The_First_Snow (Henry Longfellow)五种不同译文对照
The first snow
Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
The first now
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of the children.
中英咏雪诗对比学习
英汉咏雪诗对比学习万丁200920437 有人说雪是“雪是无私的，它宁愿牺牲自己去成就世间情意。
”有人说“雪是美好的，它为世间带来无数欢乐、无数笑声。
”还有人说“水或冰在空中凝结再落下的自然现象，或指落下的雪花。
”英文中也有“as white as snow”洁白如雪(white 视觉上的颜色)。
“be as pure as the driven snow”内心纯洁的“snowed in (physically)”被大雪困住了。
“be snowed under”被困住了（overwhelm）。
“a snowball effect”雪球效应“snowball”(动词vt) 如同雪球一样越滚越大，形容事物发展规模速度疯狂增长。
雪只会在很冷的温度及温带气旋的影响下才会出现，因此亚热带地区和热带地区下雪的机会较微。
而世界范围内超过三分之二的陆地都处在温带以及亚寒带、寒带地区，所以雪作为全球大范围语言中的一个词汇就成为可能。
语言体现文化，所以同一个“雪”字，在不同的语言中都有着丰富的文化内涵。
首先，作为大自然的普遍现象，在中英诗歌中都有表现。
唐朝祖咏的《终南望余雪》写道“终南阴岭秀，积雪浮云端。
林表明霁色，城中增暮寒。
”写了在大雪的背景下，终南山和秀美景色，天空在雪的印照下有如浮云，还描写了雪下的树林，衬着白雪，就如“霁色”，而整个城市都在雪暮中多了几分寒意。
还有李咸用的《大雪歌》“同云惨惨如天怒，寒龙振鬣飞乾雨。
玉圃花飘朵不匀，银河风急惊砂度。
”写了下雪时的天空犹如“天怒”、“龙振”，漫漫雪花就像“玉圃花”飘飘洒洒，风景奇美。
除了以上二例，在古代诗句中还有大量描写雪的姿态，而且在描写中不乏恰当的比喻和细致的刻画。
首先，有把雪比作花的，类似的称谓包括“飞花”、“林花”、“琼花”等，如“不知庭霞今朝落，疑是林花昨夜开。
”（晋•谢道蕴《咏雪联句》）；“白雪却嫌春色晚，故穿庭树作飞花。
”（唐•韩愈《春雪》）；“雪似梅花，梅花似雪，似和不似都奇绝。
英语拟声辞格音韵美的汉译再现
湖南民族职业学院学报JOURNAL OF HUNAN VOC ATIONAL COLLEGE FOR NATIONALITIES2008年3月所谓拟声(onomatopoeia),就是通过对自然声音的直接模拟而构成的词项。
拟声词属于开放性词类,有时也可以根据情况需要创造出新的拟声词。
它不仅是一种构词方法,也是一种生动逼真的修辞手段。
拟声词读来有清晰的音响感,能渲染文字中的音响,给读者听觉上的刺激,给人以身临其境的感受。
恰当使用拟声修辞法,可以夸张印象,增强声势、动态的描绘效果。
18世纪英国伟大的诗人蒲柏(AlexanderPope)在《批评论》(A nEssayonCriticism)一诗中说:The sound must seem an echo to the sense.(声音须与意义附和),在不同题材的文学作品中,语言的声音和作品的思想内容始终是相互呼应的。
一、英语拟声的两种形式1.基本拟声(primary onomatopoeia)基本拟声是指音和义基本吻合,能直接产生音义相互联想的语言组合。
其中有模仿各种动物鸣叫声的,如:buzz(蜜蜂嗡嗡)、meow(猫咪喵喵)、croak (乌鸦嘎嘎)、bark(狗吠)、quack(鸭子呷呷)等;有模仿金属声的,如:tattoo (号声嘟嘟)、rumble (车声隆隆)、jingle (铃声叮当)、drum (鼓声咚咚)、gong (锣声哐哐)等;有模仿人发出的各种声音,如:babble(咿呀学语)、chatter(唧唧喳喳)、giggle(咯咯笑)、groan(呻吟)等。
2.次要拟声(secondary onomatopoeia)次要拟声要求声音与某种象征意义发生联想。
这类词按词源来说是没有拟声根据的,或者还没有肯定的根据。
它们之所以被认为有拟声作用,是因为它们本身某些字母的发音(甚至包括发音时口腔内发音器官的动作)能象征某种概念或意境,给人以想象的空间。
英汉相对无主句的特征和功能比较
英汉相对无主句的特征和功能比较张书健;李玲【摘要】语言学界普遍认为,中西方民族思维方式的不同导致了中西语言表达方式上的不同.汉语注重意合,突出陈述的主题内容而非主语本身,以至于汉语中频频出现主语空位的现象.无主句被认为是汉语言的特色之一.多数学者认为英语注重形合,比较突出主语,因此英语不存在无主句.事实上英语在特定情况下亦存在相对无主语现象,且具有典型性结构特征和特定的语用功能.【期刊名称】《常州信息职业技术学院学报》【年(卷),期】2010(009)005【总页数】4页(P69-72)【关键词】相对无主句;英汉对比;结构特征;语用功能【作者】张书健;李玲【作者单位】苏州工业职业技术学院,江苏苏州,215104;苏州工业职业技术学院,江苏苏州,215104【正文语种】中文【中图分类】H314无主句被认为是汉语言的特色之一。
多数学者认为英语注重形合，比较突出主语，因此英语不存在无主句。
事实上英语语言在特定情况下亦存在相对无主语现象，并具有一定的典型结构特征和特定的语用功能。
不过，英语中的无主语现象事实上是相对概念，结构和功能上与汉语的某些无主语现象有共同相通之处，但英汉语中主语“相对”不存在的现象所运用的结构方式、情境和语用功能上却各有特色。
由于相对无主句是英汉语言共有的语言现象，因此，探讨两者在结构特征和语用功能上的异同，有助于深入了解两种语言的表达特点并发现其中的规律，对促进语际间的信息和文化交流、英语学习有一定帮助。
汉语的无主语现象在语言学界几乎是被公认的。
虽然汉语无主语现象在分类和定义上存在较大分歧，但汉语允许主语缺空的现象基本得到了翻译界和语言学界的公认。
而英语却常被认为是典型的非主语脱落语言，主语一般必不可少［1］;但是在某些环境下，英语语言也允许主语被省略而造成的主语空位现象。
但同时也有人提出不同观点，“英语不允许主语省略”，并否认英语中存在无主句［2］。
尽管汉语无主句的定义、及英语中主语省略现象的有无方面存在一定争议，但两种语言在现实社会交际或文学作品中，“主语省略”的现象都客观且大量存在，这足以说明英语和汉语存在一种共同的无主语现象，即相对无主语现象。
The_First_Snow
业社会的节庆是跟着大自然的季节走，收割了秋获的金黄稻谷，在日最短夜最长的冬至吃过汤圆，随着天气越冷，期待过年的氛围就越热烈。
生活在现代工商业社会，节庆的重要性是依放假天数而定。
在华人为主的台湾社会，传统节庆如清明节、端午节及中秋节，都有假期及花红可拿，过节时便也有钱有闲忙些应景活动（或扫墓、或赛龙舟、或赏月）。
遇到农历新年这种大节庆，更是正正当当地从除夕放到初三，再加上前后周末加补假，台湾人过年非要拜过初九的天公生、逛完十五的元宵灯市才算落幕。
First Snow[第一场雪]JONATHAN NICHOLAS[乔纳森·尼古拉斯]He wasn’t sure what had awakened him. Perhaps the child had made some small noise in her sleep. But as he peeked from beneath the covers, his gaze was drawn not to the cradle but to the window.他还不太清楚是什么把他从睡梦中唤醒了，也许是孩子在梦里弄出的小声响吧。
可当他悄悄从被里探出头来，吸引他目光的不是小女儿的摇篮，而是窗外。
It was then that he realized what had sneaked through the shield of his slumbers. It was the sense of falling snow.这会儿他才知道是什么悄然袭入他的梦乡，让他醒来。
是他感觉到了窗外簌簌飘舞的雪。
Quietly, so as not to disturb the child’s mother, he rose from the bed and inched toward the cradle. Reaching down, he gently lifted the warm bundle to his shoulder. Then, as he tiptoed from the bedroom, she lifted her head, opened her eyes and —daily does of magic[愿意为一剂药。
「易学晨读」英语美文欣赏与朗读“TheFirstSnow（初雪）”
「易学晨读」英语美文欣赏与朗读“TheFirstSnow（初雪）”美文欣赏：The First SnowThe First Snow（初雪）.mp31:1来自网络打开今日头条，体验完整音频内容The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains,on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead.初雪飘临，静美如斯，日夜不息，山川草木，屋椽茔冢，一片洁白，银装素裹。
All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape；and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches.阔野之中，唯余溪流，逶迤前行，枯木虬枝，灰黑天幕，愈显虬枝峥嵘与纵横。
What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to some thing soft and musical.初雪，何其沉静又何其寂寥。
万籁俱静寂，了无声息，似作轻音辽远。
No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels. Only the chiming of sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.马迹难寻，车轨不在。
The First Snow翻译课练习
练习1.The First Snow初雪The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding蜿蜒的black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden 沉闷的sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies纷乱of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion!隔离Every sound was muffled抑制, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleighbells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.初雪降临，美不胜收。
于暗淡天幕中，轻舞飞扬，不舍昼夜，乐此不倦，或飞至崇山峻岭，或撒向枯黄草地，或飘至屋舍，或止于茔墓。
皑皑白雪过境，万物银装素裹，唯有潺潺河水，静谧流淌，似一泼浓墨，于精美画卷中，恣意挥洒。
阅读材料2
阅读材料2The Cardinal Virtue of ProseArthur Clutton BrockProse of its very nature is longer than verse, and the virtues peculiar to it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is justice; and, whereas love makes you act and speak on the spur of the moment（一时冲动的，不假思索的）, justice needs inquiry, patience, and a control even of the noblest passions. By justice here I do not mean justice only to particular people or ideas, but a habit of justice in all the processes of thought, a style tranquillized（使平静）and a form moulded（铸造）by that habit. The master of prose is not cold, but he will not let any word or image inflame（激怒，燃烧）him with a heat irrelevant to his purpose. Unhasting, unresting, he pursues it, subduing（征服）all the riches of his mind to it, rejecting all beauties that are not germane（密切相关的，恰当的）to it; making his own beauty out of the very accomplishment of it, out of the whole work and its proportions, so that you must read to the end before you know that it is beautiful. But he has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence（口才，雄辩）do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for being hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative or argument, we are so led on as we read, that we do not stop to applaud the writer, nor do we stop to question him.散文的首要品质阿瑟·克拉顿-布罗克（译文1）就其本质而言，散文比韵文篇幅长，因而其特有的品质是逐渐展现出来的。
FirstSnow-第一场雪
First Snow-第一场雪First SnowThe first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical. Ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then, what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter's hut or a snug logcabin. Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale. You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. You yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. How could you not when so much has been changed? There is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made.The children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day's work. Nobody can resist the windows. It is like being on board a ship.第一场雪第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且是充满魔力的大事。
f08.The first Snow
The first SnowHelen is from Miami, a beautiful city in the state of Florida. Today Helen is not in Miami. Her father has a new job in the state of Michigan and the family is in Detroit. Helen thinks that Detroit is a nice city, but she is very sad because all her friends are still in Miami.Helen spends most of the day by the windows. She looks out and thinks about the warm sunshine in Florida. She wants to go back to Miami and join her friends on the beach, but her home is in Detroit now.As she looks out the window, Helen sees some white flakes drift slowly to the ground. Soon the sky is full of them. It is the first time that she sees snow. The entire street begins to turn white. Helen thinks that snow is even more beautiful than sunshine. Now she is not sad. She wants to write to her friend and tell them that she likes Detroit.Notes:1、spend (spent, spent) vt. 花费时间，用钱例如：He spends the weekend with his family. 他周末与家人一起度过。
英语美文100篇
英语背诵100篇1. The First SnowThe first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless tress, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children. (118 words)From KavanaghBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow2. The Humming-birdOf all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least in size of the order of birds. "maxime Miranda in minimis." Her masterpiece is this little humming-bird, and upon it she has heaped all the gifts which the other birds may only share. Lightness, rapidity, nimbleness, grace, and rich apparel all belong to this little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and the topaz gleam upon its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth, and in its aerial life scarcely touches the turf an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it hastheir freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the climates where they perennially bloom. (149 words)From Natural HistoryBy George Louise Buffon陈冠商《英语背诵文选》3. PinesThe pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find onl y a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither a nd thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.