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英语优美散文原文：那些得到的和失去的

Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;

今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘;

We spend more, but enjoy less;

我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少;

We have bigger houses, but smaller famillies;

我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了;

We have more compromises, but less time;

我们妥协更多，时间更少;

We have more knowledge, but less judgment;

我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了;

We have more medicines, but less health;

我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意;

We have multiplied out possessions, but reduced out values;

我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了;

We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much;

我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了;

We reached the moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;

我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍;

We have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space;

我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心;

We have highter income, but less morals;

我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了;

These are times with more liberty, but less joy;

我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少;

We have much more food, but less nutrition;

我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了;

These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase;

现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了;

These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes;

现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭;

That’s why I propose, that as of today;

这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始;

You do not keep anything for a special occasion. Because every day that you live is a special occasion.

不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别;

Search for knowledge, read more, sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;

寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法;

Spend more time with your family and friends, eat your favorite foods, visit the places you love;

花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方;

Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival;

生活是一串串的快乐时光;我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存;

Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.

举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧!

Remove from your vocabulary phrases like "one of these days" or "someday";

从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”;

Let’s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!

曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧!

Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them;

告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们;

Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;

不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情;

Every day, every hour, and every minute is special;

每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别;

And you don’t know if it will be your last.

你无法知道这是否是最后的一刻。

最好的圣诞礼物

有没有试过一个人在外过春节的感受?这篇小故事的作者，分享了他独自在外过圣诞的经历感受。有时候，最好的礼物不是那个你梦寐以求的某个东西，而是你在内心给自己的赞许和肯定，这才是最好的礼物。

The Gift of Possibility

英语优美散文原文：最好的圣诞礼物

That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were clogged with tourists and locals bundled in wool and flannel. Shoppers, hawkers, and gawkers whirled and swirled around me。“Frosty the Snowman,”“Let It Snow!”and “Jingle Bells”played in stores; on the sidewalks, the street musicians did their best. Everyone, it seemed, was accompanied by someone else smiling or laughing. I was alone.

那年的圣诞前夕，我走在波士顿的街道上，路人熙熙攘攘，游客和本地人打扮的衣着光鲜。购物者、小贩和路人把我围在中间。街旁商店播放着圣诞歌曲，走到哪里都能听到《结霜的雪人》、《下雪吧》和《铃儿响叮当》。人行道上，街头音乐家卖力的表演着。似乎每个人都有人陪伴，脸上绽放出幸福的笑容。只有我是孤身一人。

The eldest of a Puerto Rican family of 11 children growing up in NewYork’scrowded tenements, I’d spent much of my life seeking solitude. Now, finally, at 27, a college student in the midst of a drown-out breakup of a seven-year relationship, I contemplated what I’d so craved, but I wasn’t quite sure I liked it. Every part of me wanted to be alone, but not at Christmas. My family had returned to Puerto Rico, my friends had gone home during the holiday break, and my acquaintances were involved in their own lives. Dusk was falling, and the inevitable return to my empty apartment brought tears to my eyes.Blinking lights from windows and around doors beckoned, and I wished someone would emerge from one of those homes to ask me inside to a warm room with a Christmas tree decorated with tinsel, its velvet skirt sprinkled with shiny fake snow and wrapped presents.

我家是一个波多黎各大家庭，我是家里的长子，下面还有10个弟弟妹妹，从小生活在纽约城拥挤的租住房里，在生命的大部分时间， 我都在寻求片刻的孤独。此时此刻，终于，这个27岁的大学生，结束了一段7年的恋情，得到了他想要的孤独，可他却怎么也高兴不起来。我想一个人静一静，但不是在圣诞节。我的家人已经返回了波多黎各，我的朋友都放假回家了，我认识的人都有自己的生活要过。天色晚了，想到要回去那空落落的宿舍，眼泪就不争气 的冒了出来。城市住家的灯火点亮起来，从门窗透出的闪烁灯光仿佛在召唤着我，我多希望有人会打开房门，邀请我走进那温暖的房间，房间一角是一株圣诞树，圣诞彩条将它装饰的绚烂华丽，天鹅绒的树摆上点缀着闪亮的雪花和包裹好的礼物

I stopped at the local market, feeling even more depressed as people filled their baskets with goodies. Dates and dried figs, walnuts, pecans, and hazelnuts in their shells reminded me of the gifts we received as children in Puerto Rico on Christmas Day, because the big gifts were given on the morning of the Feast of the Epiphany, on January 6. I missed my family: their rambunctious parties; the dancing; the mounds of rice with pigeon peas; the crusty, garlicky skin on the pork roast; the plantain and yucca pasteles wrapped in banana leaves. I wanted to cry for wanting to be alone and for having achieved it.

我在集市边停下脚步，看到人们提着装满美食的篮子，心中感到愈加失落。枣子、无花果干、核桃和山核桃，还有带壳的榛子，让我想起小时候在波多黎各收到的圣诞礼物。1月6日主显节上午，我们才能收到的圣诞大礼。我想念我的家人： 想念他们乱糟糟的派对，想念他们的舞蹈，想念香喷喷的木豆米饭，想念烤乳猪的蒜味脆皮，想念芭蕉叶包裹的大蕉丝兰根。我得到了想要的孤独，却忍不住要落下泪来。

In front of the church down the street, a manger had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn animals in expectation of midnight and the arrival of baby Jesus. I stood with my neighbors watching the scene, some of them crossing themselves, praying. As I walked home, I realized that the story of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own history. Leaving Puerto Rico was still a wound in my soul as I struggled with who I had become in 15 years in the United States. I’d mourned the losses, but for the first time, I recognized whatI’d gained. I was independent, educated, healthy, and adventurous. My life was still before me, full of possibility.

