《英语美文阅读（最新17篇）》
学习英语的时候，其实多阅读一些课外英语美文，对英语能力的提升无疑是巨大的，
英语经典美文 1
All you remember
All you remember about your child being an infant is the incredible awe you felt about the precious miracle you created. You remember having plenty of time to bestow all your wisdom and knowledge. You thought your child would take all of your advice and make fewer mistakes, and be much smarter than you were. You wished for your child to hurry and grow up.
All you remember about your child being two is never using the restroom alone or getting to watch a movie without talking animals. You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League college student to graduate wearing pullovers at the ceremony. You remember worrying about the bag of M＆M's melting in your pocket and ruining your good dress. You wished for your child to be more independent.
All you remember about your child being five is the first day of school and finally having the house to yourself. You remember joining the PTA and being elected president when you left a meeting to use the restroom. You remember being asked "Is Santa real?" and saying "yes" because he had to be for a little bit longer. You remember shaking the sofa cushions for loose change, so the toothfairy could come and take away your child's first lost tooth. You wished for your child to have all permanent teeth.
All you remember about your child being seven is the carpool schedule. You learned to apply makeup in two minutes and brush your teeth in the rearview mirror because the only time you had to yourself was when you were stopped at red lights. You considered painting your car yellow and posting a "taxi" sign on the lawn next to the garage door. You remember people staring at you, the few times you were out of the car, because you kept flexing your foot and making acceleration noises. You wished for the day your child would learn how to drive.
All you remember about your child being ten is managing the school fund-raisers. You sold wrapping paper for paint, T-shirts for new furniture, and magazine subscriptions for shade trees in the school playground. You remember storing a hundred cases of candy bars in the garage to sell so the school band could get new uniforms, and how they melted together on an unseasonably warm spring afternoon. You wished your child would grow out of playing an instrument.
All you remember about your child being twelve is sitting in the stands during baseball practice and hoping your child's team would strike out fast because you had more important things to do at home. The coach didn't understand how busy you were. You wished the baseball season would be over soon.
All you remember about your child being fourteen is being asked not to stop the car in front of the school in the morning. You had to drive two blocks further and unlock the doors without coming to a complete stop. You remember not getting to kiss your child goodbye or talking to him in front of his friends. You wished your child would be more mature.
All you remember about your child being sixteen is loud music and undecipherable lyrics screamed to a rhythmic beat. You wished for your child to grow up and leave home with the stereo.
All you remember about your child being eighteen is the day they were born and having all the time in the world.
And, as you walk through your quiet house, you wonder where they went and you wish your child hadn't grown up so fast.
英语经典美文 2
The Nightingale And The Rose
A young student loved a beautiful girl.He said"I am going to a dance tonight,and I am going to take the beautiful girl."
But the girl said,"I am not going to go to the dance tonight,because I haven"t got a red rose."
"I went to a dance last week,and I put a red rose on my white dress.All of the people said,"That is very beautiful,"and I was happy."
T he student said,"I am going to bring you a red rose,and then I am going to take you to the dance."The beautiful girl was happy.
T he student went to his garden,but there were not any roses in it.He sat on a bench,ant he cried.He said,"The beautiful girl is not going to come to the dance tonight,because I have not got a red rose."
There was a nightingale in a tree in the garden.She loved the student.She said,"His beautiful eyes are red,because he is crying.I am going to bring him a red rose."
She flew to a big garden,and she went to a brush.There were roses on it.This bush loved songs.The nightingale said,"Do you want a song?"
The bush said,"Yes,I do."
The nightingale said,"And I want a rose."
The bush said,"Sing me a song, and then take one of my rose."
T he nightingale sang a beautiful song,and the she said,"Now I am going to take a red rose."
The bush said,"But I have not got any red roses.All of mine are white."
The nightingale said,"I love the student,and I am going to give him a red rose."
There were big thorns on the bush.T he nightingale flew to one of them.There was a beautiful,white rose under it.
The nightingale pushed the thorn into her breast.It hurt a lot,but she pushed it into her heart.Blood came out.It fell on the white rose.
The nightingale said,"The rose is red now."She took it,and she flew to the student"s window.She put the rose down,and she knocked at the window.Then she fell into the street.She was dead.
The student went to the window,and he opened it.He said,"There is a beautiful red rose here.Who put it here?"He was very happy.
He ran to the beautiful girl"s house,and he said,"I have brought you a red rose."
