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1、生而为赢 英语背诵美文 30 篇目录：第一篇：Youth 青春第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（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：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 Th

2、eory 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2第二十篇

3、：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 Sunrise 十月的日出第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说第三十篇：Firs

4、t Inaugural Address(Excerpts)就职演讲（节选）第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company hekeeps;for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;and one shouldalways live in the best company,whether it be of book

5、s or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends.It is the same today that it alwayswas,and it will never change.It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.Itdoes not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always receives uswith the same kindness;amusing and instru

6、cting us in youth,and comforting andconsoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for abook just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration whichboth entertain for a third.There is an old proverb,Love me,love my dog.”Butthere is mo

7、re wisdom in this:”Love me,love my book.”The book is a truer andhigher bond of union.Men can think,feel,and sympathize with each other throughtheir 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 thinkout;for th

8、e world of a man s life is,for the most part,but the world of his thoughts.Thus the best books are treasuries 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 produc

9、tsof human effort.Temples and statues decay,but books survive.Time is of noaccount with great thoughts,which are as fresh today as when they first passedthrough their authors minds,ages ago.What was then said and thought stillspeaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.The only effect of t

10、ime havebeen to sift out the bad products;for nothing in literature can long survive e butwhat is really good.Books introduce us into the best society;they bring us into the presence of thegreatest minds that have ever lived.We hear what they said and did;we see the as ifthey were really alive;we sy

11、mpathize with them,enjoy with them,grieve with them;their experience becomes ours,and we feel as if we were in a measure actors withthem in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die,even in this world.Embalmed in books,their spiritswalk abroad.The book is a living voice.It is an i

12、ntellect to which on still listens.7第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈If I Rest,I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key-“If I rest,I rust”-would be anexcellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.Eventhe most industrious person might adopt it with advanta

13、ge to serve as a reminderthat,if one allows his faculties to rest,like the iron in the unused key,they will soonshow signs of rust and,ultimately,cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keeptheir faculties polished by constant use,so

14、that they may unlock the doors ofknowledge,the gate that guard the entrances to the professions,to science,art,literature,agriculture-every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller,after toiling all day in a quarry,had devoted h

15、is evenings to rest and recreation,hewould never have become a famous geologist.The celebrated mathematician,Edmund Stone,would never have published a mathematical dictionary,never havefound the key to science of mathematics,if he had given his spare moments toidleness,had the little Scotch lad,Ferg

16、uson,allowed the busy brain to go to sleepwhile he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the starsby a string of beads,he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all-not inconstant,spasmodic,or ill-directed labor;but faithful,unremitting,daily effor

17、t toward a well-directed purpose.Just as truly as eternalvigilance is the price of liberty,so is eternal industry the price of noble andenduring success.8第五篇：Ambition 抱负AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition.It would probably be a kinderworld:with out demands,without abrasi

18、ons,without disappointments.Peoplewould have time for reflection.Such work as they did would not be for themselvesbut for the collectivity.Competition would never enter in.conflict would beeliminated,tension become a thing of the past.The stress of creation would be atan end.Art would no longer be t

19、roubling,but purely celebratory in its functions.Longevity would be increased,for fewer people would die of heart attack or strokecaused by tumultuous endeavor.Anxiety would be extinct.Time would stretch onand on,with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah,how unrelieved boring life would be

20、!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth,and ambition therefore asham.Does this mean that success does not really exist?That achievement is atbottom empty?That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongsidethe force of movements and events now not all success,obviousl

21、y,is worthesteeming,nor all ambition worth cultivating.Which are and which are not issomething one soon enough learns on one s own.But even the most cynicalsecretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;andthat the true myth is that the actions of men and women are usele

22、ss.To believeotherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging.It is,in itsimplications,to remove all motives for competence,interest in attainment,andregard for posterity.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not chooseour historical epoch,the country o

23、f our birth,or the immediate circumstances ofour upbringing.We do not,most of us,choose to die;nor do we choose the time orconditions of our death.But within all this realm of choicelessness,we do choosehow we shall live:courageously or in cowardice,honorably or dishonorably,withpurpose or in drift.

