Alexander 英语美文 Sunday, August 01, 2010
我的生活寒冷、阴郁、沉闷； 下着雨，风也刮个不停；
我的思想还纠缠着消逝的往事， 大风里，我的青春希望相继熄灭， 天真是阴暗而沉闷。
安静吧，忧伤的心！别再悔恨； 乌云后面太阳依然辉煌灿烂； 你命运和大家的一样， 每个人一生都得逢上阴雨， 有些日子必然阴暗而沉闷。
8.Love 爱情
I love you not because of who you are,but because of who I am when I am with you. 我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。
No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is ,won\\'t make you cry. 没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人不会让你哭泣。
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can\\'t have them. 失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁，却犹如远在天边。
Never frown,even when you are sad,because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 纵然伤心，也不要悉眉不展，因为你不知是谁会爱上你的笑容。
To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world. 对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某人，你是他的整个世界。
Don\\'t waste your time on a man/woman,who isn\\'t willing to waste their time on you. 不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪费你的时间。
Just because someone doesn\\'t love you the way you want them to,doesn\\'t mean they don\\'t love you with all they have.
爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式爱你，那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。
Don\\'t try to hard,the best things come when you least expect them to. 不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出现。
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the person,we will know how to be grateful.
在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先遇到别人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便应当心存感激。
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Don\\'t cry because it is over,smile because it happened. 不要因为结束而哭泣，微笑吧，为你的曾经拥有。
9.Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us. -------Sir Thomas Browne
―生命是束纯净的火焰，我们依靠自己内心看不见的太阳而存在。‖ --------托马斯。布朗爵士
Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail! 向远方的美景欢呼！
-and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life,we set no bounds to our inclinations.nor to the unrestricted opportunities of grastifying them.we have as yet found no obstacle,no disposition to flag;and it seems that we can go on so forever.We look round in a new world,full of life,and motion,and ceaseless progress;and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace with it,and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things,decline into old age,and drop into the grave.It is the simplicity,and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,that(so to speak)identifies us with nature ,and(our experience being slight and our passions strong)deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves,is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness,jar,nor separation.As infants smile and sleep,we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies,and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it,instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around us,filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them,so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
此时，但觉好风光应接不暇，而且，前程更有美不胜收的新鲜景致。在这生活的开端，我们听任自己的志趣驰骋，放手给它们一切满足的机会。到此为止，我们还没有碰上过什么障碍，也没有感觉到什么疲惫，因此觉得还可以一直这样向前走去，直到永远。我们看到四周一派新天地——生机盎然，变动不居，日新月异；我们觉得自己活力充盈，精神饱满，可与宇宙并驾齐驱。而且，眼前也无任何迹象可以证明，在大自然的发展过程中，我们自己也会落伍，衰老，进入坟墓。由于年轻人天真单纯，可以说是茫然无知，因而将自己跟大自然划上等号；并且，由于经验少而感情盛，误以为自己也能和大自然一样永世长存。我们一厢情愿，痴心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暂时栖身，当作千古不变、万事长存的结合，好像没有冷淡、争执、离别的密月。像婴儿带着微笑入睡，我们躺在用自己编织成的摇篮里，让大千世界的万籁之声催哄我们安然入梦；我们急切切，兴冲冲地畅饮生命之杯，怎么也不会饮干，反而好像永远是满满欲溢；森罗万象纷至沓来，各种欲望随之而生，使我们腾不出工夫想死亡。 10
The More Loving One 让我们成为更有爱心的人 W.H.Auden/W.H.奥登
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well 仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚，
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That, for all they care, I can go to hell, 尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可能赴地府， But on earth indifference is the least 可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧 We have to dread from man or beast. 人类或禽兽的那份冷漠。
How should we like it were stars to burn 倘若群星燃烧着关怀我们的激情， With a passion for us we could not return? 我们却无法回报，我们作何感想？ If equal affection cannot be, 倘若无法产生同样的感情， Let the more loving one be me. 让我成为更有爱心的人。
Admirer as I think I am 尽管我自视为群星的崇拜者， Of stars that do not give a damn, 它们满不在乎，
I cannot, now I see them ,say 现在我看群星，我却难以启齿， I missed one terribly all day. 说我成天思念一颗星星。
Were all stars to disappear or die 倘若所有的星星消失或者消亡， I should learn to look at an empty sky 我应该学会仰望空荡的天空， And feel its total dark sublime, 同时感受天空一片漆黑的崇高，
Though this might take me a little time. 虽然这样可能要花费一点时间。
美文背诵文章
.The Word ―Black‖
-----Langston Hughes
―I am black. When I look in the mirror, I see myself, but I am not ashamed. God made me. He did not make us no badder than the rest of the folks. The earth is black and all kinds of good things comes out of the earth. Trees and flowers and fruit and sweet potatoes and corn and all that keeps men alive comes right up out of the earth----good old black earth. Coal is black and it warms your house and cooks your food. The night is black, which has a moon, and a million stars, and is beautiful. Sleep is black which gives you rest, so you wake up feeling good. I am black. I feel very good this evening.‖
What is wrong with black?‖
2. I Love Sports
------Prof. Wu
I love sports and athletics. Sports and athletics are not just building our bodies but also refueling our spirits. They give us energy to continue our work and studies as well as incentive and momentum to create. They help us maintain a positive attitude towards life and stay competitive whenever facing any challenges. Without sports and athletics, we should definitely be in a tedious world living a tedious life.