(160 words)From Modern PaintersBy John Ruskin陈冠商《英语背诵文选》4. Reading Good BooksDevote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make the mselvesgenuine book-lovers. For book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, t hey draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they derive from the printed paged are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for future profit. (135 words)From Self-DevelopmentBy Henry Addington Bruce陈冠商《英语背诵文选》5. On EtiquetteEtiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state and the necessary inter course between its members would be interfered with by needless offences and troubles. If society were a train, the etiquette would be the rails along which only the train could rumble forth; if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis on which only the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the most intimate friends turns to be the most decided enemies and the friendly or allied countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the hi story of mankind. Therefore I advise you to stand on ceremony before anyone elseand to take pains not to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make enemies. (160 words)by William Hazlitt陈冠商《英语背诵文选》6. An Hour Before SunriseAn hour before sunrise in the city there is an air of cold. Solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are warming with life. The drunken, the dissipated, and the criminal have disappeared; the more sober and orderly part of the population have not yet awakened to the labors of the day, and the stillness of death is over streets; its very hue seems to be imparted to t hem, cold and lifeless as they look in the gray, somber light of daybreak. A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant; and the dim scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of yonder windows denotes the chamber of watching and sickness. Save for that sad light, the streets present no signs of life, nor the houses of habitation. (166 words)From BozBy Charles Dickens陈冠商《英语背诵文选》7. The Importance of Scientific ExperimentsThe rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probable the first in the middle ages to assert that we must learn s cience by observingand experimenting on the things around us, and he himself made many remarkable discoveries. Galileo, however who lived more than 300 years later (1564 to 1642), was the greatest of several great men, who in Italy, France, Germany or Eng land, began by degrees to show how many important truths could be discovered by well-directed observation. Before the time of Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fall more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, because Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two unequal stones, and proved to some friends, whom he had brought there to see his experiment, that Aristotle was in error. It is Galileo's sprit of going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and theories by experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern science.(196 words)From LogicBy William Stanley Jevons陈冠商《英语背诵文选》8. Address at GettysburgFourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, ca n long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot de dicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, heave consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never f orget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that form these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and tha t government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (268 words)By Abraham Lincoln9. A Little Girl (1)Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So completely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed likea globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.(159 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》10. A Little Girl (2)Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way, and these matched in hue her eyebrows, and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat an d were quivering in the sunlight. All this I did not take in at once; for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. Here seemed tome a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. (129 words)(302 words)From Aylwinby Theodore Watts-Dunton陈冠商《英语背诵文选》11. Choosing an OccupationHodeslea, Eastbourne,November 5, 1892Dear Sir,I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier reply to your letter.In my opinion a man's first duty is to find a way of supporting himself,thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to so work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very important education the effects of which make themselves felt in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dare about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it dr illed into me in youth. Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over, to make an opening in the scient ific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick to commerce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in 'trying to make a spoon spoils a horn," and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations.I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words)Yours faithfully. HuxleyFrom Life and Letters of Thomas Henry HuxleyBy Leonard Huxley陈冠商《英语背诵文选》12. An Important Aspect of College LifeIt is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can begiven real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how c losely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally proved very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation a nd natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of every thing that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is "practical" and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think. (195 words)By Woodrow Wilson陈冠商《英语背诵文选》13. Night (1)Night has fallen over th e country. Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. The tramp of horses' hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. Then all is still save the continuous wind or the sound of the neighboring sea. The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone.(128 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》14. Night (2)How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone. You step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent beloved spirit clasped in its embrace. The lamps are still burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang. There are footsteps and loud voices; --a tumult; --a drunken brawl; --an alarm of fire; --then silence again. And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to welcome her. The moonlight is broken. It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets-angular like blocks of white marble. (195 words)(323 words)By Nathanial Hawthorne陈冠商《英语背诵文选》15. An October Sunrise (1)I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mounta in and wavering lengthof upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column, holding skirts and cling subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grass-land, while the brave lines of t he hills came forth, one beyond other gliding. The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumn's mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father. (152 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》16. An October Sunrise (2)Yet before the floating impress of the woods could clear itself, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose, according to the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around; yet all alike dispelling fear and the coven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, "God is here!" Then life and joy sprang reassured from every crouching hollow; every flower and bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them, and all the flashing of God's gaze merged into soft beneficence.So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great unvintaged ocean; when glory shall not scare happiness, neither happiness envy glory; but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father's countenance, because itself is risen. (153 wo rds)(305 words)By Richard D. Blackmore陈冠商《英语背诵文选》17. Of Studies (1)Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; t o use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. (157 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》18. Of Studies (2)Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be r ead only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a fullman; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he con fer little, he had need have a present wit; an if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. (170 words) 陈冠商《英语背诵文选》19. Of Studies (3)Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the ston e and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin a gain. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. (163 words)(490 words)By Francis Bacon陈冠商《英语背诵文选》20. Books (1)The good books of the hour, then, --I do not speak of the bad ones—is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very useful often, tellingyou what you need to know; very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels; good-humoured and witty discussion of questions; lively or pathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling, by the real agents concerned in the events of passing history; --all these books of the hour, multiplying among us as education becomes more general, are a peculiar characteristic and possession of the present age: we ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them. But we make the worse possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books: for, strictly speaking, they are not books at all, but merely letters or newspapers in good print. Our friend's letter may be delightful, or necessary, today: whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered. (189 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》21. Books (2)The newspaper may be entirely proper at brea kfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day. So though bound up in a volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns, the roads, and weather last year at such a place, or which tells you that amusing story, or gives y ou the real circumstances of such and such events, however valuable for occasional reference, may not be, in the real sense of the word, a "book" at all, nor, in the real sense, to be "read".A book is essentially not a talked thing, but a written thing; a nd written, not with the view of mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands of people at once; if he could, he would-the volume is mere multiplication of his voice. You cannot talk t o your friend in India;if you could, you would; you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. (190 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》22. Books (3)The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows, no one has yet said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; --this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "this is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory, " That is his "writing"; it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a "Book". (186 words)(565 words)By John Ruskin陈冠商《英语背诵文选》24. The Value of Time (1)"Time" says the proverb "is money". This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to ourexperience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money. Let those who think nothing of wasting time, remember this; let them remember that an hour misspent is equi valent to the loss of a bank-note; an that an hour utilized is tantamount to so much silver or gold; and then they will probably think twice before they give their consent to the loss of any part of their time. Moreover, our life is nothing more than our t ime. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is th e sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day of an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Let us bear this in mind, and waste of time will appear to us in the light of a crime as culpable as suicide itself. (250 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》25. The Value of Time (2)There is a third consideration which will also tend to warn us against loss of time. Our life is a brief span measuring some sixty or seventy years in all, but nearly one half of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be sp ent over our meals; some over dressing and undressing; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry-making, either on our own account or for the sake of others; some in celebrating religious and social festivities; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the tern over which our life extends we shall find about fifteen or twenty years at our disposalfor active work. Whoever remembers this can never willing ly waste a single moment of his life. "It is astonishing" says Lord Chesterfield "that anyone can squander away in absolute idleness one single moment of that portion of time which is allotted to us in this world. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it!" (187 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》26. The Value of Time (3)All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can ac quire knowledge and develop our faculties and capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away unutilized, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. As we grow older, our power of acquisition gets blunted, so that the art or science which is not acquired in childhood or youth will never be acquired at all. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages. "Every moment you lose" says Lord Chesterfield "is so much character and advantage lost; as on the other hand, every moment you now employ usefully is so much time wisely laid out at prodigious interest."A proper employment of time is of great benefit to us from a mor al point of view. Idleness is justly said to be the rust of the mind and an idle brain is said to be Satan's workshop. It is mostly when you do not know what to do with yourself that you do something ill or wrong. The mind of the idler preys upon itself. A s Watt has said:In works of labour or of skillLet me be busy too;For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. (249 words(686 words)By Robert William Service陈冠商《英语背诵文选》27. Spring The Resurrection TimeSprings are not always the same, In some years, April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap—and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight.In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, overcome by shyness, like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight, giggling in the hallway. "I know you're out there," I cry. "Come in!" And April slips into arms.The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. With in the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. Once examined the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago The apples display their milliner's scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged. All the sleeping things wake up-primrose, baby iris, blu e phlox. The earth warms-you can smell it, feel it, crumble April in your hands.The dark Blue Mountains in which I dwell, great-hipped, big-breasted, slumber on the western sky. And then they stretch and gradually awaken.A warm wind, soft as a girl's hai r, moves sailboat clouds in gentle skies. The rain come-good rains to sleep by-and fields that were dun as oatmeal turn to pale green, then to Kelly green.All this reminds me of a theme that runs through my head like a line。
《冰雪奇缘(Frozen)》双语字母
Frozen I该片故事基于《安徒生童话》改编而成，讲述了公主安娜和喜爱冒险的山民克里斯托弗以及一只驯鹿、会说话的雪人一起踏上北上冒险的路程，而他们冒险之旅的目的是为了解除安娜的姐姐—冰雪皇后下的让她的王国陷入永恒寒冬的诅咒。
除了冒险之旅之外，影片也将为安娜设置一段纠缠于山民克里斯托弗和潇洒的王子汉斯之间的三角恋情，但故事将更多地集中于安娜和她的姐姐冰雪皇后艾莎之间的关系。
阿伦戴尔王国的两个公主Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining寒冷的冬天，伴随着山雨生出了她This icy force both foul and fair 冰雪的力量，危险而又美丽Has a frozen heart worth mining 一颗冰封的心值得我们去挖掘So cut through the heart, cold and clear 凿穿冰封之心冰冷又剔透Strike for love and strike for fear 为了爱不畏恐惧See the beauty sharp and sheer 一双善于发现美的眼睛Split the ice apart 割开坚冰And break the frozen heart 融化冰封之心Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go 嘿呦留神脚下放手去爱Hup! Ho! Watch your step! Let it go 嘿呦留神脚下放手去爱Beautiful! Powerful 美丽！强大Dangerous! Cold 危险！冷酷Ice has a magic can't be controlled 寒冰的魔力无法被掌控Stronger than one, stronger than ten 胜过一人胜过十人Stronger than a hundred men 胜过一百人Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining寒冷的冬天，伴随着山雨生出了她This icy force both foul and fair 冰雪的力量，危险而又美丽Has a frozen heart worth mining 一颗冰封的心值得我们去挖掘Cut through the heart, cold and clear 凿穿冰封之心冰冷又剔透Strike for love and strike for fear 为了爱不畏恐惧There's beauty and there's danger here 危险而又美丽Split the ice apart 割开坚冰Beware the frozen heart 小心冰封的心Come on, Sven! 快跟上斯温！Elsa. Psst! Elsa! 艾尔莎喂！艾尔莎Wake up. Wake up. Wake up！醒醒醒醒快醒醒！Anna, go back to sleep. 安娜回去睡觉I just can't. The sky's awake, so I'm awake,我就是睡不着天醒着所以我也醒着So we have to play. 所以起来玩吧Go play by yourself. 你自己去玩吧Do you want to build a snowman? 你想堆雪人吗？Come on, come on, come on, come on. 快来快来快来快来！Do the magic! Do the magic!快用魔法！快用魔法！Ready? This is amazing! 准备好了吗？真是太神奇了！Watch this! 看这个！Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs.嗨我是雪宝我喜欢热情的拥抱I love you, Olaf. 我喜欢你雪宝Hang on！ Catch me! Gotcha! 等一下！接住我！接住啦！ Again! Wait! Slow down! 再来一次！等一下！慢一点！Anna! Anna！ Mama! Papa! No，no…安娜！安娜！妈妈！爸爸！不，不……You're okay, Anna. I got you. 你会没事的安娜我陪着你Elsa, what have you done? This is getting out of hand!艾尔莎你做了什么？你的魔法又失控了！It was an accident. I'm sorry, Anna！这是个意外对不起，安娜！She's ice cold. I know where we have to go.她浑身冰凉我知道我们得去哪儿Ice? Faster, Sven! Sven! 冰? 再快点斯温 ! 斯温! Please... Help! My daughter! 请帮帮我们！我女儿！He is the King! Trolls...? 是国王 ! 地精? Shush. I'm trying to listen. 安静我正听着呢Cuties. I'm gonna keep you. 小可爱我要把你们留下来Your Majesty! 陛下！Born with the powers or cursed? 是生来就有还是中了恶咒？Born. And they're getting stronger. 生来就有而且越来越强大You are lucky it wasn't her heart. 幸好伤到的不是她的心The heart is not so easily changed, 心不容易恢复but the head can be persuaded. 但头的问题还是有办法的Do what you must. 请你尽力I recommend we remove all magic,我建议抹去所有和魔法有关的东西even memories of magic to be safe...甚至那些关于魔法的记忆，为了安全起见But don't worry, I'll leave the fun.但别担心我会留下那些快乐的记忆She will be okay. 她会没事的But she won't remember I have powers?但是她会忘记我拥有魔力吗？ It's for the best. Listen to me, Elsa, 这样最好听我说艾尔莎your power will only grow. 你的魔法只会越来越强大There is beauty in it...but also great danger魔法固然美好但也有巨大的危险You must learn to control it. 你必须学会控制它Fear will be your enemy. 恐惧会成为你的敌人No. We'll protect her. She can learn to control it. I'm sure.不我们会保护他她能学会控制它我确定Until then,we'll lock the gates. We'll reduce the staff.在此之前我们会锁上城门裁减仆从We will limit her contact with people, and keep her powers hidden from everyone...including Anna.减少她与别人的接触,不让任何人知道她的魔力,包括安娜Elsa? Do you wanna build a snowman 艾尔莎? 你想堆个雪人吗？Come on let's go and play 来吧，我们一起出去玩I never see you anymore. Come out the door我好久没见你了快出来吧It's like you've gone away 你就像消失了一样We used to be best buddies 我们曾是最好的伙伴And now we're not. I wish you would tell me why现在却不是了我希望你能告诉我为什么Do you wanna build a snowman 你想堆个雪人吗？It doesn't have to be a snowman 并不是一定要堆个雪人啦Go away, Anna. Okay bye 走吧安娜好吧再见The gloves will help. See... 戴着手套会有帮助瞧Conceal it. Don't feel it. 隐藏它不要去想它Don't let it show. 别让它显现出来Do you wanna build a snowman？你想堆个雪人吗？Or ride our bike around the hall？或是在大厅里骑车？I think some company is overdue 好久没人陪我玩I've started talking to the pictures on the walls我都开始对墙上的画说话了Hang in there, Joan. 撑住琼It gets a little lonely all these empty rooms这些空房间让人觉得有些寂寞Just watching the hours tick by 仅仅看着时间滴滴答答地走过I'm scared. It's getting stronger. 我很害怕魔力越来越强大了Getting upset only makes it worse. 不安只会让情况变得更糟Calm down. 冷静下来No. Don't touch me. Please. I don't wanna hurt you.不情别碰我拜托了我不想伤害你See you in two weeks. 两周后再见你们必须要去吗？你会没事的艾尔莎Elsa? 艾尔莎Please, I know you're in there 拜托了我知道你在里面People are asking where you've been 人们都在问你去哪儿了They say have courage and I'm trying to他们说要勇敢我也在努力I'm right out here for you. Just let me in我就在门外让我进去吧We only have each other 现在只剩我们彼此了It's just you and me 只有我和你What are we gonna do？我们该怎么办？Do you wanna build a snowman 你想堆个雪人吗？