英語美文欣賞[精品15篇]

　　無論是在學(xué)校還是在社會中，大家一定看過美文吧？在網(wǎng)絡(luò)時代人們接觸到的信息越來越多，微小說等很多網(wǎng)絡(luò)文章也被籠統(tǒng)的列入美文行列。那么問題來了，怎樣才能完成一篇優(yōu)秀的美文呢？下面是小編精心整理的英語美文欣賞，僅供參考，歡迎大家閱讀。

英語美文欣賞1

　　From the window of my room, I could see a tall cotton-rose hibiscus. In spring, when green foliage was half hidden by mist, the tree looked very enchanting dotted with red blossom. This inspiring neighbor of mine often set my mind working. I gradually regarded it as my best friend.

　　Nevertheless, when I opened the window one morning, to my amazement, the tree was almost bare beyond recognition as a result of the storm ravages the night before. Struck by the plight, I was seized with a sadden saddens at the thought “all the blossom is doomed to fall”. I could not help sighing with emotion: the course of life never runs smooth, for there are so many ups and downs, twists and turns. The vicissitudes of my life saw my beloved friends parting one after another. Isn’t it similar to the tree shedding its flowers in the wind?

　　This event faded from my memory as time went by. One day after I came home from the countryside, I found the room stuffy and casually opened the window. Something outside caught my eye and dazzled me. It was a plum tree all scarlet with blossom set off beautifully by the sunset. The surprise discovery overwhelmed me with pleasure. I wondered why I had no idea of some unyielding life sprouting over the fallen petals when I was grieving for the hibiscus.

　　When the last withered petal dropped, all the joyful admiration for the hibiscus sank into oblivion as if nothing was left, until the landscape was again ablaze with the red plum blossom to remind people of life’s alternation and continuance. Can’t it be said that life is actually a symphony, a harmonious composition of loss gain.

　　Standing by the window lost in thought for a long time, I realized that no scenery in the world remains unchanged. As long as you keep your heart basking in the sun, every dawn will present a fine prospect for you to unfold and the world will always be about new hopes.

英語美文欣賞2

　　Not even as I shook and trembled uncontrollably in the trenches, did I forget your face. I would sit huddled into the wet mud, terrified, as the hails of bullets and mortars crashed down around me. I would clutch my rifle tightly to my heart, and think again of that very first day we met. I would cry out in fear, as the noise of war beat down around me. But, as I thought of you and saw you smiling back at me, everything around me would be become silent, and I would be with you again for a few precious moments, far from the death and destruction. It would not be until I opened my eyes once again, that I would see and hear the carnage of the war around me.

　　即使是當(dāng)我在戰(zhàn)壕中控制不住地顫抖，我也不曾忘記你的容顏。我蜷縮在稀泥中，身邊是槍林彈雨，彌漫硝煙，我把步槍緊緊地攥在胸前，一顆驚恐不安的心，還是想起了我們初識的那一天。身旁戰(zhàn)火呼嘯，恐懼讓我想要大聲呼叫，直到想起你，仿佛見到你在我身后盈盈淺笑，戰(zhàn)場忽然沉寂下來，在這珍貴的瞬間，我覺得自己暫時遠(yuǎn)離了毀滅和死亡，飛向你的身旁。我拼命想留住這美好，直到睜開眼，周圍卻依然是血與火的生死戰(zhàn)場。

　　I cannot tell you how strong my love for you was back then, when I returned to you on leave in the September, feeling battered, bruised and fragile. We held each other so tight I thought we would burst. I asked you to marry me the very same day and I whooped with joy when you looked deep into my eyes and said "yes" to being my bride.

　　九月休假回到你身邊，我疲憊而脆弱，沒能再告訴你戰(zhàn)火紛飛時我對你的愛有多深。我們只能緊緊擁抱在一起，仿佛要把對方擠碎。也就在那天，面對我的'求婚，你深深凝望我的眼睛，答應(yīng)做我的新娘，而我早已歡喜地大喊大叫。

英語美文欣賞3

　　摘要：不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞：你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。

　　However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.

　　熱愛生活

　　Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

　　不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞：你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。

　　你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮�？旎�、激動和光榮的時光即使是在濟(jì)貧院里也享受得到。夕陽照射在貧民居所的窗戶上所反射的.光同照在富人公寓的窗戶上所反射的光一樣耀眼奪目，都能使得門前的積雪在早春消融。

　　I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there and have as cheering thoughts. As in a palace, the towns poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

　　我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。依我之見，城鎮(zhèn)的貧民倒是往往過著最獨立不羈的生活。

　　May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town, but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.

　　也許他們十分偉大，對任何事情皆可坦然受之。 大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為他們不屑于接受城鎮(zhèn)的施救; 但是實際上他們經(jīng)常使用不誠實的手段來維持自己的生計，這是更為不體面的。

　　Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

　　像圣賢一樣，如同栽培花園中的花草一般來培養(yǎng)貧困吧。不要自找麻煩地去追求新鮮事物，新衣物和新朋友。讓舊物常新，回歸舊物。萬物不變，是我們在變。衣服可以賣掉，但要永存思想。

　　英語學(xué)習(xí)筆記:

　　1 .However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

　　英語點睛：這實際上是幾個短句，后面的句子都省略了however mean your life is.

　　2 .The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans abode.

　　英語點睛：由asas引導(dǎo)的句子，非常精煉。

　　學(xué)習(xí)更多：

　　1 .However hard this task is. we can finish:we must finish it.

　　(表示決心)不論這個工作有多難，我們都完成，而且我們必須完成。

　　2 .You are as good as you think you are.

　　(表示程度)你像你自己認(rèn)為的一樣好。

英語美文欣賞4

　　It seems that hip-hop music is ubiqrutous these days, from popular radio to TV commercials. Whatever your opinion of hip-hop music may be, there is no denying it has impacted pop culture around the world, and shows no signs of slowing down.

