经典英语短文背诵[42篇]
[经典英语美文]经典英语美文背诵100篇
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[经典英语美文]经典英语美文背诵100篇Dear Arizona,亲爱的亚利桑那：My brother is so lucky. Good stuff is always happening to him. Do you believe in luck And if so, how can I get more of it我的兄弟运气特别好，常有好事发生在他身上。
你相信运气吗？如果真有运气，我怎样才能得到更多一些呢？—Looking for Luck in Louisiana——身在路易斯安那寻找好运的人Dear Looking,亲爱的运气寻觅者：I was eating breakfast with one hand, petting my cat, Cow, with the other, and reading the back of the cereal box, when—“YOUCH!” I screamed. “Why’d you pinch me”我当时正一手吃早餐，一手爱抚着我的猫“牛牛”，同时在看燕麦片盒子背面的信息。
就在这时——“哎呦”，我尖叫起来，“你干嘛捏我？”“You’re not wearing green,” said my little brother, Tex. “Everyone knows you get pinched if you don’t wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day!”“因为你没穿绿色衣服，”我的小弟弟特克斯说，“人人都知道如果在圣帕特里克节里不穿绿色衣服就会被捏！”“It’s true,” said my little sister, Indi.“这是真的！”我的小妹妹英蒂说。
I was mostly mad about getting pinched, but also a tiny bit glad about being reminded that it was Saint Patrick’s Day.我对自己被掐感到非常生气，但有一点儿值得高兴的是，这提醒了我今天是圣帕特里克节。
英语背诵美文30篇(含中英翻译打印版)
·第一篇：Youth 青春YouthYouth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.1．青春--------------------------------------------------------------------------青春不是人生的一个阶段，而是一种心境；青春不是指粉红的面颊、鲜艳的嘴唇、富有弹性的膝盖，而是指坚定的意志、丰富的想象、充沛的情感；青春，它是清新的生命之泉。
50篇优美英文短文背诵
目录Unit1:The Language of Music（音乐的语言） (2)Unit2:Schooling and Education（上学与受教育） (4)Unit3:The Defini tion of Price(价格的定义) (5)Unit4:Electricity(电) (6)Unit5:The Beginning of Drama（戏剧的起源） (7)Unit6:Television（电视） (8)Unit7:Andrew Carnegie（安德鲁卡内基） (10)Unit8:American Revolution（美国革命） (11)Unit9:Suburbanization（郊区的发展） (12)Unit10:Types of Speech（语言的类型） (13)Unit 11 Archaeology（考古学） (14)Unit12:Museums（博物馆） (15)Unit 13 Skyscrapers and Environment （摩天大楼与环境） (16)Unit14:A Rare Fossil Record（罕见的化石记录） (17)Unit15:The Nobel Academy（诺贝尔委员会） (18)Unit16:The War between Britain and France（英法战争） (19)Unit17:Evolution of Sleep（睡眠的进化） (20)Unit18:Modern American Universities（现代美国大学） (21)Unit19:Children s Numerical Skills（儿童的数学能力） (23)Unit20:The History Significance of American Revolution（20美国革命的历史意义） (24)Unit21:The Origin of Sports（21体育的起源） (25)Unit22:Collectibles（收藏品） (26)Unit23:Ford（亨利•福特） (27)Unit24: Piano（钢琴） (28)Unit25:Movie Music（电影插曲） (29)Unit26:International Business and Cross-cultural Communication（国际商业和跨文化交流） 31 Unit27:Scientific Theories（科学理论） (32)Unit28:Changing Roles of Public Education（公共教育的角色变化） (33)Unit29:Telecommuting（电子交通） (35)Unit30:The origin of Refrigerators（冰箱的由来） (37)Unit31:British Columbia（英属哥伦比亚） (38)Unit32:Botany（植物学） (39)Unit33:Plankton （浮游生物） (40)Unit34:Raising Oysters（饲养牡蛎） (41)Unit35:Oil Refining（炼油） (42)Unit36:Plate Tectonics and Sea-floor Spreading（板块结构与海床扩展） (43)Unit37:Icebergs（冰山） (44)Unit38:Topaz（黄水晶） (45)Unit39:The Salinity of Ocean Waters（海水盐度） (46)Unit40:Cohesion-tension Theory（内聚压力理论） (47)Unit41:American Black Bears（美国黑熊） (48)Unit42:Coal-fired power plants（火力发电厂） (49)Unit43:Statistics（统计学） (50)Unit44:Obtaining Fresh water from icebergs（从冰山中获取淡水） (51)Unit45:The Source of Energe（能量的来源） (52)Unit46:Vision（视觉） (53)Unit47:Folk Culture（民间文化） (54)Unit48:Bacteria（细菌） (55)Unit49: Sleep（睡眠） (56)Unit50: Cells and Temperature（细胞与温度） (57)Unit1:The Language of Music（音乐的语言）A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different movements.Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sound with fanatical but selfless authority.Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.画家将已完成的作品挂在墙上，每个人都可以观赏到。
经典英文背诵50篇(带翻译)
经典英文美文>01 The Language of MusicA painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can seeit. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for thecomposer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long andas arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, formusicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords wouldbe inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practicemoving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow toand fro with the right arm -- two entirely different movements.Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly intune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes arealready there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibilityto tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: thehammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to soundlike percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts studentconductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sounds withfanatical but selfless authority.Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledgeand understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home inthe language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in any century.01 音乐的语言画家将已完成的作品挂在墙上，每个人都可以观赏到。
英语美文背诵文选100篇
英语美文背诵文选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 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 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 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. 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 dedicate-we cannotconsecrate-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 forget 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 that 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 herlittle 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》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 abouther tender throat and 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 drilled 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 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 memberof Society in other occupations.I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words)Yours faithfullyT.H. 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 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 andempty 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》13. 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 thatthey 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 footstepsand 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 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 ofthe 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 words)(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; 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》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 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》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 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 theschoolmen; 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, 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 apeculiar 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 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 atalked 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. You 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》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, ifhe 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 our experience 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, rememberthis; let them remember that an hour misspent is equivalent 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 time. 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 the 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 ofthis has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent 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 disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly 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 ourexistence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire 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 moral 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. As 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 clusteredseeds 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, blue 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 hair, 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 of music. Its message is profoundly simple, and profoundly mysterious also: Life goes on. That is all there is to it. Everything that is, was; and everything that is, will be. (259 words)by James J. Kilpatrick陈擎红《英语背诵散文》27. Spell of the Rising Moon。
经典英文背诵50篇(带翻译)
经典英文课文背诵５０篇（带翻译）>01 The Language of MusicA painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can seeit. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed.Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for thecomposer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long andas arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs tobecome a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, formusicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a balletdancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords wouldbe inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practicemoving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow toand fro with the right arm -- two entirely different movements.Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly intune. Pianists are spared this particular anxiety, for the notes arealready there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner's responsibilityto tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: thehammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to soundlike percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound clear.This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts studentconductors: they have to learn to know every note of the music and how itshould sound, and they have to aim at controlling these sounds withfanatical but selfless authority.Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledgeand understanding. Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home inthe language of music that they can enjoy performing works written in anycentury.01 音乐的语言画家将已完成的作品挂在墙上，每个人都可以观赏到。
英语背诵的小短文30篇
第二十二篇：The Happy Door 欢乐之门
第八篇：The Road to Success 胜利之道
第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢
第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人
第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐
第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半
第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see 镜子,镜子,告知
第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少?
