions

A good companion is better than a fortune, for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character which make companionship a blessing.The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds.“Keep good company, and you shall be one of the number,” said George Herbert.“A man is know by the company he keeps.” Character makes character in the associations of life faster than anything else.This fact makes the choice of companions in early life more important even than that of teachers and guardians.Companionship is education, good or bad;it develops manhood or womanhood, high or low;it lifts the soul upward or drags it downward;it ministers to virtue or vice.Sow virtue, and the harvest will be virtue.Sow vice, and the harvest will be vice.Good companions help us to sow virtue;evil companions help us to sow vice.—William Makepeace Thayer

9． Electricity

The modern age is an age of electricity.People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them.When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago.Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years.Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.All living cell send out tiny pulses of electricity.As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record;they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working.The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram.The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small – often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them.But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all.When large numbers of these cell are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.The electric eel is an amazing storage battery.It can seed a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it live.(An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.)As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel’s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body.10．Scientific Theories

In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related.A theory often involves an imaginary model that helps scientists picture the way an observed event could be produced.A good example of this is found in the kinetic molecular theory, in which gases are pictured as being made up of many small particles that are in constant motion.A useful theory, in addition to explaining past observations, helps to predict events that have not as yet been observed.After a theory has been publicized, scientists design experiments to test the theory.If observations confirm the scientist’s predictions, the theory is supported.If observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further.There may be a fault in the experiment, or the theory may have to be revised or rejected.Science involves imagination and creative thinking as well as collecting information and performing experiments.Facts by themselves are not science.As the mathematician Jules Henri Poincare said, ―Science is built with facts just as a house is built with bricks, but a collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.‖

Most scientists start an investigation by finding out what other scientists have learned about a particular problem.After known facts have been gathered, the scientist comes to the part of the investigation that requires considerable imagination.Possible solutions to the problem are formulated.These possible solutions are called hypotheses.

篇2：超值得背诵的英语美文

我相信诚实是一件最棒的礼物。我知道如今他们给它取了许多好听的名字，像正直和直率。但是怎么称呼并不重要，关键还在于怎样才算一个好公民。这就是我的准则，我努力按这一准则生活。

Ive been in the taxicab business for thirty-fiveyears, and I know there is a lot about it that is not so good. Taxicab drivershave to be rough and tumble fellows to be able to take it in New York. Youvegot to be tough to fight the New York traffic eight hours a day, these days.Because taxi drivers are tough, people get the wrong impression that they arebad. Taxi drivers are just like other people. Most of them will shake down ashonest fellows. You read in the papers almost every week where a taxi driverturns in money or jewels or bonds, stuff like that, people leave in their cabs.If they werent honest, you wouldnt be reading those stories in the papers.

我入出租车这一行已经三十五个年头，知道这一行有很多不好的地方。的士司机得凶狠粗暴才能在纽约干这一行。这年头你得有副好身板儿才顶得住纽约一天八小时的交通战。由于态度粗暴，人们误认为出租司机不是好人，其实，他们和其他人就没啥区别。他们大多诚实，与人和睦相处。你几乎每个星期都可以从报纸上知道某的士司机归还了乘客掉在车里的钱或珠宝或票据之类的东西。要不是他们诚实，你没法在报纸上读到那些新闻。

One time in Brooklyn, I found an emerald ring in mycab. I remembered helping a lady with a lot of bundles that day, so I went backto where I had dropped her off. It took me almost two days to trace her down inorder to return her ring to her. I didnt get as much as “thankyou.” Still, I felt good because I had done what wasright. I think I felt better than she did.

一次在布鲁克林，我发现车里有一枚祖母绿钻戒，我记得那天帮一位女士拉了很多捆行李，所以我开回到她下车的地方，几乎花了两天时间才找到她，把戒指还给了她。我连个谢字也没得到，还是感到很高兴，因为我做了件好事。我想我比她更高兴。

I was born and raised in Ireland and lived there untilI was nineteen years old. I came to this country in 1913 where I held severaljobs to earn a few dollars before enlisting in World War Number I. After beingdischarged, I bought my own cab and have owned one ever since. It hasnt beentoo easy at times, but my wife takes care of our money and we have a good bitput away for a rainy day.

我生长在爱尔兰，在那儿呆到十九岁。19来到这个国家，为了挣几个钱干了不少工作，一战时当了兵，退伍之后自己买了辆出租，从此有了自己的车。有时日子不太容易，可我老婆精打细算，我们还存了些钱，以防有个什么难处。

When I first started driving a cab, Park Avenue wasmostly a bunch of coal yards. Hoofers Brewery was right next to where theWaldorf-Astoria is now. I did pretty well, even in those days.