　　現(xiàn)在，從大眾廣播到電視廣告，嘻哈音樂似乎無所不在。不管你對嘻哈音樂的看法怎么樣，無可否認(rèn)它已經(jīng)對世界各地的通俗文化造成了沖擊，并且沒有減弱的跡象。

　　Hip-hop brings with it its own unique terminology. Rap is the literal action of speaking over a beat. Hip-hop is both a kind of music and a culture, which includes four main elements: emceeing , deejaying , breaking , and graffih art . Along with these are other distinctive. aspects ofhip-hop culture such as language and fashion.

　　嘻哈風(fēng)帶來了一些專有術(shù)語： 說唱樂 是指配合節(jié)奏念文字的.動作。 嘻哈 既是一種音樂，同時也是一種文化，嘻哈文化包含4大要素 MC (隨節(jié)奏說唱)、 DJ (轉(zhuǎn)動唱片及混音)、 霹靂舞 (一種特技般的舞蹈)，和 涂鴉藝術(shù)_o除此之外嘻哈文化還有其他一些特殊

　　的方面，如語言和服裝時尚等。

　　Hip-hop has its roots in the African traditions of percussion and oral storytelling. Its modernorigins, however, can be found in New York Citys crime-ridden South Bronx in the early 1970s. Fed up with the insipid disco of the times, youth who were short on money but rich in ingenuity created a new, dynamic art form: verbally competing and chronfcling life in the ghetto by rapping poetry over a beat.

英語美文欣賞5

　　A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street， going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.

　　一位年輕的總裁，以有點快的車速，開著他的新Jaguar經(jīng)過住宅區(qū)的巷道。他必須小心游戲中的孩子突然跑到路中央，所以當(dāng)他覺得小孩子快跑出來時，就要減慢車速。

　　As his car passed， one child appeared， and a brick smashed into the Jag's side door. He slammed on the brakes and spun the Jag back to the spot from where the brick had been thrown.

　　就在他的車經(jīng)過一群小朋友的時候，一個小朋友丟了一塊磚頭打到了他的車門，他很生氣的踩了煞車并后退到磚頭丟出來的地方。

　　He jumped out of the car, grabbed some kid and pushed him up against a parked car， shouting， "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing?"Building up a head of steam， he went on"That's a new car and that brick you threw is gonna cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"

　　他跳出車外，抓了那個小孩，把他頂在車門上說：“你為什么這樣做，你知道你剛剛做了什么嗎？” 接著又吼道：“你知不知道你要賠多少錢來修理這臺新車，你到底為什么要這樣做？”

　　“Please， mister， please， I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do!”pleaded the youngster." It's my brother，" he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up.

　　小孩子求著說：“先生，對不起，我不知道我還能怎么辦？” 他接著說：“因為我哥哥從輪椅上掉下來，我沒辦法把他抬回去。”

　　Sobbing， the boy asked the executive， "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."

　　那男孩啜泣著說：“你可以幫我把他抬回去嗎？他受傷了，而且他太重了我抱不動�！�

　　Moved beyond words， the driver tried to swallow the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. He lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts， checking to see that everything was going to be okay.

　　這些話讓這位年輕的總裁深受感動，他抱起男孩受傷的哥哥，幫他坐回輪椅上。并拿出手帕擦拭他哥哥的傷口，以確定他哥哥沒有什么大問題。

　　"Thank you， sir. And God bless you，" the grateful child said to him. The man then watched the little boy push his brother to the sidewalk toward their home.

　　那個小男孩感激地說：“謝謝你，先生，上帝保佑你�！� 然后他看著男孩推著他哥哥回去。

　　It was a long walk backs to his Jaguar... a long， slow walk. He never did repair the side door. He kept the dent to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention.

　　年輕總裁返回Jaguar的路變的很漫長，他也沒有修他汽車的側(cè)門。他保留著車上的凹痕就是提醒自己。生活的道路不要走的`太匆忙，否則需要其他人敲打自己來注意生活的真諦。

　　Life whispers in your soul and speaks to your heart. Sometimes,when you don't have the time to listen,it's your choice: Listen to the whispers of your soul or wait for the brick!

　　當(dāng)生命想與你的心靈竊竊私語時，若你沒有時間，你有兩種選擇：傾聽你心靈的聲音或讓磚頭來砸你！

　　Do you sometimes ignore loved ones because your life is too fast and busy leaving them to wonder whether you really love them?

　　請問你是否曾因為生活太快、太忙碌而忽略了你所愛的人，然后讓他們開始開始懷疑起你是不是真的愛他們呢？

英語美文欣賞6

　　英語美文“品味現(xiàn)在”

　　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.

　　我們的潛意識里藏著一派田園詩般的風(fēng)光! 我們仿佛身處一次橫貫大陸的漫漫旅程之中! 乘著火車, 我們領(lǐng)略著窗外流動的景色：附近高速公路上奔馳的汽車、十字路口處招手的孩童、遠(yuǎn)山上吃草的牛群、源源不斷地從電廠排放出的煙塵、一片片的玉米和小麥、平原與山谷、群山與綿延的'丘陵、天空映襯下城市的輪廓, 以及鄉(xiāng)間的莊園宅第!

　　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.

　　然而我們心里想得最多的卻是最終的目的地! 在某一天的某一時刻, 我們將會抵達(dá)進(jìn)站! 迎接我們的將是樂隊和飄舞的彩旗! 一旦到了那兒, 多少美夢將成為現(xiàn)實, 我們的生活也將變得完整, 如同一塊理好了的拼圖! 可是我們現(xiàn)在在過道里不耐煩地踱來踱去, 咒罵火車的拖拖拉拉! 我們期待著, 期待著, 期待著火車進(jìn)站的那一刻!

　　"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!"

