英语美文truelove（共8篇）
1.英语美文truelove 篇一
英语月份名称的来历英语美文
公历起源于古罗马历法;英文中的January起源于拉丁文Januarius。古罗马人这样称呼一月是为了纪念他们的守护神雅努斯(Janus).这位神有两副面孔，前面注视未来，而脑后一副面孔是回顾过去的。
February来源于拉丁文中的Februarius，它是古罗马的节日——菲勃卢姆节(februm);
March来源于拉丁文中的Martins，是古罗马人所崇敬的战神马尔斯(Mars)的名字。
April来源于拉丁文中的`Aprilis，原意是大地回春，万象更新的意思。
古罗马神话中的一位掌管春天和生命的女神叫玛雅(Maia)。古罗马人把五月称为Mains来记念这位女神，May是由此演变而来。
June来源于古罗马神话中的女神之王裘诺(Juno)，罗马人为了纪念她，就把六月称为裘诺之月(Junius)。英文中六月就是从这演变而来。
July来源于古罗马统治者儒略·消撤大帝，他死后人们将他的名字Julius命名为六月。
Auguest来源于拉丁文中的Augustus。消撒死后，他的外甥的儿子屋大维继任统治罗马，因为他出生在八月，所以他就用自己的称号——奥古斯都(Augustus)来命名八月。
英文中的September来源于拉丁文中的“第七”Septem，原意也是七月，古罗马历法原是一年十个月，后来又加了两个月，变为十二个月，这两个月放在年初，以后的月份顺序推后，这样七月就变成九月了。
October来源于拉丁文中的“第八”Octo，原意为八月，古罗马历法为十二月后七月变为九月，那么八月也就变为十月了。
November来源于拉丁文中的“第九”。
December来源于拉丁文中的“第十”。
2.英语美文truelove 篇二
1. 学习英语就是背单词。
学生以为学习英语就是背诵单词，死记硬背，记不住、忘得快。即使记住了也不太了解词块、语块(chunk)在具体语境中的不同用法。殊不知最好的记忆是在语境中、在运用中去学习体验、归纳。所谓的词不离句，句不离文，说的其实就是这个道理。记忆单词有很多的方法。对大多数人来说，卡片记忆法、英汉互译法、集中识词法、头脑风暴法、联想记忆法、分类归纳法等，都是可以试试的。纯粹背单词是没有多大意义的，只有以句子为单位、篇章为整体，将语音、语调、语感、语用统一于语篇、语境、语域之中，才是最高境界。最后才能无招胜有招，游刃有余于英语的世界，翱翔于自由驾驶语言的天空。
2. 学习英语就是做考卷。
高考的英语试卷150分，选择题就占115分，学生只要填写ABCD。在平时的练习中，这种练习模式极为不利于学习者的语言运用能力提高。依我所见，平时的练习应该引导学生多背诵句子、篇章，多做一些英汉互译、篇章改写、缩写、扩写等说和写的练习，注重积累语言的素材，只有输入的有效语料足够了，学生才有可能输出，同时适当地做一些考卷以提高应试能力。我们目前的英语课堂往往本末倒置，没有足够的输入、内化，就开始一套一套地做题。那种题海战术训练出来的学生即使能够取得高分，也一定是高分低能的“英语哑巴”、“英语聋子”。只有用正确的方法学习英语，才能培养出具有真正的综合语言运用能力的学生，真正的优秀学生应该是首先具有良好的听、说、读、写、译的语言能力，并在考试里取得高分。在各级各类考试中取得高分只是语言能力的副产品，而不是学习语言的目的。
3. 学习英语就是为了考试取得高分。
各式各类就职、应聘招考都离不开英语，英语的重要性已经是一个不争的事实。学习英语就是为了通过考试，这种想法带来的负面效应就是死记硬背和题海战术。考试结束，学生关于英语的知识就统统还给老师了，剩下的恐怕只是零零星星的几个单词和几句破烂英语(broken English)。只要不再需要考试，学生也就不再学习英语了。
其实，学习的目的和动机决定了学习者的学习热情持续的长久，也决定了学习者的学习方法选择，最终决定了学习的效果。
二、问题产生的主要原因
1. 初高中衔接过渡不足。
相当部分的学生在初中的英语学习是靠老师精心喂养、强灌出来的，甚至是靠中考前几个月“催肥”的。换句话说，这种学生虽然以高分考上高中，可是没有自主学习的能力。到了高中自然无法适应有一定强度和相当难度的高中英语学习。加上中考重基础、高考重能力，初高中衔接过渡不足，造成新高一学生不适应高中英语学习，埋下隐患。
2. 学习策略不足，学习效率不高。
绝大多数学生没有找到有效的英语学习方法。英语学习没有计划，随意性大，或者有计划、有任务却无法坚持。三天打鱼，两天晒网，却想一口就吃成胖子。做练习，不善于总结归纳，题题似是而非，ABCD填满万事大吉，不知道通过自己的练习找出缺漏。阶段性的知识没有被及时内化巩固。不能温故知新。不断学习新知识，同时不断遗忘学习过的知识。
3. 学习目的不明确。
大多数学生没有搞清楚为什么要学习英语，以及如何有效地学习英语，以为学习英语就是背背单词、做做练习、应付各级各类的考试。
总之，最主要的原因是有效语料的输入远远不够，强化的机制薄弱。加上学生没有养成有效学习的策略，导致学习效率低下。
三、解决问题的理论策略和思路
在二语习得理论中，Krashen的“输入假说”(Input Hypothesis)认为，可理解性输入(comprehensible input)是语言习得的必要条件和关键。只有当学习者理解了略高于其现有水平的语言输入，即i+1，才能更好地习得语言。教师应为学生创造和谐的学习环境，通过有效的输入，关注学习者的学习态度、情绪、动力、自信心等内部因素，降低焦虑，并注重与产出的紧密结合，促使学生积累语言素材，促进二语或外语语言的娴熟。同时“输出假说”(Output Hypothesis)认为，“除了必要的可理解性输入外，学习者必须有机会使用语言，这样才能达到流利、类似母语者的水平”。
四、以美文为载体培养可持续的学习能力
1.构建美文的校本课程强化有效语料输入。
美文的范围很广, 从广义上来说, 美文应该包含所有原汁原味的英语语料。
本文所探讨的美文指的是本人根据所在学校绝大部分学生现有的英语学习水平, 结合多年教学实践收集整理编辑而成的校本学习语料。
主要内容有英语本族语中妙趣横生的谚语、经典名人名言、融入高中主要语法规则和典型语言点的句子、幽默故事、新闻报刊中精彩绝伦的短句、篇章、诗歌、高中英语课文中精选精编的段落、BBC、VOA慢速英语等原汁原味的英语语料。美文的背诵就是为了教会学生在各种场合用英语发言、讲话、表达观点、情感、态度。
2.以美文为载体, 促进学生有效学习。
(1) 组建学习小组。
根据根据“组内异质, 组间同质”的分组原则, 首先将全班学生划分为四大组。接着按照“组间均衡, 组内不均衡”的原则, 将每一个大组学生进行科学分成四个小组。每大组12—16人。每小组4人。每个大组由3到4个小组组成。
注意小组内成员在性别、性格、学习、组织、活动能力方面均衡搭配, 组内异质使组内成员互助学习促进成为可能, 而组间同质则有利于各小组间的公平竞争。大组有大组长, 小组有小组长, 共四大组长, 12到16个小组长, 再委任一名英语课代表。课代表负责沟通老师和四大组长, 四大组长负责沟通管理组里的小组长。小组长负责小组的成员。层层落实, 责任到位。同学之间互相合作、相互依存、互相鼓励与自我激励, 自评与互评相结合。
(2) 鼓励探究, 促进合作, 构建有效学习策略。
知识是习得的, 是学会的, 不是教会的, 而英语习得的过程, 基本就是输入—内化 (加工和生成) —输出的过程。在这个过程中, 教师作为组织者, 运用元认知理论, 在输入环节上要有意识地创设语境, 激发学生的学习兴趣, 进行情感教学;在内化环节要化繁为简, 化难为易, 注重记忆方法和学习技巧指导, 使学生易于感知。