刚开始开出租的时候，有钱人待的派克大街几乎全是一片煤场，胡弗啤酒厂正靠近现在的沃尔多夫·阿斯托里亚。就是在那些年头我干得也挺不错。

In all my years of driving a taxicab, I have never hadany trouble with the public, not even with drunks. Even if they get a littleheadstrong once in a while, I just agree with them and then they behavethemselves.

开出租的这些年，我从没和乘客有过纠纷，连给醉鬼开车也没出过麻烦。就是他们偶尔有点转不过弯，我也不和他们争执，他们接下来就规规矩矩了。

People ask me about tips. As far as I know,practically everyone will give you something. Come to think of it, mostAmericans are pretty generous. I always try to be nice to everyone, whetherthey tip or not. I believe in God and try to be a good member of my parish. Itry to act toward others like I think God wants me to act. I have been tryingthis for a long time, and the longer I try, the easier it gets.

篇3：超值得背诵的英语美文

强化经典美文的背诵，就是在教学过程中，要求学生在广泛阅读的基础上，对所读的课内外一部分文质兼美文章或片段、古典诗词、名言警句、精美语句等，在充分理解的基础上尽可能地熟读至诵，深化学习的内容。强化经典美文的背诵，好处多多。

一、提高学生语言文化素养，是发展智力的基础

我国古代著名的思想家荀子说：“少不讽诵，壮不议论，虽可，未成也。”意思是说，一个人如果青少年时不背诵，壮年时不对所背的内容进行研究论证，既使品质好，也不可能在学业上有所成就。在我国两千多年的传统教育中，历来强调学生对所学内容的背诵，进行大量的诵、读、背等严格要求，“博学强记”被认为是读书人成功的条件之一，因而留下了“韦编三绝”“悬梁刺股”“凿壁借光”等许多勤奋苦读的佳话，积淀了中华文化的丰厚博大，源远流长，一代代历史文化名人，灿若群星，光照环宇。虽存在着死读硬背等一些弊端，但那是教育制度本质上的问题，这当然不足取。就丰富储存知识、培养学生语言的运用、提高文化素养等方面来说，是毋庸置疑的。现在的中学生正处在长身体、长知识的时期，风华正茂，记忆力强，正是诵读的大好时机。背诵是他们积累知识的主要手段和方法，由此奠定他们一生的语言功底与文化底蕴，若缺乏背诵的积累，会造成“根底浅”“腹中空”，对以后的学习、工作造成不良的影响。

强化背诵训练与发展学生智力也并不矛盾，即使存在着一些死记硬背也不足怕，正如著名学者朱光潜所说：“我现在所记的书大半还是儿时背诵过的；当时虽不甚了了，现在回忆起来，不断地有新的领悟，其中意味确是深长。”从学生学习的过程看，学习实际上是一个信息输入-加工-输出的过程。背诵积累知识是信息的输入，加工和输出就是发展能力、培养智力。在中学生的信息仓库中，输入规范性语言存得越多，理解运用语言的能力就越强，智力与思维能力自然就提高。若无知识的积累，培养能力将是空中楼阁，成为师生作秀而共同制造的“戏”。

二、提高学生品德修养和审美情趣

语言文字作为表情、达意、载道的工具，“文”与“道”总是相互交织，有机统一在一起的。语文课文蕴涵着丰富的思想资源与人文内涵，有着得天独厚的德育教化功能。特别是一些古今中外的优秀的名人名篇、古典诗词、名句警言等。思想深邃，富于生活哲理，是人类智慧与生活经验的结晶，达到人文性与艺术性的高度统一。学生通过读背铭记于心，对其高尚道德情操的形成、健全人格的塑造、正确的人生观、价值观与世界观的树立，起着不可忽视的巨大作用。如当身处逆境时，只要我们想到“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤”的句子，或吟诵“假如生活欺骗了你，不要悲伤，不要心急！……”的诗篇，无不使人产生积极向上、乐观进取的情怀，给人以莫大的安慰。在民族大义面前，我们就会用“人生自古谁无死？留取丹心照汗青”这类名言以自勉，从而爱国爱民、舍生取义。名篇经典的背诵将积淀于学生精神之中，成为学生人格品味和人生境界的有机组成部分。