Three years later. 三年后Welcome to Arendelle! Merci, monsieur!欢迎来到阿伦黛尔谢谢您先生Watch your Steps please. The gates will opening Soon.请小心脚下城门马上就会打开Why do I have to wear this? 为什么我非得穿这个Because the Queen has come of age. 因为女王已经成年啦It's Coronation Day! 今天是加冕日！That's not my fault. 那又不是我的错- What do you want, Sven? - Give me a snack!-你想要什么斯温 -给我个点心- What's the magic word? - Please! 那暗号是什么 -拜托了A..A... a... a! Share! 喂喂喂分享I can't believe they're finally opening up the gates!我真不敢相信，他们终于把大门打开了And for a whole day! 而且打开一整天哦！Faster, Persi! 快点儿佩西！Ah, Arendelle, our most mysterious trade partner.啊，阿伦黛尔我们最神秘的贸易伙伴Open those gates so I may unlock your secrets打开那些门等我揭开你的秘密and exploit your riches. 挖掘你的财富Did I just say that out loud? 我是不是说得太大声了？Oh, me sore eyes can't wait to 我已经迫不及待想看看see the Queen and the Princess. 女王和公主了I bet they're absolutely lovely. 我打赌她们一定可爱极了I bet they are beautiful. 我打赌她们一定美丽动人Princess Anna? 安娜公主Huh? Yeah? 嗯？什么Oh, Sorry to wake you, No, no, no. You didn't.-抱歉叫醒了你， -不不不没关系I've been up for hours. 我已经起床很Who is it? 谁啊？It's still me, ma'am. The gates will open soon.还是我小姐城门马上就要打开了- Time to get ready. - Of course!- 该做准备了 -当然！Ready for what? 准备什么？Your sister's coronation, ma'am. 您姐姐的加冕仪式小姐My sister's cor-neration. 我姐姐的加冕礼It's coronation day! 今天是加冕日！It's coronation day! 今天是加冕日！The window is open! So's that door 那些窗户和门都已经打开了I didn't know they did that anymore我不知道他们已经做了如此多的准备Who knew we owned 8000salad plates?谁知道我们有八千个沙拉碟呢? For years I have roamed these empty halls我在这空荡的大厅漫步多年Why have a ballroom with no balls 没有舞会要舞厅有什么用Finally, they're opening up the gates 终于他们要把城门打开了There'll be actual, real-life people 会有活生生的人来到这里It'll be totally strange 这感觉好奇怪But wow am I so ready for this change 可我早已准备好了'Cause for the first time in forever 因为有生以来第一次There'll be music, there'll be light 这里将会充满音乐和灯光For the first time in forever 有生以来第一次I'll be dancing through the night 我将彻夜翩然起舞Don't know if I'm elated or gassy 我不知道是兴奋还是胃胀气But I'm somewhere in that zone 但总之也差不多'Cause for the first time in forever 因为有生以来第一次I won't be alone. I can't wait to meet everyone...我将不再孤单我等不及见到大家What if I meet "The one"? 如果我遇见“那个他”怎么办？Tonight, imagine me gown and all 今晚想象一下盛装出席的我Fetchingly draped against the wall 迷人地斜倚着墙The picture of sophisticated Grace 好一幅精致优雅的画面I suddenly see him standing there 蓦然回首看到我的他a beautiful stranger tall and fair 一位高大而又帅气的陌生人I wanna stuff some chocolate in my face 我只想嘴里塞满巧克力But then we laugh and talk all evening 但我们彻夜畅谈欢笑Which is totally bizarre 那感觉一定很奇妙Nothing like the life I've led so far 与我以前的生活截然不同For the first time in forever 有生以来第一次There'll be magic, there'll be fun 这里将会充满魔力和欢乐For the first time in forever 有生以来第一次I could be noticed by someone 我会受人瞩目And I know it is totally crazy 我知道这一定很疯狂To dream I'd find romance 梦想浪漫的来临But for the first time in forever 但有生以来第一次At least I've got a chance 至少我有了一次机会Don't let them in. Don't let them see 掩藏好自己不许人靠近Be the good girl You always have to be做个好女孩儿，就像你从前那样Conceal. Don't feel. 把真心封闭 Put on a show.演好这出戏Make one wrong move and everyone will know走错一步就会人尽皆知But it's only for today 但是，仅此一天It's only for today仅此一天 It's agony to wait 这痛苦的等待It's agony to wait 这痛苦的等待Tell the guards to open up the gate 通知守卫打开城门The gate For the first time in forever 打开城门有生以来第一次I'm getting what I'm dreaming of. 我梦寐以求的时刻即将到来Be the good girl you always have to be.做个好女孩儿，就像你从前那样A chance to change my only world. 一个改变我孤独世界的机会Conceal. 把真心封闭A chance to find true love 一个找到真爱的机会Conceal. Don't feel, Don't let them know 把真心封闭不让人看清I know it all ends tomorrow 我知道明天一切都将结束So it has to be today 所以必须抓住今天'Cause for the first time in forever 因为有生以来第一次For the first time in forever 有生以来第一次Nothing's in my way 没有什么能阻止我I'm so sorry. Are you hurt? 我很抱歉你受伤了吗Hey! I-ya, no. No. I'm okay. - Are you sure?-嘿对不我没事 -你确定？Yeah, I just wasn't looking where I was going. 没错我刚刚没看路- But I'm great, actually. - Oh, thank goodness.-但是我真的没事 -谢天谢地Prince Hans of the Southern Isles. 我是南部群岛的汉斯王子- Princess Anna of Arendelle. - Princess...?-我是阿伦黛尔的安娜公主 -公主My Lady. Hi... again Oh boy. 公主殿下 .嗨又来了哦，老天Ha. This is awkward. Not you're awkward,真尴尬不是说你只是因为我们是我很尴尬You're gorgeous. Wait, what? 你好帅，等下，怎么了？I'd like to formally apologize for hitting the Princess of Arendelle with my horse...and for every moment after我想正式地为我骑马撞到阿伦黛尔的公主,以及之后发生的一切而道歉No. No-no. It's fine.I'm not THAT Princess.不没关系我不是那位公主 I mean, if you'd hit my sister Elsa, that would be...我的意思是如果你撞到我姐姐艾尔莎那就because, you know... 因为，你懂的 Hello.你好But, lucky you, it's-it's just me. 但是幸好只是我而已Just you? 只是你The bells. The coronation. 鸣钟了是加冕礼I... I... 我我I better go. I have to...I better go. 我要走了我必须得走了Bye! 再见Your Majesty, The gloves. 陛下手套（Sem hon heldr inum helgum eignum okkrýnd í þessum helga stað ek té fram fyrir yðr）Queen Elsa of Arendelle. 有请阿伦黛尔的女王艾尔莎Princess Anna of Arendelle! 有请阿伦黛尔的公主安娜Here? Are you sure? I do not think I suppose to...Okay.站这儿你确定我觉得不该好吧Hi.你好 Hi me...? Oh. Um. Hi. 嗨，跟我打招呼吗？哦，嗨- You look beautiful... -Thank you.- 你看上去很美 -谢谢You look beautifuller. I mean, not fuller.你看上去更美我的意思，不是清洁工You don't look fuller, but more beautiful. 你不像清洁工，而是更美Thank you. 谢谢So, this is what a party looks like? 宴会就是这个样子的吗It's warmer than I thought. 比我想象中的要温馨得多And what is that amazing smell? 那奇妙的香味是什么Chocolate. 是巧克力Your Majesty. The Duke of Weaseltown.陛下这是鼬鼠城公爵Weselton. The Duke of Weselton. 是韦瑟顿韦瑟顿公爵Your Majesty, 陛下as your closest partner in trade, 作为您最亲密的贸易伙伴it seems only fitting that I offer you 我应该请您跳your first dance as Queen. 加冕后的第一支舞Thank you. Only I don't dance.But my sister does.谢谢可是我不跳舞但我妹妹可以What？Oh！- Lucky you...- Oh, I don't think...什么？哦-算你走运 -哦，我可不这么认为If you swoon, let me know, I'll catch you.如果头晕的话告诉我我会接住你Sorry. 抱歉Like an agile peacock... 像只灵活的孔雀Speaking of, so great to have the gates open.说起来打开城门真是太好了Why did they shut them in the first place? 为什么之前都要关闭呢Do you know the reason? Hmm? 你知道原因吗No. No... 我不知道Oh, all right. Hang on. 好吧抓紧了They don't call me "The Little Dipper" for nothing.我的外号"小北斗星"可不是浪得虚名Like a chicken...with the face of a monkey... I fly.鸡一样灵巧猴一样可爱我能飞Let me know when you're ready for another round, My Lady.准备好再跳一轮的时候请告诉我殿下Well, he was sprightly. 他真是太活跃了Especially for a man in heels. 尤其他还穿着高跟鞋- Are you okay? - Yeah,I've never been better.-你还好吗 -我从来没这么开心过This is so nice. 感觉太棒了I wish it could be like this all the time.真希望我们能一直像现在这样Me too... 我也是But it can't. 但是不行- Why not? If... - It just can't.- 为什么不行？ -反正就是不行Excuse me for a minute. 对不起，我离开一下- Glad I caught you. - Hans!- 真高兴我抓住你了 -汉斯I often had the whole parlor to myself to slide... Oops. Sorry.我经常一个人在大厅滑来滑去哦，不好意思Your physique helps, I'm sure too.我敢肯定，你的身材也起到了作用- What's this? - I was born with it,- 这是什么 -我生来就有这个Although I dreamt I was kissed by a troll.虽然我梦见我被地精亲吻过I like it. 我喜欢Yeah, The whole thing! You got it. 对所有的一切你懂的Okay wait, wait. So you have how many brothers?等等你到底有多少个兄弟？Twelve older brothers. 十二个哥哥Three of them pretended I was invisible... 有3个当我完全不存在literally... for two years. 差不多有两年了把- That's horrible. - It's what brothers do. 太糟糕了 -哥哥们都这样And sisters. 姐姐也是Elsa and I were really close when we were little.小时候艾尔莎和我非常亲密But then, one day she just shut me out, and...但后来有一天她也把我拒之门外And I never knew why. 我从来不知道原因I would never shut you out. 我永远不会将你拒之门外Okay, can I just say something crazy? 好吧，我能说点疯话吗？I love crazy. 我喜欢疯话All my life has been a series of doors in my face我的生活不过是面前的一扇又一扇门And then suddenly I bump into you 但是突然之间我撞见了你I was thinking the same thing, because like 我也这么想因为就像I've been searching my whole life to find my own place我这一生一直在寻找自己的归宿And maybe it's the party talking 大概就是这派对里的偶遇Or the chocolate fondue 或是巧克力干酪But with you 但和你在一起I found my place 我找到了归宿I see your face 看到你的脸And it's nothing like I've ever known before 这感觉从未有过Love is an open... door 爱是一扇敞开的门Love is an open... door 爱是一扇敞开的门Love is an open... door 爱是一扇敞开的门With you! With you 和你在一起和你在一起Love is an open door 爱是一扇敞开的门- I mean it's crazy. - What?- 这太疯狂了 -什么？- We finish each other's... - Sandwiches! -我们完成了对方的 -三明治That's what I was gonna say 我正想说这个I've never met someone who thinks so much like me我从未遇到过和我如此默契的人Jinx... jinx again. 拉钩再拉钩Our mental synchronization can have but one explanation我们心意相通只有一个解释You and I were just meant to be 你和我是命中注定Say goodbye To the pain of the past 说再见过去的痛苦We don't have to feel it anymore 我们无需再那样活Love is an open... door 爱是一扇敞开的门Love is an open door 爱是一扇敞开的门Life can be so much more...with you... with you 生命有你更精彩Love is an open... door 爱是一扇敞开的门Can I say something crazy...? 我能说一些疯话吗？Will you marry me? 你愿意嫁给我吗Can I just say something even crazier? 我能说些更疯的话吗？Yes. 我愿意Oops! Pardon. Sorry. Can we just get around you there?不好意思能借过一下吗？Thank you. Oh, there she is. 谢谢她在那里Elsa! I mean... Queen... 艾尔莎我是说女王Me again. May I present, 我又来了请允许我介绍Prince Hans of the Southern Isles. 南部群岛的汉斯王子Your Majesty. 陛下We would like...your blessing... 我们希望您能祝福of... our marriage! 我们的婚姻Marriage...? Yes!- 婚姻？ -是的！I'm sorry, I'm confused. 不好意思我有点糊涂Well, We haven't worked out all the details ourselves.我们还没有讨论细节We'll need a few days to plan the ceremony.我们会花几天时间计划婚礼Of course we'll have soup, 当然婚礼上会有汤羹roast, and ice cream and then... 烤肉冰淇凌还有... Wait. Would we live here? 等等我们要住在这里吗？- Here? - Absolutely!- Anna！这里？当然！安娜！Oh, we can invite all twelve of your brothers to stay with us...我们可以邀请你12个哥哥过来一起住What? No, no, no, no, no. 什么？不不，那可不行Of course we have the room. I don't know. Some of them must...当然我们有足够的房间我不知道他们中一些人必须……Wait. Slow down. 等下，慢点No one's brothers are staying here.没有任何人的哥哥将会住在这里No one is getting married. Wait, what?没有人会结婚等等，什么？May I talk to you, please. Alone. 我能和你谈谈吗？单独No. Whatever you have to say, you... 不不论你想说什么you can say to both of us. 可以当着我俩的面说Fine. You can't marry a man you just met.好吧你不能嫁给一个刚认识的人You Can if it's true love. 如果是真爱的话就可以Anna, what do you know about true love?安娜，你知道什么是真爱吗？More than you. All you know is how to shut people out.比你知道的多你只知道把人拒之门外You asked for my blessing, but my answer is no.你们请求我的祝福但我的回答是不Now, excuse me. 恕我失陪Your Majesty, if I may ease your... 陛下容我... No, you may not. And I-I think you should go.