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1、英语美文阅读精选5篇英语美文阅读篇一 A Reason, Season, or Lifetime 你生活中的人们 People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. 人们走进你的生活，或者是为了一个缘由，或者他们只停留一段时期，或者他们恒久与你相随。一旦明晓其中原委，你就知道该如何面对他们了。 When someone is in your life for

2、a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or

3、 at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. Sometimes they die. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. Your ne

4、ed has been answered, and now it is time to move on. 有的人出现在你的生活中是有缘由的，通常他们填补了你流露出来的须要：帮你渡过难关，指引和支持你，切实地在情感上、精神上帮助你。他们出现是因为你须要他们。然后在一个你无可引咎而又不便的时候，这人说了什么或者做了什么令你们终止了友情。有时候他们离你而去，有时候他们冒出歪理而逼得你要奋起抗拒，有时候是因为他们逝世。我们必需相识到，自己的须要已经满意了，愿望已经实现了，他们的工作也就完成了。你的须要得到了回应，接着的是要接着前行。 When people come into your life fo

5、r a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. 有的人在你的生活中只会停留一段时期，那是

6、因为你到了这样的一个时候：成长、学习，并和别人一起共享你的世界。他们让你体会平和，也让你欢乐。他们可能也教会你做一些从没做过的事情。他们常能给你带来多数快乐。信任这一点!这是真的!可这，只能维持一段时间。 LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have

7、 learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. 持续一生的情意将令你终生受益;一点一滴地努力吧，建立一个坚不行摧的感情基础。你要做的只是去接受阅历，对一生相随的人付出关爱，并将你所学到应用到生命中的其他关系和方方面面中。爱情令人盲目，而友情能醍醐灌顶，据说如此。 英语美文阅读篇二 Me and Writing 我笔下的奇异世界 This was the summer that I thin

8、k I became a writer. I was thirteen years old. I wore steel-rimmed glasses and I was a very solemn boy. Not that I was sad, but I simply was paying attention. I'd been given a typewriter by my Uncle George, when he got an electric. He gave me his old Underwood typewriter and I set it up in the b

9、asement. I had a secret place under the stairs behind a stack of sheet rock. I sat in there and wrote where my parents could not see me because they were worried, you know, that I didn't go outside. And they believed in the illusion of a balanced life, you know, you do a little bit of this, you

10、do a little bit of that. I just wanted to do one thing. I just wanted to find things to write about. 我想当作家的念头是在这个夏天冒出来的。那年我十三岁了，戴着一副银边眼镜，是个一本正经的男孩。倒不是因为心情不好，我只是在琢磨事儿。乔治叔叔买了一台电打字机后，就把手打打字机给了我。他给我的是一台安德伍牌老式打字机，我把它架在地下室里。楼梯下石砖墙后是我的密室。我坐在里面写东西，爸妈看不到我，你知道，我之所以要隐私行事是因为他们担忧我总不出门。他们信任生活应当有多方面平衡，就是让你做做这个又做做那

11、个。而我只想做一件事练笔。 I liked to write about tornadoes: Tornadoes, which come out of a peaceful summer day in the Midwest. And the sky's blue and then suddenly it's dark as night and this great snake-like cloud comes slithering across the landscape, smashing houses at random, destroying this one, le

12、aving this standing. I liked that idea. 我想写写龙卷风：一个安静的夏日里，在中西部隧然刮起了龙卷风。蔚蓝的天空霎时间变得像夜晚一样漆黑，蛇一般的巨大烟云卷过地面，将房屋揉得粉碎，摧毁了这间，放过了那间。我太喜爱写龙卷风了。 I wrote a story, a sort of autobiographical story, about a family from New York, a microbiologist and his actress wife, and their son, who looked, and walked, and talke

13、d, and thought, and felt exactly like me. I sat in the backseat and they were driving across the Midwest, and they forgot me. at a gas station. We stopped for a rest stop. and they forgot me, and they drove away. I walked up the road that they had driven and suddenly the sky turned dark and. a torna

14、do came up and it picked me up and it carried me and dropped me, uninjured, in the yard of a sanctified Brethren family. I knocked on the door and a woman in a white satin gown holding a flaming torch came out and asked me what I wanted. And I was going to tell them that I had to leave to look for m

