必讀英語優(yōu)美短文

　　引導(dǎo)語：下面小編整理的兩篇英語小美文，真的很優(yōu)美，大家一定要認真看看，讀一讀。

　　1、

　　True nobility

　　真實的高貴

　　In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

　　在風(fēng)平浪靜的大海上,每個人都是領(lǐng)航員。

　　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.

　　但只有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來說,他的生活也是一團纏結(jié)在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現(xiàn),使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近。

　　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.

　　在生活和事業(yè)的種種事務(wù)之中，性格比才智更能指導(dǎo)我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導(dǎo)我們，而由判斷獲得的.克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。

　　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.

　　我一向認為，內(nèi)心生活開始更為嚴謹?shù)娜�，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物欲橫流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多么可憐。

　　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.

　　反思自己的過錯不至于重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并沒有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是優(yōu)于過去的自已。

　　2、

　　Do something for yourself

　　做你自己

　　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!"

　　我小時候最喜歡在爺爺?shù)霓r(nóng)場里度過每個星期天的下午。爺爺?shù)霓r(nóng)場在賓夕法尼亞州西部。農(nóng)場四周都圍上了綿延幾英里的石墻。房子和谷倉給我這個城市男孩帶來了無窮的快樂時光。我習(xí)慣了城里整潔的客廳，似乎在低聲說：“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.

　　我仍能記得我8歲那年一天下午的情景。因為我第一次去農(nóng)場，所以我很想上那農(nóng)場四周的那些石墻�？晌业母改甘墙^不會同意的。這些墻年深日　，有的石頭不見了，有的石頭松動倒塌了。然而，我渴望這些墻的欲望非常強烈。一個春天的下午，我鼓足勇氣，走進客廳，大人們午飯后都聚在這里。

　　"I, uh, I want to climb the stonewalls," I said hesitantly. Everyone looked up. "Can I climb the stonewalls?" Instantly a chorus went up from the women in the room. "Heavens, no!" they cried in dismay. "You'll hurt yourself!" I wasn't too disappointed; the response was just as I'd expected. But before I could leave the room, I was stopped by my grandfather' s booming voice. "Hold on just a minute," I heard him say, "Let the boy climb the stonewalls. He has to learn to do things for himself."

　　“我，呃，我想爬那石墻，”我猶豫地說道。大家都抬起頭。“我能去爬那些石墻嗎?”屋里的女人們馬上齊聲叫了起來。“天哪，不能!”她們驚慌地叫首，“你會傷著自己的!”我并沒有太失望，我早就預(yù)料會是這樣的回答。但還沒等我離開客廳，爺爺?shù)统恋穆曇魯r住了我。“等一會兒，”我聽到他說“讓孩子爬那些石墻吧。他必須學(xué)會自己做一些事。”

　　"Scoot," he said to me with a wink, "and come and see me when you get back." For the next two and a half hours I climbed those old walls and had the time of my life. Later I met with my grandfather to tell him about my adventure. I'll never forget what he said. "Fred," he said, grinning, "you made this day a special day just by being yourself. Always remember, there's only one person in this whole world like you, and I like you exactly as you are."

　　“快走吧，”他對我眨眨眼說。“你回來后找我。”接下來的兩個半小時，我爬上了這些古老的石墻，別提有多肝硬變。后來，我把自己冒險經(jīng)歷告訴了爺爺。我永遠也不會忘記他說過的話。“弗雷德，”他咧著嘴笑道。“你做了一回自己，你讓這個日子因此而變得不同凡響。永遠記住，整個世界只有一個你，而且我喜歡真實的你。”

　　Many years have passed since then, and today I host the television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, seen by millions of children throughout America. There have been changes over the years, but one thing remains the same: my message to children at the end of almost every visit, "There's only one person in this whole world like you, and people can like you exactly as you are."

　　許多年過去了，現(xiàn)在我主持的電視節(jié)目《羅杰斯先生的街坊四鄰》，全美國幾百萬兒童都會收看。幾年過后，節(jié)目已經(jīng)發(fā)生了一些變化，但有一點沒變：幾乎每期節(jié)日后我都會傳遞給孩子這樣一個信息，“這個世界上只有一個你，人們都喜歡真實的你。”