英语经典美文(必备15篇)
在我们平凡的日常里，大家应该都对美文很熟悉吧？网络文化是一种开放、自由的文化，给美文的概念也赋予了更多的开放自由的元素，用通俗的讲法，写的好的文章，就是美文。想要学习写美文吗？以下是小编为大家整理的英语经典美文，欢迎阅读，希望大家能够喜欢。
英语经典美文1
A cab driver taught me a million dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to impart this kind of training to corporate executives and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride.
I had flown into Dallas for the sole purpose of calling on a client. Time was of the essence and my plan included a quick turnaround trip from and back to the airport. A spotless cab pulled up. The driver rushed to open the passenger door for me and made sure I was comfortably seated before he closed the door. As he got in the driver"s seat, he mentioned that the neatly folded Wall Street Journal next to me was for my use. He then showed me several tapes and asked me what type of music I would enjoy. Well! I looked around for a "Candid Camera!" Wouldn"t you? I could not believe the service I was receiving! I took the opportunity to say, "Obviously you take great pride in your work. You must have a story to tell."
"You bet," he replied, "I used to be in Corporate America. But I got tired of thinking my best would never be good enough. I decided to find my niche in life where I could feel proud of being the best I could be. I knew I would never be a rocket scientist, but I love driving cars, being of service and feeling like I have done a full day"s work and done it well. I evaluate my personal assets and… wham! I became a cab driver. One thing I know for sure, to be good in my business I could simply just meet the expectations of my passengers. But, to be great in my business, I have to exceed the customer"s expectations! I like both the sound and the return of being "great" better than just getting by on "average""
Did I tip him big time? You bet! Corporate America"s loss is the travelling folk"s friend!
怎样令顾客满意，达到他们的期望，一个出租车司机给我上了宝贵的一课。换了是一些给公司行政人员和员工作培训的讲师，可能要收取上万的课酬才会传授这等经验。而我呢，只花了12美元的出租车费就学到了。
之前我为了见一个客户飞了一趟达拉斯，时间就是生命，按照行程计划，我马上又折返回到了机场。一辆一尘不染的出租车停在面前。司机随即替我开车门，确定我稳稳妥妥地坐好后才把门关上。坐进驾驶室时，他不忘提醒我，旁边叠得整整齐齐的《华尔街日报》是给我看的.。接着，他拿了几盘带子出来，问我喜欢什么类型的音乐。哇塞!我到处张望，看偷拍镜头究竟藏在哪里。碰到这样的情形，你也会有这个反应吧?我简直不敢相信会享受到这般服务!我趁机和他聊了起来：“看得出你很以自己的工作为豪，这里头一定有什么故事吧。”
“你说中了，”他答道，“我以前也是美国商界一员，但是我已经厌倦了怎么努力也达不到别人定下的目标这种生活。我决定要为我的人生创造属于自己的新天地，在那里我可以为自己的最佳表现而感到自豪。我知道我永远也不会成为一个火箭科学家，但是喜欢开车，喜欢为别人服务，喜欢感觉完成一整天的工作而且把事情做好。算了一下手头的资产后，我就当起出租车司机了。我很清楚要干好这一行，需要做的仅仅就是满足乘客的期望。但是我要做出不一般的成绩，我的服务就要超出顾客的期望!我不要以一般服务混日子，我喜欢听到顾客对我优良服务的赞赏和为此得到的回报。”
我有没有爽快给他小费?当然有!奔波各地的我就这样和这个美国商界流失的一大人才成了朋友。
英语经典美文2
As you slowly open your eyes,look around,notice where the light comes into your room;listen carefully,see if there are new sounds you can recognize;feel with your body and spirit,and see if you can sense the freshness in the air.
Yes,yes,yes,it’s a new day,it’s a different day,and it’s a bright day!And most importantly,it is a new beginning for your life,a beginning where you are going to make new desicisions,take new actions,make new friends,and take your life to a totally unprecedented level!
In your mind’s eye,you can see clearly the things you want to have,the paces you intend to go,the relationships you desire to develop,and the positions you aspire to reach.
You can hear your laughters of joy and happiness on the day when everything happens as you dream.
You can see the smiles on the people around you when the magic moment strikes.
You can feel your face is getting red,your heart is beating fast,and your blood is rushing all over your body,to every single corner of your being!
You know all this is real as long as you are confident,passionate and committed!And you are confident,you are confident,passionate and committed!
You will no longer fear making new sounds,showing new facial expressions,using your body in new ways,approaching new people,and asking new questions.
You will live every single day of your life with absolute passion,and you will show your passion through the words you speak and the actions you take.
You will focus all your time and effort on the most important goals of your life.You will never succumb to challenges of hardships.
You will never waver in your pursuit of excellence.After all,you are the best,and you deserve the best!
英语经典美文3
Man’s dearest possession is life。 It is given to him but once， and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years， never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past； so live that， dying， he might say： all my life， all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world—the fight for the Liberation of Mankind。
人生最宝贵的是生命。生命对于人来说只有一次。一个人的生命应该这样度过：当他回首往事时，不因虚度年华而悔恨；也不会因为碌碌无为而羞耻。在临死的`时候他能够说：我的整个生命和全部精力都已经献给了世界上最壮丽的事业――为人类的解放事业而斗争！
英语经典美文4
Country music which originates from the southern of American and
Appalachian Mountains(阿帕拉契山区) is one of the recent popular music. It dates back to 1920 combining traditional Folk Music, Celtic Music(凯尔特音乐), Gospel music（福音音乐）, Ancient music.
