经典短英语美文1
Gratitude doesn't always come naturally. Unfortunately, most children and many *s value only the thing given rather than the feeling embodied in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude. After all, gifts from the heart are really gifts of the heart.
经典短英语美文2
Everyone should be polite. Polite people show good manners.Moreover, they are popular. On the other hand, rude people arelooked down upon. Rudeness shows poor education. Therefore, why notbe polite? A simple “Please,” “Thank you,” or “You are welcome,”can make a big difference.
经典短英语美文3
Society is changingrapidly. As a result, more and more people are suffering fromstress. Those who are stressed out are often nervous ,angry or ill.People must, therefore learn to deal with this “new” kind ofproblem. Regular exercise is one way. The best way, however, is tokeep a good sense of humor.
经典短英语美文4
i am a slow walker，but i never walk backward.when i thought I could not go on,i forced myself to keep going.though the future is scary,you can't just run to the past because it is familiar.always remember,a man is not old as long as he's seeking something.a man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
经典短英语美文5
The way that love in the morning golden, looked askance, just that you are familiar with the motorcycle's shadow, say you are the most responsible teacher, not too much. Love the sky the charming sunset dusk, overlooking the school road, that familiar with the shadow once again greeted my tears trickling down cheeks. Not for anything else, just as I have you in my world, only for your heart to spare, only students.
经典短英语美文6
There are some huge poster ads in the Shanghai subway. The new ads for a Chinese clothing line that Wentworth has decided to represent.
Wentworth is commonly known as wenshuai or mishuaiin Chinese! The first takes ‘wen’ the first character of his first name in Chinese and adds to the end the character ‘shuai’ which means handsome, while the latter does the same using ‘mi’ which is the first character in the Chinese translation of his last name.
经典短英语美文7
I'm tired of myself ,sometimes.i can't do it well as i have planned.always ending up with impatience.maybe I'm not good at it,maybe I'm not suitable for it,seldom can I finish it with my persistence.
gradually,accustomed to giving up and denying myself.but i have grown up,try to accept myself,even though imperfect.just do it naturally,and everything will be ok.
经典短英语美文8
Summer holiday is coming.I am going to do many things that I want to do. For exampie,first I will jion a soccer club,because I like playing soccer.During the summer holiday, I want to practice more to improve my skills.Second I will go to my grandma's house,because I miss her very much.I want to stay with her for several days.Last I will help my mother do some housework. She was really tired when I was go to school. Except for taking care of me, she also has to work. Therefore, I want to help her in the holidays.What will you do on Summer Holiday?
经典短英语美文9
Now most of us are the only children in our families. Our parents love us very much and they try their best to do everything for us, but some of us become selfish. As students, I think first we should respect our parents and teachers and get on well with our classmates. We should also help people when they are in trouble and think more of others. I think it’s very important to communicate with others. Finally, I hope we have a good relationship with everyone around us.
经典短英语美文10
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.
Youth means a tempera-mental 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 deserting our ideals.
经典短英语美文10篇扩展阅读
经典短英语美文10篇（扩展1）
——经典短英语美文 (菁华20篇)
经典短英语美文1
Some people eat to live, but there are others who live to eat.To live a long and healthy life, we must learn to have a balanceddiet. A balanced diet sim* means a bit of everything. A dietwhich includes meat, fish, vegetables and fruit is, of course,ideal. If you watch your diet, then you won’t have to suffer thepain of going on a diet.
经典短英语美文2
Society is changingrapidly. As a result, more and more people are suffering fromstress. Those who are stressed out are often nervous ,angry or ill.People must, therefore learn to deal with this “new” kind ofproblem. Regular exercise is one way. The best way, however, is tokeep a good sense of humor.
经典短英语美文3
Look into your own life. If you scrub away the make-up of illusion and impurities of jealousy — can you see the clarity of grace? Can you understand how treasuring what's right in front of you is worth your time?
经典短英语美文4
i am a slow walker，but i never walk backward.when i thought I could not go on,i forced myself to keep going.though the future is scary,you can't just run to the past because it is familiar.always remember,a man is not old as long as he's seeking something.a man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
经典短英语美文5
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it,
Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop,
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world,
Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open,
This is Forever Friendship.