三、加深学生对课文的理解，提高理解力

阅读是搜集处理信息、认识世界、发展思维、获得审美体验的重要途径。培养学生的阅读能力，是语文教学中一个重要目标。为达到学生理解课文的目的，教师往往耗用大量的时间与精力分析课文，滔滔不绝，口若悬河，而学生却兴趣寡然，昏昏欲睡，导致语文教学效率低下。与其这样，不如充分发挥学生的主体作用，教师稍加点拨引导，让学生多读读背背。因为背的过程是一个异常复杂的心智活动的过程，是各种能力的综合，是理解课文的结果。所以在教学工作中要大力提倡学生背诵课文，于诵读中潜思体味，受到情感熏陶，获得思想启迪，享受审美乐趣，进而领会文章的文采及写作技巧。所谓“书读百遍，其义自见”就说明了这个道理。

四、为学生的写作积累材料，提供范式

常言道：“熟读唐诗三百首，不会吟诗也会吟”“文选烂，秀才半”，说的是读背经典的重要。如读得不熟，理解的内容会渐次淡薄，阅读的价值就大为降低；只有熟记了，才能活跃于脑际，流之于笔端，得心应手，左右逢源。背诵是沟通阅读与写作的重要桥梁。文学巨匠巴金在回顾自己学习写作的经历时说：“老师平日讲得少，而且讲得简单。他唯一的办法是叫学生多读书，多背书。当时我背得很熟的几部书中有一部《古文观止》，这是两百多篇散文的文选集……这两百多篇‘古文’可以说是我真正的‘启蒙先生’。我后来写了二十多本散文，跟这‘启蒙先生’很有关系。”足见背诵对写作的重要性。在中学语文教学中，学生的背诵积累，虽然一时见少，但集腋成裘，聚沙成塔，达到一定的数量后，精美词句蕴藏于心中，谋篇布局的章法储存于脑际，便形成各种各样优秀的写作范型。一旦作文需要，这些储存就会蜂拥而来，跳将出来供其所用，可以很自然地随手拈来，顺理成章，进而推陈出新，把自己的情意表达得更生动、完美，这样自然而然地摸到文章的调子，把握文章的“架子”，悟得了文章的“路子”，从而提高作文教学的效果。

五、能提高学生的口头表达能力

叶圣陶先生说：“口头为语，书面为文，文本为语。不可偏指，故合而言之。在“听”“说”“读”“写”四项语文能力中，“说”居于基础地位，对其他三方面的发展起着重要的支持作用。特别是当代社会，对人们的说话交际沟通能力提出了更高的要求。而现实生活中学生的语言往往不规范、不精练，说话含糊不清，结结巴巴，不能很好地表情意，甚至出现污言秽语。背诵是培养学生口头表达能力的一个重要途径。学生通过对一些千锤百练、脍炙人口的名篇经典的背诵，头脑中积累了一定量典范的语言信息，这些信息在脑中形成定势以后，就有了衡量其他语言信息的规范尺度，同时也具有了衡量其他语言信息的基本能力。久而久之，富有表现力的正确优美语言就会脱口而出，错误的、“丑”的语言便会得到改造。背诵要求把无声的文字变成声音，琅琅上口，表情达意，学生就会养成说话响亮，不结结巴巴的习惯，课堂上讨论发言就会大大方方，声音宏亮。背诵对语感的强化，表达能力的提高是显而易见的。

六、为学好其他各门课程奠定基础

语文课具有基础性、工具性的特点。语文学得好，对学好其他学科具有重要作用。也是学生全面发展和终生发展的基础。上海复旦大学校长、著名数学家苏步青先生在上海举行的语文教学研究会上说：“如果允许复旦大学单独招生的话，我建议第一堂先考语文，考后就判卷子。不合格的，以下的功课就不要考了。语文你都不行，别的是学不通的。”在语文教学中，通过背诵经典，学生领悟到了记忆的方法，锻炼提高了记忆能力，其他各项语文能力也相应得到培养，学习成绩自然大幅度提高，从而为学习其他功课提供了方法与经验，同时也养成了一些良好的行为习惯。如背诵要求在一定时间内完成大数量的记诵内容，学生就养成了珍惜时间、勤奋学习的习惯，背诵要求无错字、添字、倒句和跳句，学生就会养成读书要仔仔细细的习惯；熟读背诵多了，文字多过目，加强识记，写错别字的习惯也没有了。

综上所述，背诵经典美文是中学生学习语文最基本的方法与经验，是提高学生语文素养的主要途径。在课程改革中，我们应充分发挥我国传统教育的优势，大力强化背诵训练，使学生乐读善背，全面推进素质教育。

摘要：经典美文的背诵是中学生学习语文的基本的方法与经验, 是提高学生语文素养的主要途径, 在课程改革中, 要充分发挥我国语文教学的传统优势, 大力强调背诵训练, 使学生乐读善背, 推进素质教育。

篇4：英语美文背诵

Jennifer Givler

Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion – like stress, anger, or frustration.What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?