3. What I have lived for
------Bertrand Russell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind, These passions, like great
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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, first, because it brings ecstasy--ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of 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 cold 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 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 knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity 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 and 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.
我的人生哲学
三种激情，单纯而极其强烈，支配着我的人生，那就是对于爱情的渴望，对于知识的追求，以及对于人类苦难痛彻肺腑的怜悯。这些激情犹如狂风，把我吹到这儿吹到那儿，直至那绝望的边缘。
我追求爱情，首先，因为它带给我极大的欢乐，这使我乐意牺牲我余下的生命以换得几小时这样的快乐。我追求爱情，又因为他能减轻孤独---那可怕的孤独啊，一个颤抖的灵魂在这孤独中望着世界边缘之外冰冷而无生命的无底深渊。我追求爱情，还因为在爱的广阔世界里，我在一种神秘的缩影中隐约看到了圣者和诗人曾经想象过的天堂。这是我所追求的，尽管这种爱对人的生活来说似乎还太过美好，但它毕竟是我最终找到的东西。
我以同样的激情追求知识，我曾渴望理解人类的心灵。我想了解星辰为何灿烂。我还试图弄懂毕达哥拉斯学说，他认为数字是高居于万流之上的永恒力量。我在这方面略有成就，但不多。
爱情和知识会尽其可能把我向上导往天堂。但是，怜悯又总是把我带回人间。痛苦的呼喊在我心中反响，回荡。孩子们受饥荒煎熬，无辜者被压迫者折磨，孤弱无助的老人在自己儿子的眼中变成可恶的累赘，以及世上触目皆是的孤独，贫困和痛苦---这些都在嘲弄着人类应该过的生活。我渴望能减少罪恶，可我做不到，于是我也感到痛苦。
这就是我的一生。我觉得这一生是值得活的。如果真有可能再给我一次机会，我愿意重活一次。
4. There is a Lonesome Place in the Sky
----Adlai Stevenson
Today we meet in sadness to mourn one of the world‘s greatest citizens. Sir Winston Churchill is dead. The voice that led nations, raised armies, inspired victories and blew fresh courage into the hearts of men is silenced. We shall hear no longer the remembered eloquence and wit, the old courage and defiance, the robust serenity of indomitable faith. Our world is thus poorer, our
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political dialogue is diminished and the sources of public inspiration run thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against the sky.
天上出现了一片空寂的地方
今天，我们怀着悲痛的心情在这里集会。哀悼一个世界上最伟大的公民。温斯顿•丘吉尔逝世了。那个曾领导世界许多国家、指挥千军万马、激励人们取得一个又一个胜利和把新的勇气注入人们心田的声音沉默了。我们将再也听不到那熟悉的，充满雄辩与机智、勇气与抗争、坚定信念与不屈精神的演说了。我们的世界因此而变得更加不幸，政治对话受到了削弱，鼓舞大众的滚滚政治洪流变成了涓涓细水。天上出现了一片空寂的地方。
5. Struggle on
-----Benjamin L. Hooks
My brothers and sisters…I want you to know that the struggle that we will face through the remaining period of the eighties and on through the twenty-first century will not be an easy one. It is fraught with pitfalls and plagued with setbacks, but we as a people have developed a resiliency which has made it possible for us to survive slavery and vicious discrimination. We must never tire or become frustrated by difficulties. We must transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones and march on with the determination that we will make America a better nation… Struggle on: we want more schoolhouses and less jail houses, Struggle on: We want more books and less weapons, Struggle on: We want more learning and less vice,
Struggle on: We want more employment and less crime in our communities Struggle on: We want more justice and less vengeance,
Struggle on: We want more of our children to graduate from high school able to read and write, not more on unemployment lines,
Struggle on: We want more statesmen and less politicians.
Struggle on: We want more workers in our ranks and less cynics, Struggle on: We want more hope and less dope, Struggle on: We want more faith and less despair…
坚持斗争
兄弟姐妹们，……我希望你们明白，我们在八十年代剩余的时间里乃至整个二十一世纪所要面临的都将不是一场轻松的斗争，这其中充满了危险和曲折。但是我们的民族从奴隶制和万恶的歧视下幸存至今，有着顽强的生命力。我们要永远不知疲惫，在困难面前不灰心丧气。我们要把绊脚石变成脚踏板，带着把美国变得更美好的决心前进…… 坚持斗争，我们要多一些校舍，少一些监狱 坚持斗争，我们要多一些书籍，少一些武器 坚持斗争，我们要多一些知识，少一些罪恶
坚持斗争，我们要多一些工作，社区里少一些犯罪 坚持斗争，我们要多一些正义，少一些报复
坚持斗争，我们要多的孩子中学毕业就能读书写字，而不是更多的人加入失业大军 坚持斗争，我们要多一些国务活动家，少一些政客
坚持斗争，我们要多一些辛勤劳动者，少一些玩世不恭的人 坚持斗争，我们要多一些希望，少一些麻木 坚持斗争，我们要多一些信心，少一些绝望
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