人生英語美文欣賞

　　人生是一個過程，更像一場旅行。旅行路上，有時風和日麗，有時狂風驟雨；不必畏懼，珍惜沿途的點點滴滴，克服面臨的種種困難，用心感受，用心經營，讓我們的人生旅程過得更加有意義。

　　Life comes in a package

　　有種旅行叫作人生

　　Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sorrow, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to handle various situations.

　　人生好似一個包裹，這個包裹里藏著快樂與悲傷、成功與失敗，希望與絕望。人生也是一個學習的過程。那些經歷給我們上了全新的課，讓我們變得更好。隨著每一天的過去，我們學會了處理各種各樣的問題。

　　Love

　　Love plays a pivotal role on out life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could go hayward and also become cruel and ferocious. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who shower us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad. But we always tend to take this for granted. It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands and becomes sensitive to others feelings. Kids make a person responsible and mature and help us to understand life better.

　　愛

　　愛在生活之外扮演了一個關鍵的角色。愛使你想要得到些什么。沒有愛，一個人將走向不歸路，變得兇暴、殘忍。在我們最初的人生道路上，我們的父母給予了我們無條件的關愛，他們教會我們判斷正確與錯誤、好與壞。然而我們常常把這想當然了，只有等到我們結了婚并且有了孩子之后，一個人才會懂得并注意別人的感受。孩子讓我們變得富有責任心、變得成熟穩重，并且更好的理解人生。

　　Happiness and Sorrow

　　Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment. Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. No mind is happy without peace. We realize the true worth of happiness when we are in sorrow. Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, failure and despair. But these things are temporary and pass away.

　　快樂與悲傷

　　物質上的快樂往往是短暫的，然而，當你給予他人一個微笑的時候，那種滿足卻是無與倫比的。心靈的平靜往往是快樂的源泉。沒有平和的心態就沒有快樂的心情。在傷心的時候，我們往往能夠體會到快樂的真諦。悲傷基本都來自于一個愛人的去世、失敗還有絕望，但是這樣的事情都是暫時的，總會過去的。

　　Failure and Success

　　Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money, fame, pride and self-respect. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on out shoulder. The only way to show our gratitude to God for bestowing success on us is by being humble, modest, courteous and respectful to the less fortunate ones.

　　失敗與成功

　　失敗是成功之母。它讓我們觸及藍天，它教會我們如何生存，它給予我們一條特殊的路。成功給予我們金錢、名譽、驕傲和自尊。這里，保持頭腦清醒便顯得尤為重要。唯一能讓我們感激上帝給予的成功便是始終卑微、謙虛、禮貌并且尊重沒有我們幸運的人們。

　　Hope and Despair

　　Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Hope builds in patience. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night there is a day. Nothing remains the same we have only one choice keep moving on in life and be hopeful.

　　希望與絕望

　　希望是人生動力之源。父母總是希望自己的孩子能夠做得很好。希望使我們有夢想。希望使我們變得有耐心。人生教會我們即使是在最困難的時候都不要絕望，因為黑暗之后終將是黎明。沒有什么事一成不變的，我們惟有充滿希望地繼續生活。

　　Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dull. So the only alternative is work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better

　　tomorrow.

　　人生教會我們不要對過去的事感到后悔，因為過去的終究是過去了并且我們已無法控制。沒人知道明天會是怎樣，因為它可以是光明的同樣也可以是無趣的。所以，唯一的選擇便是在今天努力工作，這樣才能讓我們去享受更美好的明天。

　　Solitude --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

　　孤獨

　　Laugh, and the world laughs with you;

　　Weep, and you weep alone.

　　For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,

　　But has trouble enough of its own.

　　Sing, and the hills will answer;

　　Sigh, it is lost on the air.

　　The echoes bound to a joyful sound,

　　But shrink from voicing care.

　　笑則天下笑，

　　泣則獨自泣。

　　因悲哀的舊世界須借貸歡笑，

　　而它自身的麻煩不少。

　　唱則群山應，

　　嘆則空散盡。

　　回聲反射成歡欣，

　　傾訴憂慮無回音。

　　Rejoice, and men will seek you;

　　Grieve, and they turn and go.

　　They want full measure of all your pleasure,

　　But they do not need your woe.

　　Be glad, and your friends are many;

　　Be sad, and you lose them all.

　　There are none to decline your nectared wine,

　　But alone you must drink life's gall.

　　喜則人尋你，

　　悲則眾人離。

　　他們要度量你的歡快，

　　但他們不要你的悲哀。

　　你高興，朋友會多起來，

　　你悲傷，他們轉身走開。

　　無人會拒絕你的佳釀，

　　但你要獨自把生活的苦酒品嘗。

　　Feast, and your halls are crowded;

　　Fast, and the world goes by.