经典短英语美文6
From May 1 to May 7, we had a seven-day holiday. During the holiday a special international music carnival was held in the Century Park. Many music groups from the world came to the Park.
I like rock music very much.I'm always longing for attending a music festival. And my dream came true. I enjoyed different kinds of music during the carnival.
I couldn't forget the moment when we danced and waved our hands to the music.People of all ages enjoyed a lot.
经典短英语美文7
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.
经典短英语美文8
Gratitude grounds plentitude in the now. When you honor who you are, what you do, and what you have, your energy will change. You will start to glow. People will be drawn to you because that gratitude glow is rare in our current culture. I'm hoping to bring it back.
经典短英语美文9
The way that love in the morning golden, looked askance, just that you are familiar with the motorcycle's shadow, say you are the most responsible teacher, not too much. Love the sky the charming sunset dusk, overlooking the school road, that familiar with the shadow once again greeted my tears trickling down cheeks. Not for anything else, just as I have you in my world, only for your heart to spare, only students.
经典短英语美文10
There are some huge poster ads in the Shanghai subway. The new ads for a Chinese clothing line that Wentworth has decided to represent.
Wentworth is commonly known as wenshuai or mishuaiin Chinese! The first takes ‘wen’ the first character of his first name in Chinese and adds to the end the character ‘shuai’ which means handsome, while the latter does the same using ‘mi’ which is the first character in the Chinese translation of his last name.
经典短英语美文11
Climbing the mountain is not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Going to Paris is to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly.
经典短英语美文12
Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes,when you don't have the time to listen,it's your choice: Listen to the whispers of your soul or wait for the brick!
Do you sometimes ignore loved ones because your life is too fast and busy leaving them to wonder whether you really love them?
经典短英语美文13
Youth, revealed a deep a quality suggestive of poetry or painting; youth, emitting a faint fragrance lovingly. The pace of youth will not stop because of difficulty, the melody of youth is not obstructed by wind and rain and. Youth is the sun, is a sign of confidence; let us raise the youth sailing, let youth where flying, let youth in here!
经典短英语美文14
Our life in the city is very different from life in the villages and on the farms. People in large cities are much more careful to respect the privacy of the individual. Sometimes this feeling seems to be one of indifference, but it is a convention of city life to curb one‘s curiosity about the personal affairs of strangers. Villagers and farmers are likely to show a great deal of interest in all their neighbors. Opportunities for bright young people are greater in the cities and there has been a steady stream of hopeful jobseekers from the villages and farms to the large metropolitan areas.
经典短英语美文15
Good morning everyone ,Do you like musicI like music very much.I like music that's quiet and gentle.For example Moon .It reminds me of the moon ,As for singers ,different people have different ideas.
Most of people like singers who are beautiful . some of people like singers who have great voice.
But Ilike singers who can write their own lyrics and who play different kinds of music,I dislike singers who don't sing the words clearly,I can't stand that.And you
经典短英语美文16
Once upon a time, in a large forest there lived two brothers cock and the crow.They look very beautiful. Whenever the dawn, the rooster head, dressed in colorful feathers and singing loudly, and others to match the outside. The crows are in the forest and small animals along with labor, with its beautiful song off fatigue. Thus, the forest gradually small animals do not like the cock crow is agreed that the most beautiful. Emotion and facial expression is beautiful. A poor without passion is defective expression of the face; any whitewash it, you blow I want to, only a fool would love.
经典短英语美文17
People always have to experience many hardships and setbacks in their life, but I think we can succeed in solving all the difficulties and winning the victory by continuous efforts. Because as long as there is a process of hard work, you will get the true results of their own. Just like blossom and blossom, efforts are beautiful flowers. Achievements are fruits. How can everyone achieve their achievements without effort? Or anything will become worthless before it. So I firmly believe that nothing is more important than self - effort.
