英语经典美文及翻译
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英语经典美文及翻译 篇1
Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull in the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering—waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
“When we reach the station, that will be it!” We cry. “When I'm 18.” “When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the last kid through college.” “When I have paid off the mortgage!” “When I get a promotion.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after!”
Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
“Relish the moment” is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118：24：“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” It isnt the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. The station will come soon enough.
我们的'潜意识里藏着一派田园诗般的风光!我们仿佛身处一次横贯大陆的漫漫旅程之中!乘着火车，我们领略着窗外流动的景色：附近公路上奔驰的汽车、十字路口处招手的孩童、远山上吃草的牛群、源源不断地从电厂排放出的烟尘、一片片的玉米和小麦、平原与山谷、群山与绵延的丘陵、天空映衬下城市的轮廓，以及乡间的庄园宅第!
然而我们心里想得最多的却是最终的目的地!在某一天的某一时刻，我们将会抵达进站!迎接我们的将是乐队和飘舞的彩旗!一旦到了那儿，多少美梦将成为现实，我们的生活也将变得完整，如同一块理好的拼图!可是我们现在却在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去，咒骂火车的拖拖拉拉!我们期待着，期待着，期待着火车进站的那一刻!
“当我们到站的时候，一切就都好了!”我们呼喊着。“当我18岁的时候!”“当我有了一辆新450SL奔驰的时候!”“当我供最小的孩子念完大学的时候!”“当我偿清贷款的时候!”“当我官升高任的时候!”“当我退休的时候，就可以从此过上幸福的生活啦!”
可是我们终究会认识到人生的旅途中并没有车站，也没有“一到永逸”的地方!生活的真正乐趣在于旅行的过程，而车站不过是个梦，它始终遥遥领先于我们!
“享受现在”是句很好的箴言，尤其是当它与《圣经·诗篇》中第118章24节的一段话相映衬的时候, 更是如此：“今日乃主所创造；生活在今日我们将欢欣、高兴!”真正令人发疯的不是今日的负担，而是对昨日的悔恨及对明日的恐惧!悔恨与恐惧是一对孪生窃贼，将今天从你我身边偷走!
那么就不要在过道里徘徊吧，别老惦记着你离车站还有多远!何不换一种活法，将更多的高山攀爬，多吃点儿冰激凌甜甜嘴巴，经常光着脚板儿溜达溜达，在更多的河流里畅游，多看看夕阳西下，多点欢笑，少点泪水吧!生命只是一段旅程!车站会很快到达。
英语经典美文及翻译 篇2
It was the last day of final examinations in a large Eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled, discussing the exam due to begin in a few minutes. On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam—then on to commencement and jobs.
Some talked of jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. With all this assurance of four years of college, they felt ready and able to conquer the world.
The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. The professor had said they could bring any books or notes they wanted. Requesting only that they did not talk to each other during the test.
Jubilantly they filed into the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And smiles broadened as the students noted there were only five essaytype questions.
Three hours passed. Then the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. No one spoke as, papers in hand, the professor faced the class.
He surveyed the worried faces before him, then asked: “how many completed all five questions?”
Not a hand was raised.
“How many answered four?”
Still no hands.
“Three? Two?”
The students shifted restlessly in their seats.
“One, then? Certainly somebody finished one.”
But the class remained silent. The professor put down the papers. “That is exactly what I expected,” he said.
“I just want to impress upon you that, even though you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the subject you don't know. These questions you could not answer are relatively common in everyday practice.” Then, smiling, he added: “You will all pass this course, but remember—even though you are now college graduates, your education has just begun.”
The years have obscured the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.
