新东方英语美文背诵十篇(4)
生而为赢新东方英语背诵美文篇
第一篇：青年青春青年青年是不是一个时间的生活,它是一种精神状态,这是不是一个问题,美丽的脸颊,红嘴唇,膝盖和补充;这是一个问题的意志,品质的想象力,活力,情绪;这是新鲜的深层温泉的生活.青年是指气质为主的勇气超过胆怯,食欲探险超过爱安心.这往往存在于一名男子60多一名男童20 .没有人成长岁只是数年.我们的成长岁的遗弃我们的理想.年5月起皱的皮肤,但放弃的积极性皱纹的灵魂.忧虑,恐惧,自我不信任的弓箭心脏和原来的精神,回到尘埃.是否在60岁或16 ,有在每个人的心的诱惑奇迹,有力的胃口什么的未来和喜悦的游戏生活.在中心你的心和我的心,有一个无线站;只要它接收邮件的美感,希望,勇气和力量,从人与从无限的,只要你是年轻人.当您的天线下降,和您的精神是涵盖与犬儒主义的雪和冰的悲观情绪,那么您老,甚至在第20条;但只要您的天线是,要赶上浪潮乐观,有希望您可能会死在青年80 .第二篇：三天看到摘编假如给我三天光明节选三天来见大家都看过扣人心弦的故事,在其中的英雄,只有有限的和特定的生存时间.有时是,只要一年,有时短24小时.但我们总是有兴趣的发现只是如何注定的英雄,选择花费他的最后几天或其去年小时.我发言,当然,免费的男子谁是有选择的,而不是谴责罪犯,其活动范围是严格分隔.这样的故事设定我们的思想,想知道我们应该做的在类似情况下.什么活动,有什么经验,什么协会,我们应把这些人群的最后小时作为凡人的人,有什么遗憾有时候,我以为这将是一个良好的法治生活的每一天,因为如果我们死的明天.这种态度想强调的急剧的价值观生活.我们应该生活每一天与温柔,充满活力和敏锐性的赞赏,这往往是失去了当时间伸展摆在我们面前的不断全景更多天,几个月和几年来.有这些,当然,谁会采取伊壁鸠鲁的座右铭：“吃,喝,和欢乐” .但大多数人会chastened由确定性,即将死亡. 在故事注定的英雄,通常储存在最后一分钟由一些中风的财富,但几乎总是他的价值观念是改变.他变得更加欣赏生命的意义,及其常设精神价值观.人们常常指出,这些谁住,或者住了,在死亡的阴影,带来圆润甜美的一切,他们这样做.我们大多数人,然而,生活是理所当然的事.我们知道,一天,我们必须死,但通常我们图片那一天就在未来的.当我们在蓬勃的健康,死亡,是所有,但难以想象的.我们很少想到它.日子舒展,在永无止境的Vista中.所以我们去了解我们的小任务,很难知道我们listless的人生态度.同时,嗜睡,我恐怕,特点,使用我们所有的院系和感官.只有聋人欣赏听证会,只有盲人,实现多方面的祝福,整装待发的迹象.尤其是,这是否观察适用于那些谁失去了视线和听觉在成人生活.但那些谁从来没有遭受损害的视线或听觉很少最充分地利用这些得天独厚学院.他们的眼睛和耳朵,采取在所有的景象和声音hazily ,浓度和很少赞赏.这是同样的老故事,不被感谢我们,直到我们失去它,不被意识到的健康,直到我们生病的.我常常以为这将是一个祝福,如果每个人都是受灾盲聋了数日,在一些时间在他早期的成年生活.黑暗将使他更欣赏的视线;沉默会教导他的乐趣健全.第三篇：同伴的书籍以书为伴节选同伴的书籍一名男子可能通常被称为由他的书籍内容,以及该公司的他不断;有一个同伴的书籍,以及男子和一应永远活在最好的公司,无论是书籍,或男人. 一本好书,可能是其中最好的朋友.它是相同的今天,它一直是,并将永远不会改变.这是最耐心和开朗的同伴.它没有背弃后,我们在时代的逆境或困扰.它总是得到我们同样的爱心;有趣的指示,我们在青年,并安慰和安慰我们的年龄.男子往往发现他们的亲和力,对方由互爱,他们有一本书,正如两个人有时会发现一个朋友所钦佩,双方娱乐为三分之一.有是一个古老的谚语, '爱我,爱我的狗“ ,但有更多的智慧在这：”爱我,爱我的书“这本书是一个真实的和更高的债券的联盟.男人可以认为,觉得,和同情对方,通过他们喜爱的作者.他们住在他在一起,他在他们.一本好书,往往是最好的金塔的生活,体现了最好的生活,可以认为;为世界的一个人的生命是,对于大多数的一部分,但世界上,他的想法.因此,最好的书籍是国库券的好话,黄金的思考,其中,紧记和珍视,成为我们不断的同伴和棉被.书籍具有不朽的本质.他们是迄今最持久的产品,人类的努力.寺庙和雕像衰变,但图书的生存空间.时间是没有帐户的伟大思想,这是由于新鲜的今天,当他们第一次通过其作者的思想,年龄前.当时说,和思想仍操给我们生动地比以往任何时候都来自于印刷页.唯一的作用时间已筛选出坏的产品;没有在文学可以长期生存, e ,但什么是真正好的.书籍介绍我们进入了最好的社会,他们为我们带来到在场的最大的头脑,有以往任何时候都住.我们听到他们说什么,做;我们看到作为,如果他们真的活着,我们同情他们,享有与他们,与他们伤心;他们的经验,成为我们,我们觉得如果我们在一项措施,行动者与他们在的场面,他们形容.大和良好的不死,甚至在这个世界上.在经过防腐处理的书籍,他们的精神,走国外.这本书是一个生活的声音.这是一个理智而对仍然听.第四篇：如果我休息,我锈病如果我休息,我就会生锈如果我休息,我锈病显着的题词上发现一岁的关键--- “如果我休息,我锈” ---将是一个极好的座右铭,对于谁是折磨丝毫无所事事.即使是最勤奋的人可能会采用与优势,充当一个提醒,如果一让他学系的休息,就像铁在未使用的关键,他们将尽快迹象显示锈病,并最终不能做这项工作所需的他们.这些谁将达到高峰,并达成了所保存的伟人,必须保持其学院的抛光由不断的使用,使他们可以解锁的门知识,大门警卫的入口,专业,科学,艺术,文学,农业- -每一个部门的人力奋斗.业不断光明的钥匙打开库房的成就.如果休米勒,劳苦后,所有天在一个石矿场,专门讨论了他晚上休息与娱乐的,他决不会已成为着名的地质学家.着名数学家,何厚铧石料,决不会出版的数学字典,从来没有发现的关键科学的数学,如果他当时考虑到他的备件时刻闲置,小苏格兰法援署,弗格森,让繁忙的脑去睡眠的同时,他倾向羊就在山坡上,而是计算的立场星由一连串的珠子,他决不会已成为着名的天文学家.劳动vanquishes全部---不inconstant ,痉挛,或虐待的指示,劳动,但忠诚,不懈的,每日的努力良好的指示的目的.正如真正作为永恒的警惕的是,价格自由,所以是永恒的产业的价格,崇高的和持久的成功.第五篇：雄心抱负野心这是不难想象的世界短的野心.它可能是一种幼稚的世界：同列的要求,无擦伤,没有失望.人们将有时间进行反思.这些工作,因为他们不会为自己,而是集体.竞争永远不会进入英寸冲突会被淘汰,紧张成为过去的事.应力的创作,将在1月底.艺术将不再困扰,但纯粹是在庆祝其职能.长寿将有所增加,较少人会死于心脏病发作或中风所造成的动荡的努力.焦虑会灭绝.时间将牵张对和对,与野心,只要偏离了人类心脏.啊,如何unrelieved沉闷的生活会有一种强烈的认为,认为成功是一个神话,和野心,因此是一种伪装.这是否意味着成功,并不真的存在这一成就是底部是空的该努力的男人和女人是没有意义旁边的力量运动和活动,现在并不是所有的成功,很明显,是值得esteeming ,也不是所有的野心,值得培养.其中,哪些是不是一,尽快足够的学习对一个人的自己.但即使是最玩世不恭的秘密承认,成功的存在;成就计数为大量; ,并认为真正的神话,就是行动的男人和女人是无用的.相信,否则是要在一个角度来看,这是有可能被deranging .这是,在其影响,以消除所有的动机,能力,兴趣,程度,并顾及后代.我们不选择出生.我们不选择我们的父母.我们不选择我们的历史时代,我们的国家的诞生,或立即的情况下,我们的成长过程.我们不这样做,而我们大多数人,选择模具;也不是我们选择的时间或条件,我们的死亡.但在这一切的境界choicelessness ,我们做的选择如何,我们将生活：勇敢地或在胆小,非常严重或dishonorably ,与目的或在漂移.我们决定什么是重要的,什么是琐碎的生活中.我们决定什么,使我们重要的是,无论我们做什么或有什么我们拒绝这样做.但无论怎样漠不关心,宇宙可能是我们的选择和决定,这些选择和决定是我们作出的.我们决定.我们所选择的.当我们决定和选择,所以我们的生活形成.在年底,形成我们自己的命运是什么野心,是有关.第六篇：我住了我为何而生我所住3激情,简单,但以压倒多数强,管治我的人生：渴望爱情,寻求知识,和无法忍受的很可惜,为人类的苦难.这些激情,就像伟大的风,已吹我hither 和thither ,在一个任性的过程中,有超过一深海的痛苦,达到以非常濒临绝望.我曾寻求爱情,首先,因为它带来的狂喜---摇头丸如此巨大,我想,往往牺牲了所有休息,我的生活,为几个小时,这喜悦.我已要求,明年,因为它解除孤独---这种可怕的孤独感在哪一个寒战的意识,看起来比辋世界陷入冷战深奥的生命的深渊.我已要求它,最后,由于在联盟爱我所看到的,在一个神秘的缩影, prefiguring的远景天堂说,圣人和诗人想象.这是我的要求,虽然它可能似乎不太好,为人类生命,这是什么---在过去---我发现.与平等的激情,我寻求知识.我希望了解男人的心.我想知道,为什么星级服务.我曾试图逮捕毕达哥拉斯的权力,其中有多少持有上述摆动通量.一点点,但没有太大的,我所取得的成绩.爱情和知识,直至目前为止,因为他们有可能导致向上对老天爷.但总是它给我带来了返回地球.回声的呼声,疼痛回荡在我心中.儿童在饥荒的受害者,饱受压迫,无奈的老人们一讨厌的负担,他们的儿子,和整个世界的孤独,贫困和痛苦,使嘲弄了什么人的生命应该的. i长,以纾缓邪恶,但我不能,我也受到影响.这一直是我的生命.我发现它的价值生活,并且会愉快地生活,这再次,如果有机会提供了我.第七篇：当爱召唤你爱的召唤当爱召唤你当爱召唤你,追随他,虽然他的方法是很难和陡峭.而当他的翅膀enfold你,产量他说,虽然剑隐藏他的小齿轮,可你的伤口.而当他发言的你,相信在他身上,虽然他的声音可能会打破你的梦想随着北风奠定了废物的花园. 即使作为冠爱你,所以应他钉死你.甚至,因为他是为您的增长,所以是他为您的修剪.即使他ascends ,以你的身高和caresses您tenderest分行颤抖在阳光下,所以他应下降到我们的根基,动摇他们在他们死抱着向地球.但是,如果在您的恐惧,你会寻求只有爱的和平与爱的乐趣,那是更好地为你支付您的裸,并通过走出爱的脱粒地板,到seasonless世界里,您应笑,但并非所有您的笑声,和流泪,但不是所有的眼泪.爱给化为乌有,但自我,并采取化为乌有,但由本身.爱不是拥有,也不会应具备的,爱情是有足够的祂的爱.爱没有别的愿望,但履行本身.但如果你的爱,必须有欲望,让这些成为您的愿望：融化和像运行布鲁克说,唱,其旋律,以夜.知道的痛苦,太多的温情.被打伤自己的理解爱;和流血乐意和高兴.唤醒在晨曦与翼心,并给予感谢另一天的爱好;休息,在中午十二时小时和冥想爱情的迷魂药;回国在eventide与感谢;然后睡眠与付款人为心爱的在你的心和一首歌赞美后,您的嘴唇.第八篇：成功之路成功之道成功之路这是清楚,年轻男性应开始在开始占领大部分下属的立场.很多的商界翘楚匹兹堡产生了严重的责任强加于他们在非常的门槛,他们的职业生涯.他们介绍给扫帚,用第一时间,他们的业务的生命清扫出办公室.我发觉我们有校工和janitresses现在在办公室,而我们的年轻男子不幸的小姐说,有益的分行业务教育.但如果有机会的专业清扫是缺席任何今天上午,该名男童谁拥有天才对未来的合作伙伴,他会毫不犹豫地尝试他的手在扫帚.它没有伤害了最新的后起之秀,以扫出办公室,如果必要的.我是其中一人前往扫墓自己.假设您都得到了就业和相当开始,我的意见,给你的是“目的是高” .我不会给予一个图,为青年男子谁不已经看到自己的合作伙伴或头部的一个重要的坚定.不休息,内容为一的时刻,您的想法,担任秘书,或工头,或总经理在任何关注,无论有多广泛.对自己说, “我的地方是在最上方. ”国王在您的梦想.这里是首要条件,成功的,伟大的秘密：集中您的能源,思想,和资本的专门业务后,在您所从事的.经开始在一路线,斗争的决心,这列于该行,率先推动资讯科技,采取一切改善,有最好的机械,及知道最关心的.的关注,不能是那些有分散他们的资本,这意味着他们已分散开动脑筋也.他们投资在这方面,或,或其他,在这里有,无处不在. “不要把所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里”是所有错误的.我告诉你“把您所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里,然后观赏认为,篮子里. ”你看你一轮,并采取公告,男人谁这样做,往往不是失败.这是很容易观赏进行一个篮子里.这是试图进行太多的篮子打破最鸡蛋在这个国家.他谁进行三箩必须把一对他的头部,这是容易跌倒和绊他.一故障的美国商人是缺乏浓度.总结我刚才所说的：目的为最高;从未进入一个酒吧客房;不涉及酒,或者如果在所有只在用膳;从未猜测;从未indorse超越您的现金盈余公积金;使该公司的利益,您的网站;打破常规总是以节省业主;精矿;付诸表决,您所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里,和手表篮子;开支,总是收入;最后,没有不耐烦,因为艾默生说, “没有人可以欺骗你的最终成功,但自己“ .第九篇：对会议的着名的论见名人关于会议庆祝我一直想知道,在激情的很多人都以满足庆祝.威信您获得由能够告诉你的朋友,您知道着名的男子,证明只有你自己的小帐户.着名的发展技术,以处理有关人士,他们碰到.他们向世界展示的面具,常常是一个令人印象深刻的,但照顾,以掩盖其真正的守土有责.他们发挥的一部分,这是预计从他们,并学习和实践的结合上发挥非常好,但你是愚蠢的,如果你认为这公众的表现,他们的对应与该名男子内.我已受到重视,深刻的重视,极少数人,但我一直有兴趣的男性,一般不为自己的sakes ,而是为了我的工作.我也没有,正如康德责成,把每个人看作是目的本身,但作为材料,可能是有用的,我作为一个作家.我一直比较关心的与模糊比与着名的.他们更经常自己.他们有没有需要创建一个数字,以保护自己免受世界,或留下深刻的印象.其特色有更多发展机会在有限的循环,他们的活动,因为他们从来没有在公众心目中,它从来没有发生向他们表示,他们有什么要隐瞒.他们展示他们的宠物频道,因为它从来没有击中他们,他们是奇怪的.毕竟,这是与共同运行的男性作家,我们要处理的;国王,独裁者,商业巨头,是从我们的角度来看十分不理想.写他们是一个有风险的诱惑下,往往作家,但失败出席了他们的努力显示,这种人太特殊,形成一个适当的理由,一个艺术作品.他们不能作出真实的.一般是作者的丰富的领域.其unexpectedness ,其奇异性,其无限的各种负担无休止的材料.伟大的男子往往是所有的一块,这是很少的男子,这是一捆矛盾的要素.他是取之不尽,用之不竭的.你永远告一段落的惊喜,他在商店为您.我的一部分,我想迟早得多花了一个月在了荒岛上与兽医比与总理.第十篇： 50 ％的理论生活生活理论半对半50 ％ ,理论的生命我相信,在50 ％的理论.有一半时间的东西,均优于正常;另一半,他们重新恶化.我相信生命是一个钟摆进行得如火如荼.它需要时间和经验,明白什么是正常的,这使我的角度来处理这个令人吃惊的未来.让的基准参数：好的,我会死.我已经处理死亡父母双方的,一个最好的朋友,心爱的老板和珍惜的宠物.一些这些死亡已被暴力之前,我的眼睛,或缓慢和痛苦.坏的东西,和它所属的在底部的规模.然后有一些高点：爱情和婚姻的权利人;有一个孩子,做这些事情,爸爸想教练我儿子的棒球队,划周围的河船民,而他的游泳与狗,发现他同情心如此之深,它体现了即使在他的爱心,以蜗牛,他的想象,所以他生动,建立了飞船从一个分散的桩legos .但有一个广阔的草甸的生活,在中东,那里的恶劣和良好的触发器acrobatically .这是什么说服我相信,在50 ％的理论.1春季种植玉米太早在一个bottomland ,使洪水易发说,邻居笑了起来.我觉得chagrined在徒劳.夏天把残酷的---最严重的热浪和干旱在我的一生.该空气调节死亡;以及到干;婚姻结束;的工作失去了;钱了.我是生活的歌词,从一个国家的调子---音乐i loathed .只是一个波澜壮阔的堪萨斯城皇家队的精神鼓舞我.回看这可怕的夏天,我很快明白,所有成功的好东西,只是抵消坏.更糟的较正常,不会持续太久.我欠和品尝halcyon倍.该重振我为下一恶劣感到惊讶和提供保证,可以蓬勃发展. 50 ％的理论,甚至帮助我看到希望出乎我的皇家最近不景气,一领域的挣扎新人播种面积,使一些年,我们可以尽快获得1 10月的收获季节.为表示对起泡夏天,地面水分是恰恰好,种植早期允许授粉前热枯萎毛条,以及缺乏有雨不遗余力常委会玉米从洪水.冬季我的婴儿床溢出,用玉米---刘皇发议员,健康的三至一秸秆的耳朵充满内核从足跟,以提示---而我的邻居'领域取得了只有布朗,空husks .虽然种植,过去可能有跌破50 ％的期望,他们可能会再次在未来的日子,我仍然持续由作物盛行期间干旱.第十一篇：什么是您的回收率你的恢复速率是多少什么是您的回收率什么是您的回收率需时多久,你收回,从行动和行为扰乱你呢分钟小时天周花费的时间越长,你收回,更大的影响力这件事对您的行动,以及能力稍逊你要执行到您的个人最好成绩.在简单来说,花费的时间越长,你收回,较弱的你是和你们的表现较差.你也知道,您需要演习,以保持身体的适当人选,毫无疑问,接受一个合理的措施,健康是速度,在您的心脏和呼吸系统复苏后行使.同样,更快,你放过一个问题,扰乱你,你快回到一个平衡,健康,你会.最好的例子,这种现象是找到与专业运动员.他们知道,更快,他们能够忘记的事件或missd的机会,并获得对与游戏,更好的表现.事实上,大部分的措施,所花费的时间他们能够克服和忘记的事件,在游戏和最估计,回收率30秒太长了想象自己是一个演员在一出戏舞台上.您的目的是要发挥你的一部分,以最好的你的能力.您已获得一个脚本,并在每年年底的一句是一个完整停止.每一次你得把句末的你开始一个新的,虽然未来句是有关过去,这是不会受它.你的任务是提供每一句话,最好的你的能力.不活你的生活在过去学习生活在当前,要克服过去.停止过去从影响您的日常生活.不容许的思考过去,以减少您的个人最好成绩.停止过去干预你的生活.学习,以尽快复苏.请记住：罗马不是一天造成.反映在您的回收率每一天.每天前,你到床,看看你的进展.不在于在床上,说给你, “我这样做是错误的. ” “我应该做的更好. ”号看看你的天,并注意当您作出了努力,设立一个句号后一事件.这是一个成功的.您正在服用的控制自己的生活.请记住,这是一个循序渐进的过程.这不是一个化妆.你的承诺,真正的改变在这里.您的目的：减少所花的时间复苏.前进的道路呢生活在现在.在没有先例.第十二篇：清除您的心理空间清理心灵的空间清除您的心理空间想一想,最后一次在你感到一种负面情绪---想强调,愤怒,或沮丧.发生什么事情,通过您的想法正如你正在经历认为,负是您的想法凌乱与思考或者是它瘫痪,无法想呢下一次当您发现自己在中东的一个非常紧张的时间,或者你感到愤怒或沮丧,停止.没错,就是那个的权利,停止.无论您正在做的,停止静坐一分钟.当您坐在那里,完全自己浸泡在负面情绪.让情感消费你.让自己一分钟,真正感到激动.不要欺骗自己,在这里.采取整个分钟---但只有一分钟---什么也不做,否则,但觉得感情.当分钟以上,请问问自己, “我wiling保持控股就以这种消极的情绪,正如我经过休息的一天”一旦您让自己完全沉浸在激动和真的下跌它,你会惊讶地发现,情感清除较快.如果您觉得有必要举行,以情感为长一点,即是确定.让自己的另一分钟感受的情绪.当您觉得有足够的情感,问问自己,如果您愿意进行这否定性与你其余的一天.如果不是,采取深呼吸.正如你呼出,释放所有被认为否定性与您的呼吸.这项工作似乎很简单---几乎是太简单了.但是,这是非常有效的.由容许负性情绪的空间,才能真正感受到,你是处理与情感,而非馅下来,并尝试不觉得.你其实是走的权力的情感给它的空间和重视的需要.当您自己浸泡在情感,并认识到这是唯一的情感,它失去了控制.您可以清除您的头部及处理您的任务.尝试它.下一次您在中东的一个负面情绪,给自己空间的感觉和情感看看会发生什么情况.保持在一张纸上你的说法,说以下几点：停止.浸泡1分钟.我要保持这个负深呼气,呼出,释放.动议对。
新东方美文诵读30篇
·第一篇：Youth青春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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of60more than a boy of20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry,fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether60or16,there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders,the unfailing appetite for 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,courage and power from man and from the infinite,so long as you are young.When your aerials are down,and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,then you’ve grown old,even at20;but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism,there’s hope you may die young at80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year,sometimes as short as24hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak,of course,of free men who have a choice,not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking,wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events,what experiences,what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings,what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentleness,vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those,of course,who would adopt the Epicurean motto of“Eat,drink,and be merry”.But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune,but almost always his sense of values is changed.He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live,or have lived,in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us,however,take life for granted.We know that one day we must die,but usually we picture that day as far in the future.When we are in buoyant health,death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endless vista.So we go about our petty tasks,hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy,I am afraid,characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing,only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight.Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties.Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily,without concentration and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it,of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blindand deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books以书为伴（节选）A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps;for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;and one should always live in the best company,whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends.It is the same today that it always was,and it will never change.It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always receives us with the same kindness;amusing and instructing us in youth,and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third.There is an old proverb,‘Love me,love my dog.”But there is more wisdom in this:”Love me,love my book.”The book is a truer and higher bond of union.Men can think,feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is,for the most part,but the world of his thoughts.Thus the best books are treasuries of good words,the golden thoughts,which,remembered and cherished,become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.Temples and statues decay,but books survive.Time is of no account with great thoughts,which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds,ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products;for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society;they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.We hear what they said and did;we see the as if they were really alive;we sympathize with them,enjoy with them,grieve with them;their experience becomes ours,and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die,even in this world.Embalmed in books,their spirits walk abroad.The book is a living voice.It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust如果我休息，我就会生锈The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest,I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that,if one allows his faculties to rest,like the iron in the unused key,they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately,cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use,so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge,the gate that guard the entrances to the professions,to science,art,literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry,had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation,he would never have become a famous geologist.The celebrated mathematician,Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary,never have found the key to science of mathematics,if he had given his spare moments to idleness,had the little Scotch lad,Ferguson,allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads,he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant,spasmodic,or ill-directed labor;but faithful, unremitting,daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition抱负It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition.It would probably be a kinder world:with out demands,without abrasions,without disappointments.People would have time for reflection.Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the petition would never enter in.conflict would be eliminated,tension become a thing of the past.The stress of creation would be at an end.Art would no longer be troubling,but purely celebratory in its functions.Longevity would be increased,for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor.Anxiety would be extinct.Time would stretch on and on,with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah,how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth,and ambition therefore a sham.Does this mean that success does not really exist?That achievement is at bottom empty?That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success,obviously,is worth esteeming,nor all ambition worth cultivating.Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own.But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging.It is,in its implications,to remove all motives for competence,interest in attainment,and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not choose our historical epoch,the country of our birth,or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.We do not,most of us,choose to die;nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death.But within all this realm of choicelessness,we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice,honorably or dishonorably,with purpose or in drift.We decide what is important and what is trivial in life.We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do.But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions,these choices and decisions are ours to make.We decide.We choose.And as we decide and choose,so are our lives formed.In the end,forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for我为何而生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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You爱的召唤When love beckons to you,follow him,though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you,yield to him,though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you,believe in him,though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if,in your fear,you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,but not all of your laughter,and weep,but not all of your tears.Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself.Love possesses not,nor would it be possessed,for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.But if you love and must have desires,let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success成功之道It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions.Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.They were introduced to the broom,and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office.I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices,and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education.But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning,the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom.It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary.I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started,my advice to you is“aim high”.I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm.Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk,or foreman,or general manager in any concern,no matter how extensive.Say to yourself,“My place is at the top.”Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success,the great secret:concentrate your energy, thought,and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.Having begun in one line,resolve to fight it out on that line,to lead in it,adopt every improvement, have the best machinery,and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital,which means that they have scattered their brains also.They have investments in this,or that,or the other,here there,and everywhere.“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”is all wrong.I tell you to“put all your eggs in one basket,and then watch that basket.”Look round you and take notice,men who do that not often fail.It is easy to watch and carry the one basket.It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.He who carries three baskets must put one on his head,which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said:aim for the highest;never enter a bar room;do not touch liquor,or if at all only at meals;never speculate;never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund;make the firm’s interest yours;break orders always to save owners; concentrate;put all your eggs in one basket,and watch that basket;expenditure always within revenue;lastly,be not impatient,for as Emerson says,“no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated论见名人I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across.They show the world a mask,often an impressive on,but take care to conceal their real selves.They play the part that is expected from them,and with practice learn to play it very well,but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached,deeply attached,to a few people;but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes,but for the sake of my work.I have not,as Kant enjoined,regarded each man as an end in himself,but as material that might be useful to me as a writer.I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous.They are more often themselves.They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity,and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal.They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd.And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal;kings,dictators,commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory.To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers,but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art.They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writer’s richer field.Its unexpectedness,its singularity,its infinite variety afford unending material.The great man is too often all of a piece;it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.He is inexhaustible.You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The50-Percent Theory of Life生活理论半对半I believe in the50-percent theory.Half the time things are better than normal;the other half,they re worse.I believe life is a pendulum swing.It takes time and experience to understand what normal is,and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters:yes,I will die.I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents,a best friend,a beloved boss and cherished pets.Some of these deaths have been violent,before my eyes,or slow and agonizing.Bad stuff,and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points:romance and marriage to the right person;having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team,paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs,discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails,his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle,where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically.This is what convinces me to believe in the50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed.I felt chagrined at the wasted effort.Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime.The air-conditioned died;the well went dry;the marriage ended;the job lost;the money gone.I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed.Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer,I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad.Worse than normal wouldn’t last long.I am owed and savor the halcyon times.The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive.The50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’recent slump,a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer,the ground moisture was just right,planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops,and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods.That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat,healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors’fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the50-percent expectation,and they probably will again in the future,I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during thedrought.·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate?你的恢复速率是多少？What is your recovery rate?How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you?Minutes?Hours?Days?Weeks?The longer it takes you to recover,the more influence that incident has on your actions,and the less able you are to perform to your personal best.In a nutshell,the longer it takes you to recover,the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and,no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise.Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you,the faster you return to an equilibrium,the healthier you will be.The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople.They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game,the better their performance.In fact,most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of30seconds is too long!Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage.Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability.You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop.Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it.Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don’t live your life in the past!Learn to live in the present,to overcome the past.Stop the past from influencing your daily life.Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best.Stop the past from interfering with your life.Learn to recover quickly.Remember:Rome wasn’t built in a day.Reflect on your recovery rate each day. Every day before you go to bed,look at your progress.Don’t lie in bed saying to you,“I did that wrong.”“I should have done better there.”No.look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident.This is a success.You are taking control of your life.Remember this is a step by step process.This is not a make-over.You are undertaking real change here.Your aim:reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?Live in the present.Not in the precedent.第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space清理心灵的空间Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress,anger,or frustration.What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts?Or was it paralyzed,unable to think?The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time,or you feel angry or frustrated,stop.Yes,that’s right,stop.Whatever you’re doing,stop and sit for one minute.While you’re sitting there,completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you.Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion.Don’t cheat yourself here.Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over,ask yourself,“Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer,that is OK.Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion,ask yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day.If not,take a deep breath.As you exhale,release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple.But,it is very effective.By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt,you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it.You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs.When you immerse yourself in the emotion,and realize that it is only emotion,it loses its control.You can clear your head and proceed with your task.Try it.Next time you’re in the middle of a negative emotion,give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens.Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:Stop.Immerse for one minute.Do I want to keep this negativity?Breath deep,exhale, release.Move on!This will remind you of the steps to the process.Remember;take the time you needto really immerse yourself in the emotion.Then,when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release it---really let go of it.You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do!·第十三篇：Be Happy快乐“The days that make us happy make us wise.”----John Masefieldwhen I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate,it startled me.What did Masefield mean?Without thinking about it much,I had always assumed that the opposite was true.But his sober assurance was arresting.I could not forget it.Finally,I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation.The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception,not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom,and without the blind spots caused by fear.Active happiness---not mere satisfaction or contentment---often comes suddenly,like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud.Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it.The grass is greener;bird songs are sweeter;the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable.Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you.Unhappy,with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes,your vision is cut short as though by a wall.Happy,the wall crumbles.The long vista is there for the seeing.The ground at your feet,the world about you----people,thoughts,emotions,pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion.And here is the beginning of wisdom.·第十四篇：The Goodness of life生命的美好Though there is much to be concerned about,there is far,far more for which to be thankful.Though life’s goodness can at times be overshadowed,it is never outweighed.For every single act that is senselessly destructive,there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love,kindness and compassion.For every person who seeks to hurt,there are many,many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing.。
新东方英语背诵美文30篇
生而为赢——新东方英语背诵美文30篇目录：·第一篇：Youth 青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（接选）·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition 抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗·第十八篇：Solitude 独处·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲（节选）·第一篇：Youth 青春YouthYouth 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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being‟s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you‟ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there‟s hope you may die young at 80.人生匆匆，青春不是易逝的一段。
新东方美文背诵30篇
