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1、标签:标题篇一：经典优美英语散文精选 经典优美英语散文精选 What I Have Lived for我为何而生 - By Bertrand Russell伯特兰罗素 我为何而生引自伯特兰罗素自传。它既是作者心灵的抒发，也是生命体验的总结。作者以深刻的感悟和敏锐的目光，分析了人生中的三种激情，即对爱的渴望，对知识的追求和对人类苦难的同情。对爱的渴望，使人欣喜假设狂，既能解除孤独，又能发现美好的未来。对知识的追求，使人理解人心，了解宇宙，掌握科学。爱和知识把人引向天堂般的境界，而对人类的同情之心又使人回到苦难深重的人间。作者认为这就是人生，值得为此再活一次的人生。这篇散文似乎信手拈来，但却耐人寻

2、味。充满激情，充满感慨，充满智慧，情文并茂，逻辑性和感染力极强。 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 higher and thither, in a wayward course, over a

3、deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair. 三种简单但是无比强烈的感情主导着我的人生：对爱的渴望、对知识的寻求和对人类苦难的深切同情。这些感情如同飓风一样没有方向地将我吹得越来越高、越来越远，越过痛苦的海洋到达绝望的边缘。 I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I ha

4、ve sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into 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 o

5、f the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what - at last - I have found. 我寻找爱，因为爱让我着迷这种沉迷如此美好，我宁愿放弃生命中的一切只为换来片刻的对爱的沉迷。我寻找爱，因为爱会减轻孤独在可怕的孤独中，颤抖的灵魂透过世界的边际看到的是冰冷的、深不可测的、没有生命的深渊。我寻找爱，因为在爱的结合中，我看到了一个神秘的具体而微小的世界，这是圣人与诗人想象中的天堂景象的预示。这是我所寻求的，并且我最终发现，它对于人类来说是再美好不过的东西了。 With equal passion I have

6、 sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And l have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds away above the flux. A little of this, but, not much, I have achieved. 以同样的热情，我寻求知识。我曾想要理解人的心灵；我曾想知道为什么星星如此闪亮。我曾试图理解毕

7、达哥拉斯的力量，这种力量使数字凌驾于万物之上。在这些方面我获取了一些知识，但不是很多。 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heaven. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, poverty, and pain make a mockery

8、 of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and i too suffer. 爱和知识，只要可能实现，就会引领我走向天堂。但是同情常常将我带回现实。痛苦的哭喊回荡在我的心中。饥饿的孩子，被剥削者压迫的人民、贫穷和痛苦，这些都在嘲讽人类的生活的本来面目。我渴望减轻邪恶，但是我无法做到，我亦在遭受痛苦。 This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if the ch

9、ance were offered to me. 这就是我的人生。我认为它值得拥有并且如果可能，我愿意重新再来一次。 词汇魅力 1.overwhelmingly adv.压倒性地，不可抵抗地 2.thither adj.对岸的，那边的adv.到那处，向那方 3.wayward adj.任性的，不定的，刚愎的 4.anguish n.苦闷，痛苦 v.使极苦闷，使极痛苦 5.shivering vi.& n.战栗，发抖 6.consciousness n.意识；觉悟；知觉 9.miniature adj.小型的，小规模的 n.缩图，小画像，小模型 10.apprehend v.理解，忧虑，

10、逮捕，拘押 11.flux n.流量，变迁，不断地变化 12.reverberate v.回响，反响，反射 13.mockery n.嘲弄，笑柄，蔑视 14.alleviate vt.减轻，缓解，缓和篇二：10篇精选优秀英语美文背诵 10篇精选优秀英语美文背诵.txt我不奢望什么，只希望你以后的女人一个不如一个。真思念小时候啊，天热的时候我也可以像男人一样光膀子！10篇精选优秀英语美文背诵2007-05-15 17:59 第1篇：英文背诵 用爱唤醒你的生活 Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urg

11、ed, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends. 多年前， 当我第一次找工作时， 不少明智之士强烈向我建议：“巴巴拉，要有热情！热情比任何经历都更有益。这话多

12、么正确，热情的人可以把沉闷的车程变成探险， 把加班变成时机， 把生人变成朋友。 "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you ca

13、n't." “没有热情就不会有任何伟大的成就， 拉尔夫-沃尔多-爱默生写道当事情进展不顺时，热情是帮助你坚持下去的粘合剂当别人叫喊“你不行时， 热情是你内心发出的声音：“我能行。 It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was

14、 such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping. 1983年诺贝尔医学奖的获得者遗传学家巴巴拉-麦克林托克早年的工作直到很多年后才被公众所成认但她并没有放弃实验工作对她来说是一种如此巨大的快乐， 她从未想过要停顿它。 We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying o

15、f a beetle. It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. 我们都生来好奇, 睁大眼睛，满怀热情每一个看到过婴儿听到钥匙声或看见乱爬的甲虫就兴奋不已的人都会明白这一点。 At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would

16、 straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." 正是这种孩子气的好奇给了热情的人们不管年龄大小 一种青春的气息大提琴家帕布罗-卡萨尔斯在90岁时还坚持以

17、拉巴赫开场他的每一天音乐从他的指间流出， 他弯着的背挺直起来， 欢乐再度溢满他的眼眸音乐对卡萨尔斯来说, 是使人生变成无止境的探索之旅的灵丹妙药就像作家兼诗人塞缪尔-厄尔曼曾写过的：“岁月使皮肤起了皱纹， 但如果失去热情，便会使灵魂起皱纹。 How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within."