15、y parents and then the dog spoke to me. The dog said, Stay. So, I stayed. But still, I missed the life of glamour that I had known on New York's exclusive Upper West Side. I love to write stories like that. 我写了一个故事，自传式的故事，说的是一个纽约家庭，家里有一个微生物学家，当演员的妻子，还有他们的儿 子-那孩子的模样和走路、说话、思索的方式简直跟我一样。我坐在汽车的后座，他们开

16、车穿越中西部，后来他们把我忘在了一个加油站。我们停车休息，然后他 们就把我给落下了，开车走了。我沿着他们车驶去的方向走着，突然间，天空暗了下来， 龙卷风大作，风卷起我吹啊吹，毫发不伤地把我扔在一个圣教徒家的后院里。我敲敲门，一个身穿白色缎袍的女人举着一把熊熊的火炬，走出来问我想干什么。我正 想说我想去找我的爸妈，一条狗冲着我说话了：“留下来吧。”于是，我就留下了。但是，我还是很怀念在纽约高尚住宅区的好日子。我就喜爱写这样的故事。 I sat there at my Underwood typewriter, but I wished that something real would happ

17、en. 我坐在安德伍牌打字机前，想写些真实的事儿。 That was the summer that my cousin, Helen-Marie, came to stay with us suddenly. She was seventeen. She was four years older than I and I'd always admired her. She was lovelier than the rest of us. The rest of us had our family's looks; we had homely faces and she wa

18、s pretty. She had blonde hair, a rarity in our family. 那年夏天，我的表姐海伦玛莉突然来我们家住下。她十七岁，比我大四岁，我很喜爱她。她比我们家的其他人都可爱。其他人都有着家族的容貌特征，脸蛋儿一点儿也不起眼，她却很美丽。那一头金发在我们家族里是极少见的。 Then I wrote a story about her; about a girl who is cooking lunch at home one day and a woman in a white satin dress holding a flaming torch bur

19、sts in through the door, and it startles the girl so much that she drops the cast iron skillet on her dog and the dog bites her and she gets an incurable blood disease from this. Doctors give her two weeks to live, and then, on top of everything, a tornado comes in and it blows the roof off the hous

20、e and itimpales four blades of grass in her side. And there's something on that grass that cures that blood disease. Medical science has never seen anything like it. She's cured. She comes home. And that night the dog scratches on her door, and the dog says, Aren't you curious to know wh

21、at it was on the grass that cured that blood disease? I sort of liked the story. 于是我就写了一个关于她的故事，说的是有一天，一个女孩正在家里做午饭时，有个穿着白色缎袍的女人手里举 着熊熊的火炬从门外闯了进来，女孩吓了一大跳，把铁锅砸到了她的狗，狗咬了她一口，她从今就得了一种没法治的血液病。医生说她只能活两个星期了，这时，一 股龙卷风刮了进来，它掀掉屋顶，四片草叶子刺到她的身上。草叶子上面的什么东西就把她的血液病给治好了。医学上从来没有见过这种奇事。她痊愈了，回到了 家。那天晚上，小狗抓挠着她的房门，那狗问她说：

22、“你莫非不想知道草叶子上面是什么东西治好了你的血液病吗?”我喜爱这样的故事。 英语美文阅读篇三 What I Have Lived For 我的人生追求 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, in a wayward course, over a deep oce

23、an of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 有三种简洁然而无比剧烈的激情左右了我的一生：对爱的渴望，对学问的探究和对人类苦难的难以忍受的怜悯。这些激情像飓风，反复地吹拂过深重的苦海，濒于绝境。 I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy, ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought i

24、t, 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 h

25、eaven 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. 我找寻爱，首先是因为它使人心醉神迷这种沉醉是如此的奇妙，使我情愿牺牲全部的余生去换取几个小时这样的欣喜。我找寻爱，还因为它解除孤独在可怕的孤独中，一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊。最终，我找寻爱，还因为在爱的交融中，神奇而又详细而微地，我看到了圣贤和诗人们想象出的天堂的前景。这

26、就是我所找寻的，而且，虽然对人生来说好像过于奇妙，这也是我最终找到了的。 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

27、have achieved. 以同样的激情我探究学问。我希望能够理解人类的心灵。我希望能够知道群星为何闪耀。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的数字力气，它支配着此消彼涨。仅在不大的肯定程度上，我达到了此目的。 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victim