经典短英语美文18
When we first met I held back so much afraid to show my deepest feelings
As I got to know you better your gentleness and honesty encouraged me to open up and I started a trust in you that I never had with anyone else Once I started to express my feelings I realized that this is the only way to have a relationship It is such a wonderful feeling to let myself be completely known to you Thank you so much for showing me what two people can share together I look forward to spending many beautiful times with you
经典短英语美文19
Summer is the great season for all sports in the open air. It is the season for football which is often called the national sport because of its popularity. I usually watch television and read the newspaper reports about the football results of the little leagues. During the summer I like to go to the beach often because it is very close to my home. I usually go there during the summer vacation to relax after many months in school in the city. I feel very comfortable with the familiar quiet life of the villagers.
经典短英语美文20
Although we have learned English for several years, and we have some knowledge about the English-speaking countries, there are still many people can not distinguish the relationships between England, Britain and United Kingdom. UK is the short form of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or commonly known as Britain. UK is composed of four parts. They are: England, Scotland, Welsh and Northern Ireland. London is the capital of UK. UK is a constitutional monarchy, and the head of state is a king or a queen. The United Kingdom is governed, in the name of the Sovereign by His or Her Majesty's Government.
经典短英语美文10篇（扩展2）
——经典短美文欣赏优选【二】篇
经典短美文欣赏 1
一梦醉醒，乱槽槽的城市可有一片纯净?梦里的世界，完美却又无法抓住的悲哀...
靠近纯净湖水，有座小木屋，简简单单的布置，几本古书，充满木的芳香，古卷的古朴。早霞，极美的纯净，在那里有一片竹林，绿的透彻，纯粹，呼吸一口，浑身一股清流，舒心，沐浴着霞，听着虫鸣鸟叫，轻轻抚去露水。晨之梅，如此透彻。
午后，阳光洒下，抿一口清茶，望着自然花卷，荷叶拍打，荷花轻舞，偶尔鱼儿戏游于此，带来淡淡涟漪，偶尔吟诗作乐，会有鸟儿叽喳，仿佛赞扬一番，坐上独舟，行于水墨之间，船头背影佳人独奏轻音，心安眠。
入夜，坐岸边，怀中佳人依偎，佳人美如画，望星辰，无声息消泪两行。
美景甚好，佳人常在，君子何求之，可惜，一切皆是梦，如此美景，只能深藏，潺然泪下，若得此梦中画，此生何求。
经典短美文欣赏 2
一四年开始写日记，到一六年我来到宜昌读大学，已有六本日记本了。翻看过去的日记本，每一本的扉页上我都会写这样一句话：一切都是最好的安排。是暗示，是勉励，也是我人生低谷期的最好陪伴。
记得以前在一本书上看过这样一句话，所有失去的都会以另一种方式归来。这么多年过去了，想起它的时候，仍会有泪意。
最穷的时候，身上没有一分钱，微信支付宝加起来一共二三十，早上两块钱一杯粥加一块钱一个馒头，午饭和晚饭是没有分界的，饿了的时候，花两块钱买两个甜馒头裹腹。
暑假没有回温岭的家。爸爸担心我，让我回家，我说自己做的决定总归是要自己负责的，如果一遇到困难就回家感觉太窝囊了。爸爸明白我性格倔没有多劝，只是让我要留意有什么事打电话给他，钱不够用了要和他说。
暑假说好一齐上课一齐赚钱的人，当初那样坚决的去找房子，找工作，几经碰壁以后，怀着一颗湖北人真狡猾的愤恨情绪独自回家了。接下来，就是我一个人在宜昌要应对的暑假了。心里虽然一开始有些难过也想过退缩，但是一想到爸爸，就不忍心做一个缩头乌龟。凭什么我自己做的决定却要我的父母为我承担后果，我能够一遇到困难就跑回家就缩回我父母的`怀抱，但是，我的父母呢，我的爸爸，为了谈成一单生意，折损着自己的健康，**回家，想尽法子挣钱连头发都白了。爷爷奶奶没有给他优越的出身，他一路走来全靠自己的毅力决心去打拼，吃了那么多的苦，他吃的苦他从来放在自己心里。那么我呢，我同样不能抱怨他没能给我优越的出身，相反，正是因为这样，我更需要在困境面前坚强的挺下去，人心是一点一点的变得强大的。
与其说这个暑假继续留在宜昌是因为舍不得房租的五百块押金不如说我更想看看自己到底有多坚强，如果连这点挫折我都要跑回家和爸爸妈妈哭鼻子的话，二十岁了，太丢人了。
人的一生，免不了会遇到许许多多千奇百怪的困境，而此刻能帮忙你的人并不必须能够永远的保护你，他也会遇到他的困境，我期望，我不是一个总是需要别人帮忙的人，我期望有一天我足够强大，我能够帮忙别人。我有潜力让我的父母不再操劳，我有潜力成为一个对生活充满感激之情的人。
一切的苦都是值得的，一切苦的等待同样值得期许。赵丽颖演了七年的配角，她说最好别让我抓到机会，一旦抓到了我就会狠狠的抓住。如今的她，是霸屏女主是收视率女王，可这些都来源于她十年的坚持，来源于她对困境的期许。
也许你生不逢时，也许厄运从来不轻易放过你，但命运越是要你潦倒，你越是要灿烂的活下去，你要相信，你必须要相信，一切都会是最好的安排。
经典短英语美文10篇（扩展3）
——经典短英语美文通用十篇
经典短英语美文 1
Guess what plant is purple and smells wonderful. You are right! It is lavender, a small and beautiful flower.
