英語美文背誦

1、精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上專心-專注-專業(yè)專心-專注-專業(yè)精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上專心-專注-專業(yè).秋There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August! Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by th

2、eir contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes when we remember nothing but clear skies, green fields and sweet smelling flowers when the recollection of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded from our minds as completely as they have disappeared from the earth and ye

3、t what a pleasant time it is! Orchards and corn-fields ring with the hum of labour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of ripe fruit, which bows their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it wooed the sickle,

4、tinges the landscape with a golden hue. A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend itself to the every wagon, whose slow motion across the well-reaped field, is perceptible only to the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear.一年四季之中，大

5、自然的外貌最美不過的一個月就是八月。 春天有許多美的地方，五月是新鮮和嬌艷的月份，但是這 種時節(jié)的媚人之處是由于和冬季的對照而加強起來的。八月沒 有這種有利的條件。它來的時候，我們所記得的只有晴朗的天、 綠色的田野和芬芳的花雪、冰和凜冽的寒風(fēng)已經(jīng)完全被我 們的腦子遺忘了，正如它們已經(jīng)完全從地面消失了一樣，然 而這八月是何等可愛的時節(jié)??！果園里和谷田里震蕩著嘈雜的 勞作的聲音;結(jié)了一叢叢豐碩果實的枝條垂到地面，連樹干都墜 得發(fā)彎了；谷物呢，整整齊齊地束束堆著，或者被不時掠過的一 陣陣的微風(fēng)吹得搖搖擺擺，像是在向鐮刀求愛，它們給這片風(fēng)景 染上一片金色。似乎有一種豐美的柔和氣氛籠罩著整個地面； 時節(jié)

6、的影響像是連大車也受了感染，它在收割過的田野里緩慢 地移動，唯有眼睛可以看得出來，而耳朵卻聽不到粗濁的聲音。 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.

7、青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的感情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。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 desert

8、ing our ideals.青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。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.歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。Whether 60 or 16, there is

9、 in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Inf

10、inite, so long are you young.無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風(fēng)華常存。When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to ca

11、tch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。The aim of college educationIf then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is th

12、e art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. 如果一定要賦予大學(xué)教育一個切實的目的，我的主張是培養(yǎng)社會的好公民。大學(xué)教育的藝術(shù)就是社會生活的藝術(shù)，其目的就是使人適應(yīng)這個世界。 It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works, indeed, of genius fall under no art; heroic

13、 minds come under no rule; 大學(xué)教育一方面既不應(yīng)把著眼點局限于某些特定的職業(yè)上，另一方面也不應(yīng)是造就英雄，培養(yǎng)天才。事實上，天才偉業(yè)無法人為造就，英雄的思想亦如天馬行空。A University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Nap

14、oleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. 大學(xué)不是詩人、不朽作家和學(xué)派創(chuàng)立者的誕生地，也不是殖民地頭領(lǐng)或外族征服者的培訓(xùn)所。大學(xué)并不承諾要造就一批亞里士多德、牛頓、拿破倉、華盛頓、拉斐爾、莎士比亞式的巨人，盡管這些大自然的杰作此前曾在大學(xué)的院墻中出現(xiàn)過。Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic o

15、r the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. 此外，大學(xué)也不應(yīng)滿足于培養(yǎng)批評家、實驗人員、經(jīng)濟學(xué)家和工程師，盡管這些人才的培養(yǎng)也在大學(xué)教育的范疇之內(nèi)。But a University training is the great but ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at culti

16、vating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.

