三篇經(jīng)典青春勵志英語短文

1、 三篇經(jīng)典青春勵志英語短文青春勵志英語短文(一)：A Little Bit MoreToday is an excellent day for small improvements. Whatever is working for you, find a way to improve it just a little. Theres no need to make a huge change, just a small one, something you can do right now.If you called just one additional customer each day,

2、 over the course of the next month you would talk to about 20 new people. If you learned just one more new word each day, in the next year you would increase your vocabulary by more than 300 words.Small improvements can add up over time into big accomplishments. Look around you. Consider the work yo

3、u do each day. Think about how you could do it just a little bit better.In a marathon race, each step the winner takes is just a little bit longer and a little bit faster than each stride taken by the 100th place finisher. Yet over the course of the race, that small difference adds up in a big way.D

4、o just a little bit more today, and tomorrow too, and each day after that. Anyone can make just a small improvement, and that can make a big, big difference.參考譯文：再多一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)今天就是你可以做改進(jìn)的極好的一天。無論你在做什么,找一個方法去做一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)的改進(jìn)。不用做太大的改變,只要一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)你現(xiàn)在可以做到的一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。如果你每天多給一個顧客打電話的話,一個月下來你會發(fā)現(xiàn)你又多認(rèn)識了差不多二十個人。如果每天多學(xué)會一個新詞,過一年,你的詞匯量將會增加300

5、多個。小小的改進(jìn)能夠逐步積累成大的成就。觀察你的周圍。思考你每天所做的工作。英語短文想一下你怎么能做得更好一點(diǎn)。在馬拉松比賽中,冠軍的每一步都只比第一百名的選手的步伐大一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)、快一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。英語短文但是在比賽過程中,那些小小的不同積累成了巨大的區(qū)別。今天、明天、今后的每一天盡力做更多一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。任何人都能做一點(diǎn)小小的改進(jìn),但那小小的改進(jìn)將會起到非常大、非常大的作用。青春勵志英語短文(二)：知識與美德Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, no

6、r is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well t

7、o have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life-these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but

8、still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they loo

9、k like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, an

10、d are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and t

11、he pride of man.參考譯文知識是一回事，美德是另一回事。好意并非良心，優(yōu)雅并非謙讓，廣博與公正的觀點(diǎn)也并非信仰。哲學(xué)，無論多么富有啟迪和深奧莫測，都無法駕馭情感，不具備有影響力的動機(jī)，不具有導(dǎo)致生動活潑的原理。文科教育并不造就基督教徒抑或天主教徒，而是造就了紳士。造就一個紳士誠為美事。有教養(yǎng)的才智，優(yōu)雅的情趣，正直、公正而冷靜的頭腦，高貴而彬彬有禮的舉止-這些是與淵博的學(xué)識生來固有的品質(zhì), 它也是大學(xué)教育的目的。對此我提倡之，并將加以闡釋和堅(jiān)持。然而我要說的是，它們?nèi)匀徊荒艽_保圣潔，或甚至不能保證誠實(shí)。它們可以附庸于世故的俗人，附庸于玩世不恭的浪子。唉，當(dāng)他們用它偽裝起來時，就更

12、增加了他們外表上的冷靜、快活和魅力。就其本身而言，它們似乎已遠(yuǎn)非其本來面目，它們似乎一遠(yuǎn)看的美德，經(jīng)久久細(xì)察方可探知。因此它們受到廣泛的責(zé)難，指責(zé)其虛飾與偽善。我要強(qiáng)調(diào)，這絕非是因?yàn)槠渥陨碛惺裁催^錯，而是因?yàn)榻淌趥兒唾澝勒邆円晃兜匕阉鼈兣妹婺咳牵⑶疫€要殷勤地獻(xiàn)上其本身并不希冀的贊頌。如若用剃刀就可以開采出花崗巖，用絲線即能系泊位船只，那么，也許你才能希望用人的知識和理性這樣美妙而優(yōu)雅的東西去與人類的情感與高傲那樣的龐然大物進(jìn)行抗?fàn)帯Ｇ啻簞钪居⒄Z短文(三)：What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly stro

13、ng, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love

14、, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the c

15、old unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have

16、found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledg

17、e, 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 my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, a

18、nd pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.參考譯文：我為何而生我的一生被三種簡單卻又無比強(qiáng)烈的激情所控制：對愛的渴望，對知識的探索和對人類苦難難以抑制的嶼。這些激情像狂風(fēng)，把我恣情吹向四方，掠過苦痛的大海，迫使我瀕臨絕望的邊緣。我尋求愛，首先因?yàn)樗刮倚臑橹?，這種難以名狀的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去換取哪怕幾個小時這樣的幸福。我尋求愛，還因?yàn)樗芫徑馕倚睦砩系墓陋?dú)中，我感覺心靈的戰(zhàn)栗，仿如站在世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷，無底的死亡深淵。我尋求愛，因?yàn)樵谖宜慷玫慕Y(jié)合中，我仿佛看到了圣賢