The girl looked at it,and she said,"I do not want it.A rich man has brought me some jewels.they are more beautiful than a rose.He is going to take me to the dance."
The student went home again.He threw the rose out of the window,and it fell on the dead nightingale.
A wheel crushed both of them,and people said,"Our street are very dirty.Look at that dead bird,and look at that dirty flower."(编辑 李杰)
英语经典美文 3
The eyelids are like lovers who have not seen each other for a long time, struggling to touch each other and feel the existence of each other. I want to like in the boring time, a scene out of boredom.
In the mind, empty, the things that can be done, what you want to do, are separated by life. In this light flickering, the boundary of time and space disorderly, aimless floating, vague and empty language, at the moment became my reason.
In life is not always the case, the first second of enthusiasm, will be after a second sudden, hit a smash.
I do not know, or do not want to know.
I don't know from time to time. I began to hate wasting time. I always felt that what I learned in one day or did something meaningful is the reason I should live on this day and sleep at ease.
And wait, and when I'm ready, I should understand and understand. The stream is always a passive flow ahead, so the Jianghai lost; Suifengerqu leaves always followed the flying posture, so from the wind to dust.
It is not necessarily wrong to wait a second.
After all, even the ancient people cloud "the impermanence of the world". The plan is carried out, the accident is the general, the disturbance is commonly used, the adjustment is should, the realization is certain. I should have a common heart, even if I want to do something that is disturbed, it should be prepared again. There is always a substitute. If I am really interested, I want to do it.
Passive, be the fate of charge the cost of living, as long as enough to keep their own choices, before that, being charged, there is always a miserable one day.
When I think of a thing, I always give my best written narration to sad and bitter things, but happy and happy things are always written by single words, but there seems to be no suitable words to describe such a world. Do I have a masochistic physique... Of course, it's right to the people, the right thing.
At the time, slowly slipping away, meaning stuck with my tired eyes, also seems to fall at each other's eyes, as if did not have to fight a bit.
英语经典美文 4
She left her shoes: she took everything else--her toothbrush, her clothes, and even that stupid little silver vase on the table we kept candy in. Just dumped it out on the table and took the vase. The tiny apartment we shared seemed different now:her stuff was gone. It wasnt much really, although now the room seemed like a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing incomplete. The closet seemed empty too most of it was her stuff anyway. But there they were at the bottom, piled up like they usually were ,every single one of them,Why did she leave her shoes?She could have forgotten them, I knew too well that she took great pride in her shoe collection, but there they still were, right down to her favorite pair of sandals.They were black with a design etched into the wide band that stretched across the top of them,the soles scuffed and worn,a delicate imprint of where her toes rested was visible in the soft fabr.
It seemed funny to me she walkcd out of my life without her shoes. Is that irony or am thinking of something else? In a way I was glad they were still here, she would have to come back for them, right?I mean how could she go on with the rest of her life without her shoes? But shes not coming back,I know she isnt. she would rather walk barefoot over glass than have to see me all of her shoes! All of them. every sneaker, boot and sandal, every high heel and clog, every flip-Ilop.What do I do? Do I leave them here or bag them up and throw thorn in the a trash? Do I look at them every morning when I get dressed and wonder by she left them? She knew it" she knows what she"s doing. I cant throw them out for fear she may return for them today. I cant be rid of myself of her completely with all her shoes still in my life, cant dispose of them or the person that walked in them.
Her shoes left deep foot print up my heart, and I cant sweep it away.All I can do is stare at them and wonder, stare at their laces and straps, their buttons and tread.They still connect me to her though, in come distant bizarre way.I cant remember the good times we had,which pair she was wearing at that moment in time.They are hers and no one elses.She wore down the heels,and she scuffed their sides, its her fragile footpaint imbedded on the insole .I sit on the floor next to them and wonder how many places had she gone while wearing,these shots, how many miles had she walked in them, which pair was she wearing when she decided to leave me? I pick up a high heel she often wore and absently smell it.I dont think it is disgusting.Its just the last tangible link I have to her, the last bit of reality I have of her. She left her shoes; she took everything else except her shots.They remain at the bottom of my closet, a shrine to her memory.
英文励志小短文 5
Not until you realize that life itself is a beautiful thing will you really start to live. Although living combines tragedy with splendor, life is beautiful and even tragedies reflect something engaging. If you were simply to live, do more than that; live beautifully.