那是在一所东部大学期末考试的最后一天。一座教学楼的阶梯上，有一群工程系大四学生挤在一起讨论几分钟后将要开始的考试。他们脸上充满自信。这是他们最后一次考试了，接着就等毕业典礼，然后参加工作。
这些学生中有的正在谈论刚刚找到的工作，也有的谈论将来会找什么样的工作。他们对四年的所学信心十足，感觉自己已经可以去一闯天下了。
他们知道即将开始的考试将会是小菜一碟，因为此前这门课的教授说本次考试为开卷考试，只要愿意，什么书本笔记都可以带进考场。要求只有一点：考试期间不许交头接耳。
学生们兴高采烈，陆续进入教室，教授把试卷发给他们。他们发现试卷上只有五道问答题，于是笑容更加灿烂了。
三个小时过去了，教授开始收卷子。学生们先前的自信早已荡然无存。他们流露出担心的表情。教授拿着试卷看着学生们，没人说话。
他扫视了一下大家苦恼的表情，然后问道：“有多少人答完了五道题?”
没有一个人举手。
“有多少人答完了四道题?”
还是没有人举手。
“三道题?两道题?”
这时学生们在自己的座位上坐立不安了。
“那么，有谁答上来一道题?一定有人做完了一道题。”
但是学生们依然沉默。教授放下手中的卷子，说道：“这正是我所预计的。”
“我只是想让你们铭记于心，即使你们已经完成了四年工程学的学习，这个学科仍然有很多你们不知道的东西。这些你们回答不出的问题在日常实践中却是司空见惯的。”接着他笑了笑，补充道：“你们都能通过这门课，但是要记住：即便你们现在已经是大学毕业生了，你们在这一行的学习才刚刚开始。”
岁月的流逝已使我已记不清这位教授的名字，但是他所教授的这一课却依然历历在目。
英语经典美文及翻译 篇3
他和她原本是那个小学出去的学生 。
一些年后，她先于他回到那个小学当民办老师。继而高考落败的他也来到小学。
一切顺理成章，寂寞中容易产生爱情。当他们缠老校长作媒人时，老校长说再没有这么省心的媒人了。他们窘红了脸。
那年为支援甘肃僻远山区的教育，政策规定年龄和教龄在一定期限去执教的几年后可转成公办。
他们商量后报名，他们年轻。很多人是不愿去那艰苦的地方。
他们到了那个荒凉的小镇，那份清苦是他们想不到的。地窖里的水时常飘散着羊粪气息，土豆便是生活的全部。到处弥漫的黄沙人都睁不开眼睛。然而他们却是甜蜜的。夜深人静的时候，他们偎坐火炉边，享受着两人的幸福。儿子出生后，他更是一个人负担两个人的教学任务，还要照顾她，但他们却沉浸在无比的幸福之中。
He and she were originally the students out of that primary school.
A few years later, she went back to that primary school as a private teacher. He went to primary school after the defeat of the college entrance examination.
Everything is right and easy to produce love. When they were the old Chancellor as a matchmaker, the old Chancellor said there was no more matchmaker. They embarrassed red in the face.
That year to support Gansu in remote mountainous areas of the education policy, age and seniority to coach in a certain period of time a few years can be turned into a public.
They agreed to sign up and they were young. A lot of people don't want to go to that hard place.
They arrived at the desolate town, that is they think of the poor. The cellar water often waft sheep flavor, potato is full of life. The yellow sand people everywhere could not open their eyes. But they are sweet. At the time, they sat against the fire, enjoying the happiness of two people. After the birth of his son, he was more of a person to bear two people's teaching task, but also to take care of her, but they were immersed in the unparalleled happiness.
英语经典美文及翻译 篇4
I believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they are worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.
Let’s benchmark the parameters: Yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale. Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.
But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal—the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioner died, the well went dry, the marriage ended, the job lost, the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune—music I disliked. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team, bound for their first World Series, buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long. I am owed and savor the peaceful and happy times. They reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that I can thrive.
The 50 percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest. Oh, yeah, the corn crop? For that one blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn—fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip—while my neighbors’ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.
Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.
英语经典美文及翻译 篇5
Spring is the first season of a year.There are there months in spring : March , April and May , The weather is becoming warmer and warmer in spring.
