優(yōu)秀英語美文欣賞

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　　英語美文欣賞(一)

　　My Favorite Fruit

　　我鐘愛的水果

　　In the first place it is a perennial—if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocer's shop. On the days when dessert is a name given to a handful of chocolates and a little preserved ginger, when macedoine de fruits is the title bestowed on two prunes and a piece of rhubarbs, then the orange, however sour, comes nobly to the rescue; and on those other days of plenty when cherries and strawberries and raspberries, and gooseberries riot together upon the table, the orange, sweeter than ever, is still there to hold its own. Bread and butter, beef and mutton, eggs and bacon, are not more necessary to an order existence than the orange.

　　首先，柑橘常年都有——即使不是在樹上，至少是在水果店里。有的時(shí)候，只用幾塊巧克力和一點(diǎn)蜜餞生姜充當(dāng)餐后的甜點(diǎn)，兩塊李子干加一片大黃便被冠以蔬果什錦美名時(shí)，這是仍帶酸味的柑橘便前來慷慨救駕;其他時(shí)候，水果豐盈，櫻桃、草莓、木莓、醋栗在餐桌上相互爭艷時(shí)，此時(shí)比往日更加甜美的柑橘依然能堅(jiān)守自己的'崗位。對于人們的日常生活，面包和黃油、牛肉和羊肉、雞蛋和咸肉，都未必像柑橘那樣不可或缺。

　　It is well that the commonest fruit should be also the best. Of the virtues of the orange I have not room fully to speak. It has properties of health giving, as that it cures influenza and establishes the complexion. It is clean, for whoever handles it on its way to your table, but handles its outer covering, its top coat, which is left in the hall. It is round, and forms an excellent substitute with the young for a cricket ball. The pip can be flicked at your enemies, and quite a small piece of peel makes a slide for an old gentleman.

　　很幸運(yùn)，這種最普遍的水果恰恰是最好的水果。論其優(yōu)點(diǎn)，難盡其詳。柑橘有益于健康，比如，可以治療流感，滋養(yǎng)皮膚。柑橘清潔干凈，不管是誰把它端上桌子，也只觸到它的表皮，亦即它的外衣，吃完后橘皮便被留在餐廳里。柑橘是圓的，給孩子當(dāng)板球玩是再好不過了。柑橘核可用來彈射你的敵人，一小片橘皮也能讓一個(gè)老者滑個(gè)趔趄。

　　But all this would count nothing had not the orange such delightful qualities of the taste. I dare not let myself go upon this subject. I am a slave to its sweetness. I grudge every marriage in that it means a fresh supply of orange blossom, the promise of so much golden fruit cut short. However, the world must go on....

　　但是，如若不是柑橘的味道甜美可口，上述的一切便都不足取。我真不敢縱談柑橘的美味。我為它的美味所傾倒。每當(dāng)有人結(jié)婚我便心生怨意，因?yàn)槟蔷鸵馕吨�一束鮮橘花——未來金黃果實(shí)的夭折。然而，人類總得繼續(xù)繁衍。

　　With the orange we do live year in and year out. That speaks well for the orange. The fact is that there is an honesty about the orange which appeals to all of us. If it is going to be bad—for the best of us are bad sometimes—it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside. How many a pear which presents a blooming face to the world is rotten at the core. How many an innocent-looking apple is harboring a worm in the bud. But the orange had no secret faults. Its outside is a mirror of its inside, and if you are quick you can tell the shop men so before he slips it into the bag.

　　我們年復(fù)一年地吃著柑橘生活，這就是對它有力的辯護(hù)。事實(shí)上，是柑橘誠實(shí)的品格吸引了我們。假如它要開始腐敗的話——因?yàn)槲覀冎�中的�?yōu)秀者有時(shí)也會腐敗的——它是從外表而不是從內(nèi)里開始的。有多少梨子在向世人展示其鮮嫩的容光時(shí)，內(nèi)里已經(jīng)腐爛。有多少看上去純美無瑕的蘋果，剛剛發(fā)芽就已經(jīng)包藏蛀蟲。而柑橘從不隱藏瑕疵。它的外表是它內(nèi)心的鏡子，那么，如果你反應(yīng)快，不等售貨員把它丟進(jìn)紙袋兒，你就能告訴他這是一個(gè)壞橘子。

　　英語美文欣賞(二)

　　Two Truths to Live by

　　人生的兩條真理

　　The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of Old put it this way:" A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.

　　生活的藝術(shù)是要懂得何時(shí)緊緊抓住，何時(shí)學(xué)會放棄。因?yàn)槿松�就是一對矛盾，它促使我們牢牢抓住人生的很多賜予，但同時(shí)又注定了我們對這些給予最終的放棄。老一輩猶太學(xué)者是這樣說的：人來到這個(gè)世界的時(shí)候拳頭是緊握的，而當(dāng)離開的時(shí)候，手卻是松開的。

　　Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God’s own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.