合作小组组建完成以后, 首先培训大组长, 小组长和课代表, 使他们成为骨干、精英, 了解合作规则, 掌握一定的沟通方法和技能技巧, 带领小组成员组建团队, 以便达成后面的合作学习任务, 在实践中不断改进和完善。同时, 规划合作学习的目标、材料、计划。
(A) 课堂上, 每一周提供一节课, 指导学生合作探究, 完成一到两篇美文的学习任务。每学期计划完成50篇精选美文阅读。小组长带领下, 每人分工完成四分之一篇章美文的分析讲解, 找出其中的语言点、句型、语法, 最后集体诵读美文。课后定期复习。人手必备一部英语字典、一本简明的语法书。15到20分钟后各组反馈学习情况。老师巡视指导。寒暑假, 或者其他的节假日, 也鼓励学生坚持自主学习, 合作探究, 天长日久, 必然养成终身学习、享受学习的习惯。
(B) 课外, 每天掌握5个句子, (周一到周五每天5个句子, 周末及时复习, 不再增加新句子。) 每周讲2个幽默小故事、背诵一篇课文。每学期计划完成三到五百个句子、50个幽默故事, 背诵15篇课文。组员向小组长, 小组长向大组长, 大组长向课代表完成任务。老师随机抽查。这些活动随时随地都可在课外时间完成。这就要求小组长要有一定的沟通管理, 甚至辅导激励其他同学的能力, 才能保证组员人人参与人人过关。任何语言的学习都要有一个循序渐进积累的过程, 才能实现从量变到质变的突破。每天默写5个句子, 每周讲2个幽默小故事、背诵一篇课文, 持之以恒是成功的唯一通道。
(C) 定期阶段性地组织形式多样的活动:讲英语幽默故事, 唱英语歌, 英语书法, 英语演讲, 句子、篇章汉译英竞赛, 限时书面表达, 英语日记展示, 诗歌散文诵读等, 给所有学生提高展示的舞台, 创造机会让学生体验成功、快乐。出版年段学生英语习作, 展示学习作品, 建立成长档案袋。给学生足够的奖状和精神支持。同时提供有效的帮助。活动的成果分为两种:一种是模仿输出, 即句子的原句英汉互译、美文的原文背诵。另一种是创造性地输出, 即语言点自行造句、自编幽默笑话、演讲、辩论、自编自创美文。积极引导鼓励学生编辑具有个人特色的美文, 共同分享。
(D) 课内外延伸, 鼓励自主学习, 授人与“渔”。指导学生自主阅读课外双语材料、英语沙龙等、各级各类的中学生英语阅读丛书、报刊杂志, 学会利用无限丰富的网络英语学习资源, 英语的新闻、音乐、电影等, 拓宽学习渠道, 不断反思总结自己的学习过程, 列出各个阶段的学习计划, 不断完善改进, 最终形成自己的有效学习策略, 形成可持续发展的学习能力。
四、总结与反思
我们往往把英语学习复杂化。要学好英语, 其实很简单。就四个字:FUN, SHARE, PRACTICE, WIN-WIN。
1.一定要乐学 (Fun copying, enjoy learning) 。
好学不如乐学, 独乐乐不如众乐乐。享受美文, 享受学习, 在各种体验和感悟中享受成长的快乐、进步的喜悦、成功的欣慰。英语学习可以是锻炼记忆力, 修身养性, 陶冶情操, 体验异国风情, 了解跨文化意识, 顺便应付各级各类的考试。学习英语, 其乐无穷。
2.一定要分享 (Sharing) 。
合作学习自主探究, 多跟同学、老师甚至老外沟通交流, 充分利用现代化的网络、图书馆、语音室等设备。学会资源共享, 获取有价值的信息。一个不会分享、不能带团队、不懂分工协作的人很难立足于现代社会。你不必力大无穷, 但一定要学会借力而行, 调动一切积极的力量实现自己的梦想。
3.一定要练习 (Practice makes perfect!) 。
学习语言就如学习游泳一样, 是一种技能技巧的训练, 学以致用是最高境界。只要充分利用各种场合不断大胆积极有效地训练听、说、读、写、译。只要多动口、勤动笔, 说一口老外听的懂的英语、写一手能沟通的英文并不是什么难事。
4.一定要双赢 (Win-win) 。
在学校学会互相帮助, 取长补短, 共同进步。了解双赢的规则, 明白帮助别人就是帮助自己, 成就别人才能成就自己的未来。
最后也是最重要的一点:善用教材, 学会学习。“教材是教师指导学生学习的一切教学材料”, 美文可以作为课程资源的一种补充, 但并不是要代替教科书。美文也不是一成不变的, 只有在团队的不断努力下, 不断更新补充新鲜的语料, 才能适应时代的发展, 满足学生的需要。更重要的是在信息时代的今天, 教会学生利用各种渠道收集、整理, 开发适合自己的学习资源才是上策。“授人与鱼, 不如授之与渔”。
以美文引进门, 修行在个人, 英语的语料五花八门, 琳琅满目, 学无止境, 学生一定要拥有可持续性学习的能力才能在知识的海洋里如鱼得水, 乘风破浪, 真正成为国际化人才。
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3.让美文走进英语课堂 篇三
关键词：合作与交流；美文欣赏；阅读能力
一、课程分析
美文阅读课“Present”大胆采用了新课标教学理念，创造性地使用教材，对课文内容进行创造性地拓展与补充，改变传统教学过于注重传授知识的倾向，采用了“任务型”美文欣赏进行英语阅读教学。该课的中心话题是“Present”，内容主要涉及对昨天历史的回顾，对现实生活的思考以及对未来的向往和憧憬。
二、学情分析
这个班为普通平行班，学生的英语基础一般，但是大部分学生的思维活动、学习热情、表现欲望和合作精神还是可以在教学中不断提高和培养的。根据这些特点，教师采用了与新课标要求相一致的新的教学方式，即活动式教学法，便于调动全班学生的积极性，在师生互动、生生互动中实现教学目标，完成教学任务。
三、教学目标
1.美文欣赏激发学生的想象力；2.理解文章标题“Present”的具体含义以及所代表的内容和象征的意义；3.按要求筛选和提取所需信息，从而提高任务型阅读理解能力；4.加深学生对现实生活的理解，以达到珍惜今天、展望未来的情感目标。
四、教学设计
1.总体思路
在多媒体教学环境下，培养学生的欣赏阅读微技能。教者在教学过程中先让学生欣赏音乐，在音乐声中激发学生的兴趣；然后，让学生进行略读和细读，培养学生通过美文结构和上下文猜测词义并概括文章主题的能力；最后，在阅读文章的基础上让学生进行分组讨论，进行说写活动，遵循由浅入深、循序渐进的教学原则，提高学生综合运用语言的能力。
2.教学程序
（1）导入
欣赏音乐Yesterday Once More，调动学生的积极性，使课堂气氛活跃起来。然后反复演唱“Yesterday is history，tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift”，给学生加深印象，为下面提炼文章的主题做铺垫。
反思：如果在欣赏音乐的同时给学生呈现歌词并挖掘部分重要词汇让学生填空，这样既能激发学生的学习热情，又锻炼了学生的听力能力，一举两得。
（2）阅读
①使学生了解Present这篇文章的主题，并根据篇章理解或猜测生词含义
The author tries to tell us____
A.to work harder in the future and spend more time with families
B.to value friendship now
C.to make the best of what you have at present.
D.to pay attention to our health
②根据篇章理解猜测生词含义
Match the words with correct meanings：
Juggle b.perform to amuse sb.
