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名家经典英语散文篇1Simplicity is an uprightness of soul that has no reference to self; it is different from sincerity,and itis a still higher virtue. We see many people who are sincere, without being simple; theyonly wish to passfor what they are, and they are unwilling to appear what they are not; theyare always thinking of themselves, measuring their words, and recalling their thoughts, andreviewing their actions, from the fear that they have done too much or too little. These personsare sincere, but they are simple; they are not at ease with others, and others are not at easewith them; they are not free, ingenuous, natural; we prefer people who are less correct, lessperfect, and who are less artificial. This is the decision of man, and it isthe judgment of God,who would not have us so occupied with ourselves, and thus, as it were, always arranging ourfeatures in a mirror.To be wholly occupied with others, never to look within, is the state of blindness of those whoare entirely engrossed by what is present and addressed to their senses; this is the veryreverse of simplicity. To be absorbed in self in whatever engages us, whether we are laboringfor our fellow beings or for God-to bewise in our own eyes reserved, and full of ourselves,troubled at the least thing that disturbs our self-complacency, is the opposite extreme. Thisis false wisdom, which, with all its glory, is but little less absurd than that folly, which pursuesonly pleasure.The one is intoxicated with all it sees around it; theother with all that it imaginesit has within; but it is delirium in both. To be absorbed in the contemplation of our ownminds is really worse than to be engrossed by outward things, because it appears like wisdomand yet is not, we do not think of curing it, we pride ourselves upon it, we prove of it, it givesus an unnatural strength, it is a sort of frenzy, we are not conscious of it, we are dying, andwe think ourselves in health.Simplicity consists in a just medium, in which we are neither too much excited, nor toocomposed. The soulis not carried away by outward things, so that it cannot make all necessaryreflections; neither does it make those continual references to self, that a jealous sense of itsown excellence multiplies to infinity.That freedom of the soul, which looks straight onward inits path, losing no time to reason upon its steps, to study them, or to contemplate those thatit has already taken, is true simplicity.名家经典英语散文篇2It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life.They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail drivens into the body on the cross of life. The strange thing is that each one who has gone through that bitterdisillusionment add to it in his turn,, unconsciously, by the power within him which is stronger than himself.名家经典英语散文篇3The lives of most men are determined by their environment. They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will. They are like streetcars running contentedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flitter that dashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily across the open country. I respect them; they are good citizens, good husbands, and good fathers, and of course somebody has to pay the taxes; but I do not find them exciting.I am fascinated by the men, few enough in all conscience, who take life in their own hands and seem to mould it in to their own liking. It may be that we have no such thing as free will, but at all events, we have the illusion of it. At a cross-road it does seem to us that we might go either to the right or to the left and, the choice once made, it is difficult to see that the whole course of the world's history obliged us to take the turning we did.名家经典英语散文篇4Wherever you are, and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, all in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing, for the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept the other alternative. .Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment - the sea is too deep; you could not find an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause until you come into port.名家经典英语散文篇5To help others,you don't have to be an efficient expert in the art; the main thing is the intention.You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful and ineffective, but if you sincerely try to help, your attempt produces nothing but good.The one you are trying to help knows your intention and is strengthened and encouraged by the magic of your sharing.In nearly every case,your simple desire to help,converted into action,produces the good sought.But perhaps the greatest good is the good that you yourself get out of the attempt.Service to others delivers more joy to you than the joy you deliver to them.In doing good,you free yourself from the terrible burden of self; you escape from yourself into a clean world of joy and light.The good you simply try to do, regardless of the outcome, is always a success inside yourself.Unselfish giving is your most efficient formula for happiness,for you have embraced Eternity instead of Self;you have felt Life, and you are now the world bigger than you were before you began the project.名家经典英语散文篇6However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.名家经典英语散文篇7That must be the story of innumerable couples,and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.It reminds you of a placid rivulet,meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees,till at last it falls into the vasty sea;but the sea is so calm,so silent,so infifferent,that you are troubled suddently by a vague uneasiness.Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature,strong in me even in those days,that i felt insuch an existence,the share of the great majority,something amiss.I recognized its social value.I saw its ordered happiness,but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights.In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous,shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen.名家经典英语散文篇8"Come in," God said to me, "so, you would like to interview Me?""If you have the time," I said.He smiled through His beard and said: "My time is called eternity and is enough to do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?""None that are new to you. What's the one thing that surprises you most about mankind?"He answered: "That they get bored of being children, are in a rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live neither for the present nor the future. That they live as if they will never die, and they die as if they never had never lived..."His hands took mine and we were silent. After a long period, I said, "May I ask you another question?"He replied with a smile."As a Father, what would you ask your children to do for the new year?""To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.To learn that it takes years to build trust, and a few seconds to destroy it.To learn that what is most valuable is not what they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others. There will be others better or worse than they are.To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.To learn that they should control their attitudes, otherwise their attitudes will control them.To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.To learn that there are persons that love them dearly, but simply do not know how to show their feelings.To learn that money can buy everything but happiness.To learn that while at times they may be entitled to be upset, that does not give them the right to upset those around them.To learn that great dreams do not require great wings, but a landing gear to achieve.To learn that true friends are scarce, he/she who has found one has found a true treasure.To learn that they are masters of what they keep to themselves and slaves of what they say.To learn that they shall reap what they plant; if they plant gossip they will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will harvest happiness.To learn that true happiness is not to achieve their goals but to learn to be satisfied with what they already achieved.To learn that happiness is a decision. They decide to be happy with what they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of what they lack.To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see something totally different.To learn that those who are honest with themselves without considering the consequences go far in life.To learn that even though they may think they have nothing to give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease the pain.To learn that by trying to hold on to love ones, they very quickly push them away; and by letting go of those they love, they will be side by side forever.名家经典英语散文篇9Often heard people complain about, why not my face, why so bad weather today, why do I live in such a poor family, why God told me ... ... why should we complain about it complained that it? Life was not all the best, life was not perfect, on the contrary, the ups and downs, is the routine As the saying goes:愁愁a white head; laugh less decade. Do not complain, everyone's life will not be easy, but precisely because of these twists and turns in folding wave, acquired a colorful life.If we can often look at the issue from another angle, you might easily find themselves still very exciting life. You can not change the face, smile why do not you think about indulgence; you can not change the weather, why do not you change the mood. As the saying goes: after the storm. The same is true of life, after training can often make life wonderful.China, a writer came to the United States, he saw a flower of the old lady is always very happy, very strange. He would pick aflower asked: Why are you always so happy? Replied the old lady to make the writer stand in amazement. Jesus was crucified is the world's darkest day, three days later to Easter. All the trouble to wait for three days as long as the right not to vanish into thin air? Writer for the old lady answered and moved an old lady could look at this free and easy life, could see so thoroughly to life. King inventors - Edison filament do in order to find the best materials have been done a 1000 experiment many times and failed. Have a laugh at his neighbor: Do you how to do 1000 experiments have failed many times? Edison said: I am not found more than 1000 kinds of inappropriate material filament so it? Edison failed to look at from another angle, am quite sure that it can be the most suitable materials, is precisely because of this self-confidence, they are able to make unremitting efforts, finally successful.People to love life, love life, to have self-confidence, it is necessary to make unremitting efforts towards the target, like Ai Qing said, Even if we are a candle, wax should be dry before the torch ashes tears; even though we are a match should be at the crucial moment there is a ray of light , if so, will the meaning of our lives, our lives will be able to issue a strange glory. Finally, I had to remind you that in the face of setbacks, do not complain about it complained that the old, and to learn how to transform the issue of perspective, so that life is not susceptible to rain by knockout.名家经典英语散文篇10The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-born daughter, Michael replied. Then, as I lay on the ground, remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live. Werent you scared? Didyou lose consciousness? I asked. Michael continued, ... the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, l read Hes a dead man. I knew I needed to take action. What did you do? I asked. Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me said Michael. She asked me if I was allergic to anything. Yes, I said. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, Grity Over their laughter, I told them, Im choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.名家经典英语散文篇11"I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days."--Henry David Thoreau.When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy.Woodchoppers and the iron horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days "when idleness was the most attractive and productive business."I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer finds much time for idle drifting. The pond has been annexed by a great city.The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated isnow a harbor for motor boats. In short,everything that the boy loved no longer exists - except in the man's memory of it.Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost.Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.。