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第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间
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英语背诵的小短文 30 篇
第十三篇：Be Happy 欢乐 第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美妙
第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人
第一篇：Youth 青春
第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式
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第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义
第五篇：Ambition 理想
第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位如今
第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生
第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美
第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的呼唤
第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁 第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出 第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭 第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说 第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职演讲(节选)
40篇非常值得背诵的英语美文，背完口语16级，赶紧收藏~
40篇非常值得背诵的英语美文，背完口语16级，赶紧收藏~英语·美文The City of SongListening to music is the favorite pastime of many people all over the world.This is especially true for people living in Vienna, the city of song. Being the home of Mozart, this city is the birthplace of classical music and the waltz.Music fills the air in Vienna. Going to public concerts is often free of charge.And don’t forget, Vienna is also home to the world -famous Vienna Boys’ Choir. No wonder people say Austria is always alive with the sound of music.音乐之都听音乐是全世界许多人最喜爱的消遣。
这对生活在音乐之都的维也纳人民来说更是贴切。
这个城市不但是莫扎特的故乡，也是古典音乐和华尔兹舞曲的发源地。
音乐缭绕于整个维也纳。
欣赏公开的演奏会通常都是免费的。
别忘了，维也纳也是世界著名维也纳少年合唱团的所在地。
难怪人们说奥地利永远充满着音乐的声音。
Television AddictionTelevision provides us with a wide range of information and entertainment. However, it’s a pity that it may also have a bad influence on young minds. For instance, some TV shows have too much violence and crime. These programs may lead youngsters astray. It is easy for students to become addicted to the excitement of these programs and neglect their homework. Parents must, therefore, keep an eye on what their children watch.电视瘾电视给我们提供广泛的信息和娱乐。
英语美文背诵文选100篇
英语美文背诵文选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 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 asthey 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 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 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 manyimportant 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 dedicate-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 forget 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 that 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 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》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 and were quivering in the sunlight. All this I didnot 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 drilled 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 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)Yours faithfullyT.H. 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 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 thatis "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 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》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 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》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 thescene 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)(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; 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》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 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》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 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 onething 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, 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》21. 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. You 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》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 our experience 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 equivalent 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 time. 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 the 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 spent 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 disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly 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 acquire 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 moral 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 whenyou do not know what to do with yourself that you do something ill or wrong. The mind of the idler preys upon itself. As 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, blue 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 hair, 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 of music. Its message is profoundly simple, and profoundly mysterious also: Life goes on. That is all there is to it. Everything that is, was; and everything that is, will be. (259 words)by James J. Kilpatrick陈擎红《英语背诵散文》27. 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 but privileged.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)。
经典英语短文背诵[42篇]
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经典英语短文背诵第一天：THE NEWSPAPER 报纸Nowadays the newspaper possesses considerable value. Everybody should read it. It supplies us with a variety of news every day. It tells us the political situation of the world. If we form. the habit of reading the newspaper, we shall (will) get enough knowledge to cope with our circumstance.Though students have to do the homework everyday, they should spare at least one or two hours to read newspaper. In this way, they can not only increase knowledge, but also keep up with the times. In a word, reading newspaper is of great benefit to students.现今报纸拥有极大的价值，人人都应该看它。
它每天提供我们各种类类的消息。
它告诉我们世界政治局势。
如果我们养成看报的习惯，我们就能得到足够的知识来因应我们的环境。
学生虽然每天须做功课，但他们至少应该匀出一两个小时来看报。
哪些，他们不但能增加知识而且也能赶上时代。
总而言之，看报对学生很有益处。
第二天：MY DAIL Y LIFE 我的日常生活Though my daily life is extremely monotonous, I try hard to adapt myself to it. Why? Because I intend to be a good student. I wish to render service to my country.I get up at six o’clock every day. After I wash my face and brush my teeth, I begin to review my lessons. I go to school at seven o’clock.After school is over, I return home. We usually have supper at seven o’clock.Then I begin to do my homework. I want to finish it before I go to bed.虽然我的日常生活十分单调，但我却竭力设法去适应它。
高中英语40篇短文背诵
高中英语40篇短文背诵1、Fall in Love with English爱上英语Hiding behind the loose dusty curtain,a teenager packed up his overcoat into the suitcase.He planned to leave home at dusk though there was thunder and lightning outdoors.He had got to do this because he was tired of his parents’ nagging about his English study and did not want to go through it any longer.He couldn’t get along well with English and disliked joining in English classes because he thought his teacher ignored him on purpose.As a result,his score in each exam never added up to over 60.His partner was concerned about him very much.She understood exactly what he was suffering from,but entirely disagreed with his idea.In order to calm him down and settle his problem,she talked with him face to face and swapped a series of learning tips with him.The items she set down helped him find the highway to studying English well.The teenager was grateful and got great power from his friend’s words.Now,he has recovered from being upset and has fallen in love with English.有个少年躲在积满灰尘的松散窗帘后把大衣装入手提箱。
小学英语必背美文100篇（教学类别）