bounce c.spring or jump back
irrevocable a.final and unchangeable
shatter h.break suddenly and into small pieces
strive d.struggle/make efforts
undermine g.weaken gradually
encounter f.meet or face
appreciate e.like or enjoy
③要求学生对美文进行细节理解
What？
How？
Which？
Why？
What else do you want to know？
反思：对文章主题的理解是本文阅读理解的关键，猜测词义和细节理解旨在激发学生对课文相关内容学习的兴趣。应该采用多种形式，如讨论、竞赛等合作学习的形式培养学生的阅读与合作能力。
（3）拓展
在学生了解了文章的基本内容后，教师设计如下拓展性的话题：
①What can we imagine life as？
②Why do we call today is “The Present”？
针对拓展性话题，学生分组讨论，将这节课推向高潮，以小组的形式进行讨论、交流与合作，并选一名代表进行书写记录，最后进行展示。
反思：合作学习既激励了学生的创新热情，又培养了学生的合作精神，充分体现了新课标精神。
（4）朗诵
老师带着学生有表情朗读，真正品位英语美文的美妙！
（5）链接高考
为了衔接高考，老师给学生设计了以下的任务型阅读。
反思：从英语学习的角度来说，这首歌和作业的设计使整个教学流程達到了听、说、读、写的完美结合，从而加强了学生综合应用英语的能力，使学生感悟到学习英语的乐趣。
（6）音乐欣赏
最后再次播放英文歌曲Yesterday Once More，屏幕上再现该课的主题“Yesterday is history， tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift！”学生跟着优美的旋律唱起来，非常好听。唱完后布置写作作业。
Homework：Write a passage——Today is a gift
反思：学生唱得很好，这首歌刚好与这节课的主题相吻合，恰到好处，效果明显，使课堂教学内容得以升华。从英语学习的角度来说，这首歌和作业的设计使整个教学流程达到了听、说、读、写的完美结合，从而加强了学生实际应用英语的能力，使学生感悟到了学习英语的乐趣。
五、课程评价
此次研究课上得比较成功，得到了同行及领导的充分肯定，大家一致认为这堂课很有新意，虽然是普通平行班，但整个课堂气氛都很活跃。这堂课的亮点是充分体现了新课程“以学生为主体”的教学理念，在教师的指导下将课堂“还”给学生，学生表现的时间占了整节课的三分之二，由过去的教师“教”为主转变为学生“学”为主。在学生的发言及表演中我们看到了每一位学生的闪光点，加强了师生之间的沟通与互动，调动了全体学生学习英语的积极性，培养了他们的合作精神和实际运用英语的能力。
教无定法，只要得法。教师在教学过程中应不拘一格，综合学生、教材、教法及自身教学风格，创造性地开展教学活动，激活学生的学习热情，激发学生的学习兴趣，激励学生的学习信心，永葆英语课堂教学的新鲜、趣味、活泼。
4.英语美文感想 篇四
詹妙思
A fair-weather friend is like a banker who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining and taking it back the minute it rains.Two men were traveling through the forest and came across a bear.One of them
quickly climbed a tree but the other was unable to, so he lay on the ground and
played dead.The bear around his ear and left.The fellow from the tree came down
and asked him: “what did the bear tell you ?” The man replied :”He said ,do not trust
a friend who deserts you in danger.” The message is as clear as daylight.Mutual trust and confidence are the foundations stone of all friendship.正文翻译：酒肉朋友
酒肉朋友就像一个银行家，正值阳光灿烂时他会将伞借给你，而天一下雨他就立即将伞收
回。
有两个人在穿越森林的途中突然遇上一头熊。其中一个人很快爬上了树，但另一个不会爬
树，因此他只能躺在地上装死。熊嗅了嗅他的耳朵，离开了。他的同伴从树上下来问他：“熊
对你说了什么？”他回答：“它说，不要相信危难中抛弃你的朋友。”这句话就像白天一样喻
意明了。
相互之间的信赖与对彼此的信心才是友谊的基石。
感想：
这篇文章无疑是短小而精悍的，富含深意。读过不少用英文写的描述或者介绍朋友之间
相处的文章，其中不乏美文，但就是这篇智慧英语让我感觉有趣易懂。
短文采用的语法、词汇都是简单易懂的。这些常见的词语像“friend”“through the
forest”“climb a tree”“play dead”“trust”连串成琅琅上口的复合句，巧妙地应用了“and”
“but”等连接词，非但不会显得累赘，更能表现出作者扎实的语法功底。例如开篇第一句
“A fair-weather friend is like a banker who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining and taking it back the minute it rains.”就是夹带着时间状语从句的陈述语气的宾
语从句。
5.励志英语美文摘抄 篇五
英语美文欣赏励志篇摘抄
什么使我胸怀宽广
What Makes Me Feel Big
J.Frank Dobie
“My mind is big when I look at you and talk to you,” Chief Eagle of the Pawnees said to George Bird Grinnell when, after years of absence, that noble writer appeared at his friend’s tepee.It is very difficult in drawing up a credo to be severely honest about one’s self, to avoid all traditional cant.We actually believe in what we value most.Outside of the realms of carnality and property, which men appearing in public generally pretend not to notice, I believe in and draw nourishment from whatever makes me feel big.I believe in a Supreme Power, unknowable and impersonal, whose handiwork the soul-enlarging firmament declares.However, I believe in questionings, doubtings, searchings, skepticism, and I discredit credu lity or blind faith.The progress of man is based on disbelief of the commonly accepted.The noblest minds and natures of human history have thought and sung, lived and died, trying to budge the status quo towards a larger and fuller status.I am sustained by a belief in evolution—the increasing purpose of life in which the rational is, with geological slowness, evolving out of the irrational.To believe that goodness and wisdom and righteousness, in Garden of Eden perfection, lie somewhere far ahead instead of farther and farther behind, gives me hope and somewhat explains existence.This is a long view.I do not pretend that it is a view always present in me.It does raise me when I have it, however.I feel no resentment so strongly as that against forces which make men and women afraid to speak out forthrightly.The noblest satisfaction I have is in witnessing the up movement of suppressed individuals and people.I make no pretense to having rid myself of all prejudices, but at times when I have discovered myself freed from certain prejudices, I have felt rare exhilaration.For me, the beautiful resides in the physical, but it is spiritual.I have never heard a sermon as spiritual in either phrase or fact as, “Waters on a starry night are beautiful and free.” No hymn lifts my heart higher than the morning call of the bobwhite or the long fluting cry of sandhill cranes out of the sky at dusk.I have never smelled incense in a church as refining to the spirit as a spring breeze laden with aroma from a field of bluebonnets.Not all hard truths are beautiful, but beauty is truth.It incorporates love and is incorporated by love.It is the goal of all great art.Its presence everywhere makes it free to all.It is not so abstract as justice, but beauty and intellectual freedom and justice, all incorporating truth and goodness, are constant sustainers to my mind and spirit.并非所有坚定的真理都是美好的，但“美即是真”。所有伟大的艺术都追求这样的目标，即美融合爱，也被爱所融合。它无处不在，唾手可得。
在离开朋友波尼族印第安人首领雄鹰的兽皮帐篷几年后，作家乔治.伯德.格林又回到那里。这位首领对他高尚的朋友说：“凝视着你，与你交谈，让我感到心胸宽广。”
我们很难为自己拟出一个既能严格遵守又能避免传统教条的信念。事实上，我们最为珍视的东西便是我们的信仰。除了人们在公共场合总会假装视而不见的俗念与财产之外，所有能让我胸怀宽广的都是我的信仰，它们是我力量的源泉。
我相信有一种至高无上且无法控制的未知力量，它的创造，宣告了灵魂拥有无限伸展的空间。然而，我也相信询问、质疑、探索与怀疑，但拒绝轻信或盲从的信仰。人类的进步是基于对普遍接受的质疑。人类历史上，拥有最高尚思想的人们曾经思考过，歌唱过，生活过，最终离去，他们也曾努力扩展并充实现状。我始终相信进化论，即生活目的在不断增加，而其中从非理性到理性的进化时间就像地质变化一样漫长。我相信，伊甸园中完美的善良、智慧与正义就在遥远的前方，给予我希望，并或多或少地解释了生存的意义。这是一个长远的观点。我不会假装认为，自己始终拥有这样的观点。然而，当我拥有它时，我的灵魂的确得到了升华。
使人不敢坦诚言论的势力，是我最为憎恨的。当看到受压迫的个人与民族奋起反抗时，我便会心生敬慕，感到满足。我并不伪称自己已经摒弃了所有的偏见，但有时当我发现自己摆脱了某些偏见时，我就会狂喜不已。
我认为，美虽然存在于肉体，但却属于精神。我从未听说过，有哪句布道词能从言辞或事实上表现出这样的精神美：
“夜晚繁星点点，湖水自由荡漾。”
北美鸠清晨的鸣唱或黄昏时天空中沙丘鹤笛鸣般的长吟，是任何赞美诗都无法媲美的。柔和的春风中弥漫着田野间矢车菊的芳香，让我的灵魂也更加高尚，这是教堂中任何焚香都无法比拟的。并非所有坚定的真理都是美好的，但“美即是真”。所有伟大的艺术都追求这样的目标，即美融合爱，也被爱所融合。它无处不在，唾手可得。它不像正义那样抽象，但美、心智的自由及正义，都与真与善融合，这便是我思想与精神的永恒支柱。
英语美文欣赏励志篇鉴赏
失败的额外收益和想象力的重要性
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.经历了挫折，你变得更加智慧，更加坚强，这意味着你有独立生存的能力。只有经过了逆境的考验，你才能真正了解自己，才能真正知道周围的人所赋予你的力量。这种认识是真正的财富，虽然历经千辛万苦，但这比我以前获得的任何资格证书都有价值。
So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two.Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.如果我有一台时光转换器，我会告诉21岁的自己，一个人的幸福在于知道人生不只是一份只有收获和成就的表单。资格证书和个人简历不是你们的生活，虽然你们将会遇到很多与我同龄或年龄比我大的人将二者混为一谈，生活艰辛而复杂，是任何人都无法完全掌控 的。谦恭地了解了这一点，你才能从容面对人生的变迁。
You might think I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so.Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense.Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.至于为什么选择第二个主题——想象力的重要性，你们可能会认为是因为它对我重建生活所起的作用，但事实并非完全如此。虽然我坚持睡前故事对孩子的想象力有很大的价值，但我学会了在更广泛的意义上去理解想象力。想象力不仅仅是人类特有的设想不存在的事物的能力，还是所有发明和创新的源泉。毋庸置疑，想象力是最富转换性和启发性的力量，这种力量能使我们与有着不同经历的人们产生共鸣。
英语美文欣赏励志篇赏析
Growth that Starts from Thinking
在思考中成长
It seems to me a very difficult thing to put into words the beliefs we hold and what they make you do in your life.I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling.I don’t think it was spoken of a great deal.It was more or less taken for granted that everybody held certain beliefs and needed certain reinforcements of their own strength and that that came through your belief in God and your knowledge of prayer.我的信念是什么，它在我的人生中起到了什么作用------这些问题我觉得很难用言语解释清楚。我认为自己很幸运，因为我出生在一个笃信宗教的家庭。家里人对宗教谈论得并不多。每个人心中或多或少都有某些信仰，都希望通过某种方式获得力量，而这力量就来自信奉上帝并懂得如何祈祷。
But as I grew older I questioned a great many of the things that I knew very well my grandmother who had brought me up had taken for granted.And I think I might have been a quite difficult person to live with if it hadn’t been for the fact that my husband once said it didn’t do you any harm to learn those things, so why not let your children learn them? When they grow up they’ll think things out for themselves.我是在祖母身边长大的。随着年龄的增长，我对许多祖母视作理所当然的事产生了怀疑。我甚至拒绝让孩子们接触这些东西，似乎成了一个不近情理的人。直到有一次我丈夫劝我，这些东西你年少时也接触过，对你也并无坏处。既然如此，何不让孩子们也有了解它们的机会呢?他们长大以后会独立思考这些问题的。
And that gave me a feeling that perhaps that’s what we all must do—think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it.And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.他的话使我感到或许我们每个人都应该这样做------独立思考自己应该信仰什么以及如何在生活中坚守自己的的信仰。我认为人一生就应该尽全力做最好的自己------我想这就是我的信仰。
I don’t know whether I believe in a future life.I believe that all that you go through here must have some value, therefore there must be some reason.And there must be some “going on.” How exactly that happens I’ve never been able to decide.There is a future—that I’m sure of.But how, that I don’t know.And I came to feel that it didn’t really matter very much because whatever the future held you’d have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds you have to face it exactly the same way.And the important thing was that you never let down doing the best that you were able to do—it might be poor because you might not have very much within you to give, or to help other people with, or to live your life with.But as long as you did the very best that you were able to do, then that was what you were put here to do and that was what you were accomplishing by being here.我不知道自己是否相信未来。我相信的是我们现在经历的一切一定有价值，因此必有某些道理，也必然预示着有些事情“将要发生”。但这些事情如何发生，我却不能决定。一定有未来------对此我深信不疑。但它会怎样降临。我不知道，然而着一点，我渐渐感到并不重要。因为无论未来如何，我们到时候总得面对，正如无论生活中发生了什么，我们都必须面对一样。真正重要的是要倾尽自己的全力。也许你能力有限、贡献不多，无法给予他人更多的帮助，或者无法活得那么精彩，但只要你能倾尽自己的全力，你就能完成来到人世间的使命，能体现人生的价值。
6.英语美文 篇六
·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）
·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）
·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈
·第五篇：Ambition 抱负
·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生
·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤
·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道
·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人
·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半
·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？
·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间
·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐
·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好
·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人
·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式
·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗
·第十八篇：Solitude 独处
·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义
·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美
·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门
·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢
·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐
·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁
·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出
·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭
·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说
·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts)就职演讲（节选）
·第一篇：Youth 青春
Youth
Youth is not a time of life;it is a state of mind;it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being‟s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what‟s next and the joy of the game of living.In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station;so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you‟ve grown old, even at 20;but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there‟s hope you may die young at 80.·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）
Three Days to See
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live.Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours.But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours.I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets?
Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life.We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”.But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but