17、 大學(xué)教育是一條通向偉大而平凡的目標的偉大而平凡的途徑。大學(xué)教育旨在提高社會的知識氛圍，培養(yǎng)國民的公心，凈化國民的情趣，為浮躁的公眾提供真正的公理，為公眾的理想提供確定的目標，擴大時代的思想庫并注入冷靜的思考，促進政治權(quán)力的行使，提高人際交流的質(zhì)量Itistheeducationthatgivesamanaclear,consciousviewofhiswonopinionsandjudgments,atruthindevelopingthem,aneloquenceinexpressingthem,andaforceinurgingthem.大學(xué)教育應(yīng)讓人清醒地認知自己的觀點和判斷，并正確地

18、發(fā)揮，雄辯地闡述，有力地強調(diào)。Itteacheshimtoseethingsastheyare,togorighttothepoint,todisentangleaskeinofthought,todetectwhatissophistical,andtodiscardwhatisirrelevant.Itprepareshimtofillanypostwithcredit,andtomasteranysubjectwithfacility.大學(xué)教育應(yīng)教會人們看清事物的真實面目并直接抓住要害，教會人們解開思想的韁結(jié)，發(fā)現(xiàn)其中的詭辯之處，舍棄其中的不相關(guān)之處。大學(xué)教育使人做好準備，可靠地勝任任何

19、職位，輕松自如地掌握任何科目。Itshowshimhowtoaccommodatehimselftoothers,howtothrowhimselfintotheirstateofmind,howtobringbeforethemhisown,howtoinfluencethem,howtocometoanunderstandingwiththem,howtobearwiththem.大學(xué)教育教會人們?nèi)绾芜m應(yīng)他人，如何設(shè)身處地為人著想，如何把自己的想法轉(zhuǎn)達給他人，如何影響他人，如何相互理解、相互寬容。Heisathomeinanysociety;hehascommongroundwitheve

20、ryclass;heknowswhentospeakandwhentobesilent;heisabletoconverse;heisabletolisten;hecanaskaquestionpertinently,andgainalessonseasonably,whenhehasnothingtoimparthimself;與任何群體的人相處，他都融洽自然；與任何人相交，他都有共同之處。他明白何時該說話，何時該沉默；他善于交談，也善于傾聽；當自己沒有什么可述說的時候，他能夠中肯地提出問題，并適時地接受教育；Heiseverready,yetneverintheway;heisapleas

21、antcompanion,andacomradeyoucandependupon;heknowswhentobeseriousandwhentotriflewithgracefulnessandtobeseriouswitheffect.Hehasthereposeofamindwhichlivesinitself,whileitlivesintheworld,andwhichhasresourcesforitshappinessathomewhenitcannotgoabroad.他總是躍躍欲試，但從不妨礙他人；他是一個讓人感到愉快的伙伴，讓人可以依賴的朋友；他懂得何時應(yīng)當嚴肅，何時可以嬉鬧

22、；他通脫而機智，嬉鬧時不失優(yōu)雅，嚴肅時不怒自威。他身處塵世而心靜如水，足不出戶而怡然自得.Hehasagiftthatserveshiminpublic,andsupportshiminretirement,withoutwhichgoodfortuneisbutvulgar,andwithwhichfailureanddisappointmenthaveacharm.他具有一種天賦，在他為公眾服務(wù)時，使他游刃有余；在他退隱之后，賦予他精神上的支撐。若是沒有這種天賦，縱然家財萬貫，亦不脫粗俗；若是有了這種天賦，即使歷經(jīng)挫折，飽嘗失望，也自有魅力。The art which tends to m

23、ake a man all this, is in the object which it pursues as useful as the art of wealth or the art of health, though it is less susceptible of method, and less tangible, less certain, less complete in its result. 旨在教誨人們所有這一些的技藝，正是大學(xué)教育追求的目標，它與獲取財富的技藝、獲取健康的技藝同樣有用，盡管相比較而言，這種技藝更不易掌握，更不可琢磨，更難以確定，更不易完全具備。你是你

24、所為If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect - every action has a consequence. This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this world andthe next.We Chinese have a saying: “If a man plants melons, he will reap melons; if h

25、e sows beans, he will reap beans.”And this is true of every mans life: good begets good, and evil leads to evil.True enough, the sun shines on the saint and sinner alike, and too often it seems that the wicked wax and prosper. But we can say with certitude that, with the individual as with the nation,the flourishing of the wicked is an illusion, for, unceasingly, life keeps books o