　　Succeed and give, and it helps you live,

　　But no man can help you die.

　　There is room in the halls of pleasure

　　For a long and lordly train,

　　But one by one we must all file on

　　Through the narrow aisles of pain.

　　設宴，高朋滿盈，

　　齋戒，無人問津。

　　成功和慷慨能助你生，

　　但是他人救不了你死。

　　娛樂大廳里有一間房，

　　長長豪華列車停中央，

　　但我們都必須魚貫上，

　　通過狹長痛苦的走廊。

　　美文背誦:生命中的五個球 Five Balls of Life

　　生命不是一場賽跑, 而是一步一個腳印的旅程。別為生活找借口，過去已成歷史，未來充滿未知，活在當下，努力當下。

　　Five Balls of Life

　　生命中的五個球

　　In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one’s other commitments:

　　幾年前，在一所大學的開幕典禮中,可口可樂的首席執行官布賴恩?戴森講到工作與其他義務的關系：

　　Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.

　　想象生命是一場不停丟擲五個球于空中的游戲。這五個球分別為工作、家庭、健康、朋友和心靈，而且你很努力地擲著這五個球，不讓它們落地。很快地你會了解工作是一個橡皮球。如果你不幸失手落下它，它還是會彈回來。

　　But the other four balls family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

　　但是家庭、健康、朋友和心靈這四個球是用玻璃做成的。一旦你失手落下，它們可能會少了一角，留下無法挽回的記號、刻痕、損壞甚至碎落一地。它們將永遠不會跟以前一樣。你必須了解這個道理，并且為平衡你的生命而努力。但要怎么才做得到呢？

　　Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

　　別拿自己和他人比較，這只會降低了你原有的價值。因為我們都是獨一無二的，因為我們每一個人都很特別。

　　Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

　　別人認為重要的事不一定是你的目標。只有你才知道什么最適合你。

　　Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as they would be your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

　　不要將貼近你的心的人、事物視為理所當然的存在。你必須將他們視為你的生命一般好好地抓牢他們。沒有他們，生命將失去意義。

　　Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.

　　別讓你的生命總在依戀過去種種或是寄望未來中逝去。如果你活在每個當下，你就活出了生命中的每一天。

　　Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

　　當你還能給予的時候別輕言放棄。只要你不放棄，就有無限延伸的可能。

　　Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.

　　別害怕承認你并非完美。正因如此，我們才得以藉由這脆弱的細絲緊密地串綁在一起。

　　Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

　　別害怕遇到危險。正因如此，我們才得以藉由這些機會學習勇敢。

　　Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

　　別以愛太難找到作為借口而緊閉你的心扉。最迅速找到愛的方法就是給予你的愛；最快速失去愛的方法就是緊緊地守著你的愛不放；維持愛的最好方式就是給愛一雙翅膀。

　　Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

　　莫要匆忙地度過你的一生，那匆忙讓你忘了曾經到過哪里，也讓你忘了你要去哪里。

　　Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

　　莫忘記，人類情感上最大的需要是感恩。

　　Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

　　莫害怕學習。知識沒有重量，它是可以隨意攜帶的珍寶。

　　Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.

　　莫漫不經心地蹉跎光陰或口無遮攔。時間與言詞兩者都是一放便收不回來。

　　Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

　　生命不是一場賽跑, 而是一步一個腳印的旅程。

　　Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery and Today is a gift: that’s why we call it ‘The Present’.

　　過去已成歷史，未來充滿未知。今天是份禮物：那就是我們稱之為“現在”的原因。

　　美文欣賞:A Lesson for Living 生活的一課

　　生活中總有那么一些挫折，有多少人輕易放棄，又有多少人執著堅持。同一個夢想，不同的信念，導致不同的結果。如果你堅持下去，或許，下一個成功的就是你。

　　A Lesson for Living

　　生活的一課

　　"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

　　每當我遇到挫折時，母親就會說：“一切都會好的。如果你堅持下去，總有一天會有好事發生。你會認識到，如果沒有以前的挫折就不會有現在的一切。”

　　Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station - and got turned down every time.

　　母親是對的，發現這個時是在1932年，我剛從大學畢業。我已決定試著在電臺找個事兒做，然后爭取做體育節目的播音員。我搭便車到了芝加哥，挨家電臺地敲門推銷自己--但每次都被拒絕了。

　　In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance," she said.

　　在一個播音室里，一位好心的女士告訴我，大的廣播電臺是不會冒險雇傭沒經驗的新手的。“去鄉下找一家給你機會的小電臺吧，”她說。

　　I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.

