新概念英语——一生必读英文经典美文
新概念英语第三册必背课文
以下是新概念英语第三册一些比较经典、值得背诵的课文：1. 《A Puma at Large》（逃遁的美洲狮）•课文内容：讲述了一只从动物园逃出来的美洲狮在附近村庄引起恐慌的故事。
人们发现了它的脚印、听到它的叫声，还有农场的羊不断失踪。
最后一位老妇人声称看到了“大猫”，狩猎队也在加紧搜寻。
•背诵理由：这篇课文包含了丰富的描述动物和事件的词汇，如“puma”（美洲狮）、“spot”（发现）、“evidence”（证据）等。
通过学习可以掌握如何生动地描述一个事件的发展过程，对提升叙事写作能力很有帮助。
2. 《Thirteen Equals One》（十三等于一）•课文内容：故事发生在一个教堂，钟楼里的钟总是在夜里敲响十三下。
牧师以为是钟出了问题，先后找了钟表匠和建筑工人来检查修理，但问题还是没有解决。
最后才发现原来是一只迷路的小鸟停在钟上，每到夜里就会使钟声多响一下。
•背诵理由：文中有许多关于时间、修理、教堂相关的词汇和表达，例如“clock”（钟）、“repair”（修理）、“church”（教堂）。
文章的情节富有戏剧性，在背诵过程中可以很好地理解如何设置悬念和解决问题，同时对于掌握英语的幽默表达也有一定的帮助。
3. 《An Unknown Goddess》（无名女神）•课文内容：文章介绍了在一个古代城市的遗址挖掘过程中，考古学家发现了一座庙宇，庙宇中有一尊保存完好的女性雕像。
他们虽然不知道这尊女神是谁，但通过对雕像的细节、庙宇的布局以及周围的祭品等线索进行推测，想象出古代祭祀仪式的场景。
•背诵理由：这篇课文涉及考古学、历史文化相关的词汇和知识，如“archaeologist”（考古学家）、“statue”（雕像）、“temple”（庙宇）。
背诵这篇课文有助于积累描述历史文物和古代场景的词汇与表达方式，对于阅读历史文化类的英语文章有很大帮助。
4. 《The Double Life of Alfred Bloggs》（阿尔弗雷德・布洛格斯的双重生活）•课文内容：主人公Alfred Bloggs 是一个清洁工，但他为了不让妻子和邻居知道自己工作的低微，每天穿着西装去上班，然后在公司换装成工作服打扫卫生。
新概念优美英文背诵短文50篇
Unit1:The Language of MusicA 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.Unit2:Schooling and EducationIt is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.Education is much more open-ended and all-inclusive than schooling. Education knows no bounds. It can take place anywhere, whether in the shower or in the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the formal learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of informal learning. The agents of education can range from a revered grandparent to the people debating politics on the radio, from a child to a distinguished scientist. Whereas schooling has a certain predictability, education quite often produces surprises. A chance conversation with a stranger may lead a person to discover how little is known of other religions. People are engaged in education from infancy on. Education, then, is a very broad, inclusive term. It is a lifelong process, a process that starts long before the start of school, and one that should be an integral part of one’s entire life.Schooling, on the other hand, is a specific, formalized process, whose general pattern varies little from one setting to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at approximately the same time, take assigned seats, are taught by an adult, use similar textbooks, do homework, take exams, and so on. The slices of reality that are to be learned, whether they are the alphabet or an understanding of the working of government, have usually been limited by the boundaries of the subject being taught. For example, high school students know that there not likely to find out in their classes the truth about political problems in their communities or what the newest filmmakers are experimenting with. There are definite conditions surrounding the formalized process of schooling.Unit3:The Defini tion of PricePrices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.Unit4:ElectricityThe modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.All living cell send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small –often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cell are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can seed a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it live. ( An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the ele ctric eel’s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body.Unit5:The Beginning of DramaThere are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers. Those measures which appeared to bring the desired results were then retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals. Eventually stories arose which explained or veiled the mysteries of the rites. As time passed some rituals were abandoned, but the stories, later called myths, persisted and provided material for art and drama.Those who believe that drama evolved out of ritual also argue that those rites contained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used, Furthermore, a suitable site had to be provided for performances and when the entire community did not participate, a clear division was usually made between the "acting area" and the "auditorium." In addition, there were performers, and, since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites, religious leaders usually assumed that task. Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people, animals, or supernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect-success in hunt or battle, the coming rain, the revival of the Sun-as an actor might. Eventually such dramatic representations were separated from religious activities.Another theory traces the theater's origin from the human interest in storytelling. According to this vies tales (about the hunt, war, or other feats) are gradually elaborated, at first through the use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator and then through the assumption of each of the roles by a different person. A closely related theory traces theater to those dances that are primarily rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animal movements and sounds.Unit6:TelevisionTelevision-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.The word "television", derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin (visi sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from a distance. Very simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated system of electronics, television provides the capability of converting an image (focused on a special photoconductive plate within a camera) into electronic impulses, which can be sent through a wire or cable. These impulses, when fed into a receiver (television set), can then be electronically reconstituted into that same image.Television is more than just an electronic system, however. It is a means of expression, as well as a vehicle for communication, and as such becomes a powerful tool for reaching other human beings.The field of television can be divided into two categories determined by its means of transmission. First, there is broadcast television, which reaches the masses through broad-based airwave transmission of television signals. Second, there is nonbroadcast television, which provides for the needs of individuals or specific interest groups through controlled transmission techniques.Traditionally, television has been a medium of the masses. We are most familiar with broadcast television because it has been with us for about thirty-seven years in a form similar to what exists today. During those years, it has been controlled, for the most part, by the broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, who have been the major purveyors of news, information, and entertainment. These giants of broadcasting have actually shaped not only television but our perception of it as well. We have come to look upon the picture tube as a source of entertainment, placing our role in this dynamic medium as the passive viewer.Unit7:Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his policy of expanding during periods of economic decline, when most of his competitors were reducing their investments.Carnegie believed that individuals should progress through hard work, but he also felt strongly that the wealthy should use their fortunes for the benefit of society. He opposed charity, preferring instead to provide educational opportunities that would allow others to help themselves. "He who dies rich, dies disgraced," he often said.Among his more noteworthy contributions to society are those that bear his name, including the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, which has a library, a museum of fine arts, and a museum of national history. He also founded a school of technology that is now part of Carnegie-Mellon University. Other philanthrophic gifts are the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote understanding between nations, the Carnegie Institute of Washington to fund scientific research, and Carnegie Hall to provide a center for the arts.Few Americans have been left untouched by Andrew Carnegie's generosity. His contributions of more than five million dollars established 2,500 libraries in small communities throughout the country and formed the nucleus of the public library system that we all enjoy today.Unit8:American RevolutionThe American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.America's War of Independence heralded the birth of three modern nations. One was Canada, which received its first large influx of English-speaking population from the thousands of loyalists who fled there from the United States. Another was Australia, which became a penal colony now that America was no longer available for prisoners and debtors. The third newcomer-the United States-based itself squarely on republican principles.Yet even the political overturn was not so revolutionary as one might suppose. In some states, notably Connecticut and Rhode Island, the war largely ratified a colonial self-rule already existing. British officials, everywhere ousted, were replaced by a home-grown governing class, which promptly sought a local substitute for king and Parliament.Unit9:SuburbanizationIf by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period the city was a small highly compact cluster in which people moved about on foot and goods were conveyed by horse and cart. But the early factories built in the 1840's were located along waterways and near railheads at the edges of cities, and housing was needed for the thousands of people drawn by the prospect of employment. In time, the factories were surrounded by proliferating mill towns of apartments and row houses that abutted the older, main cities. As a defense against this encroachment and to enlarge their tax bases, the cities appropriated their industrial neighbors. In 1854, for example, the city of Philadelphia annexed most of Philadelphia County. Similar municipal maneuvers took place in Chicago and in New York. Indeed, most great cities of the United States achieved such status only by incorporating the communities along their borders.With the acceleration of industrial growth came acute urban crowding and accompanying social stress-conditions that began to approach disastrous proportions when, in 1888, the first commercially successful electric traction line was developed. Within a few years the horse-drawn trolleys were retired and electric streetcar networks crisscrossed and connected every major urban area, fostering a wave of suburbanization that transformed the compact industrial city into a dispersed metropolis. This first phase of mass-scale suburbanization was reinforced by the simultaneous emergence of the urban Middle Class, whose desires for homeownership in neighborhoods far from the aging inner city were satisfied by the developers of single-family housing tracts.Unit10:Types of SpeechStandard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries. Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal situations. Almost all idiomatic expressions are colloquial language. Slang, however, refers to words and expressions understood by a large number of speakers but not accepted as good, formal usage by the majority. Colloquial expressions and even slang may be found in standard dictionaries but will be so identified. Both colloquial usage and slang are more common in speech than in writing.Colloquial speech often passes into standard speech. Some slang also passes into standard speech, but other slang expressions enjoy momentary popularity followed by obscurity. In some cases, the majority never accepts certain slang phrases but nevertheless retains them in their collective memories. Every generation seems to require its own set of words to describe familiar objects and events. It has been pointed out by a number of linguists that three cultural conditions are necessary for the creation of a large body of slang expressions. First, the introduction and acceptance of new objects and situations in the society; second, a diverse population with a large number of subgroups; third, association among the subgroups and the majority population.Finally, it is worth noting that the terms "standard" "colloquial" and "slang" exist only as abstract labels for scholars who study language. Only a tiny number of the speakers of any language will be aware that they are using colloquial or slang expressions. Most speakers of English will, during appropriate situations, select and use all three types of expressions.Unit12:MuseumsFrom Boston to Los Angeles, from New York City to Chicago to Dallas, museums are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholesale expansion programs. These programs already have radically altered facades and floor plans or are expected to do so in the not-too-distant future.In New York City alone, six major institutions have spread up and out into the air space and neighborhoods around them or are preparing to do so.The reasons for this confluence of activity are complex, but one factor is a consideration everywhere - space. With collections expanding, with the needs and functions of museums changing, empty space has become a very precious commodity.Probably nowhere in the country is this more true than at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has needed additional space for decades and which received its last significant face lift ten years ago. Because of the space crunch, the Art Museum has become increasingly cautious in considering acquisitions and donations of art, in some cases passing up opportunities to strengthen its collections.Deaccessing - or selling off - works of art has taken on new importance because of the museum's space problems. And increasingly, curators have been forced to juggle gallery space, rotating one masterpiece into public view while another is sent to storage.Despite the clear need for additional gallery and storage space, however," the museum has no plan, no plan to break out of its envelope in the next fifteen years," according to Philadelphia Museum of Art's president.Unit14:A Rare Fossil RecordThe preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized. Ichthyosaurs had a higher chance of being preserved than did terrestrial creatures because, as marine animals, they tended to live in environments less subject to erosion. Still, their fossilization required a suite of factors: a slow rate of decay of soft tissues, little scavenging by other animals, a lack of swift currents and waves to jumble and carry away small bones, and fairly rapid burial. Given these factors, some areas have become a treasury of well-preserved ichthyosaur fossils.The deposits at Holzmaden, Germany, present an interesting case for analysis. The ichthyosaur remains are found in black, bituminous marine shales deposited about 190 million years ago. Over the years, thousands of specimens of marine reptiles, fish and invertebrates have been recovered from these rocks. The quality of preservation is outstanding, but what is even more impressive is the number of ichthyosaur fossils containing preserved embryos. Ichthyosaurs with embryos have been reported from 6 different levels of the shale in a small area around Holzmaden, suggesting that a specific site was used by large numbers of ichthyosaurs repeatedly over time. The embryos are quite advanced in their physical development; their paddles, for example, are already well formed. One specimen is even preserved in the birth canal. In addition, the shale contains the remains of many newborns that are between 20 and 30 inches long.Why are there so many pregnant females and young at Holzmaden