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优秀英语散文(一)阳光下的时光"…I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days." -- Henry David ThoreauWhen Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy.Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting. A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him. Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days "when idleness was the most attractive and productive business."I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days. Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed. The boy, who is now a man, no longer find much time for idle drifting. The pond has been annexed by a great city.The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses. The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats. In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists----except in the man's memory of it.Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous(无聊的，轻佻的) andfutile(无用的) and soon forgotten. So much of what we hopeto do tomorrow never happens.The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan(惋惜) the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost.Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quite hour in the sun.优秀英语散文(二)幸福也能种植Plant your deep in a bed of faith, and pack it down solid and tight. Drench(使湿透)daily with positive thinking and keep saturated just right. Much often with forgiveness, for this will help you grow. Quickly remove any seeds of worry, for they will soongerminate(发芽，生长), and keep out the weeds of despair. Nourish disappointments with hope whenever it is needed, and always stay cool and shaded when you feel irritated or heated. Trim away guilt or depression, for they create decay, and cultivate with happy memories as often as every day.Harvest the lessons of the past; just dig, pick, andhoe(锄头). And nurture the roots of the present, for now is when you flourish and grow. Start planting for the future; set your goals in a row. Spade the bed well for all your dreams to grow.Remember that grief is a natural predator, so learn to tolerate some damage. Protect your garden with daily prayers, for this will help you manage. Bury the criticism and complaining, for they are injurious pests. Sow the seed of love wherever you may go----for joy, love and laughter are surely bound to grow. Although the thorns of life may be here to stay, just sprout a smile along the way--- and be thankful for what you have today!。