24、We decide what is important and what is trivial in life.We decidethat what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do.But nomatter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions,thesechoices and decisions are ours to make.We decide.We choose.And as we decidea

25、nd choose,so are our lives formed.In the end,forming our own destiny is whatambition is about.9第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life:thelonging for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering

26、ofmankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in awayward course,over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge ofdespair.I have sought love,first,because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I wouldoften have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hour

27、s for this joy.I have soughtit,next,because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which oneshivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomablelifeless abyss.I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in amystic miniature,the prefigur

28、ing vision of the heaven that saints and poets haveimagined.This is what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what-at last-I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand thehearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine.And I

29、 have tried toapprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.Alittle of this,but not much,I have achieved.Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heavens.But always it brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in myheart.Chi

30、ldren in famine,victims tortured by oppressors,helpless old people ahated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and painmake a mockery of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the evil,but Icannot,and I too suffer.This has been my life.I have found it worth living,an

31、d would gladly live it again ifthe chance were offered me.10第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤When Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you,follow him,though his ways are hard and steep.Andwhen his wings enfold you,yield to him,though the sword hidden among hispinions may wound you.And when he speaks to

32、 you,believe in him,though hisvoice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.Even as he is for your growth sois he for your pruning.Even as he ascends to your height and caresses yourtenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

33、so shall he descend to our roots andshake them in their clinging to the earth.But if,in your fear,you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure,then it isbetter foryouthatyoucoveryournakedness andpass out oflovesthreshing-floor,into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,but not all of your

34、laughter,and weep,but not all of your tears.Love gives naught but it self and takesnaught but from itself.Love possesses not,nor would it be possessed,for love issufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.But if you love and must have desires,letthese be your desires:To melt

35、 and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and medit

36、ate love s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praiseupon your lips.11第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the mostsubordinate positio

37、ns.Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had aserious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.Theywere introduced to the broom,and spent the first hours of their business livessweeping out the office.I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices,andou

38、r young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education.Butif by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning,the boy who has thegenius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom.Itdoes not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if n

39、ecessary.I was one ofthose sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started,my adviceto you is“aim high”.I would not give a fig for the young man who does not alreadysee himself the partner or the head of an important firm.Do not rest content for amoment in your

40、thoughts as head clerk,or foreman,or general manager in anyconcern,no matter how extensive.Say to yourself,“My place is at the top.”Be kingin your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success,the great secret:concentrate yourenergy,thought,and capital exclusively upon the business in which you

41、areengaged.Having begun in one line,resolve to fight it out on that line,to lead in it,adopt every improvement,have the best machinery,and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital,which meansthat they have scattered their brains also.They have inves

42、tments in this,or that,orthe other,here there,and everywhere.“Dont put all your eggs in one basket.”is allwrong.I tell you to“put all your eggs in one basket,and then watch that basket.”Look round you and take notice,men who do that not often fail.It is easy to watchand carry the one basket.It is tr

43、ying to carry too many baskets that breaks mosteggs in this country.He who carries three baskets must put one on his head,whichis apt to tumble and trip him up.One fault of the American businessman is lack ofconcentration.To summarize what I have said:aim for the highest;never enter a bar room;do no

44、ttouch liquor,or if at all only at meals;never speculate;never indorse beyond yoursurplus cash fund;make the firms interest yours;break orders always to saveowners;concentrate;put all your eggs in one basket,and watch that basket;expenditure always within revenue;lastly,be not impatient,for as Emers

45、on says,“no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”12第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated.The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famousmen proves

46、only that you are yourself of small account.The celebrated develop atechnique to deal with the persons they come across.They show the world a mask,often an impressive on,but take care to conceal their real selves.They play the partthat is expected from them,and with practice learn to play it very we

47、ll,but you arestupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the manwithin.I have been attached,deeply attached,to a few people;but I have been interestedin men in general not for their own sakes,but for the sake of my work.I have not,asKant enjoined,regarded each man as

48、 an end in himself,but as material that mightbe useful to me as a writer.I have been more concerned with the obscure than withthe famous.They are more often themselves.They have had no need to create afigure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasieshave had more chan

49、ce to develop in the limited circle of their activity,and sincethey have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they haveanything to conceal.They display their oddities because it has never struck themthat they are odd.And after all it is with the common run of men that we w

50、ritershave to deal;kings,dictators,commercial magnates are from our point of view veryunsatisfactory.To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers,butthe failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are tooexceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art.They