During my summer vacation, I would like to liven up my garden with lavender. First, I will plant some seeds around the garden. Then I will water the lavender every day. I hope the lavender will grow up fast so I can see the pretty flowers.
Once I have finished, I want to send some seeds to my friends. This way, I can share my summer vacation with them.
经典短英语美文 2
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.
经典短英语美文 3
Society is changingrapidly. As a result, more and more people are suffering fromstress. Those who are stressed out are often nervous ,angry or ill.People must, therefore learn to deal with this “new” kind ofproblem. Regular exercise is one way. The best way, however, is tokeep a good sense of humor.
经典短英语美文 4
Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
经典短英语美文 5
A celebrity said, "God will open another window for you when it closes a window for you." Life is not always an impasse, each one seems to come to the end of the road there are "dense willow trees and bright flowers". In front of a road or a road, life is not always successful. Only by taking success as a starting point of struggle and making progress, can we achieve greater brilliance.
经典短英语美文 6
Although we have learned English for several years, and we have some knowledge about the English-speaking countries, there are still many people can not distinguish the relationships between England, Britain and United Kingdom. UK is the short form of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or commonly known as Britain. UK is composed of four parts. They are: England, Scotland, Welsh and Northern Ireland. London is the capital of UK. UK is a constitutional monarchy, and the head of state is a king or a queen. The United Kingdom is governed, in the name of the Sovereign by His or Her Majesty's Government.
经典短英语美文 7
Our life in the city is very different from life in the villages and on the farms. People in large cities are much more careful to respect the privacy of the individual. Sometimes this feeling seems to be one of indifference, but it is a convention of city life to curb one‘s curiosity about the personal affairs of strangers. Villagers and farmers are likely to show a great deal of interest in all their neighbors. Opportunities for bright young people are greater in the cities and there has been a steady stream of hopeful jobseekers from the villages and farms to the large metropolitan areas.
经典短英语美文 8
In the face of life, a smile has to go through a lot of things. Among them, there is no lack of failure. In the face of failure, different people have different attitudes. Some people fail when they hear what they are doing. They lose their strength all the time, and they abandon themselves all day. Others are different. When faced with failure, they will always actively look for the cause of failure and come back again.
经典短英语美文 9
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's 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 infinite, so long are you young.
经典短英语美文 10
Look into your own life. If you scrub away the make-up of illusion and impurities of jealousy ― can you see the clarity of grace? Can you understand how treasuring what's right in front of you is worth your time?
经典短英语美文10篇（扩展4）
——励志经典英语美文阅读3篇
励志经典英语美文阅读1
When a man is ten, he has a boy's faith in almost everthing: even Santa Claus is a belief he is not quite ready to give up so long as there is a chance the old gentleman may really live and deliver. When a man is twenty, he is closer to compete disillusion and stronger conviction than he will probably ever be in his life.
This is the age of atheists and agnostics; it is also the age of martyrs. Jesus Christ must have been a very young man when he died on the cross; Joan of Arc, they say, was only nineteen as the flames consumed her. It is in the later years---oh, anywhere from thirty to fifty---that a man at some time stands with the tatters of his hopes and dreams fallen from him and asks himself:"What, indeed, do i believe?"