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2023年最新的英语经典散文欣赏50篇英语经典散文欣赏50篇Dear son...孩子The day that you see me old and I am already not， have patience and try to understand me哪天你看到我日渐老去，身体也渐渐不行，请耐着性子试着了解我If I get dirty when eating if I cannot dress have patience.如果我吃的脏兮兮，如果我不会穿衣服有耐性一点Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.你记得我曾花多久时间教你这些事吗If， when I speak to you，I repeat the same things thousand and one times如果，当我一再重复述说Do not interrupt me listen to me同样的事情不要打断我，听我说 .When you were small， I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep你小时候，我必须一遍又一遍的读着同样的故事，直到你静静睡着 ..When I do not want to have a shower，neither shame me nor scold me当我不想洗澡，不要羞辱我也不要责骂我Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses Iinvented， in order that you wanted to bath你记得小时后我曾编出多少理由，只为了哄你洗澡 ..When you see my ignorance on new technologies give me thenecessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile当你看到我对新科技的无知，给我一点时间，不要挂着嘲弄的微笑看着我I taught you how to do so many things to eat good， to dress wellto confront life我曾教了你多少事情啊 .如何好好的吃，好好的穿如何面对你的生命When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation如果交谈中我忽然失忆不知所云，let me have the necessary time to remember给我一点时间回想and if I cannot do it，如果我还是无能为力，do not become nervous请不要紧张 ..as the most important thing is not my conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me对我而言重要的不是对话，而是能跟你在一起，和你的倾听 ..英语经典散文欣赏50篇The Pennsylvania-landscape was in severe wintry garb as our car sped westover the interstate Ul The season was wrong, butI couldn t get bluebirds outof my head.Only three weeks before, at Christmas, Dad had given me a nesting box he dmade: He had a special feeling for the brilliant creatures, and each spring heeagerly awaited their return. Now I wondered, willhe ever see one againIt was a heart attack. Dad s third.When I got to the hospital at 2 a.m., he was losing the fight. As the familyhovered at his bedside, he drifted in and out of consciousness.Once he looked up at.Mom sitting beside the bed holding his hand. Theywant me to let go, he said, :but I can t. I don t want to. Mom patted his arm. Just hold on to me, she murmured.The next morning the cardiologist met us in the waiting room. He s stillfighting, the doaor said. I ve never seen such strengthMy youngest brother was only five when Ileft home 30 years ago.Relation-ships between my brothers- and sisters had become -frayed because of dis-tance and commitments to our own families. But Dad needed his childrennow, so we stayed at the hospital. During the long vigil, we reminisced aboutour years at home.A miner, Dad had not had an easy life. He and Mom raised six kids at a timewhen coal miners eamed as little as 25 cents a ton, and he loaded nine tonsa day. Even now, I m sure we don t know most of the sacrifices they madefor us.I remembered Dad s hard hat, its carbide lamp showing a fine pall of coaldust. Dad s graygreen eyes seemed large and wise as an owl sin his black-ened face. They often sparkled with devilment when theymet yours inconversation. .Each evening he came home, eager to take up his crosscut saw or clawhammer. Dad could chock a piece of walnut on his lathe and deffly tum outa beautiful salad bowl for Mom. He could build a cherry fold-top desk withfine, dovetailed drawers as easily as he could fashion a fishing-line threaderout of an old ballpoint pen.Dad bought our plain, two-story house from the coal company and immedi~ately began to remodel it. Our house was the first on the hill to have anindoor bathroom and hot water. He spent one summer digging out the clay-filled foundation to install a coal furnace. We children no longer shivered inour bed-rooms on cold winter mornings.We loved to watch him work. When Dad needed something, we ran to getit. If we called it a thingamabob he would say, That s a nail set (thetool for sinking the head of a nail below the surface of the wood). It has aname. Use it. Dad carried a spirit of craftsmanship into every job and expeaed the samefrom all six children. Each job had its claim on your best efforts. And evertool had its name. Those were his principles, and we lived by them just aSDad did.His playful spirit would set us to giggling-like the time he was buildingfireplace in the back yard. He sent us to look for the stone-bender he needeto make the comer stones fit more evenly. Guess I ll have to bend theiamyself, he said when we retumed empty-handed. We saw the sparkle in.bijeyes, and knew we d been had.Sitting in the hospitalwaitting room, I thought back to an afteon in Dad sworkshop several years ago..He was retired by then, but he kept busy building beautiful furniture, now for his children s homes.A volunteer naturalist,I was eager to tell him about the help bluebirds needed.When the early settlers had cleared forests for farmland, I explained, blueLbirds flourished, nesting in fence-posts and orchard trees. But their habitatwas disappearing, and now the birds needed nesting boxesDad listened as-I spoke, his hands gently moving a finegrained sand-paperover a piece of oak. I asked him if he would like to build a box. He said hewould think about it.Several weeks later he invited me into his workshop. There, on his workbench,sat three well-crafted bluebird nesting boxes. Think the birds willlike themThe asked.As much as I do, I replied, hugging him. Dad put up the boxes, and thenext spring bluebirds nested in his yard. He was hooked.Dad became quite an expert on the species. Bluebirds, he would say, areharbingers of hope and triumph, renowned for family loyalty.A pair willhave two or three broods a year, the earlier young sometimes helping to feedthe later nestlings.The presence of his children must have boosted Dad s spirits afterhis attackbecause he grew stronger and left the hospital on Valentine s Day WhenI visited my parents at the end of March, Dad was confined to the downstairs.But I noticed that he paused longer and longer at the windows facing theback yard. I knew what he was hoping to see. And one day a bright flash ofcolor circled the nesting box closest to our house.Well, it s about time the rascals showed, don t you think Dad said.Sporting a resplendent blue head, back, wings and tail, a male bluebird sanghis courtship song so passionately that we dubbed him Caruso, after theItalian tenor. A female appeared, but rejected the nesting box. Caruso foundanother in the field below the yard. He circled the new box, singing feverishly.She remained aloof on a distant perch.Dad was walking more and more each day as the love story unfolded. Icould see strength coming back into his wiry frame.One day Caruso battled a rival for the female s attentions. Then she foughtan even more vehement battle with another female. Afterward she resumedher haughty. stance while he fervently continued with his rapturous repertoire.Suddenly one exquisite morning, when the sky mirrored Caruso scourtingraiment, she flew back to the box nearest the house and inspected itthoroughly. Caruso hovered nearby and sang blissfully as she finally acceptedhim.Shortly thereafter she proceeded to lay one egg a day until there were six.Caruso fluttered outside, defending the nest while she incubated.Dad was now well enough to go outside, but he still couldn t reach the back-yard. He asked us to check inside the nesting box once a day. When we dreturn, the questions came. Is she on the nest he asked. Have the eggshatched Did you see that showboat what s-his-name Caruso, Dad, I replied. He has a name, you know. Dad s sly grin re:flected the devilment that had returned to his eyes.When the eggs hatched, we marveled at the herculean efforts Caruso andhis mate expended to capture insects for their brood. Nestlings must be fedevery 20 minutes.Near the end of May, the fledglings left the nest. By then Dad was able towalk to the fields beyond and see what other bluebird news there might be.Mom and I would watch him from the kitchen window. He gave some-thing to those bluebirds, she said quietly one day. Now they ve given itback.蓝知更鸟的希望我们的汽车奔驰西行越过州界，宾夕法尼亚州一派严冬景象，时令不正常，可是我对蓝知更鸟一直不能忘怀。

