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关于初中英语美文篇一

给年轻人的建议

Remember, my son，you have to work.

小伙子，请你牢记，你必须工作。

Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel一barrow or a set of books, you must work.

不管你握着的是一把十字镐或一支笔，一辆手推车或一套书,你都必须工作。

If you look around，you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest.

如果你环顾四周，会发现不必工作却最有能力度过余生的人乃是工作最勤奋的人。

Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork.

别害怕会过劳致死。

It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty.

不到三十岁的人是不可能过劳而死的。

They die sometimes，but it is because they quit work at six in the evening，and do not go home until two in the morning.

这些人有时候会早逝，但那是因为他们晚上六点收工，直到凌晨两点才回家呀。

It is the interval that kills, my son.

小伙子，就是这些工作之余的时间使这些人丧命啊。

The work gives you an appetite for your meals;it lends solidity to your slumbers; it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday.

工作会令你食欲大振，帮助你安然入睡;工作会使你十分感谢你有假日。

There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names，even.

有些年轻人并不工作，但世界并不以他们为荣，甚至不知道他们的名字。

Nobody likes them;the great，busy world does not know that they are there.

没有人喜欢他们;广大、忙碌的世界不会留意他们的存在。

So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world.

因此要先了解你想当什么、做什么，然后脱下外衣，开始干活吧!

The busier you are，the less harm you will be apt to get into，the sweeter will be your sleep,

你愈是忙碌，就愈不容易受到伤害，睡得更甜，

the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.

假日亦更灿烂、更快活，而世界对你的表现亦更加满意。

关于初中英语美文篇二

开启快乐之门

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circles ofripples.

快乐好似扔入池子里的一颗石头，会激起不断扩散的阵阵涟漪。

As Stevenson has said，being happy is a duty.

正如史蒂文森所言:“快乐是一种责任。”

There is no exact definition of the word happiness.

快乐这个字眼并没有精确的定义。

Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.

快乐的人可以因种种理由而快乐。

The key is not wealth or physical well一being，since we find beggars, invalids and so calledfailures who are extremely happy.

其关键并非财富或健康，因为我们可以发现有些乞丐、病弱的人与所谓的失败者他们却是非常快乐。

Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend.

能快乐就是一种意想不到的好处。

But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character.

而能保持快乐却是一项成就，也是心灵与品德上的胜利。

It is not selfish to strive for it.

努力追求快乐不算是自私。

It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.

事实上，追求快乐不仅是对自己也是对别人的一种责任。

Being unhappy is like an infectious disease;it causes people to shrink away from the sufferer.

郁闷不乐就像是一种传染病;得了这种病的人大家都避之如蛇蝎。

He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered.

他很快就会发现自己孤单、痛苦、难过。

There is，however, a cure so simple as to seem，at first glance, ridiculous: If you don't feelhappy, pretend to be!

不过，有一种很简单的治疗方法，乍看之下似乎很可笑:那就是如果你觉得不快乐，就假装快乐吧!

It works.

这个方法很有效。

Before long you will find that instead of repelling people，you attract them.

你很快就会发现自己非但不会赶人走，反而还能吸引人。

You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.

你会发现能成为广结善缘的中心人物，这是多么值得的事。

Then the make一believe becomes a reality.

于是原本的假快乐就变成了真快乐。

You possess the secret of peace of mind，and can forget yourself in being of service to others.

你拥有心灵平静的秘诀，能够忘情于服务人群之中。

Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit，opens doors intounimaginable gardens thronged with gratefuls friends.

一旦快乐被当作一种责任来履行并养成习惯时，它就会开启大门引领我们进入想像不到的花园，而里面都是满怀感激的朋友。

关于初中英语美文篇三

以书为伴

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as the company he keeps;

通常可由一个人所阅读的书以及所结交的朋友而知其为人;

for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;

因为书可作伴就和人可作伴一样;

and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

而且人们应该永远与最好的为伴，不管是书或是人。

A good book may be among the best of friends.

一本好书可能就是最好的朋友之一。

It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change.

这本书往昔如此，今日亦复如此，而且永不改变。

It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.

所有同伴中，它是最有耐心而且最令人愉悦的一位。

It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.

我们不论身处逆境或困境，它都不会背弃我们。

It always receives us with the same kindness, amusing and instructing us in youth，andcomforting and consoling us in age.

它永远总是那么仁慈地接纳我们，我们年轻时，它给我们快乐与教导，而我们年华老去时，则给我们安抚与慰藉。

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they each have for a book.

人们常发现他们对彼此的喜爱乃是由于他们对某本书的共同爱好所使然。

The book is a truer and higher bond of union.

书更能真实而又强有力地凝聚感情。

Men can think, feel，and sympathize with him each other through their favorite author.

人们可以透过他们共同喜爱的作者彼此作心灵、感情的交流。

They live in together, and he, in them.

他们活在作者的世界里，而作者亦活在他们的心中。

A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out，

好书往往是人生的宝库，里头蕴含着人生的思想精华，

for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts.

因为大体而言，一个人的生活世界不过就是他的思想世界。

Thus the best books are treasuries of good words，the golden thoughts, which，rememberedand cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.

因此最好的书就是藏有金玉良言一一亦即伟大思想的宝库，我们若能牢记并珍惜这些金玉良言，它们就会一辈子跟着我们、安慰我们。

Books possess an essence of immortality.

书具有不朽的特性。

They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.

它们是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。

Temples and statues decay，but books survive.

庙宇和雕像会腐朽，而书依然长存。

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passedthrough their authors' minds ages ago.

与伟大的思想相较，时间则显得微不足道，这些伟大的思想至今仍然鲜明，鲜明得就像多年前它们才从作者的脑海里浮现出来一样。

What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.

当时的言词及思想至今仍透过书本生动地与我们沟通。

Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatestminds that have ever lived.

书引导我们与最优秀的人为伍;它们带领我们到古今最伟大的思想家的面前。

We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize withthem, enjoy with them，grieve with them;

我们可以听见他们的所言所行: 我们可以见到他们，仿佛他们仍活在世上;我们与他们情感交流，与他们共喜共悲;

their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in thescenes which they describe.

他们的经验变成我们自己的经验，而我们觉得自己仿佛了有些像演员，与他们共同在他们所描述的场景中一块演出。