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在平时的学习、工作或生活中，大家一定都接触过美文吧？什么是美文？就像一千个人心中就有一千个哈姆雷特一样，每个人心目中都有自己衡量美文的标准。那么，你会写美文吗？下面是小编收集整理的英语短篇美文，欢迎阅读，希望大家能够喜欢。
Love plays a pivotal role on our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could go hayward and also become cruel and ferocious. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who shower us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad.
But we always tend to take this for granted.It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands and becomes sensitive to others’ feelings. Kids make a person responsible and mature and help us to understand life better.
At the start of your workday, before you even check your emails, make a plan. Jot down the three most important tasks you want to accomplish that day. Put a big star next to the most important. Now, before you get into the busy work of emails and photocopying and tidying your desk, start on that important task and see it through to the end.
在你刚开始工作时，趁着还没查看邮件，赶紧定个计划吧。写下当天必须完成的三个最重要的.任务，最重要的那个打上标记。然后趁着还没开始检查邮件、影印资料或整理办公桌等工作内容前，赶紧着手那个最重要的任务并保证完成它。
Surprisingly few people take the time to plan their workday, and end up spinning their wheels on a number of low-priority tasks without really accomplishing anything big.
奇怪的是，很少有人能有计划地工作，一天下来后还是周旋在几个效率甚低的任务上，最后其实什么实事都没做成。
In the desert, fruit was scarce. God called one of his prophets and said:- Each person may only eat one fruit a day. The custom was obeyed for many generations, and the ecology of the place was preserved. Since the remaining fruit supplied seeds, other trees appeared. Soon, the entire region was turned into fertile soil, which was the envy of other towns. But the people continued to eat one fruit a day they remained faithful to what the ancient prophet of their forefathers had told them. However they never allowed the inhabitants of other villages to take advantage of the abundant harvest with which they were rewarded each year. The result was that fruit rotted on the ground. God called a new prophet and said:- Let them eat as much fruit as they like. And ask them to share the abundance with their neighbors. The prophet came to the town with the new message. But he was stoned for by now the custom was ingrained in the hearts and minds of each of the inhabitants. With time, the younger villagers began to question the barbaric old custom. But, since the tradition of the elders was unbending, they decided to abandon the religion. Thus, they could eat as much fruit as they wished, and give the rest to those in need of food. The only people who remained faithful to the local church, were those who considered themselves saints. But in truth they were unable to see how the world changes, and recognize how one must change with it.
在沙漠中的一个地区，水果稀缺。神叫来一位他的预言家，说：–让每个人一天只能吃一个水果。
这条神谕被好几代人遵守着，这块土地的生态被保护得很好。因为剩余的水果提供了种子，其他的树出现了。很快，这个地区的土壤变得肥沃，让其他村子的人们好生羡慕。
但是这里的人们依然每天只吃一个水果他们虔诚地遵守着祖先中的’预言家说过的话。然而，他们从不让其他村子的居民分享每年的丰厚收成。结果，很多果子都在地上烂掉了。
神又叫来一位新的预言家，说：–让他们想吃多少水果就吃多少吧，然后请他们与他们的邻居分享。
预言家回到村子里传达新的神谕。但是却被村民用石头砸死了因为流传下来的习惯已经在当地居民心中根深蒂固。
随着时间的流逝，年轻的村民开始质疑这个原始的旧习，可元老们定下的法律不可妥协。他们决定放弃信仰这种宗教。于是，他们想吃多少水果就吃多少，剩下的还被拿来分给那些需要食物的人。
唯一剩下的那些忠于当地宗祠的，是那些自认是圣徒的人。但实际上，他们才是看不到世界在改变的人，更没意识到人应该跟着改变。
And now you 8217;re mine.
现在，你是我的。
Rest with your dream in my dream.
请让你的梦栖息在我的梦里。
Love and pain and work should all sleep now.
现在，爱情和痛苦和工作都应该入睡。
The night turns on its invisible wheels,黑夜转动它那看不见的轮子，and you are pure beside me
你在我的身边
as a sleeping amber.
纯洁如一只入睡的琥珀。
No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams.
没有谁，爱人，会睡在我的梦里。
You will go, we will go together, over the waters of time.
你会离开，我们会走在一起，在时间的海洋上。
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,没有谁会与我一同穿过阴影而行，only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.
只有你，永远的绿，永远的太阳，永远的月亮。
Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
你的双手已经把小巧的’双拳摊开，and let their soft drifting signs drop away;
让移动的轻柔手势垂下，your eyes closed like two gray wings,你的双眼紧闭如一对灰色的翅膀，and I move
我尾随而来，after, following the folding water you carry, that carries me away.