when they are so rare elsewhere The quality of preservation is almost unmatched and quarry operations have been carried out carefully with an awareness of the value of the fossils. But these factors do not account for the interesting question of how there came to be such a concentration of pregnant ichthyosaurs in a particular place very close to their time of giving birth.Unit15:The Nobel AcademyFor the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to Ingmar Bjorksten , the cultural editor for one of the country's two major newspapers, the prize continues to represent "what people call a very Swedish exercise: reflecting Swedish tastes."The Academy has defended itself against such charges of provincialism in its selection by asserting that its physical distance from the great literary capitals of the world actually serves to protect the Academy from outside influences. This may well be true, but critics respond that this very distance may also be responsible for the Academy's inability to perceive accurately authentic trends in the literary world.Regardless of concerns over the selection process, however, it seems that the prize will continue to survive both as an indicator of the literature that we most highly praise, and as an elusive goal that writers seek. If for no other reason, the prize will continue to be desirable for the financial rewards that accompany it; not only is the cash prize itself considerable, but it also dramatically increases sales of an author's books.Unit16:The War between Britain and FranceIn the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle East, south Africa ,the West Indies, and Latin America. In reality, however, there was only one major war during this time, the war between Britain and France. All other battles were ancillary to this larger conflict, and were often at least partially related to its antagonist’ goals and strategies. France sought total domination of Europe . this goal was obstructed by British independence and Britain’s efforts throughout the continent to thwart Napoleon; through treaties. Britain built coalitions (not dissimilar in concept to today’s NATO) guaranteeing British particip ation in all major European conflicts. These two antagonists were poorly matched, insofar as they had very unequal strengths; France was predominant on land, Britain at sea. The French knew that, short of defeating the British navy, their only hope of victory was to close all the ports of Europe to British ships. Accordingly, France set out to overcome Britain by extending its military domination from Moscow t Lisbon, from Jutland to Calabria. All of this entailed tremendous risk, because France did not have the military resources to control this much territory and still protect itself and maintain order at home.French strategists calculated that a navy of 150 ships would provide the force necessary to defeat the British navy. Such a force would give France a three-to-two advantage over Britain. This advantage was deemed necessary because of Britain’s superior sea skills and technology because of Britain’s superior sea skills and technology, and also because Britain would be fighting a defensive war, allowing it to win with fewer forces. Napoleon never lost substantial impediment to his control of Europe. As his force neared that goal, Napoleon grew increasingly impatient and began planning an immediate attack.Unit17:Evolution of SleepSleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external stimuli. Dreamless sleep is much shallower, and we have all witnessed cats or dogs cocking their ears to a sound when apparently fast asleep. The fact that deep dream sleep is rare among pray today seems clearly to be a product of natural selection, and it makes sense that today, when sleep is highly evolved, the stupid animals are less frequently immobilized by deep sleep than the smart ones. But why should they sleep deeply at all Why should a state of such deep immobilization ever have evolved Perhaps one useful hint about the original function of sleep is to be found in the fact that dolphins and whales and aquatic mammals in genera seem to sleep very little. There is, by and large, no place to hide in the ocean. Could it be that, rather than increasing an animal’s vulnerability, the University of Florida and Ray Meddis of London University have suggested this to be the case. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quite on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep. The point seems particularly clear for the young of predatory animals. This is an interesting notion and probably at least partly true.Unit18:Modern American UniversitiesBefore the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. In German university was concerned primarily with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study. Some of them return to become presidents of venerable colleges-----Harvard, Yale, Columbia---and transform them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty. Professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject, not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for disciplining students. The new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on, and