　　當(dāng)然，我們應(yīng)該僅僅抓住生活，因?yàn)樯�活是神奇的，是充滿著美的——上帝創(chuàng)造的大地的每一個(gè)空間都充斥著至美。我們都知道這點(diǎn)，但我們卻常常在回首往事之時(shí)才明白這個(gè)道理，然后突然意識到逝去的時(shí)光已經(jīng)一去不復(fù)返了。

　　We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.

　　我們追憶逝去的美麗，殘缺的'愛情，但是更令人痛心的回憶是當(dāng)繁花盛開之時(shí)錯過了欣賞它的美麗;當(dāng)愛情眷顧之時(shí)卻未能做出回應(yīng)。

　　This not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, ill, be ours.

　　學(xué)會(珍愛美好的事物)是不容易做到的。尤其是我們年輕時(shí)，認(rèn)為世界是由我們掌握的，只要我們自己滿腔熱情，全力以赴的去追求，我們想要的東西就能夠——不，是一定能夠得到。

　　But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us. At every stage of life we sustain losses—and grow in the process.And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.

　　隨著我們的成長，生活使我們不得不面對現(xiàn)實(shí)，而第二種真理逐漸被我們所感知，所理解。 在人生的每一個(gè)階段，我們都要承受損失，在這個(gè)過程中我們慢慢的長大. 最終，正如松手和握拳的比喻那樣：我們自己也得走向不可抗拒的死亡，失去了原有的自我，失去了以往的或夢想過的一切。

　　The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious--but we are too heedless of them.

　　我們在閱歷中所積累起來的洞察力就像我們的經(jīng)歷本身一樣的平凡生活的賜予是可貴的，可是我們卻常常忽視了它們的存在。

　　Here then is the first pile of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.

　　生命中有太多似非而是的矛盾，以下是第一種矛盾給我們的啟迪：不要過于忙碌而忽略領(lǐng)悟生命的神奇，失掉對生命的敬畏。在破曉時(shí)分懷抱虔誠心情迎接每一天，擁抱每一個(gè)時(shí)辰，把握好黃金般的每一分鐘。

　　Hold fast to life... but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.

　　緊緊抓住生命但是不要過于執(zhí)著而不懂得放手。這是生命之道的另一個(gè)層面，矛盾的另一極：我們必須接受失去，并且學(xué)會放棄。

　　英語美文欣賞(三)

　　The Four Freedoms

　　論四大自由

　　In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

　　在未來的日子里，我們將試圖尋求安寧穩(wěn)定，我們將期待在人類四項(xiàng)必不可少的自由的基礎(chǔ)之上建立一個(gè)新世界。

　　The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.

　　第一項(xiàng)自由，是在世界上的每一個(gè)地方，人人都享有言論自由。

　　The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.

　　第二項(xiàng)自由，是在世界上的每一個(gè)地方，每個(gè)人都有以自己的方式信奉上帝的自由。

　　The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.

　　第三項(xiàng)自由，是在世界上的任何地方脫離貧困的自由。從全球意義上說，就是達(dá)成經(jīng)濟(jì)上的相互理解，以確保任何一個(gè)國家的居民都可以過上健康與祥和的生活。

　　The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.

　　第四項(xiàng)自由，是在世界上的任何地方遠(yuǎn)離恐懼的自由。從全球意義上說，就是進(jìn)行世界范圍內(nèi)的徹底裁軍，從而使得任何一個(gè)國家都不會向其鄰國采取武力侵略行動。

　　That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

　　這并非對于遙遠(yuǎn)的太平盛世的幻想。在我們這個(gè)時(shí)代，我們這一代人有能力在這個(gè)確定的基礎(chǔ)之上建立一個(gè)新世界。這樣的世界，與那些獨(dú)裁者企圖用炸彈創(chuàng)造所謂的“新秩序”暴政截然對立。

　　To that new order we oppose the greater conception —the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

　　我們用一種更加偉大的觀念來對抗那種“新秩序”這就是道德觀念。一個(gè)良好的社會，能夠毫不畏懼地面對主宰世界和在別國發(fā)動叛亂的種種陰謀企圖。

　　Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change — in a perpetual peaceful revolution —a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions — without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries,working together in a friendly civilized society.

　　自從美國有史以來，我們就一直致力于變革，致力于長期不斷的和平革命，這場革命持續(xù)穩(wěn)定地進(jìn)行著，并冷靜地調(diào)整自身以適應(yīng)不斷變化的形勢。我們的.革命沒有集中營，也沒有萬人坑。我們所尋求的世界秩序，是自由國家彼此合作，是在友好文明的社會中攜手工作。

　　This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is in our unity of purpose.

　　我們這個(gè)國家已經(jīng)將其命運(yùn)放在千百萬自由的男男女女手中、頭腦中和心中，并將其自由的信念置于上帝的指引之下。自由意味著無論在何處，人權(quán)都是至高無上的。我們堅(jiān)決支持那些為爭取或者捍衛(wèi)人權(quán)而奮斗的人們。共同的目標(biāo)使我們堅(jiān)強(qiáng)有力。

　　To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

　　為了實(shí)現(xiàn)這一崇高的設(shè)想，我們永不停步。

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