小学英语必背美文100篇（教学类别）预览说明:预览图片所展示的格式为文档的源格式展示,下载源文件没有水印,内容可编辑和复制小学英语必背美文100篇Passage 1.WoodpeckerThere are many apple trees in a garden. They’re good friends. One day an old tree is ill. There are many pests in the tree. Leaves of the tree turn yellow. The old tree feels very sad and unwell. Another tree sends for a doctor for him. At first, they send for a pigeon, but she has no idea about it. Then they send for an oriole, and she ca n’t treat the old tree well. Then they send for a woodpecker. She is a good doctor. She pecks a hole in the tree and eats lots of pests. At last the old tree becomes better and better. Leaves turn green and green.Passage 2.A Busy DayToday is Sunday! On Sundays, I usually play the flute.My father usually reads the newspaper. My motherusuallycleansthe house. Buttoday my mother is in bed. She is ill. My father has to do the housework. Now, he is cleaning the house. “Sam, can you help me?”“Yes, Dad!”Now, we’re washing the car. Where’s my sister, Amy? She is playing my flute. What a lucky girl!Passage 3.The dog and his reflectionOne day a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth was crossing a plank over a stream. As he walked along,helookedintowater,andhesawhis reflection. He thought this was another dog carryinga piece of meat. And he felt he would like to have two pieces. So he snapped at the reflection in the water, and of course, as heopened his mouth, the piece of meat disappeared quickly.Passage 4.An honest boyTony is seven years old. He is an honest and polite boy. One day, it was Sunday. Tony, his sister and his mother stayed at home. He was watching TV and his sister was reading books. His mother was washing clothes. Just then, his father came back with a bag of pears. Tony likes pears very much and he wantedto eat one. His mother gave him four and said, “Let’s sharethem.”“Whichpeardo youwant, Tony?”asked his mother. “The biggest one, mum.”“What?”said his mother, “You should be polite and want the sm allest one.”“Should I tell a lie just to be polite, mum?”Passage 5.A birthday partyToday is Susan’s birthday. She is nine years old. Her friends are in her home now. There is a birthday party in the evening. Look! Mary is listening to the music. And Tom is drinking orangejuice. Jack and Sam are playing cards on the floor. Lily and Amy are watching TV. Someone is knocking at the door. It’s Henry. He brings a big teddy bear for Susan. The teddy bear is yellow. Susan is very happy. All the children are happy. They sing a birthday song for Susan.Passage 6.The Farmer and the SnakeIt was a cold winter day.A farmer found a snake on the ground. It was nearly dead by cold. The Farmer was a kind man. Hepicked up thesnake carefully and put it under the coat. Soon the snake Began to move and it raised its mouth and bit the farmer. “Oh, My god!”said the farmer, “I save your life, but you thank me in that way. You must die.”Then he killed the snake with a stick. At last he died, too.Passage 7.Two Young TreesTwo young trees are standing on the top of the hill. Their names are Tim and Alan.One day, it’s sunny and warm. Some birds are singing in the trees. The wind blows, and the trees are talking. “What do you want to be when you grow up?’’asks Tim. “I’m not sure. I think I want to be a chair or a desk.”answers Alan, “Maybe I want to bea toy box or a baseball bat. I like children.”“What do you want to be when you grow up?”asks Alan. “Me?”says Tim, “I just want to be a tree. I want to bea house for birds and spiders. I want to have many apples. And when it’s sunny and hot, people and animals can stand under me.”Passage 8.Hongkong is a nice placeHong Kong is a nice place, especially in summer. JulyisahotmonthinHongKong.Butit’san excellent time for swimming. There is a beautiful beach at Repulse Bay (浅水湾). T o get there, you can take a bus from Central. Lots of people go to the beach on Sundays and Saturdays. But if you go on a weekday, it is will be not so crowded.Visitors to Hongkong need passports. But people from many countries do not need visas. Hongkong is a nice place for holiday. There are many shops.Passage 9.WaterWater is very important for living things. Without water, there must be no life on the earth. All the plants and animals need water to drink, to cook food and to clean ourselves. Water is needed in farms, factories, offices, schools, families and many other places.Water is found in seas, rivers and lakes. It can be foundeverywhere in the world, and it also can be found in the air.Passage 10.Twins’BedroomThis is the twins’bedroom. It is a nice room. The two beds look the same. This bed is Lily’s and that one is Lucy’s. The twins have one desk and two chairs. Their clock, books and pencil-boxes are on the desk. Their schoolbags are behind the chairs. Some nice flowers are on the desk. Some nice pictures are on the wall. Is there a kite? Yes, it’s under Lily’s bed. The bedroom is very nice.Passage 11.DogsOne of the animals that help people a lot is the dog. In some countries, dogs pull wagons. In the cold north, dogs pull sleds.There are other ways that dogs help us, too. Policemen use them to look for missing people. Soldiers use them to carry letters and medicine .On farms, dogs take care of sheep and keep them in the fields. At night, they take the sheep home. Dogs help the blind with work. Some dogs are good and kind. Some dogs are good at another skill.Passage 12.The Best JobBetty is a lazy girl. She doesn’t study hard, and she doesn’t help her mother with the housework, either. “What are you going to be when you grow up, Betty?”Mother asks. “You’re too lazy. No job will ever fit you.”“But I know one,”says the girl, “I’m going to be Father Christmas,”“You want to be Father Christmas?”Mother is surprised, “But why?”“Because he works only one day in a whole year.”Passage 13.A Clever MonkeyA little monkey picks up a pumpkin and wants to takeithome.Butthepumpkinistoobig.The monkey can’t take ithome.Suddenly he sees a panda riding a bike towards him. He watches the bike. “l have a good idea. I can roll the pumpkin. It likes a wheel.”So he rolls the pumpkin to his home. When his mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised and says, “How can you carry it home?”The little monkey answers proudly, “l can’t lift it, but l can roll it.”His mother smiles and says, “What a clever boy!”Passage14. What Are Stars Like?Have you ever wondered about the stars? In some ways, stars are like people. They are born. They grow old. And they die. A star is born from dust and gas. Slowly the dust and gas make a ball. The ball gets very hot. Then it starts to give off light. The young star grows into a giant. Many years go by. The older star begins to get small again. At last its light goes out. The star’s life isover.Passage 15.Radio and TelevisionRadio and television are very popular in the world today. Millions of people watch TV. Perhaps more people listen to the radio.The TV is more useful than the radio. On TV we can see and hear what is happening in the world. However, radio isn’t lost. It is still with us. And listeners are becoming more. That’sbecause a transistor radio isn’t lost. It is still with us. It is very easy to carry. You can put one in your pocket and listen to it on the bus or your bike when you go to work.Passage 16.It’s cool behind youIt’stwoo’clockintheafternoon.Thesunis shinning and it’svery hot. Nancy has to meet her mother at the train station.Now she’s walking in the street. There are no trees and she’s fat. So she feels very hot. But she doesn’t find a boy walking just behind her. And she meets a friend and says “hello”to him. “Who’s the boy behind you？”asks the man . Now she sees the boy. She is angry and asks, “Why are you walking behind me, boy?”