28、s tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can't, and I too suffer. 爱和学问，只要有可能，通向着天堂。但是怜悯总把我带回尘世。苦痛呼喊的回声回荡在我的内心。忍饥挨饿的孩子，惨遭压迫者摧残的受害者，被儿女们视为可憎的负担的无助的老人，连同这整个充溢了孤独、贫困和苦痛的世界，使人类所应有的生活成为了笑

29、柄。我渴望能够削减但是我无能为力，而且我自己也在忍受熬煎。 This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. 这就是我的一生。我发觉它值得一过。假如再给我一次机会，我会很兴奋地再活它一次。 英语美文阅读篇四 The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble 肇事的兔子 Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of

30、 rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves. The wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living. (The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.) One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on

31、the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause earthquakes. On another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuce-eaters cause lightning. The wolves threatened

32、 to civilize the rabbits if they didn't behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert island. But the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them, saying, You must stay where you are and be brave. This is no world for escapists. If the wolves attack you, we will come to y

33、our aid, in all probability. So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many wolves. This was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrot-nibblers with long ears cause floods. The wolves descended on the rabbits, for thei

34、r own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own protection. 在最小的孩子还记得的那个时候，在狼群的旁边居住着兔子一家。狼们公开宣布，他们不喜爱兔子的生活方式。(狼对自己的生活方式推崇之至，因为这是可行的生活方式。)一天晚上，几只狼在地震中死亡。这件事是兔子的责任，因为众所周知，兔子用两条腿蹬地，造成了地震。另一个晚上，一只狼被雷电劈毙，这件事也怪罪于兔子，因为众所周知，雷电是由吃莴苣的动物引发的。狼威逼说，假如兔子接着为非作歹，它们将施以管教。兔子确定逃到一个荒岛上去。但是其它住在远处的动物讽刺它们说：“你

35、们必需守住阵脚，要英勇。这个世界决没有躲避主义者的容身之地。假如狼攻击你们，我们多半会来相助。”于是兔子接着在狼群旁边生活。有一天，发生了一场可怕的洪水，很多狼被淹死。责任怪罪到兔子头上，因为众所周知，长耳朵并小口小口吃胡萝卜的动物会引起洪水。为了自己着想，狼对它们下手了，把它们关在黑洞里进行爱护。 When nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to them. The wolves replied that the ra

36、bbits had been eaten and since they had been eaten the affair was a purely internal matter. But the other animals warned that they might possibly unite against the wolves unless some reason was given for the destruction of rabbits. So the wolves gave them one. They were trying to escape, said the wo

37、lves, and, as you know, this is no world for escapists. 由于连续几星期没有听到兔子的消息，其它动物要求知道它们的行踪。狼回答说兔子已经被吃了;既然已经吃到肚里，此事就纯属内政。但其它动物警告说，除非有歼灭兔子的正值理由，不然它们可能团结起来，一样对狼。于是，狼给了它们一条理由。“它们企图逃走”，狼说。“你们也知道，这个世界决没有躲避主义者的容身之地。” 英语美文阅读篇五 On Achieving Success 关于获得胜利 We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along on

38、e line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate. 我们不行能把每条路都走一遍。必需执着于一条道路才能获得胜利。我们必需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. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone. 我痛恨做事半途而废。假如这件事是对的，就大胆英勇地去做;假如这件事不对，就不要去做。 The men

39、of history were not perpetually 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宏大，并因

40、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

41、might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and indispensable help to success is character. 为崇高的志向而活着是一种胜利的生活。使人变强大的，不是这个人做了什么，而是

42、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，“不懈的努力是胜利的代价。”倘如我们不尽全力工作，别人会尽全力，随后他们将在竞争中超越我们，从我们手中夺取成功的果实。胜利越来越不依靠于运气和巧合。丢失自信是我们失败的主要缘由。性格是取得胜利不行或缺的重要助力。 Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction. Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education. But these ap

43、art, 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. 性格是一种固化成形的习惯，是不断培育并坚信于此的结果。每个人的性格都会受到遗传因素、环境和教化的影响。但除此之外，假如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

44、 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. The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much. Wise men dont care for what they cant have. 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，有人能用其建立出宫殿，而有人只能建成简陋的小屋。在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依旧是砖泥。想得到的多就恒久不要奢望太多。智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。 英语美文阅读精选5篇