英語美文短文欣賞（通用8篇）
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英語美文短文欣賞 篇1
I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be happy. Well, I thought we were. But the truth was that you had been 2)longing to leave me, not daring to tell me. On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely 3)conscious, you said: “Our story is ending.”
The rain was killing the last days of summer. You had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago. I still don’t think I’m gonna make it through another love story. You took it all away from me. And there I stand, I knew I was going to be the one left behind. But still I’m watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending.
我仍清晰地記得故事發生的時候。秋葉翻飛，飄落一地。我們曾經孩子般戲水暢遊過的小湖蓋滿落葉，在太陽下閃着光。那時我們幸福過。哦，我是這樣認為的。可事實上你早就想離開我，你只是不敢告訴我罷了。在那美麗的夜晚，眼望湖水，恍惚中聽見你説：我們的故事已到盡頭。
雨水扼殺着所剩無幾的夏日，而你很久以來也在扼殺我奄奄一息的愛。但我仍不認為自己會再去經歷另一段愛情故事。你把一切都帶走了。我只有悄然佇立，早已明白自己將會是那個被遺棄的人。而我依然凝望着湖水，恍惚中，我知道生命正離我而去。
英語美文短文欣賞 篇2
"I'm going to marry you one day." Beth said to her long time crush Jake. She wore her favorite blue teddy bear shirt. Her four-year-old blue eyes shined in the sun.
"No you're not, you're a girl." Jake said.
The California afternoon wind blew his light brown hair. Jumping off the monkey bars he laughed back to class.
Sitting alone and confused she didn't know what to do. Beth sat high on the monkey bars crying. How can her future husband just leave like that?
She was going to get him, but how? "I will not let him get away! I won't! I won't!"
15 years later:
"I love you, too, Jake." Hanging up the phone she caught her mom smiling. "What?"
"When is he coming in from France? He's been there for awhile." She sat down on her black leather couch. The house was made up of different Indian stuff. On the walls were different dream catchers. Her mother was a full blood Cherokee Indian. She passed away when Beth was eight.
"He has a lot of schooling to do right now. Maybe this Saturday."
Fixing her short overalls she thought of Jake. Who would have thought they were going to date when she turned five?
"Is he still living in Colorado?" Her mother Kay wore a white tank top with tan pants. And long blonde hair with pretty blue eyes. She was the most beautiful woman on Earth. And Beth is looking like her by the minute.
"Yeah, I hate having a long distance relationship." She plopped on a leather chair.
"It's ok baby, you know he loves you more than anything in this world. Love will keep you together."
Beth could not help but smile. Her mother is and will always be her best friend.
Jake sat in his hotel the school rented for him. School of law. He loved going overseas for everything. But he missed being with Beth. That hurt him the most.
Spending the lonely nights in the hotel made him think of how much it would hurt to spend the rest of his life without her in it.
Getting up off his bed he went into the bathroom. Watching his reflection in the mirror, all he could think about was Beth. He would leave Thursday, and get there Friday night.
Turning off the light he jumped into the cold bed. On a coffee table near his bed rested a frame with them in it. It was taken at a beach about two years ago. It was the best time of their lives.
It was Thursday morning and Beth waited for Jake's morning phone call. He would call at eight — it was ten.
Beth got out of bed and got her favorite blue tank top. She took off her shirt and screamed at the top of her lungs.
"What? What?" Her mother came rushing into her room. Staring at her naked daughter she saw the lump of her breast. "Does it hurt?"
Beth could only say "No." Looking at the lump, she cried in pain.
"Let's get you to the doctor."
"Ok, let me get dressed."
Shutting the door behind her, the room became silent. Shaking she put on her shirt, and ran out into the living room.
"Mom, where are my blue shorts?"
"In the dresser, second drawer."
Finishing getting dressed she hopped into her car. Her red mustang drove like a baby.
They waited for the doctor to come in. Beth could not begin to think she had cancer. As her mind drifted off her cell phone rang.
"Hello?" Her heart skipped a beat, hoping it was Jake.
"Hey, how are you?" He asked out of breath.
"Could be better. Why didn't you call me this morning?"
"Sorry, school got ahold of me today."
"Why are you out of breath?" Looking stunned she stared at her mother.
"I'm so sorry, he'll call back." Her mother gave Beth a hug.
The doctor came in, and greeted his self. "Hello. I'm Kevin Baker." He smiled while examining her breast.
英語美文短文欣賞 篇3
Everyone has that period in which they find those who are close to them start to seem annoying .
每個人都會經歷這樣的時期：發現身邊那些親近的人開始變得有點煩了。
You suddenly realized that they've always been talking and talking.
你會突然意識到，長久以來他們就一直不停地在説啊説。
They never stopped.
他們從來就沒有停過。
Some of us get angry with them, thinking they are trying too hard to intervene in our lives.