新东方美文背诵30篇(Born to win)生而为赢--新东方英语背诵美文30篇目录：·第一篇：Y outh 青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition 抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons Y ou 爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半·第十一篇：What is Y our Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？·第十二篇：Clear Y our Mental Space 清理心灵的空间·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗·第十八篇：Solitude 独处·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲（节选）·第一篇：Y outh 青春Y outhY outh 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.Y outh means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Y ears may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being‟s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then yo u‟ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there‟s hope you may die young at 80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）Three Days to SeeAll of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularlydoes this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, …Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man‟s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author‟s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition 抱负AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now notall success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is som ething one soon enough learns on one‟s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree 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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons Y ou 爱的召唤When Love Beckons Y ouWhen love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love‟s peace and love‟s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love‟s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love‟s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses nowin offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your d reams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. “Don‟t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm‟s interest yours; break orders always to save o wners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer. I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal. They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal; kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The o rdinary is the writer‟s richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material. The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. Y ou never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半The 50-Percent Theory of LifeI believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they re worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let‟s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die. I‟ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son‟s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he‟s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioned died; the well went dry; the marriage ended; the job lost; the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn‟t last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive. The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals‟ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors‟ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.·第十一篇：What is Y our Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？What is Y our Recovery Rate?What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.Y ou are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Y our aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. Y ou have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Y our job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don‟t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don‟t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.Remember: Rome wasn‟t built in a day. Reflect on your recovery rate each day. Every day before you go to bed, look at your progress. Don‟t lie in bed saying to you, “I did that wrong.” “I should have done better there.” No. look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident. This is a success. Y ou are taking control of your life. Remember this is a step by step process. This is not a make-over. Y ou are undertaking real change here. Y our aim: reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?Live in the present. Not in the precedent.·第十二篇：Clear Y our Mental Space 清理心灵的空间Clear Y our Mental SpaceThink about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop. Y es, that‟s right, stop. Whatever you‟re doing, stop and sit for one minute. While you‟re sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negat ive emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you. Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion. Don‟t cheat yourself here. Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”Once you‟ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer, that is OK. Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you‟ve had enough of the emotion, ask yourself if you‟re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath. As you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple. But, it is very effective. By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it. Y ou are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs. When you immerse yourself in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its control. Y ou can clear your head and proceed with your task.Try it. Next time you‟re in the middle of a negative emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens. Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:Stop. Immerse for one minute. Do I want to keep this negativity? Breath deep, exhale, release. Move on!This will remind you of the steps to the process. Remember; take the time you need to really immer se yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you‟ve felt it enough, release it---really let。
新东方英语背诵美文30篇
生而为赢——新东方英语背诵美文30篇目录：·第一篇：Youth青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books以书为伴（节选）·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons You爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated论见名人·第十篇：The50-Percent Theory of Life生活理论半对半·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate?你的恢复速率是多少？·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space清理心灵的空间·第十三篇：Be Happy快乐·第十四篇：The Goodness of life生命的美好·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within直面内在的敌人·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style富足的生活方式·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem人生如诗·第十八篇：Solitude独处·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning给生命以意义·第二十篇：Relish the Moment品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty爱美·第二十二篇：The Happy Door快乐之门·第二十三篇：Born to Win生而为赢·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure工作和娱乐·第二十五篇：Mirror,Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams微尘与栋梁·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise十月的日出·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be生存还是毁灭·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address葛底斯堡演说·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts)就职演讲（节选）·第一篇：Youth青春YouthYouth is not a time of life;it is a state of mind;it is not a matter of rosy['rəuzi]蔷薇色的,玫瑰红色的cheeks, red lips and supple['s pl]柔软的,逢迎的,顺从的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 temperamental[,tempərə'mentl]性情的,喜怒无常的predominance[pri'd minəns]卓越,优势,控制of courage over timidity胆小,胆怯,羞怯,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease安乐,安逸,悠闲.This often exists in a man of60more than a boy of20.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry,fear,self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether60or16,there is in every human being’s heart the lure[ljuə]饵,诱惑of wonders,the unfailing child appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite['infinit]无限,so long as you are young.When your aerials['єəriəl]空中的,航空的,空想的are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism ['sinisizəm]犬儒主义玩世不恭，愤世嫉俗；冷嘲热讽and the ice of pessimism['pesimizm]悲观,悲观主义,then you’ve grown old,even at20;but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism,there’s hope you may die young at80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）Three Days to SeeAll of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year,sometimes as short as24hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak, of course,of free men who have a choice,not condemned criminals whose sphere[sfiə]范围,领域,球,球体of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking,wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events,what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal人世间的,致命的,终有一死的beings,what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentleness,vigor and a keenness[ki:n]敏锐；锐利of appreciation which are often lost when timestretches before us in the constant panorama全景of more days and months and years to come.There are those,of course,who would adopt the epicurean[,epikjuə'ri(:)ən]好享乐的,享乐主义的motto of“Eat,drink,and be merry”. But most people would be chastened['t eisən]惩罚；磨炼；抑制by the certainty of impending逼迫的,迫切的,悬空的death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke打击；中风；笔画；冲程；尝试；轻抚of fortune,but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live,or have lived,in the shadow of death bring a mellow成熟的,醇的,熟练的sweetness to everything they do.Most of us,however,take life for granted.We know that one day we must die,but usually we picture that day as far in the future.When we are in buoyant['b iənt]有浮力的；轻快的；上涨的health,death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endlessvista街景,展望,回想.So we go about our petty tasks,hardly aware of our listless无精打采的attitude toward life.The same lethargy['leθəd i]昏睡,瞌睡,无力气,I am afraid,characterizes the use of all our faculties系，学院；才能，能力；全体教员and senses.Only the deaf appreciate hearing,only the blind realize the manifold 多种的,有许多部份的,多方面的blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment损伤(毁损)of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily ['heizi]朦胧地,模糊地,without concentration and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it,of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him thejoys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books以书为伴（节选）Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps;for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;and one should always live in the best company,whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends.It is the same today that it always was,and it will never change.It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness;amusing and instructing us in youth,and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third.There is an old proverb,‘Love me, love my dog.”But there is more wisdom in this:”Love me, love my book.”The book is a truer and higher bond of union.Men can think,feel,and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.They live in him together,and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out;for the world of a man’s life is,for the most part,but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words,the golden thoughts,which,remembered and cherished,become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.Temples and statues decay,but books survive.Time is of no account with great thoughts,which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds,ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products;for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society;they bring us intothe presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did;we see the as if they were really alive;we sympathize with them,enjoy with them, grieve with them;their experience becomes ours,and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die,even in this world.Embalmed in books,their spirits walk abroad.The book is a living voice.It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust如果我休息，我就会生锈If I Rest,I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest,I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that,if one allows his faculties to rest,like the iron in the unused key,they will soon show signs of rust and,ultimately,cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use,so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge,the gate that guard the entrances to the professions,to science,art, literature,agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller,after toiling all day in a quarry,had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist.The celebrated mathematician,Edmund Stone,would never have published a mathematical dictionary,never have found the key to science of mathematics,if he had given his spare moments to idleness,had the little Scotch lad,Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads,he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant,spasmodic,or ill-directed labor;but faithful,unremitting,dailyeffort toward a well-directed purpose.Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition抱负AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world:with out demands, without abrasions,without disappointments.People would have time for reflection.Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the petition would never enter in.conflict would be eliminated,tension become a thing of the past.The stress of creation would be at an end.Art would no longer be troubling,but purely celebratory in its functions.Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor.Anxiety would be extinct.Time would stretch on and on,with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah,how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham.Does this mean that success does not really exist?That achievement is at bottom empty?That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success,obviously,is worth esteeming,nor all ambition worth cultivating.Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own.But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging.It is,in its implications,to remove all motives for competence,interest in attainment,and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch,the country of our birth,or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not,most of us,choose to die;nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death.But within all this realm of choicelessness,we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice,honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.We decide what is important and what is trivial in life.We decide that what makes ussignificant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions,these choices and decisions are ours to make.We decide.We choose.And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed.In the end,forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree 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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You爱的召唤When Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you,follow him,though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you,yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you,believe in him,though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if,in your fear,you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh,but not all of your laughter,and weep,but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but fromitself.Love possesses not,nor would it be possessed,for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.But if you love and must have desires,let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions.Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.They were introduced to the broom,and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office.I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices,and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education.But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning,the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary.I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started,my advice to you is“aim high”.I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm.Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk,or foreman,or general manager in any concern,no matter how extensive.Say to yourself,“My place is at the top.”Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success,the great secret: concentrate your energy,thought,and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.Having begun in one line,resolve to fight it out on that line,to lead in it,adopt every improvement,have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital,which means that they have scattered their brains also.They have investments in this,or that,or the other,here there,and everywhere.“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”is all wrong.I tell you to“put all your eggs in one basket,and then watch that basket.”Look round you and take notice,men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket.It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.He who carries three baskets must put one on his head,which is apt to tumble and trip him up.One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said:aim for the highest;never enter a bar room;do not touch liquor,or if at all only at meals;never speculate;never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund;make the firm’s interest yours;break orders always to save owners;concentrate;put all your eggs in one basket,and watch that basket;expenditure always within revenue;lastly,be not impatient,for as Emerson says,“no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated.The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across.They show the world a mask,often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves.They play the part that is expected from them,and with practice learn to play it very well,but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached,deeply attached,to a few people;but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes,but for the sake of my work.I have not,as Kant enjoined,regarded each man as an end in himself,but as material that might be useful to me as a writer.I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous.They are more often themselves.They have had no need to createa figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity,and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal.They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal;kings,dictators,commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers,but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art.They cannot be made real.The ordinary is the writer’s richer field.Its unexpectedness, its singularity,its infinite variety afford unending material.The great man is too often all of a piece;it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The50-Percent Theory of Life生活理论半对半The50-Percent Theory of LifeI believe in the50-percent theory.Half the time things are better than normal;the other half,they re worse.I believe life is a pendulum swing.It takes time and experience to understand what normal is,and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters:yes,I will die.I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents,a best friend,a beloved boss and cherished pets.Some of these deaths have been violent,before my eyes,or slow and agonizing.Bad stuff,and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points:romance and marriage to the right person;having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team,paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails,his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle,where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically.This is what convinces me to believe in the50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed.I felt chagrined at the wasted effort.Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime.The air-conditioned died;the well went dry;the marriage ended;the job lost;the money gone.I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed.Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer,I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long.I am owed and savor the halcyon times.The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive.The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’recent slump,a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer,the ground moisture was just right,planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops,and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods.That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat,healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors’fields yielded only brown,empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation,and they probably will again in the future,I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate?你的恢复速率是多少？What is Your Recovery Rate?What is your recovery rate?How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you?Minutes? Hours?Days?Weeks?The longer it takes you to recover,the more influence that incident has on your actions,and the less able you are to perform to your personal best.In a nutshell,the longer it takes you to recover,the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and,no doubt,accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise.Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you,the faster you return to an equilibrium,the healthier you will be.The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game,the better their performance.In fact,most measure the time it takes themto overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of30seconds is too long!Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage.Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability.You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop.Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it.Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don’t live your life in the past!Learn to live in the present,to overcome the past.Stop the past from influencing your daily life.Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best.Stop the past from interfering with your life.Learn to recover quickly.Remember:Rome wasn’t built in a day.Reflect on your recovery rate each day.Every day before you go to bed,look at your progress.Don’t lie in bed saying to you,“I did that wrong.”“I should have done better there.”No.look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a fullstop after an incident.This is a success.You are taking control of your life.Remember this is a step by step process.This is not a make-over.You are undertaking real change here.Your aim:reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?Live in the present.Not in the precedent.·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space清理心灵的空间Clear Your Mental SpaceThink about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress,anger,or frustration.What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity?Was your mind cluttered with thoughts?Or was it paralyzed,unable to think?The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time,or you feel angry or frustrated,stop.Yes, that’s right,stop.Whatever you’re doing,stop and sitfor one minute.While you’re sitting there,completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you.Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion.Don’t cheat yourself here.Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over,ask yourself,“Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it,you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer,that is OK.Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion,ask yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity withyou for the rest of the day.If not,take a deep breath. As you exhale,release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple.But,it is very effective.By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt,you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it.You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs.When you immerse yourself in the emotion,and realize that it is only emotion,it loses its control.You can clear your head and proceed with your task.Try it.Next time you’re in the middle of a negative emotion,give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens.Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:Stop.Immerse for one minute.Do I want to keep this negativity?Breath deep,exhale,release.Move on!This will remind you of the steps to the process.Remember;take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion.Then,when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release it---really let go of it.You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do!。
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第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while hetended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.如果我休息，我就会生锈在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。
关于新东方英语背诵美文
关于新东方英语背诵美文经典美文的背诵是中学生学习英语的基本的方法与经验,是提高学生英语素养的主要途径,在课程改革中,要充分发挥我国英语教学的传统优势,大力强调背诵训练,使学生乐读善背,推进素质教育。
下面是店铺带来的关于新东方英语背诵美文，欢迎阅读!关于新东方英语背诵美文篇一Mirror, Mirror---What do I See?A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.Mirrors have a very particular function. They reflect the image in front of them. Just as a physical mirror serves as the vehicle to reflection, so do all of the people in our lives.When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden serves as a reflection. In order to see the beauty in front of us, we must be able to see the beauty inside of ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. When we love someone, it’s a reflection of loving ourselves. We have often heard things like “I love how I am when I’m with that person.” That simply translates into “I’m able to love me when I love that other person.” Often times, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we “click”. Sometimes it’s as if we’ve known each other for a long time. That feeling can come from sharing similarities.Just as the “mirror” or other person can be a positive reflection, it is more likel y that we’ll notice it when it has a negative connotation. For example, it’s easy to remember times when we have met someone we’re not particularly crazy about. We may have some criticism in our mind about the person. This is especially true when we get to know someone with whom wewould rather spend less time.Frequently, when we dislike qualities in other people, ironically, it’s usually the mirror that’s speaking to us.I began questioning myself further each time I encountered someone that I didn’t part icularly like. Each time, I asked myself, “What is it about that person that I don’t like?” and then “Is there something similar in me?” in every instance, I could see a piece of that quality in me, and sometimes I had to really get very introspective. So what did that mean?It means that just as I can get annoyed or disturbed when I notice that aspect in someone else, I better reexamine my qualities and consider making some changes. Even if I’m not willing to make a drastic change, at least I consider how I might modify some of the things that I’m doing.At times we meet someone new and feel distant, disconnected, or disgusted. Although we don’t want to believe it, and it’s not easy or desirable to look further, it can be a great learning lesson to figure out what part of the person is being reflected in you. It’s simply just another way to create more self-awareness.译文：镜子，镜子，告诉我充满爱意人的生活在充满爱意的世界里，充满敌意的人则生活在充满敌意的世界里。
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新东方英语背诵美文30篇文本【篇一：新东方英语背诵美文30篇,文本】第一篇：youth 青春第二篇： three days to see(excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）第三篇：companionship of books 以书为伴（节选）第四篇：if i rest, i rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈第五篇：ambition 抱负第六篇：what i have lived for 我为何而生第七篇：when love beckons you 爱的召唤第八篇：the road to success 成功之道第九篇：on meeting the celebrated 论见名人第十篇：the 50-percent theory of life 生活理论半对半第十一篇：what is your recovery rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？第十二篇：clear your mental space 清理心灵的空间第十三篇：be happy 快乐第十四篇：the goodness of life 生命的美好第十五篇：facing the enemies within 直面内在的敌人第十六篇：abundance is a life style 富足的生活方式第十七篇：human life a poem 人生如诗第十八篇：solitude 独处第十九篇：giving life meaning 给生命以意义第二十篇：relish the moment 品位现在第二十一篇：the love of beauty 爱美第二十二篇：the happy door 快乐之门第二十三篇：born to win 生而为赢第二十四篇：work and pleasure 工作和娱乐第二十五篇：mirror, mirror--what do i see镜子,镜子,告诉我第二十六篇：on motes and beams 微尘与栋梁第二十七篇：an october sunrise 十月的日出第二十八篇：to be or not to be 生存还是毁灭第二十九篇：gettysburg address 葛底斯堡演说第三十篇：first inaugural address(excerpts) 就职演讲（节选）第一篇：youth 青春youthyouth 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 isthe freshness of the deep springs of life.youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.this often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. nobody grows old merely by a number of years. we grow old by deserting our ideals.years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.when your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you vegrown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there s hope you may die young at 80.译文：青春青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