In 1925, a broadcast station is established in Nashville Tennessee（美国田纳西州纳什维尔）. They start a column called ‘Past Opera（往昔的歌剧）’. They invited an 81-year-old folksy singer named Jamie Thompson. For the
excellent performances given by him, this column is popular with a great many audiences. Since then people called this type of music country music. In American, Country music plays an important role in workers’life.Workers compose and sing country music to relax themselves and gain confident towards hardship. So it is also called’ Blue-collar music
Country music‘s construction is very simple. The tune sounds smooth and beautiful. Besides expressing the scene of farm work, Country music reflects people’s disgust with lonely vagabondage（流浪生活）. It makes people dream of the warm peaceful home.
Country music is divided into 13 schools. Early Country（早期乡村乐） is the old type of country music. During this time, the most famous group is The Carter Family. No one can deny the contribution they make to the
development of country music. Their representative work is Will the Circle Be Unbroken. It was the first time Maybelle Carter shows its most fascination
guitar style to people. The most famous type is Cowboy Music. Almost anyone knows it. Chinese people know it through American movies which express cowboy’s free happy life and the beauty of the southern of American. The Sons of the Pioneers is an American cowboy singing group founded in 1933.They composed so many good songs. For example, Heavy the Workhorse Movement gives us a feeling of wild naughty boys.
Finally, let me list many famous country music singers. They are John Denver (约翰·丹佛),Kenny Rogers(肯尼·罗杰斯), Josh Turner(乔什·特纳) ,Shania Twain(仙妮亚·唐恩)etc.
英语经典美文5
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; an if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
英语经典美文6
New English Tests Are Better, but Harder
Scores on English tests are very important to students around the world. In order to make sure that they do their best, both students and teachers should stay informed of how these tests are changing.
Clive Roberts is a director at ELS Educational Services, one of the companies that trains students in English. Mr. Roberts says the tests are changing greatly in response to the global growth in the use of English as a lingua franca – the common language used among people with different native languages.
Mr. Roberts says English "is one of the keys now to international student mobility. So, for that reason, a lot of new tests are being developed; old tests are being revamped to meet the needs of universities and employers worldwide."
In other words, students increasingly need English in order to study and work in other countries. So, schools and businesses are asking for more accurate tests.
Changes in language testing
Mr. Roberts says several parts of standardized tests have changed recently. Now, many tests are given on computers. And, he says, tests measure all four skills of language learning: reading, listening, speaking and writing.
"A lot of are now delivered online, all four skills are being tested, in some cases, by computer, in particular speaking and writing skills, which are the most difficult to assess on a computer environment."
Computer testing will reduce the length of time required for testing, because the tests adjust to the test-taker's ability. These computer-adaptive tests also increase accuracy in scoring. Computer-adaptive tests change depending on the test-taker's responses. They can become more or less difficult during the testing session. For this reason, the set of correct answers will be different for each test-taker.
Cultural sensitivity
Another change to language testing relates to cultural sensitivity. The term refers to material on a test that is based on a certain culture or is hard for test-takers from different cultures to understand.
Mr. Roberts says test development companies are now hiring people with intercultural communication backgrounds to review test items. The companies want to make sure the test does not upset test-takers. Having negative feelings may affect a student's performance on the test.
Accuracy in language testing
Changes to English proficiency tests make them better at measuring the learners' ability. However, Mr. Roberts says the changes may mean the tests are more difficult for some students.
"The tests have become more proficiency-oriented. The items are being designed in such a way that they test real-world proficiency and not simply sort of an artificial environment or a specific set of skills that are taught in a classroom. So a lot of authentic texts, a lot of authentic listening passages are being used."
The changes mean students have to be able to understand English the way it is used in everyday life, not just in textbooks.
What the tests measure
Another big change is the way in which a student's performance on the tests is measured. Mr. Roberts says that many tests are measured according to the Common European Frame of Reference (CERF) scale of language proficiency.
This measurement, Mr. Roberts says, "is similar to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) guidelines, which are used by American universities and government agencies, respectively."
The rating scales and guidelines are designed to show what the learner is able to do in the areas of speaking, reading, listening and writing.
Mr. Roberts says, "It gives a description of what they can do with the language and then assigns a numerical value to that particular level."
Mr. Roberts says he believes linking the scores and the scales means the tests provide more useful information about a learner's ability than they did before.
In addition, changes to the tests will encourage schools to teach their students to use English for everyday life and study.
I'm Jonathan Evans.
Dr. Jill Robbins reported and wrote this story for VOA Learning English. Ashley Thompson was the editor.
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Words in This Story
lingua franca – n. a language that is used among people who speak various different languages
four skills - n. the language abilities involved in reading, listening, speaking, and writing
assess – v. to make a judgment about (something); used to describe testing activity
computer-adaptive - adj. tests that are designed to adjust their level of difficulty—based on the responses provided—to match the knowledge and ability of a test taker.
proficiency: n. advancement in knowledge or skill
authentic - adj. real or genuine : not copied or false; in language education: material that is developed for native speakers, not specially created for learners
Now it's your turn. Write to us in the comments section on your views about the recent changes in language testing.