不用说了我认为你该走了The party is over. Close the gates. 派对结束了把门关上Yes, Your Majesty. 遵命陛下What? Elsa, no. No, wait! 什么艾尔莎不等等Give me my glove! 把手套还给我Elsa, please. Please. I can't live like this anymore.艾尔莎求求你我不能再这样过下去了Then leave. 那就离开What did I ever do to you?! 我到底怎么惹到你了Enough, Anna. No. Why? Why do you shut me out?!够了安娜为什么你为什么把我拒之门外？Why do you shut the world out?! 你为什么把全世界拒之门外？What are you so afraid of?! 你到底害怕什么？I said, enough! 我说了够了Sorcery. I knew there was 妖术我就知道something dubious going on here. 这里有不可告人的秘密Elsa...? There she is. 艾尔莎她在那里The Queen!Yes,it is her!是女王！是的！是她！Queen Elsa Our beautiful queen1艾尔莎女王我们美丽的女王！Your Majesty! Long live the Queen! Queen Elsa...陛下女王万岁Come drink with us. Queen Elsa. 来喝一杯吧艾尔莎女王Your Majesty? Are you all right? 陛下？您没事吧？There she is! Stop her! 她在那里！拦住她！Please, just stay away from me. 拜托离我远一点Stay away! Monster... Monster! 离我远点怪物怪物Elsa! Elsa...Wait, Please! 艾尔莎艾尔莎等等求你Elsa, Stop! Anna! - No.- 艾尔莎停下安娜 -不The Fjord. Snow? Snow? Yes, snow! 海湾雪？雪？是雪！- Are you all right? - No. 你没事吧？ -没事- Did you know? - No. 你之前知道吗 -不知道Look! It's snowing! It's snowing! 看下雪了下雪了The Queen has cursed this land! 女王诅咒了这片土地！She must be stopped! 一定要阻止她！- You have to go after her...- Wait, no! 你得追上她 -等等不！You! Is there sorcery in you, too? 你！你也会妖术吗？Are you a monster, too? 你也是怪物吗？No. No. I'm completely ordinary. 不不我绝对很普通That's right she is.In the best way. 没错她很普通我是说正常And my sister's not a monster. 我姐姐不是怪物She nearly killed me. 她差点杀死我You slipped on ice... Her ice! 你自己滑倒在冰上的 -她变出的冰It was an accident. She was scared. 那是意外她被吓坏了She didn't mean it. She didn't mean any of this...她不是有意的她不是有意做这些的Tonight was my fault. I pushed her.今晚的事是我的责任是我逼的她 So I'm the one that needs to go after her. - What?所以该由我去把她找回来 -什么？- Yeah. - Bring me my horse, please. 没错 -把我的马牵过来Anna, no. It's too dangerous. 安娜别这样这太危险了Elsa's not dangerous. 艾尔莎不危险I'll bring her back, And I'll make this right.我会把她找回来让这里恢复正常- I'm coming with you...-No. 我跟你一起去 -不I need you here to take care of Arendelle.我需要你留下帮我照看阿伦黛尔On my honor. 以我的名誉担保I leave Prince Hans in charge! 我委托汉斯王子管理这里Are you sure you can trust her? 你确定能信任她吗？I don't want you getting hurt. 我不想你受到伤害She's my sister, 她是我姐姐She would never hurt me. 她永远不会伤害我The snow glows white on the mountain tonight皑皑白雪覆盖今夜的山Not a footprint to be seen 杳无人迹A kingdom of isolation 在这个与世隔绝的王国And it looks like I'm the Queen 我似乎才是女王The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside狂风呼号就像我心中汹涌的风暴Couldn't keep it in, Heaven knows I tried不管多努力再无法藏匿Don't let them in, Don't let them see 掩藏好自己别让他们看到Be the good girl you always have to be做个好女孩就像从前一样Conceal, Don't feel, Don't let them know把真心封闭不让人看清Well, Now they know 如今被看清Let it go. Let it go 不再躲不再怕Can't hold it back anymore 秘密已经大白于天下Let it go. Let it go 不管他不害怕Turn away and slam the door 转过身甩上门I don't care what they're going to say 别人的话何必在乎它Let the storm rage on 就让狂风怒号The cold never bothered me anyway 冰封千里我也从不害怕It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small现在回首遥望从前往事变得微不足道And the fears that once controlled me 曾经桎梏我的恐惧Can't get to me at all 也都远的看不到It's time to see what I can do 展现自己拿出本领To test the limits and break through 冲破极限让自己也吃惊No right, No wrong, No rules for me 没有羁绊扔掉规矩I'm free! 世界由我Let it go! Let it go! 放宽心向前进I am one with the wind and sky 乘着风融化在天际Let it go! Let it go! 向前冲不后悔You'll never see me cry 我再没有眼泪Here I stand and 站在这里Here I'll stay 坚定不移Let the storm rage on 任那狂风怒号My power flurries through the air into the ground雪花漫天飘下这是我的魔法My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around冰片旋转纷飞是我的灵魂在升华And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast思绪结晶成冰凌是冰雪的爆炸I'm never going back 过去已是过去The past is in the past 是再也回不去Let it go! Let it go! 不沉溺不在意And I'll rise like the break of dawn 如晨曦一般冉冉升起Let it go! Let it go! 算了吧忘了吧That perfect girl is gone 别指望我回到过去Here I stand in the light of day 站在这里不再藏匿Let the storm rage on! 任那狂风怒号The cold never bothered me anyway 冰封千里我也从不害怕Elsa! Elsa! Elsa, It's me, Anna 艾尔莎! 艾尔莎!艾尔莎是我安娜Your sister who didn't mean to make you freeze the summer.老妹我不是故意让你冰封夏天的I'm sorry. It's all my f-f-fault. 对不起都是我的错Of course, none of this would have happened当然如果她把秘密告诉我的话if she'd just told me her secret... ha... 也不会发生这样的事儿She's a stinker. 她这个家伙Oh no. No. No. No. Come back. No. 不不不不回来不要跑Oooo-Kay. Snow, it had to be snow, 好吧雪干嘛一定是雪She couldn't have had tr-tr-tropical magic that covered the f-f-fjords in white sand and warm...Fire!Whoa！她就不能会点热带魔法变出白色沙滩和暖暖的..火!哇哦！Wandering Oaken's Trading Post. 旅人欧肯的交易站Ooh，And Sauna... Big summer blow out.哇，还有桑拿夏季大甩卖Half off swimming suits, clogs, 游泳衣半价木拖鞋And a sun balm of my own invention, yah?还有自产的防晒霜怎么样？Oh, great .哦，太好了For now, how about boots, 不过有靴子卖吗Winter boots... and dresses? 有冬靴和衣服吗That would be in our winter department. 那些在冬季用品区Oh. Um, I was just wondering, has another young woman,打听一下有没有别的年轻女子The Queen perhaps, I don't know, passed through here?比如女王之类的路过这里Only one crazy enough to be out in this storm is you, dear.这种暴雪天气只有你这种疯子会跑出来亲爱的You and this fellow... Hoo hoo. 你和这个家伙Big summer blow out. 夏季大促销- Carrots. - Hah?- Behind you.胡萝卜啊? 在你身后Oh, right. Excuse me. 哦好的不好意思A real howler in July, yes? 真是七月飘雪啊Where ever could it be coming from? 这是从哪里来的冷空气The North Mountain. North Mountain. 北山北山That'll be forty. 一共40块Forty? No, ten. 40块不行 10块成交Oh dear, that's no good. See. 亲爱的，不行看These are from our winter stock, 这是冬季库存商品where supply and demand have a big problem.现在供需极度不平衡You want to talk about a supply and demand problem?你还说供需的问题I sell ice for a living. 我是卖冰块的Ooh, that's a rough business to be in right now.那现在你的生意可真难I mean, that is really... 我是说真是... Ahem. That's unfortunate. 真是不走运Still forty. But I will throw in a visit to Oaken's sauna40块不能少但可以赠送你一次欧肯独家桑拿浴Hi, family. 嗨亲爱的们Ten's all I got. Help me out. 我只有10块通融一下Okay。
第一场雪（FirstSnow）
第一场雪(First Snow)第一场雪第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且是充满魔力的大事。
入睡时世界是一个样子，醒来时发现你在一个完全不同世界里，假如不是魔法的作用，又能到哪儿找到这样的奇迹呢?它的诡秘和悄无声息更增添了它的神奇。
假如所有的雪“轰”地一下子落下，半夜把我们惊醒，也就失去了它神奇的魅力。
但是雪是悄悄地飘然而下，一个小时，又一个小时，而此时我们睡得正熟。
在窗帘紧拉的卧室外面景色正发生着巨大的变化，就好像有无数小精灵和小仙童在工作，我们打呵欠，伸展腰腿却全然不知发生的一切。
然而这是一个多么巨大的变化啊!好像你所住的房子落到了另一块陆地上，甚至不曾碰到的里面也似乎变了模样，每个房间都变小了，变温暖了，就好像是有一种力量正把它变成一座伐木工的棚屋或舒适的圆木小屋。
屋外昨日的花园，如今却是一片洁白，闪烁着光芒。
远处的村庄不再是你热悉的一片片屋顶，而变成了德国古老神话中的村庄。
那里所有的人：戴眼镜的女邮政局长、补鞋工人、退休的小学校长以及其他的人也经历了一场变化，变成了奇怪的精灵般的人为你提供隐形帽和魔力鞋。
对这一切，你不会惊讶，你自己也觉得与昨日不同。
当发生了这么大的变化之后，你怎么又能不变呢?屋内出现了一阵不同平日的小小的骚动，一种激动的微微颤动，这种感觉就好像要外出旅行时的莫名其妙的感觉。
孩子当然是非常兴奋，甚至于大人们在开始一天工作之前逗留交谈的时间也比平日长了。
无人能抗拒窗子的诱惑，好像在船上一样。
first snowthe first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. you go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?the very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes itmore magical. ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. but it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. and then, what an extraordinary change it is! it is as if the house continent. even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter's hut or a snug logcabin.outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old german fairy-tale. you would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. you yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. how could you not when so much has been changed? there is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made. the children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day's work. nobody can resist the windows. it is like being on board a ship.。
First-Snow-作业评比-4个班的译文
1班译文（邓伟提交）初雪费朗罗初雪霏霏，如此美丽；飘零无声，日夜不息。
在山巅，在草地，在生者的居住之所，在逝者的安息之地，一片银装素裹。
茫茫世界，唯余长河，似一条黑线，逶迤着伸向远方。
繁叶落尽的树木，在铅灰色天空的映衬下，枝桠交错，姿态万千。
初雪飘落，何等安宁，多么静谧！此时此刻，万籁无声，一切声响都化作柔和的乐曲。
哒哒的马蹄声不再，辚辚的车轮声不再，唯有雪橇铃叮当作响，轻快愉悦，如孩童律动的心房。
*************************************************************************2班译文（张倩提交）初雪啊! 初雪降临了。
漫天飞舞，昼夜不息，润物无声。
落在山头上，洒在草丛间，停歇在生者的屋顶，憩息在逝者的坟茔。
天地之间，银妆素裹，唯有河流蜿蜒曲折绘出一条黛色的印迹；铅灰色的天空下，叶已落尽，枝桠儿交错，姿态万千，静美迷人。
雪花飘飘而来，静谧清幽，每一份声响都消融在雪中，每一份喧嚣都化作轻柔的律动。
白雪皑皑，覆盖了达达的马蹄，湮没了辚辚的车轮，只有雪橇轻快的音铃声，奏着美妙的乐曲，灵动欢快，一如孩童心房的跳动。
*************************************************************************3班译文（贾亚宁提交）初雪初雪飘临，多么美啊！它整日整夜那么静静地飘着，覆在山峦，铺满草地，缀在世人屋檐，落在逝者墓前。
在一片白茫茫之中，只有弯弯曲曲的河流，留下道道墨色印迹，装点出一幅美丽的画图。
还有那叶儿落尽的树木，映衬着铅灰色的天空，此刻更显其枝桠交错，姿态万千。
初雪飘落时，是何等的宁谧，何等的幽静！一切声响均趋沉寂，一切噪音都化作柔和的音乐。
再也听不到马蹄哒哒，车轮辚辚！唯有雪橇的铃声叮叮作响，奏出和谐乐声。
那明快欢乐的节奏，犹如孩子们心房的搏动。
*************************************************************************4班译文（刘梦提交）初雪亨利华兹华斯朗费罗初雪翩然而至，至纯至美，悄无声息。
First Snow 第一场雪
First Snow 第一场雪The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical. Ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then, what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter’s hut or a snug logcabin. Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale.You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. You yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. How could you not when so much has been changed? There is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made. The children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day’s work. Nobody can resist the windows. It is like being on board a ship.第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且它是一个神奇的事件。
大学英语课后作文答案（新世纪综合教程4）