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生而为赢--新东方英语背诵美文30篇目录：·第一篇：Youth 青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition 抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗·第十八篇：Solitude 独处·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲（节选）·第一篇：Youth 青春YouthYouth 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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）Three Days to SeeAll of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularlydoes this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.”But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition 抱负AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now notall success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree 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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤When Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses nowin offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”is al l wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer. I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal. They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal; kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writer’s richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material. The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半The 50-Percent Theory of LifeI believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they re worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioned died; the well went dry; the marriage ended; the job lost; the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive. The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors’ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？What is Your Recovery Rate?What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don’t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day. Reflect on your recovery rate each day. Every day before you go to bed, look at your progress. Don’t lie in bed saying to you, “I did that wrong.”“I should have done better there.”No. look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident. This is a success. You are taking control of your life. Remember this is a step by step process. This is not a make-over. You are undertaking real change here. Your aim: reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?Live in the present. Not in the precedent.·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间Clear Your Mental SpaceThink about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop. Yes, that’s right, stop. Whatever you’re doing, stop and sit for one minute. While you’re sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you. Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion. Don’t cheat yourself here. Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer, that is OK. Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion, ask yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath. As you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple. But, it is very effective. By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it. You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs. When you immerse yourself in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its control. You can clear your head and proceed with your task.Try it. Next time you’re in the middle of a negative emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens. Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:Stop. Immerse for one minute. Do I want to keep this negativity? Breath deep, exhale, release. Move on!This will remind you of the steps to the process. Remember; take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release it---really let。
新东方美文背诵10篇
新东方美文背诵10篇生而为赢(Born to win)目录：·第一篇：Youth 青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition 抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半·第一篇：Youth 青春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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, and what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which is often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life? But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busybrain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition 抱负It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the m ost cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”is al l wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets thatbreak most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer. I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it. Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal. They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal; kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writer’s richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infi nite variety afford unending material. The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半I believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they re worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, abest friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioned died; the well went dry; the marriage ended; the job lost; the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive. The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors’ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.。
生而为赢新东方英语背诵美文30篇
生而为赢——新东方英语背诵美文30篇目录：·第一篇：Youth 青春·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈·第五篇：Ambition 抱负·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗·第十八篇：Solitude 独处·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲（节选）·第一篇：Youth 青春YouthYouth 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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder s, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.·第二篇：Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）Three Days to SeeAll of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）Companionship of BooksA man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of hi s thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition 抱负AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one s oon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree 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 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 my life for a few hours for 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 it 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.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤When Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch tha t basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer. I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it. Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal. They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal; kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writer’s richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material. The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半The 50-Percent Theory of LifeI believe in the 50-percent theory. Half the time things are better than normal; the other half, they re worse. I believe life is a pendulum swing. It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let’s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die. I’ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets. Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing. Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person; having a child and doing those Dad things like coac hing my son’s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he’s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The air-conditioned died; the well went dry; the marriage ended; the job lost; the money gone. I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed. Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad. Worse than normal wouldn’t last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon times. The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive. The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals’ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods. That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors’ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？What is Your Recovery Rate?What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don’t live your life in the past! Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past. Stop the past from influencing your daily life. Don’t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best. Stop the past from interfering with your life. Learn to recover quickly.Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day. Reflect on your recovery rate each day. Every day before you go to bed, look at your progress. Don’t lie in bed saying to you, “I did that wrong.” “I should have done better there.” No. look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident. This is a success. You are taking control of your life. Remember this is a step by step process. This is not a make-over. You are undertaking real change here. Your aim: reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?Live in the present. Not in the precedent.·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间Clear Your Mental SpaceThink about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop. Yes, that’s right, stop. Whatever you’re doing, stop and sit for one minute. While you’re sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you. Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion. Don’t cheat yourself here. Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to this n egative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”Once you’ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer, that is OK. Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you’ve had enough of the emotion, ask yourself if you’re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day. If not, take a deep breath. As you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple. But, it is very effective. By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it. You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs. When you immerse yourself in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its control. You can clear your head and proceed with your task. Try it. Next time you’re in the middle of a negative emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens. Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:Stop. Immerse for one minute. Do I want to keep this negativity? Breath deep, exhale, release. Move on!This will remind you of the steps to the process. Remember; take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion. Then, when you feel you’ve felt it enough, release it---really let go of it. You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do!。
新东方英语作文范文背诵50篇
1.College Students Should Attend Physical ExercisePhysical exercise is a necessary part of college life. However, still some college students do not like to attend sports activities, they think those activities waste their time and influence their study. Indeed, it is very unwise for college students to keep distance from physical exercise because physical exercise is not harmful but good to them.College students can benefit a lot from physical exercise. First of all, attending physical sports can help students build a strong body, and keep abounding energy. Moreover, physical exercise is an effective way to release pressure and keep a pleasant mood. Besides, by attending physical activities, students can have chances to contact and communicate with others which can help them improve their social skills.Nowadays, all colleges and universities have provided many sports facilities for students to do physical exercises, students can chose freely according to their interests and needs. As for me, I am keen on all kinds of ball games, especially football and basketball. From these games, I have gained a lot, and enjoined great pleasure. To conclude, physical exercise is beneficial to every college students, and therefore do not hesitate to attend sports activities.2. Online GamesAs a product of modern computer and the Internet, online games have become very popular among college students. Many students have enjoyed great pleasure and satisfaction from these games. But as we see, some students lacking self discipline on too much indulge in these games, so that their health and academic performances are affected. This phenomenon has caused much worry from the teachers and parents.However, some others argue that online games are not always harmful. They can train their ability of youngsters to respond to things quickly. Moreover, they can stimulate their imagination and their interest in computer science. More importantly, it does bring college students much pleasure and release their pressure greatly.Form my point of view, online games are a wonderful entertainment if you play them in a clever way. When they interfere too much with your study, it is better for you to give them up at once, but if you have enough self control over them, you can certainly obtain real pleasure and benefit a lot from them.3. PatriotismPatriotism has been one of the great national spirits. It makes one ready to sacrifice his life for his country and to do many other deeds that can bring benefits to the people. Throughout history, it is just great patriotism that has helped a country win the wars, and survive the disasters. It is just great patriotism that has made a country strong, and made her history glorious.In modern society, though our country has been 9in peaceful development, patriotism is still necessary. However, it has many new meanings and expressing ways. Firstly, in the new period of the socialism development, a patriot must be devoted to the construction of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. Secondly, facing economi c globalization, a patriot must try to safeguard the nation’s interests on the basis of opening-up strategies of mutual benefit. Thirdly, patriotism embodies in the support of national reunification. Finally, love and respect for work is also oneimportant reflection of patriotism.As a college student in the 21st century, every one of us has responsibility to love our country. For one thing, we must study hard to obtain more knowledge to contribute to the construction of our motherland. For another, we must keep informed of current affairs and show concern to the national economy and the people’s livelihood. A patriotic college student must discard the mind of “Two ears can not hear out of the window”.4. How to Deal with Peer Pressure?College students are often obsessed by peer pressure from their classmates or schoolmates. Facing others’ hard work and good performance in academic and other aspects, many students feel great pressure. Then, how to deal with this kind of peer pressure?The following measures can be taken. First, you should take a careful look at your present level and set a practical object. You needn’t always compare yourselves with those on the top and just make your efforts towards your object. Second, under peer pressure, you shouldn’t feel discouraged and pressed. Instead, you should make it your motivation for harder work. Finally, if you find pressure is nearly beyond your control, you’d better turn to professional psychological guidance.As a college student, I have no way to avoid peer pressure, so I try to figure out the way to do with it well. I set my own goal, including my practical level and my position among the peers. Because of my focus on my own goal, I have no time and energy to think about the pressure. So I’m little tr oubled by it. To conclude, we should not escape from peer pressure, but learn to make best use of it, since it can hardly be avoided.5. Should College Students be Tutors?Nowadays there are more and more provided