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英语散文名篇欣赏英语散文名篇欣赏散文是最自由的文体，不讲究音韵，不讲究排比，没有任何的束缚及限制，也是中国最早出现的行文体例。

以下是小编分享的英语散文名篇欣赏，欢迎大家阅读!英语散文名篇欣赏(一)Love and Time 爱和时间Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said,"Richness, can you take me with you?"Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!""I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, let me go with you.""Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own way. Realizing how much was owed the elder,Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who Helped me?""It was Time," Knowledge answered."Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."爱和时间从前有一个岛，所有的情感都住在那里：幸福、悲伤、知识和所有其它的，爱也不例外。

英语经典的优美散文阅读

英语经典的优美散文阅读多多学习一些英语散文会和好提升我们的英语作文水平哦，所以小编今天就给大家带来了英语的优秀散文，一起来看看吧英语散文一However mean your life is，meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life，poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant，thrilling，glorious hourss，even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there，and have as cheering thoughts，as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb，like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things，whether clothes or friends，Turn the old，return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。

经典优美英语散文

经典优美英语散文经典优美英语散文经典优美英语散文精选【1】018:The First Canyon in the World - the Grand Canyon世界第一大峡谷一美国科罗拉多大峡谷有人说科罗拉多大峡谷就像是上帝在地球上切了一刀，可见这里的景色多么的浑然天成。

大峡谷是科罗拉多河长期冲刷而产生的杰作。

其多变的地势，层叠交替的岩层，一直以来吸引着世界各地的游客，他们长途跋涉，就是为了能拥抱大峡谷，一览它无比神秘而壮观的真容。

A famous American John Muir said in 1898, "The Grand Canyon .as unearthly in the color and grandeur and quantity of its architecture as if you had found it after death on some other star." Like Muir, those of us who stand along the rim are prompted to wonder about the unearthliness and the forces that created and are still changing this place.一位著名的美国人约翰·缪尔在1898年曾说过，“科罗拉多大峡谷……它神奇的色彩和宏伟多变的构造是世间少有的，就像是人死后在另一个世界看到的东西一样。

”和缪尔一样，我们站在大峡谷边缘，顿时对这里的超凡脱俗，对那种创造并仍在改变这个地方的神奇力量感到惊奇。

After more than 100 years of studies, many things are still obscure Today visitors come by the thousands - the great and simple of the earth - all in a spirit of marvel.Travelers come from every state of the Union, from every country in Europe and Asia, pilgrims to a shrine that is the same as the creed经过100多年的研究，许多事情仍然是未解之谜。