　　"當(dāng)我們到站的時候, 一切就都好了! "我們呼喊著! "當(dāng)我18歲的時候! ""當(dāng)我有了一輛新450SL奔馳的時候! ""當(dāng)我供最小的孩子念完大學(xué)的時候! ""當(dāng)我償清貸款的時候! ""當(dāng)我官升高任的時候! ""當(dāng)我到了退休的時候, 就可以從此過上幸福的生活啦! "

　　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.

　　可是我們終究會認(rèn)識到人生的旅途中并沒有車站, 也沒有能夠"一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正樂趣在于旅行的過程, 而車站不過是個夢, 它始終遙遙領(lǐng)先于我們!

　　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.

　　真正令人發(fā)瘋的不是今日的負(fù)擔(dān), 而是對昨日的悔恨及對明日的恐懼! 悔恨與恐懼是一對孿生竊賊, 將今天從你我身邊偷走!

　　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.

　　那么就不要在過道里徘徊吧, 別老惦記著你離車站還有多遠(yuǎn)! 何不換一種活法, 將更多的高山攀爬, 多吃點兒冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴, 經(jīng)常光著腳板兒溜達(dá), 在更多的河流里暢游, 多看看夕陽西下, 多點歡笑哈哈, 少讓淚水滴答! 生活得一邊過一邊瞧! 車站就會很快到達(dá)!

英語美文欣賞7

　　The hills are alive with the sound of music,

　　With songs they have sung for a thousand years.

　　The hills fill my heart with the sound of music

　　My heart wants to sing every thing every song it hears.

　　My heart wants to beat

　　Like the wings of the birds that rise

　　From the lake to the trees.

　　My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies

　　From a church on a breeze

　　To laugh like a brook when it trips

　　And falls over stones on its way.

　　To sing through the night

　　Like a lake who is learning to pray.

　　I go to the hills when my heat is lonely.

　　I know I will hear what I’ve heard before.

　　My heart will be blessed with the sound of music,

　　And I’ll sing once more.

英語美文欣賞8

　　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.

　　譯文：

　　以書籍為伴（節(jié)選）

　　通�？匆粋�讀些什么書籍就可知道他的為人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的為人一樣，因為有人以人為伴，也有人以書籍為伴。無論是書籍友還是朋友，我們都應(yīng)該以最好的為伴。

　　好書籍就像是你最好的朋友。它始終不渝，過去如此，現(xiàn)在如此，將來也永遠(yuǎn)不變。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悅的伴侶。在我們窮愁潦倒，臨危遭難時，它也不會拋棄我們，對我們總是一如既往地親切。在我們年輕時，好書籍陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識；到我們年老時，它又給我們以慰藉和勉勵。

　　人們常常因為喜歡同一本書籍而結(jié)為知已，就像有時兩個人因為敬慕同一個人而成為朋友一樣。有句古諺說道：“愛屋及屋�！逼鋵崱皭畚壹皶�籍”這句話蘊涵更多的哲理。書籍是更為真誠而高尚的情誼紐帶。人們可以通過共同喜愛的作家溝通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并與自己喜歡的作家思想相通，情感相融。

　　好書籍常如最精美的寶器，珍藏著人生的思想的精華，因為人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的書籍是金玉良言和崇高思想的寶庫，這些良言和思想若銘記于心并多加珍視，就會成為我們忠實的伴侶和永恒的慰藉。

　　書籍籍具有不朽的本質(zhì)，是為人類努力創(chuàng)造的最為持久的成果。寺廟會倒坍，神像會朽爛，而書籍卻經(jīng)久長存。對于偉大的思想來說，時間是無關(guān)緊要的。多年前初次閃現(xiàn)于作者腦海的偉大思想今日依然清新如故。時間惟一的作用是淘汰不好的'作品，因為只有真正的佳作才能經(jīng)世長存。

　　書籍籍介紹我們與最優(yōu)秀的人為伍，使我們置身于歷代偉人巨匠之間，如聞其聲，如觀其行，如見其人，同他們情感交融，悲喜與共，感同身受。我們覺得自己仿佛在作者所描繪的舞臺上和他們一起粉墨登場。

　　即使在人世間，偉大杰出的人物也永生不來。他們的精神被載入書籍冊，傳于四海。書籍是人生至今仍在聆聽的智慧之聲，永遠(yuǎn)充滿著活力。

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　　The early snows fall soft and white and seem to heal the landscape. There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads. The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our harvest-time haste, smoothing the brow of hill, hiding furrow and cog and trash in the yard.

　　Snow muffles the shriek of metal and the rasp of motion. It covers our flintier purposes and brings a redeeming silence, as if a curtain has fallen on the strivings of a year, and now we may stop, look inward, and rediscover the amber warmth of family and conversation.

　　At such times, locked away inside wall and woolen, lulled by the sedatives of wood-smoke and candlelight, we recall the competing claims of nature. We see the branch and bark of trees, rather than the sugar-scented green of their leaves. We look out the window and admire the elegance of ice crystal, the bravely patient tree leaning leafless into the wind, the dramatic shadows of the stooping sun. We look at the structure of things, the geometry of branch and snowflake, family and deed. Even before the first snow, we view the world differently in winter.

　　We watch the lawn settle into the sleep of frost and the last crumpled leaf quiver on the oak, and feel the change. At night the skies are cold and clear, and stars shine like the dreams of serpents. The hillsides turn brown and gray; the edges of stalk and blade stand out starkly.

　　Dark clouds settle on the mountain ridges. Storms rumble in like freight trains. Rain rattles the roof and thutters at the window. Then comes the snow, and we once again wonder at how it transforms the familiar objects of our everyday world. When snowflake drifts the road we head indoors and resign ourselves to the quiet crackle of the wood fire. The example of the woodpile and the well-stocked larder tells us that we can achieve what we dream, and winter brings us long, silent nights to dream on.

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　　Who Are the Happiest People?