大学英语课后作文答案(新世纪综合教程4)BOOK 4Unit 1My Understanding of Environmental ProtectionMan and the environment are closely related. Man relies on the environment for water, food and shelter. A harmonious relationship between man and the environment is essential for human survival on the earth.However, man and the environment have never been on such bad terms as they are now. As society develops, man's transformation of nature has severely polluted his living environment. Deforestation leads to changes in rainfall patterns, causing devastating floods, droughts and sandstorms. The discharge of chemical pollutants endangers our health and the lives of other beings. And mass production has resulted in the shortage of irreplaceable natural resources such as coal and oil. If we take no immediate and effective steps to protect our environment, human beings may be the next species to become extinct.We should do our best to protect our environment by planting more trees, taking care of wildlife, reducing industrial wastes, using renewable energy, and imposing heavy fines on environmentally-unfriendly activities, so as to preserve the environment for future generations.Unit 2The Impact of the Mobile Phone on People's LivesAmong the many technological inventions, the mobile phone impresses me most.The mobile phone brings considerable convenience to our lives. It not only enables us to keep in touch with each other almost anytime and anywhere but also helps us solve problems or do business efficiently. In emergencies, a mobile phone can even be a life-saver. Besides, its multi-functions add ease and color to our lives. With a mobile phone, we can receive mail, read news, listen to music, play games, and take pictures.Y et, the mobile phone has its disadvantages, too. Most of us have experienced the nuisance of unwanted or wrong calls. We are inconvenienced by calls on occasions when we least expect one. Besides, the technology infrastructure to support mobile communication has consumed valuable natural resources and caused significant environmental problems. It is reported that electromagnetic radiation waves from the phone may result in health problems.Despite its negative side, the advantages of the mobile phone outweigh its disadvantages. I believe that with advances in science and technology, improved and safer models of mobile phones will surely serve us still better.Unit 3Barriers to Knowledge TransferKnowledge transfer is a human phenomenon and plays a very important role in the process of human evolution. With the knowledge accumulated over generations, human beings can now build and transform societies with unprecedented knowledge resources.However, there are many barriers to knowledge transfer. For example, lack of trust and resistance to change undermine the transfer of knowledge. People are less likely to acquire knowledge from those whom they don't trust or to adopt new theories and practices they are not familiar with. Cultural and language barriers also hamper the transfer of knowledge between nations or ethnic groups. It would be almost impossible for people who speak different languages or dialects with different cultural backgrounds to communicate effectively, not to mention exchanging knowledge.An underdeveloped economy is another barrier to knowledge transfer. The lack of socio-economic and techno-environmental cooperation, as well as poor communications infrastructure, can greatly hinder the flow of knowledge within and between nations.To remove these barriers, people should change their attitude towards knowledge transfer and the learning of foreign languages and cultures. At the same time, efforts should be made to develop a better world economy.Unit 4My Career ChoiceWhen it comes to the choice of career, different people consider the matter from different perspectives. Personally I prefer to be a teacher.I have three reasons for my decision. The first reason is that the profession of teaching is in agreement with my personality. Being an outgoing, patient and understanding person, I think I am able to communicate with my students and understand their feelings easily, which constitutes an important factor in ensuring success in teaching. The second reason is that I am interested in the job. It would always give me great joy and satisfaction to see the happy faces of my students, to share my knowledge and life experience with them and to participate in their process of growing up. The third reason is related to my occupational attitude. I always believe that school teachers all over the world are respected for their profound knowledge and higher social status. I have always held my teachers in respect and I hope I would be respected as a teacher, too, in the future.I think teaching is an ideal career for me. Being a university student now, I will work hard to realize my dream.Unit 5Fame — Good or EvilFame has always been pursued by many people for the advantages it brings about. Fame can assure one of a high social status, high regard, great admiration, etc. Fame can also bring one wealth as a celebrity has more chances to earn big money. Besides, the applauses and flowers from the fans may boost one's self-confidence and increase one's sense of fulfillment.However, fame can ruin one's life, too. It deprives one of his privacy. As a public figure, he is often chased by fans and journalists, and his private life never escapes the media's attention or public curiosity. Fame also places one under great pressure. He has to work in line with public expectations and thus becomes the slave of his own success.So fame is a double-edged sword. I don't seek fame and I don't envy those who are famous. I highly appreciate what the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow says about fame: "The talent of success is nothing more than doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame".Unit 6Attitudes Towards LifePeople hold different attitudes towards life. Some take a positive attitude and they always appreciate the beauty of life with zeal and gratitude. Some take a negative attitude towards life and any slight trouble in life may seem like the end of the world to them.A positive attitude ensures a happy, successful and healthy life. With a positive attitude, people find it easy to accept challenges and overcome obstacles while maintaining peace of mind. Besides, a positive attitude boosts their self-esteem, lifts their morale and helps them fulfill their commitments both in their career and in their everyday life. Moreover, medical research shows that positive thinking can improve the immune system and strengthen the body's resistance to diseases.There are several ways to develop a positive attitude towards life. One needs to think positively, read uplifting stories, hang around with optimistic people, give up jealousy, and participate in meaningful activities. By building a positive attitude towards life, one can enjoy a happy, successful and healthy life.Unit 7Healthy LifestylesDifferent people have different interpretations of a healthy lifestyle. To me, a healthy lifestyle means living in a way that helps us to be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy.We can benefit a lot from living a healthy lifestyle. On the one hand, a healthy lifestyle can help us to keep fit, increase our life expectancy, and help us form good living habits. On the other hand, a healthy lifestyle enhances self-esteem and confidence, reduces stress and pressure, and enables us to develop a positive outlook and live in harmony with each other. In short, a healthy lifestyle improves our overall sense of well-being and happiness.There are many ways to develop a healthy lifestyle. We need to exercise regularly, keep a balanced diet, and avoid alcohol and cigarettes. It would also help if we could balance our time for work and play, and find ways to release stress and pressure. With such efforts, we will be able to live in a way that contributes to our physical, mental, and emotional health.Unit 8My Understanding of Honesty and SuccessDifferent people have different opinions about the relationship between honesty and success.Some people believe that honesty and success are mutually exclusive. They regard honesty as a wasteful and costly investment that will only hinder success and prevent people from quick wins. Money-making tricks such as low-quality and fake products, or practices like plagiarism and bribery are seen as short-cuts to immediate success.However, many people hold that honesty and success are mutually supportive. They believe that honesty is the only means to an end. Being honest will definitely earn a person not only a good reputation but also more opportunities to develop his or her career and ability. Honesty also helps cultivate an upright and healthy personality and brings people true pride and deep joy.I agree with the latter viewpoint. Honesty is a virtue that every one of us should value. It can bring out the best in a person and will give him or her the best reward in return. Those who are honest may suffer temporary losses sometimes, but they will benefit in the long run. In short, only by being honest consistently and persistently can we gain true and lasting success.。
选定英语美文背诵文选30篇(拓展课教研室)
英语美文背诵文选40篇（拓展课）1.The First SnowThe first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless tress, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children. (118 words)From KavanaghBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow2.The Humming-birdOf all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least in size of the order of birds. "maxime Miranda in minimis." Her masterpiece is this little humming-bird, and upon it she has heaped all the gifts which the other birds may only share. Lightness, rapidity, nimbleness, grace, and rich apparel all belong to this little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and the topaz gleam upon its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth, and in its aerial life scarcely touches the turf an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only in the climates where they perennially bloom. (149 words)From Natural HistoryBy George Louise Buffon陈冠商《英语背诵文选》3.PinesThe pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained, desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight. (160 words)From Modern PaintersBy John Ruskin陈冠商《英语背诵文选》4.Reading Good BooksDevote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company. From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental food such as few companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently. This albeit they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind. All unconsciously the ideas they derive from the printed pages are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for future profit.