　　我搭車來到我的家鄉，那是伊利諾斯州的迪克森。在迪克森當時還沒有電臺播音員這樣的工作，父親說，蒙哥馬利·沃德開了一家新商店，想雇請一個本地的運動員管理店里的體育部。我中學時曾在迪克森打過橄欖球，出于這個原因我去申請了這份工作。工作聽起來挺適合我的，但是我沒被聘用。

　　My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.

　　我的沮喪心情一定表現出來了。“一切總會好的，”母親提醒我說。爸爸給我買了一輛汽車找工作用。我試到愛荷華州達文波特的WOC電臺去求職。那里的電臺節目負責人是一個很棒的蘇格蘭人，名叫彼得?麥克阿瑟，他告訴我他們已經雇到播音員了。

　　As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"

　　離開他辦公室時，我憤怒極了。我大聲地說：“一個連在電臺都找不到工作的家伙又怎么能成為體育節目的播音員呢？”

　　I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game.

　　等電梯時，我聽見麥克阿瑟喊道：“你說什么體育？你了解橄欖球嗎？”接著他讓我站到麥克風前，請我解說一場想象中的比賽。

　　On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

　　在回家的路上--以后也有很多次地，我思考著母親的那句話：“如果你堅持下去，總有一天會有好事發生。如果沒有以前的挫折，就不會有現在的一切。”

　　I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

　　我常想，如果我當年得到了蒙哥馬利·沃德的那份工作，我的人生之路又會怎樣走呢？

　　美文賞析:The Missed Blessings 錯過的祝福

　　我們多少次地與祝福擦肩而過，僅僅因為他們沒有按我們想象中的樣子包裝好？不要在渴望得到沒有的東西時損壞你已經擁有的東西，表面上看起來像是壞運氣的東西或許正是那道等待著你去開啟的幸運之門!

　　The Missed Blessings

　　錯過的祝福

　　A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

　　從前，有位年輕人即將大學生畢業。數月來，他一直渴望得到某汽車商產品陳列室中的一輛跑車。他知道，他那富有的父親肯定買得起這輛車，于是，他便跟父親說他很想得到那輛漂亮的跑車。

　　As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold. Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

　　在畢業典禮即將來臨的日子里，年輕人等待著父親買下跑車的消息。終于，在畢業典禮那天上午，父親將他叫到自己的書房，并告訴他，有他這么出色的兒子自己感到非常自豪而且非常愛他這個兒子。接著，父親遞給兒子一個包裝精美的禮品盒。年輕人感到好奇，但帶著些許失望地打開禮品盒，卻發現里面是一本精美的精裝本《圣經》，上面以金子凸印著年輕人的名字。看罷，年輕人怒氣沖沖地向父親大喊道：“你有那么多錢，卻只給我一本《圣經》？”說完，便丟下《圣經》，憤怒地沖出房子。

　　Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

　　多年以后，年輕人已事業有成。他擁有一所漂亮的房子，一個溫馨的家庭。但當得知父親年事已高，他想，或許應該去看看他。自從畢業那天起他就一直不見父親。就在起程時，他收到一封電報——父親已逝世，并已立下遺囑將其所有財產轉給兒子。他要立即回父親家處理后事。

　　When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words... "PAID IN FULL".

　　在父親的房子里，他突然內心感到一陣悲傷與懊悔。他開始仔細搜尋父親的重要文件，突然發現了那本《圣經》——還跟幾年前一樣嶄新。他噙著淚水打開《圣經》并一頁一頁地閱讀著。忽然，從書的背面掉出一把鑰匙。鑰匙上掛著一個標簽，上面寫著一個汽車經銷商的名字——正是他曾渴望的那輛跑車的經銷商。標簽上還有他的畢業日期及“款已付清”的字樣。

　　How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

　　我們多少次地與祝福擦肩而過，僅僅因為他們沒有按我們想象中的樣子包裝好？不要在渴望得到沒有的東西時損壞你已經擁有的東西，但要記住一點：你現在所擁有的恰恰正是你曾經一心渴望得到的。

　　Sometimes we don't realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect "the packaging" to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.

　　有時，我們并沒有意識到我們已經擁有或本該擁有的好運，僅僅因為它的外表與我們想象中的有所不同。其實，表面上看起來像是壞運氣的東西或許正是等待開啟的幸運之門。

　　美文欣賞:Holding the hands of time 牽著時光的手

　　有人說，一旦開始喜歡回憶，那人便老去了。你覺得呢?! 時光如流水，別把太多的時間用在回憶過去，牽著時光的手，一起勇敢前進吧，因為路在前方！

　　Holding the hands of time

　　牽著時光的手

　　Blow-off vision of the rain, so that you are left with a brilliant rainbow.Shuttle time in my fingers, without any regrets, open stemmed bloom ripples. Blunt rolling thick liquid eternal, but you and I, were dispersed in which period of Acacia leaves.