　　誰是世界上最幸福的人

　　只有傻瓜才不考慮別人的利益。拋棄自己國家的傳統(tǒng)來創(chuàng)造更好的社會是一種錯誤的方式。一個民族失去了自己的神話，就失去了自我。

　　[1]They live on a windswept island surrounded by glaciersand volcanoes. What makes them so content?

　　[1]他們生活在海風(fēng)吹拂的小島上，被冰川和火山所環(huán)繞著。是什么使他們?nèi)绱藵M足?

　　[2]In a poll of 18 nations, The Gallup Organization discovered that Icelanders are the happiest people alive. All 267,809 of them. Eighty-two percent are satisfied with their personal lives. The United States ranked fifth at 72 percent; Japan came in seventh with 42 percent.

　　[2]美國的蓋洛普民意測驗組織對世界上18個國家的民意測驗表明：冰島人是世界上最快樂的人。參加測試的`人數(shù)為26.78萬人。82%的冰島人表示滿意自己的生活;美國表示滿意自己生活的人數(shù)為72%，排列第五位;日本排列第七位，人數(shù)比率為42%。

　　[3]Some people would say that happy Iceland is a statistical fluke. This is a country so small, an ordinary citizen can make an appointment to see the president.

　　[3]有人會說：快樂的冰島僅僅是統(tǒng)計上的巧合。這個國家如此之小，普通的公民也能受到總統(tǒng)的接見。

　　[4]True, Iceland is no utopia. Icelanders are big boozers, with a fishing tradition of binge drinking. Almost a third of the births are out of wedlock. But that’s what makes the Gallup study so interesting. Icelanders have problems like the rest of us, yet they are happy with their lot. So what gives?

　　[4]確實，冰島并非天堂，冰島有傳統(tǒng)的打魚豪飲的習(xí)慣，酒鬼很多，近三分之一的孩子沒有父親。然而，正因為如此，蓋洛普的這項研究才顯得更加有趣。因為，像我們一樣，冰島人有許多問題，但是，他們卻安命樂天。這究竟是為什么呢?

　　[5]Consider Thorir Hlynur Thorisson, 28. For his vacation, he spent a month working 16-hour days, seven days a week, as a fishing guide. It was “heaven on earth,” he says. Then after a single night off, he was back at his regular job—on a fishing boat, working six hours on, six hours off, around the clock.

　　[5]讓我們來看一看，一個名叫索赫·赫利納·索雷遜的28歲的冰島人是怎樣看待生活的。索雷遜在一個月的假期中，為自己找了一份捕漁向?qū)У墓ぷ�，他一周工�?天，每天工作16個小時,他把這種生活稱作“人間的天堂”。假期結(jié)束后，他只休息了一個晚上，又接著正常工作起來——在一艘輪船上，每天6小時工作、6小時休息地輪流當(dāng)班。

　　[6]We would call Hlynur a workaholic, but so are most of his compatriots. It pays off. With a per-capita gross domestic product of $19,905 (the U.S. figure is $27,541), Icelanders are among the wealthiest people on earth. Their tax dollars buy them excellent education and medical care. Iceland has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world, and almost the highest longevity.

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　　He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin.

　　他11歲那年，只要一有機(jī)會，就會到他家小屋的碼頭上釣魚。

　　On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening.

　　鱸魚季節(jié)開放的前一天晚上，他和父親早早開始垂釣。

　　Then he tied on a small silver lure and practiced casting.

　　他系上魚餌，練習(xí)如何拋線。

　　When his peapole doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end.

　　當(dāng)魚桿向下彎的時候，他知道線的另一端一定釣到了一條大魚。

　　His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.

　　父親看著他技巧純熟地在碼頭邊沿和魚周旋，眼神充滿贊賞。

　　Finally, he lifted the exhausted fish from the water.

　　最后他將筋疲力盡的魚提出水面。

　　It was the largest one he had ever seen, but is was a bass.

　　這是他所見過的最大的一條，還是一條鱸魚。

　　The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.----two hours before the season opened.

　　父親檫著一根火柴，看了看表。十點了---離開禁還有兩個小時。

　　He looked at the fish, then at the boy.

　　他看了看魚，又看了看男孩。

　　"You'll have to put it back, son." he said.

　　“你得把它放回去，孩子。”父親說道。

　　"Dad!" cried the boy.

　　“爸爸!”男孩叫道。

　　"There will be other fish," said his father.

　　“還有其他的魚嘛�！备赣H說道。

　　"Not as big as this one," cried the boy.

　　“但沒這么大�！蹦泻⒔械馈�

　　He looked around the lake. No others were anywhere around in the moonlight.

　　男孩環(huán)視了一遍湖。月光下附近沒有其他人。

　　He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could tell by the clarity of his father's voice that the decision was not negotiable.

　　他又看了看他父親。從父親不可動搖的語氣中，他知道這個決定沒有商量余地，即使沒有人看到他們，更無從得知他們何時釣到了魚。

　　He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water.

　　他慢慢地將魚鉤從大鱸魚的唇上取下，然后蹲下將魚放回水中。

　　The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.

　　男孩想，他可能再也看不到這么大的魚了。

　　That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.

　　那是34年前的事了�，F(xiàn)在，男孩是紐約的一個成功的建筑師，他帶著自己的兒女仍然在同一個碼頭上釣魚。

　　And he was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago.

　　他猜得沒錯。自那次以后，他再也沒有釣上過那么大的魚了。

　　But he does see that same fish---again and again---every time he comes up against a question of ethics.

　　但每次他面臨道德難題而舉棋不定的時候，他的眼前再三浮現(xiàn)出那條魚。

　　For, as his father taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.

　　他父親曾告訴他，道德即是簡單的對和錯的問題，但要付諸行動卻很難。

　　Do we do right when no one is looking? Do we refuse to cut corners to get the design in on time? Or refuse to trade stocks based on information that we know we aren't supposed to have?

