經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文閱讀

　　在人生的路上我們會(huì)碰到很多困惑，而閱讀能解答我們這些困惑。下面是小編整理的，希望對(duì)大家有用，更多消息請(qǐng)關(guān)注應(yīng)屆畢業(yè)生網(wǎng)。

　　經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文閱讀：生命在于完整

　　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 missingpiece into itself and began to roll.Now that it was a perfect circle，it could roll very fast，too fast tonotice the flowers or talking 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.

　　The lesson of the story，I suggested，was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missingsomething.The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man.He will never know what it feels like to yearn，to hope，to nourish his soul with the dream of something better.He will never know the experience ofhaving someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.

　　There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations，who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive，who can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

　　Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee，where no matter how many words you've gotten right，you're disqualified if you make one mistake.Life ismore like a baseball season，where even the best team loses one-third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.

　　When we accept that imperfection is part of being human，and when we can continue rolling through life andappreciate it，we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That，I believe，is what God asks of us not "Be perfect"，not "Don't even make a mistake"，but "Be whole."

　　If we are brave enough to love，strong enough to forgive，generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness，and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all，then we can achieve a fulfillmentthat no other living creature will ever know.

　　從前有一只圓圈缺了一塊楔子。圓圈想保持完整，便四處尋找失去的那塊楔子。由于它不完整，所以只能滾動(dòng)很慢。一路上，它對(duì)花兒露出羨慕之色。它與蠕蟲(chóng)談天侃地。它還欣賞到了陽(yáng)光之美。圓圈找到了許許多多不同的配件，但是沒(méi)有一件能完美地與它相配。所以，它將它們統(tǒng)統(tǒng)棄置路旁，繼續(xù)尋覓。終于有一天，它找到了一個(gè)完美的配件。圓圈是那樣地高興，現(xiàn)在它可以說(shuō)是完美無(wú)缺了。它裝好配件，然后滾動(dòng)起來(lái)。既然它已成了一個(gè)完整的圓圈，所以滾動(dòng)得非常快，快得以至于無(wú)暇觀賞花兒，也無(wú)暇與蠕蟲(chóng)傾訴心聲。圓圈快奔急騁，發(fā)現(xiàn)眼中的世界變得如此不同，于是，它不禁停了下來(lái)，將找到的那個(gè)配件留在路旁，又開(kāi)始了慢慢地滾動(dòng)。

　　我覺(jué)得這個(gè)故事告訴我們，從某種奇妙意義上講，當(dāng)我們失去了一些東西時(shí)反而感到更加完整。一個(gè)擁有一切的人其實(shí)在某些方面是個(gè)窮人。他永遠(yuǎn)也體會(huì)不到什么是渴望、期待以及對(duì)美好夢(mèng)想的感悟。他也永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)有這樣一種體驗(yàn)：一個(gè)愛(ài)他的人送給他某種他夢(mèng)寐以求的或者從未擁有過(guò)的東西意味什么。

　　人生的完整性在于一個(gè)人知道如何面對(duì)他的缺陷，如何勇敢地摒棄那些不現(xiàn)實(shí)的幻想而又不以此為缺憾。人生的完整性還在于一個(gè)男人或女人懂得這樣一個(gè)道理：他(她)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己能勇敢面對(duì)人生悲劇而繼續(xù)生存，能夠在失去親人后依然表現(xiàn)出一個(gè)完整的人的風(fēng)范。

　　人生不是上帝為譴責(zé)我們的缺陷而給我們布下的陷阱。人生也不是一場(chǎng)拼字游戲比賽。不管你拼出多少單詞，一旦出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤，你便前功盡棄。人生更像是一個(gè)棒球賽季。即使最好的球隊(duì)比賽也會(huì)輸?shù)?/3，而最差的球隊(duì)也有春風(fēng)得意的日子。我們的目標(biāo)就是多贏球，少輸球。

　　我們接受了不完整性是人類本性的一部分，我們不斷地進(jìn)行人生滾動(dòng)并能意識(shí)到其價(jià)值，我們就會(huì)完成完整人生的過(guò)程。而對(duì)于別人來(lái)講，這只能是一個(gè)夢(mèng)想。我相信這就是上帝對(duì)我們的要求：不求"完美"，也不求"永不犯錯(cuò)誤"，而是求得人生的"完整".

