随着英语日益广泛的使用，英语学习者和研究者都意识到在信息大爆炸时代中词汇在英语学习中的重要性。下面就是小编给大家整理的英语美文，希望大家喜欢。

英语美文：人生在于完整

Once a circle missed a wedge(楔子) . 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(合并，包含) the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice the flowers of 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 missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what if feels like to yearn(渴望，向往) , to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. There is 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.

英语美文：Loving with an Open Hand

The other day as I talked with a friend I recalled a story that I heard this summer. "A compassionate(慈悲的) person, seeing a butterfly struggling to free itself from its cocoon(茧) , and wanting to help, very gently loosened the filaments to form an opening. The butterfly was freed, emerged from the cocoon, and fluttered about but could not fly. What the compassionate person did not know was that only through the birth struggle can the wings grow strong enough for flight. Its shortened life was spent on the ground; it never knew freedom, never really lived."

I call it learning to love with an open hand. It is a learning which has come slowly to me and has been wrought in the fires of pain and in the waters of patience. I am learning that I must free the one I love, for if I clutch(抓住) or cling, try to control, I lose what I try to hold.

If I try to change someone I love because I feel I know how that person should be, I rob him or her of a precious right, the right to take responsibility for one's own life and choices and way of being. Whenever I impose my wish or want or try to exert power over another, I rob him or her of the full realization of growth and maturation. I limit and prevent by my act of possession, no matter how kind my intention.

I can limit and injure by the kindest acts of protection or concern. Over extended it can say to the other person more eloquently than words, "You are unable to care for yourself; I must take care of you because you are mine. I am responsible for you."

As I learn and practice more and more, I can say to the one I love: "I love you, I value you, I respect you and I trust that you have the strength to become all that it is possible for you to become - if I don't get in your way. I love you so much that I can set you free to walk beside me in joy and in sadness. I will share your tears but I will not ask you not to cry. I will respond to your needs. I will care and comfort you, but I will not hold you up when you can walk alone. I will stand ready to be with you in your grief and loneliness but I will not take it away from you. I will strive to listen to your meaning as well as your word, but I shall not always agree. Sometimes I will be angry and when I am, I will try to tell you openly so that I need not hate our differences or feel estranged. I can not always be with you or hear what you say for there are times when I must listen to myself and care for myself, and when that happens I will be as honest with you as I can be."

I am learning to say this, whether it be in words or in my way of being with others and myself, to those I love and for whom I care. And this I call loving with an open hand.

I cannot always keep my hands off the cocoon, but I am getting better at it!

英语文章：Lovely Lunnah

LUNNAH is the manager of the pets department. She just had her 20th birthday a few days ago. She is about 167 centimeters tall, slim with very good figures, long brown hair sometimes fell at her shoulders liked a waterfall really, sometimes tied and made the nice hair liked a squirrel(松鼠) squatted at her crown, sometimes half fall and half tied, looked like a landscape oil painting.

When she was moving, her hairs tail waved left and right, liked a beautiful bird jumping from one branch to another. When she was walking, her hairs looked like a willow(柳树) branch waving in the wind or a swan dancing by a pond. When she stopped to work it looked like a funny lizard looking for food or maybe there was some magic on her head. Marvellous lovely Lunnah!

I always saw her quietly working, working and working. When she wore a pair of glasses she looked more like a university student.

LUNNAH looked a little weak to stand a gust of wind, but she could to take a two meters long snake around her shoulders and doing customer service as usual. I so afraid not about the snake stretching the fork tongue like a machine gun firing, but LUNNAH’s neck was thin. She put a lizard in her hand liked to play a toy…Fantastic lovely Lunnah.

Some body told me about her excellent dancing, especially dancing in the rain. Unfortunately I have never seen so far. I could imagine her dancing should be liked the willow branches in the soft breeze, it should be liked a swallow swooping and soaring over the pond, it should be liked the dragonfly(蜻蜓) cruising in the morning mist, or it should be liked the butterfly drinking in flowers…

She is lovely LUNNAH. Fabulous!