我們中的有些人，會開始變得憤怒，覺得他們對我們的生活介入太多。
But don't.
但是，請不要憤怒。
Only those who really care about you will bother saying so much to you.
只有那些真正關心我們的人才會費勁對我們説這麼多。
It's just that maybe they don't know the right way to put it.
只是，他們可能並不知道正確的相處辦法。
Some of them push too hard because they care too much.
他們中有些人逼得太緊，那是因為他們太在乎。
Some of them speak too much because they worry about you too much.
他們中的有些人説得太多，那是因為他們太擔心你。
They do this because they love you.
他們這麼做，都是因為愛你。
So don't push them away.
所以，不要將他們拒於千里之外。
Just find a way to let them know what you truly want.
去找一個辦法告訴他們你真的想要的是什麼吧。
And let them grow with you.
並且去讓他們和你一起成長。
That will make both of you happy.
那會讓你們雙方都過得幸福。
Believe me.
相信我。
英語美文短文欣賞 篇4
A person's purest charm comes from his manners.
一個人最根本的魅力，來自他的修養。
This kind of charm doesn't need any decoration. It comes out of your heart and reaches directly into others' hearts.
這種魅力不需要任何外在的修飾，它發源於內心，也直抵其他人的心。
Spending time with someone who has good manners makes one feel comfortable.
與一個有教養的人相處，會讓人覺得舒服。
And isn't comfort what we want the most in our daily life?
而舒服難道不是我們在生活中最想得到的東西嗎？
People like this know how to stand in others' shoes. They know when they should reach out a helping hand.
這樣的人，知道怎樣站在別人的角度想問題，知道什麼時候應該伸出援手。
And what is the most basic manner that one can have?
而一個人最基本的修養是什麼？
It's knowing to respect people.
那就是懂得尊重。
No one can survive in this world all by himself. We all need help sometimes.
沒有誰能獨立地生活在這個世界上，我們總會在某些時候需要別人的幫忙。
And it takes respect to make others help you.
而讓別人幫忙的前提，就是尊重。
Respect is the most baseline manner.
尊重，是最基本的修養。
And manner is the last kind of charm which a person can afford to lose.
而修養，是最不可或缺的魅力。
英語美文短文欣賞 篇5
Dear son...
孩子…..
The day that you see me old and I am already not, have patience and try to understand me …
哪天你看到我日漸老去,身體也漸漸不行,請耐着性子試着瞭解我……
If I get dirty when eating… if I can not dress… have patience.
Remember the hours I spent teaching it to you.
如果我吃的髒兮兮,如果我不會穿衣服……
有耐性一點……
你記得我曾花多久時間教你這些事嗎?
If, when I speak to you, I repeat the same things thousand and one
times… do not interrupt me… listen to me
如果,當我一再重複述説
同樣的事情…不要打斷我,聽我説….
When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you get to sleep…
When I do not want to have a shower, neither shame me nor scold me…
你小時候,我必須一遍又一遍的讀着同樣的故事,直到你靜靜睡着……..
當我不想洗澡,不要羞辱我也不要責罵我……
Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented, in order that you wanted to bath…
When yousee my ignorance on new technologies… give me the necessary time and not look at me with your
mocking smile…
你記得小時後我曾編出多少理由,只為了哄你洗澡…..
當你看到我對新科技的無知,給我一點時間,不要掛着嘲弄的微笑看着我
I taught you how to do so many things… to eat good, to dress well… to confront life…
我曾教了你多少事情啊….如何好好的吃,好好的穿…
如何面對你的生命……
When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our
conversation… let me have the necessary time to remember… and if I cannot do it,
do not become nervous… as the most important thing is not my
conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me…
如果交談中我忽然失憶不知所云,給我一點時間回想…
如果我還是無能為力,
請不要緊張…..
對我而言重要的不是對話,而是能跟你在一起,和你的傾聽…..
If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well when I need
to and when not.
當我不想吃東西時,不要勉強我.
我清楚知道該什麼時候進食
When my tired legs do not allow me walk...
當我的腿不聽使喚….
… give me your hand… the same way I did when you gave your first steps.
扶我一把….
如同我曾扶着你踏出你人生的第一步….
And when someday I say to you that I do not want to live any more…
that I want to die… do not get angry… some day you will understand…
當哪天我告訴你不想再活下去了….請不要生氣….
總有一天你會了解…
Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived.
試着瞭解我已是風燭殘年,來日可數.
Some day you will discover that, despite my mistakes, I always wanted
the best thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you..
有一天你會發現,
即使我有許多過錯,我總是盡我所能要給你最好的…
當我靠近你時不要覺得感傷,生氣或無奈
You must not feel sad, angry or impotent for seeing me near you. You
must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when
you started living.
Help me to walk… help me to end my way with love and patience. I will
pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.
你要緊挨着我,如同我當初幫着你展開人生一樣的
瞭解我,幫我….