almost always his sense of values is changed.He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.Most of us, however, take life for granted.We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future.When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable.We seldom think of it.The days stretch out in an endless vista.So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses.Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight.Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life.But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties.Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation.It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life.Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight;silence would teach him the joys of sound.·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选）
Companionship of Books
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps;for there is a companionship of books as well as of men;and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.A good book may be among the best of friends.It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change.It is the most patient and cheerful of companions.It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always receives us with the same kindness;amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third.There is an old proverb, „Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union.Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.They live in him together, and he in them.A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out;for the world of a man‟s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts.Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters.Books possess an essence of immortality.They are by far the most lasting products of human effort.Temples and statues decay, but books survive.Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author‟s minds, ages ago.What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page.The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products;for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good.Books introduce us into the best society;they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived.We hear what they said and did;we see the as if they were really alive;we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them;their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe.The great and good do not die, even in this world.Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad.The book is a living voice.It is an intellect to which on still listens.·第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈
If I Rest, I Rust
The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement.If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist.The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer.Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor;but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.·第五篇：Ambition 抱负
Ambition
It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition.It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments.People would have time for reflection.Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity.Competition would never enter in.conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past.The stress of creation would be at an end.Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions.Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor.Anxiety would be extinct.Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!
There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham.Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating.Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one‟s own.But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;that achievement counts for a great deal;and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging.It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.We do not, most of us, choose to die;nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death.But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift.We decide what is important and what is trivial in life.We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do.But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make.We decide.We choose.And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed.In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.·第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生
What I Have Lived For
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy.I have sought it, next, because it
relieves loneliness---that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine.And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.But always it brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.This has been my life.I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.·第七篇：When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤
When Love Beckons You
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only love‟s peace and love‟s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love‟s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself.Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love‟s ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.·第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道
The Road to Success
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions.Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career.They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office.I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education.But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom.It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary.I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”.I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm.Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive.Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged.Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also.They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere.“Don‟t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong.I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail.It is easy to watch and carry the one basket.It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up.One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest;never enter a bar room;do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals;never speculate;never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund;make the firm‟s interest yours;break orders always to save owners;concentrate;put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket;expenditure always within revenue;lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”
·第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人
On Meeting the Celebrated
I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated.The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across.They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real selves.They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people;but I have been interested in men in general not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work.I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer.I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous.They are more often themselves.They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it.Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal.They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd.And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal;kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory.To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art.They cannot be made real.The ordinary is the writer‟s richer field.Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material.The great man is too often all of a piece;it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.He is inexhaustible.You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.·第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半
The 50-Percent Theory of Life
I believe in the 50-percent theory.Half the time things are better than normal;the other half, they re worse.I believe life is a pendulum swing.It takes time and experience to understand what normal is, and that gives me the perspective to deal with the surprises of the future.Let‟s benchmark the parameters: yes, I will die.I‟ve dealt with the deaths of both parents, a best friend, a beloved boss and cherished pets.Some of these deaths have been violent, before my eyes, or slow and agonizing.Bad stuff, and it belongs at the bottom of the scale.Then there are those high points: romance and marriage to the right person;having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son‟s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he‟s swimming with the dogs, discovering his compassion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of
Legos.But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flip-flop acrobatically.This is what convinces me to believe in the 50-percent theory.One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so flood-prone that neighbors laughed.I felt chagrined at the wasted effort.Summer turned brutal---the worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime.The air-conditioned died;the well went dry;the marriage ended;the job lost;the money gone.I was living lyrics from a country tune---music I loathed.Only a surging Kansas City Royals team buoyed my spirits.Looking back on that horrible summer, I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the bad.Worse than normal wouldn‟t last long.I am owed and savor the halcyon times.The reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that can thrive.The 50-percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals‟ recent slump, a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest.For that on blistering summer, the ground moisture was just right, planting early allowed pollination before heat withered the tops, and the lack of rain spared the standing corn from floods.That winter my crib overflowed with corn---fat, healthy three-to-a-stalk ears filled with kernels from heel to tip---while my neighbors‟ fields yielded only brown, empty husks.Although plantings past may have fallen below the 50-percent expectation, and they probably will again in the future, I am still sustained by the crop that flourishes during the drought.·第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？
What is Your Recovery Rate?
What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best.In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise.Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be.The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople.They know that the faster they can forget an incident or missd opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance.In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overcome and forget an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long!
Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage.Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability.You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a ful stop.Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it.Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability.Don‟t live your life in the past!Learn to live in the present, to overcome the past.Stop the past from influencing your daily life.Don‟t allow thoughts of the past to reduce your personal best.Stop the past from interfering with your life.Learn to recover quickly.Remember: Rome wasn‟t built in a day.Reflect on your recovery rate each day.Every day before you go to bed, look at your progress.Don‟t lie in bed saying to you, “I did that wrong.” “I should have done better there.” No.look at your day and note when you made an effort to place a full stop after an incident.This is a success.You are taking control of your life.Remember this is a step by step process.This is not a make-over.You are undertaking real change here.Your aim: reduce the time spent in recovery.The way forward?
