英語(yǔ)美文翻譯練習(xí)

1、v1.0可編輯可修改第一篇：Youth青春Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matterof rosy cheeks,青春不是生命中的一段時(shí)間，它是心靈上的一種狀態(tài)；它不是紅潤(rùn)的臉陝、red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of theimagi nati on, a嘴唇和柔軟的膝蓋的物體；它是一種意愿的東西，一種想象的質(zhì)量，一種vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness

2、 of the deep springs of life.情感的精力；它是生命深處里新鮮的春天.Youth means a temperame ntal predo minance of courage over timidity, ofthe青春意味著一種氣質(zhì)的卓越，勇敢勝于膽怯，appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more冒險(xiǎn)的欲望勝于對(duì)安逸的喜好。這通常存在于一個(gè)60歲的男人than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a

3、nu mber of years. We growold多于一個(gè)20歲的男孩。沒(méi)有人僅通過(guò)許多年就成熟。我們通過(guò)遺棄我們的理想by desert ing our ideals.而成長(zhǎng)Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry,歲月也許會(huì)使皮膚發(fā)皺，但是放棄你的熱情就會(huì)使你的精神疲勞。擔(dān)憂(yōu)、fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.恐懼、畏縮使心靈歪曲并使你的精神回歸于3無(wú)。Whether

4、60 or 16, there is in every human being s heart the lure ofwon ders, the無(wú)論是60還是16,在每個(gè)人心中都有好奇心的誘惑：unfailing appetite for what s next and the joy of the game of living.In the cen ter對(duì)未來(lái)無(wú)盡的欲望與對(duì)生活游戲的樂(lè)趣。of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as itreceives在你我的心中，有個(gè)無(wú)線(xiàn)電站，只要它收到messa

5、ges of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infin ite,來(lái)自于人并無(wú)窮的美麗、希望、勇氣和力量的信息，so long as you are young.只要你年輕。When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows ofcyni cism當(dāng)你的天線(xiàn)掉下時(shí)，你的精神將被冷嘲熱諷的雪和悲觀的冰覆蓋and the ice of pessimism, then you ve grown old, even at 20; but as lo

6、ng as your，然后你就成熟了，甚至在20歲時(shí)，只要你的天線(xiàn)是直的，捕捉到樂(lè)觀向上的 aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there s hope you may dieyoung at 80.電波，你就有希望死在年輕的 80歲。第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如給我三天光明(節(jié)選)All of us have read thrillingstories in which the hero had only a limitedand我們?nèi)慷伎催^(guò)哪些英雄只有一段有限的規(guī)定的specified time t

7、o live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimesas short as刺激的時(shí)間去生存。有時(shí)是長(zhǎng)達(dá)一年的時(shí)間，有事是短短的24小時(shí)。24 hours. But always we were interestedin discovering just howthe doomedhero但是我們總會(huì)樂(lè)于發(fā)現(xiàn)注定的英雄chose to spe nd his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, offree men who怎樣選擇運(yùn)用這最后一天或一小時(shí)。當(dāng)然，我這里所說(shuō)的人的自由ha

8、ve a choice, not condemned crim in als whose sphere of activities isstrictly有一個(gè)選擇，而不是罪犯的活動(dòng)范圍被嚴(yán)格限定范圍。delimited.Such stories set us thinking, won deri ng what we should do un der similar這些故事啟迪我們思考，誘發(fā)我們想象，當(dāng)我們處于這類(lèi)情況，該做的。circumstances.What events, what experiences, what associationsshouldwe什么事件，什么經(jīng)歷，什么交往

9、的人，我們應(yīng)該在那最終的幾個(gè)小時(shí)內(nèi) crowd intothose last hours as mortal bein gs, what regrets，作為注定要死的人后悔嗎Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each dayas if we有時(shí)我想那將是個(gè)很好的規(guī)則在我們每天的生活中如果我們明天就會(huì)死去。should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the valuesof這樣的態(tài)度可以鮮明地強(qiáng)調(diào)生命的價(jià)值。life.We

10、should live each day with gen tie ness,vigor and a kee nn ess ofappreciati on每一天我們都應(yīng)該以和善的態(tài)度、充沛的精力和熱情的欣賞which are oftenlist when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of恰恰是在來(lái)日方長(zhǎng)時(shí)往往被我們不變的全景圖時(shí)天，more days and mon ths and years to come. There are those, of course, whowould幾個(gè)月和幾年來(lái)，當(dāng)然，有那么一些人，他們