英语经典美文7
But my idea of success is different today. And as you grow, you'll realise the definition of success changes. For many of you, today, success is being able to hold down 20 shots of tequila. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity, and not to give into peer pressure; to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person; to contribute in some way. So to conclude my conclusion: follow your Passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
但今日我对成功的定义变了，当你长大，你就会发现这点。对你们中的很多人来说，成功的定义是能灌下20杯龙舌兰酒。对我来说，生命中最重妥的事是:活得诚实!别屈从于同伴的压力，把自己变成本不是的那个人。要活得真诚，有怜悯之心，在某些方面有所贡献。这是结论的结论，追随热情，忠于自我。绝不要追随别人的脚步，除非你在森林里迷了路才要这么做。那时你真的该那样做。别给人忠告，它们会给你带来麻烦。也别接受任何人的忠告。那么，我要给大家的忠告是，做真正的自己，一切都会顺利的。
And I know that a lot of you are concerned about your future, but there's no need to worry. The economy is booming, the job market is wide open, the planet is just fine It's gonna be great. You've already survived a hurricane What else can happen to you? And as I mentioned before, some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most. And now you know the right questions to ask in your first job interview. Like, "Is it above sea level?". So to conclude my conclusion that I've previously concluded, in the common cement speech, I guess what I'm trying to say is life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with. And you'll be drunk, most of the time.
我知道在庄很多人都在担心自己的前途，但不用担心，经济正急速增长，就业市场求才若J蜀，地球也好得很。一切都会好的，你们都经历过风灾了，还有什么可怕的?如我以前所说的:从最惨痛的经历中可以吸收最多的教训。现在你们知道在你们的第一场面试中该问什么样的问题了吧?比如，公司高于海平面吗?总结我之前的结论，我的"常见的水泥"演讲，我想说的是，人生就像一场狂欢节嘉年华，但请展现你们的头脑，而非胸部，如果人家欣赏的话你就有更多的金银珠宝可以使用，而且在大多时间你都会醉。
励志英语美文鉴赏
Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness
感觉、失败及寻找幸福
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms. And sometimes here in this Planet Earth school the lessons often come dressed up as detours or roadblocks. And sometimes as full-blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons, lessons from the grandest university of all, that is, the universe itself. It's being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here, to evolve as human beings. To grow into more of ourselves, always moving to the next level of understanding, the next level of compassion and growth.
这个世界将教会你们很多。我认为这个世界，这个地球，就像一所学校，而我们的人生就像是教室。在世界这所大学里，有些课程会是人生的弯路或障碍，有些课程则充满危机。而我所学到的应对这一切的私、诀就是：勇于面对一切挫折与危机，世界本身就是世上最好的大学。在人生的.旅途中，妥对生活充满激情，并不断提高自我，这就是进化为人类并存在于世的意义。不断提升自我，去追求人生的更高境界，去追求更高级别的怜悯和自我提高。
I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later, I saw the same reporter. And she said to me, "You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself."
我记得我所受到的最高的赞扬之一。刚在芝加哥开始工作时，我采访了一个记者。很多年以后我们又见面了。她对我说：“你知道吗?你一点也没有变，你变得更自我了。”
And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
这就是我们一直努力在傲的，去做我们自己。我坚信你们会从自己做过的每一件事情上学到经验，这样你们才能取得进步。也只有这样你们的心灵才能更加丰富。相信我，内在的智慧比外在的财富更加珍贵。你运用智慧越多，你得到的也会越多。
励志英语美文赏析
Tribute to Diana
致戴安娜
There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.
毫无疑问，她一直在寻找一个新的生活方向，她不时说起要离开英国，主要是受不了报纸对她的围攻。我想她始终不明白为什么她的真诚善意会被媒体扭曲嘲弄，为什么周围总有一股永远把她拉倒的代表媒体的势力，这些确实令人难以理解。
My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.
我自己唯一的解释，就是真正的善与美对那些位于道德光谱另一端的人来说，是一种威胁。但是，在一切有关黛安娜的嘲讽中，也许最大的讽刺是：一个女孩子，她的名字是古代拧猎女神(黛安娜)，自己最后却成为现代社会最受围剿的一个人。
She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here Diana on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.
她会要我们今天誓言保护她钟爱的孩子威廉和哈里，免遭相同的命运。黛安娜，我在这里代表你起誓，我们决不会让他们遭受与你那种惯于把你逼到绝望落泪的苦难。
And beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.
另外，我代表你母亲和两个姐姐起誓，我们，你的骨肉亲人，将尽一切能力继续走你那极富创意和深具爱心的道路，引导这两个杰出孩子，让他们的心灵不是束缚在职责的传统中，而是能如你所期盼地自由地放声歌唱。
英语经典美文8
On my first day as an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, I entered the classroom with a great deal of anxiety. My large class responded to my awkward smile and brief greeting with silence. For a few moments I fussed with my notes. Then I started my lecture, stammering; no one seemed to be listening.
At that moment of panic I noticed in the fifth row a poised, attentive young woman in a summer dress. Her skin was tanned, her brown eyes were clear and alert, her hair was golden. Her animated expression and warm smile were an invitation for me to go on. When I"d say something, she would nod, or say, "Oh, yes!" and write it down. She emanated the comforting feeling that she cared about what I was trying so haltingly to say.
I began to speak directly to her and my confidence and enthusiasm returned. After a while I risked looking about. The other students had begun listening and taking notes, This stunning young woman had pulled me through.
After class, I scanned the roll to find her name: Liani. Her papers, which I read over the subsequent weeks, were written with creativity, sensitivity and a delicate sense of humor.
I had asked all my students to visit my office during the semester, and I awaited Liani"s visit with special interest. I wanted to tell her how she had saved my first day, and encourage her to develop her qualities of caring and awareness.