只有在你了解了人生的真谛后，才能真正地生活。虽然人生苦忧参半，但依旧美妙，而且即使在悲剧中也藏着迷人之处。如果你只是活着，那就再努力点吧，试着活得精彩。
Through the sea of darkness, hope is the light that brings us comfort, faith, and reassurance. It guides our way if we are lost and gives us a foothold on our fears. The moment we lose hope is the moment we surrender our will to live. We live in a world that is disintegrating into a vicious hatred, where hope is needed more than ever but cannot be discerned. Finding that is rare while the world lives in fear, but the belief in something better, something bigger than this, is what keeps life worth living.
在潮水般的黑暗之中，希望是光。它带来舒适、信仰和信心。它在我们迷失时给予指引，在我们恐惧时给予支持。而在我们放弃希望的那一刻，也就放弃了生命。我们生活的世界正瓦解成一个充满恶意和仇恨的地方，在这里我们就更需要希望，却又难以寻得。在这充满恐惧的世界里，找到希望谈何容易，但是，对更好、更有意义的人生的信仰才会让生命有意义。
Then you hear a baby speaking her first word, you see seniors holding hands, you feel the first spring rain, or smell the pine tree at Christmas, and remember that no matter how awful it is, there is always hope. No matter how weak we are, we will always survive.
然后，你听到婴儿说出第一个字、看到老年夫妇挽起对方的手、感受到第一场春雨或是闻到圣诞节松树的味道，你要明白，无论现在多么糟糕，希望永在；无论我们多么脆弱，我们终将是人生的幸存者。
英语美文欣赏 6
差距
John and Bobby joined a wholesale company togther just after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to theposotion of manager but John remained an ordinary employee. John could not take it anymore, tendered his resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not know how to delegate and did not value hard working staff, but only promoted those who flattered him.
约翰和博比同年大学毕业后，被同一家批发公司录用。他们二人工作都很努力。然而，几年后，老板提拔博比为部门经理，而约翰还是一名普通员工。约翰再也无法忍受，学习英语的网站，冲动之下写了一封辞职信，并抱怨老板不会用人，不重用那些敬业的员工，只提升那些奉承他的人。
The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said, "Thank you for your criticism, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave. Perhaps you will change your decision and take back your resignation."
老板知道这几年约翰工作确实很努力。他想了一会儿说：“谢谢你对我的批评。但是我只有一个请求，我希望在你离开之前再为公司做一件事情。或许到时你会改变决定，收回辞呈。”
John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg? John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to inform the boss $1.2 per kg.
约翰答应了。 老板让他去市场找到一个卖西瓜的人。约翰去了并很快回来。他说他找到了一个卖西瓜的人。老板问他每公斤多少钱？约翰摇摇头，回到市场去问，然后又回来告诉老板每公斤1.2美元。
Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and find anyone seling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, boss, only one person selling watermelon. $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10kg, he has inventory of 340 melons. On the table 58 melons, every melon weights about 2 kg, bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality.
老板让约翰等一会儿，这时他把博比叫到办公室。他让博比去市场找到一个卖西瓜的人。博比去了，回来之后说：“老板，只有一个卖西瓜的人，每公斤1.2美元，每10公斤卖10美元。这个人一共有340个西瓜，其中58个放在货架上，每个西瓜重约2公斤，免费学英语网站，都是两天前从南方运来的，新鲜，红瓤，质量好。”
John was very impresed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign but to learn from Bobby.
约翰受到很大的触动，他意识到自己与博比之间的差距。他决定收回辞呈并向博比学习。
My dear friends, a more successful person is more observant, thinks more and explores in depth. Chances exists in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, while another sees only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365times, how could you win?
亲爱的朋友们，成功的人更善于观察，好的英语学习网站，勤于思考和孜孜探求。机遇就存在于生活的细节中。同样的一件事，一个成功的人会看得更多更远。有人看到一年后的情景，而你只看到明天。一年与一天的差距是365倍，你怎么能赢呢？
励志英文美文小短文 7
Some people in the fierce competition of the rough waves swept away, has never recovered. Some people are against the tuyere, set foot on top, on the shore, they succeeded. Because they have much a stick to it. Forefront for them is not a stumbling block, but padding their own foundation.
Born easy, live easy, life is not easy. Life is a process of life. No wind, no rain? It is because of the baptism of wind and rain to see the colorful rainbow; With the pain of failure will taste the joy of success. Turgenev in the rudin, said: "although our life short and small, but great everything is caused by the hand of the people; a life, realize the lofty mission, that is their supreme happiness in life." We are to create this society, inevitably some injury, through the tears.