this called for a faculty composed of teacher-scholars. Drilling and learning by rote were replaced by the German method of lecturing, in which the professor’s own research was presented in class. Graduate training leading to the Ph.D., an ancient German degree signifying the highest level of advanced scholarly attainment, was introduced. With the establishment of the seminar system, graduate student learned to question, analyze, and conduct their own research.At the same time, the new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, constricted curriculum of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music. The president of Harvard pioneered the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. The notion of major fields of study emerged. The new goal was to make the university relevant to the real pursuits of the world. Paying close heed to the practical needs of society, the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks, with engineering students being the most characteristic of the new regime. Students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.。
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高中英语 一生必读的英语经典美文 第42篇 享受生活素材
新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第42篇：享受生活（双语）42 Life is a gift 享受生活Today before you think of saying an unkind word,如今，在你出言不逊前，Think of someone who can't speak.想想那些身患哑疾的人吧。
Before you complain about the taste of your food,在抱怨事物不够美味前，Think of someone who has nothing to eat.想想那些还在忍饥挨饿的人们吧。
Before you complain about your husband or wife,在抱怨婚姻对象不尽如意时，Think of someone who's crying out to God for a companion.想想那些还在为找不到对象而愁苦的人吧。
Today before you complain about life,在为生活的种种深感郁闷前，Think of someone who went too early to heaven.想想那些早已离开人世的人吧。
Before you complain about your children,在为孩子不听话而气恼前，Think of someone who desires children but they're barren.想想那些不能生育而渴求孩子的人吧。
Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep,在为房子没人清洁打扫而发牢骚前，Think of the people who are living in the streets.想想那些无家可归的人吧。
Before whining about the distance you drive,在抱怨行车旅途太长前，Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.想想那些要走相同距离的徒步者吧。
高中英语 一生必读的英语经典美文 第27篇 勤劳的意义素材
新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第27篇：勤劳的意义Industry significance 勤劳的意义The significant inscription found on an old key "If I rest, I rust" would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest taint of idleness. Even the most industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。
对于那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。
甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture --- every department of human endeavor.有些人想取得伟人所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运用自身才能，以便开启知识的大门，即那些通往人类努力探求的各个领域的大门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，文学，农业等。
新概念英语必背短文50篇：Themostexpensivemodel最昂贵的型号
新概念短⽂: The most expensive model 最昂贵的型号 MR. FRITH: I like television very much. How much does it cost? ASSISTANT: It's the most expensive model in the shop. It costs five hundred pounds. MR. FRITH: That's too expensive for us. We can't afford all that money. ASSISTANT: This model's less expensive than that one. It's only three hundred pounds. But, of course, it's not as good as the expensive one. MR. FRITH: I don't like the model. The other model's more expensive, but it's worth the money. MR. FRITH: Can we buy it on instalments? ASSISTANT: Of course. You can pay a deposit of thirty pounds, and then fourteen pounds a month for three years. MR. FRITH: Do you like it, dear? MRS. FRITH:I certainly do, but I don't like the price. You always want the best, but we can't afford it. Sometimes you think you're a millionaire! MR. FRITH: Millionaires don't buy things on instalments! 新概念翻译: 弗⾥斯先⽣：我⾮常喜欢这台电视机。
经典新概念英语美文阅读
经典新概念英语美文阅读《新概念英语》历来受到英语教师和学习者的青睐,可在英语的听、说、读、写上最大限度地发挥自己的潜能。
下面是店铺带来的经典新概念英语美文阅读，欢迎阅读!经典新概念英语美文阅读篇一American Revolution美国革命The American Revolution was not a revolution in the sense of a radical or total change. It was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations.美国革命从发生根本和彻底变化的意义上说其实并不算是一场革命。
这次革命并不是对政治和社会框架的一次突然和猛烈的颠覆，诸如后来在已经是独立国家的法国和俄国所爆发的革命那样。
Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not breathtaking. What happened was accelerated evolution rather than outright revolution. During the conflict itself people went on working and praying, marrying and playing. Most of them were not seriously disturbed by the actual fighting, and many of the more isolated communities scarcely knew that a war was on.革命带来了重大的变化，但并非翻天覆地，所发生的只是进化的加速，而不是一场彻底的革命。
精选新概念必背优秀文章36篇
Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world 世界上最长的吊桥Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, sailed into New York Harbour in 1524 and named it Angouleme. He described it as 'a very agreeable situation located within two small hills in the midst of which flowed a great river.' Though Verrazano is b y n o m e a n s considered to be a great explorer, his name will probably remain immortal, for on November 21st, 1964, the longest suspension bridge in the world was n a m e d a f t e r him.The Verrazano Bridge, which was designed by Othmar Ammann, joins Brooklyn to Staten Island. It has a span of 4,260 feet. The bridge is so long that the shape of the earth had to be t a k e n i n t o a c c o u n t by its designer. Two great towers support four huge cables. The towers are built on immense underwater platforms m a d e o f steel and concrete. The platforms e x t e n d t o a depth of over 100 feet under the sea. These alone took sixteen months to build. Above the surface of the water, the towers r i s e t o a height of nearly 700 feet. They support the cables from which the bridge has been suspended. E a c h o f the four cables contains 26,108 lengths of wire. It has been estimated that if the bridge were p a c k e d w i t h cars, it would still only be carrying a third of its total capacity. However, size and strength are not the only important things about this bridge. Despite its immensity, it is both simple and elegant, fulfilling its designer's dream to create 'an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible'.1524年，一位鲜为人知的意大利人维拉萨诺驾船驶进纽约港，并将该港名为安古拉姆。
新概念三 经典教材精选的美文十篇
新概念三经典教材精选的美文十篇新概念三Lesson 14 A noble gangster 贵族歹徒There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away if protection money was paid to them. Hawkwood made large sums of money in this way. In spite of this, the Italians regarded him as a sort of hero. When he died at the age of eighty, the Florentines gave him a state funeral and had a pictured painted which was dedicated to the memory of 'the most valiant soldier and most notable leader, Signor Giovanni Haukodue.'曾经有一个时期,芝加哥的店主和商行的老板们不得不拿出大笔的钱给歹徒以换取"保护"。
高中英语一生必读的英语经典美文第48篇追求人生的完整素材
新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第48篇：追求人生的完整（双语）新概念英语晨读系列之一生必读48篇英文美文，优秀的美文都是至情至性的杰作，其优美文辞的背后，总是蕴涵着深刻的48 Be Whole in Life 追求人生的完整Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.从前有个圆圈，它丢失了一小段。
新概念精选必背优秀文章36篇(清晰完整版)
新概念三Lesson 60Too early and too late太早和太晚community is it possible to disregard it.I n o r d i n a r y l i v i n g, there can be some tolerance of unpunctuality. The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, has everything coordinated and organized for t h e m a t t e r i n h a n d. He is therefore forgiven, if late for a dinner party. But people are often r e p r o a c h e d f o r unpunctuality when their only fault is c u t t i n g t h i n g s f i n e. It is h a r d f o r energetic, quick-minded people to w a s t e t i m e, so they are often tempted to finish a job before s e t t i n g o u t to k e e p a n a p p o i n t m e n t. If no accidents occur on the way, like punctured tyres, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog, they will be o n t i m e. They are often more industrious, useful citizenswho arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest nuisance. Some friends of my family had this irritatingwanted them.If you are catching a train, it is always b e t t e r t o b e comfortably early than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may mean wasting a little time, this will be l e s s t h a n if you miss the train and have to wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the very moment when the train is drawingi n g o o d t i m e f o r a train and still to see it g o o f f without you. Such an experience befell a certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her parents had i m p r e s s e d u p o n her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. T o h e r h o r r o r he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for the piece of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into the station a t t h e t i m e on the paper and that it did stop, but o n l y t o take on mail, not passengers.father could not have made such a mistake. The porter w e n t t o f e t c h one and arrived back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish and p o i n t e d o u t a microscopic‗o‘ beside the time of the arrival o f the train at his station; this little ‗o‘ indicated that the train only s t o p p e d f o r mail. J u s t a s that moment the train c a m e i n t o themaster was adamant: rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappear towards her destination准时是文明社会中进行一切社交活动时必须养成的习惯。
新概念英语美文短文欣赏
新概念英语美文短文欣赏《新概念英语》自出版以来受到了英语学习者的热烈欢迎，《新概念英语》的成功不仅在于其严密科学的英语语法体系,而且还在于其内涵丰富的文化体系。
《新概念英语》展示了二语教材中语言和文化相互交融的关系。
下面是店铺带来的新概念英语美文短文欣赏，欢迎阅读!新概念英语美文短文欣赏篇一Archaeology考古学Archaeology is a source of history, not just a humble auxiliary discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own right, not mere illustrations to written texts. Just as much as any other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the process that has created the human world in which we live -- and us ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social environment.考古学是历史学的一个来源，而不是地位卑微的辅助学科。
考古资料本身也是一种历史文献，而不仅仅是文字资料的例证。
正像任何一位历史学家那样，考古学家研究调查并尽力去重构一个过程，这个过程创造了我们生活的人类世界，也创造了我们自身，因为我们都是我们所处的时代和社会环境的产物。
Archaeological data are all changes in the material world resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results of human behavior. The sum total of these constitutes what may be called the archaeological record. This record exhibits certain peculiarities and deficiencies the consequences of which produce a rather superficial contrast between archaeological history and the more familiar kind based upon written records.考古学的资料就是人类行为所造成的物质变化。
新概念英语必背20篇(支持直接打印)