Live in the present.Not in the precedent.·第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间
Clear Your Mental Space
Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion---like stress, anger, or frustration.What was going through your mind as you were going through that negativity? Was your mind cluttered with thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think?
The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, stop.Yes, that‟s right, stop.Whatever you‟re doing, stop and sit for one minute.While you‟re sitting there, completely immerse yourself in the negative emotion.Allow that emotion to consume you.Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion.Don‟t cheat yourself here.Take the entire minute---but only one minute---to do nothing else but feel that emotion.When the minute is over, ask yourself, “Am I wiling to keep holding on to this negative emotion as I go through the rest of the day?”
Once you‟ve allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really fell it, you will be surprised to find that the emotion clears rather quickly.If you feel you need to hold on to the emotion for a little longer, that is OK.Allow yourself another minute to feel the emotion.When you feel you‟ve had enough of the emotion, ask yourself if you‟re willing to carry that negativity with you for the rest of the day.If not, take a deep breath.As you exhale, release all that negativity with your breath.This exercise seems simple---almost too simple.But, it is very effective.By allowing that negative emotion the space to be truly felt, you are dealing with the emotion rather than stuffing it down and trying not to feel it.You are actually taking away the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs.When you immerse yourself in the emotion, and realize that it is only emotion, it loses its control.You can clear your head and proceed with your task.Try it.Next time you‟re in the middle of a negative emotion, give yourself the space to feel the emotion and see what happens.Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:
Stop.Immerse for one minute.Do I want to keep this negativity? Breath deep, exhale, release.Move on!
This will remind you of the steps to the process.Remember;take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion.Then, when you feel you‟ve felt it enough, release it---really let go of it.You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do!11
·第十三篇：Be Happy 快乐
Be Happy!
“The days that make us happy make us wise.”----John Masefield
when I first read this line by England‟s Poet Laureate, it startled me.What did Masefield mean? Without thinking about it much, I had always assumed that the opposite was true.But his sober assurance was arresting.I could not forget it.Finally, I seemed to grasp his meaning and realized that here was a profound observation.The wisdom that happiness makes possible lies in clear perception, not fogged by anxiety nor dimmed by despair and boredom, and without the blind spots caused by fear.Active happiness---not mere satisfaction or contentment---often comes suddenly, like an April shower or the unfolding of a bud.Then you discover what kind of wisdom has accompanied it.The grass is greener;bird songs are sweeter;the shortcomings of your friends are more understandable and more forgivable.Happiness is like a pair of eyeglasses correcting your spiritual vision.Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you.Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall.Happy, the wall crumbles.The long vista is there for the seeing.The ground at your feet, the world about you----people, thoughts, emotions, pressures---are now fitted into the larger scene.Everything assumes a fairer proportion.And here is the beginning of wisdom.12
·第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好
The Goodness of Life
Though there is much to be concerned about, there is far, far more for which to be thankful.Though life‟s goodness can at times be overshadowed, it is never outweighed.For every single act that is senselessly destructive, there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love, kindness and compassion.For every person who seeks to hurt, there are many, many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing.There is goodness to life that cannot be denied.In the most magnificent vistas and in the smallest details, look closely, for that goodness always comes shining through.There is no limit to the goodness of life.It grows more abundant with each new encounter.The more you experience and appreciate the goodness of life, the more there is to be lived.Even when the cold winds blow and the world seems to be covered in foggy shadows, the goodness of life lives on.Open your eyes, open your heart, and you will see that goodness is everywhere.Though the goodness of life seems at times to suffer setbacks, it always endures.For in the darkest moment it becomes vividly clear that life is a priceless treasure.And so the goodness of life is made even stronger by the very things that would oppose it.Time and time again when you feared it was gone forever you found that the goodness of life was really only a moment away.Around the next corner, inside every moment, the goodness of life is there to surprise and delight you.Take a moment to let the goodness of life touch your spirit and calm your thoughts.Then, share your good fortune with another.For the goodness of life grows more and more magnificent each time it is given away.Though the problems constantly scream for attention and the conflicts appear to rage ever stronger, the goodness of life grows stronger still, quietly, peacefully, with more purpose and meaning than ever before.13
·第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人
Facing the Enemies Within
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you‟ve read in the papers.Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o‟clock in the morning.But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won‟t need to live in fear of it.Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions.Fear can destroy fortunes.Fear can destroy relationships.Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives.Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.Let me tell you about five of the other enemies we face from within.The first enemy that you‟ve got to destroy before it destroys you is indifference.What a tragic disease this is!“Ho-hum, let it slide.I‟ll just drift along.” Here‟s one problem with drifting: you can‟t drift your way to the top of the mountain.The second enemy we face is indecision.Indecision is the thief of opportunity and enterprise.It will steal your chances for a better future.Take a sword to this enemy.The third enemy inside is doubt.Sure, there‟s room for healthy skepticism.You can‟t believe everything.But you also can‟t let doubt take over.Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities and doubt the opportunities.Worse of all, they doubt themselves.I‟m telling you, doubt will destroy your life and your chances of success.It will empty both your bank account and your heart.Doubt is an enemy.Go after it.Get rid of it.The fourth enemy within is worry.We‟ve all got to worry some.Just don‟t let conquer you.Instead, let it alarm you.Worry can be useful.If you step off the curb in New York City and a taxi is coming, you‟ve got to worry.But you can‟t let worry loose like a mad dog that drives you into a small corner.Here‟s what you‟ve got to do with your worries: drive them into a small corner.Whatever is out to get you, you‟ve got to get it.Whatever is pushing on you, you‟ve got to push back.The fifth interior enemy is overcaution.It is the timid approach to life.Timidity is not a virtue;it‟s an illness.If you let it go, it‟ll conquer you.Timid people don‟t get promoted.They don‟t advance and grow and become powerful in the marketplace.You‟ve got to avoid overcaution.Do battle with the enemy.Do battle with your fears.Build your courage to fight what‟s holding you back, what‟s keeping you from your goals and dreams.Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.·第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式
Abundance is a Life Style
Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life.It isn‟t something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.Abundance is a philosophy;it appears in your physiology, your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs.You walk with it, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well.Abundance doesn‟t always require money.Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside.Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients, like love, care, kindness and gentleness, thoughtfulness and compassion.Abundance is a state of being.It radiates outward.It shines like the sun among the many moons in the world.Being from the brightness of abundance doesn‟t allow the darkness to appear or be in the path unless a choice to allow it to.The true state of abundance doesn‟t have room for lies or games normally played.The space is too full of abundance.This may be a challenge because we still need to shine for other to see.Abundance is seeing people for their gifts and not what they lack or could be.Seeing all things for their gifts and not what they lack.Start by knowing what your abundances are, fill that space with you, and be fully present from that state of being.Your profession of choice is telling you of knowing and possibilities.That is their gift.Consultants and customer service professionals have the ministrative assistants and virtual assistants have an abundance of coordination and time management.Abundance is all around you, and all within.See what it is;love yourself for what it is, not what you‟re missing, or what that can be better, but for what it is at this present moment.Be in a state of abundance of what you already have.I guarantee they are there;it always is buried but there.Breathe them in as if they are the air you breathe because they are yours.Let go of anything that isn‟t abundant for the time being.Name the shoe boxes in your closet with your gifts of abundance;pull from them every morning if needed.Know they are there.Learning to trust in your own abundance is required.When you begin to be within your own space of abundance, whatever you need will appear whenever you need it.That‟s just the way the higher powers set this universe up to work.Trust the universal energy.The knowing of it all will humble you to its power yet let the brightness of you shine everywhere it needs to.Just by being from a state of abundance, it is being you.15
·第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如诗
Human Life a Poem
I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem.It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay.It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward adolescence trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society, with its young passions and follies, its ideals and ambitions;then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature;at middle age, there is a slight easing of tension, a mellowing of character like the ripening of fruit or the mellowing of good wine, and the gradual acquiring of a more tolerant, more cynical and at the same time a kindlier view of life;then In the sunset of our life, the endocrine glands decrease their activity, and if we have a true philosophy of old age and have ordered our life pattern according to it, it is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and contentment;finally, life flickers out and one goes into eternal sleep, never to wake up again.One should be able to sense the beauty of this rhythm of life, to appreciate, as we do in grand symphonies, its main theme, its strains of conflict and the final resolution.The movements of these cycles are very much the same in a normal life, but the music must be provided by the individual himself.In some souls, the discordant note becomes harsher and harsher and finally overwhelms or submerges the main melody.Sometimes the discordant note gains so much power that the music can no longer go on, and the individual shoots himself with a pistol or jump into a river.But that is because his original leitmotif has been hopelessly over-showed through the lack of a good self-education.Otherwise the normal human life runs to its normal end in kind of dignified movement and procession.There are sometimes in many of us too many staccatos or impetuosos, and because the tempo is wrong, the music is not pleasing to the ear;we might have more of the grand rhythm and majestic tempo o the Ganges, flowing slowly and eternally into the sea.No one can say that life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good that it is so.There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season.And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.Shakespeare has expressed this idea more graphically in his passage about the seven stages of life, and a good many Chinese writers have said about the same thing.It is curious that Shakespeare was never very religious, or very much concerned with religion.I think this was his greatness;he took human life largely as it was, and intruded himself as little upon the general scheme of things as he did upon the characters of his plays.Shakespeare was like Nature itself, and that is the greatest compliment we can pay to a writer or thinker.He merely lived, observed life and went away.·第十八篇：Solitude 独处
Solitude
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.I love to be alone.I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed;but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can :see the folks,:” and recreate, and, as he thinks, remunerate himself for his day‟s solitude;and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and :the blues:;but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.Society is commonly too cheap.We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war.We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night;we live thick and are in each other‟s way, and stumble over one another, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications.Consider the girls in a factory---never alone, hardly in their dreams.It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.I have a great deal of company in my house;especially in the morning, when nobody calls.Let me suggest a few comparisons, that some one may convey an idea of my situation.I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.What company has that lonely lake, I pray?