tutors among college students. Some students even take a few tutor jobs at the same time. People have different opinions about this phenomenon.Some people believe college students can benefit a lot from being tutors. On the one hand they can earn some money and lessen the burden on their family. On the other hand they can have chances to apply their knowledge to the solution to the practical problems. However still others object to college students being a tutor. They think that a student should focus on his study instead of doing a part-time job. If they spend too much time on teaching, they will not have enough time to study, and naturally their academic performance will be affected.Weighing the two arguments, I’m in favor of the former one. In my opinion, to be a tutor is a good practical activity for us college students, from which we can gain practical experience and skills. But it is worth noting that we cannot spend too much time in being tutors. We should balance the relationship between the tutor job and study.6. Welcome to the camera ClubWelcome to the camera club. With the sponsor of the student’s union, the camera club has been set and served all the students for 15 years. Many wonderful activities are organized and arranged in our club. As is expected by all, the training on how tomake the best use of the camera to provide a wonderful picture is open to all new members. Besides we will organize traveling activities at times, during which the participants have the chance to show the pictures, as well as enjoy beautiful scenery. In addition, photo contests will be held is the opportunities to show your progress.We have good reasons to believe that all these activities are quite beneficial to both your study and life, not only can they help you improve your camera technique, but also enrich your college life greatly. Moreover by participating in the traveling activities and photo contests, you can be close to the nature and broaden your views.Anyone who is interested in photography welcome warmly. What you need to do is just to call us at 62514479 or email us at cameraclub@. Looking forward to your participation!7. Extravagant Spending on College CampusAccording to a survey, in recent years, the monthly expenditure of a college student has been on the sharp rise. Many college students spend money like water and have no concept of thrift in their mind. They take it for granted that they spend money from their parents before they enter into society. This extravagant spending is mainly caused by the following factors.First of all, nowadays, most students are the only children of their families. They are the apple in their family’s eyes and naturally get m ore care and pocket money. Secondly, with the improvement of living standards, parents can afford higher expenditures of their children. Thirdly, some students like to pursue fashion and trends, which tends to need more money. Finally, campus love is also a possible factor causing extravagant spending.Form my point of view, a college student as a pure consumer should learn to be thrifty we should limit our expenditure on barely necessities but not buy whatever we want, regardless of their prices. The habit of thrift can help us form right values and is favorable to our future development.8. A Quarrel in the DormitoryWeeks ago I witnessed the quarrel between my two roommates. It shocked me the two good friends fired out just for a very trifling matter.It was in the morning at weekend when I was washing my face in the bathroom. Suddenly I heard Ann and Sue shouting at each other. I hurried to come out to see what happened. It turned out that the noise of Sue’s closing the door waked Ann, whose bed is just beside the door. Ann thought Sue deliberately closed the door heavily. Sue didn’t have made her fault and said Ann was making trouble out of nothing. So their argument became ambits of quarrel. Though later they stopped quarreling under our persuasion, neither of them would like apologize to the other.Such a quarrel leaves me to think a lot about dormitory harmony. If either Ann or Sue can be a little tolerant or take a better way to express herself, this quarrel, I think, can be avoided easily. It is no doubt that a harmony dormitory life benefits all the members. But it needs our common efforts to build it.9. Students’ Pursuit for Famous BrandsNowadays many college students like to pursue famous brands. From clothes to mobile phones, even study articles like electronic dictionaries and pens, they areinclined to buy famous brands. Moreover, many students from poor families begin to follow this consumption trend as well. This phenomenon has aroused wide attention.The following reasons can account for college students’ preference for famous brands. Above all, in many college students’ eyes, a famous brand is a symbol of sophistication and taste. They expect others to admire their high class and good taste. What’s more, in modern society, famous brands to some extent are equal to fashion, which has a great attraction to young college students. Besides, parents’ spoiling their children helps form their bad consumption habit.As far as I am concerned, it is irrational for college students to pursue famous brands. After all, most of famous brands are far beyond their consumption ability. Besides, it is not famous brands but a person’s noble charact er that really makes him high class. Therefore, college students should attach more importance to cultivating a good character rather than pursuing famous brands.10. Our Schoolmate Is in Need of Your HelpJuly 23, 2008Dear schoolmates,I’m writing this l etter to call on all the students in our university to help Sun Lei, one of our schoolmates in Business Management Department. As you may know, most areas in Guangxi province are suffering form the flood. In fact, Sun Lei comes from the most serious stricken city in Guangxi.It’s very necessary for us to show our lo0ve and help to him. On the one hand, all the property of his family was washed away by the flood. On the other hand, he is in great need of money to pay the tuition fee. So, it is high time that we gave a hand to him and pulled him through. The first nut for us to crack is to donate money to him as soon as possible. Then, we could do our utmost to persuade our department leaders to relieve his tuition fee, concerning his particular situation.If you are willing to give him a hand, please contact us at the number 23533316 in the daytime. Just as the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. Please join us in the action and extend your love into a spirit that dares any possible difficulties!Thank you!Students’ Union11. The University’s Branch Campuses in Suburban AreasIn recent years more and more universities have built up their branch campuses in suburban areas. Now it is very difficult to find a university without a branch campus. Maybe no one can tell clearly when the first branch campus came out, but the reasons behind this phenomenon are obvious.Among these reasons, the enrollment expansion of universities plays a very vital role. As more and more freshmen are remitted to universities, the original facilities, including classrooms, apartments, dining houses, laboratories and the like, are not enough any more. What’s more, the land in the suburb is relatively low in price, which is affordable for most universities. Besides, the quiet environment in suburban areas is more suitable for students to study.As a college student, I think, it is necessary and beneficial for many universities to build up a branch campus. However the building of branch campuses brings someproblems. For one thing, the students in some branch campuses cannot enjoy good enough facilities and the teachers due to limited resources. For another it leads to less direct communications among teachers and students. Therefore the university should take a full account before it decides to build up a branch campus.12. Young People Should Have Ideals“What are you going to do when you grow up?” When I was a child, people often asked me this question about the ideal. Undoubtedly, every individual, especially a young person, should have an ideal. Hardly can we find any great people we know ideal when they were young.An ideal is a vital importance to one’s growth and success. On the one hand, an ideal is the target of one’s life. Once you decide what your ideal is, you know where to go, and which way to take. Otherwise, you might become puzzled in many things in your life. On the other hand, an ideal is like the engine of vehicles. Only when we have our own ideals, can we find the origin of energy and enthusiasm in life, and become active and perseverant.Whatever your ideal is, careful plan and preparation is vital to its realization. Of course, the path from where you are to where you want to get is not always smooth and straight. Therefore, an optimistic, positive mind is indispensable in the process of your persevering your ideal. In a word, only if you have an ideal will you have the chance of realizing it.13. A Letter Applying for a Bank LoanSep 12th, 2008To whom it may concern,I am a freshman of Lianhe University, majoring in Applied Physics. I am writing in the hope that I may obtain a bank loan to support my study in Applied Physics for the following four years.My parents are both laid-off workers, so it’s beyond their power to finance me through the college education. To make matters worse, my mother has suddenly fallen ill and is expecting a major operation. the college tuition becoming a much heavier burden on my family, I am compelled to apply for a RMB20,000 bank loan.I give you my p romise that the loan would be used properly. Meanwhile, I’ll spare no effort to work hard both in the study and my future career so as to pay back the loan. I would be greatly obliged if my application is granted. And I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.Sincerely yours,Song Xue14. Study and Work-study ProgramNowadays, more and more college students are taking part in work-study programs in their spare time. Many of them choose to be a tutor or doing a part-time job in school dining room or library. Also some others do a part-time delivering man or promotion specialist or other jobs alike.There are mainly three different reasons for college students to take work-study program. First, to earn money is the main aim of many students, they want to relieve the burden on their family by doing a part-time job. Second, some students takework-study programs as a channel by which they know the society and improve their practical skills. Third, still other students doing part-time job just for fun or kill time.From my point of view, it goes without saying that college students can benefit a lot from work-study programs. However, those students who get part-time jobs should keep it in mind that study is prior to anything else. Besides, they should spend their income from part-time job reasonably.15. How to Build an Ideal Teacher-Student RelationshipThe relationship between a teacher and the student can be either good or bad, helpful or harmful. Either way, the relationship may affect the student for the rest of his life. A good teacher-student relationship will make learning enjoyable and efficient, and make the teacher’s job worthwhile. In contrast, a bad relationship can discourage the students from learning, and make teaching an unpleasant task.But how to build an ideal teacher-student relationship? First of all, the teacher and the student should respect each other, which is the precondition about good relationship. Moreover the teacher’s attitude plays an important role. If the teacher is too strict, it might frighten the student. On the other hand, if the teacher is too permissive, the student may become lazy. Besides, the teacher should give the student encouragement, as well as have patients and understanding. Finally, as for the student, he should be eager for knowledge and willing to work hard. If he learns from his teacher modestly, he will be able to profit fully from his teacher’s teaching.In conclusion, a good teacher-student relationship need common efforts from both the teacher and the student, and it can be mutually beneficial. The student gains knowledge enjoyably and the teacher gains satisfaction from his teaching job.16. Champion SpokespersonNowadays, we often can see that some champions in the college entrance examination speak for some products. This phenomenon has sparked much debate.Some people think it will create a win-win situation for a champion to be a spokesperson since it can bring profits for both the producer and the champion himself or herself. Besides, these models in study get publicized, which to some extent will stimulate other students to study hard.However, other people object to this strongly. They insist that this behavior should be banned because in most cases the champion has not used the product they speak for. Furthermore, if a champion is paid too much attention to or is of ten exposed to the media, it is not good for his or her growth.Weighing up the pros and cons, I prefer to the latter opinion. In my opinion, a spokesperson must be responsible for the product he or she speaks for, but the young champion is not mature enough to do this. Besides, to be a champion in the college entrance examination does n’t mean the student has made final success. Attending the speaking activities will influence his or her normal study. Therefore, I think the champions’ speaking behaviors should not be encouraged.17. An Invitation LetterJune 15th, 2008Dear Xue Feng,This June 30th I am going to graduate, so I want to hold a party on Saturdayevening in my house. It would be pleasant to have you here.So interesting will this party be that you can’t afford to miss it. For one thing, we will have a big meal, sing the popular songs and play games. For another, it also provides a good opportunity for you to meet many friends that you haven’t seen for a long time.What an important thing it is for me to get your participation. First, you are my best friend and bring home to me many things. Second, we haven’t seen each other for quite a long time and I am eager to see you. The party would not be complete without you.The party will begin at seven thirty p.m. Is it possible for us to see you at seven on Saturday evening in my house? I do hope you can come.Sincerely yours,Ma Yuan18. Skipping Classes on College CampusIn colleges and universities, the phenomenon of students skipping classes is not unusual. There are often some students who skip those classes for feeling unwell