Time, fast turn, across one dream magic song.
Life, be about to rush out a way to! In order to cause, in order to struggle in life, despite losing a lot of, but is there will be! And are often more important than lost, it is the value and meaning of life.
Life is long, the years.
How can we predict the future? But only clear conscience my heart! Life, because there is competition, people have power; Life, because of the struggle, the people to the pursuit of excellence.
Smoke in life, like a cloud, the wind. Transient. "Only the people and the backing car, there is no reverse time and road", since we came to today, and possession of todays social status and responsibility, only forward, forward, forward again! Dont retreat. Young people, more important is to see tomorrow, seize today, forge ahead in the quiet, perhaps before the sun mountain tomorrow, you created a miracle again!
励志优美英文阅读带翻译美文 8
To accurately say that your family and friends don't care about you would be a very rare situation. Maybe you're being too negative and overlooking the gestures of love they show you. They don't even have to be big gestures, but it's the little things they do for you that count. And people may be reacting to the energy you're putting out; perhaps you think they don't care about you so you don't make any effort in your relationships. Start showing people you care, so they can show you back in kind. And if you don't have good relationships with the people you know, what's stopping you from making new friends?
家人朋友都不关心你，这种情况其实不太常见。可能你过于消极的想法使你忽略了他们对你表达的爱。他们甚至并不需要为你做什么惊天动地的大事，正是一些小事才真正打动人心。或者你觉得没人关心你，所以无需再经营人际关系，但其实也许人们只有在感知到你的付出后，才会对你进行回报；关心别人，别人才会关心你。如果你和周围人的关系处理不好，为何不结交些新朋友？
英文美文 9
减了又肥的四个原因Four reasons for people cycle
最让瘦身男女郁闷的莫过于：好容易减下去的体重，一下子又升了上来。费力地走啊走，结果发现自己转了一个圈，回来了原点。路途中，丢失的是自己的金钱、时间和快乐。
We all know that the vast majority of people who lose weight, regain it. And while we know that nobody who loses that weight actually wants to put it back on, somehow we’ve become really good at it! Some of us have spent a lifetime cycling between the fit and fat versions of us. We even have the small, medium, large and industrial sections in our wardrobe. What a miserable and frustrating cycle that is. And I’m not talking about minor weight fluctuations here, I’m talking about a range of 10-50kgs or more. We get on and off the weight-loss roller coaster for a bunch of reasons but here’s what twenty five years of working with people in this area has taught me. My top four observations anyway.大多数人减了再肥，肥了再减。谁也不想这样反反复复，不过我们却出奇擅长做这种事。有些人甚至一辈子都在肥与不肥间循环往复，衣柜里的衣服从小号到中号、到大号，到超大号一应俱全。这是个多让人沮丧的循环呐！而且，这里指的还不是一两斤上下的小变化，我指的是10-50公斤甚至更多的体重变化。我们在减肥的过山车里上上下下，其实是有原因的。我和这些反复减肥的人打了二十五年的交道，发现了其中最重要的四条。
为了某件事减肥，却不为了生活减肥We get in shape for events, but not for life Yep, I’ve said it before, we’re great at losing weight for birthdays, weddings, school reunions, big social events and even summer. And then we’re great at getting fat again. It’s what we do. Don’t get mad at me, just take a look around. If only life was one long birthday, we’d all look amazing 24/7. we change our behavior for a while, but on a b level below our conscious behaviors, we’re simply waiting to go back to normal. Normal being the same behaviors that lead us to obesity in the first place.参加生日聚会、婚礼、同学会、大型社交活动甚至迎接夏天，都成了我们减肥的理由。活动一结束，英语短文我们就开始了增肥的历程。大家就是这么干的。别以为我说话讨厌，不信你看看周围的人。如果人的一辈子就是一个漫长的生日，我们谁都会苗条无比。为了某个目的我们一时间改变行为习惯，这就使得我们在潜意识里期盼着回归正常。所谓的“正常”，无非就是做那些让我们一步一步走向肥胖的蠢事。
减肥时，我们没有思考We don’t keep our head in the game For a range of reasons, somewhere along the way we lose it mentally and emotionally. And when the discipline, the self-control and the can-do attitude go ut the window, so does the new and improved body. Pity. We know that what happens below the shoulders is driven by what happens above them, so for most of us, mastering our mind is the key to mastering our body. Creating life-long change ain’t about carbohydrate, protein shakes, treadmills or pump classed, it’s about what’s happening between our ears. I know that this is message I share regularly but it still seems to be missed and/or overlooked by the masses; fix the head to fix the body. Do whatever you need to do. To maintain focus. Commitment and momentum over the long term. And as for that whole “it takes thirty days t create a new habit” thing… crap. As years of destructive behaviors, habits and thinking in thirty days. As is often the case, the theory and the reality don’t actually merge.
