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英语励志短篇文章：让我们成为更有爱心的人

The More Loving One

by W.H.Auden/W.H.

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn,

I cannot, now I see them ,say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.

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让我们成为更有爱心的人

--W.H.奥登

仰望群星的时分，我一清二楚，

尽管它们关怀备至，我亦有可能赴地府，

可是尘世间我们丝毫不必畏惧

人类或禽兽的那份冷漠。

倘若群星燃烧着关怀我们的激情，

我们却无法回报，我们作何感想?

倘若无法产生同样的感情，

让我成为更有爱心的人。

尽管我自视为群星的崇拜者，

它们满不在乎，

现在我看群星，我却难以启齿，

说我成天思念一颗星星。

倘若所有的星星消失或者消亡，

我应该学会仰望空荡的天空，

同时感受天空一片漆黑的崇高，

虽然这样可能要花费一点时间。

英语励志短篇文章：美德

Virtue

by G.Herbert

Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright!

The bridal of the earth and sky-

The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;

For thou must die.

Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave,

Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,

Thy root is ever in its grave,

And thou must die.

Sweet spring,full of sweet days and roses,

A box where sweets compacted lie,

My music shows ye have your closes,

And all must die,

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like season'd timber,never gives;

But though the whole world turn to coal,

Then chiefly lives.

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美德

--赫伯特

甜美的白昼，如此凉爽、安宁、明媚!

天地间完美的匹配--

今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪;

因为你必须离去。

美丽的玫瑰，色泽红润艳丽，

令匆匆而过的人拭目而视，

你的根永远扎在坟墓里，

而你必须消逝。

美妙的春天，充满了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰，

如一支芬芳满溢的盒子，

我的音乐表明你们也有终止，

万物都得消逝。

唯有美好而正直的心灵，

犹如干燥备用的木料，永不走样;

纵然整个世界变为灰烬，

它依然流光溢彩。

英语励志短篇文章：自我意识

Self-Awareness

The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and hrough with profound yet temperate happiness. Healone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past time in a kind of dream. Once conform ,once do what other people do finer than they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul, He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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自我意识

--弗吉尼亚.吴尔夫

凡是意识到自我的人从今往后才是独立的;他永远不知疲倦，他明白生命苦短，所以完全沉浸于深深的而又适度的幸福之中。他独立生活，而别人是繁文缛节的奴隶，在醉生梦死之中听从生命悄然流逝。一旦循规蹈矩，一旦人为亦为，呆滞就笼罩着灵魂中一切灵敏的神经和官能。灵魂变得徒有其表，其中空空;迟钝，木然、冷漠。