18、; And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love - proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others. 怎样才能找回孩提时代的热情呢？我相信答案就在“热情这个词本身“热情一词源于希腊语， 原意是“内在的上帝这里所说的“内在的上帝不是别的, 而是一种持久不变的爱恰当的自爱自我承受， 并推而及于他人。 Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title

19、or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture. 热情的人们同样热爱他们所做的事，而不是考虑钱位权如果我们不能把热爱的事作为正式职业， 我们也可把它当作业余消遣：比方有国家元首喜欢画画的， 有修女参加马拉松长跑的， 有行政官员手工制作家具的。 Eliza

20、beth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm. 堪萨斯州韦尔斯

21、维尔市的伊丽莎白-莱顿到68岁才开场画画这一爱好消除了曾纠缠她至少达30年之久的忧郁症而她的作品水准之高使得一个评论家说：“我忍不住要称莱顿为天才伊丽莎白又找回了她的热情。 We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be." 我们不应该把眼泪浪费在“早该之类的懊悔上我们需要把眼泪化为汗水，去追求“可能之物。 We need to live each momen

22、t wholeheartedly, with all our senses - finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our sou

23、ls. 我们需要以全副身心去度过生命中的每一分钟在后花园的芬芳中在6岁小孩的蜡笔画中在彩虹醉人的美中找到快乐正是这种对生活的热爱， 让我们双目有神，让我们步履矫健，让我们灵魂的皱纹展平。 第2篇：英文背诵 用爱唤醒你的生活 Consider YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe.

24、Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million,or a billion, or a gazillion 试想一下你！一个空前绝后的你，不管是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。哇！想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。 You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity! 在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的。 You're amazing! You're awesome! And by

25、the way, TAG, you're it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. But you don't become "beautiful" just by virtue of the aging process. 你是了不起的！你是卓越的！没错，就是你。你

26、已经是了不起的，是卓越的，你还可以更卓越更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自然而然地变得“美丽。 Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate yo

27、ur growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today. 真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。你可以只听天由命, 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以选择加速自己的成长，成心地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描绘自己未来的艺术家。 Paint a Masterpiece. 画出一幅杰作吧。 God gives every bird its food, but he

28、 doesn't throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it's truly up to you. 上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。 第3篇：英文背诵 英文背诵 只把爱给你一人 I Give My Love to You Only I want to live and love with you and be one forever; to be near you so I can reach

29、out and touch you; to make love with you, talk with you, and be silent with you;to hold you close every night and wake up with you each morning. I want to share my secrets with you and be honest with you; to understand and respect you, accepting you as you are. I want to find shelter in you when I a

30、m afraid and hold you when I need warmth; to be with you through all seasons, walking with you in the sunshine and cuddling with you in the cold. 第4篇：英文背诵 英文背诵 改变自己和世界 在懵懂的童年时期，我们胸怀梦想，相信自己的力量可以改变世界。后来，我们渐渐长大成熟，经历了生活的艰辛，明白了世无定事，感到了自己的渺小，我们的梦想也从“改变世界降格成“改变家庭，最终定位成“改变自己。但我们实在不该低估自己，因为在我们改变自己的同时也潜移默化地影响

31、着家庭，而作为世界的一分子，从某个角度来讲，我们也正改变着世界。 Start With Yourself The following words were written on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in the Crypts of Westminister Abbey: When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world

32、would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it, too, seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now as I li

33、e on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If I had only changed my self first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country and, who knows, I may have even changed the world. 第5篇 英文背诵】我们站在同一起跑点 "We are rea

34、ding the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite-" “我们正在阅读一本页数无限的书的第一章的第一节 I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it

35、anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone. 我不知道这段文字是谁写的，我一直很喜欢并用它们来提醒自己，那就是未来操之在我。我们可以掌握神秘而不可知的未来，从中创出我们所能想象的任何东西，一如雕刻家可以将未成型的石头刻出雕像一样。 We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and f

36、ull of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. 我们每个人都是农夫。我们假设种下好种子，就会有丰收。倘假设种子长得不良且长满杂草，我们就会徒劳无获。如果我们什么也不种，就根本不会有什么收获。 I want the future to be better than the past. I don't want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled.

37、 We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the reminder of our lives. 我希望未来会比过去更好。我不希望未来会被那些充满在历史中的错误所污染。我们应关心未来，因为往后的余生都要在未来中度过。 The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will effect it.

38、 Each day will brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor. 往昔已一去不复返而且是静止的。任凭我们怎么努力都不能改变过去。未来就在我们眼前而且是动态的。 我们的所作所为都会影响未来。只要我们体会的出来，每天都可以发现新的知识领域伴随而生，可能是在家里，也可能是在我们的事业中。

39、我们正处在人类所努力钻研的每个领域中进步的起点。 第6篇 英文背诵】英文背诵 思想与行动无限 Some people go through life standing at the excuse counter. 有些人是陪伴着借口度过一生的。 People say they'd like to do this or that, but . . . then they offer all the excuses in the world why they can't do whatever 'it' is. No matter what the excuses

40、are, the only thing usually limiting them is their own self-perception. 有人会说，他喜欢这喜欢那，但是于是便给出他所能找到的各种理由来解释他为什篇三：三十篇经典英语背诵美文目录 第一篇：Youth 青春 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假设给我三天光明节选 第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴节选 第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 第五篇：Ambition 抱负 第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生 第七篇：

41、When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤 第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道 第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人 第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半 第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate 你的恢复速率是多少？ 第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间 第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐 第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好 第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人

42、 第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式 第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗 第十八篇：Solitude 独处 第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义 第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在 第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美 第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门 第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢 第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐 第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror-What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我 第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁 第二十七篇：An October Suise 十月的日出 第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是消灭 第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说 第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲节选优秀经典英语美文精选