　　吹斷目光的雨，讓虹的光輝帶你離去。時光穿梭在我指間，無悔地綻放開朵朵漣漪。鈍厚的流質綿延永恒，而你我，被沖散在其中，相思無絕期。

　　Inexplicable always feel like the time within the next few precious memories will be stripped from me, more than once dreamed that his standing in a dark empty space, only one track at the foot stretch into thedistance, such as the long past your time and ultimately disappear In myfield of vision at the end.

　　總是會莫名地感到時間在抽絲剝繭般的將寶貴的回憶從我身上剝離，不止一次夢見自己站在一片空曠黑暗的空間里，腳下只有一條鐵軌伸向遠方，冗長如過往的光陰，最終消失在我的視野盡頭。

　　I am afraid to lose, I fear this time, and I love it but memories. I could not forget the sweat on the pitch with the sway of the brothers, forget accompany me cry close friend, and forget the bright Star of that everynight, and those words have touched me deeply.

　　我害怕失去，我對時間如此的恐懼，而我卻又那么的熱愛回憶。我忘不了球場上一起揮灑汗水的兄弟，忘不了陪我一起哭泣的知己，忘不了那一夜夜璀璨的星空，和那些令我感動至今的話語。

　　Those people, those things, such as bursts of light rain in the lake left ring Watermark four dispersed to each other to melt each other's impact; if the horizon is still experiencing Qianwanyinian quiet shining star, notvery bright, but clearly made . - They do not know how much to spend withme during the day bright and silent night.

　　那些人，那些事，如細雨在湖面留下的陣陣環型水紋四散開來彼此消融，彼此撞擊;如經歷千萬億年仍在天邊寂靜閃光的星，不甚明亮，卻又清晰無比。——它們陪我度過不知多少明媚的白天與沉默的夜。

　　In my memory, the third year is not gray, because I remember thoseblessings are not what love is bearing fruit, I still remember holding alot of my friends and I hope to see sunrise and sunset, finally it isyellow everywhere.

　　在我的記憶中，高三不是灰色的，因為我記得那些不被祝福的愛情是怎樣的開花結果，還記得我與朋友抱著一大堆的希望看日出日落，最后卻是黃花遍地。

　　Youth is the eye lotus spring, third year is that this eye expansion of bubbling spring season. I, however, a strong smell in the bubble years of the Problem taste. I do not exclude these, but too much pressure to do away much fun. Unfortunately, after the college entrance examination, even the pressure would become the memories, be my third year living memory of the dead evidence. In the time before we are so powerless, the only left on just the eye springs, and we have no regrets of the oath, I hope day after day, year after year, when I re-turn to this page , people still.

　　青春是眼忘憂泉，高三是這眼泉水膨脹冒泡的季節。而我卻在泡泡里嗅到了濃厚的習題的味道。我并不是排斥這些，但過大的壓力確實帶走了不多的樂趣。只可惜，高考過后，連壓力也會成為回憶，成為我緬懷逝去的高三生活的證據。在時間面前我們是如此的無力，唯一能留下的，就只是那眼泉水和我們曾經無悔的誓言，但愿日復一日，年復一年，當我重新翻到這一頁時，人心依舊。

　　I have seen one another chilling words: Some people say that once you start like the memories of those people will get old. I only admit mature, do not believe they have been growing old. My friends are growing up day by day, and was young and the mature, how can I not had time to grow on the outline of the first to hoary?

　　曾經看過一句另我毛骨悚然的話：有人說，一旦開始喜歡回憶，那人便老去了。我只承認自己的成熟，不相信自己已經老去。我的朋友們正在一天天地長大，成熟并且風華正茂著，我怎么可以沒來得及成長就率先蒼老了輪廓?

　　"Heaven Rain in green and so on, and I am waiting for you, the moonlight was recovered, the faint opened the outcome." Jay melancholy voice has been completely different from the business for the time Sentimental, Bard will be the years the pace of a camel inscribed into the blue and white porcelain in that respect.

　　“天青色等煙雨，而我在等你，月色被打撈起，暈開了結局。”杰倫憂郁的嗓音已經完全不同與剛出道時的青澀，吟游詩人般地將歲月的腳步鐫刻進那一尊青花瓷器。

　　Our future? Friends ah, I will time the other end, waiting for you.

　　我們的未來呢?朋友啊，我會在時間的另一頭，等你。

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