“There’snoshadeinthestreet, you know.”answers the boy. “It’s cool behind you, I think.”Passage 17.Father’s HobbyMy dad works from Monday to Friday in a bank. he uses the computer to count money. His job is very important in the bank.Dad is also busy at home. At weekends he cooks dinner. Usually he cooks Italian food. On Sundays he makesfive pieces of pizza. Sometimes hecooks chicken and makes Chinese food. My mum watches and helps him. I help my dad, too. I wash the dishes.Many people think it is strange for a man to cook. But my dad enjoys his hobby. Cooking relaxes him. He is a weekend cook.Passage 18.I don’t think soJack is a good boy but he doesn’t like to use his head. He often says something withou thinking.It makes others unhappy.Mr. Black teaches math in a school. He’s old now and he likes children.On the Friday Mr. Black does n’t go to work, because he’s ill in a hospital. And Jack’s mother will see him after dinner. “I want to be there with you.”says Jack. “You’re a rude boy. I can’t take you there.’’sayshis mother. “Don’t worry, mum. I won’t do that again. Please believe me. ”says Jack. In the hospital, Jack says nothing at first. When they’re leaving , he says to Mr. Black, “You look fine. The doctor says you’re going to die, but I don’t think so. ”Passage 19.Seven days in a weekThere are about fifty-two weeks in a year. And there are seven days in each week. The first day of a week is Sunday. The other days of a week between SundayandSaturdayare Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Monday is the second day, Tuesday is the third day, Wednesday is the fourth day, Thursday is the fifth day, and Friday is the sixth day. What’s the last day? Do you know?Passage 20.My special FriendI have a friend in the U.S. His name is Don Adams. I know him very well, but I have never met him. We write to each other all the time. My letters are very short. It is still hard for me to write in English. I received a letter from Don yesterday. It makes me very happy. He is coming to my country for a visit next summer. We are going to see each other for the first time.Passage 21.A Day in My LifeMy family lives on this street. In the morning, my father goes to work and all the children go to school. My mother takes us to school everyday. She does the housework. She always has her lunch at home, and sees her friends in the afternoon. In the evening all the children come home from school. They always get home early. My father goes home from work and he is often late. After supper my two brothers and I do our homework. We go to bed at ten.Passage 22. The SeaWhat do know about the sea? Some people have seen it but others haven’t. The sea looks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very tough when there is a strong wind. What other things do you know about it? Of course, the sea is very large. In the world there is more sea than land. If you have swum in the sea, you know that the sea is salty. Rivers carry salt from the landinto the sea. Some places of the sea are saltier than the other places. Do you know the Dead Sea? It is so salty that you can’t sink when you are in the water! And fish cannot live in it!Passage 23.A Good Young PioneerLi Hua is a Yong Pioneer. He is going to the park. Now he is waiting for a bus. Suddenly he finds a watchon theground.He askssome people, “Whose watch is it?”But the watch isn’t theirs. So he gives the watch to a policeman.Now Li Hua gets on the bus. He is sitting near the window. An old woman gets on the bus. Shehas no seat. So he stands up and says, “Here is a seat for you, Granny. Please sit here”Passage 24.Sea horseThere are all kinds of horses in the world. But one of them you can’t ride. It doesn’t live on land, but in the sea. It looks like the head of horse. So the people call it sea horse. In fact, the sea horse is a small fish. It likes to live in warm water. A sea horse stands up in the water when it swims.Father horse carries the eggs to keep them safe in its pouch. Whenthe eggsare hatched, the baby horses swim away.Passage 25.A Cat and a BirdThere are three trees near the house. There is a big tree, and two small trees.In the big tree there is a bird. Can the bird sing? Yes, it can. What’s under the big tree? It’s a cat.“I want some food,”thinks the cat. “Bird, my good friend, Come here! It’s time to play games”says the cat.“No today, thank you!”says the bird, “You can’t catch me! Goodbye!”Look! The bird is flying!Passage 26.A Flying FoxA flying fox is not a fox at all. It is a bat. But this bat looks like a fox. A flying fox is very big. It likes to eat fruit. Sometimes the flying fox is called fruit bat.The flying fox flies into fruit trees. Then the bat eats all the fruit. So fruit farmers do not like the flying fox.Passage 27.Flying BirdsBirds don’t fly high up in the sky. The air is too thin.It is hard for birds to breathe in thin air. Thin air doesn’t hold them up.Birds fly near the ground so that they can see where they are. The birds look for places they know. Then they do not get lost. Some birds fly so low over the ocean that the waves often hide them. Many birds fly a long distance in the spring and autumn.Passage 28.AirAir is all around us. It is around us as we walk and play. From the time we were born air is around us on every side. When we sit down, it is around us. When we go to bed, air is also around us. We live in air. We can live without food or water for a few days, but we cannot live for more than a few minutes without air. We take in air. When we are working or running we need more air. When we are asleep, we need less air. We live in air, but we cannot see it. We can only feel it when it is moving. Moving air is called wind. How can we make air move? Here is one way. Hold an open book in front of your face, close it quickly. What can you feel? What you feel is air.Passage 29.ClocksThere are many clocks in the Brown’s house. They are in different rooms.A big clock stands in a corner of the sitting room. It is a very, very old clock, but it still keeps good time. Mr. Brown winds it once a week.Passage 30. SwimmingSwimming is a good sport. It’s popular. People like swimming because the water makes people feel cool. But if they swim in a wrong place, it is very dangerous. These years, some people died when they were enjoying themselves in water and most of them were students. Summer holiday will be there again.I want to give you some advice. First, don’t g et into the water when you are alone. Second, don’t get into the water if there is a No swimming sign. Third, you should be careful in the water. If you remember these, swimming will be safe and it’s good for your health.。
英文诵典：美文精华必背40篇
英文诵典：美文精华必背40篇[ti:001 What I Have Lived for][00:02.88]What I Have Lived for 伯特兰·罗素（Bertrand Russell，1872-1970）[00:07.95]Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:[00:14.02]the longing for love, the search for knowledge,[00:18.45]and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.[00:23.41]These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither,[00:29.55]in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.[00:40.08]I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy[00:45.00]— ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours of this joy.[00:57.17]I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness[01:01.96]— that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world[01:08.90]into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.[01:14.20]I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen,[01:20.60]in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.[01:29.71]This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found.[01:42.88]With equal passion I have sought knowledge.[01:46.53]I have wished to understand the hearts of men.[01:50.80]I have wished to know why the stars shine.[01:54.65]And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds away above the flux.[02:01.75]A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.[02:07.78]Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible,[02:11.87]led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.[02:20.34]Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors,[02:31.61]helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, [02:39.44]poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.[02:46.41]I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.[02:54.38]This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.