尾随你带来带走我的起伏的水。
The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
黑夜，世界和风都在延长各自的命运。
Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.
没有你，我是你的梦，仅仅如此，如此而已。
核心词汇
Discourse: a long and serious treatment ordiscussion of a subject in speech or writing 论文;演讲
a discourse on issues of gender and sexuality
关于性别和性行为的论文
He was hoping for some lively political discourse atthe meeting.
他希望在会上听到些生动的政治演讲.
Sloth: the bad habit of being lazy and unwilling to work 懒散;怠惰
Perfect: to make sth perfect or as good as you can 使完善;使完美;使完备
As a musician, she has spent years perfecting her techniques.
作为音乐家,她花费多年心血在技巧上精益求精.
They have perfected the art of winemaking.
他们酿酒的技艺已达炉火纯青的地步.
Contemn:侮辱,藐视
Distil: to get the essential meaning or ideas from thoughts, information, experiences,etc. 吸取…的.精华;提炼;浓缩
The notes I made on my travels were distilled into a book.
我的旅行笔记精选汇编成了一本书.
Confer: to discuss sth with sb, especially in order to exchange opinions or get advice商讨;协商;交换意见
He wanted to confer with his colleagues before reaching a decision.
他想与他的同事先商议一下再作出决定.
Contend: to say that sth is true, especially in an argument (尤指在争论中)声称,主张,认为
I would contend that the minister’s thinking is flawed on this point.
我倒认为部长的想法在这一点上有漏洞.
Two Truths to Live by人生的两条真理
By Alexander M. Schindler
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: 8221; A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.
生活的艺术是要懂得何时紧紧抓住，何时学会放弃。因为人生就是一对矛盾，它促使我们牢牢抓住人生的很多赐予，但同时又注定了我们对这些给予最终的放弃。老一辈犹太学者是这样说的：人来到这个世界的时候拳头是紧握的，而当离开的时候，手却是松开的。
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.
当然，我们应该仅仅抓住生活，因为生活是神奇的，是充满着美的――上帝创造的.大地的每一个空间都充斥着至美。我们都知道这点，但我们却常常在回首往事之时才明白这个道理，然后突然意识到逝去的时光已经一去不复返了。
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.
我们追忆逝去的美丽，残缺的爱情，但是更令人痛心的回忆是当繁花盛开之时错过了欣赏它的美丽;当爱情眷顾之时却未能做出回应。
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.
学会(珍爱美好的事物)是不容易做到的。尤其是我们年轻时，认为世界是由我们掌握的，只要我们自己满腔热情，全力以赴的去追求，我们想要的东西就能够――不，是一定能够得到。
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.
随着我们的成长，生活使我们不得不面对现实，而第二种真理逐渐被我们所感知，所理解。 在人生的每一个阶段，我们都要承受损失，在这个过程中我们慢慢的长大. 最终，正如松手和握拳的比喻那样：我们自己也得走向不可抗拒的死亡，失去了原有的自我，失去了以往的或梦想过的一切。
The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious 8211;but we are too heedless of them.
我们在阅历中所积累起来的洞察力就像我们的经历本身一样的平凡生活的赐予是可贵的，可是我们却常常忽视了它们的存在。
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.
On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration.
It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.
I have already completed the most important part of this task. A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labor, Opposition and Liberals, the unity of the nation.
It was necessary that this should be done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events. Other key positions were filled yesterday. I am submitting a further list to the King tonight. I hope to complete the appointment of principal Ministers during tomorrow.
The appointment of other Ministers usually takes a little longer. I trust when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administration will be complete in all respects.
I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today. At the end of today’s proceedings, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until May 2l with provision for earlier meeting if need be. Business for that will be notified to M. P. ‘s at the earliest opportunity.
I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government. The resolution:
”That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion.”
To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary Phase of one of the greatest battles in history. We are in action at any other points-in Norway and in Holland-and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean. The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.
In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or for mer colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.
I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.
You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word, It is victory. Victory at all costs-victory in spite of all terrors-victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.
Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.
I take up my task in buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.
I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”
“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…”
I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.
We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.
The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it. Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.
When someone looks into your eyes they should see something alive within you. Having a dream is like owning a lighthouse1 which directs you on your journey.
At every turn we come across its mystery. At each new level we become more of the person we were meant to become. In lonely times, when we pass through a storm of disappointment, we find our faith is unshaken, our strength still strong.
Believe in your faith. Set the vision before your eyes. Write down your most sincere dreams and when the opportunity comes, step into your dream. It may take one season or more, but the result is the same. Make big dreams and then go out and make them realities. The highest hopes of the dreamer are revealed with every step taken in their journey to the impossible. For a season we must protect the dream so that it can grow quietly on the inside. But if we tenderly care for our deepest expectations, slowly but surely the dream will become new life.