11、采納了adopt the Epicurean motto of “ Eat, drink, and be merry ” . But most people享樂(lè)主義的格言：“吃、喝、玩、樂(lè)”。但是大多數(shù)人would be chaste ned by the certa inty of impe nding death.要受到即將面臨死亡的必然性。In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by somestroke of在故事里,注定要死的主人公往往在最后一刻由保存交上好運(yùn)，但fortune, but almos

12、t always his sense of values is cha nged. He becomesmore幾乎總是他的價(jià)值觀被改變了。appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has他更加珍視生命的意義及其永恒而神圣的價(jià)值。ofte n bee n no ted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow ofdeath bring人們常常注意到，那些生活在或者曾經(jīng)生活在死亡陰影下的人，都帶a mellow sweet ness

13、 to everyth ing they do.著成熟的甜蜜去做。Most of us, however, take life for gran ted. We know that one day we must die,但是,我們大多數(shù)人把生活認(rèn)為是理所當(dāng)然的。but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are inbuoya nt我們知道,某一天我們一定會(huì)死，但通常我們把那天想象在遙遠(yuǎn)的將來(lái)。health, death is all but uni mag in able. We seldom thi nk o

14、f it. The days stretch out當(dāng)我們心寬體健時(shí)，死亡幾乎是不可想象的。我們很少想到它。in an en dless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless時(shí)日在無(wú)窮的展望中延展著。于是我們干著瑣碎的事情，幾乎意識(shí)。attitude toward life.不到我們對(duì)生活的倦怠態(tài)度The samelethargy, I amafraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and同樣的昏睡，恐怕,描述了利用我們所有的本能和感覺(jué)。

15、sen ses. Only the deaf appreciate heari ng, only the bli nd realize theman ifold只有聾者才知道聽(tīng)覺(jué)的重要，只有盲人才給人帶來(lái)的各種恩賜，bless ings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observati on applyto those who躺在了眼前。這是否觀察特別適用于那些在成人喪失視覺(jué)和聽(tīng)覺(jué)的生活。have lost sight and heari ng in adult life. But those who have n ever suffere

16、d而那些從沒(méi)有遭受視覺(jué)或impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of theseblessed聽(tīng)覺(jué)損傷之苦的人卻很少充分利用這些天賜的官能。faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without他們的眼睛和耳朵在所有的景象和聲音以濃度和模糊地concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old storyof not being漫不經(jīng)心地、不太多的回

17、報(bào)。還是那相同的老話(huà)說(shuō)的grateful for what we have un til we lose it, of not being con scious ofhealth un til不失去不懂得我們所擁有的，直至失去它，對(duì)被我們的健康意識(shí)不到，直至生病 時(shí)。we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being werestricke n我經(jīng)常想如果每個(gè)人他年輕生命時(shí)期某些時(shí)間的幾天被盲和耳聾打擊的話(huà)blind and deaf for a few days at some time dur

18、ing his early adult life.Darkn ess那將是一個(gè)賜福。黑暗將令他對(duì)光更加感激would make him more appreciative of sight; sile nce would teach him thejoys of沉默將教會(huì)他聲音的樂(lè)趣。sou nd.第三篇：Compa nion ship of Books以書(shū)為伴（節(jié)選）A manmayusually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he一個(gè)人通常會(huì)因?yàn)樗x的書(shū)和他經(jīng)營(yíng)的公司而被得知。keeps; for ther

19、e is a compa nion ship of books as well as of men; and one should因?yàn)橛袀€(gè)書(shū)的伴侶和人類(lèi)的伴侶；還有一個(gè)人應(yīng)該always live in the best compa ny, whether it be of books or of men.一直與最好的伴侶生活，不管是一本書(shū)或是一個(gè)人。A good book may be among the best of frie nds. It is the same today thatit always一本好熟或許是在最好的朋友間。現(xiàn)在也是，一直都是，永不改變。was, and it

20、will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful ofcompa nions.這是最耐心的和激勵(lì)的伴侶。It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always他不會(huì)在逆境和困境中背叛我們。receives us with the samek indn ess; amus ing and in struct ingus in youth,and他總是用相同的和藹接受我們；在乃年輕時(shí)和我們娛樂(lè)并知道我們，comfort ing and co

21、n soli ng us in age.在年齡上舒緩和安慰我們。Men ofte n discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love theyhave for a人們常常發(fā)現(xiàn)彼此之間親密無(wú)間相互愛(ài)他們book just as two pers ons sometimes discover a frie nd by the admirati onwhich書(shū)就像有時(shí)兩個(gè)人發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)朋友的贊賞both enter tain for a third. There is an old proverb, Love me, love mydo