He is very apt, then, to cling to the words of other men who have written for him the shadow signposts that come as anything to poiting pathways he found best in the past and roads he will trust on the way ahead. These words may be mere copybook maxims: that honesty is the best policy, or haste makes waste. They may be alone from Shakespeare---
"To thine own self be true"---or from the bible---"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them"---or from the poets" i myself am Heaven and Hell". They may seem a sort of hodgepodge in a man's mind, yet they can make a pattern not inconsistent and not weak.
So if i believe that i myself am Heaven and Hell, that anything less than honesty to myself and others is a boomerang on them and me; if my translation of the Golden Rule is simple acts of kindness and understanding and compassion, practiced in the hope that they will be shown to me, then i have a way of life that is a sort of unselfish selfishness. The bald statement may sound cynical, but if i can follow that way, i shall not be too unhappy here and i may face death with regret but an untroubled face and a stout heart.
But there are blocks and pitfalls in a way of life, even assuming that a man can adhere to it steadfastly despite his own inclinations to deviate. These obstacles are the work other men who adhere to other ways. Hence kindness and compassion are not enough.
A man, i believe, must have courage and fortitude and a burning sense of justice, too. There are times we should turn the other cheek, but there are likewise times when we must fight the good fight. When? Well, if a fellow can't find the answer on the signposts or in his heart, i guess he has just got to pray.
经典短英语美文10篇（扩展5）
——英语经典美文翻译汇总2篇
英语经典美文翻译 1
The spring wind is blown green willow, the wind in the hot summer, the autumn wind blowing yellow rice, winter wind blowing the white earth,a wind blowing up my soul.
The exam is every student work achievement exhibition, performance of the direct impact on students' mood. After final exam, transcripts of home that day, I'm disappointed urgently, my English result is 78 points, after reading the report, I will not to utter a single word to lie in bed, staring at the ceiling ... ... I do not know how long after, the door suddenly opened, mother came in and
sat down beside me, not looking at me, suddenly, on my mother angrily shouted:" you stay in bed doing? You failed the exam is you don't work hard,can this strange who ... ..." Waiting for her to finish, I cried.
Tired of crying, to dry the tears, I looked at my mother. The mother saw my heart calm down, she also restored the true colours, say affectionately to me:" the exam is important, but your subjective effort is more important, as long as you try your best, your life is no '. '" ... ..." My eyes are bright, spirit lifts,confidence and back to me again. Love is like the wind, take my bad mood was
not the least trace was found. Blowing, my mind blowing a fresh.
春天的风吹绿了柳梢头，夏天的风吹散了炎热，秋天的风吹黄了稻谷，冬天的风吹白了大地，母爱的风吹醒了我的灵魂。考试是每个学生劳动成果的展示，成绩的好与坏直接影响着学生的心情。在期末考试后，成绩单到家的那一天，我失望急了，我的英语成绩才78分，看完成绩单后，我就一言不发地躺在床上，看着天花板……不知过了多久，门忽然开了，妈妈进来坐在我的身边，不住打量我，突然，妈妈气愤地对我大声吼道：“你赖在床上干什么？你没考好是你自己不用功，这能怪谁……”等妈妈把话说完，我伤心地哭了。
哭累了，把眼泪擦干，我望着慈祥的妈妈。妈妈见我心已冷静下来，她也恢复了本来面目，深情地对我说：“考试的分数固然重要，但你的主观努力更重要，只要你尽力了，你的人生中就没“后悔”两字……”我的眼睛一亮，精神也好了起来，信心又回到我的身上。母爱如风，把我的不良情绪吹得无影无踪，把我的精神吹得倍儿清爽。
When a person is looking at the sky and the Imagination of their own future, he first thought the most it should be their future home. This is like people desperately saving money to buy a house now, like, in fact, people want more than just a simple "nests", but rather a warm home.
This house is a load-bearing, it is not the external show of its meaning, and the important thing is that one of the strong ffection rather than greasy.