[03:02.32]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[03:12.91][ti:002. If I Were a Boy Again][00:03.32]If I Were a Boy Again 作者佚名[00:10.47]If I were a boy again, I would practice perseverance more often,[00:16.77]and never give up a thing because it was too hard or inconvenient.[00:22.59]If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results.[00:31.92]“There are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids - the eagle and the snail.”[00:42.67]If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention;[00:49.23]I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand.[00:54.12]I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once. [01:01.33]The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough.[01:08.70]I often hear grown-up people say “I could not fix my attention on the sermon or book, [01:15.75]although I wished to do so”, and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth. [01:24.52]If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory.[01:33.76]I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion.[01:41.69]It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately;[01:46.91]but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble.[01:51.51]It only needs early cultivation to become a power.[01:56.80]If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage.[02:02.30]“Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice,” says a wise author.[02:14.05]We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear.“[02:20.83]The fear of ill exceeds the ill we fear.” Dangers will arise in any career, but presence of mind will often conquer the worst of them.[02:33.89]Be prepared for any fate, and there is no harm to be feared.[02:40.17]If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: [02:48.14]if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.[02:59.45]Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it.[03:08.31]“shuts love out ,in turn shall be shut out from love.”[03:14.59]If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say no more often.[03:21.02]I might write pages on the importance of learning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect,[03:30.34]and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.[03:37.32]If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends, and indeed towards strangers as well.[03:48.74]The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing tous all winter long,[03:57.18]and make that season of ice and snow more endurable.[04:02.16]Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, [04:09.38]I would, if I were a boy again, I would try still harder to make others happy.[04:15.99]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[04:37.70][ti:003 The Law of Obedience][00:02.43]The Law of Obedience 阿尔伯特·哈伯特（Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915）[00:09.63]The very in the creed of common sense is Obedience.[00:15.38]Perform your work with a whole heart.[00:19.16]Revolt may be sometimes necessary,[00:22.30]but the man who tries to mix revolt and obedience is doomed to disappoint himself [00:29.05]and everybody with whom he has dealings. To flavor work with protest is to fail absolutely.[00:39.53]When you revolt, climb, hike, get out, defy, tell everybody and everything to go to hades![00:48.78]That disposes of the case. You thus separate yourself entirely from those you have served,[00:56.92]no one misunderstands you have declared yourself.[01:01.34]The man who quits in disgust when ordered to perform a task[01:06.08]which he considers menial or unjust may be a pretty good fellow,[01:12.03]but in the wrong environment, but the malcontent who takes your order with a smile [01:18.29]and then secretly disobeys, is a dangerous proposition.[01:24.41]To pretend to obey, and yet carry in your heart the spirit of revolt is to do half-hearted, slipshod work.[01:34.59]If revolt and obedience are equal in power,[01:38.60]your engine will then stop on the center and you benefit no one, not even yourself. [01:45.99]The spirit of obedience is the controlling impulse that dominates the receptive mind and the hospitable heart.[01:55.06]There are boats that mind the helm and there are boats that do not.[02:00.55]Those that do not, get holes knocked in them sooner or later.[02:05.82]To keep off the rocks, obey the rudder.[02:10.04]Obedience is not to slavishly obey this man or that,[02:16.29]but it is that cheerful mental state which responds to the necessity of the case, [02:23.48]and does the thing without any back talk unuttered or expressed.[02:29.77]The man who has not learned to obey has trouble ahead of him every step of the way. [02:36.63]The world has it in for him continually, because he has it in for the world.[02:42.92]The man who does not know how to receive orders is not fit to issue them to others.[02:50.30]But the individual who knows how to execute the orders given him is preparing the way to issue orders,[02:59.62]and better still to have them obeyed.[03:03.33]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[03:10.36][ti:004 Application and Perseverance][00:02.47]Application and Perseverance 塞缪尔·斯迈尔斯(Samuel Smiles, 1812-1904) [00:09.92]The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means,[00:15.21]and the exercise of ordinary qualities.[00:18.79]The common life of every day, affords ample opportunity for acquiring experience of the best kind.[00:27.79]Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness.[00:31.69]Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious,[00:38.88]as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.[00:44.00]In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry,[00:48.76]the commoner qualities are found the most useful[00:53.13]- such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance.[01:01.06]Genius may not be necessary,[01:04.28]though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities.[01:12.08]The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, [01:18.97]and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort.[01:25.59]Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified.[01:33.24]A distinguished teacher and president of a college spoke of it as the power of making efforts.[01:40.40]John Foster held it to be the power of lighting one's own fire.[01:46.19]Newton's was unquestionably a mind of the very highest order,[01:51.10]and yet, when asked by what means he had worked out his extraordinary discoveries, [01:57.76]he modestly answered, “By always thinking unto them.”[02:04.01]At another time he thus expressed his method of study:[02:08.21]“I keep the subject continually be fore me,[02:11.74]and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.” [02:20.56]It was in Newton's case, as in every other,[02:24.86]only by diligent application and perseverance that his great reputation was achieved. [02:33.34]Dalton, the chemist, repudiated the notion of his being “a genius,[02:39.80]” attributing everything which he had accomplished to simple industry and accumulation.[02:46.37]John Hunter said of himself, “My mind is like a beehives;[02:51.87]but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, [02:59.29]and food collected with incessant industry from the choiceset stores of nature.”[03:06.24]We have, indeed,[03:07.80]but to glance at the biographies of great men to find that the most distinguished inventors,[03:14.94]artists, thinkers, and workers of all kinds, owe their success, in a great measure, [03:23.56]to their indefatigable industry and application.[03:28.83]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[03:58.87][ti:005 We Are on a Journey][00:00.49]We Are on a Journey Henry Van Dyke (亨利·范·戴克,1852-1933)[00:07.55]Wherever you are，and whoever you may be,[00:11.60]there is one thing in which you and I are just alike, at this moment.[00:17.99]and in all the moments of our existence．We are not at rest; we are on a journey．[00:25.95]Our life is not a mere fact; it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,[00:31.56]ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.