英語優(yōu)美的名篇的閱讀參考

1、 英語優(yōu)美的名篇的閱讀參考英語優(yōu)美段落一On beautyWhere shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide And how shall you speak of her except she be the 1)weaver of your speechThe 2)aggrieved and the 3)injured say, Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of

2、 her own 4)glory she walks among us.And the 5)passionate say, Nay, beauty is a thing of 6)might and 7)dread. Like the 8)tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.The tired and the 9)weary say, Beauty is of soft 10)whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice 11)yields to our s

3、ilences like a 12)faint light that 13)quivers 14)in fear of the shadow.But the 15)restless say, We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the 16)roaring of lions.At night the watchmen of the city say, Beauty shall rise wi

4、th the dawn from the east.And at 17)noon-time the 18)toilers and the 19)wayfarers say, We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset.In winter say the 20)snow-bound, She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills.And in the summer heat the 21)reapers say, We have seen

5、 her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an 22)ecstasy. It is not a mouth 23)thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a

6、 heart 24)enflamed and a soul 25)enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the 26)sap within the 27)furrowed 28)bark, nor a wing attached to a 29)claw, but

7、rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.Beauty is life when life 30)unveils her holy face.美如果美不以自身為途徑，為向?qū)?，你們到哪里，又如何能找到她呢如果她不是你們言語的編織者，你們又如何能談論她呢傷心痛苦者說：美是善良而溫柔的。她像一位因自己的榮耀而半含羞澀的年輕母親，走在我們的身邊。熱情奔放者說：不，美是強烈而令人驚畏的。她如暴風雨般震動我們腳下的大地，搖撼我們頭上的天空。疲憊怠倦者說：美是溫柔的低語，她在我們的心中訴說。她的聲音波

8、動在我們的沉默中，猶如一道微弱的光在對陰影的恐懼中顫抖。但活潑好動者說：我們曾聽到她在山谷中大聲呼叫，隨其吶喊而來的是足蹄踏地、翅膀拍擊和雄獅怒吼的聲音。夜晚，城市的守夜人說：美將與晨光一同從東方升起。正午，辛勤勞作者和長途跋涉者說：我們曾看到她透過黃昏之窗眺望大地。嚴冬，困在風雪中的人說：她將與春同至，雀躍于山巒之間。酷暑，收割莊稼的人說：我們曾看到她與秋葉共舞，雪花點綴于她的發(fā)梢。你們談到關于美的所有這些，實際并非關于她本身，而是關于你們未被滿足的需求，但美并不是一種需求，而是心醉神迷的欣喜。她不是焦渴的唇，也不是伸出的空空的手，而是一顆燃燒的心，一個充滿喜悅的靈魂。她不是你們想看到的形象

9、，也不是你們想聽到的歌聲，而是你們閉上眼睛看到的形象，堵住耳朵聽到的歌聲。她不是傷殘樹皮下的樹液，也不是懸在利爪下的翅膀。而是一座鮮花永遠盛開的花園，一群永遠在天空飛翔的天使。當生命摘去遮蓋她圣潔面容的面紗時，美就是生命。英語優(yōu)美段落二Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former.Why have not

10、 I the riches, the rank, the power, of such and such, is the common expostulation with fortune; but why have not I the merit, the talents, the wit, or the beauty, of such and such others, is a reproach rarely or never made to nature.The truth is, that nature, seldom profuse, and seldom niggardly, ha

11、s distributed her gifts more equally than she is generally supposed to have done. Education and situation make the great difference. Culture improves, and occasions elicit, natural talents I make no doubt but that there are potentially, if I may use that pedantic word, many Bacons, Lockes, Newtons,

12、Caesars, Cromwells, and Mariboroughs at the ploughtail behind counters, and, perhaps, even among the nobility; but the soil must be cultivated, and the season favourable, for the fruit to have all its spirit and flavour.If sometimes our common parent has been a little partial, and not kept the scale

13、s quite even; if one preponderates too much, we throw into the lighter a due counterpoise of vanity, which never fails to set all right. Hence it happens, that hardly any one man would, without reverse, and in every particular, change with any other.Though all are thus satisfied with the dispensatio

14、ns of nature, how few listen to her voice! How to follow her as a guide! In vain she points out to us the plain and direct way to truth, vanity, fancy, affection, and fashion assume her shape and wind us through fairy-ground to folly and error.很多人抱怨命運，卻很少有人抱怨自然;人們越是認為自然對他們?nèi)蕫塾屑?，便越是嘀咕命運對他們的所謂不公。人們常常對命運發(fā)出詰難：我為何沒有財富、地位、權力以及諸如此類的東西;但人們卻很少或從不這樣責怪過自然：我為何沒有長處、天賦、機智或美麗以及諸如此類的東西。事實是，自然總是將天賦公平地分配給人們，比人們通常認為的還要不偏不倚，很少過分地慷慨!也很少吝嗇。人與人之間的巨大差異是由于教育和環(huán)境使然。文化修養(yǎng)改良了天賦，機遇環(huán)境誘發(fā)了天賦。我們并不懷疑在農(nóng)田耕作，在柜臺后營業(yè)，甚至在豪門貴族中間有很多潛在的培根們、洛克們、牛頓們、凱撒們、克倫威爾們和馬爾伯勒們，如果允許我用潛在的這個學究味濃重的詞的話;但是要使果實具有它全部的品質(zhì)和風味，還必須有耕耘過的泥土，必須有適宜的季節(jié)。倘