When suddenly from the cool breeze, there is always someone put the room quietly shut the doors and windows; quilts ropped my time, there is always someone to help you gently stamped. Worry worry, we will console someone patient; pleasure jubilation when will the blessings of knowing someone. When a glory fell upon us, the first one must be glad that the U.S. are family members; when the U.S. invasion of lonely lonely hearts, the first one to soothe U.S. also must be our family.
当一个人仰望天空，畅想着自己的前程的时候，他第一个想到的最应该是自己未来的家。这就好比现在人们拼命攒钱买房一样，其实人们所要的不仅仅是一个单纯的“巢穴”，而更是一个温暖的家。这处房子是家的承载，它的外在显现不出它的深意，而重要的是其中那浓而不腻的亲情。
凉风忽起的时候，总会有人把房间的门窗悄悄地关上；被子翻掉的时候，总会有人轻轻地帮你盖上。烦恼忧心的时候，会有人耐心的劝慰；欢腾喜悦的时候，会有人会心的`祝福。当一个荣耀降临我们身上的时候，第一个为之庆幸的必是我们的家人；当孤独落寞侵袭我们的心灵的时候，第一个抚慰我们的也必是我们的家人。
英语经典美文翻译 2
Friendship is also one of the greatest pleasures that we can enjoy. it implies loyalty, cordiality,sympathy, affection,and readiness to help. no man can make the most of his life without carefully and conscientiously striving to win the right kind of friends as he goes along.
Knowing how valuable friendship is, we should be very careful in making friends. real friends are those who have good haracter, superior ability and kindness of heart. real friends can share all our sorrows and double all our joys.while making friends, we should take care to select those who have such fine qualities. then we should treat our friends with courtesy, be careful not to interfere unreasonably with them,and not to ridicule their proceedings. we should forgive their failures and do our best to help them. in short, when we have established friendship, we ought to cherish and treasure it by means of words and deeds. only thus, can we develop real friendship and keep the sacred lamp of friendship burning all our life.
友谊又是我们可以享受的最大乐趣之一。友谊蕴含真诚、热忱、怜悯、挚爱和乐于助人之意。在人的一生中，如果不认真谨慎地力求交结正直的朋友，他就不能从生活中获得最大益处。
懂得了友谊是多么宝贵之后，就应谨慎地选择朋友。真正的朋友品性良好，能力上等，心地善良;真正的朋友能分担我们的忧伤，倍增我们的欢乐。交友之时，要谨慎选择具有这样美好品质的人。然后应以礼待友，当心不要无理地妨碍他们，不嘲笑他们的所作所为。我们应原谅朋友的失败，并尽己所能帮助他们。 简言之，建立了友谊之后，要通过言语和行动来珍惜友谊，像爱护宝物一样爱惜友谊。只有这样，才能发展真正的友谊，让神圣的友谊之灯照亮我们一生。
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——晨读英语经典美文优选【1】篇
晨读英语经典美文 1
An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
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 sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.
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——英语美文经典(一)份
英语美文经典 1
When I was younger, before the reality of actually being a mom showed up with the birth of my first daughter, Madison, I had visionary ideas of the kind of mother I would be and the kind of environment I would raise my children in. Since Madison"s birth about eleven years ago, I have long given up any illusions about a perfectly immaculate and tidy house with an alphabetized pantry, clothes hung in idyllic wardrobes, fresh flower arrangements on tabletops and Martha Stewart dinners. I gave up sophomoric ideals of calmly chaperoning my children to ballet, soccer, gymnastics and play group, not to mention all the volunteer work I would do at the PTA, the library and the Mommy-and-Me classes. I was going to make artistic little cookies and cupcakes, snowmen on paper plates with cotton balls, valentines from doilies and - of course - handmade Halloween costumes.
As we all know, life doesn"t always turn out the way we envision it. It doesn"t mean that life is bad. In fact, more often than not, what we get is much better than we envision, but it is different. Instead of being an at-home mom, I work full-time and commute about four hours a day. With my schedule, it"s impossible to do all the parenting things I used to envision. I wouldn"t change the way things are, though. I love my job, and it"s a "me" thing. However, I still feel it"s important to do a lot of the other "mommy" things. My cookies aren"t artistic, but I do make them. I don"t cook like Martha Stewart, but I do make dinner on occasion. I have no idea what to do with paper plates, doilies or cotton balls, but I can draw a darn good butterfly tattoo with a gel pen.