关于英语的优美的散文大全

关于英语的优美的散文大全英语是我们无论哪一个年龄段都要学习的，所以小编今天就给大家带来了英语的优秀散文，大家一起看看吧英语散文一I'll give you some advice about life. 给你生活的忠告Eat more roughage; 多吃些粗粮;Do more than others expect you to do and do it pains; 给别人比他们期望的更多，并用心去做;Remember what life tells you; 熟记生活告诉你的一切;Don't take to heart every thing you hear. Don't spend all that you have. Don't sleep as long as you want; 不要轻信你听到的每件事，不要花光你的所有，不要想睡多久就睡多久;Whenever you say "I love you", please say it honestly; 无论何时说"我爱你"，请真心实意;Whenever you say "I'm sorry", please look into the other person's eyes; 无论何时说"对不起"，请看对方的眼睛;Fall in love at first sight; 相信一见钟情;Don't neglect dreams; 请不要忽视梦想;Love deeply and ardently, even if there is pain, but this is the way to make your life complete; 深情热烈地爱，也许会受伤，但这是使人生完整的唯一方法;Find a way to settle, not to dispute; 用一种明确的方法解决争议，不要冒犯;Never judge people by their appearance; 永远不要以貌取人;Speak slowly, but think quickly; 慢慢地说，但要迅速地想;When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and say, "Why do you want to know?" 当别人问你不想回答的问题时，笑着说："你为什么想知道?"Remember that the man who can shoulder the most risk will gain the deepest love and the supreme accomplishment; 记住：那些敢于承担最大风险的人才能得到最深的爱和最大的成就;Call you mother on the phone. If you can't, you may think of her in your heart; 给妈妈打电话，如果不行，至少在心里想着她;When someone sneezes say, "God bless you"; 当别人打喷嚏时，说一声"上帝保佑";If you fail, don't forget to learn your lesson; 如果你失败了，千万别忘了汲取教训;Remember the three " respects" .Respect yourself, respect others, stand on dignity and pay attention to your behavior; 记住三个"尊"：尊重你自己; 尊重别人; 保持尊严，对自己的行为负责;Don't let a little dispute break up a great friendship; 不要让小小的争端损毁了一场伟大的友谊;Whenever you find your wrongdoing, be quick with reparation! 无论何时你发现自己做错了，竭尽所能去弥补;动作要快!Whenever you make a phone call smile when you pick up thephone, because someone can feel it! 无论什么时候打电话，摘起话筒的时候请微笑，因为对方能感觉到!Marry a person who likes talking; because when you get old, you'll find that chatting to be a great advantage; 找一个你爱聊的人结婚;因为年纪大了后，你会发觉喜欢聊天是一个人最大的优点;Find time for yourself. 找点时间，单独呆会儿;Life will change what you are but not who you are; 欣然接受改变，但不要摒弃你的个人理念;Remember that silence is golden; 记住：沉默是金;Read more books and watch less television; 多看点书，少看点电视;Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your oldage will help you to enjoy your life again; 过一种高尚而诚实的生活。

英语精美散文带翻译初中

散文二：The Power of Kindness
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. It has the power to break down barriers and bring people together. Kindness can be as simple as a smile, a kind word, or a thoughtful gesture. It costs nothing, but it can mean everything to someone in need.
True friendship is built on trust, respect, and understanding. It is not about the quantity of time spent together, but the quality of those moments. It’s about sharing laughter, wiping away tears, and being there for each other no matter what.
春天
春天是四季之一，位于冬天和夏天之间。在春天，天气开始变暖，白天变长。树木开始长新叶，鲜花开始盛开。整个世界似乎重新变得生机勃勃。
人们喜欢春天有很多原因。他们可以更频繁地出门，进行野餐、远足和园艺等各种活动。春天也是农民开始种植庄稼和小动物出生的时候。
春天是充满希望和快乐的季节。它代表了新的开始和成长。它提醒我们，无论冬天有多么艰难，春天总会带来温暖和快乐。
在这个有时候不够善待的世界里，选择善待会产生巨大的影响。它能照亮某人的一天，修复一颗受伤的心，甚至改变某人的一生轨迹。因此，让我们共同努力，在我们所到之处传播善待。

英语散文经典名篇欣赏

英语散文经典名篇欣赏英语散文以优美的语言美丽，给人以独特的阅读享受，是放松我们心情的阅读伴侣。

下面店铺为大家带来英语散文经典名篇欣赏，欢迎大家阅读!英语散文经典名篇：海边的生活在繁忙的生活中，不要忘记适时地停下脚步，闻一闻玫瑰花的香气，感受一下雨后空气的清新。

生命短暂，时光流逝如白驹过隙一般。

我们应该尽情地享受这美好的时光。

I have grown up and lived near water my entire life and l have witnessed the ocean's power in all forms. It can bring the simplest beauty in the gift of a shell or the harshest danger from the pull of a rip tide.我生长在海边，一生都在海边度过，因此，我见证了大海各种各样的力量。

大海可以通过贝壳展现最纯朴的美，也能够用惊涛骇浪带来最严酷的危害。

The waves, currents, and tides of the sea are much the same as the ups, downs and precariousness of life itself. Just as the ocean can be a mix of tranquility and disturbance so can life be a mix of calm and duress.大海的波涛、水流与潮汐，与人生的跌宕起伏非常相似。

大海可以风平浪静也可以波涛汹涌，人生也是如此，可以容纳平静与束缚。

The lessons of the sea, both good and bad, have followed me through my personal and professional life. And I have learned that I can often reflect on these and lead a more meaningful life of inner peace.在我的个人生活与职业生涯中，大海教会我的东西很多，有好的也有坏的。

经典的英语散文(菁选优秀6篇

经典的英语散文(菁选优秀6篇在平日的学习、工作和生活里，大家一定都接触过散文吧？散文是抒发作文真情实感，写作方式灵活的记叙类文学体裁。

那么，你知道一篇好的散文要怎么写吗？书包范文为朋友们分享了经典的英语散文(菁选优秀6篇，希望能够对朋友们的写作有一些帮助。

英语唯美散文篇一I love to be alone.We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live thick and are in each other’s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams.It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.我发现人若大部分时间用于独处，将有益身心。