(135 words)From Self-DevelopmentBy Henry Addington Bruce陈冠商《英语背诵文选》5.On EtiquetteEtiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state and the necessary intercourse between its members would be interfered with by needless offences and troubles. If society were a train, the etiquette would be the rails along which only the train could rumble forth; if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis on which only the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the most intimate friends turns to be the most decided enemies and the friendly or allied countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the history of mankind. Therefore I advise you to stand on ceremony before anyone else and to take pains not to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make enemies. (160 words)by William Hazlitt陈冠商《英语背诵文选》6.An Hour Before SunriseAn hour before sunrise in the city there is an air of cold. Solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are warming with life. The drunken, the dissipated, and the criminal have disappeared; the more sober and orderly part of the population have not yet awakened to the labors of the day, and the stillness of death is over streets; its very hue seems to be imparted to them, cold and lifeless as they look in the gray, somber light of daybreak. A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant; and the dim scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of yonder windows denotes the chamber of watching and sickness. Save for that sad light, the streets present no signs of life, nor the houses of habitation. (166 words)From BozBy Charles Dickens陈冠商《英语背诵文选》7.The Importance of Scientific ExperimentsThe rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probable the first in the middle ages to assert that we must learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself made many remarkable discoveries. Galileo, however who lived more than 300 years later (1564 to 1642), was the greatest of several great men, who in Italy, France, Germany or England, began by degrees to show how many important truths could be discovered by well-directed observation. Before the time of Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fall more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, because Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two unequal stones, and proved to some friends, whom he had brought there to see his experiment, that Aristotle was in error. It is Galileo's sprit of going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and theories by experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern science.(196 words)From LogicBy William Stanley Jevons陈冠商《英语背诵文选》8.A Little GirlSitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So completely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely. (159 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》9.Choosing an OccupationHodeslea, Eastbourne,November 5, 1892Dear Sir,I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier reply to your letter.In my opinion a man's first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to so work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very important education the effects of which make themselves felt in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dare about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth.Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. Ifyou possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over, to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick to commerce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in 'trying to make a spoon spoils a horn," and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations.I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words)Y ours faithfullyT.H. HuxleyFrom Life and Letters of Thomas Henry HuxleyBy Leonard Huxley陈冠商《英语背诵文选》10.An Important Aspect of College LifeIt is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally proved very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of every thing that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything that is "practical" and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; but they are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think. (195 words)By Woodrow Wilson陈冠商《英语背诵文选》11.Night (1)Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. The tramp of horses' hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. Then all is still save the continuous wind or the sound of the neighboring sea. The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone.(128 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》12.Night (2)How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone. Y ou step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent beloved spirit clasped in its embrace. The lamps are still burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesqueshadows, now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang. There are footsteps and loud voices; --a tumult; --a drunken brawl; --an alarm of fire; --then silence again. And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to welcome her. The moonlight is broken. It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets-angular like blocks of white marble. (195 words)(323 words)By Nathanial Hawthorne陈冠商《英语背诵文选》13.An October Sunrise (1)I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column, holding skirts and cling subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grass-land, while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumn's mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father. (152 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》14.An October Sunrise (2)Y et before the floating impress of the woods could clear itself, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose, according to the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around; yet all alike dispelling fear and the coven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, "God is here!" Then life and joy sprang reassured from every crouching hollow; every flower and bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them, and all the flashing of God's gaze merged into soft beneficence.So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great unvintaged ocean; when glory shall not scare happiness, neither happiness envy glory; but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father's countenance, because itself is risen. (153 words)By Richard D. Blackmore陈冠商《英语背诵文选》15.Of Studies (1)Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. (157 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》16.Of Studies (2)Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; an if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. (170 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》17.Of Studies (3)Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. (163 words)By Francis Bacon陈冠商《英语背诵文选》18.Books (1)The good books of the hour, then, --I do not speak of the bad ones—is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. V ery useful often, telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels; good-humoured and witty discussion of questions; lively or pathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling, by the real agents concerned in the events of passing history; --all these books of the hour, multiplying among us as education becomes more general, are a peculiar characteristic and possession of the present age: we ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them.But we make the worse possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books: for, strictly speaking, they are not books at all, but merely letters or newspapers in good print. Our friend's letter may be delightful, or necessary, today: whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered. (189 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》19.Books (2)The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day. So though bound up in a volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns, the roads, and weather last year at such a place, or which tells you that amusing story, or gives you the real circumstances of such and such events, however valuable for occasional reference, may not be, in the real sense of the word, a "book" at all, nor, in the real sense, to be "read". A book is essentially not a talked thing, but a written thing; and written, not with the view of mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands of people at once; if he could, he would-the volume is mere multiplication of his voice. Y ou cannot talk to your friend in India; if you could, you would; you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. (190 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》20.Books (3)The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows, no one has yet said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; --this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "this is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory, " That is his "writing"; it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a "Book". (186 words)By John Ruskin陈冠商《英语背诵文选》21.Spell of the Rising MoonAs the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, for as it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round and the color of ivory, the valley were deep shadows in the landscape. The dogs, reassured that this was the familiar moon, stopped barking.The drama took an hour. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties. To watch it, we must slip into an older, more patient sense of time. To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusual stillness within ourselves. Our imaginations become aware of the vast distances of space, the immensity of the earth and the huge improbability of our own existence. We feel small butprivileged.Moonlight shows us none of life's harder edges. Hillsides seem silken and silvery, the oceans still and blue in its light. In moonlight we become less calculating, more drawn to our feelings.(184 words)by Peter Steinhart陈擎红《英语背诵散文》22.Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears (1)In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.Y ou ask, what is our policy I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given up, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.(160 words)by Winston Churchill华江《英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册》23.Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears (2)Y ou ask, what is our aim I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs-victory in spite of all terrors-victory, however long and hand the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.Let that be realizes. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength." (132 words)(292 words)by Winston Churchill华江《英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册》24.The Declaration of IndependenceWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, depriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as tothem shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. (201 words)华江《英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册》25.Future championsExperiments have proved that children can be instructed in swimming at a very early age. At a special swimming pool in Los Angeles, children become expert at holding their breath under water even before they can walk. Babies of two months old do not appear to be reluctant to enter the water. It is not long before they are so accustomed to swimming that they can pick up weights from the floor of the pool. A game that is very popular with these young swimmers is the underwater tricycle race. Tricycles are lined up on the floor of the pool seven feet under water. The children compete against each other to reach the other end of the pool. Many pedal their tricycles, but most of them prefer to push or drag them. Some children can cover the whole length of the pool without coming up for breath even once. Whether they will ever become future Olympic champions, only time will tell. Meanwhile, they should encourage those among us who cannot swim five yards before they are gasping for air.（179 words）《新概念英语》（第二册）26.Trapped in a mineSix men have been trapped in a mine for seventeen hours. If they are not brought to the surface soon they may lose their lives. However, rescue operations are proving difficult. If explosives are used, vibrations will cause the roof of the mine to collapse. Rescue workers are therefore drilling a hole on the north side of the mine. They intend to bring the men up in a special capsule. If there had not been a hard layer of rock beneath the soil, they would have completed the job in a few hours. As it is, they have been drilling for sixteen hours and they still have a long way to go. Meanwhile, a microphone, which was lowered into the mine two hours ago, has enabled the men to keep in touch with their closest relatives. Though they are running out of food and drink, the men are cheerful and confident that they will get out soon. They have been told that rescue operations are progressing smoothly. If they knew how difficult it was to drill through the hard rock, they would lose heart. (184 words)《新概念英语》（第二册）27.A slip of the tonguePeople will do anything to see a free show -- even if it is a bad one. When the news got round that a comedy show would be presented at our local cinema by the P. and U. Bird Seed Company, we all rushed to see it. We had to queue for hours to get in and there must have been several hundred people present just before the show began. Unfortunately, the show was one of the dullest we have ever seen. Those who failed to get in need not have felt disappointed, as many of the artistes whoshould have appeared did not come. The only funny things we heard that evening came from the advertiser at the beginning of the programme. He was obviously very nervous and for some minutes stood awkwardly before the microphone. As soon as he opened his mouth, everyone burst out laughing. We all know what the poor man should have said, but what he actually said was: 'This is the Poo and Ee Seed Bird Company. Good ladies, evening and gentlemen!" (178 words) 《新概念英语》（第二册）28.A noble giftOne of the most famous monuments in the world, the Statue of Liberty, was presented to the United States of America in the nineteenth century by the people of France. The great statue, which was designed by the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, took ten years to complete. The actual figure was made of copper supported by a metal framework which had been especially constructed by Eiffel. Before it could be transported to the United States, a site had to be found for it and a pedestal had to be built. The site chosen was an island at the entrance of New Y ork Harbour. By 1884, a statue which was 151 feet tall had been erected in Paris. The following year, it was taken to pieces and sent to America. By the end of October 1886, the statue had been put together again and it was officially presented to the American people by Bartholdi. Ever since then, the great monument has been a symbol of liberty for the millions of people who have passed through New Y ork Harbour to make their homes in America. (182 words)《新概念英语》（第二册）29.By airI used to travel by air a great deal when I was a boy. My parents used to live in South America and I used to fly there from Europe in the holidays. A flight attendant would take charge of me and I never had an unpleasant experience. I am used to travelling by air and only on one occasion have I ever felt frightened. After taking off, we were flying low over the city and slowly gaining height, when the plane suddenly turned round and flew back to the airport. While we were waiting to land, a flight attendant told us to keep calm and to get off the plane quietly as soon as it had touched down. Everybody on board was worried and we were curious to find out what had happened. Later we learnt that there was a very important person on board. The police had been told that a bomb had been planted on the plane. After we had landed, the plane was searched thoroughly. Fortunately, nothing was found and five hours later we were able to take off again. (184 words) 《新概念英语》（第二册）30.The Gettysburg AddressFourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power。
FirstSnow-第一场雪
First Snow-第一场雪First SnowThe first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?The very stealth, the eerie quietness, of the thing makes it more magical. Ifall the snow fell at once in one shattering crash, awakening us in the middle of the night the event would be robbed of its wonder. But it flutters down, soundless, hour after hour while we are asleep. Outside the closed curtains of the bedroom a vast transfbrmation scene is takiag place, just as if a myriad elves and brownies were at work, and we turn and yawn and stretch and know nothing about it. And then, what an extraordinary change it is! It is as if the house continent. Even the inside, which has not been touched, seems different, every room appearing smaller and cosier, just as if some power were trying to turn it into a woodcutter's hut or a snug logcabin. Outside, where the garden was yesterday, there is now a white and glistening level, and the village beyond is no longer your own familiar cluster of roofs but a village in an old German fairy-tale. You would not be surprised to learn that all the people there, the speetacled postmistress, the cobbler, the retired school master, and the rest, had suffered a change too and had become queer elvish beings, purveyors of invisible caps and magic shoes. You yourselves do not feel quite the same people you were yesterday. How could you not when so much has been changed? There is a curious stir, a little shiver of excite-ment, troubling the house, not unlike the feeling there is abroad when a journey has to be made.The children, of course, are all excitement but even the adults hang about and talk to one another longer than usual before setting down to the day's work. Nobody can resist the windows. It is like being on board a ship.第一场雪第一场雪不仅是一件大事，而且是充满魔力的大事。
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The First Snow
—Henry Longfellow
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains，on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead. All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to some thing soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels. Only the chiming of sleigh(雪橇)-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
初雪飘临，静美如斯，日夜不息，山川草木，屋椽茔冢，一片洁白/银装素裹。
阔野之中，唯余溪流，逶迤前行，枯木虬枝，灰黑天幕，愈显虬枝峥嵘/纵横。
初雪，何其沉静又何其寂寥！万籁俱静/寂，了无声息，似作轻音辽远。
马迹难寻，车轨不在。
雪橇叮当，欢快和谐，似顽童心音悦动。
--田荣昌
初雪飘飘，真美啊！它整日整夜静静地飘着，落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在生者的屋顶上，落在死者的坟墓上！在一片白茫茫之中，只有河流在美丽的画面上勾画出一道弯弯曲曲的黑线；还有那光秃秃的树木，映衬着灰蒙蒙的天空，更显得枝丫交错，姿态万千。
初雪飘落时，是多么的静谧，多么的安详！一切的声响都趋沉寂，一切噪音都化作柔和的音乐。
没有了嗒嗒的马蹄声，也听不见滚滚的车轮声！只有雪橇的铃铛奏出和谐的乐曲，那明快欢乐的节奏像孩子的心在跳动。
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第一场雪
第一场雪飘落，多么美啊！昼夜不停的下着，落在山岗，落在草场，落在世人的房顶，落在死人的墓地。
遍地皆白，只有河流像一条黑色的曲线穿过大地；落光叶子的大树映衬在铅灰色的天幕下，越发显得奇特壮观，还有那错落有序的树枝。
下雪时那么寂寥，那么幽静！所有的声音都变得沉浊了，所有的噪声都轻柔而富有乐感。
没有得得的马蹄声，没有辚辚的车轮声，只能听到雪橇那欢快的铃声如童心在跳动。
初雪
初雪飘临，如万花纷谢，整日整夜，纷纷扬扬，真美极了。
雪花儿无声无息，飞上山顶，撒向草坪，飘至世人的房顶，落在逝者的坟茔。
莽莽原野，银装素裹，惟有长河逶迤，像一条黑色的长龙蜿蜒爬行于皑皑雪原。
枯藤老树，枝丫盘错，光秃秃地直刺灰蒙蒙的天宇，此刻越发显得苍古遒劲，奇特壮观。
白絮飞舞，大自然静谧寂寥，超然幽远。
所有的声响都趋于沉寂，一切喧嚣都化作了轻柔的乐曲。
得得的马蹄声听不到了，辚辚的车轮声也消逝了，惟有雪橇的铃声回荡在空中，那欢快的节奏犹如童心在跳动。
初雪
瑞雪飘临，无声无息。
纷纷扬扬，壮观之极！
飞上山巅，撒向草原，飘至房顶，落在墓地。
茫茫大地，银装素裹。
蜿蜒远去，长河逶迤。
老树虬枝，枝丫盘错，直刺苍穹，愈发壮丽。
白絮蹁跹，超然幽寂，喧嚣之声，化作乐曲。
看不见辚辚车轮，听不见得得马蹄，
惟闻雪橇的铃儿，叮咚，叮咚……
如童心跳动，永不停息。