The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop.Yes, that is right, stop.Whatever you are doing, stop and sit for one minute.While you are sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you.Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion.Do not cheat yourself here.Take the entire minute-but only one minute-to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I willing to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of day?”

Once you are allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really feel it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.清理心灵的空间

想一下你最近一次感受到的消极情绪，例如压力、愤怒或挫折。当你处于那种消极情绪时你在想什么？是充满了混乱的思绪？还是陷于麻木，无法思考？

下次当你发现自己处于非常紧张的状态时，或是你感到气愤或受挫时，停下来。是的，对，停下来。不管你在做什么，停下来坐上一分钟。坐着的时候，让自己完全沉浸在那种消极情绪之中。

让那种消极情绪吞噬你，给自己一分钟的时间去真切地体会那种情绪，不要欺骗自己。花整整一分钟的时间——但只有一分钟——去体会那种情绪，别的什么也不要做。

当一分钟结束时，问自己：“我是否想在今天余下的时间里继续保持这种消极情绪？”

一旦你允许自己完全沉浸在那种情绪当中并真切体会到它，你就会惊奇地发现那种情绪很快就消失了。2……..Mirror, Mirror---What do I See?(Excerpts)

Marion Franklin

A loving person lives in a loving world.A hostile person lives in a hostile world.Everyone you meet is your mirror.Mirrors have a very particular function.They reflect the image in front of them.Just as a physical mirror serves as the vehicle to reflection, so do all of the people in our lives.When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden serves as a reflection.In order to see the beauty in front of us, we must be able to see the beauty inside of ourselves.When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves.We have often heard things like “I love how I am when I’m with that person.” That simply translates into “I’m able to love me when I love that other person.” Oftentimes, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we “click”.Sometimes it’s as if we’ve known each other for a long time.That feeling can come from sharing similarities.镜子，镜子，告诉我充满爱意的人生活在充满爱意的世界里，充满敌意的人则生活在充满敌意的世界里。你所遇到的每一个人都是你的镜子。

镜子有一个非常独特的功能，那就是映射出在其前面的影像。就像真正的镜子具有反射功能一样，我们生活中的所有人也都能映射出他人的影子。

当我们看到美丽的事物时，例如一座花园，那这花园就起到了反射作用。为了发现我们面前美好的事物，我们必须能发现自己内在的美。我们爱某个人，也正是我们爱自己的表现。我们经常听到这样的话：“当我和那个人在一起的时候，我爱那时的自己。”这句话也可以简单地说成：“在我爱那个人的同时，我也能爱我自己。”有时，我们遇见一个陌生人，感觉仿佛是一见如故，就好像我们已经相识甚久。这种熟悉感可能来自于彼此身上的共同点。

3………..Giving Life Meaning(Excerpts)

James Rick

Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you’re gone? Can you hear the voices saying, “He was a great man.” Or “She really will be missed.” What else do they say?

One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work that will last long after death.Isn’t that a lot like investing all your money so that future generations can bare interest on it? Perhaps, yet if you look deep in your own heart, you’ll find something drives you to make this kind of

contribution---something drives every human being to find a purpose that lives on after death.Do you hope to memorialize your name? Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe? Do you hope to have your face carved upon 50 ft of granite rock? Is the answer really that simple? Is the purpose of lifetime contribution an ego-driven desire for a mortal being to have an immortal name or is it something more?