A skeleton in the cupboard “家丑”We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situat ion. The terrible secret is called ‘a skeleton in the cupboard’. At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction. To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very proud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories. I once spent an uncomfortable weekend which I shall never forget at his house. George showed me to the guestroom which, he said, was rarely used. He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner. After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to hang one of the two suits I had brought with me in the cupboard. I opened the cupboard door and then stood in front of it petrified. A skeleton was dangling before my eyes. The sudden movement of the door made it sway slightly and it gave me the impression that it was about to leap out at me. Dropping my suit, I dashed downstairs to tell George. This was worse than ‘a terrible secret’; this was a real skeleton! But George was unsympathetic. ‘Oh, that,’ he said with a smile as if he were talking about an old friend. ‘That's Sebastian. You forget that I was a medical student once upon a time. ’参考译文在小说中，我们经常读到一个表面上受人尊重的人物或家族，却有着某种多年不为人所知的骇人听闻的秘密。
新概念英语美文欣赏
新概念英语美文欣赏在课堂上,学生学习与感悟美文不仅能丰富知识、开拓眼界,亦能陶冶情操,提高写作水平。
下面小编整理了新概念英语美文，希望大家喜欢!新概念英语美文品析Grandpa's Valentine爷爷的情人卡I received a call from the nursing home. Grandpa was failing rapidly. I should come. There was nothing to do but hold his hand. "I love you, Grandpa. Thank you for always being there for me."我接到了疗养院的电话，爷爷的情况急转直下，应该去了。
我什么也做不了，只能握着他的手说：“爷爷，我爱你。
谢谢你一直陪伴着我。
”Memories...memories...six days a week, Grandpa in that old blue shirt caring for those cattle...on hot summer days plowing the soil, planting the corn and beans and harvesting them in the fall...always working from dawn to dusk. Survival demanded work, work, work.回忆…回忆…一周六天，爷爷总是穿着那件旧的蓝衬衫照看着牛群…在炎热的夏天耕种土地，种上玉米和豆子，秋天再把庄稼收获…黎明而耕，黄昏而息，总是如此。
生存需要劳作、劳作、不断地劳作。
But on Sundays he put on his gray suit and hat. Grandma wore her wine-colored dress and ivory beads, and they went to church. Grandpa and Grandma were quiet, peaceful, unemotional people.但是每逢周日，他就会穿上灰色西装，戴上礼帽;奶奶则穿上酒红色的连衣裙，戴上象牙珠链，两人一起去做礼拜。
新概念必背优秀文章精选三篇
【导语】学习英语并不难啊。
你还在为英语成绩低拖后腿⽽烦恼吗？不要着急，⼩编为⼤家提供了新概念英语“新概念必背优秀⽂章精选三篇”。
相信加⼊学习当中的你，很快便不再受英语的困扰！还在等什么？和⼩编⼀起来学习吧！ 【篇⼀】 Matterhorn man马特霍恩⼭区⼈ Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which will give them good sport, and the more difficult it is, the more highly it is regarded．In the pioneering days, however, this was not the case at all．The early climbers were looking for the easiest way to the top, because the summit was the prize they sought, especially if it had never been attained before．It is true that during their explorations they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement．They had a single aim, a solitary goal---the top! It is hard for us to realize nowadays how difficult it was for the pioneers．Except for one or two places such as Zermatt and Chamonix, which had rapidly become popular, Alpine villages tended to be impoverished settlements cut off from civilization by the high mountains．Such inns as there were generally dirty and flea-ridden; the food simply local cheese accompanied by bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine．Often a valley boasted no inn at all, and climbers found shelter wherever they could---sometimes with the local priest (who was usually as poor as his parishioners), sometimes with shepherds or cheese-makers．Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable．For men accustomed to eating seven-course dinners and sleeping between fine linen sheets at home, the change to the Alps must have been very hard indeed． 现代登⼭运动员总想找⼀条能够给他们带来运动乐趣的路线来攀登⼭峰。
新概念英语美文欣赏（第一册）（范文五篇）
新概念英语美文欣赏（第一册）（范文五篇）本站小编为你整理了多篇相关的《新概念英语美文欣赏(第一册)(范文五篇)》，但愿对你工作学习有帮助，当然你在本站还可以找到更多《新概念英语美文欣赏(第一册)(范文五篇)》。
第一篇：新概念英语美文欣赏老师应充分激活学生蕴藏着的美的细胞,让他们更深的品味作品的美韵,更多的发现和享读身边的美文,更自然的去创作优美的作品,从而使自己的人生真正与美文为伴,充实而美好。
下面是店铺带来的新概念英语美文，欢迎阅读!新概念英语美文篇一好运符:一张两美元钞票I keep a two dollar bill in my wallet that was given to me by my mother when I was six years old. I am not superstitious but the bill goes with me wherever I go.有一张两美元的钞票一直保存在我的钱夹里，那是我6岁时妈妈给的。
My mother gave it to me so that luck would follow me everywhere. She looked at me and said, 'I want you to carry this two dollar bill for extra good luck.'我不迷信，但无论到哪里，我都随身带着它。
妈妈希望这张两美元钞票能让我事事顺利。
当时，她看着我说：“带上这两美元吧，它会带给你好运。
”'Thanks mom,' I replied. 'I will keep it close to me always.'“谢谢妈妈，”我说，“我会永远带着它。
”Every morning I would get dressed and my two dollar bill went into my pocket. My mother passed away when I was 17 years old and I remember taking out my two dollar bill. I held it in my hand for the longest time and knew that she would be watching over me the rest of my life.每天早上，穿好衣服后，我就将这两美元装进口袋。
新概念英语 新概念英语文章
新概念英语新概念英语文章The following text is amended on 12 November 2020.：新概念英语——新概念英语文章精选两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平随着《新概念》这套教材的引入，已经在全国都引起了轰动乃至学习新概念的潮流。
小编带来的新概念英章精选，欢迎阅读!新概念英语文章精选1The Salinity of Ocean Waters海水盐度If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important.如果我们分析海水的盐度，会发现地区间只有轻微的变化，然而有些小的变化是重要的。
