簡短的英語優美的美文

在學習英語的時候我們可以多多學習一些有關於英語的課外的知識，今天小編就給大家整理了英語美文欣賞，希望大家可以參考

　　改變生活 Change Your Life

However mean your life is, meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂裏也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，儘管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院裏，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪裏也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。英語美文，城鎮中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過着最獨立不羈的生活。也許因爲他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。大多數人以爲他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們;可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像聖人一樣耕植它吧!不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那裏去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。

　　青春不是年華，而是心境 Youth

Youth 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, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

青春不是年華，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹脣、柔膝，而是深沉的意志、宏偉的想象、熾熱的感情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of dy grows merely by the number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進去壓倒苟安，如此銳氣，二十後生有之，六旬男子則更多見。年年有加，並非垂老;理想丟棄，方墮暮年。歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻，頹唐必至靈魂。

Worry, fear, self-distrust1 bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

煩憂、惶恐、喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from infinite, so long as you are young.

無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇蹟之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the 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.

一旦天線倒塌，銳氣被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，幾十年方二十，實已垂老矣;然則只要豎起天線，捕捉樂觀的信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺得年輕。

　　永遠別放棄夢想 Never Give Up Dreams

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled，little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said，"Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"I laughed and enthusiastically responded，"Of course you may."and she gave me a giant squeeze.

開學的第一天教授做了自我介紹，他還要求我們去結識某位我們還不認識的人。就在我站起來四處張望時，一隻手輕輕地搭在了我的肩上。我轉過身一看，一位滿臉皺紋個子矮小的老太太正衝着我微笑。這微笑使她渾身光彩照人。她說：“嘿，帥小夥兒，我叫羅斯，今年87歲。我可以擁抱你嗎?”我笑了起來，熱情地答道：“當然可以啦。”她緊緊地擁抱了我。

"Why are you in college at such a young，innocent age?"I asked. She jokingly replied，"I'm here to meet a rich husband，get married，have a couple of children，and then retire and travel." "No，seriously?"I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“你爲什麼在這麼年輕而天真的年齡上大學?”我問。她開玩笑地回答說：“我要在此遇到一個有錢的丈夫，結婚，生幾個孩子，然後退休，去旅遊。”“真的嗎?不對吧?”我問她。我很想知道，她這麼大年紀，是什麼促使她接受這樣的挑戰呢。

"I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one." she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milk shake We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

“我一直夢想接受大學教育。而現在我如願以償了。”她告訴我說。課後我們一同到學生活動樓，共飲了一杯巧克力泡沫牛奶。我們一下子就成了朋友。在此後的三個月中，我們每天都一起離開課堂，聊起來沒完沒了。在她向我傳授她的智慧和經驗時，我總是着了迷似地傾聽這個“時間機器”。

Over the course of the year，Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed up her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech，she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said，“I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent(一種威士忌的牌子) and this whisky is killing me. I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just t ell you what I know.”As we laughed she cleared her throat and began：“We do not stop playing because we are old;we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young，being happy，and achieving success.”

在這一年裏，羅斯成了校園裏的偶像。不管到哪裏，她很容易地就交上了朋友。她喜歡精心打扮，陶醉於其他學生對她的注意。她盡情地享受這一切。到學期末，我們請羅斯在我們的足球宴會上講話。我永遠也不會忘記她給我們的教誨。介紹完畢後她就登上講臺。正當她要開始已準備好的演講時，她的5寸長3寸寬的卡片掉在了地上。她有些不知所措，還有點尷尬，於是就靠近話筒乾脆說了起來：“很抱歉我這麼緊張。我爲大齋節戒了啤酒，而這威士忌可是毀了我。按原先準備好了的講是不可能了，還是把我所知道的說給你們聽吧。”我們都笑了，她則清了清嗓子開始說：“我們並不因爲自己老了而不娛樂;我們因爲停止了娛樂而變老。要想保持年輕，過得幸福並取得成功只有4條祕訣。”

"You have to laugh and find humor every day."

“每天都要笑，每天都要找到幽默。”

"You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams，you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead an d don't even know it."

“一定要有夢想。失去了夢想，人就死了。在我們周圍有那麼多行屍走肉般的人，他們卻不自知。”

"There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing，you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change."

“變老和成熟是有巨大區別的。如果你19歲，在牀上躺一整年，而不做一件有成效的事情，你會到20歲。如果我87歲，在牀上待一年什麼也不做，我也會到88歲。誰都會老，那不需要天才或能力。我的意思是要通過在變化中不斷地尋找機會而達到成熟。”

"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did，but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

“不要後悔。年長的人一般不會爲我們所做的事而後悔，而會爲我們所沒有做的事後悔。只有充滿遺憾的人才懼怕死亡。”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose." She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

她勇敢地唱了一首《玫瑰之歌》作爲結束，還要求我們每個人學習歌詞並在日常生活中將詞意付諸行動。

At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years a go. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

年末，羅斯結束了她多年前就開始的大學生涯，取得了學位。畢業一週之後，羅斯在睡夢中平靜地去世。

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

兩千多名大學生出席了她的葬禮，對這位了不起的女士表示敬意。她以自身範例教育我們：發揮自己的潛能永不爲晚。

Remember，growing older is mandatory，growing up is optional.

記住，衰老是無法抗拒的，而成熟卻是可以選擇的。