有时候，是心理因素在激励我们减肥，一旦心里有了信念。我们就能约束自己，并相信自己能够减肥成功。英语短文可惜我们却很少这样做。脖子以下的身体都受了脖子上面的大脑支配，所以，减肥要靠思维控制。要想完成像减肥这样的终身任务，靠的'可不是碳水化合物、减肥代餐、踏步机或健身课程这些玩意儿，靠的是我们大脑里有什么样的意识。这一点我多次强调但大部分人还是忽略了，要想减肥，请先“健脑”。尽可能地在这项长期任务中保持你的注意力、你的责任感、你的原动力。有人说什么“三十天养成新习惯“在我看来一派胡言。通常，这需要更多的时间。很少人能够只花三十天的时间就能使得自己三十年的旧习惯、旧思维土崩瓦解。英语经典短文人们的理论总是过分乐观地估计了现实。
励志英文美文小短文 10
Life is a colorful sunset, but big grief, humble, vocal. Some people think that it is vigorous, because it is the masterpiece of god to elaborate; Others say it is flatly light, because it is the cycle, is again and again to unexplained recurrent.
Sometimes, we will feel life is the existence of a small, when materialistic, greed, at the time of waging a worm of the crowd; Sometimes, we will feel life is a great crystallization, when it is in the rape, hardship, disaster appear solemn and stirring time of sacrifice. Most of the time, we have an instinct to cherish life, after all, life only belongs to the one and only once. Because each flower can only open one, therefore, it is extremely not wrong step carefully, tree full of flowers, there is no a wrong, they are so carefully and seriously to meet with the one in spring. In a few time, we also eager to tragically heroic sacrifice, thats because you live has severely profaned the holy life, then death has become a check, life continues by death, instead, due to destruction of eternal life.
Life belongs to us only once, dont cry because it is useless and shame, dont regret because to idle away ones time.
Anything beyond the essence is a kind of confrontation.
Verify the against the essence of life is life and self.
Romain rolland said: "there is only one true heroism in the world, that is the truth in life after still love life."
Alive, you have to bear suffering, only for saving the suffering moment of rebirth. In order to this moment, we began suffering grizzled troubadour.
英语经典美文欣赏 11
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter with a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal(肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously . But the boy died suddenly that night.
Knowing the death could have been avoided if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could stand, and he turned to alcohol for help. In time Al became an alcoholic.
As the alcoholism progressed, AL began to lose everything he possessed -- his land, house, etc. Finally Al died alone in a small bar. Hearing of Als death, I thought, "What a totally wasted life! What a complete failure! "
As time went by , I began to revalue my earlier rough judgement . I knew Als now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring , most loving men I have ever known. I saw the love between Ernie and his children, thinking that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere .
I hadnt heard Ernie talked much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what on earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly, "As a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, "love you, son."
Tears came to my eyes as I realized what I had been a fool to judge Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind loving father, and left behind his best love.
励志优美英文阅读带翻译美文 12
In the State of Zheng. There was a man who wanted to go into town to buy a pair of new shoes.
郑国，有个人想去城里买一双新鞋子。
Before leaving home, he measured his foot with a piece of straw for size. After he arrived at the town and entered a shoe shop, he put his hand into his pocket only to find that in his haste he had left the measurement at home. Thereupon, he turned round and started for home. But when he rushed back to the shoeshop with the measurement, the shop had closed. As a result, he had busied himself for nothing.
他离家前先用一根稻草量了自己的脚，把他当作尺码。他到了城里，走进鞋店，伸手摸口袋，从发现因为急着赶路，把尺码忘在家里了。于是，他转身就往家里跑。可是等他拿着尺码赶回鞋店的时候，店已经关门了。结果，他白忙了一阵子，还是没有买到鞋子。
Later, someone asked him:” Were you buying shoes for yourself or for others? ”
后来，有人问他：“你是给自己买鞋，还是给别人买鞋？”
He answered:” For myself.”