22、g. ” But兩個(gè)娛樂(lè)第三。古諺說(shuō)：“愛(ài)屋及烏”。但是there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book. ” The book is atruer and有更多的智慧在這個(gè)：“愛(ài)我，愛(ài)我的書(shū)。這本書(shū)是真實(shí)和higher bond of union. Mencan think, feel, and sympathize with each other更高的聯(lián)系紐帶。人能思考，感覺(jué),和彼此同情through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.通過(guò)

23、他們最喜愛(ài)的作家。他們住在他里面、他也住在一起。A good book is often the best urn of a lifeenshrining the best that lifecould thi nk一本好書(shū)通常是最好的缸生活其中規(guī)定可以認(rèn)為生活最美好的東西out; for the world of a man s life is, for the most part, but the worldof his世界中,一個(gè)人的生命，在大多數(shù)情況下，但他的世界thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, th

24、e golde nthoughts,思想。因此，最好的書(shū)是金玉良言的金色的思想，which, remembered and cherished, become our con sta nt compa nions and comforters.因此，最好的書(shū)是金玉良言的金色的思想，,銘記于心并多加珍視，就會(huì)成為我們忠實(shí)的伴侶和永恒的慰藉。Books possess an esse nee of immortality. They are by far the most lasti ng書(shū)籍具有不朽的本質(zhì)。它是迄今為止最深刻的products of huma n effort. Temples

25、and statues decay, but books survive.Time is產(chǎn)品的人類(lèi)發(fā)明。寺廟會(huì)坍塌，神像會(huì)朽爛，而書(shū)籍卻永存。時(shí)間是of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first不重要,那些偉大的思想，都新鮮今天第一passed through their author s min ds, ages ago. What was the n said andthought經(jīng)過(guò)了多年前初次閃現(xiàn)在作者心頭。當(dāng)年說(shuō)的和思考的東西still speaks to us as viv

26、idly as ever from the prin ted page. The onlyeffect of time還對(duì)我們說(shuō)話(huà)像以往一樣生動(dòng)地在印刷的紙上。時(shí)間唯一的作用have bee n to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature canlong survivee but what is really good.去過(guò)它篩除了糟粕，因?yàn)槭裁次膶W(xué)作品才能生存只有真正優(yōu)秀的。Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the preseneeof

27、the書(shū)籍把我們引入最美好的環(huán)境，使我們與各個(gè)greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; wesee the偉大的心靈中曾經(jīng)住過(guò)的地方。我們聽(tīng)到他們?cè)谡f(shuō)什么，而行；我們看到的as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them,grieve好像他們是真的活著，我們深切同情他們的遭遇，享受，悲傷with them; their experienee becomes ours, and we feel as if we

28、 were ina measure actors with them in the see nes which they describe.他們的體驗(yàn)變成我們的，我們感到仿佛我們是在一個(gè)衡量演員用他們所描述的場(chǎng)景。The great and good do not die, eve n in this world. Embalmed in books,their偉大的和良好的死亡，即使在這個(gè)世界。載入書(shū)冊(cè)，spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect towhich on still liste ns.精

29、神去戶(hù)外散步。書(shū)是充滿(mǎn)活力的聲音。這是一個(gè)智力上停了下來(lái)聽(tīng)第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust如果我休息，我就會(huì)生銹The significantinscriptionfound on an old key-“ If I rest, Irust ” -would be an最重大的發(fā)現(xiàn)是在一條古老的鑰匙一“如果我休息，我會(huì)生銹”一這對(duì)于哪些將是一個(gè)excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit ofidle ness. Eve n被點(diǎn)點(diǎn)懶惰影響人將是一個(gè)優(yōu)越的座右銘the most industrious

30、 person might adopt it with advantage to serve asa remin der甚至最勤勞的人會(huì)接受他的優(yōu)點(diǎn)并以之為提示。that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unusedkey, they will如果一個(gè)人允許他的身體休息，就像廢棄鑰匙里的鐵，他們很快展現(xiàn)soon show sig ns of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work requiredof them.生銹的跡象，最后將不能做完安排給他們自己的工作。Thos

31、e who would atta in the heights reached and kept by great men mustkeep那些想要獲得與偉人相同的成就的人，必須持續(xù)their faculties polished by con sta nt use, so that they may uni ock thedoors of通過(guò)不斷運(yùn)用自身的能力拋光，以便開(kāi)啟的門(mén)kno wledge, the gate that guard the entran ces to the professi ons, toscie nee,art, literature, agriculture-e