Dreaming is an act of faith. The light of your expectations will cast off the shadows of a disbelieving world. God has given us the dreamer as a gift to light an unbelieving world.
Find your treasure within and cherish it. Tomorrow is waiting for you to take the first step.
I have an ideal, that is a colorful dream, in my dream I once became a scientist, an artist, a writer… In this dream, I think too much and have gone through too much. It is only for one purpose to be a person who serves the people and is useful to the country. And today, I will open the treasure of the dream with a mantra, and take you in the country of my dream…
Open our hearts to the potentials of life
打开心门拥抱生活
We often close ourselves off when traumatic events happen in our lives; instead of letting the world soften us, we let it drive us deeper into ourselves. We try to deflect the hurt and pain by pretending it doesn’t exist, but although we can try this all we want, in the end, we can’t hide from ourselves. We need to learn to open our hearts to the potentials of life and let the world soften us.
Whenever we start to let our fears and seriousness get the best of us, we should take a step back and re-evaluate our behavior. The items listed below are six ways you can open your heart more fully and completely.
生活发生不幸时，我们常常会关上心门；世界不仅没能慰藉我们，反倒使我们更加消沉。我们假装一切仿佛都不曾发生，以此试图忘却伤痛，可就算隐藏得再好，最终也还是骗不了自己。既然如此，我们需要尝试打开心门，拥抱生活中的各种可能，让世界感化我们。
当恐惧与焦虑来袭时，我们应该退后一步，重新反思自己的言行。下面六个方法有助于你更完满透彻地敞开心扉。
“Our attitude toward life determines life 8217;s attitude towards us.” We 8217;ve all heard about the power of our attitude, and that it 8217;s our attitude that determines how much we succeed in life.
“我们对生活的态度决定了生活对我们的态度。” 我们都听说过态度的力量，也知道正是我们的态度决定了我们在生命中会有多成功。
If you look around you, you will see that people with a positive attitude enjoy life more and are generally happier and more successful than those who walk around grumpy and pessimistic. Our attitude is the driving force in our lives―it can either push you to do great things or pull you down to your demise.
如果你看看周围，你就会发现那些以积极的态度享受生活的人们，比那些暴躁和悲观的人更开心而且更成功。我们的态度是我们生命中的动力――它可以推动你做伟大的’事情，也会把你带向灭亡。
While it 8217;s true that humans are born with certain tendencies or orientations, our personalities and attitudes are developed through our relationships and experiences. Our attitudes begin to develop in childhood and constantly evolve and change over the years through day-to-day interactions and experiences.
然而，人类天生就有某些发展趋势或方向，我们的个性和态度会随着我们的人际关系和经历而不断成熟。我们的看法从孩提时代开始，并多年来在每天的交往和经历中不断地发展和改变。
All the things that you have been through, all the people you have met and interacted with can have an impact on your attitude. If you think that all these factors have molded you into a person with a poor attitude towards life, there is no need to worry as there is always an opportunity for change. Let me share with you how I did it.
你所经历的所有事情、所见过并打交道的所有的人会影响你的态度。如果你认为这些所有的因素都让你对生活有了消极态度，不要担心，总有机会改变的。让我与你分享一下我的做法。
Time is like a river， the left bank is unable to forget the memories， right is worth grasp the youth， the middle of the fast flowing， is the sad young faint。 There are many good things， buttruly belong to own but not much。 See the courthouse blossom，honor or disgrace not Jing， hope heaven Yunjuanyunshu， has no intention to stay。 In this round the world， all can learn to use a normal heart to treat all around， is also a kind of realm！
中文：岁月就象一条河，左岸是无法忘却的回忆，右岸是值得把握的青春年华，中间飞快流淌的，是年轻隐隐的伤感。世间有许多美好的东西，但真正属于自己的’却并不多。看庭前花开花落，荣辱不惊，望天上云卷云舒，去留无意。在这个纷绕的世界里，能够学会用一颗平常的心去对待周围的一切，也是一种境界！
Half the people on our streets look as though life was a sorry business. It is hard to find a happy looking man or woman. Worry is the cause of their woebegone appearance. Worry makes the wrinkles; worry cuts the deep, down-glancing lines on the face; worry is the worst disease of our modern times. Care is contagious; it is hard work being cheerful at a funeral, and it is a good deal harder to keep the frown from your face when you are in the throng of the worry worn ones. Yet, we have no right to be dispensers of gloom; no matter how heavy our loads may seem to be we have no right to throw their burden on others nor even to cast the shadow of them on other hearts. Anxiety is instability. Fret steals away force. He who dreads tomorrow trembles today. Worry is weakness. The successful men may be always wide-awake, but they never worry.