优美英语散文(通用10篇)

优美英语散文（通用10篇）短篇英语美文篇一One day a farmer#39;s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the framer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway and it just wasn#39;t worth to retrieve the donkey. So, he decided to bury it!He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly, then slowly he quieted down till nothing more was heard.A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well, and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing! He would shake it off and take a step up!As the farmer#39;s neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells by not stopping, never giving up, shaking it off, and taking a step up!Remember the five simple rules to be happy:1、Free your heart from hatred.2、Free your mind from worries.3、Trust in God.4、Give more.5、Expect less.英语写作参考文章篇二HOW TO GET HAPPINESS如何获得快乐There is no doubt that happiness is the most precious thing in the world.Without it,life will be empty and meaningless.If you wish to know how to get happiness,you must pay attention to the following two points.First,health is the secret of happiness(the key to happiness)。

英文散文短篇感悟经典-英语散文经典100篇

英文散文短篇感悟经典-英语散文经典100篇第一篇: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert FrostThis poem serves as a reflection on the choices we make in life and the impact they have on our future. It reminds us that choosing the unconventional path may bring forth unforeseen opportunities and personal growth. At the same time, it highlights the uncertainty and longing for the road not taken, raising questions about the nature of regret and the importance of embracing our choices.第二篇: "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a thought-provoking English prose written by Harper Lee. Set in the 1930s, the novel explores themes of racial inequality, prejudice, and injustice through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch.第三篇: "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald"The Great Gatsby" is an iconic English prose by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the Roaring Twenties. The novel explores themes of the American Dream, love, and the corrupting influence of wealth.The story follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy man who is passionately in love with Daisy Buchanan, a married woman. Through Gatsby's pursuit of wealth and love, the novel critiques the emptiness and shallowness of the American Dream.In conclusion, "The Great Gatsby" is a literary gem that explores the dark side of the American Dream and the profound impact it can have on individuals and society....依此类推，您可以继续编写更多的英语散文经典，以达到您所需要的100篇。

经典的英语散文

经典的英语散文经典的英语散文英语的散文阅读，能帮助我们更好地学习英语语法。

下面就随店铺一起去阅读经典的英语散文，相信能带给大家启发。

经典的英语散文【1】In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.在茫茫宇宙间，每个人都只有一次生存的机会，都是一个独一无二、不可重复的存在。

正像卢梭所说的，上帝把您造出来后，就把那个属于您的特定的模子打碎了。

Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.名声、财产、知识等等是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但没有人能够代替您感受人生。

英语课外阅读散文经典文章

英语课外阅读散文经典文章初次学习英语的时候，比较喜欢看的是一些散文类的文章，虽然也有议论文，但是因为英语散文词句表达比较优美，所以看得比较多。

今天小编给大家带来英语课外阅读散文，希望大家喜欢并且能够有所收获。

英语课外阅读散文(一)让我们微笑吧The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, that costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men, will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax(哄骗)the Sun again.It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent; It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile; It always has the same good look; it's never out of style; It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue;The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you. It pays the highest interest — for it is merely lent;It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.A smile comes very easy — you can wrinkle up with cheer. A hundred times before you can squeeze out a salty tear. It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug, and always leaves an echo that is very like a hug.So, smile away! Folks understand what by a smile is meant. It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.英语课外阅读散文(二)心灵维他命One of the most important habits in life is to feed your mind with positive mental food. Remember, you are verysusceptible(易受……影响的) to the suggested influences in your environment, whether radio, television, newspapers, magazines, billboards or conversations with other people. Your mind is your most important and precious asset. You must protect it and keep it clean, clear and focused on what you want, rather than allowing it to be polluted by the negative influences around you.Refuse to watch terror or trash on television. Refuse to read about all the murders, robberies, rapes and tragedies in the newspapers. Refuse to listen to endless hours of mindless radio commentary on all the problems in the modern world. Refuse to engage in endless conversations with people about all the political and social problems in your nation or community. Keep your mind clean, clear, positive and free.Not only do you become what you think about, but also you become what you feed into your mind on a regular basis. If you want to be positive, optimistic and happy, continually feed your mind with positive books and articles, positive audio learning programs, positive input and information from other experts in your field, and positive conversations with other optimistic goal-oriented people who are going somewhere with their lives.。

经典英语散文(精选10篇)

经典英语散文〔精选10篇〕篇1：英语散文英语散文became a searcher,wanting to find out who I was and what made me unique. My view of myself was changing. I wanted a solid base to start from. I started to resist3 pressure to act in ways that I didn’Each of us holds a unique place in the world. You are special,no matter what others say or what you may think. So forget about being replaced. You can’我成了一个探寻者，想要知道自己到底是谁，又是什么让我变得独一无二。