Liani never came. About five weeks into the semester, She missed two weeks of classes. I asked the students seated around her if they knew why. I was shocked to learn that they did not even know her name. I thought of Albert Schweitzer"s poignant statement: "We are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness."
I went to our dean of women. The moment I mentioned Liani"s name, she winced. "Oh, I"m sorry, Leo," she said. "I thought you"d been told..."
Liani had driven to Pacific Palisades, a lovely community near downtown Los Angeles where cliffs fall abruptly into the sea. There, shocked picnickers later reported, she jumped to her death.
Liani was 22 years old! And her God-given uniqueness was gone forever.
I called Liani"s parents. From the tenderness with which Liani"s mother spoke of her, I knew that she had been loved. But it was obvious to me that Liani had not felt loved.
"What are we doing?" I asked a colleague. "We"re so busy teaching things. What"s the value of teaching Liani to read, write, do arithmetic, if we taught her nothing of what she truly needed to know: how to live in Joy, how to have a sense of personal worth and dignity?"
I decided to do something to help others who needed to feel loved. I would teach a course on love.
I spent months in library research but found little help. Almost all the books on love dealt with sex or romantic love. There was virtually nothing on love in general.
But perhaps if I offered myself only as a facilitator, the students and I could teach one another and learn together. I called the course Love Class.
It took only one announcement to fill this non-credit course. I gave each student a reading list, but there were no assigned texts, no attendance requirements, no exams. We just shared our reading, our ideas, our experiences.
My premise is that love is learned. Our "teachers" are the loving people we encounter. If we find no models of love, then we grow up love-starved and unloving. The happy possibility, I told my student, is that love can be learned at any moment of our lives if we are willing to put in the time, the energy and the practice.
Few missed even one session of Love class. I had to crowd the students closer together as they brought mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, husbands, wives,—even grandparents. Scheduled to start at 7 p.m. and end at 10, the class often continued until well past midnight.
One of the first things I tried to get across was the importance of touching. "How many of you have hugged someone—other than a girlfriend, boyfriend or your spouse—within the past week?" Few hands went up. One student said, "I"m always afraid that my motives will be misinterpreted." From the nervous laughter, I could tell that many shared the young woman"s feeling.(：夏根建)"Love has a need to be expressed physically," I responded.
"I feel fortunate to have grown up in a passionate, hugging Italian family. I associate hugging with a more universal kind of love.
"But if you are afraid of being misunderstood, verbalize your feelings to the person you"re hugging. And for people who are really uncomfortable about being embraced, a warm, two-handed handshake will satisfy the need to be touched."
We began to hug one another after each class. Eventually hugging became a common greeting among class members on campus.
We never left Love Class without a plan to share love.
For Love Class assignment we agreed to share something of ourselves, without expectation of reward. Some students helped disabled children. Others assisted derelicts on Skid Row. Many volunteered to work on suicide hot lines, hoping to find the Lianis before it was too late.
I went with one of my students, Joel, to a nursing home not far from U.S.C. A number of aged people were lying in beds in old cotton gowns, staring at the ceiling. Joel looked around and then asked, "What"ll I do?" I said, "You see that woman over there? Go say hello,"
He went over and said, "Uh, hello."
She looked at him suspiciously for a minute. "Are you a relative?"
"No."
"Good! Sit down, young man."
Oh, the things she told him! This woman knew so much about love, pain, suffering. Even about approaching death, with which she had to make some kind of peace. But no one had cared about listening—until Joel. He started visiting her once a week. Soon, that day began to be known as "Joel"s Day." He would come and all the old people would gather.
Then the elderly woman asked her daughter to bring her in a glamorous dressing gown. When Joel came for his visit, he found her sitting up in bed in a beautiful satin gown, her hair done up stylishly. She hadn"t had her hair fixed in ages: why have your hair done if nobody really sees you? Before long, others in the ward were dressing up for Joel.
The years since I began Love Class have been the most exciting of my life. While attempting to open doors to love for others, I found that the doors were opening for me.
I ate in a greasy spoon in Arizona not long ago. When I ordered pork chops, somebody said, "You"re crazy, Nobody eats pork chops in a place like this." But the chops were magnificent.
"I"d like to meet the chef," I said to the waitress.
We walked back to the kitchen and there he was, a big, sweaty man. "What"s the matter?" he demanded.
"Nothing. Those pork chops were just fantastic."
He looked at me as though I was out of my mind. Obviously it was hard for him to receive a compliment. Then he said warmly, "Would you like another?"
Isn"t that beautiful? Had I not learned how to be loving, I would have thought nice things about the chef"s pork chops, but probably wouldn"t have told him—just as I had failed to tell Liani how much she had helped me that first day in class. That"s one of the things love is: sharing joy with people.
Another secret of love is knowing that you are yourself special, that in all the world there is only one of you. If I had a magic wand and a single wish, I would wave the wand over everybody and have each individual say, and believe, "I like me, right this minute. Just as I am, and what I can become. I"m great."
The pursuit of love has made a wonder of my life. But what would my existence have been like had I never known Liani? Would I still be stammering out subject matter at students, year after year, with little concern about the vulnerable human beings behind the masks? Who can tell? Liani presented me with the challenge, and I took it up! It has made all the difference.
I wish Liani were here today. I would hold her in my arms and say, "Many people have helped me learn about love, but you gave me the impetus. Thank you. I love you." But I believe my love for Liani has, in some mysterious way already reached her.