他回答说：“是给我自己。
Someone else asked him:” Don’t you have your feet on yourself? You need only to Try on shoes with your feet to get the right size. Why did you go back home to fetch the measurement? “
别人又问他：“脚不是长在你自己身上吗？英语小短文只要用你的脚去试试鞋子的大小，不就可以了吗？为什么还要回家去拿尺码呢？“
The man of Zheng insisted:” I would rather trust the measurement than my own feet.”
那个郑国人坚持说：“我宁愿相信尺码，也不相信自己的脚。“
英语经典美文欣赏 13
student perfect. Upon these, and upon these only, mayhe rely as the sure foundation for future eminence. Think what tedious years of study, thought, practice, and experience ,went to the equipment of the peerless old master who was able to impose upon the whole world with the lofty and sounding maxim that "Truth is mighty and will prevail."- The most majestic compound feature of fact which any of woman born has yet achieved.
For the history of our race and every individuals experience,are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. There is in Bostain a monument of the man who discover the anesthesia. Many people are aware, in these later days, that he didnt discover it at all, but stole the discovery from another man.
Is the truth mighty, and will it prevail? No, My hearers, the monument is made of hard materials, but the lie it tells will outlast a millon years. An awkward, feeble, leaky lie is a thing which you ought to make it your unceasing study to avoid. Why, you might as well tell the truth at once and be done with it.
英文优美文章 14
We all get confused at times, but prolonged periods of confusion can cause us to feel that we are stuck in a never-ending, foggy web of uncertainty.
人人都有迷失之时，但过久地陷于其中只能让我们觉得被困在迷茫无尽的不确定中。
To those who are currently caught up in the web of confusion, this may not make sense just yet, but stick with me.
对于正陷于困惑中的人，这些建议可能暂时不奏效，不过请坚持下去。
Here is what you can do to overcome your confusion and find the joy:
以下就是攻克迷茫、找到快乐的方法：
1、 Accept where you are.
1、接受自己
Accept the fog, accept the confusion and accept the feelings of "stuckness." This is usually a sign that more information needs to be delivered before you can move forward.
接受迷茫、困惑，接受这种陷于其中的状态。这通常是一个信号，说明您需要获得更多的信息来走出去。
2、 Take a deep breath.
2、深呼吸
Center yourself, and firmly state, "I don't know what to do, and that is okay." When you firmly state your uncertainty, you move out of the fog. The more you focus on your certainty, the more at peace you will feel with where you are at.
集中精神，坚定地说：“我知道该怎么做，这是对的。”当您坚定地讲出您的不确定，便能走出迷茫。您越是关注您所确信的东西，也就对自己的。处境感到越平和。
3、 Focus on what you know.
3、关注您所了解的
When you are confused it can be easy to get stuck in a web of consistent, repetitive thoughts that appear to have no end and no beginning. To clear this, start focusing on what you know and what you feel sure about. When you do this, it will automatically help to weaken the cloud of confusion over your life.
当您困惑时，很容易陷入持续反复、没头没尾的想法中去。要清除这些想法，就要专注于您所了解的、确信的东西。这有助于逐渐消散您生活中的困惑。
4、 Be patient.
4、要有耐心
Being confused is a sign of change and you may need to let the journey unfold a little bit more before you make a decision. Be at peace with that, and be at peace with the fact that you don’t have all the answers. Just accept the way things are and trust that inspiration will reach you when the time comes to make a decision.
困惑也是一种改变信号，也许您需要把眼前的道路看得更清楚一些，才能作出决定。用平常心看待它，也要接受您无法拥有所有的答案。接受万物本来的样子，相信当您做决定时，灵感自然会浮现。
The beauty about being stuck and confused in life is that there really is no wrong turn or wrong path.
人生陷于困惑的美妙之处，就在于没有对错。
Every road traveled is a blessing in some way, so take the stress out of life's decisions and trust that all roads really do lead home.
您走的任何一条路都是一种恩赐，所以不要对人生抉择有过多压力，请相信任何一条路都能带您走向心之所属。
英文励志小短文 15
“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…”
I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we canimagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.
We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled.We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spendthe remainder of our lives.
The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do willchange it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affectit. Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, ifwe only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in everyfield of human endeavor.
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Chinese Undergraduates in the US
Each year, elite American universities and liberal arts colleges, such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst and Wellesley, offer a number of scholarships to Chinese high school graduates to study in their undergraduate programs.