Fret and fear are like fine sand, thrown into life’s delicate mechanism; they cause more than half the friction; they steal half the power. Cheer is strength. Nothing is so well done as that which is done heartily, and nothing is so heartily done as that which is done happily. Be happy, is an injunction not impossible of fulfillment.
Pleasure may be an accident; but happiness comes in definite ways. It is the casting out of our foolish fears that we may have room for a few of our common joys. It is the telling our worries to wait until we get through appreciating our blessings. Take a deep breath, raise your chest, lift your eyes from the ground, look up and think how many things you have for which to be grateful, and you will find a smile growing where one may long have been unknown. Take the right kind of thought―for to take no thought would be sin―but take the calm, unanxious thought of your business, your duties, your difficulties, your disappointments and all the things that once have caused you fear, and you will find yourself laughing at most of them.
Look at the fluttering willow, if winter snow, soft and beautiful. I sit on the balcony, bask in the warm sunshine of the afternoon, the earphone is gently hanged in my ear, let the song go through, a familiar and unfamiliar melody is ringing in my ear. We are the flower sea of may, embracing The Times with youth; We are the rising sun, with the point of life of course.
Because we are young, we are immature, we are not mature enough; And because we are young, we have an “& ldquo” in front of new things. Aggressive & throughout; In the face of difficulties. A pitch & throughout; In the face of trivia. Energy & throughout; Before study, there is a “ Was & throughout; . The youth of us, earnest and not perfunctory, steadfast and not frivolous, giving without taking, true and not false. In the face of challenges, we will never shrink back. In the face of heavy study, we never take it off. We are the dawn before dawn, the darkness of the infinite, brings light and hope to the world. Perhaps, in the past may have sincere confession, devout pray, have frustrated hesitation, have a heart of gratitude, and for those people, those things will be forgotten in the shadow of time, there are some things even disappear in the years never wake up in the fold. The youth of may, the dream of youth, the sailing of dreams. In may, we dance the dream of youth and open the voyage of youth. The spring flowers of may are the fruit of the golden autumn and harvest dream theatre. In may, the mood is so comfortable, the spring breeze takes away the depressed winter, the spring rain moistens the restless heart, gives us new hope. There is a youth and stubbornness in May. There is a kind of perseverance and bravery in May. There is a touch and hope in May.
看着满天飞舞的柳絮，若冬天的雪，轻柔而美丽。我坐在阳台上，沐浴着午后温暖的阳光，耳机轻轻挂在耳边，任歌曲一首首流过，一首熟悉而陌生的旋律在耳边响起“我们是五月的花海，用青春拥抱时代；我们是初升的太阳，用生命点当然未来”
因为彼此年轻, ,我们尚显稚嫩,我们不够成熟;也正因为年轻,我们在新事物面前有“闯劲”,困难面前有“韧劲”,琐事面前有“干劲”,学习面前有“钻劲”。青春的.我们,认真而不敷衍,踏实而不轻浮,奉献而不索取,真实而不虚伪。面对挑战,我们决不退缩;面对繁重的学习,我们决不推脱。我们是黎明前的曙光，划过无穷的黑暗，给世间带来光明和希望。也许，过去的五月里，有真诚的忏悔，有虔诚的祈祷，有失意的彷徨，有发自内心的感恩，还有那些事那些人，都将尘封在时光的阴影里，有些事甚至消失在岁月的褶皱里永远不再醒来。五月的青春，青春的梦，梦的启航。五月里，我们舞动青春的梦，开启青春的航。五月的春暖花开过后就是硕果累累的金秋和收获梦的剧场。春暖花开的五月，心情是如此舒畅，春风把压抑的冬日带走，春雨滋润着那颗躁动的心，送给我们新的希望。有一种青春和倔强，在五月。 有一种执着和勇敢，在五月。有一种感动和希望，在五月。
If somebody tells you, ” I’ll love you for ever,” will you believe it?
I don’t think there’s any reason not to. we are ready to believe such commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen afterwards. As for the belief in an everlasting love, that’s another thing.
Then you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love. I’d answer i believe in it. But an everlasting love is not immutable.
You may unswervingly love or be loved by a person. But love will change its composition with the passage of time. It will not remain the same. In the course of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become something different to you.
In the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last indefinitely. By and by, however,” fervent” gave way to ” prosaic” . Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last. Then what was meant by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of interdependence.
We used to insist on the difference between love and liking. The former seemed much more beautiful than the latter. one day, however, it turns out there’s really no need to make such difference. Liking is actually a sort of love. By the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.
I wish i could believe there was somebody who would love me forever. That’s, as we all know, too romantic to be true. Instead, it will more often than not be a case of lasting relationship.