英语经典美文9
Since the pre-historic times，man has had an urge to satisfy his needs. Be it hunger，shelter or search for a mate，he has always manipulated the circumstances to the best of his advantages. Probably this might be the reason why we human are the most developed of all living species on the earth，and probably also in the universe. As we climbed the steps of evolution with giant leaps，we somehow left behind common sense and logical thinking—we forgot that we have stopped thinking ahead of times.
If you are hungry，what do you do?Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that?Just like your stomach，even your mind is hungry. But it never lets you know，because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover，favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently began to heed to your needs and never let itself grow. When mind looses its freedom to grow，creativity gets a full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think“What happens next?”，“Why can‘t I think?”，“Why am I always given the difficult problems?”Well this is the aftermath of our own karma of using our brain for thinking of not-so-worthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually satiated through extensive reading. Now why reading and not watching TV?Because reading has been the most educative tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life，we have to take help of reading. You have innumerable number of books in this world which will answer all your“How to?”questions. Once you read a book，you just don‘t run your eyes through the lines，but even your mind decodes it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed if used many times，can help you link and relate a lot of things，of which you would have never thought of in your wildest dreams!This is nothing but creativity. More the number of books you read，your mind will open up like never before. Also this improves your oratory skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary. Within no time you start speaking English or any language fluently with your friends or other people and you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
Actually，I had a problem in speaking English fluently，but as I read，I could improve significantly. I am still on the path of improvement to quench my thirst for satisfaction. So guys do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading，reading and more reading. Now what are you waiting for?Go，grab a book，and let me know!
Deepak Chandrasekaran
篇二：Weakness or Strength (将弱项变为强项)
Sometimes our biggest weakness can become your biggest strength. Take，for example，the story t of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo despite the fact that the had lost his left arm in a devastating car accident.
The boy began lesson with an old Japanese judo master. The boy was dong well，so he couldn‘t understand why，after three months of training，the master had taught him only one move.
“Mister，”the boy finally said，“shouldn‘t I be learning more moves?”
“This is the only move you know，but this is the only move you‘ll ever need to know，”the master replied.
Not quite understanding，but believing in his teacher，the boy kept training.
Several months later，the master took the boy to his first tournament.
To his surprise，，the boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult，but after some time，his opponent became impatient and charged;the boy deftly used his one move to win the match. Still amazed by his success，the boy was now in the finals.
This time，his opponent was bigger，stronger，and more experienced. For a while，the boy appeared to be overmatched.
Concerned that the boy might get hurt，the referee called a time-out. He was about to stop the match when the master intervened.“No，”his master insisted，“let him continue.”
Soon after the match resumed，his opponent made a critical mistake：he dropped his guard. Instantly，the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the champion.
On the way home，the boy and his master reviewed every move in each and every match. Then the boy summoned the courage to ask what was really in his min.
“Mister，how did I win the tournament with only one move?”
“You won for two reasons，”the master answered.“First，you‘ve almost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. Second，the only known defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.”
The boy‘s biggest weakness had become his biggest strength.
Everyday English
英语经典美文10
However mean your life is , meet it and live it, do not shun it or call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like a sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不管你的生活怎么恶劣，都要迎头应对，好好地活，不要躲避，也不要咒骂。它并不像你自己那么差劲。当你最富有的时候，它看上去最贫穷。挑毛病的.人即使在天堂也能挑出毛病。爱你的生活，即使它很穷。就算在救济院，你也有可能有快乐、激动、光彩的时刻。落日从救济院的窗户上反射出来的光辉，同富人家窗户上的一样明亮；门前的积雪同样在早春融化。虽然我未亲眼所见，但是一个有平常心的人可以生活得心满意足，快乐幸福，犹如生活在宫殿。城里的穷人在我看来却时常过着最洒脱的生活。也许他们伟大到了可以接受而无需滥施的境界。许多人觉得自己自足自立，不靠谁养活；但实情是他们靠着不诚实来养活自己，这才是更羞耻的事。犹如圣人，犹如花园里的一株草一样去改造贫穷吧。不要自寻烦恼地添置新东西，不管是新衣服还是新朋友。去翻检旧物吧。转向老朋友。东西不会变化，我们会。卖掉衣服，保留思想。
英语经典美文11
Today I Will Multiply My Value
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.A mulberry leaf touched with the genius of man becomes silk. A field of clay touched with the genius of man becomes a castle. A Cyprus tree touched with the genius of man becomes a shrine. A cut of sheep’s hair touched with the genius of man becomes raiment for a king.
If it is possible for leaves and clay and wood and hair to have their value multiplied a hundred, yea a thousandfold by man, cannot I do the same with the clay which bears my name?
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
I am liken to a grain of wheat which faces one of three futures. The wheat can be placed in a sack and dumped in a stall until it is fed to swine. Or it can be ground to flour and made into bread. Or it can be placed in the earth and allowed to grow until its golden head divides and produces a thousand grains from the one.
I am liken to a grain of wheat with one difference. The wheat cannot choose whether it be fed to swine, ground for bread, or planted to multiply. I have a choice and I will not let my life be fed to swine nor will I let it be ground under the rocks of failure and despair to be broken open and devoured by the will of others.
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
To grow and multiply it is necessary to plant the wheat grain in the darkness of the earth and my failures, my despairs, my ignorance, and my inabilities are the darkness in which I have been planted in order to ripen.