　　如果我們勇敢得能夠去愛(ài)，堅(jiān)強(qiáng)得能夠去寬容，大度得能夠去分享他人的幸福，明智得能夠理解身邊充滿愛(ài)，那么我們就能取得別的`生物所不能取得的成就。

　　經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文閱讀：Home

　　What makes a home? Love and sympathy andconfidence.

　　It is a place where kindly affections exist among allthe members of the family. The parents take goodcare of their children, and the children are interestedin the activities of their parents. Thus all of them arebound together by affection, and they find their home to be the cheeriest place in the world.

　　A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man. Every civilizedperson is a social being.No one should live alone. A man may lead a successful and prosperouslife,but prosperity alone can by no means insure happiness.

　　Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes. Your homemay be poor and humble, but your duty lies there. You should try to make it cheerful andcomfortable. The greater the difficulties, the richer will be your reward. A home is more than afamily dwelling. It is a school in which people are trained for citizenship. A man will not rendergood service to his country if he can do nothing good for his home; for in proportion as heloves his home, will he love his country. The home is the birthplace of true patriotism. It is thesecret of social welfare and national greatness. It is the basis and origin of civilization.

　　家

　　什么組成了家庭?是愛(ài)、同情和信心。

　　在家里，所有的家庭成員都充滿了愛(ài)意。父母細(xì)心照顧自己的孩子，同時(shí)，孩子也全身心地投入到與父母的活動(dòng)當(dāng)中。所有的家庭成員因?yàn)閻?ài)而連接在了一起，他們把家當(dāng)做是世界上最溫馨的地方。

　　就像沒(méi)有靈魂的身體，沒(méi)有愛(ài)的家不再稱之為家。每一名有文化的人都是社會(huì)的一份子。沒(méi)有人會(huì)獨(dú)自生活。人們或許會(huì)擁有成功、富裕的人生，但是只有財(cái)富卻不能夠保證幸福。

　　世界上的許多名人都對(duì)家庭有著深切的感情。你的家可能會(huì)很貧窮，但是你卻肩負(fù)重任。你應(yīng)該嘗試著讓它變得更加愉悅，變得更加舒適。困難越大，你的收獲也將越多。家庭遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不只是家人棲息的場(chǎng)所。家庭就像是一所學(xué)校，在里面的人們接受培訓(xùn)并成為公民。如果一個(gè)人不能給家庭帶來(lái)好處，那么他也將不會(huì)盡心盡力地的國(guó)家效力，如果他深愛(ài)他的家庭，那么他也將深愛(ài)他的國(guó)家。家庭是愛(ài)國(guó)主義的誕生地。家庭是社會(huì)福利和國(guó)家強(qiáng)盛的秘訣。家庭也是文化的源泉。

　　經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文閱讀：Youth

　　Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it isnot a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips andsuppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality ofthe imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is thefreshness of the deep springs of life.

　　Youth means a tempera-mental predominance ofcourage over timidity, of the appetite foradventure over thelove 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 spring back to dust.

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailingchildlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heartand my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope,cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

　　When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice ofpessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catchwaves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

　　青春

　　青春不是年華，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

　　青春氣貫長(zhǎng)虹，勇銳蓋過(guò)怯弱，進(jìn)取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見(jiàn)。年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

　　歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

　　無(wú)論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂(lè)，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺(tái)天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂(lè)、勇氣和力量的信號(hào)，你就青春永駐，風(fēng)華常存。

　　一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實(shí)已垂垂老矣;然則只要樹(shù)起天線，捕捉樂(lè)觀信號(hào)，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺(jué)年輕。