　　在沒人瞧見的.時候，我們是否仍遵循道德準(zhǔn)則?為了將圖紙按時完成，我們是不是也會走捷徑?或者在明知道不可以的情況下，仍將公司股份賣掉?

　　We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the truth.

　　在我們還小的時候，如果有人教導(dǎo)我們把魚放回去，我們會這樣做，因為我們還在學(xué)習(xí)真理。

　　The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our memory.

　　正確的決定在我們的記憶里變得深刻而清晰。

　　It is a story we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren. Not about how we had a chance to beat the system and took it,but about how we did the right thing and were forever strengthened.

　　這個故事我們可以驕傲地講給朋友和子孫們聽，不是關(guān)于如何攻擊和戰(zhàn)勝某種體制，而是如何做正確的決定，從而變得無比堅強(qiáng)。

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　　鄉(xiāng) 愁

　　NOSTALGIA

　　文/翻譯：余光中 | 朗讀：孟飛Phoenix

　　When I was young,

　　Nostalgia was a tiny, tiny stamp,

　　Me on this side,

　　Mother on the other side.

　　小時候

　　鄉(xiāng)愁是一枚小小的郵票

　　我在這頭

　　母親在那頭

　　When I grew up,

　　Nostalgia was a narrow boat ticket,

　　Me on this side,

　　My bride on the other side.

　　長大后

　　鄉(xiāng)愁是一張窄窄的`船票

　　我在這頭

　　新娘在那頭

　　But later on,

　　Nostalgia was a lowly grave,

　　Me on the outside,

　　Mother on the inside.

　　后來啊

　　鄉(xiāng)愁是一方矮矮的墳?zāi)?/p>

　　我在外頭

　　母親在里頭

　　And at present,

　　Nostalgia becomes a shallow strait,

　　Me on this side,

　　Mainland on the other side.

　　而現(xiàn)在

　　鄉(xiāng)愁是一灣淺淺的海峽

　　我在這頭

　　大陸在那頭

　　【 致 橡 樹 】

　　文：舒婷 | 主播：孟飛Phoenix

　　If I love you

　　我如果愛你

　　I won't wind upon you like a trumpet creeper

　　絕不像攀援的凌霄花

　　upvalue myself by your height

　　借你的高枝炫耀自己

　　If I love you

　　我如果愛你 ——

　　I will never follow a spoony bird

　　絕不學(xué)癡情的鳥兒

　　repeating the monotone song for the green shade

　　為綠蔭重復(fù)單調(diào)的歌曲

　　not only like a spring head

　　也不止像泉源

　　brings you clean coolness whole year long

　　常年送來清涼的慰籍

　　not only like a steepy peak

　　也不止像險峰

　　enhances your height,

　　sets off your straightness

　　增加你的高度

　　襯托你的'威儀

　　even sunshine

　　甚至日光。

　　and spring rain

　　甚至春雨。

　　No, all these are not enough!

　　不，這些都還不夠！

　　I must be a ceiba by your side

　　我必須是你近旁的一株木棉，

　　as a tree standing together with you

　　做為樹的形象和你站在一起。

　　our roots melt underneath

　　根，緊握在地下

　　our leaves merge in clouds

　　葉，相觸在云里

　　when wind breezes

　　每一陣風(fēng)過

　　we greet each other

　　我們都互相致意

　　but no one

　　但沒有人

　　can understand our peculiar words

　　聽懂我們的言語

　　you have your strong stem and branches

　　你有你的銅枝鐵干

　　like knives and swords

　　像刀，像劍

　　and like halberds

　　也像戟

　　I have my red ample flowers

　　我有我的紅碩花朵

　　like heavy sighs

　　像沉重的嘆息

　　and heroic torches as well

　　又像英勇的火炬

　　we partake cold tide,

　　thunder storm,firebolt

　　我們分擔(dān)寒潮、風(fēng)雷、霹靂

　　together we share brume,

　　flowing mist,rainbow

　　我們共享霧靄、流嵐、虹霓

　　as if we separate all the time

　　仿佛永遠(yuǎn)分離

　　actually we forever rely on each other

　　卻又終身相依

　　this is great love

　　這才是偉大的愛情

　　loyalty lives here

　　堅貞就在這里：

　　LOVE

　　愛

　　not only your giant body

　　不僅愛你偉岸的身軀

　　but also the position you stand，

　　the earth under your feet

　　也愛你堅持的位置，腳下的土地

　　愛是真誠的

　　A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.一個男人和他的女朋友結(jié)婚，舉行了一場盛大的結(jié)婚慶典。

　　All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake ofthe festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

　　所有的朋友和家人都來到結(jié)婚典禮上參加歡宴和慶�；顒印４蠹叶歼^得很開心。穿著白色婚紗的新娘漂亮迷人，穿著黑色禮服的新郎英俊瀟灑。每個人都能看出他們彼此的愛是真誠的。

　　A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage," she offered. "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."

　　幾個月后，妻子走近丈夫提議說：“我剛才在雜志上看到一篇文章，說的是怎樣鞏固婚姻�！彼�說：“我們兩個人都各自把對方的小毛病列在一張紙上，然后我們商量一下怎樣解決，以使我們的生活更幸福�！�

　　The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

　　丈夫同意了。于是他們各自走向不同的房間去想對方的缺點。那一天余下的時間里，他們都在思考這個問題，并且把他們想到的都寫下來。第二天早上，吃早飯的時候，他們決定談?wù)劚舜说娜秉c。

　　"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.

　　“我先開始吧�！逼拮诱f。她拿出她的單子，上面列舉了很多條，事實上，足足寫滿了三頁。當(dāng)她開始念的.時候，她注意到丈夫眼里含著淚花。

　　"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husband replied, "keep reading your list."

　　“怎么啦?”她問�！皼]什么，”丈夫答道，“繼續(xù)念吧�！�

　　The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

　　妻子又接著念。整整三頁都念完之后她把單子整齊地放在桌上，兩手交叉放在上面。

　　"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists," she said happily.