我的人生观开场改变。

我需要一个巩固的根底来开展，我忍受住压力，不再做自己不喜欢做的事。

而且我为真实的我感到快乐。

渐渐地我越发肯定自己无可替代每个人在这个世界上都占有一个独一无二的位置。

无论别人说什么，你自己怎么想，你都是特别的。

所以，不要担忧自己会被取代，因为你永远是惟一的Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to succeed. It takes more than justbreathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make use of that opportunity. That's not up to the opportunity. That's up to you. It doesn't matter what “floor” the opportunity is on. What matters is what you do with it. 正如你需要空气来呼吸，你也需要机遇来获得成功。

经典英语散文阅读大全

经典英语散文阅读大全学习英语，阅读真的很重要，我整理了一些英文散文，下面我就和大家共享，来观赏一下吧。

英语散文：The colour of sky 天空的颜色The colour of sky天空的颜色If we look at the sky on a perfectly fine summer‘s day we shall find that the blue colour is the most pure and intense overhead，and when looking high up in a direction opposite to the sun.晴空万里的夏日，假如我们视察一下天空，且背向太阳，极目仰视，就会发觉头顶上空的蓝色最纯洁，最浓郁。

Near the horizon it is always less bright，while in the region immediately around the sun it is more or less yellow. The reason of this is that near the horizon we look through a very great thickness of the lower atmosphere，which is full of the larger dust particles reflecting white light，and this diluter(稀释剂) the pure blue of the higher atmosphere seen beyond，and in the vicinity(邻近，旁边) of the sun a good deal of the blue light is reflected back into space by the finer dust，thus giving a yellowish tinge to that which reaches us reflected chiefly from the coarse dust of the lower atmosphere.靠近天涯，色调往往较暗淡，太阳四周的地方那么略呈.这是因为我们向天涯望去时，目光要穿过极厚的低空大气层，其中布满颗粒较大的尘埃，反射出白光，这就冲淡了天际高空大气层的纯蓝色。

英语散文短篇欣赏

英语散文短篇欣赏英语散文短篇欣赏英语散文中散发着迷人的魅力，吸引着我们去阅读，我们也能将散文中的道理学会。

小编今天为大家带来短篇的英语散文，让我们一起欣赏一下吧。

英语散文短篇欣赏篇一If I knew假如我知道If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you fall asleep,假如我知道这是最后一次看到你进入梦乡，I would tuck you in more tightly and "pray the lord , your soul to keep".我会给你掖紧被子，并“祈求上的，让你的灵魂常在”。

If I knew it would be the last time I'd see you walk out the door,假如我知道这将是你最后一次迈出家门，I would give you a hug and kiss you, and call you back for more.我会亲吻你，拥抱你，一遍遍地唤着你回来。

If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise.假如我知道这将是最后一次听到你在赞扬中高亢的声音，I would video tape each action and word , so I could play them back day after day.我会记录下你每一句言语，每一个动作，这样我可以日日地不停播放。

If I knew it would be the last time I could spare an extra minute or so to stop and say"I love you, "instead of assuming you would know I do.假如我知道这将是最后一次说“我爱你”，我会留出时间或者停下手头的工作告诉你，而不会自负的认为你已经知道。