在街道尽头的教堂前，布置好了一条马槽，玛丽、约瑟夫和马厩里的动物们都在期待着午夜到来，耶稣降临。我和邻居站在那里看着这幅场景，有些人手画十字、低头祷告。在回家路上，我意识到约瑟夫和玛丽挨家挨户寻求庇护的故事就如同我自己的经历。离开波多黎各始终是我心头难以化解的痛楚，我一直在想，15年的美国生活让我变成了一个什么样的人。我本应为我所失去的感到难过，但那一刻，我第一次认识到我获得了什么。我是一个独立的、受过良好教育的、健康的、富有冒险精神的青年。生活的道路就在我的脚下，充满了无尽的可能性。

Sometimes the best gift is the one you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit for what I’d accomplished so far and permission to go forward, unafraid. It is the best gift I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.

有时候，你送给自己的礼物才是最好的礼物。那个圣诞节，我送给自己的是肯定和许诺，肯定自己过去的努力，许诺自己将不惧一切，奋勇向前。那是我曾收到过的最好的礼物，我最珍惜的圣诞礼物。

更光明的未来

The Light of a Bright Day By Helen Keller

英语优美散文原文：更光明的未来 海伦.凯勒

I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean a vision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillment regardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives a new, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections and awakens a sense of creativeness.

我选择生活的信念作为主题，而不是信条或教义。我认为，信念是一个人所珍爱的美好想象，是鼓励某人不顾艰难实现梦想的热情。信念是一种充满活力的力量，它能打破常规的束缚，让平凡陈旧的事物焕然一新。信念能使人的意志再次振作，使人的情感更为丰富，并能唤醒人的创造力。

Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair. After all, faith is not one thing or two or three things; it is an indivisible totality of beliefs that inspire me. Belief in God as infinite good will and all-seeing Wisdom whose everlasting arms sustain me walking on the sea of life. Trust in my fellow men, wonder at their fundamental goodness and confidence that after this night of sorrow and oppression they will rise up strong and beautiful in the glory of morning. Reverence for the beauty an preciousness of the earth, and a sense of responsibility to do what I can to make it a habitation of health and plenty for all men. Faith in immortality because it renders less bitter the separation from those I have loved and lost, and because it will free me from unnatural limitations and unfold still more faculties I have in joyous activity. Even if my vital spark should be blown out, I believe that I should behave with courageous dignity in the presence of fate and strive to be a worthy companion of the beautiful, the good, and the True. But fate has its master in the faith of those who surmount it, and limitation has its limits for those who, thought disillusioned, live greatly. True faith is not a fruit of security, it is the ability to blend mortal fragility with the inner strength of the spirit. It does not shift with the changing shades of one’s thought.

积极的信念是无畏的，它守护着我远离愤世嫉俗和绝望的境地。除此之外，信念并非一种或两三种具体的事物，而是鼓舞着我所有信仰的整体，是无法分割的。我相 信，当我在生命的海洋中前行时，是拥有无限善意和无尽的智慧的上帝，用他永恒的臂膀为我支撑的。我相信我的同伴，惊奇于他们善良的天性与信念。他们相信， 在经历了悲伤与压迫的漫漫长夜后，他们将会在清晨的美丽光影中坚强地重新站起来。我崇敬着地球上一切美丽与珍贵的事物，感觉到自己有责任为全人类能拥有一 个健康而富饶的家园尽心尽力。永恒能减轻我与深爱但已失去的人分离时的痛苦;它能让我摆脱人为的束缚，发现享受欢乐的能力，因此我相信永恒。就算我的生命 之火终将熄灭，我还是坚信，自己能够勇敢且充满尊严地面对命运，成为真善美称职的战友。但那些战胜命运者的信仰也会受命运的主宰，那些理想虽破灭但依然勇 敢生存者的权利也会受到局限。真正的信念充满了危险，它是人类致命的脆弱与精神内在力量的能力结合。它不会随一个人想法的转变而改变。

It was a terrible blow to my faith when I learned that millions of my fellow creatures must labor all their days for food and shelter, bear the most crushing burdens and die without having known the joy of living. My security vanished forever, and I have never regained the radiant belief of my young years that earth is a happy home and hearth for the majority of mankind. But faith is a state of mind. The believer is not soon disheartened. If he is turned out of his shelter, he builds up a house that the winds of the earth cannot destroy.

当我得知数不清的同伴都在为他们的生计终日劳作，忍受着最沉重的压力，不曾享受生活的乐趣就黯然而逝的时候，我的信念遭到了严重的打击。我永远地失去了安 全感，也永远失去了儿时那令人欣喜的信仰：地球是多数人的幸福家园。但信念是精神的一种状态。人只要拥有信念，就不会轻言放弃。倘若他不得已颠沛流离，也 会再次建起一座房子，那是地球上任何飓风都无法摧毁的。

When I think of the suffering and famine, and the continued slaughter of men, my spirit bleeds, but the thought comes to me that, like the little deaf, dumb and blind child I once was, mankind is growing out of the darkness of ignorance and hate into the light of a brighter day.

当我想到人们依然遭受着苦难与饥荒，想到人类无休止的杀戮，我的心便会滴血。但我的脑海里会出现这样的想法：正如我曾经是个又聋又哑又盲的小女孩一样，人类也正在无知与憎恨的黑暗中慢慢成长，向更光明的明天走去。