There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic salinity. One of these is the subtraction of water from the ocean by means of evaporation -- conversion of liquid water to water vapor. In this manner the salinity is increased, since the salts stay behind. If this is carried to the extreme, of course, white crystals of salt would be left behind.导致海洋的盐度变化的基本过程有三个，其中之一是通过蒸发的方式即把液态水转化为水蒸气来减少海洋中的水分。
这样由于盐留了下来，所以盐度增大。
新概念英语必背的50篇短文
新概念英语必背的50篇短文1. Greetings and Introductions: 这些短文通常包括问候语和自我介绍，如“Hello, how are you? I'm Peter. Nice to meet you.”这些短文可以帮助学习者熟悉日常交流中常用的问候和介绍方式。
2. Daily Activities: 这些短文描述了日常生活中的活动，如“Every morning, I get up at 7 o'clock. Then I have breakfast and go to work.”通过学习这些短文，学习者可以掌握描述日常活动的常用词汇和句型。
3. Shopping and Dining: 这些短文涉及购物和用餐的场景，如“How much is this shirt? Can I have a table for two, please?”学习者可以通过这些短文学会在商店和餐厅进行简单的交流。
4. Travel and Transportation: 这些短文描述了旅行和交通方面的内容，如“I'm going to London by plane next week. How long does it take to get to the airport by taxi?”学习者可以通过这些短文学习如何询问交通信息和进行旅行安排。
5. Work and Study: 这些短文涉及工作和学习的话题，如“My job is very busy, but I enjoy it. I have to study for my exams next month.”学习者可以通过这些短文学习如何描述工作和学习的情况。
以上是我对新概念英语必背的50篇短文的一些主题和内容的简要介绍。
通过学习这些短文，学习者可以提高英语阅读能力，扩大词汇量，同时也更好地了解英语国家的文化和生活习惯。
高中英语一生必读的英语经典美文第33篇木匠的故事素材
新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第33篇：木匠的故事新概念英语晨读系列之一生必读48篇英文美文，美文不仅可以开阔视野，拓宽知识面，还可以净化思想，涤荡心灵，使人生臻33 A carpenter's story 木匠的故事An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurel life with his wife and enjoy his extended family. He would miss the paycheck each week ,but he wanted to retire. They could get by.有个老木匠准备退休，他告诉老板，说要离开建造行业，回家与妻子儿女享受天伦之乐。
虽然老板给他的工资很高，可是，他更想享受退休生活。
生活总能维持下去。
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes,but over time it was easy to see that his heart was not materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.老板很不舍得他的好工人离开，问他是否能帮忙再建一座房子。
老木匠答应了。
但是大家后来都看得出来，他的心已不在工作上，他使用的是次料，做工也很粗糙。
这真是一种令人遗憾的结束自己全心全意所从事的事业的方式。
新概念英语经典美文三篇
【导语】英语虽然不是我们中国的母语，但仍然⼗分重要。
我们要好好的学习掌握。
下⾯是⽆忧考整理收集的新概念英语经典美⽂，欢迎阅读！ 新概念英语经典美⽂（⼀） As a little boy, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday aftemoons at my grandfather's farm in western Pennsylvania. Surrounded by miles of winding stonewalls, the house and barn provided endless hours of fun for a city kid like me. I was used to parlors neat as a pin that seemed to whisper, "Not to be touched!" 我⼩时候最喜欢在爷爷的农场⾥度过每个星期天的下午。
爷爷的农场在宾⼣法尼亚州西部。
农场四周都围上了绵延⼏英⾥的⽯墙。
房⼦和⾕仓给我这个城市男孩带来了⽆穷的快乐时光。
我习惯了城⾥整洁的客厅，似乎在低声说：“不要摸！”。
I can still remember one afternoon when I was eight years old. Since my first visit to the farm, I'd wanted more than anything to be allowed to climb the stonewalls surrounding the property. My parents would never approve. The walls were old; some stones were missing, others loose and crumbling. Still, my yearning to scramble across those walls grew so strong. One spring afternoon, I summoned all my courage and entered the living room, where the adults had gathered after dinner. 我仍能记得我8岁那年⼀天下午的情景。
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两分钟做个小测试，看看你的英语水平/test/xiaobai.aspx?tid=16-73675-0一生必读英文经典美文篇一真实的高贵In a calm sea every man is a pilot.在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn.Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。
痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。
甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。
在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.在生活和事业的种种事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，心灵比头脑更能引导我们，而由判断获得的克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.我一向认为，内心生活开始更为严谨的人，他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。
在物欲横流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。
To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。
高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。
真正的高贵是优于过去的自已。
一生必读英文经典美文篇二让个性大放异彩In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.在茫茫宇宙间，每个人都只有一次生存的机会，都是一个独一无二、不可重复的存在。
正像卢梭所说的，上帝把你造出来后，就把那个属于你的特定的模子打碎了。
Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.名声、财产、知识等等是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但没有人能够代替你感受人生。
你死之后，没有人能够代替你再活一次。
如果你真正意识到了这一点，你就会明白，活在世上，最重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味来。
你的人生是否有意义，衡量的标准不是外在的成功，而是你对人生意义的独特领悟和坚守，从而使你的自我闪放出个性的光华。
It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be identified as anything either his job, his status or his social role that shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn't know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or done on others' sugg estions; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't beable to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing business.真正成为自己不是一件容易的事。
世上有许多人，你说他是什么都行，例如是一种职业，一个身份，一个角色，惟独不是他自己。
如果一个人总是按别人的意见生活，没有自己的独立思索，总是为外在事务忙碌，没有自己的内心生活，那么，说他不是他自己就一点儿也没有冤枉他。
因为确确实实，从他的头脑到他的心灵，你在其中已经找不到丝毫真正属于他自己的东西了，他只是别人的一个影子或一架办事的机器罢了。
一生必读英文经典美文篇三追求人生的完整Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When itrealized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.从前有个圆圈，它丢失了一小段。
它想变得完整，于是它到处寻找它所丢失的那部分。
由于不完整，它只能滚的非常慢。
在路上，它羡慕过花儿，它与虫子聊过天，它享受了阳光的照耀。
它遇到过很多不同的小段，可是没有一个适合它。
所以它把它们丢在路边，继续寻找。
有一天，圆圈找到了可以与它完美结合的一小段，它非常高兴。
它现在终于完整了，不缺任何东西了。
它把丢失的那段装到自己身上，然后滚了起来。
它现在是个完整的圆圈了，它可以滚的很快，，快到忽视了花儿，快到没有时间和虫子们说话。