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Dear son...孩子…The day that you see me old and I am already not， have patience and try to understand me …哪天你看到我日渐老去，身体也渐渐不行，请耐着性子试着了解我……If I get dirty when eating… if I cannot dress… have patience.如果我吃的脏兮兮，如果我不会穿衣服……有耐性一点……Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.你记得我曾花多久时间教你这些事吗?If， when I speak to you，I repeat the same things thousand and one times…如果，当我一再重复述说Do not interrupt me… listen to me同样的事情…不要打断我，听我说….When you were small， I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…你小时候，我必须一遍又一遍的读着同样的故事，直到你静静睡着……..When I do not want to have a shower，neither shame me nor scold me…当我不想洗澡，不要羞辱我也不要责骂我……Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented，in order that you wanted to bath…你记得小时后我曾编出多少理由，只为了哄你洗澡…..When you see my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your mocking smile…当你看到我对新科技的无知，给我一点时间，不要挂着嘲弄的微笑看着我I taught you how to do so m any things… to eat good，to dress well… to confront life…我曾教了你多少事情啊….如何好好的吃，好好的穿…如何面对你的生命……When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation…如果交谈中我忽然失忆不知所云，let me have the necessary time to remember…给我一点时间回想…and if I cannot do it，如果我还是无能为力，do not become nervous…请不要紧张…..as the most important thing is not my conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me…对我而言重要的不是对话，而是能跟你在一起，和你的倾听…..The Pennsylvania-landscape was in severe wintry garb as our car sped westover the interstate Ul The season was wrong, butI couldn't get bluebirds outof my head.Only three weeks before, at Christmas, Dad had given me a nesting box he'dmade: He had a special feeling for the brilliant creatures, and each spring heeagerly awaited their return. Now I wondered, will he ever see one again?It was a heart attack. Dad's third.When I got to the hospital at 2 a.m., he was losing the fight. As the familyhovered at his bedside, he drifted in and out of consciousness.Once he looked up at.Mom sitting beside the bed holding his hand. "Theywant me to let go," he said, ':but I can't. I don't want to."Mom patted his arm. "Just hold on to me," she murmured.The next morning the cardiologist met us in the waiting room. "He's stillfighting,"the doaor said. "I've never seen such strengthMy youngest brother was only five when Ileft home 30 years ago. Relation-ships between my brothers- and sisters had become -frayed because of dis-tance and commitments to our own families. But Dad needed his childrennow, so we stayed at the hospital. During the long vigil, we reminisced aboutour years at home.A miner, Dad had not had an easy life. He and Mom raised six kids at a timewhen coal miners eamed as little as 25 cents a ton, and he loaded nine tonsa day. Even now, I'm sure we don't know most of the sacrifices they madefor us.I remembered Dad's hard hat, its carbide lamp showing a fine pall of coaldust. Dad's graygreen eyes seemed large and wise as an owl's in his black-ened face. They often sparkled with devilment when they met yours inconversation. .Each evening he came home, eager to take up his crosscut saw or clawhammer. Dad could chock a piece of walnut on his lathe and deffly tum outa beautiful salad bowl for Mom. He could build a cherry fold-top desk withfine, dovetailed drawers as easily as he could fashion a fishing-line threaderout of an old ballpoint pen.Dad bought our plain, two-story house from the coal company and immedi~ately began to remodel it. Our house was the first on the hill to have anindoor bathroom and hot water. He spent one summer digging out the clay-filled foundation to install a coal furnace. We children no longer shivered inour bed-rooms on cold winter mornings.We loved to watch him work. When Dad needed something, we ran to getit. If we called it a "thingamabob he would say, "That's a nail set" (thetool for sinking the head of a nail below the surface of the wood). "It has aname. Use it."Dad carried a spirit of craftsmanship into every job and expeaed the samefrom all six children. Each job had its claim on your best efforts. And evertool had its name. Those were his principles, and we lived by them just aSDad did.His playful spirit would set us to giggling-like the time he was buildingfireplace in the back yard. He sent us to look for the"stone-bender" he needeto make the comer stones fit more evenly. "Guess I'll have to bend theiamyself," he said when we retumed empty-handed. We saw the sparkle in.bijeyes, and knew we'd been had.Sitting in the hospitalwaitting room, I thought back to an afteon in Dad'sworkshop several years ago..He was retired by then, but he kept busy building beautiful furniture, now for his children's homes. A volunteer naturalist,I was eager to tell him about the help bluebirds needed.When the early settlers had cleared forests for farmland, I explained, blueLbirds flourished, nesting in fence-posts and orchard trees. But their habitatwas disappearing, and now the birds needed nesting boxesDad listened as-I spoke, his hands gently moving a finegrained sand-paperover a piece of oak. I asked him if he would like to build a box. He said hewould think about it.Several weeks later he invited me into his workshop. There, on his workbench,sat three well-crafted bluebird nesting boxes. "Think the birds willlike themT'he asked."As much as I do,"I replied, hugging him. Dad put up the boxes, and thenext spring bluebirds nested in his yard. He was hooked.Dad became quite an expert on the species. Bluebirds, he would say, areharbingers of hope and triumph, renowned for family loyalty. A pair willhave two or three broods a year, the earlier young sometimes helping to feedthe later nestlings.The presence of his children must have boosted Dad's spirits after his attackbecause he grew stronger and left the hospital on Valentine's Day WhenI visited my parents at the end of March, Dad was confined to the downstairs.But I noticed that he paused longer and longer at the windows facing theback yard. I knew what he was hoping to see. And one day a bright flash ofcolor circled the nesting box closest to our house."Well, it's about time the rascals showed, don't you think?" Dad said.Sporting a resplendent blue head, back, wings and tail, a male bluebird sanghis courtship song so passionately that we dubbed him "Caruso," after theItalian tenor. A female appeared, but rejected thenesting box. Caruso foundanother in the field below the yard. He circled the new box, singing feverishly.She remained aloof on a distant perch.Dad was walking more and more each day as the love story unfolded. Icould see strength coming back into his wiry frame.One day Caruso battled a rival for the female's attentions. Then she foughtan even more vehement battle with another female. Afterward she resumedher haughty. stance while he fervently continued with his rapturous repertoire.Suddenly one exquisite morning, when the sky mirrored Caruso's courtingraiment, she flew back to the box nearest the house and inspected itthoroughly. Caruso hovered nearby and sang blissfully as she finally acceptedhim.Shortly thereafter she proceeded to lay one egg a day until there were six.Caruso fluttered outside, defending the nest while she incubated.Dad was now well enough to go outside, but he still couldn't reach the back-yard. He asked us to check inside the nesting box once a day. When we'dreturn, the questions came. "Is she on the nest?" he asked. "Have the eggshatched? Did you see that showboat what's-his-name?""Caruso, Dad," I replied. "He has a name, you know." Dad's sly grin re:flected the devilment that had returned to his eyes.When the eggs hatched, we marveled at the herculean efforts Caruso andhis mate expended to capture insects for their brood. Nestlings must be fedevery 20 minutes.Near the end of May, the fledglings left the nest. By then Dad was able towalk to the fields beyond and see what other bluebird news there might be.Mom and I would watch him from the kitchen window. "He gave some-thing to those bluebirds," she said quietly one day. "Now they've given itback."蓝知更鸟的希望我们的汽车奔驰西行越过州界，宾夕法尼亚州一派严冬景象，时令不正常，可是我对蓝知更鸟一直不能忘怀。