　　“現(xiàn)在該你念了，然后我們談?wù)勊�列舉的缺點。”她高興地說。

　　Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you." The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

　　丈夫平靜地說：“我什么也沒寫，我覺得像你這樣就很完美了，我不想讓你為我改變什么。你很可愛迷人，我不想讓你改變�！逼拮颖徽煞虻恼\實和對她深深的愛和接納感動了，她轉(zhuǎn)過頭去哭起來。

　　In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

　　生命中我們有很多的失望、沮喪和煩惱，我們根本不需要尋找。我們美妙的世界充滿了美麗、光明、希望。但是，當(dāng)我們放眼四周時，為什么浪費時間尋找不快、失望和煩惱，而看不到我們面前的美好事物呢？

　　雨中的記憶

　　Run through the rain

　　She had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful brown haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth, it has no time to flow down the spout.

　　她和媽媽剛在沃爾瑪結(jié)束購物。這個天真的小女孩應(yīng)該6歲大了，頭發(fā)是美麗的棕色，臉上有雀斑。外面下著傾盆大雨。雨水溢滿了檐槽，來不及排走，就迫不及待地涌漲上地面。

　　We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Wal-Mart. We all waited, some patiently, others irritated, because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I get lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child come pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.

　　我們都站在沃爾瑪門口的遮篷下。大家都在等待，有人很耐心，有人很煩躁，因為老天在給他們本已忙碌的一天添亂。雨天總引起我的遐思。我出神地聽著、看著老天沖刷洗滌這世界的污垢和塵埃，孩時無憂無慮地在雨中奔跑玩水的記憶洶涌而至，暫時緩解了我一天的`焦慮。

　　Her voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in, “Mom, let's run through the rain." she said.

　　小女孩甜美的聲音打破了這令人昏昏欲睡的氣氛，“媽媽，我們在雨里跑吧�！彼�說。

　　"What?" Mom asked.

　　“什么?”母親問。

　　"Let's run through the rain!" She repeated.

　　“我們在雨里跑吧，”她重復(fù)。

　　"No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit." Mom replied.

　　“不，親愛的，我們等雨小一點再走�！蹦赣H回答說。

　　This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain."

　　過了一會小女孩又說：“媽媽，我們跑出去吧。”

　　"We'll get soaked if we do." Mom said.

　　“這樣的話我們會濕透的。”母親說。

　　"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm."

　　“不會的，媽媽。你今天早上不是這樣說的。”小女孩一邊說一邊拉著母親的手。

　　"This morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"

　　“今天早上?我什么時候說過我們淋雨不會濕啊?”

　　"Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!"

　　“你不記得了嗎?你和爸爸談他的癌癥時，你不是說‘如果上帝讓我們闖過這一關(guān)，那我們就沒有什么過不去�！�”

　　The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say.

　　人群一片寂靜。我發(fā)誓，除了雨聲，你什么都聽不到。我們都靜靜地站著。接下來的幾分鐘沒有一個人走動。母親停了一下，想著應(yīng)該說些什么。

　　Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child's life. Time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith. "Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If get wet, well maybe we just needed washing." Mom said. Then off they ran.

　　有人也許會對此一笑了之，或者責(zé)備這孩子的不懂事，有人甚至不把她的話放在心上。但這卻是一個小孩子一生中需要被肯定的時候。若受到鼓舞，此時孩子單純的信任就會發(fā)展成為堅定的信念�！坝H愛的，你說得對，我們跑過去吧。如果淋濕了，那也許是因為我們的確需要沖洗一下了�！蹦赣H說。然后她們就沖出去了。

　　We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and they held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories. So, don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories every day!

　　我們站在那里，笑著看她們飛快地跑過停著的汽車。她們把購物袋高舉過頭想擋擋雨，但還是濕透了。好幾個人像孩子般尖叫著，大笑著，也跟著沖了出去，奔向自己的車子。當(dāng)然，我也這樣做了，跑了出去，淋濕了。我也需要接受洗禮。環(huán)境或其他人可以奪去你的物質(zhì)財富，搶走你的金錢，帶走你的健康，但沒有人可以帶走你珍貴的回憶。因此，記得要抓緊時間，抓住機(jī)會每天都給自己留下一些回憶吧

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　　別在匆忙中迷失

　　Many details and trifles in life appear to be neglected by us in a bustling urban life. Some people attribute it to the fickle ambience over the whole city. Some think that our passion has been ironed out by invariably tedious life. also some people come to the sensation that they have already been numbed by the fast-paced life.

　　在匆匆忙忙的都市，生活中的很多細(xì)節(jié)好像都被忽略了。有些人歸結(jié)于，是因為整個城市充滿浮躁的氣息；

　　有些人認(rèn)為，是被生活磨平了棱角；

　　又有些人以為，自己早被這樣一種快節(jié)奏的生活所麻木。

　　Is its because of fickle ambience? Is it simply because of no passion? Or is its because of numbness? Maybe all these contribute a little to the present situation, or maybe none. Actually, in the modern city, what we lack more and more desperately is a heart of consciousness and gratefulness.

　　是因為浮躁嗎？是因為沒有棱角嗎？還是因為真的麻木了？也許都有點，也許又都沒有，只是在這樣的城市，人們越來越缺乏的――是一顆感知的心。

　　There was once a time when I also deemed that we began to lose our direction and become numb without too much affection in this material-flooding world. We were not sure whether the reason why we locked tightly our heart was to eliminate loneliness or to protect ourselves. We did it unconsciously with less and less emotion and smile. So someone said that I was awfully icy to others. Not until one day when I was stricken by a sense of gratitude did I totally change myself.