Now, like the wheat grain which will sprout and blossom only if it is nurtured with rain and sun and warm winds, I too must nurture my body and mind to fulfill my dreams. But to grow to full stature the wheat must wait on the whims of nature. I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
And how will I accomplish this? First I will set goals for the day, the week, the month, the year, and my life. Just as the rain must fall before the wheat will crack its shell and sprout, so must I have objectives before my life will crystallize. In setting my goals I will consider my best performance of the past and multiply it a hundredfold. This will be the standard by which I will live in the future.
Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to arm my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock?
英语经典美文12
Is University Teaching Useful
When young people who want to be journalists ask me what subject they should study after leaving school asks me what subject they should study after leaving school, I tell them: most veterans of my trade would say the same.
It is practical advice. For obviously reasons, newspaper editors like to employ people who can bring something other than knowledge of the media to the party that we call our work.
On the daily telegraph, for example, the editor of London spy is a philosopher. The editor of our student magazine, juice, studied physics. As for myself, I read history, ancient and modern, at the taxpayer’s expense.
I am not sure what Charles Clarke, the education secretary, would make of all this. If I understand him correctly, he would think that the public money spent on teaching this huge range of disciplines to the staff of the daily telegraph was pretty much wasted. the only academic course of which he would wholeheartedly approve in the list above would be physics_—but then again, he would probably think it a terrible waste that Simon Hogg chose to edit juice instead of designing aeroplanes or building nuclear reactors. by that, he seems to mean that everything taught at the public expense should have a direct, practical application that will benefit society and the economy.
It is extremely alarming that the man in charge of Britain’s education system should think in this narrow-minded, half-witted way. The truth, of course, is that all academic disciplines benefit society and the economy, whether in a direct and obviously way or not. They teach student to think –to process in formation and to distinguish between what is important and unimportant, true and untrue. Above all, a country in which academic research and intelligent ideas are allowed to flourish is clearly a much more interesting, stimulating and enjoyable place than one without “ornament”, in which money and useless are that count.
Mr. Clarke certainly has a point when he says that much of what is taught in Britain’s universities is useless. But it is useless for a far more serious reason than that it lacks any obvious economic utility. As the extraordinary high drop-out rate testifies, it is useless because it fails the first test of university teaching-that is should stimulate the interest of those being taught. When student themselves think that course are a waste of time and money, then a waste they are.
The answer is not to cut off state funding for the humanities. It is to offer short, no-nonsense vocational course to those who want to learn a trade, and reserve university places for those who want pursue an academic discipline. By a great deal of wasted money could be saved and all students-the academic and the not-so-academic-would benefit. What Mr. Clarke seems to be proposing instead is an act of culture vandalism that would rob Britain of all claim of is called a civilized country?
英语经典美文13
1、那些年错过的爱情，好想拥抱你拥抱错过的勇气。
Those who missed the love, I want to hug you miss the courage to embrace.
2、江南风骨，天水成碧，天教心愿与身违。
Jiangnan style, Tianshui Chengbi, days to teach aspiration and body violation.
3、当属于我们的向日葵死了，那么我们还会微笑么。
When the sunflower belongs to us, then we will smile.
4、在悠然的午后,享受会下午茶时光,耳边响起勾起回忆的旋律。
In a leisurely afternoon, will enjoy the afternoon tea time, the ears recalls the melody.
5、你要找的不是一个完美的人，而是一个对你而言最合适的人。
You are not looking for a perfect person, but a person who is the most suitable for you.
6、随你走在天际，看繁花满地。
As you walk in the sky, see the flowers everywhere.
7、毕业了，话题不再是八卦，学习，换成了工作，前途与结婚。
Graduated, the topic is no longer gossip, study, change into the work, the future and the marriage.
8、万般故事，不过情伤;易水人去，明月如霜。
All story, but feeling hurt; Yishui people to go to the moon, such as frost.
9、只有天空没人抢得走，只要我能拾起天，它都一直陪着我!
Only the sky no one take, as long as I can pick up the day, it has been with me!
10、爱是费尽心力的全身投入，然后在百转千回的抽身而出。
Love is devoting himself to the whole body into, and then withdraw back a hundred thousand turn out.
11、有谁能像他一样，嘘寒问暖，一日三餐的关心俄。
Can someone like him, being, three meals a day care for russia.
12、我可以不呼吸空气，但没有你我根本无法呼吸。
I can't breathe the air, but I can't breathe without you.
13、孤单，是你心里面没有人。寂寞，是你心里有人却不在身边。
Alone, there is no one in your heart. Lonely, you are not in the heart of the people are not around.
14、如花美眷也敌不过似水流年。
Ruhuameijuan also enemy but Youth passes as a fleeting wave.
15、春深花浅笑，秋浓叶忧伤，夜月一帘梦，春风十里情。
Spring flower autumn leaves deep smile, thick sadness, a curtain of night dream, ten in the spring.
16、想着过去的记忆，品着现在的心酸，念着未来的坎坷。
Thinking of the memory of the past, with the current sadness, read with future bumpy.
17、让我们随风自由奔跑，去追逐伟大、神圣的梦想吧!
Let us run with the wind, to the pursuit of a great, sacred dream!
18、如果现在召集原班人马让你再读一遍初中，你愿意么?
If you let the original now called read junior high school, will you?
19、一起老去的日子里，因为朋友的存在而泛着七彩的'光。
Old together in the day, because of the presence of friends and the colorful light.
20、我曾给你最温暖的怀抱，你却给我最痛心的玩笑。
I gave you the most warm embrace, but you gave me the most painful joke.
