英语优美文段
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英语优美文段 篇1
1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
——Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家约翰逊）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美国作家梭罗）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
——Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法国化学家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
——Voltaire（法国思想家伏尔泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英国批评家散文家哈滋里特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英国作家史蒂文森）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英国诗人小说家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法国思想家孟德斯鸠）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德国剧作家诗人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
——Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美国实业家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
——Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（爱尔兰总统魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
——G. Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美国散文家雷诺兹）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的'毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家和评论家约翰逊）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
——（La Racheforcauld（法国作家罗切福考尔德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英国小说家萨克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美国诗人斯托达德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
——J.Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美国总统罗斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
——Mark Twain（美国作家马克？吐温）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
——George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
——Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的方向；
没有方向，就没有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，
但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美国政治家舒尔茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。
——R. Peters（美国法学家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yours, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
——Mark Twain（马克 吐温）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.爱略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里穆尔）
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝；这是低能的表现，真正了解变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
——John Dewey 约翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
——John F.Kennedy 约翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。
——Joseph Rou 约瑟夫·鲁
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
——Jung 荣格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·邓肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯图亚特
51、Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于他们什么都理解得太快。
——Alexander Pope 亚历山大·蒲柏
52、To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
要正确地思考，我们须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己见解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·黑兹利特
53、No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
没有人是完全孤立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的一小块。
——John Donne 约翰·邓恩
54、No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
没有人能让社会服从个人的意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。
——Emerson 爱默生
55、Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人做假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚。
——La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什福科
56、Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
——Mark Twain 马克·吐温
57、The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。
——伊索
58、What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不可能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西。
——Epictetus 爱比克泰德
59、Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
不惜一切代价夺取胜利，不畏任何恐怖夺取胜利。不论道路多么漫长，多么崎岖，一定要夺取胜利！因为没有胜利就不能生存。
——Sir Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔
60、The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。
——Emerson 爱默生
英语优美文段 篇2
1、 "一份不渝的友谊，执着千万个祝福，给我想念的朋友，温馨的问候。For our ever-lasting friendship, send sincere blessings and warmgreetings to my friends whom I miss so much."
2、 Never quit because something went wrong; Quit because you tried your hardest and nothing made it better.不要因为有了难题就马上放弃；一定要竭尽全力，如果这样还不行，才可以选择放弃。
3、 You can go as far as you want to go.心有多远，你就能走多远。
4、 Acting as if nothing borne in mind is the best revenge.It's all for myself to live better.若无其事，原来是最好的报复。生活得更好，是为了自己。
5、 Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.信仰就是不想知道真相是什么。
6、 "Byron: I am never away from you. Even now, I shall not leave you. In another land, I shall be still that one who loves you, loves you beyond measure beyond measure.拜伦：我从未离开过你。即使现在，我也不会离开你。在另一个世界，我依旧是爱的那个人。爱你，无穷无尽，天长地久。"
7、 "We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. Andthen begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to loveor how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will comeout, but this kind of waiting is the love itself. 在自己面前，应该一直留有一个地方，独自留在那里。然后去爱。不知道是什么，不知道是谁，不知道如何去爱，也不知道可以爱多久。只是等待一次爱情，也许永远都没有人。可是，这种等待，就是爱情本身。"
8、 如果活着，是上帝赋予我最大的使命，那么活者有你，将会是上帝赋予我使命的恩赐……If living on the earth is a mission from the lord… living with you is the award of the lord…
9、 "I love you, love can not my world without you.我爱你，爱到我的世界不能没有你。"
10、 "east,west,home is the best!金窝窝，银窝窝，不如自己的狗窝窝；家是最好的。"
11、 Until all is over one's ambition never dies.不到黄河心不死。
12、 "Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in one's hand. It’s about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someone's love when you need love. 幸福，不是长生不老，不是大鱼大肉，不是权倾朝野。幸福是每一个微小的生活愿望达成。当你想吃的时候有得吃，想被爱的时候有人来爱你。"
13、 Too much knowledge makes the head bald.学问太多催人老。
14、 Because the things you're scared of are usually the most worthwhile. 每天都尝试去一件你害怕的事情，因为，你所害怕的事情，往往是最值得的。
15、 "如果只是遇见，不能停留，不如不遇见。If we can only encounter each other rather than stay with each other,then I wish we had never encountered."