or other private reasons. Besides, still some students don’t go to class without any reason but for they don’t want to.There are two main reasons for college students skipping classes. First, compared with in middle school, students have more freedom in college. It depends more on one student’s consciousness whether he will attend the class. So those students lacking self-discipline begin to skip classes. Second, some teachers’ lectures could not at tract students’ interests, so that some students would rather skip classes to study what they are interested in.For whatever reasons, skipping classes does bring negative effects on students’ study. Therefore, it is necessary to take some effective measures to reduce this phenomenon. On the one hand, the school and teachers should make students realize the negative effects of skipping classes and enhance their consciousness of attending the class. On the other hand, teachers have to improve their teaching quality to attract students’ interests in the courses. Only in this way can the phenomenon of skipping classes be reduced as soon as possibly.19. A Boom in Continuing EducationFrom the graph, we can learn the number of the Continuing Education participation has kept increasing from 1992 to 2007 in X city. In 1992 there were only thirty thousand people taking part in the Continuing Education, but in 1995 the number grown to 60 thousand ,and in 2000, one hundred and 40 , and by to 2007, the number has reached two hundred and teen thousand . It can be seen easily that Continuing Education is gaining more and more popularity.The following reasons are responsible for this boom in continuing education. Firstly, during the work many people begin to realize what they have learned in school is far from enough. So they turn to continuing education to gain more knowledge and skills. Moreover, as the science and technology in China are developing very fast, adults after graduation have to refresh themselves. In addition, in modern society, those without bachelor’s degrees or above are less competitive.As far as I am concerned the Boom in Continuing Education is a necessity. Improvise those under job people with transcends to get advanced degrees and gain more knowledge. As our society develops, more and more people will receive continuing education in the future.20. Is it Good to Write about Martial Arts Novels in the Textbooks?Recently, the compiling group of the Chinese textbooks has made a decision that some parts of a martial arts novel would be selected as one of the texts. This has sparked off a heated debate.Some people think that it is a good idea. They say the martial arts novels are also a good literature type and should be included in the textbooks. However, others are strongly against this decision. They say it will do no good to students because these novels sing the praises for nothing but fighting and revenge.In my opinion, it is not reasonable to select the text from a marital arts novel. Firstly, the main theme of these novels is revenge. Secondly, the characters do nothing but fight with each other. It seems they needn’t make a living. Thirdly, there are all kinds of factions in the novels. Students who have not established their values and outlook of life will be affected by these ideas. Therefore, I insist that these novels should be removed from the textbook. Some good materials should be selected to instruct the students to form the correct outlook of life.21. Is This the Way to Relieve the Burden of Students?In order to relieve the burden of students in primary and high school, the Ministry of Education has decided to force the schools to close on weekends. But contrary to the good intention, many parents have employed family tutors for their children. This behavior has aroused heated discussion.Some people criticize these parents strictly because they think excessive pressure will injure children both physically and mentally. They hold that health is o the first importance to children. However, many other people hold the opposite opinion. They stand by these parents. They say nowadays children are faced with great pressure from their schoolwork and employment. These parents want to help their children win in the stating line, which is a wise doing.Weighing up the pros and cons, I don’t think it is advisable for parents to employ family tutors for their children learning is not the only thing for a student. Too heavy burden is unfavorable to the healthy growth of a child. In my opinion, instead of placing a lot of pressure on the children, parents and teachers should make sure that the children make the best use of class time, leaving more free time for them to go in for other activities.22. Machine Translation and Human TranslationIn recent years, all kinds of electronic dictionaries and translation software have been developed. With the development of technology, these electronic dictionaries and software can help us translate not only words and phrases, but even sentences and paragraphs. So some people come to the conclusion that machine translation will replace traditional human translation. However, I couldn’t agree with this argument.Admittedly, translation machines and software bring much convenience for our study and work. With them, we needn’t bother to live through the heavy dictionaries.However, machine translation has its disadvantages. First, generally speaking, translation software only can give direct translation, which is sometimes not in accordance with the original articles in logic and meaning. Second, some people depend on electronic dictionaries and software too much, which is unfavorable to their improvement in language ability.Considering the above mentioned, I think that machine translation cannot replace human translation, but it is a good complementary to human translation. Therefore, we should combine machine translation with human translation efficiently.23.How to Make Full Use of Reference Books?Nowadays reference books have become a problem of great concern for both teachers and students. There are many kinds of reference books available in the book market. A smarter use of these books is certainly beneficial. But the misuse and over-use of them may cause a lot of problems.First of all, teaching reference books might make the students less attentive in class. Armed with reference books, many students may think that they know what the teacher is going to talk about. So they may not listen to the teacher in class at all. Secondly, some students rely on the reference books too much, which is unfavorable to the improvement of their ability to work out the solutions for themselves. Thirdly, there are some reference books with many mistakes, which might mislead the students.Considering the above mentioned, we should be careful in selecting and using reference books. Firstly, we should check the contents of the book carefully, but not only pay attention to the brand of the publishing house. In addition we can turn to the recommendation of teachers and students around us. Besides, reference books are just an assistant, so we shouldn’t rely on them too much. Only in this way can we make full use of reference books.24. University MergenceMergence is a new trend in university development. As a hot topic on and off campus, it has received much of public attention. People’s attitudes towards it vary greatly.People against it see it as a hasty decision, which has some potential problems. They claim, for instance, located far away from each other, universities involved with mergence are usually faced with the tough problem of management. But other people favor as an important step that Chinese universities take towards the goal of first-class university in the world. They argue that only through mergence can our universities give full play to their disadvantages. They also point out that university mergence will increase the competitive power of our universities in the world.Weighing the two arguments, I think, university mergence has more advantages than disadvantages. Mergence may bring the re-integration of resources of the universities and enable them to complement each other. It is beneficial to the development of both the universities and the students. But the universities, before deciding to merge, should take into account the potential dangers resulting from the mergence.25. Will Network Classrooms Replace Traditional Classrooms?。
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下面是店铺带来的新东方英语背诵美文，欢迎阅读!新东方英语背诵美文篇一Be Happy!“The days that make us happy make us wise.”----John Masefieldwhen I first read this line by England’s Poet Laureate, it startled me. What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true. But his sober assurance was arresting. I could not forget it.Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation. The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear.Active happiness---not mere satisfaction or contentment ---often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud. Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it. The grass is greener; bird songs are sweeter; the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable. Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.The long vista is there for the seeing. The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene. Everything assumes a fairer proportion. And here is the beginning of wisdom.译文：快乐“快乐的日子使人睿智。
新东方美文1-10篇
01 The Language of MusicA painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and every o ne can see it. A co mposer writes a wo rk, but no one can hear it until it is perfo rmed. Professio nal singers and players have greatrespo nsibilities, fo r the composer is utterly dependent o n them. A student of music needs as lo ng and as arduo us a training to beco me a performer as a medical student needs to beco me a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords wo uld be inadequate witho ut controlled muscular support. String players practice mo ving the fingers of the left hand up and do wn, while drawing the bow to and fro w ith the right arm-two entirely different mo vements.Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, fo r the notes are already there, waiting fo r them, and it is the piano tuner'srespo nsibility to tune the instrument fo r them. But they have their o wn difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be co axed not to sound like percussion, and each o v erlapping tone has to sound clear.This problem of getting clear texture is o ne that co nfronts student conductors: they have to learn to kno w every no te of the music and ho w it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless autho rity. Technique is of no use unless it is co mbined with musical kno wledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so tho roughly at ho me in the language of music that they can enjo y performing wo rks written in any century.02 Schooling and EducationIt is co mmo nly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an educatio n. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their educatio n to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is impo rtant. Educatio n is much mo re open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Educatio n kno ws no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen o r on a tractor. It includes bo th the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of info rmal learning. The agents of educatio n can range fro m a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, fro m a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to disco v er ho w little is kno wn of other religio ns. People are engaged in educatio n fro m infancy on. Education, then, is a very bro ad, inclusive term. I t is a lifelo ng process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one's entire life.Schooling, on the o ther hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little fro m o ne setting to the next. Thro ughout a country, children arrive at school at appro ximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do ho mework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the wo rking of go vernment, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students kno w that there not likely to find o ut in their classes the truth abo ut political problems in their co mmunities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite co nditions surro unding the fo rmalized process of schooling.03 The Definition of "Price"Prices determine ho w resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a co mplex netwo rk co mposed of the prices of all the products bo ught and sold in the eco no my as well as those of a myriad of services, including labo r, professional, ransportatio n, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the "sy stem" of prices. The price of any particular product o r service is linked to a broad, co mplicated sy stem of prices in which everything seems to depend mo re o r less upon everything else.If one were to ask a gro up of rando mly selected individuals to define "price", many wo uld reply that price is an amo unt of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product o r service o r, in o ther wo rds that price is the mo ney values of a product o r service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. Fo r a co mplete understanding of a price in any particular transactio n, much mo re than the amo unt of mo ney inv o lved must be kno wn. Both the buyer and the seller sho uld be familiar with not o nly the mo ney amo unt, but with the amo unt and quality of the product o r service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the fo rm of mo ney to be used, the credit terms and disco unts that apply to the transactio n, guarantees on the product o r service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other facto rs. In other wo rds, both buyer and seller sho uld be fully aware of all the factors that co mprise the to tal "package" being exchanged fo r the asked-for amo unt of mo ney in o rder that they may evaluate a gi ven price.04 ElectricityThe modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life wo uld be like witho ut them. When there is a po wer failure, people grope abo ut in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerato rs.Yet, people began to understand ho w electricity wo rks o nly a little mo re than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are disco vering mo re and mo re that the living wo rld may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that co uld benefit humanity.All living cell send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of reco rd; they fo rm an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine ho w well the heart is wo rking. The brain, too, sends o ut brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to reco rd them. But in so me animals, certain muscle cells have beco me so specialized as electrical generato rs that they do no t wo rk as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cell are linked to gether, the effects can be astonishing.The electric eel is an amazing sto rage battery. It can seed a jolt of as much as eight hundred vo lts of electricity through the water in which it live. ( An electric ho use current is o nly o ne hundred twenty volts.) As many as fo ur-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized fo r generating electricity, and the strength of the sho ck it can deli ver co rrespo nds roughly to length of its body.05 The Beginning of DramaThere are many theo ries abo ut the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The o n most widely accepted today is based o n the assumptio n that drama ev o lved fro m ritual. The argument for this view goes as fo llo ws. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural fo rces of the wo rld-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they so ught thro ugh vario us means to control these unkno wn and feared powers. Those measures which appeared to bring the desired results were then retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals. Eventually stories arose which explained o r veiled the mysteries of the rites. As time passed some rituals were abando ned, but the sto ries, later called myths, persisted and pro vided material fo r art and drama.Those who believe that drama ev o lved o ut of ritual also argue that those rites co ntained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used, Furthermo re, a suitable site had to be pro vided for performances and when the entire co mmunity did not participate, a clear divisio n was usually made between the "acting area" and the "audito rium." In addition, there were performers, and, since considerable impo rtance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religio us leaders usually assumed that task. Wearing masks and costumes, they oftenimperso nated other people, animals, o r supernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect-success in hunt o r battle, the co ming rain, the revi val of the Sun-as an acto r might. E ventually such dramatic representations were separated fro m religio us activities.Another theory traces the theater's origin fro m the human interest in storytelling. According to this vies tales (abo ut the hunt, war, or o ther feats) are gradually elabo rated, at first thro ugh the use of imperso nation, action, and dialo gue by a narrator and then thro ugh the assumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theater to those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic o r that are imitations of animal mo vements and sounds.06 TelevisionTelevisio n-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and gro wth-is mo ving into a new era, an era of extrao rdinary sophistication and versatility, whichpro mises to reshape our lives and our wo rld. It is an electronic rev o lutio n of sorts, made possible b y the marriage of television and co mputer technologies.The wo rd "television", derived fro m its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (visio: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight fro m a distance. Very simply put, it wo rks in this way: thro ugh a sophisticated system of electro nics, televisio n pro vides the capability of converting an image (focused on a special photoco nductive plate within a camera) into electro nic impulses, which can be sent thro ugh a wire o r cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (televisio n set), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image.Televisio n is mo re than just an electro nic sy stem, ho wever. It is a means of expressio n, as well as a vehicle fo r communicatio n, and as such beco mes a po werful tool for reaching other human beings.The field of television can be divided into two catego ries determined by its means of transmissio n. First, there is bro adcast television, which reaches the masses thro ugh bro ad-based airwave transmissio n of televisio n signals. Seco nd, there is no nbro adcast television, which pro vides for the needs of individuals o r specific interest groups thro ugh controlled transmission techniques.Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses. We are most familiar with bro adcast television because it has been with us fo r abo ut thirty-se ven years in a form similar to what exists today. During those years, it has been controlled, fo r the most part, by the bro adcast netwo rks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, who have been the majo r purve y o rs of news, info rmation, and entertainment. These giants ofbro adcasting have actually shaped not o nly television but o ur perceptio n of it as well. We have co me to look upon the picture tube as a so urce of entertainment, placing our ro le in this dynamic medium as the passive viewer.07 Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part fro m his ability to sell the product and in part fro m his polic y of expanding during periods of econo mic decline, when most of his co mpetito rs were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals sho uld progress thro ugh hard wo rk, but he also felt stro ngly that the wealthy should use their fo rtunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to pro vide educational opportunities that wo uld allo w o thers to help themselves. "He who dies rich, dies disgraced," he often said.Amo ng his mo re no tewo rthy co ntributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of natio nal histo ry. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other philanthrophic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment fo r Internatio nal Peace to pro mote understanding between natio ns, the Carnegie I nstitute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to pro vide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left unto uched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity. His co ntributions of mo re than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small co mmunities thro ughout the country and fo rmed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjo y today.08 American RevolutionThe American Rev olution was no t a sudden and vio lent o verturning of the political and social framewo rk, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent natio ns. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were no t breathtaking. What happened was acceleratedev olution rather than o utright rev o lutio n. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not serio usly disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the mo re isolated co mmunities scarcely knew that a war was on.America's War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One was Canada, which received its first large influx of English-speaking population fro m the thousands of lo yalists who fled there fro m the United States. Ano ther was Australia, which became a penal colo ny now that America was no longer available for prisoners and debto rs. The third newco m er-the United States-based itself squarely o n republican principles.Yet even the political o v erturn was no t so rev o lutio nary as one might suppose. In so me states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial self-rule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were replaced by a ho me-gro wn go v erning class, which pro mptly sought a local substitute fo r king and Parliament.09 SuburbanizationIf by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows mo re ra pidly than its already developed interio r, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Befo re that period the city was a small highly co mpact cluster in which people mo ved about o n foot and goods were co nveyed by ho rse and cart. But the early facto ries built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed fo r the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by pro liferating mill towns of apartments and ro w ho uses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbo rs. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia Co unty. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status o nly by inco rporating the co mmunities along their bo rders.With the acceleratio n of industrial gro wth came acute urban crowding and acco mpanying social stress-conditions that began to appro ach disastro us propo rtions when, in 1888, the first co mmercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the ho rse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar netwo rks crisscrossed and co nnected every majo r urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transfo rmed the co mpact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneo us emergence of the urban Middle Class, whose desires fo r ho meo wnership in neighborhoods far fro m the aging inner city were satisfied by the de velopers of single-family ho using tracts.10 Types of SpeechStandard usage includes those words and expressio ns understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situatio n regardless of the level of formality. As such, these wo rds and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, o n the other hand, are familiar wo rds and idio ms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in info rmal speech or writing, but no t co nsidered appropr iate for mo re formal situations. Almost all idio matic expressions are colloquial language. Slang, ho wever, refers to words and expressions understood by a large number of speakers but not accepted as good, formal usage by the majority. Colloquial expressions and even slang may be fo und in standard dictionaries but will be so identified. Both colloquial usage and slang are mo re co mmo n in speech than in writing.Colloquial speech often passes into standard speech. So me slang also passes into standard speech, but o ther slang expressions enjo y mo mentary popularity follo wed by obscurity. In some cases, the majority never accepts certain slang phrases but nevertheless retains them in their collective memo ries. Ev ery generatio n seems to require its own set of wo rds to describe familiar objects and events. It has been pointed o ut by a number of linguists that three cultural conditions are necessary fo r the creatio n of a large body of slang expressions. First, the introduction and acceptance of new objects and situations in the society; second, a diverse population with a large number of subgroups; third, association amo ng the subgro ups and the majo rity population.Finally, it is wo rth noting that the terms "standard" "colloquial" and "slang" exist only as abstract labels for scholars who study language. Only a tiny number of the speakers of any language will be aware that they are using colloquial or slang expressio ns. Most speakers of English will, during appropriate situations, select and use all three types of expressio ns.。
新东方英语背诵美文鉴赏
新东方英语背诵美文鉴赏篇一：新东方英语背诵美文30篇-中文翻译第一篇：青春青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。
如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。
年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。
忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。
人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
、一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
第二篇：假如给我三天光明（节选）我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。
但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。
当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而不是那些活动范围受到严格限定的死囚。
这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。
这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。
我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。
但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种子感觉。
当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。
在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的幸运而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。
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第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈
If I Rest, I Rust
The significant inscription[ɪn'skrɪpʃn]（n.题字; 碑铭）found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted[ə'flɪkt]（v.使痛苦; 折磨）with the slightest bit of idleness ['i·dle·ness || aɪdlnɪs]（n.懒惰; 安逸; 闲散; 赋闲无事）. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder [rɪ'maɪdə(r)]（n.提醒者, 令人回忆的东西, 提醒物; 催单; 提示, 帮助记忆的记号）that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused（adj.不习惯的, 不使用的, 不用的）key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately['ʌltɪmətlɪ]（adv.最后地; 终极地）, cannot do the work required of them.
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances ['entrəns] to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture--every department of human
endeavor[ɪn'devə]（n.努力; 尽力）.
Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling[tɔɪl]（n.辛苦, 劳累#罗网, 圈套v.费力地做; 跋涉）all day in a quarry ['kwɔry], had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist[dʒɪ'ɑlədʒɪst]（n.地质学者）. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads[biːd]（n.珠子; 水珠v.使成串珠状; 用珠装饰; 形成珠状; 起泡）, he would never have become a famous astronomer（n.天文学家）.
Labor vanquishes['væŋkwɪʃ]（v.打败, 克服, 征服）all---not inconstant, spasmodic [spas·mod·ic || spæz'mɑ
dɪk /-'mɒd-]（adj.痉挛的, 间歇性的）, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting[un·re·mit·ting || ‚ʌnrɪ'mɪtɪŋ]（adj.不
懈的）, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal[ɪ'tɜːnl]（adj.永恒的; 不灭的; 永远的）vigilance ['vig·i·lance || 'vɪdʒɪləns]（n.警戒, 失眠症, 警觉心）is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.
译文：
如果我休息，我就会生锈
在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。
对于那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。
甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。
有些人想取得伟人所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运用自身才能，以便开启知识的大门，即那些通往人类努力探求的各个领域的大门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，文学，农业等。
勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。
如果休·米勒在采石场劳作一天后，晚上的时光用来休息消遣的话，他就不会成为名垂青史的地质学家。
著名数学家爱德蒙·斯通如果闲暇时无所事事，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙。
如果苏格兰青年弗格森在山坡上放羊时，让他那思维活跃的大脑处于休息状态，而不是借助一串珠子计算星星的位置，他就不会成为著名的天文学家。
劳动征服一切。
这里所指的劳动不是断断续续的，间歇性的或方向偏差的劳动，而是坚定的，不懈的，方向正确的每日劳动。
正如要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一样，要想取得伟大的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努力。