[00:35.58]We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.[00:40.53]Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same,[00:46.50]they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change.[00:51.85]It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July.[00:57.28]The season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.[01:06.18]Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another.[01:10.42]Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. [01:18.11]The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole.[01:26.79]To decline is to accept — the other alternative.[01:31.98]Are you richer to-day than you were yesterday? No? Then you are a little poorer. [01:39.98]Are you better to-day than you were yesterday? NO? Then you are a little wores. [01:47.74]Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?[01:52.04]Yes, - you must be a little nearer to some port or other;[01:57.00]for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life you have never been still for a single moment;[02:04.97]the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would;[02:09.62]there can be no pause until you come into port.[02:14.04]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[02:27.30][ti:006 The Choice of Companion][00:04.94]The Choice of Companion 威廉·麦克皮斯·萨克雷（William Makepeace Thackray, 1811-1863）[00:11.80]A good companion is better than a fortune, for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character[00:18.73]which make companionship a blessing. The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves,[00:26.40]for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds．[00:31.61]“Keep good company，and you shall be one of the number,”[00:34.75]said George Herbert. “A man is known by the companion he keeps.”[00:39.90]Character makes character in the associations of life faster than anything else.[00:45.76]Purity begets purity, like begets like;[00:49.92]and this fact makes the choice of companion in early life more important even than [00:55.40]that of teachers and guardians.[00:57.68]It is true that we cannot always choose all of our companions,[01:01.86]some are thrust upon us by business or the social relations of life,[01:06.59]we do not choose them, we do not enjoy them; and yet, we have to associate with them more or less.[01:14.12]The experience is not altogether without compensation, if there be principle enough in us to bear the strain.[01:21.81]Still, in the main, choice of companions can be made, and must be made.[01:27.79]It is not best or necessary for a young person to associate with “Tom, Dick, and Harry” without forethought or purpose.[01:36.37]Some fixed rules about the company he or she keeps must be observed.[01:41.62]The subject should be uttermost in the thoughts, and canvassed often.[01:46.52]Companionship is education, good or not; it develops manhood or womanhood, [01:52.64]high or low; it lifts soul upward or drags it downward; it ministers to virtue or vice. [02:00.21]Sow virtue, and the harvest will be virtue, Sow vice, and the harvest will be vice．[02:06.47]Good companionships help us to sow virtue；evil companionships help us to sow vice. [02:13.51]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[02:30.04][ti:007 The Faculty of Delight][00:04.86]The Faculty of Delight 查理·爱德华·蒙太古（Charles Edward Montague，1867-1928）[00:11.67]Among the mind's powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists.[00:17.26]It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by any one who has ever had it.[00:22.89]This is the power of taking delight in a thing, or rather in anything, everything,[00:28.88]not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is,[00:34.08]as the lover dotes on whatever may be the traits of the beloved object.[00:39.53]A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer turf, feel it, [00:45.87]and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.[00:51.50]He is not thinking how well it will do for some game or to feed sheep upon.[00:56.86]That would be the way of the wooer whose mind runs on his mistress's money. [01:01.77]The child's is sheer affection, the true ecstatic sense of the thing's inherent characteristics.[01:09.24]No matte what the things may be, no matter what they are good or no good for, there they are,[01:16.20]each with a thrilling unique look and feel of its own, like a face; the iron astringently coop under its paint,[01:25.11]the painted wood familiarly warmer, the clod crumbling enchantingly down in the hands,[01:31.43]with its little dry smell of the sun and of hot nettles;[01:35.21]each common thing a personality marked by delicious differences.[01:40.26]The joy of an Adam new to the garden and just looking round is brought by the normal child to the things[01:47.51]that he does as well as those that he sees.[01:51.02]To be suffered to do some plain work with the real spade used by mankind can give him a mystical exaltation:[01:58.98]to come home with his legs, as the French say,[02:01.88]reentering his body from the fatigue of helping the gardener[02:05.54]to weed beds sends him to sleep in the glow of a beatitude that is an end in itself…… [02:12.08]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[02:29.02][ti:008 Man’s Youth][00:02.98]Man’s Youth 作者佚名[00:07.65]Man’s youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever.[00:24.28]It is the thing he cannot bear to lose, it is the thing whose passing he watches with infinite sorrow and regret, it is the thing whose loss he must lament forever,[00:39.91]and it is the thing whose loss he really welcomes with a sad and secret joy, the thing he would never willingly relive again, if it could be restored to him by any magic.[00:54.75]Why is this? The reason is that the strange and bitter miracle of life is nowhere else soevident as in our youth.[01:07.76]And what is the essence of that strange and bitter miracle of life which we feel so poignantly, so unutterably, with such a bitter pain and joy, when we are young?[01:23.14]It is this: that being rich, we are so poor; that being mighty, we can yet have nothing; that seeing, breathing, smelling, tasting all around us the wealth and glory of this earth,[01:40.11]feeling with an intolerable certitude that the whole structure of the enchanted life - the most fortunate, wealthy, good, and happy life that any man has ever known - is ours at once, immediately and forever,[01:59.59]the moment that we choose to take a step, or stretch a hand - we yet know that we can really keep, hold, take, and possess forever - nothing.[02:16.71]All passes; nothing lasts: the moment that we put our hand upon it, it melts away like smoke, is gone forever, and the snake is eating at our heart again; we see then what we are and what our lives must come to.[02:40.82]A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.[02:53.26]He hurls the great shoulder of his strength forever against phantasmal barriers, he is a wave whose power explodes in lost mid-oceans under timeless skies,[03:07.19]he reaches out to grip a fume of painted smoke; he wants all, feels the thirst and power for everything, and finally gets nothing.[03:19.46]In the end, he is destroyed by his own strength, devoured by his own hunger, impoverished by his own wealth.[03:29.90]Thoughtless of money or the accumulation of material possessions, he is none the less defeated in the end by his own greed.[03:40.59]And that is the reason why, when youth is gone, every man will look back upon that period of his life with infinite sorrow and regret.[03:53.74]It is the bitter sorrow and regret of a man who knows that once he had a great talent and wasted it, of a man who knows that once he had a great treasure and got nothing from it, [04:10.49]of a man who knows that he had strength enough for everything and never used it. [04:18.43]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[04:30.92][ti:009&010 I Have a Dream][00:01.01]I Have a Dream 马丁·路德·金（Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968）[00:04.02]I am happy to join with you today[00:09.81] in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.