Sometimes It rains a lot. Everything has started to change in spring. Look, the trees are turning green. The birds are singing happily in the trees. The flowers are showing their smiles to us. Spring is also my favourite season. Because I can wear my beautiful shirts .
I can plant trees and go camping.I can enjoy myself in the beautiful spring. Of course , I like the Spring Festival , too. In a word, Spring is a very beautiful season.I like spring very much
春天是一年中的第一个季节，一共有三个月：三月，四月和五月。
春天，天气变得越来越暖和了。有时候，也会下很多雨。春天，所有的事物都开始变化了。看，树变绿了，鸟儿在树上快乐地歌唱，花对我们张开了笑脸。 春天也是我最喜欢的.季节，因为我可以穿上漂亮的衬衫。
我可以植树，去野营，我可以在春天里过得很开心。当然了，我也是喜欢春节。总之，春天是个十分美丽的季节，我十分喜欢春天。
英语经典美文及翻译 篇6
If somebody tells you, " I'll love you for ever," will you believe it?
I don't think there's any reason not to. we are ready to believe such commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. As for the belief in an everlasting love, that's another thing.
Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love. I'd answer i believe in it. But an everlasting love is not immutable.
You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. But love will change its composition with the passage of time. It will not remain the same. In the course of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become something different to you.
In the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last indefinitely. By and by, however," fervent" gave way to " prosaic" . Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last. Then what was meant by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of interdependence.
We used to insist on the difference between love and liking. The former seemed much more beautiful than the latter. one day, however, it turns out there's really no need to make such difference. Liking is actually a sort of love. By the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.
I wish i could believe there was somebody who would love me forever. That's, as we all know, too romantic to be true. Instead, it will more often than not be a case of lasting relationship.
英语经典美文及翻译 篇7
历史是一种经历和体验，它让我们可以反思，给我们一种警示，告诉我们何事可以做、何事不可以做。历史可以明鉴未来，熟悉历史是为了创造更美好的明天。
People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records of the past. Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and the history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, the negotiations of statesmen and the campaigns of armies?
人们常常心存疑虑，为什么历史学家要费尽周折地保存数以万计过去的书籍、文献和记录。我们为什么要有图书馆呢？这些文献和史书有何用处呢？我们为什么要记载并保存人类的.行为、政治家的谈判和军人队伍的战役呢？
Because, sometimes, the voice of experience can cause us to stop, look and listen. And because, sometimes, past records, correctly interpreted, can give us warning of what to do and what not to do.
因为，有时候经验之谈能促使我们停步、观察和倾听。也因为有时候过去的记载经过正确的诠释，可以给我们一种警示，告诉我们何事可做、何事不可做。
If we are ever to create enduring peace, we must seek its origins in human experience and in the record of human idealism. From the story of the fortitude, courage and devotion of men and women, we create the inspirations of youth. From stories of the ancient cave dwellers right down to today's environmental activists, history records people's success, intelligence and strength. Surely from these records there can come help to mankind in our confusions and promote and in our desires for peace.
如果我们想要永保和平，我们就必须从人类经验以及人类追求理想的历程中去探索其渊源。从体现男性和女性不屈不挠、勇敢和奉献精神的故事之中，我们获得了青春的启示。远自基督教殉道者，近到布达佩斯的当代英勇烈士，历史记载着人类的一切苦难、克己、忠诚和英勇的事迹。当然，那些记载一定会对处于困惑、茫然和渴望和平的人们有所助益。
The supreme purpose of history is a better world. History gives a warning to those who would promote war. History brings inspiration to those who seek peace. In short, history helps us learn. Yesterday's records can keep us from repeating yesterday's mistakes. And from all these records, we can see the progress of mankind.
历史的终极目的是创造一个更加美好的世界。历史对那些力主战争的人加以警告。对于那些追寻和平的人予以启示。简而言之，历史帮助我们学习。昨日的记载可以使我们避免重蹈覆辙。而这些由历史学家所汇集的镶嵌图案艺术品，将会逐渐成为表现人类进步的伟大壁画。