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1、 中考英语作文写作素材积累：英语晨读美文14美文阅读1 真正有意义的生活What will matter?什么才重要？Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。 那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟

2、。 你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手中。Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.你的怨恨、愤慨、挫折和妒忌最终也将消失。So, t

3、oo, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.因此，你的希望、抱负、计划以及行动日程表也将全部结束。 当初看得比较重的成功得失也会消失。It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.你来自何方，住在穷人区还是富人区也都不重要了。It won't matter

4、whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.你昔日的漂亮与辉煌也都不重要了，你的性别、肤色、种族地位也将消失。So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?因此，什么重要呢？ 怎么衡量你有生之年的价值呢？What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but

5、what you gave.重要的不是你买了什么，而是你创造了什么； 不是你得到了什么，而是你给予了什么。What will matter is not your success, but your significance.重要的不是你成功了，而是你生命的意义。What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.重要的不是你学到了什么，而是你传授了什么。What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that en

6、riched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.重要的是每个行动之中都有正直和勇气的气概，伟大的同情心和牺牲精神，并且鼓励他人遵从榜样。What will matter is not your competence, but your character.重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.重要的不是你认

7、识多少人，而是在你离开后，多少人会怅然若失。What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.重要的不是你的回忆，而是爱你的人对你的追思。What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.重要的是别人会记你多长时间，谁记着你，为什么记着你。Living a life that matters doesn't t happen by accident.过有意义的生活不是一桩偶然。It

8、s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.是因为你选择了它。Choose to live a life that matters.选择有意义的人生吧！美文阅读2 爱自己，是一个女生应有的姿态Not everyone reciprocates the gesture.并不是每个人都会回应你的付出。This is a hard truth but its true.这是个残酷的事实，但现实的确如此。If other people poured the same amount of effort into me as I pour into them,

9、 things would probably be different, but things arent always equal in friendships and relationships. 如果别人对我的付出，跟我对别人的付出一样多，现实可能会有所不同。然而，友情和爱情中的付出总是不对等。I honestly think that we should help other people and take care of them because its a good thing to do, not because we want something back. 老实说，我觉得我们

10、应该帮助和关心别人，仅仅因为这是一种善举，而不是想要有所回报。But by the same token, if were not getting anything back to sustain us when we need it, we shouldnt help people to the point where we drain our own resources. 可是，由此类推，当我们需要帮助，却什么都得不到的时候，我们就不应该耗尽所有精力去帮助别人了。Im not being selfish.我并不是自私。Putting yourself first feels so wron

11、g when you first start doing it. 刚开始去把自己放在第一位的时候，你会觉得很不好意思。If youre used to erasing your own needs to look after others, it seems too self-indulgent.如果你习惯压抑自己的需求去帮助别人，以自己为优先的话，就会显得很任性。But actually,the only way to consistently and effectively help other people in the long-termis to make sure youre in

12、 a good place yourself.但是实际上，持续且高效地帮助别人的唯一方法，就是先让自己保持良好的状态。Im important too.我也很重要。It actually took me a while to get to the point where I can say this, but theres no reason why my own wants and needs shouldnt matter as much as the other people in my life. 我也是在经历了很多之后，才意识到这一点。然而，日常生活中，我的需求并没有理由比别人的需求

13、低一等。I deserve to have the same level of support and I certainly deserve to get where I want in life. 我应该得到同样程度的支持，我应该得到我想要的、那种平等的地位。I deserve to be happy.我应该得到幸福。Helping people has always made me happy and it still does, but Ive come to understand I want another kind of happiness too pride in my own

14、 achievements, emotional resilience, stuff thats really to do with me and not anyone else. 帮助他人总是使我快乐，现在也是如此，可是我开始明白，我也需要其他种类的幸福为自己的成就、情绪恢复能力、以及真正与自己有关的事情而感到自豪。Its time to make that happen. 是时候这样做了。美文阅读3 你怎样过早晨，就怎样过一生Every morning, you are defining how your life would be like.每一天早上，你都在定义你未来人生的模样。No,

15、 I'm not saying the cliche that every morning you have the chance to make a different decision.不，我并不是在说“你每天早上都可以做出不同的抉择”这种陈词滥调。What I'm suggesting is that how you choose to live your morning speaks a lot about how you choose to live your life.我的意思是，你过每一个早上的态度，在很大程度上都说明了你过这一生的态度。There are peo

16、ple who choose to get out of the bed in the last minute and grab whatever they can get to eat or even give up breakfast all together.有的人选择早上在最后一刻才起床，随便抓点什么当早餐，或者干脆不吃早餐了。These people are choosing to make their lives failures, because apparently they have no idea how to make solid plans and make life

17、organized.这些人是在选择让自己的生活变得失败，因为他们显然不知道如何制定有效的计划并让生活仅仅有条。There are another kind of people who choose to make every morning in order.还有一种人，他们选择让每个早晨都过得有规律。They get up relatively early and can finish a lot of things before they go to work.他们会在一个比较早的时间起床，并且能在上班前搞定很多事情。That makes the whole day way easier

18、for them and make them more productive in the office.这会让他们的一天都轻松得多，也会让他们在上班的时候更有创造力。Yes, how you live your morning does speak a lot about how you live your life.是的，你如何过你的早上，你就如何过你的一生。Don't underestimate it.千万别小看了这一点。美文阅读4美丽与否，永远都是主观的Every now and then, someone tries to make a case for objective

19、beauty the notion that there is a quasi-scientific way to judge whether something is beautiful or not.时不时地，总有些人要纠结什么是客观的美，他们觉得能找到一种准确而科学的方法来界定一个东西到底美不美。They poorly analyze survey data. In the end, all this so-called objectivity simply serves what they themselves want to express.这些人总是潦草地分析一堆调研数据，而最终，

20、这种所谓的客观只不过是鼓吹他们自己想表达的那些东西。Beauty is subjective. Period.美是主观的，这才是不变的真理。We each dictate what it is, how it is, and why it is.对于“美”是什么、如何是、为什么是，我们每个人都有不同的观点。We assign degrees of beauty to those around us according to preconceived parameters.我们总是在心里带着自己的标准去衡量身边的人漂不漂亮。They coincide with what we value in

21、life.而这些标准其实都反映了我们自己的价值观。They bounce off of our belief systems, our concepts of good and bad, right and wrong, and some, of righteous or sinful.它们与我们的信仰、善恶观、是非观、道德观是息息相关的。A guy's heart is broken by a beautiful woman with light brown hair and hazel eyes.一位男子被一名褐发碧眼的美丽女人伤透了心。It forever alters his

22、experience of those properties on a woman.于是这个女人的这些特点给他的感觉就永远不再一样了。A man's life is saved in the jungle by a woman with corncobs on her head and a plate in her lip.另一个男人在丛林里被一名女子救了一命，而这名女子头上顶着玉米棒子、嘴唇上串着唇盘。She is kind, caring, nurturing, and loving.她很善良、很会照顾人、很有爱心。He will forever see such women through new eyes. His inner eyes have opened to reveal beauty where once he was blind to it.于是这名男子看这名女子的眼光从此不一样了。他的心看见了他眼镜看不见的美丽。