Halloween is a big holiday for my kids, especially Madison, now eleven years old. Still, I have always felt bad that I never made her a costume. She"s always had great costumes, but I mean really "make" one - you know, with fabric, patterns, string and needles. For Christmas last year, Madison received a sewing machine (she"s much more domestic than I). This year, I decided I would make at least part of her costume. Madison wanted to be Lucilla, the emperor"s sister from Gladiator. We found the dress and accessories without a problem, but then she decided she wanted a cape. That"s when my life became hell.
When Madison said she wanted me to make her a cape, I was thrilled. I could make it, and it would be easy. Slap two pieces of material together, give it a tie and, voilà, you have a cape and a daughter who thinks you"re "the bomb."
My first mistake was taking Madison with me to the fabric store and letting her pick the pattern and fabrics. I couldn"t have possibly known that it was a mistake because I have never sewn a thing in my life and don"t have a clue what a pattern does, how it works or what it means. However, after finding myself capable of threading the machine (albeit with the instruction manual) after a mere four hours, I felt like a pro.
Madison picked out what I thought was a lovely cape pattern. I didn"t know what any of the number things meant on the package, so I just gave it to the nice lady at the really big cutting table and asked her to measure out the correct amounts of fabrics. Madison chose a cranberry velour for the outside of the cape and a cheery purple satin for the lining. When the nice lady at the really big cutting table measured out fourteen yards of fabric, I thought she was being generous so we could make a bedspread or tent or something with the leftovers.
I woke up early Sunday morning thinking I could surprise Madison by making the cape before church, which I was absolutely determined to get to. I pulled out the pattern. Hmm. Lots of puzzle-like pieces. Must be what they call "pattern pieces." They were numbered, which was good. Any moron can figure out that you put 1 with 2, 2 with 3, 3 with 4. I just hadn"t counted on 9 with 10, 15 with 16. It took me two hours to cut out the "pattern pieces" and another two hours to pin them to the fabric. I was running short on time. I didn"t want to miss church, but I couldn"t leave what I"d started where I started it. I had to move furniture in the living room to lay all the fabric out, and I could just imagine the fun my three-year-old would have if she woke up and saw it just waiting for her to play on. I said a quick prayer, asked for God"s forgiveness for missing church, and prayed there was a sewing saint to help me out. A little less than four hours later, I had the fabric cut and the first seam pinned together. I had no idea what the little black diamond things meant. I decided the pattern artist just put them there to make novices feel stupid. I ignored them. It was time to start sewing. By Sunday evening, I had the seams of the outside of the cape stitched neatly together. I figured I could wrap up the rest of the cape on Monday evening.
Monday evening, I raced home from work to get working on the cape. All I had to do was the lining and the hood and stitch everything together and hem it. Madison was so cute. She stayed in the room with me, trying to help as much as I would let her. She was so patient and smiled the whole time. I thought back to when I was her age. I would have been thinking about how pretty I would look in my costume and have fanciful imaginations about actually being the person I was portraying. I could tell from looking at Madison"s face that she was in the same dreamlike state. At that moment I thought, No matter how much work and time this takes, the look on Madison"s face is worth it. That"s about when things started going downhill.
I stitched the lining together without a hitch. I was thrilled. I laid out the velour, then laid out the lining on top of it, certain that putting the two together would be a snap. Madison"s face changed. "Mom, I think something"s wrong with that." She was pointing to the lining. I didn"t see it at first. And then my heart sank. I had sewn the eight panels of the lining right side up, wrong side up, right side up, wrong side up. I had to rip the whole thing apart and do it all over. I let out of stream of epithets that would make a sailor proud and ended with "damn cape."
Madison, bless her, said, "Mom, it"s okay. Just leave it. It"s just the lining. No one will see it." I gave her a hug. I think if Madison were anyone else, I would have left it, but I had seen the look on her face when she was thinking about how pretty she would look when she was dressed up, and I wanted it to be perfect for her. At least as perfect as I could make it. You see, Madison is a cancer survivor. She had cancer treatments, a bone marrow transplant and lots of complications suck up a majority of the last four years of her life. As far as I"m concerned, she has compromised enough. And I could do better than a badly sewn lining. That didn"t mean my language cleaned up much, but I did manage to rip the lining apart and get it re-sewn correctly . . . I think. It was almost midnight. I put the damn cape away for Tuesday.