　　曾經(jīng)，我也這樣認(rèn)為，認(rèn)為在這樣物欲的城市，開始迷失心的方向，變的麻木，變得沒有太多情感。不確定封閉自己的心，是因為害怕孤寂，還是在自我保護(hù)，只是不由自主地那樣做了。情緒越來越少，笑容越來越少，有人會說我冷冰冰。終于有一天，一次感動，正如我之前文章中提到的，一次幸福的感動，改變了我。

　　Yes, life needs gratefulness. Gratefulness is not only confined to love, but also to friendship, family bonds, mutual cherishing as well as constant missing each other.

　　是啊，生活是需要感動的，這樣的'感動不僅僅是愛情，更來自于友情，來自于親情，來自于彼此的心心相惜，更來源于內(nèi)心時時刻刻的牽掛。

　　Gratefulness touches deeply the tenderness of my heart, rendering me ever-profound perception as well as ever-soft emotion. It is like the soft melody of “ kiss the rain”, so tender, so emotional and so fascinating, leaving me out of all the worldly troubles.

　　感動，觸動了我內(nèi)心太多太多的柔軟，從來沒有如此深刻的感慨，從來沒有如此柔軟的情懷。正如此刻聽著的“kiss the rain”，旋律如此柔和，如此溫情，讓人如此陶醉，讓我忘卻了塵世的諸多煩惱。

　　In the past never did I feel the great significance of gratefulness. I had been holding that everything about life would become nothing but turn back to dust at the end of life. Maybe at that time I had seen through life and death, thinking that life was running to the end unceasingly regardless of our sentimental sigh.

　　However, it was a momentary matter that I came to realize life should be upheld and maintained by gratefulness. Then our heart will never feel solitary and have the sense of being loved. Only by stretching out our hands can we give the opportunity to others to hold us!

　　以前，從來沒覺得感動如此重要，一直認(rèn)為，生活就是那么一回事，一切的一切都將歸于黃土，化為烏有。也許是因為看淡了生離死別，也許是覺得人生再感慨也不過是人世滄?zhèn)�，終將渺小地畫完句點，成為彼此的過客�？删驮谝凰查g，讓我明白，生活是需要感動去支撐，去維持的。只有那樣，心才不會孤寂，只有這樣才能感覺到被愛。只有伸出自己的雙手，才給了自己和別人握手的機(jī)會。

　　Affection and gratefulness is the source of my inspiration.

　　感動和感恩，是我最近靈感的源泉。

　　A tiny gratefulness can give us a lasting positive mood, which requires our consciousness and gratefulness.

　　Then with a heart of gratefulness, everything turns out to be gorgeous.

　　生活中一個細(xì)微的感動，可以帶給人良久的心緒，而這些心緒需要心靈的感知。

　　然后，懷抱感恩的心去生活，一切都將會變得美好。

　　Giving and the feeling of being moved give us a sense of happiness. Maybe, it is my perception of life that we need not own a multitude of wealth, but tons of love, not peerless status, but numerous smiles, not the power to control everything, but someone wiling to do for you and miss you.

　　付出和被感動的快樂同樣讓人擁有幸福感……也許，這才是我理解意義上的生活，不一定擁有足夠的財富，卻擁有無數(shù)的關(guān)愛，不一定擁有至高的地位，卻擁有許多對你微笑的臉，不一定擁有控制一切的權(quán)利，卻有人愿意為你付出，為你牽掛。

　　Yes, god is fair to anyone. When he closes one of your doors, he will open another for you. Even though I just have a window, I can still embrace sunshine, fresh air, beauteous landscapes. Though the eyesight might be somewhat narrow, it is my world after all.

　　是啊，上帝是公平的，他為你關(guān)上門的時候，會為你打開一扇窗的。打開僅有的窗戶，我同樣可以擁有陽光，擁有空氣，擁有美景，也許視野狹窄了些，但終究那是我的世界。

　　In this world, I am dancing freely, arranging my life delicately, enjoying my self-staying and craziness as well as mutual cherishing with my friends.

　　在這樣的世界，我一個人翩翩起舞，在這樣的世界，我安排好自己的每一步生活，在這樣的世界，我享受一個人的孤單，享受一個人的狂歡，在這樣的世界，我也享受著和朋友心心相惜。

　　Every drop in life composes a marvelous poem that conveys authentic emotions. Choosing to live alone does not necessarily mean we do not expect the coming of love. Falling in love with rain does not mean we do not adore glorious sunshine. Facing everything toughly does not mean we do not hope a warm arm to lean upon.

　　生活的點滴構(gòu)成了美妙的詩篇，寫出了最最真實的情感。

　　選擇了一個人的生活，不等于不期許愛情的出現(xiàn)；

　　迷戀上雨季，不等于不喜歡燦爛的陽光，獨自堅強(qiáng)面對一切，不等于不希望有溫暖的臂彎。

　　Every drop in life and every silk of gratefulness direct me to my real heart and mind.

　　點點滴滴的生活，絲絲縷縷的感動，找到了心的方向……

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　　The Best Teacher I Ever Had

　　Mr.Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about an animal called the Cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age, he passed around a skull as he talked. We all took notes and later had a quiz.

　　When he returned my paper, I was shocked. There was a big red “X” through each of my answers. I had failed. There had to be some mistakes! I had written down exactly what Mr.Whitson said.

　　Then I realized that everyone in the class had failed. What had happened? Very simple, Mr.Whitson explained. He had made up all that story about the Cattywampus. There had never been any such animal. The information in our notes was, therefore, incorrect. Did we expect credit for incorrect answers?

　　Needless to say, we were outraged. What kind of text was this? And what kind of teacher is?

　　We should have figured it out, Mr.Whitson said. After all, at the very moment he was passing around the Cattywampus skull (in truth, a cat’s), hadn’t he been telling us that no trace of the animal remained? He had described its amazing night vision, the color of its fur and any number of other facts he couldn’t have known, he had given the animal a ridiculous name, and we still hadn’t been suspicious. The zeroes on our papers would be recorded in his grade book, he said. And they were.