And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun.god is alone---but the devil, he is far from being alone;he sees a great deal of company;he is legion.I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.17
·第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义
Giving Life Meaning
Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you‟re gone? Can you hear the voice saying, “He was a great man.” Or “She really will be missed.” What else do they say?
One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work that will last long after death.Isn‟t that a lot like investing all your money so that future generations can bare interest on it? Perhaps, yet if you look deep in your own heart, you‟ll find something drives you to make this kind of contribution---something drives every human being to find a purpose that lives on after death.Do you hope to memorialize your name? Have a name that is whispered with reverent awe? Do you hope to have your face carved upon 50 ft of granite rock? Is the answer really that simple? Is the purpose of lifetime contribution an ego-driven desire for a mortal being to have an immortal name or is it something more?
A child alive today will die tomorrow.A baby that had the potential to be the next Einstein will die from complication is at birth.The circumstances of life are not set in stone.We are not all meant to live life through to old age.We‟ve grown to perceive life3 as a full cycle with a certain number of years in between.If all of those years aren‟t lived out, it‟s a tragedy.A tragedy because a human‟s potential was never realized.A tragedy because a spark was snuffed out before it ever became a flame.By virtue of inhabiting a body we accept these risks.We expose our mortal flesh to the laws of the physical environment around us.The trade off isn‟t so bad when you think about it.The problem comes when we construct mortal fantasies of what life should be like.When life doesn‟t conform to our fantasy we grow upset, frustrated, or depressed.We are alive;let us live.We have the ability to experience;let us experience.We have the ability to learn;let us learn.The meaning of life can be grasped in a moment.A moment so brief it often evades our perception.What meaning stands behind the dramatic unfolding of life? What single truth can we grasp and hang onto for dear life when all other truths around us seem to fade with time?
These moments are strung together in a series we call events.These events are strung together in a series we call life.When we seize the moment and bend it according to our will, a will driven by the spirit deep inside us, then we have discovered the meaning of life, a meaning for us that shall go on long after we depart this Earth.18
·第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位现在Relish the Moment
Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision.We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the moment.We are traveling by train.Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn ad wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.But uppermost in our minds is the final destination.On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station.Bands will be playing and flags waving.Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle.How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering---waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.“When we reach the station, that will be it!” we cry.“When I‟m 18.” “When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!” “When I put the last kid through college.” “When I have paid off the mortgage!” “When I get a promotion.” “When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after!”
Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all.The true joy of life is the trip.The station is only a dream.It constantly outdistances us.It isn‟t the burdens of today that drive men mad.It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles.Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less.Life must be lived as we go along.The station will come soon enough.·第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 爱美
The Love of Beauty
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature.It is a moral quality.The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart.In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained.Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence.The universe is its temple.It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring.It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass.It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea.It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone.And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun---all overflow with beauty.This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature.There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration.The power to appreciated beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness---it enlarges our moral nature, too.Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares.Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish.Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away.The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.20
·第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快乐之门
The Happy door
Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circle of ripples.As Stevenson has said, being happy is a duty.There is no exact definition of the word happiness.Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.The key is not wealth or physical well-being, since we find beggars, invalids and so-called failures, who are extremely happy.Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend.But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character.It is not selfish to strive for it.It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.Being unhappy is like an infectious disease.It causes people to shrink away from the sufferer.He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered.There is, however, a cure so simple as to seem, at first glance, ridiculous;if you don‟t feel happy, pretend to be!
It works.Before long you will find that instead of repelling people, you attract them.You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.Then the make-believe becomes a reality.You possess the secret of peace of mind, and can forget yourself in being of service to others.Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit, opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with grateful friends.21
·第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而为赢
Born to Win
Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before.Each is born with the capacity to win at life.Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking.Each has his or her own unique potentials---capabilities and limitations.Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being---a productive person, a winner.The word “winner” and “loser” have many meanings.When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who makes someone else lose.To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.Winners do not dedicated their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be;rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence and manipulating others.They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable.Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge.They can separate facts from opinions and don‟t pretend to have all the answers.They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions.Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.Winners do not play “helpless”, nor do they play the blaming game.Instead, they assume responsibility for their own lives.They don‟t give others a false authority over them.Winners are their own bosses and know it.A winner‟s timing is right.Winners respond appropriately to the situation.Their responses are related to the message sent and preserve the significance, worth, well-being, and dignity of the people involved.Winners know that for everything there is a season and for every activity a time.Although winners can freely enjoy themselves, they can also postpone enjoyment, can discipline themselves in the present to enhance their enjoyment in the future.Winners are not afraid to go after what he wants, but they do so in proper ways.Winners do not get their security by controlling others.They do not set themselves up to lose.A winner cares about the world and its peoples.A winner is not isolated from the general problems of society, but is concerned, compassionate, and committed to improving the quality of life.Even in the face of national and international adversity, a winner‟s self-image is not one of a powerless individual.A winner works to make the world a better place.22
·第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐
Work and Pleasure
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort.A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief.It is no use doing what you like;you have got to like what you do.Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week‟s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon.It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure;and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.Of these the former are the majority.They have their compensations.The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.But Fortune‟s favored children belong to the second class.Their life is a natural harmony.For them the working hours are never long enough.Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation.Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential.Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.23
·第二十五篇：Mirror, Mirror--What do I see镜子,镜子,告诉我Mirror, Mirror---What do I See?
A loving person lives in a loving world.A hostile person lives in a hostile world.Everyone you meet is your mirror.Mirrors have a very particular function.They reflect the image in front of them.Just as a physical mirror serves as the vehicle to reflection, so do all of the people in our lives.When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden serves as a reflection.In order to see the beauty in front of us, we must be able to see the beauty inside of ourselves.When we love someone, it‟s a reflection of loving ourselves.When we love someone, it‟s a reflection of loving ourselves.We have often heard things like “I love how I am when I‟m with that person.” That simply translates into “I‟m able to love me when I love that other person.” Oftentimes, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we “click”.Sometimes it‟s as if we‟ve known each other for a long time.That feeling can come from sharing similarities.Just as the “mirror” or other person can be a positive reflection, it is more likely that we‟ll notice it when it has a negative connotation.For example, it‟s easy to remember times when we have met someone we‟re not particularly crazy about.We may have some criticism in our mind about the person.This is especially true when we get to know someone with whom we would rather spend less time.Frequently, when we dislike qualities in other people, ironically, it‟s usually the mirror that‟s speaking to us.I began questioning myself further each time I encountered someone that I didn‟t particularly like.Each time, I asked myself, “What is it about that person that I don‟t like?” and then “Is there something similar in me?” in every instance, I could see a piece of that quality in me, and sometimes I had to really get very introspective.So what did that mean?
It means that just as I can get annoyed or disturbed when I notice that aspect in someone else, I better reexamine my qualities and consider making some changes.Even if I‟m not willing to make a drastic change, at least I consider how I might modify some of the things that I‟m doing.At times we meet someone new and feel distant, disconnected, or disgusted.Although we don‟t want to believe it, and it‟s not easy or desirable to look further, it can be a great learning lesson to figure out what part of the person is being reflected in you.It‟s simply just another way to create more self-awareness.24
·第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁
On Motes and Beams
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others.I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others.We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them, find it easy to condone them.For all I know we are right to do this;they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie;but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?