21、桃花凋谢了，枝头残留着几片花瓣，仍像点点跳动的火苗。
Peach blossom withered branches, the remnants of several petals, still like a little beat the flames.
22、那是我日夜思念的人阿，也许永远都不会跟她说出那句话。
That is my day and night thinking of the people, may never say that sentence with her.
23、满天星花语是思念、清纯、梦境、真心喜欢。
Mantianxing flower is missing, pure, true love and dreams.
24、太多的话语在喉咙中梗咽，终究还是无言以对。
Too many words in the throat swallow, still speechless.
25、在我需要的时候，能不能，给我点看得见的在乎。
When I need it, I can not, give me a point of view of care.
26、一举一动，都是承诺，会被另一个人看在眼里，记在心上的。
Every move, is a promise, will be another person to see in the eyes, remember in the heart of the.
27、转身，一缕冷香远，逝雪深，笑意浅。来世你渡我，可愿?
Turn around, ray Leng Xiangyuan, evanescent snow depth, shallow smile. Will you cross me in the next life?
28、你又不是我的美瞳，干嘛要把你放在眼里去。
You are not my beautiful pupil, why should you put in your eyes.
29、我是做好了和你过一辈子的打算，也准备好了你随时说要走。
I'm ready to go with you for a lifetime, and ready for you to go.
30、不要做让自己后悔的事，要做，就做让别人后悔的事。
Don't do what you regret, do it, and do what you regret.
31、一起走过的岁月里，因为有了感动才会变得更加迷人。
Together through the years, because of the move will become more charming.
32、也许你会战胜一切，但是你最终还是败在了时间的脚下。
Maybe you'll beat it all, but you're still at the foot of the time.
33、谁苍白了我的等待，讽刺了我的执着。
Who pale I wait, the irony of my dedication.
34、山高不识东南北，左也是西，右也是西;回首长安泪双滴。
I also left mountains of southeast North, West, West Changan is right back; double drops of tears.
35、汉霄苍茫，牵住繁华哀伤，弯眉间，命中注定，成为过往。
Han Xiao vast, hold the bustling sad, curved eyebrows, become the past decreed by fate.
36、在这布满硝烟与瓦砾的乱世之中，没有人能纤尘不染地活着。
In this full of smoke and debris in the troubled times, no one can be spotlessly clean.
37、爱自己爱的人本身就是一种幸福，你可以记住过去的美好。
To love the person you love is a kind of happiness, you can remember the past.
38、火柴如果躲避燃烧的痛苦，它的一生都将黯淡无光。
Matches if the escape the burning pain, its life will be intense darkness without light.
39、用微笑装作不在意你的嘲笑，不关心你的离去。
Pretend not to care about your smile with a smile, do not care about your leaving.
40、无论你多么讨厌你的学校，当你离开久了，你还是会想念它。
No matter how much you hate your school, when you leave for a long time, you still miss it.
41、遗憾是会呼吸的痛，它流在血液中来回滚动。
Regret is the pain that can breathe, it flows back and forth in the blood.
42、我只是怀念曾经，却忘记了我们都已不是曾经的自己。
I just miss once, but forget that we have not been their own.
43、素色如锦。待到时光静好，与你相忘于天涯。
Plain such as jin. Until the time of quiet, and you forget in the world.
44、我轻轻呼吸，呼吸没有你的空气。思念叫人窒息。
I breathe, breathe without you. Miss is choking.
45、来生我再来典当、来世我再来与你歃血为盟。
I will hock, I come with you in an old Chinese practice.
46、回忆着曾经，一切只是纠结与悲剧。
Memories of the past, everything is just tangled and tragedy.
47、我在遗忘我所经历的过往，那些人事物最后只有我自己。
I have forgotten what I have experienced in the past, those people who are only my own things.
48、蓄起亘古的情丝，揉碎殷红的相思。
Storage on ancient love, from the Acacia red.
49、有时候，我想消失一下，然后看看是否会有人想念我。
Sometimes, I want to disappear, and then see if there will be someone miss me.
50、是不是只要勾搭上了孟婆，就可以忘了所有悲伤。
Is not as long as hooked on Meng, you can forget all the sadness.
51、我决定不再流泪，就像你决定要离开我一般地坚定。
I decided not to shed tears, as you decide to leave me in general firm.
52、一生总会爱那么几个人，到最后陪在身边的只有一个。
Life will always love so few people, to the last to accompany in the side of only one.
53、我来不及认真地年轻，待明白过来时，只能选择认真地老去。
I'm not seriously young, to understand the situation, can only choose to die hard.
54、一花一世界，一叶一追寻。一曲一场叹，一生为一人。
One world, a search. A sigh, a life for a person.
55、多少红颜悴，多少相思碎，唯留血染墨香哭乱冢。
How many Confidante sad, how many Acacia broken, leaving only the bloody Angel cry mess.
56、该坚持的时候，却放开了你的手。
The insistence of the time, but let go of your hand.
57、狠怀念我们那时的时光，可惜这一切都成为过去。
I miss our time, but it all became the past.
58、我每天都在数着你的笑，可是你连笑的时候，都好寂寞。
I count your smiles every day, but you're so lonely when you're smiling.
59、相忘谁先忘，倾国是故国。泠泠不肯弹，蹁跹影惊鸿。
Forget who should forget our motherland is. Lingling refused to bomb a pianxian.
60、亲爱的、我不会允许你背叛我，我也不允许自己背叛你。
Dear, I will not allow you to betray me, I do not allow myself to betray you.