扶我一把,用愛跟耐心幫我走完人生…
我將用微笑和我始終不變無邊無際的愛來回報你
I love you son…
我愛你孩子
Your father
你的父親
英語美文短文欣賞 篇6
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.
譯文：
要想真正生活得幸福和平安，一個人至少應該有兩三種業餘愛好，而且必須是真正的愛好。到了晚年才開始説“我要培養這個或那個興趣”是毫無用處的，種這種嘗試只會增加精神上的重擔。在與自己日常工作無關的領域中，一個人可以獲得淵博的知識，但卻很難有所收益或得到放鬆。做自己喜歡的事是無益的，你得喜歡自己所做的.事。廣言之，人可以分為三個類別：勞累而死的人，憂慮而死的人和無聊而死的人。對於那些體力勞動者來説，一週辛苦的工作使他們精疾力竭，因此在週六下午給他們提供踢足球或者打棒球的機會是沒有意義的。對於政界人士，專業人士或者商人來説，他們已經為棘手的事務操勞或者煩惱了六天，因此在週末請他們為瑣事勞神同樣毫無意義。
或者可以這麼説，理智的，奮鬥的，有用的人可以分為兩類：對第一類人而言，工作就是工作，娛樂就是娛樂；對於第二類人而言，工作和娛樂是合二為一的。很大一部分人屬於前者。他們可以得到相應的補償。在辦公室或工廠里長時間的工作，不僅帶給他們維持生計的金錢，還帶給他們一種渴求娛樂的強烈慾望，哪怕這種娛樂消遣是以最簡單，最淳樸的方式進行的。而第二類人則是命運的寵兒。他們的生活自然而和諧。在他們看來，工作時間永遠不夠多，每天都是假期；而當正常的假日到來時，他們總會抱怨自己有趣的休假被強行中斷。然而，有一些東西對於這兩類人來説都十分必要，那就是變換一下視角，改變一下氣氛，嘗試做點不同的事情。事實上，那些把工作看作娛樂的人可能是需要以某種方式將工作不時地驅趕出自己的大腦。
英語美文短文欣賞 篇7
Someone once told me that never underestimate anyone who doesn't lose temper.
有人曾經對我説：永遠不要小看一個不發脾氣的人。
This kind of people usually possess great capacity.
這樣的人通常深不可測。
They can be really resourceful friends.
他們可以成為你長袖善舞的朋友。
And they can be really fierce enemies.
也可以成為你可怕的敵人。
Humans are emotional animals.
人類是一種感情動物。
It's our nature to have temper.
脾氣是我們的天性。
And it's totally natural to lose it when something or somebody irritates us.
而當有什麼激怒我們的時候，發脾氣也是完全自然的事情。
But there are people who don't.
但是，就是有些人能做到不發。
And that's a fearsome skill.
這真的是一種令人生畏的技能。
The more incompetent a person is, the easier he is to get angry.
一個人越是無能，就越是容易動怒。
The stronger a person is, the less you see him throw away his calmness.
而一個人越是強大，你就越少能看到他失控。
Can you hold your temper?
你能管住自己的脾氣嗎？
If you want to achieve great things. Practice to do so.
如果你希望做成大事，就練習這麼做吧。
英語美文短文欣賞 篇8
Who can say that their lives are not insignificant?
誰的生活不瑣碎呢？
Everyone's life is composed with one after another insignificant day.
我們的一生，都是由這一個個瑣碎的一天構成的。
Some people got their willpower abraded in this endless loop of days.
有的人在這日復一日的循環中被消磨了意志。
They think this is how things can only be like.
認為一切也就這樣了。
So they choose to reach a compromise and become mediocre. They become the background colors in others' eyes. They won't achieve anything great to be written down in history, nor can they bring any enjoyment to the people around them.
於是他們選擇與平庸妥協，成為別人眼中的背景顏色，不光不會在歷史上留下一筆偉績，甚至無法為身邊的人平添一抹色彩。
They are alive, but deep down in their hearts something important has died.
他們活着，但他們心中的一部分已經死了。
And there are another kind of people. They choose to live with dignity.
而另一些人，他們依舊選擇有尊嚴地活着。
A graceful lifestyle is not a show for others to watch. You live it because you deserve it. Through it, you are avoiding to become a victim of this cruel world.
優雅的生活方式並不是為別人做的表演，而是為了對得起自己，讓自己不會成為無情社會摧殘下的犧牲品。
This kind of people know how to find joy in simple things. They know how to make a common day safisticated and meaningful.
他們懂得如何去發掘單純事物中的喜悦，懂得如何將平凡的時光過得精緻而充實。
Life has denied them some beauty. But they build them with their own hands.
那份生活中缺失的美麗，他們靠自己的雙手創造了出來。
So which kind of these two are you? And which kind are you willing to be?
你的人生是哪種？你想過哪一種？
Have you find the answer?
你找到答案了嗎？