给生命以意义

你有没有想过，你希望人们在你死后怎样评论你？你能否听到这样的说法，“他是个伟大的人”或“人们的确会怀念她”，他们还会说些什么？

人生最奇异的现象之一就是，你从事的事业在你死后仍将长久存在。这和你用所有的钱进行投资以便后人能从中获益难道不是如出一辙吗？也许，如果你审视自己的内心深处，你就会发现促使你做出这种贡献的驱动力——一种驱使每个人寻找在自己死后仍能继续存在的事业的驱动力。

你希望自己的名字被人记住吗？你希望别人提起你的名字时心怀敬畏吗？你希望自己的面容被雕刻在50英尺高的花岗岩上吗？答案真的那么简单吗？贡献一生的目的难道是终将一死之人想要获得不朽名声的自我鞭策的欲望？抑或是其他更伟大的事物？ 4………Abundance is a Life Style(Excerpts)

Catherine Franz

Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life.It isn’t something you buy now and then or pull down from the

cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.Abundance is a philosophy;it appears in your physiology, your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs.You walk with it, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well.Abundance doesn’t always require money.Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside.Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients, like love, care, kindness and gentleness, thoughtfulness and compassion.Abundance is a state of being.It radiates outward.It shines like the sun among the many moons in the world.富足的生活方式

富足是一种生活方式。它不是你偶尔买来，从架子上拿下来，抹去灰尘用上一两次然后又放回到架子上的东西。

富足是一种哲学，它体现于你的生理机能和价值观之中，并带有自己的一套信仰。无论走路，睡觉，洗澡你都会感受到它，你还要维护并照顾它。

篇5：英语背诵(名著片段,英语美文)

chapter1 It is a truth universally acknowledgedthat a single man inpossession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a manmay be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so wellfixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he isconsidered as the rightful property of some one or other of theirdaughters.‘My dear Mr.Bennet,’ said his lady to him one day, ‘have youheard that Netherfield Park is let at last?’

Mr.Bennet replied that he had not.‘But it is,’ returned she;‘for Mrs.Long has just been here, andshe told me all about it.’

Mr.Bennet made no answer.‘Do not you want to know who has taken it?’ cried his wifeimpatiently.‘You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.’ This was invitation enough.‘Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs.Long says that Netherfieldis taken by a young man of large fortune from the north ofEngland;that he came down on Monday to seethe place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed withMr.Morris immediatelyand some of his servants are to be in the house by theend of next week.”

2、Pride and Prejudice VolumeⅢ

chapter17 “My dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?”was a question which Elizabeth received from Janeas soon as she entered their room,and from all theothers when they sat down to table.She had only to say in reply,that they had wandered about, till she was beyond her ownknowledge.She colored as she spoke;but neither that, nor anything else, awakened a suspicion of the truth.The evening

passed

quietly，unmarked talked

by and

anything laughed, extraordinary.The acknowledged lovers theunacknowledged were silent.Darcy was not of a disposition inwhich happiness overflows in mirth;and Elizabeth, agitated andconfused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to beso;for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were otherevils before her.She anticipated what would be felt in the familywhen her situation became known;she was aware that no oneliked him but Jane;and even feared that with the others it was adislike which not all his fortune and consequence might do away.3、The little prince discovers a garden of roses “Good morning,” he said.He was standing beforea garden, all abloomwithroses.“Good morning,” said theroses.The little prince gazed atthem.They all looked like hisflower.“Who are you?” hedemanded, thunderstruck.“We are roses,” the roses said.And he was overcome with sadness.His flower had told him that she was the onlyone of her kind in all the universe.And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in onesingle garden!“She would be very much annoyed,” he said to himself, “if she should see that...shewould cough most dreadfully, and she would pretend that she was dying, to avoid beinglaughed at.And I should be obliged to pretend that I was nursing her back to lifeforif Idid not do that, to humble myself also, she would really allow herself to die...” Then he went on with hisreflections: “I thought that Iwas rich, with a flower thatwas unique in all the world;and all I had was a commonrose.A common rose, andthree volcanoes that come upto my kneesandone ofthem perhaps extinct forever...that doesn’t make me a verygreat prince...” And he lay down in the grass and cried.4、The little prince consoles the narrator “All men have the stars,” he answered, “but they are not the same things for differentpeople.For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides.For others they are no morethan little lights in the sky.For others, who are scholars, they are problems.For mybusinessman they were wealth.But all these stars are silent.You, youalone, willhavethe stars as no one else has them” “What are you trying to say?” “In one of the stars I shall be living.In one of them I shall be laughing.And so it willbe as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...you, onlyyou, willhave stars that can laugh!” And he laughed again.“And when your sorrow is comforted(time soothes all sorrows), you will be contentthat you have known me.You will always be my friend.You will want to laugh with me.And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure...and your friends willbe properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky!Then you will sayto them, ‘Yes, the stars always make me laugh!’ And they will think you are crazy.It will bea very shabby trick that I shall have played on you...”