61、一些事，只配当回忆。一些人，只能做过客。
Some things, only when the memories. Some people, can only do a passenger.
62、听见某个名字，想起某些事情，这个城市安静的让人心颤。
Hear a name, think of some things, the city quiet let the heart tremble.
63、桃花不但美丽，而且还放出一股沁人心脾的香味。
Peach is not only beautiful, but also released a fragrance gladdening the heart and refreshing the mind.
64、幸福是简单的呼吸，呼吸停止前没有不幸。
Happiness is a simple breath, there is no misfortune before the breath stops.
65、你现在就使劲不理我吧!等哪天我不理你了，你就知道后悔。
You just can't ignore me now! And when I don't care about you, you know the regret.
66、不知何时，还能看到那个拥有似樱花般温柔笑容的少年。
I do not know when, but also to see the cherry like a tender smile like a juvenile.
67、这样被宠惯了的小孩子，不知道人心是会伤的，天真的残忍。
This is spoiled child, do not know the people will be hurt, naive cruel.
68、长街长，烟花繁，你挑灯回看。
The Strip long, fireworks fan, you stay back to see.
英语经典美文14
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All with save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion!
Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
初雪飘临。多么美啊！它整日整夜那么静静地飘着，落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在世人的屋顶上，落在死才的坟墓上！在一片白茫茫之中，只有河流在美丽的画面上划出一道曲曲弯弯的黑线；还有那叶儿落净的树木，映衬着铅灰色的.天空，此刻更显得枝丫交错，姿态万千。初雪飘落之时，是何等的宁谧，何等的幽静！一切声响都趋沉寂，一切噪音都化作柔和的音乐。再也听不见马蹄得得，再也听不见车轮辚辚！唯有雪橇的铃铛，奏和谐的乐声，那明快欢乐的节拍犹如孩子们心房的搏动。
英语经典美文15
Welcome to Germany---German Chancellor's Greetings to FIFA 20xx
德国默克尔的问候
There are many dimensions to football's allure and appeal: top-class moves, thrilling goals, majestic star players, thunderous encounters and passionate fans. Football stirs the emotions all over the globe, brings people from contrasting cultures together, and promotes solid virtues such as fairness, team spirit and tolerance. All these facets will emerge in their most intense form at the 20xx FIFA World Cup in Germany next summer.
足球的魅力是多方面的：高质量的比赛、激动人心的进球、神奇的球星、残酷的遭遇战、热情的球迷。足球激发了全球的热情，把不同文化背景的人们集合在一起，弘扬了公平、团队精神和宽容等诸多美德。所有的'这些方面都会在20xx FIFA德国世界杯上强烈地表现出来。
Millions of people will be transfixed by this unique festival of sport and friendship. We are thoroughly looking forward ro football of the highest quality. We're delighted to welcome the biggest names in the sport as well as those nations set to appear at the finals for the first time. And we're looking forward to greeting fans from all over the world as they fill our cities with even more colour and life A heartfelt welcome to everyone!
众人将沉浸在这独一无二的友谊和竞技的节日里。我们急切期待最高质量的足球比赛。我们高兴地欢迎球场上名声如雷贯耳的球队，同样也欢迎第一次出现在世界杯决赛阶段的球队。我们期待来自世界各地的球迷来到我们的城市，不论肤色和生活方式。衷心欢迎你们的到来!
Germany is a cosmopolitan country with a passion for football. The people will devote themselves to the job of ensuring the 20xx FJFA World Cup is an unforgettable experience, a fact demonstrated by the thousands of ordinary folk who have come forward as volunteers.
德国是一个充满了足球激情的大国。人们忘我地工作，以确保20xx FIFA世界杯成为一次难忘的经历，事实上，成千上万的普通百姓成为了志愿者。
Germany is well prepared to host the FJFA World Cup. We have finished constructing our new, modern stadiums and an outstanding transportation infrastructure. The organization is in the enormously capable hands of the Organizing Committee headed by Franz Beckenbauer. The slogan "A time to make friends" perfectly describes our intention to ensure everyone revels in a secure and peaceful festival of football.
德国为FIFA世界杯的举办做好了充分的准备。我们已经完成了现代化新场馆的建设，建成了优良的运输基础设施。弗朗茨·贝肯鲍尔领导下的世界杯组委会运转非常出色。本届世界杯口号“友谊的盛会”极好地描述了我们的意思，我们要确保每个人都度过一个安全、和平的足球节日。
The FIFA World Cup is a unique opportunity for Germany to present herself as a hospitable, joyful and modern nation bursting with ideas. I am convinced that the flames of passion and togetherness engendered by the FIFA World Cup in Germany will spread to the entire world.
FIFA世界杯足球赛给了德国一次绝佳的机会，展示她的热情、快乐、现代化和充满丰富的想象。我确信，德国FIFA世界杯足球赛带来的团结和激情的火焰会散布到全世界。
I'm personally looking forward to a festival of goals, excitement and fair play. We Germans will be right behind our national team, but our aim is to act as welcoming hosts and friends to every team and their fans. Passionate and cosmopolitan Germany is delighted to welcome visitors to the 20xx FIFA World Cup.
我个人希望，这是一次进球、激情和公平竞赛的节日。我们德国人当然坚定支持自己国家队，但是，我们的目标是当好热情的东道主和每支球队及其球迷的朋友。充满热情、敞开怀抱的德国热烈欢迎所有参与20xx FIFA世界杯足球赛的朋友们。
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