[00:20.56][00:29.05]Five score years ago, a great American,[00:35.49]in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.[00:46.70]This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves[00:56.43]who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.[01:02.66]It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.[01:13.15]But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.[01:24.07]One hundred years later,[01:27.66]the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.[01:38.45]One hundred years later,[01:41.61]the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.[01:51.21]One hundred years later,[01:52.87][01:57.52]the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.[02:08.55]So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.[02:16.20]In a sense, we have come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check.[02:22.85]When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution [02:29.97]and the Declaration of Independence,[02:33.73]they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.[02:42.54]This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men,[02:50.80]would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.[02:59.70]It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.[03:12.37]Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check;[03:22.08]a check which has come back marked “insuffcient funds”.[03:25.84][03:38.45]But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.[03:46.42]We refuse to believe that there are “insufficient funds” in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.[03:53.46]So we have come to cash this check[03:55.98]—a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.[04:02.66][04:12.43]We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of “now” .[04:23.52]This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.[04:33.14][04:38.97]“Now” is the time to make real the promises of Democracy.[04:45.51]“Now” is the time to rise from the dar k and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.[04:55.38]“Now” is the time[04:56.53][05:00.70]to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.[05:07.30]“Now” is the time[05:08.56][05:11.61]to make justice a reality fo all of God’s children.[05:16.48]It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.[05:24.30]This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass[05:31.17]until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.[05:36.84]Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.[05:41.75]Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam[05:46.89]and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.[05:54.57][06:08.88]There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.[06:18.04]The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.[06:28.35]But there is something that I must say to my people[06:32.42]who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.[06:39.25]In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. [06:48.39]Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.[06:56.05][07:04.91]We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. [07:11.18]We must not allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.[07:18.22]Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.[07:27.92]The marvelous new militancy[07:30.78]which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,[07:38.11]for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today,[07:42.85]have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny[07:46.47][07:56.58]they have come to realize their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.[08:06.41]As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.[08:14.92]We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, [08:22.70]“When will you be satisfied?”[08:26.05]We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.[08:34.99]We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of traveling, [08:43.16]cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.[08:48.20][08:54.69]We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote[09:00.24]and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.[09:04.92][09:11.85]No, no, we are not satisfied,[09:16.01]and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.[09:23.67][09:33.05]I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.[09:45.78]Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.[09:50.83]Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution[10:00.56]and staggered by the winds of police brutality.[10:04.98]You have been the veterans of creative suffering.[10:09.66]Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.[10:17.90]Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina,[10:23.59]go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our Northern cities,[10:31.80]knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.[10:41.16]I say to you today, my friends,[10:44.44][10:54.39]and so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow,[11:01.42]I still have a dream.[11:05.21]It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.[11:10.00]I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:[11:22.61]“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”[11:28.82][11:37.61]I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners[11:50.20]will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.[11:54.68]I have a dream that one day[11:59.78]even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice,[12:08.77]sweltering with the heat of oppression,[12:12.13]will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream[12:20.80]that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they[12:26.63]will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.[12:33.47][12:42.63]I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists,[12:52.98]with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification;[12:59.73]one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls[13:08.23]as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.[13:10.99][13:18.61]I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,[13:23.81]every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places would be made plain, [13:28.46]and the crooked places would be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.[13:36.33]This is our hope.[13:38.31]This is the faith that I will go back to the South with.[13:42.33]With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. [13:49.79]With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.[13:59.12]With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together,[14:03.89]to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together,[14:09.20]knowing that we will be free one day.[14:13.92]This will be the day ,this will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning.[14:23.78]My country, ’tis of thee,[14:26.34]Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing.[14:29.94]Land where my fathers died,[14:31.77]Land of the pilgrims’pride,[14:34.55]From every mountainside,[14:37.43]Let freedom ring. And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. [14:43.33]So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.[14:48.76]Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.[14:54.03]Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania![14:58.62]Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado![15:03.21]Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California![15:07.59]But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia![15:14.32]Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee![15:19.09]Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[15:24.34]From every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens,[15:29.90][15:32.61]When we allow freedom ring,[15:35.92]when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet,[15:39.56]from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children,[15:48.22]black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,[15:53.58]will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,[15:59.07]“Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!”[16:05.50]笃志图书--英文诵典·美文精华[16:16.70]。