There is not much to choose between men.They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same.For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity.The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others.It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.25
·第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出
An October Sunrise
I was up the next morning be fore the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland.The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it peeping down the spread of light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of grey mountain and wavering length of upland.Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped, and crept to crept to the hollow places;then stole away in line and column, holding skirts, and clinging subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung over grassland, while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests.Autumn‟s mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father.Yet before the floating impress of the woods could clear it self, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose;according to the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around;yet all alike dispelling fear and the cloven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, “God is here!” then life and joy sprang reassured from every crouching hollow;every flower, and bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them;and all the flashing of God‟s gaze merged into soft beneficence.So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great unvintaged ocean;but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father‟s countenance, because itself is risen.26
·第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭
To be or not to be Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman.To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely.A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally.He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore am.”
But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive.To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations.Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine.But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent.So far as other things are concerned--poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a new accomplishment--you increase your power of life.No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy;the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend.But we gain new life by contacts, new friends.What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive.Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also.If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life.But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China~ if you‟re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.Let widen and intensify our relations.While we live, let live!27
·第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说
Gettysburg Address
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.We are met on a great battlefield of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom;and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.28
·第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts)就职演讲（节选）
First Inaugural Address
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning;signifying renewal, as well as change.For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.in your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty.The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.Now the trumpet summons us again, not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need;not as a call to battle, though embattled we are;but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope;patient in tribulation”, a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
7.英语美文truelove 篇七
1 融英美文学教学与大学英语教学为一体
本文首先以《新视野大学英语读写教程》(以下简称《新视野》)第一册第七单元《在手枪胁迫之下》(Face to Face with Guns,Section A)为例,对怎样在讲解教材过程中融入英美文学知识略加剖析。这篇课文主要讲述了下面的内容:在某一天的晚上,作者被两个带武器的年轻人抢劫,然后第二天去警察局辨认犯罪者的照片,一张张的翻看那些年轻犯罪者的照片,作者非常痛心。在课文第32段,作者写到了这样一句话,
Turning those pages and studying their photographs is like flowing on a sad current that,like Blake's Thames,seems to“mark in every face,marks of weakness,marks of woe.”
一张张翻看并研读这些照片,仿佛漂流在一条令人伤心的河流上,就像身处英国诗人布莱克笔下的泰晤士河畔,似乎“看见每个人都有一张衰弱、痛苦的脸”。
此句“看见每个人都有一张衰弱、痛苦的脸”摘引威廉·布莱克诗歌《伦敦》,如果对威廉·布莱克,以及其作品《伦敦》不了解,就很难体会此句的真正含义。
下面就简要地介绍一下威廉·布莱克及其作品《伦敦》。威廉·布莱克(William Blake,1757-1827),英国诗人,英国浪漫主义运动的先驱,主要诗作有诗集《天真之歌》、《经验之歌》等。《伦敦》出自《经验之歌》,其部分内容及译作如下:I wander thro'each charter'd street/Near where the charter'd Thames does flow/And mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness,marks of woe/In every cry of every man/In every Infant's cry of fear/In every voice,in every ban/The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.(我走过每条独占的街道/徘徊在独占的泰晤士河边/我看见每个过往的行人/有一张衰弱、痛苦的脸/每个人的每声呼喊/每个婴孩害怕的号叫/每句话,每条禁令/都响着心灵铸成的镣铐)。布莱克在诗中以犀利的笔触深刻地揭示了英国劳动人民的苦难生活,淋漓尽致地抒发了他对英国政府以及教会的强烈憎恨。课文中作者引用《伦敦》中这句话“看见每个人都有一张衰弱、痛苦的脸”正是为了说明青少年犯罪者不仅给自己、家人、朋友带来了伤痛,也给受害人及其亲戚、朋友带来了无尽的悲痛。给学生介绍了布莱克及诗歌《伦敦》之后,笔者发现学生们对课文有了更深刻的理解。
接着我们以《新视野》第三册第七单元《玫瑰就是玫瑰》(A Rose Is a Rose,Section A)为例继续说明大学英语教学中融入英美文学知识的重要性。课文中有下面这样一段话,
"Red roses say'I love you',"says Gerald Hager……"It's going to remain the most popular flower because love never goes out of style."
Yes,a rose is a rose is a rose.
……“红玫瑰意味着‘我爱你’,”……杰拉尔德·黑格说。“红玫瑰将永远是最流行的花,因为爱情永不过时。”
是的,玫瑰就是玫瑰就是玫瑰……
有不少学生对这篇课文的标题“A Rose Is a Rose”的意思就不理解,更不用说课文第二段中“a rose is a rose is a rose”的意思了,甚至一些学生认为这个罗里啰嗦的句子有语法错误。其实“a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”(玫瑰就是玫瑰就是玫瑰就是玫瑰)这一看似怪诞可笑的诗句出自美国现代女作家哥特鲁德·斯泰因(Gertrude Stein)的《神圣的艾米莉》(Sacred Emily,1913)一诗。诗歌部分内容及译作如下:Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose/Loveliness extreme/Extra gaiters/Loveliness extreme/Sweetest ice-cream/Pages ages page ages page ages.(罗斯是一朵玫瑰是一朵玫瑰是一朵玫瑰/美丽无比/漂亮的长筒靴/美丽无比/最香甜的冰淇淋/记录着花季记录着花季记录着花季)。看完这首诗后,学生们会问,“a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”到底是什么意思,为什么斯泰因要创作这样一句话?这还是要从斯泰因以及其创作思想说起。斯泰因(1874-1946),后现代主义文学之母,在文学领域她挑战权威、颠覆传统、大胆实验,抛弃了传统的、霸权的、含义容易理解的模式,创立了自己特有的文学语言和形式。她写作最大的特点是重复、持续现在时和语言文字游戏。没完没了的重复使斯泰因的作品晦涩难懂。这首诗里“玫瑰”(rose)一词重复了4次,其他词汇也多有重复。然而正是在这看似随意的重复中,读者可以感受到诗人情感的加强和思路的流动,并从平面的文字中体会到一种立体效果。在她看来,用事物本身的名称来解释它就足以唤起读者对该事物本身的想象和情感了。