Four years ago, I received such a scholarship from Yale.
What are these Chinese undergrads like? Most come from middle-class families in the big urban centers of China.
The geographical distribution is highly skewed, with Shanghai and Beijing heavily over-represented.
Outside the main pool, a number of Yale students come from Changsha and Ningbo,swhereseach year American Yale graduates are sent to teach English.
The overwhelming majority of Chinese undergraduates in the US major in science, engineering or economics.
Many were academic superstars in their high schools - gold medallists in international academic Olympiads or prize winners in national academic contests.
Once on US campuses, many of them decide to make research a lifelong commitment.
Life outside the classroom constitutes an important part of college life.
At American universities the average student spends less than thirteen hours a week in class.
Many Chinese students use their spare time to pick up some extra pocket money.
At Yale, one of the most common campus jobs is washing dishes in the dining halls.
Virtually all Chinese undergraduates at Yale work part-time in the dining halls at some point in their college years.
As they grow in age and sophistication, they upgrade to better-paying and less stressful positions.
The more popular and interesting jobs include working as a computer assistant, math homework grader, investment office assistant and lab or research assistant.
The latter three often lead to stimulating summer jobs.
Student activities are another prominent feature of American college life.
Each week there are countless student-organized events of all sorts - athletic, artistic, cultural, political or social (i.e.just for fun).
New student organizations are constantly being created, and Chinese undergrads contribute to this ferment.
Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China.
At Yale, intramural sports from soccer to water polo take place all year long; hence athletic talent is a real social asset.
One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago was a versatile sportsman.
His athletic talents and enthusiastic participation in sporting events, combined with his other fine qualities, made him a popular figure in his residential college.
优美英语散文短篇17
A fib 小小的谎言
I was six years old, my sister, Sally Kay, was a submissive three-year-old girl. For some reasons, I thought we needed to earn some money. I decided we should “hire out” as maids. We
visited the neighbors, offering to clean houses for them for a quater cents. Reasonable as our offer was, there were no takers. But one neighbor telephoned my mother to let her know what Mary Alice and Sally Kay were doing.
Mother had just hung up the phone when we came first into the back door into the kitchen of our apartement. “Girls,” mother asked, “why were you two going around the neighborhood telling people you would clean their houses?” Mother wasn't angry with us. In fact, we learned afterwards she was amused that we had came up with such an idea.
But, for some reason, we both denied having done any such thing. Shocked and terribly hurt that her dear little girls could be such “boldfaced (厚颜无耻的) liars” . Mother then told us that Mrs. Jones had just called and told her we had been to her house and said we would clean it for a quater cents .
Faced with the truth, we admitted what we had done. Mother said we have fibed, we have not told the truth. She was sure that we knew better. She tried to explain why a fib (小谎) hurt, but she didn't feel that we really understood.
Years later, she told us that the lesson she came up with for trying to teach us to be truthful would probably have been found upon by child psychologists. The idea came to her in a flash, and a tender-hearted mother told us it was the most difficult lesson she ever taught us. It was a lesson we never forgot. After admonishing(警告，劝告) us, mother cheerfully begain preparing for lunch. As we monching on sandwhiches, she asked:“ Would you two like to go to see the movies this afternoon?”
“Wow, would we ever?” We wondered what movie would be playing. Mother said:“The Matinee”。
“Oh, fatastic! We would be going to see The Matinee, would we lucky?” We got bathed and all dressed up. It was like getting ready for a birthday party. We hurried outside the apartment, not wanting to miss the bus that would take us downtown. On the landing, Mom stunned (使震惊) us by saying, “Girls, we are not going to the movies today.” We didn't hear her right.
“What?” we objected. “What do you mean? Aren't we going to The Matinee? Mommy, you said that we are going to the Matinee. ” Mother stooped and gathered us in her arms. I couldn't understand why there were tears in her eyes. We still had the time to get the bus, but hugging us, she gently explained this is a fib felt like. “It is important that what we say is true ,” Mom said. “I fibbed to you just now and it felt awful to me. I don't ever want to fib again and I'm sure you don't want to fib again either. People must be able to believe each others. Do you understand? ”
We assured her that we understood. We would never forget. And since we had learned a lesson, why not go to the movie to see The Matinee. There were still time. Not today. Mother told us. We would go another time. That is how over fifty years ago, my sister and I learned to be truthful. We have never forgotten how much a fib can be hurt.