英文美文40篇背诵
1.Trip 旅行2. Earthquake地震3. The Great President伟大的总统4. Maid女仆5. Competition比赛6. Computers电脑7. My First Band我的第一支乐队8. Festival节日9. Balanced Diet平衡膳食10. Wildlife Protection保护野生动植物11. Sailing Home划船回家12. Explore MKII探测MKII行星13. A Journey across Canada横穿加拿大的旅行14. .Lina丽娜15. Farming Way 耕种方式16. Chaplin 卓别林17. Misunderstanding 一场误会18.Theme Park 主题公园19．Disease疾病20．Sightseeing in United Kingdom 观光联合王国21．An Air Crash 飞机失事22. An Amateur Journalist业余记者23. First Aid 急救24. Abstract Art 抽象艺术25. A Russian Poem 俄国童谣26. Help Adolescents 帮助青少年27. Environment 环境28. A Volcano Eruption 火山爆发29. Disability 残疾30. Marriage 婚姻31. Mark and Seal32．Helping the Remote Village 援助山村33. Study in America 留学美国34. Immigrate to America 移民美国35. Cloning 克隆36. Strange Patent Applications 奇怪的专利申请37. Pronunciation and Status 口音和身份38. Murder 谋杀39. English 英语40. Kinds of Englishes 多样的英语。
英语文章背诵精选40篇
英语文章背诵精选40篇以下是一些适合英语学习者背诵的精选文章，这些文章主题广泛，包括故事、诗歌、新闻、演讲等。
请注意，这里只提供了10篇精选文章，大家可以根据个人兴趣和需求选择适合自己的文章进行背诵。
1、The Love of a ParentThis is the love of a parent。
A love that's patient and kind。
A love that's never ending。
A love that's full of forgiveness。
A love that's true and pure.This is the love of a parent。
A love that's unconditional。
A love that's deep and broad。
A love that always protects。
A love that will never fade.This is the love of a parent。
A love that's full of joy and peace。
A love that will never be shattered。
A love that will always persevere。
A love that will never cease.2、The DaffodilIn early spring, when the sun shines bright。
A yellow daffodil greets the light.Its petals are like little cups of gold。
Fill them with sunshine and they smile and nod. The daffodil's leaves are like green fans。
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关于英语背诵短文大全背诵是一种非常重要的教学手段,尤其在初中英语教学中。
小编精心收集了关于英语背诵短文，供大家欣赏学习!关于英语背诵短文篇1很棒的班级Hello, everyone. I’m Liang Xinying. I’m from 0406. I think our class is the best class in our school. I don’t know what you think about 0406. Never mind, let me tell you about 0406. I’m sure you will love it!Look, what a nice classroom it is! You can see some beautiful pictures on the wall. Can you see the tidy floor? If you go into the classroom of 0406, you will feel very comfortable. The students in 0406 are very friendly. The boys are clever and helpful. They like sports very much, because they know more exercise is good for them. They are all very healthy. The girls in 0406 are very hard-working and careful. They like reading very much. Sometimes, they like chatting with each other and talking about stars. They have lots of things to do all day, so they are very busy. They also like exercising. They think that it’s also important for girls to exercise. Look! Who are they? Oh, they are the teachers of 0406.I think they know everything. They love their students and work hard all day. We all love them too. Oh, what a great class it is!What nice students! What funny teachers! What a nice classroom!Dear friend, now Do you know 0406? Do you love 0406, too? What do you think of 0406?I think, you must love it very much, right?你好，每个人都。
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经典英语短文背诵第一天：THE NEWSPAPER 报纸Nowadays the newspaper possesses considerable value. Everybody should read it. It supplies us with a variety of news every day. It tells us the political situation of the world. If we form. the habit of reading the newspaper, we shall (will) get enough knowledge to cope with our circumstance.Though students have to do the homework everyday, they should spare at least one or two hours to read newspaper. In this way, they can not only increase knowledge, but also keep up with the times. In a word, reading newspaper is of great benefit to students.现今报纸拥有极大的价值，人人都应该看它。
它每天提供我们各种类类的消息。
它告诉我们世界政治局势。
如果我们养成看报的习惯，我们就能得到足够的知识来因应我们的环境。
学生虽然每天须做功课，但他们至少应该匀出一两个小时来看报。
哪些，他们不但能增加知识而且也能赶上时代。
总而言之，看报对学生很有益处。
第二天：MY DAIL Y LIFE 我的日常生活Though my daily life is extremely monotonous, I try hard to adapt myself to it. Why? Because I intend to be a good student. I wish to render service to my country.I get up at six o’clock every day. After I wash my face and brush my teeth, I begin to review my lessons. I go to school at seven o’clock.After school is over, I return home. We usually have supper at seven o’clock.Then I begin to do my homework. I want to finish it before I go to bed.虽然我的日常生活十分单调，但我却竭力设法去适应它。
为什么？因为我打算做一个好学生，希望将来为国家服务。
我每天六点起床、洗脸刷牙后，就开始复习功课，七点钟我就去上学。
放学后，我就回家了。
我们通常在七点钟吃晚餐，之后我就开始做家庭作业，希望在睡觉前把它做完。
第三天：A MODEL STUDENT 模范学生Do you mind being called a bad student? Of course not.So far as I know, everybody intends to be (become) a model student.However, to be a model student is by no means an easy thing. Firstly, he must do his best to obtain knowledge. A man without sufficient knowledge will not succeed. Secondly, he must remember to improve his health. Only a strong man can do great tasks. Thirdly, he should receive moral education. If his conduct is not good, no one will consider making friends with him.你介意被称为坏学生吗？当然不。
就我所知，每个人都打算做模范学生。
然而，做模范学生却不容易。
第一，他必须尽力获得知识（求知）。
一个没有足够知识的人是不会成功的。
第二，他必须记住促进健康。
只有强壮的人才能做大事。
第三，他应该接受道德教育。
如果他品行不好，没有人会考虑和他交朋友的。
第四天：HOW TO GET HAPPINESS 如何获得快乐There is no doubt that happiness is the most precious thing in the world. Without it, life will be empty and meaningless. If you wish to know how to get happiness, you must pay attention to thefollowing two points.Firstly, health is the secret of happiness (the key to happiness). Only a strong man can enjoy the pleasure of life.Secondly, happiness consists in contentment. A man who is dissatisfied with his present condition is always in distress.无疑的快乐是世界上最宝贵的东西。
没有它，人生将是空虚的而且毫无意义的。
如果你希望知道如何获得快乐，你须注意下面两点。
健康是快乐的要诀。
唯有身体强壮的人才能享受人生的乐趣。
快乐在于知足。
一个不满于现状的人终是处在痛苦之中。
第五天：BOOKS 书籍As is well known, books teach us to learn life, truth, science and many other useful things. They increase our knowledge, broaden our minds and strengthen our character. In other words, they are our good teachers and wise friends. This is the reason why our parents always encourage us to read more books.Reading is a good thing, but we must pay great attention to the choice of books. It is true that we can derive benefits from good books. However, bad books will do us more harm than good.如众所周知，书籍教我们学习人生，真理，科学以及其它许多有用的东西。
它们增加我们的知识，扩大我们的心胸并加强我们的品格。
换句话说，它们是我们的良师益友。
这是为什么我们的父母终是鼓励我们要多读书的理由。
读书是一好事，但我们必须多加注意书的选择。
不错，我们能从好书中获得益处。
然而，坏书却对我们有害无益。
第六天：A TRIP TO THE COUNTRY 乡村游记One Sunday my mother (Mother) had (made) me take my little young brother to the a trip to the country. She bade me take good care of him.While we were walking along the road, the sun was shining brightly and the breeze was blowing gently. We saw the beautiful flowers smile (smiling) at us and heard the birds sing (singing) their sweet songs on the trees. The scenery was indeed very pretty (beautiful).When we felt tired, we returned home. We saw Mother (our mother) wait (waiting) for us at the door.有一个星期日，我母亲叫我带小弟弟去乡村游历。
她吩咐我要好好照料他。
当我们沿着道路行走的时候，太阳灿烂地照耀着，微风轻轻地吹着。
我们看见美丽的花儿对我们微笑着，并听见鸟儿在树上唱着悦耳的歌曲，风景实十分美丽。
当我们感觉到疲倦的时候，我们就回家了。
我们看见母样正在门口等候我们。
第七天：BE PATRIOTIC 要爱国It is the duty of every citizen to make the country rich and powerful (To make the country rich and strong is...). In order to accomplish this object one must be patriotic (love his country). I consider this an unchangeable truth.How can a student love his country (be patriotic)? I find my answer very simple and clear. He must study hard and store up knowledge so as to serve his (the) country in the future. If every student can do according to what I said, the country will certainly be rich and powerful.要使国家富强是每个公民的责任。