“玫瑰”的重复仅仅是为了加强“玫瑰”的这个概念。许多人把这句“rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”跟莎士比亚《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的一句话“a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”(玫瑰不管叫什么名字,依然芳香如故)相提并论。既然所有的人都十分熟悉玫瑰,那么在描绘玫瑰时,无须多余的形容,玫瑰之为玫瑰,正因为她是玫瑰,不论你怎么称呼她,她还是玫瑰。仅仅提起“玫瑰”这个词语就可以让读者脑海里浮现出玫瑰的样子。虽然斯泰因这句话深奥难懂,但经笔者的一番文学阐释之后,学生们渐渐领悟到了其中的哲理,最终我们不仅领悟到了语言的魅力,锻炼了自己的思辨能力,课堂气氛也自然而然地活跃起来。
最后我们以《新视野》第四册第五单元《有意选择独处》(Choose to Be Alone on Purpose,Section A)来进一步探讨英美文学教学对大学英语教学的促进作用。课文讲述了独处所带来的很多好处,比如可以给诗人和哲学家带来灵感,可以培养自我意识,而且有很多与合作不同的乐趣。为了证明独处的好处,作者提到了一些作家的独处生活,例如亨利·戴维·梭罗(Henry David Thoreau),威廉·华兹华斯(William Wordsworth)等。学生们对这些作家懂得不多,尤其是对他们的思想知之甚少,结果还是不太懂这些人为什么独处。
课文第四段写到华兹华斯每天走进早春的阳光去独自对花沉思,并发出对独处的感叹,“独处是多么悠闲,美妙!”(How graceful,how benign,is solitude!)。为了佐证华兹华斯的“独处是多么优闲,美妙!”的人生态度,笔者介绍了他的一首名诗《我孤独地漫游,像一朵云》(I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,1804),诗的部分内容如下:I Wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o'er vales and hills/When all at once I saw a crowd/A host,of golden daffodils/Beside the lake,beneath the trees/Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.(我孤独地漫游,像一朵云/在山丘和谷地上飘荡/忽然间我看见一群/金色的水仙花迎春开放/在树荫下,在湖水边/迎着微风起舞翩翩)。这首诗是华兹华斯独处心态的写照,从中可以体会到独处所带来的悠闲、美妙之处。对这首诗的讲解不仅有助于学生对课文的理解,也能够陶冶学生的情操,培养其审美情趣。
课文第九段写到梭罗对独处的看法“我发现没有任何同伴比独处更好”(I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude)。这句话大多数学生理解不了,更别说翻译了,但老师在讲解时却不能只是停留在语言的表层上,可以谈一些学生们都感兴趣的东西。鉴于此,笔者就介绍了学生们不太熟悉但有趣的梭罗在瓦尔登湖的生活体验。亨利·戴维·梭罗(1817-1862),散文家,诗人,哲学家,其代表作《瓦尔登湖》是一本清新、健康、引人向上的书,它向世人揭示了作者在回归自然的生活体验中所发现的人生真谛,其实课文中那句话出自《瓦尔登湖》。哈佛大学毕业后,梭罗没有选择经商发财或者从政成为明星,而是平静地选择了瓦尔登湖,孤身一人在湖畔建造了一个小木屋,在小木屋住了两年零两个月又两天的时间。在此期间,他没有学习任何职业;他没有结过婚;他从来不去教堂;他从来不选举;他拒绝向政府纳税;他不吃肉,他不喝酒,他从来没吸过烟;他从来不使用猎枪。
原始、平淡的自然生活适宜人们在其中进行观察、倾听、感受、沉思,并且梦想。梭罗在瓦尔登湖畔追求孤独,孤独催生了他的深刻思想。梭罗落落寡合,喜欢孤身独处,如果仅仅是这种认为,也许是对他的曲解。梭罗在瓦尔登湖边的山林中居住,不是避世,他反对过美国的奴隶制度,反对过美国对墨西哥的侵略,他倡导过“公民的不服从”的思想,单这些就可看出他也是积极地走向人生的。
笔者在对梭罗瓦尔登湖的生活体验大概介绍之后,学生们不仅拓展了视野,也对生活有了新的认识。进而笔者给学生们提出了这样的问题,“如何看待独处,独处的利弊是什么,什么样的独处生活才是积极的?”听完他们的回答后,发现让学生对作家的思想以及作品中的复杂的深刻的问题进行思考,是一个很好的促进学生思考,培养学生人文关怀的途径。
2 结束语
在《新视野》教学实践中,我们逐渐领悟到,英美文学知识融入是外语教学中不可或缺的一部分。在教学中教师把文学知识融汇到外语教学中,不仅能为学生展现出一幅多姿多彩的文化世界,使外语教学生动有趣,更能加深学生对课文的理解,提高其语言基本技能,拓宽其文化视野,陶冶其高尚的审美情趣和人文关怀,最终不断提升其综合素质。
摘要：英美文学教学与大学英语教学并不矛盾,二者相辅相成。拟以《新视野大学英语读写教程》中的三篇课文为例,结合亲身教学实践,浅析大学英语教学中融入英美文学教学的积极作用:加深学生对课文的理解,拓宽其文化视野,陶冶其情操,最终不断提升其综合素质。
关键词：大学英语教学,英美文学教学,《新视野大学英语读写教程》
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8.英语美文truelove 篇八
【关键词】感恩 纠错 合作 谦虚 坚持 付出 健康的心态
2010年 “断臂钢琴师”刘伟以坚毅的精神和出色的琴技打动观众，当选首届“中国达人秀”冠军。2010年，澳大利亚畅销书之一是尼克·胡哲的《Live life without limits》， 尼克出生于1982年，天生没有四肢，但勇于面对身体残障，创造了生命奇迹。他们外在看起来“不完整”，但他们内在是完整的、强健的。反观我们教室里的孩子，虽然外在完整，但内在却支离破碎。苦恼、不满及没有成就感是他们的生活特征。作为老师，我们的目标就是让这些人重新获得力量，培养他们健康的心态。
如何更好的培养学生健康的心态呢？苏霍姆林斯基说：“学生的发展取决于良好的阅读能力。”阅读就是健康心态的水分和阳光。为了培养学生做人方面的阳光心态和做事方面的积极心态，我引导学生通过阅读英语美文来实现。
一、培养学生感恩的心态
羊有跪乳之恩，鸟有反哺之意。一个学生只有去体会父母 “三春晖”，感恩之心油然而生，才会努力拼搏来报答亲人的心态。我在课堂上引导学生阅读并背诵下面这些诗：《When you came into the world》、《Being Thankful》、《A dream that never gets old》不老的梦——“历史是大命运，人民是爹娘。不老的梦是有缘孝敬百姓，让有限的生命无限阳光。”
因为这些诗短小简单，学生很快就激情昂扬的背出来了。 然后我又引导他们阅读名人感恩的故事和小说《野性的呼唤》（The Call of the Wild）等，学生很感动地阅读并做笔记。这样潜移默化地培养了他们感恩的心态，激励他们的斗志。
二、培养学生纠错的心态
我们很多学生对父母老师的善意指正很反感，他们认为老师父母不理解她们，只有朋友理解他们，在校外结交一些不好的朋友，直到酿成大错后才后悔。我常说“聪明人受到表扬不要笑，挨了批评不要跳”，“不为别人的批评不快”，要明白“从来没有人去踢一只死狗”。为了培养学生谦虚纠错的心态，我引导学生读Aesop's Fables，如《A Lesson for fools》，《A crow and a fox》，《The cat's paw》等。学生开始意识到自己的错误。
三、培养学生合作的心态
现在大多独生子女，都以自我为中心，稍微不顺他意，就不与其他同学合作。为此，我引导学生读《严寒中的豪猪》《Porcupines in the cold》。故事讲了“最为寒冷的冬天来临，豪猪们决定挤在一起互相取暖，但豪猪身上的刺却刺伤了同伴，她们决定隔开。可是豪猪们一只只孤独的冻死了。最终她们明智决定再次聚在一起。”尽管身上的刺会刺伤同伴，But this way they learned to live with the little wounds that were cause by the close relationship with their companions， but the most important part of it was the heat that came from the others that enabled them to survive the coldest winter ever.（豪猪们学会了忍受因与同伴密切相处而产生的小小伤害，但最重要的是，她们互相给予温暖，从而在最寒冷的冬天幸免于难）。
学生们读完这个故事，心灵很受触动，“茅塞顿开”。牙齿舌头也有打架的时候，何况和个性不同的同学呢，从此她们合作学习，共同进步。
四、培养学生谦虚的心态
雷锋： 青春啊，永远是美好的，可是真正的青春，只属于那些永远力争上游的人，永远忘我劳动的人，永远谦虚的人！Because of Leifeng`s amazing attitude， he was so humbled，we Chinese learned from him。我也引导学生读《富兰克林自传》Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin， 富兰克林是资本主义精神最完美的代表，他说“谦虚、诚实和勤勉，应该成为你永久的伴侣。”真正的谦虚，为一切美德之母。最谦虚的人，是最有出息的人。学生和我共同阅读这些类似的书，觉得很是受益。
五、培养学生坚持的心态
平时英语课内外，我经常鼓励学生，keep going it. Don`t give up. You can do it. 我引导学生阅读《Jason's Trump》詹森的胜利和《Forrest Gump》阿甘正传，他们两一出生很不幸，people always think this kind of person can't be successful in doing anything. But， instead， this unlucky man has achieved lots of incredible success， he is a football star， a war hero， and later a millionaire。从这些人物故事和我们班这次单词竞赛总成绩可以说明，坚持才有胜利。
六、培养学生付出的心态
付出的心态是最高境界，丘吉尔在国家危急存亡之际挺身而出，他演讲时说：我唯一能奉献的就是热血、辛劳、汗水和泪水—— I have nothing to offer but blood， toil， tears and sweat…
我常让学生们记住：一个人真正的财富是不能用有多少豪宅、名车、名牌商品来衡量的，真正的价值其实在于我们做事的结果，以及我们能影响的人。通常说，我们能够积极影响的人越多，付出越多，我们就越富有。（Try to remember that while we all pursue a life of luxury， a person`s true wealth is not measured by how many mansions， cars， or name brands we own . It is measured by the results of the things we do， and the number of people that we influence. Usually the more people that we positive influence， the wealthier we become.）
让学生明白“一粥一粒当思来之不易”，“吃别人种的粮食，穿别人缝的衣服，住别人造的房子，我的精神和物质生活都依靠别人的劳动。我必须以同样的分量来报偿我所领受着的东西。”让学生树立正确的人生观和价值观。在享受的时候要多想想我能为别人做些什么，要有一种奉献精神和付出的心态。
通过大量阅读英语美文，通过那些经典的英语人物故事并结合学生自身经历，学生们懂得，“人，一撇一捺，要相互支撑; 人，一撇一捺; 要两脚踏地，积极向上; 这才是大写的人”。Somebody had to do something（总得有人做些什么），社会才会不断进步。人活着，要有一种激情、一种奋进、一种热爱生命的态度，这才是一颗强有力的健康的心态。
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