I raced home from work on Tuesday, determined to finish the damn cape. I laid out the velour and the lining on top of it. I started pinning the two sides together. I think I figured out why I was supposed to cut those little black darts. I think maybe that"s what is used as a kind of guide to piece the pieces together. Maybe the pattern artist really wasn"t an evil person with an intelligence complex. I would remember that next time. Had to make do for now.
I don"t claim to know anything about fabric, but I have no doubt that the combination of velour and satin is about the most unfriendly combination you can encounter. The velour rolls up, you can"t find a straight line, the satin slips around everywhere. In fact, I think it"s an ideal way to torture hardened criminals. I don"t know how many hours it took me to pin the thing together, but my repertoire of profanity developed at an envious rate, always ending in "damn cape." Madison just sat with me patiently. I think she was praying - if not for the damn cape, for me not to go to hell for all the swearing.
Finally pinned, it was late, and I knew I wasn"t going to finish the cape, but I wanted to at least stitch the outside seams together. The fabric was so heavy and unwieldy, Madison had to help me. I slipped (okay, shoved) the first corner under the footer thing on the sewing machine and pressed the pedal. I had sewn about six inches when the machine stopped. I stepped on the pedal again . . . and again . . . and again. Nothing. I tried flipping buttons and knobs. I tried plugs. I tried the fuse box. Nothing. I then took swearing to a whole new art form, crescendoing at levels that Pavarotti would never attain, ending yet again with "damn cape." I threw the cape on the counter and went to bed.
Wednesday morning, I e-mailed my dear friend, Jo, who is an incredible seamstress and knows things about machinery. She e-mailed me back, "DON"T PANIC. We can do it at my house Friday night." That didn"t satisfy me. I called her at work. "IT"S TOO LATE! I"M ALREADY PANICKING!" She laughed at me. I swore at her and hung up.
Even though I was at work, my head was on the damn cape. And the sewing machine. I couldn"t imagine that it was broken after less than a year. Singer was going to get an all-fired-up letter from me with a good resounding "what for"! I found myself in the copy center at work, moaning and whining about the sewing machine and the cape fiasco. Jose, our wonderful copy center person, was there. Jose is a quiet guy. He often knows a lot more about a lot of things than people think, but he never says anything. He had "a look." (I thought if Jose knows more about that sewing machine than I do, I"ll wear a tiara and call myself Diana. I"ll be shopping for my tiara this weekend.) As it turns out, Jose used to fix sewing machines. Go figure. He said the velour fuzz had probably gummed up the machine and told me what to look for. He said if that didn"t work to bring it to work with me on Thursday and he would fix it.
I raced home from work on Wednesday and ran to the sewing machine. I pulled it apart and blew it all out. There sure was a lot of cranberry-colored stuff in there. I put the machine back together and gave it a test run. It worked! God bless Jose. In less than two hours I had the cape stitched together, complete with hood, and hemmed. It is a far cry from perfect and there"s no threat that Armani is going to try to lure me, but it is complete and Madison is happy with it. It"s huge. In fact, I think when Madison is done with it I"m going to use it as a car cover.
I like that I was able to make my daughter"s costume, in spite of, or maybe because of, the frustrations. The joy on her face was priceless, as was the time we spent together making it. There were also a lot of wonderful lessons. I taught my daughter all the words she shouldn"t use and their proper use. I learned that after thirty-seven years, I still don"t have any patience, and God still isn"t tired of trying to teach it to me. I learned that the little black diamonds are important and that not everyone is evil. I learned that the people you least expect it from can be your best resources. I learned that there is nothing more important, more rewarding, closer to heaven than being a mom . . . even if your name isn"t Martha Stewart.
My house is now completely trashed. My three-year-old has been without a bath for four days and naked most of that time. There are at least a dozen loads of laundry that need to be cleaned. I don"t remember when I checked the mailbox last. I should probably attend to these things now that the cape is finished. . . . Or I could just curl up with my babies under the damn cape.