32、very departme nt of huma nen deavor.知識(shí)，門(mén)口的守衛(wèi)入口專(zhuān)業(yè)，科學(xué),文學(xué),農(nóng)業(yè) 人類(lèi)努力的每部門(mén)。In dustry keeps bright the key that ope ns the treasury of achieveme nt.If Hugh勤勉能使鑰匙發(fā)亮并開(kāi)啟寶庫(kù)的成就。如果休Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings torest and米勒在采石場(chǎng)勞作一天后，晚上停下來(lái)休息的時(shí)間recreation, he would never have be

33、come a famous geologist. The celebrated消遣的話(huà),他就不會(huì)成為著名的地理學(xué)家。這位著名的mathematician.EdmundStone, would never have published a mathematical數(shù)學(xué)家愛(ài)德蒙？斯通,就不會(huì)出版數(shù)學(xué)dicti on ary, n ever have found the key to scie nee of mathematics, if hehad give n詞典，也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)開(kāi)啟數(shù)學(xué)之門(mén)的鑰匙，如果他給了his spare mome nts to idle ness, had the littl

34、e Scotch lad, Fergus on, allowed the閑暇時(shí)無(wú)所事事，沒(méi)有孩子，弗格森,允許蘇格蘭威士忌busy brain to go to sleep while he ten ded sheep on the hillside in steadof忙碌的大腦去放羊時(shí)，而不是在山坡上calculatingthe position of the stars by a string of beads, he would neverhavebecome a famous astr ono mer.計(jì)算星星的位置串珠、他就不會(huì)成為著名的天文學(xué)家。Labor vanquishes

35、all-notinconstant,spasmodic, or ill-directed labor;but勞動(dòng)征服一切一一沒(méi)有無(wú)常、思緒勞動(dòng)，但是,或編導(dǎo)faithful, un remitt ing, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.Just as truly忠實(shí),堅(jiān)持不懈,每天一個(gè)掌握得當(dāng)?shù)哪康呐?。就像真正的as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industrythe price of no ble and en duri ng success.作為

36、自由的代價(jià)是永遠(yuǎn)警惕，所以是永恒的產(chǎn)業(yè)的價(jià)格取得偉大的，持久的成功。第五篇：Ambition抱負(fù)It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a不難想象一個(gè)缺少野心的世界。那將是個(gè)和諧的世界。kin derworld: with outdema nds,withoutabrasi ons,withoutdisappo in tme nts.有需求,沒(méi)有磨損,沒(méi)有失望。People would have time for reflection. Such work as they di

37、d would notbe for人會(huì)思考的時(shí)間。這樣的工作將會(huì)不一樣themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. con flict本身,而是為集體。競(jìng)爭(zhēng)永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)進(jìn)入歸沖突would be elim in ated, tension become a thi ng of the past. The stress ofcreati on張力會(huì)被淘汰，成為過(guò)去。創(chuàng)造的壓力would be at an end. Art would no Ion ger be troubli ng,but purelyc

38、elebratory in會(huì)走到盡頭。藝術(shù)將不再是麻煩，但純粹慶祝its fun cti ons.Lon gevity would be in creased,for fewer people would dieof heart其功能。長(zhǎng)壽會(huì)增加，因?yàn)楦俚娜藢⑺烙谛呐Kattack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct發(fā)作或中風(fēng)混亂引起的努力。焦慮會(huì)滅亡Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human he

39、art.時(shí)間會(huì)伸展，在長(zhǎng)時(shí)間離開(kāi)有雄心壯志的人類(lèi)的心靈。哎,怎么引枯燥的生活！Ah, how un relieved bori ng life would be!哎,怎么引枯燥的生活！There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambitiontherefore a有一種強(qiáng)烈的觀點(diǎn)認(rèn)為，成功是一種神話(huà)，因此抱負(fù)sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist That achieveme nt is at假的。這是否意味著成功并不真的存在嗎這個(gè)偉大的成就

40、是在bottom empty That the efforts of men and wome n are of no sig nifica nee底部是空的，那努力的男性和女性是沒(méi)有意義的alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is在運(yùn)動(dòng)和事件的力量現(xiàn)在并不是所有的成功，很明顯worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are值得推崇的野心，不值得培養(yǎng)的。是，哪些not is so

41、methi ng one soon eno ugh lear ns on one s own. But eve n the most不是一個(gè)很快就學(xué)會(huì)什么是自己。但即便是最cynical secretlyadmit that success exists; that achievement counts fora great憤世嫉俗的成功秘密承認(rèn)存在這個(gè)偉大的成就是無(wú)益的，一個(gè)人最大的優(yōu)點(diǎn)deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women areuseless. To交易;真正的神話(huà)是人類(lèi)的行為和女人是無(wú)用的。對(duì)bel