16、 "I can't promise that things will be perfect, But I swear I'll never leave. 我无法承诺一切会有多么完美，但是我答应你我永远不会离开。"
17、 "Fireworks rain lane, whose kite is broken line, who really injured.烟花雨巷，谁的风筝断了线，谁的真心受了伤。"
18、 Can you imagine how much he paid for that car?你能想象他买那车花了多少钱吗？
19、 Everything that happens in life is neither good nor bad. It just depends on your perspective. 生活中的事，不是好事就是坏事。好事还是坏事，都取决于你看事情的角度。
20、 Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.宁愿做事不完美，总比完美地不做事要好。
21、 "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called for by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.当失去心爱的人时，我们抛洒悲苦的眼泪，那是因为我们想起了过去没有好好地深爱他们。"
22、 The shortest answer is doing.
23、 In love folly is always sweet. 恋爱中，干傻事总是让人感到十分美妙。
24、 How was your weekend? 你周末过得怎么样？
25、 I miss you so much already and I haven’t even left yet!尽管还不曾离开，我已对你朝思暮想！
26、 It involves a lot of hard work. 那需要很多的辛勤工作。
27、 "To be a happy man, reading, travel, hard work, care for the body and mind.做一个幸福的人，读书，旅行，努力工作，关心身体和心情。"
28、 Two wrongs do not make a right.别人错了，不等于你对了。
29、 Thank you for being my friend and being around.感谢你作我的朋友并且在我身旁。
30、 我要幸福的昏倒了！I am too happy to stand faint!
31、 "Take some time, always see something. With some things, always see some people. ——花一些时间，总会看清一些事。用一些事情，总会看清一些人。"
32、 "Take a risk. If the outcome isn’t what you expected, at least you can say you tried. 冒险一试，就算结果不是你所期望的，至少你可以说你已经试过了。"
33、 "God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends.神决定了谁是你的亲戚,幸运的是在选择朋友方面他给了你留了余地。"
34、 "Don't waste your time looking back on what you've lost. Move on, for life is not meant to be traveled backwards——别把时间浪费在回首你已经失去的东西上，向前看吧，因为时光本就不会倒流。"
35、 Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect. 不要去等待完美的时刻，把握好现在，让此刻变完美。
36、 "Never mistake silence for ignorance, calmness for acceptance, or kindness for weakness.永远别把沉默当成无知，把冷静当成接受，把仁慈当成软弱。"
37、 Memories can be painful. To forget may be a blessing. 记忆是痛苦的根源，忘记也是一种福气。
38、 "Accept what was and what is, and you’ll have more positive energy to pursue what will be. 接受过去和现在的模样，才会有能量去追寻自己的未来。"
39、 "No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone somewhere else is fighting to survive.不论生活是多么的好或者多么的坏，每天醒来都应感恩生活。在别处还有人为了活着而奋斗呢！"
40、 "If you are passionate about something, pursue it, no matter what anyone else thinks. That's how dreams are achieved。——若是你想要什么，那就勇敢地去追求，不要管别人是怎么想的，因为这就是实现梦想的方式。"
41、 "Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. 愿望是美好的，也许是人间至善，而美好的事物永不消逝。"
42、 Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.生活是一门没有橡皮擦的绘画艺术。
43、 Never give up your dreams. Miracles happen everyday. 不要放弃梦想，奇迹每天都在上演。
44、 Don't worry about what others doing better than you. Concentrate on beating your own records every day. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only与其担心别人做得比你好，不如关注自己怎样才能一天天做得更好。成功是一场和自己的比赛。
45、 "Good relationships don't just happen. They take time, patience and two people who truly want to be together—一段好的恋情不是偶然，它需要时间，耐心，和两个真正想在一起的人。"
46、 "Love life, live the life you love.只有爱生活，才会过你爱的生活。"
47、 "You have come this far, don’t give up now.你已至此，不要放弃。"
48、 "Whatever you do,remember that you do it for yourself,then you will not complain. 无论做什么，记得是为自己而做，那就毫无怨言。"
49、 Never live in the past but always learn from it. 我们不要沉迷于过去，而是要从中吸取教训。
50、 "A genuine smile from within shows on the outside: you smile with your eyes and mouth. When you smile on the inside, people are more receptive when you approach them.——人真正的微笑是从内到外散发出来的：你的眼睛和嘴都在笑。当你微笑的时候，要发自内心，这样人们才更能接受你。"
英语优美文段 篇3
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and jamtresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had even seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said so, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause, "What I should like to see her do is sweep out a room." It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is "aim high". I would not give a fig for the young man who has not already seen himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, "My place is at the top." Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which your are engaged. 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 means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket". Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets, that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: Aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm's interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly be not impatient, for, as Emerson says, "no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves." ）
英语优美文段 篇4
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.
Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night!
英语优美文段 篇5
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for whats next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then youve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, theres hope you may die young at 80.
英语优美文段 篇6
The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, "This is for you, Daddy.”
有这样一个故事，爸爸因为三岁的女儿浪费了一卷金色的.包装纸而惩罚了她。家里很缺钱，当孩子想要用包装纸装饰一个挂在圣诞树上的盒子时，爸爸生气了。然而，第二天早上小女孩把盒子作为礼物送给了爸爸，“这是给你的，爸爸。”
The man was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, but his anger flared again when he found out the box was empty. He yelled at her, stating, "Don't you know, when you give someone a present, there is supposed to be something inside? The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, "Oh, Daddy, it's not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They're all for you, Daddy."
女儿的这个行为让爸爸感到尴尬。但是当他发现盒子是空的时候，他的怒火再一次燃烧了。他对女儿喊道，“难道你不知道给别人礼物的时候，里面应该放有东西吗？”多女孩抬头看着父亲，眼里含着泪水，“爸爸，盒子不是空的。我把吻放在了盒子里，都是给你的，爸爸。”
The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her forgiveness. Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he was discouraged, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
爸爸感动极了，他搂住女儿，恳请她的原谅。之后不久，一场事故夺走了小女孩的生命。据说，父亲便将那个小金盒子放在床头，一直陪伴着他的余生。无论何时他感到气馁或者遇到难办的事情，他就会打开礼盒，取出一个假想的吻，记起漂亮女儿给予了自己特殊的爱。
In a very real sense, each one of us, as humans beings, have been given a gold container filled with unconditional love and kisses... from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other possession, anyone could hold, more precious than this.
从一个非常真实的意义上说，我们每个人都被赠与过一个无形的金色礼盒，那里面装满了来自子女，家人，朋友及上帝无条件的爱与吻。人们所能拥有的最珍贵的礼物莫过于此了。
英语优美文段 篇7
It may seem an exaggeration to say that ambition is the drive of society, holding many of its different elements together, but it is not an exaggeration by much. Remove ambition and the essential elements of society seem to fly apart. Ambition is intimately connected with family, for men and women not only work partly for their families; husbands and wives are often ambitious for each other, but harbor some of their most ardent ambitions for their children.
Yet to have a family nowadays—with birth control readily available, and inflation a good economic argument against having children—is nearly an expression of ambition in itself. Finally,though ambition was once the domain chiefly of monarchs and aristocrats, it has, in more recent times,increasingly become the domain of the middle classes. Ambition and futurity—a sense of building for tomorrow—are inextricable. Working, saving, planning—these, the daily aspects of ambition —have always been the distinguishing marks of a rising middle class. The attack against ambition is not incidentally an attack on the middle class and what it stands for. Like it or not, the middle class has done much of society’s work in America; and it, the middle class, has from the beginning run on ambition. It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world:without demands, without abrasions,without disappointments. People would have time for reflection.
Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. Conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past.
The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely entertaining in its functions. The family would become superfluous as a social unit, with all its former power for bringing about neurosis drained away. Life span would be expanded, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by overwork. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unbearably boring life would be!