　　Mr.Whitson said he hoped we would learn something from this experience. Teachers and textbooks are not always right. In fact, no one is. He told us not to let our minds go to sleep, and to speak up if we ever thought he or the textbook was wrong.

　　Every class was an adventure with Mr.Whitson I can still remember some science periods almost from beginning to end. One day he told us that his Volkswagen was a living organism. It took us two full days to put together a refutation he would accept. He didn’t let us off the hook until we had proved not only that we knew what an organism was but also that we had the fortitude to stand up for the truth.

　　We carded our brand-new skepticism into all our classes. This caused problems for the other teachers, who weren’t used to being challenged. Our history teacher would be lecturing about something, and then there would be clearings of the throat and someone would say “Cattywampus”.

　　If I’m ever asked to propose a solution to the crisis in our schools, it will be Mr.Whitson. I haven’t made any great scientific discoveries, but Mr.Whitson’s class gave me and my classmates something just as important: the courage to look people in the eye and tell them they are wrong. He also showed us that you ca have fun doing it.

　　惠特森先生教六年級自然科學(xué)。第一天上課時，他給我們講了一種叫卡蒂萬波斯的動物，這種動物夜間活動，在冰河時期，因不適應(yīng)自然環(huán)境而滅絕了。他邊說邊遞過一個頭顱讓我們傳看。我們做了筆記，而后進(jìn)行了測試。

　　試卷發(fā)下來時，我震驚了，我的每個答案后面都打了一個大大的紅“X”，我沒及格。一定是弄錯了!我寫的明明都是惠特森先生講的。

　　后來我發(fā)現(xiàn)班上同學(xué)都沒及格。怎么回事?很簡單，惠特森先生解釋說，所有這些有關(guān)卡蒂萬波斯的事都是他編造的。這種動物根本就不存在。我們筆記本上記錄的當(dāng)然是錯誤的。錯誤的答案難道還想得分嗎?

　　不必說，我們都很憤怒。這是什么測試?什么老師呀?

　　我們應(yīng)該想到這一點，惠特森先生說，畢竟，在他拿出卡蒂萬波斯的顱骨(實際上是貓的顱骨)讓我們傳看時，不是說這種動物一點兒遺跡都沒留下嗎?他描繪了它夜間驚人的視覺，皮毛的`顏色，和他不可能知道的許多情況。他還給這只動物取了個可笑的名字，我們?nèi)晕床煊X。他說我們測試得零分會記在記分冊上，他真的這樣做了。

　　惠特森先生說，他希望我們能從這件事中汲取教訓(xùn)：老師和書本并還一定絕對正確。事實上，誰都不可能絕對正確。他讓我們開動腦筋，認(rèn)為他或書本錯了，就大膽地說出來。

　　惠特森先生的每堂課都像是一次歷險，他的幾堂自然科學(xué)課我現(xiàn)在仍記憶猶新。一天，他對我們說，他的大眾汽車是一種有生命的生物體。我們花了整整兩天的時間，整理他認(rèn)為可以接受的材料進(jìn)行反駁，直到我們證明自己不僅懂得什么是生物體，還能不屈不撓地堅持真理時，他才善罷甘休。

　　我們持懷疑的態(tài)度走入課堂，這給其他老師帶來了許多麻煩，他們不習(xí)慣受到這樣的質(zhì)疑。歷史老師講課時，下面就會有同學(xué)故意咳嗽，然后有人說：“卡帝萬波斯�！�

　　如果有人問我如何解決學(xué)校面臨的危機(jī)時，那就是惠特森先生的教學(xué)方法。我沒有任何偉大的科學(xué)發(fā)現(xiàn)，但是惠特森先生的課給我和同學(xué)們一樣重要的啟示：我們要正視別人的眼睛，勇敢地告訴他們，他們錯了。他也同樣指出我們的不足，這會獲得無窮的樂趣。

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　　Nowadays, it has become a more and more universal phenomenon that university students spend part of their time in dating. We can see many couples walking by, their hands held tightly on campus. In fact, the heated discussion on campus romance has never ceased. Some people hold firm to their belief that campus romance brings more negative influence on the couples like becoming extravagant, isolated and unsocial. Nonetheless,someone strongly opposes this partial view about campus romance.

　　What is my opinions？I don’t know the right answer on this debate . My attitude of campus romance is indifferent I thought. Everything in our world can be a double-edged sword. Campus love is no exception. Therefore, I hold two different sides of campus romance.

　　The view of supporting: I think that university students’ cogitation mode and values towards love is still extremely similar to the tradition that they have inherited from their ancestors for hundreds years and have been the mainstream in China. I am very appreciate the classical concept of love like many ordinary Chinese but it also can’t be denied that some people did it ostensibly for love, but really for money or power. It was a common matter of debate whether people should marry for love or for money. It is a true universally

　　acknowledged, that a signal man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” is the world really ruled by money? Even so, I still believe that money can’t buy a real love.

　　On the contrary , I also hold the against view , because I believe that college students are young people,who are beginner in everything, are not yet capable of love. To them, sometimes love is just an urge from curiosity. They can’t understand the truth of love, considering it as a romantic, pure and sweet thing. Actually, it is average and filled with the conflicts, responsibility and pressure. For example, when you are together, you will take the responsibility to care other, to protect him or her from being hurt. What’s more, sometimes they can appreciate a person easily due to lack of experience. They can’t tell the differences between appreciating a person and loving a person, which in misleading. Students are not able to make a living with our own hands, and there is no doubt, have also depends on the material thing, besides the feelings.

　　Though studies are surely the main part of our campus life, there are more adventures in campus romance. Only when balanced well other parts of life can it bring more benefits.To speak frankly, campus romance is fragile, for the sparks of love between them can easily die out just because of their immaturity and thoughtlessness. Whether it is right or not, it all depends on yourselves. Weigh the pross and cons, and have your own method. Life is on your own hand.

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