短小英語文章及翻譯

　　閱讀是英語十分重要的一部分,人們通過閱讀去獲得資訊,開拓視野,學生們通過閱讀進行英語的學習,提高閱讀能力是各個階段英語教學的重要目標之一。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

　　無論是60歲還是16歲，你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、永不熄滅的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事業成功的歡樂與熱情。在你我的心底，有一座無線電臺，它能在多長時間裡接收到人間萬物傳遞來的美好、希望、歡樂、鼓舞和力量的資訊，你就會年輕多長時間。

　　An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

　　人的生命應當像河流，開始是涓涓細流，受兩岸的限制而十分狹窄，爾後奔騰咆哮，翻過危巖，飛越瀑布，河面漸漸開闊，河岸也隨之向兩邊隱去，最後水流平緩，森森無際，匯入大海之中，個人就這樣毫無痛苦地消失了。

　　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 sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.

　　青春意味著戰勝懦弱的那股大丈夫氣概和擯棄安逸的那種冒險精神。往往一個60歲的老者比一個20歲的青年更多一點這種勁頭。人老不僅僅是歲月流逝所致，更主要的是不思進取的結果。

　　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.

　　光陰可以在顏面上留下印記，而熱情之火的熄滅則在心靈上刻下皺紋。煩惱、恐懼、缺乏自信會扭曲人的靈魂，並將青春化為灰燼。

　　篇二

　　A Sly Murder

　　When giving a lecture about the significance of punctuation, the academic professor was interrupted and arrested by the police for murdering his wife, a receptionist of a kindergarten. The police found some photos he deleted from their e-album showing that they used to have a gay life. But, fed up with her wrinkled face, he murdered her instead of divorcing her to avoid fortune division. He cut up a kind of seashell with a sharpened knife, and hammered it into powder on a skateboard, and made at most one gram, which was enough to accelerate one’s pulse until he or she dies. This kind of poison can date back to 10,000 BC when people rubbed it on spears to kill beasts. The professor mixed the poison with onion, watermelon and yogurt for his wife. Howling and scratching her chest, she felt dizzy and died soon.

　　After tentative examination, the police assumed she died of heart disease. But systematic botanical analyses showed that the watermelon spit on the messy mat and the quilt was poisonous. Regardless of exhaustion and starvation, the acute and skilful policemen used radioactive equipment to make sure the category of the poison. Primitive and not ample as their alternative equipment was, they got perfect accuracy somehow.

　　People applauded the police and the woman’s family can look ahead with relief now.

　　一宗狡猾的謀殺案

　　那位學院的教授在發表關於標點符號重要意義的演講時被警察打斷了，他因謀殺自己的妻子——一位幼兒園的接待員——而被逮捕。警察找到了一些被他從電子相簿裡刪除的照片，照片表明，他們曾經有過快樂的生活，但是，因為厭煩了妻子起皺的臉，他殺死她而不是和她離婚以避免離婚時的財產分割。他用一把磨利的小刀切碎一種貝殼，然後在滑板上錘打成粉末，最多1克就足以加速人的脈搏直到其死亡。這種毒藥可以追溯到公元前10，000年，當時它就被塗抹在長予上殺死野獸。教授把這種毒藥混合在洋蔥、西瓜和酸奶裡給他的妻子，後者叫喊、抓撓胸口、頭暈目眩，很快就死了。

　　在初步檢查之後，警察設想她是死於心臟病。但是系統的植物學分析卻表明，吐在凌亂的席子和被子上的西瓜有毒。敏銳而又技術嫻熟的警察不顧疲勞和飢餓，用放射性的裝置確定了毒素的種類。儘管可供選擇的裝置原始，且數量不足，他們還是設法取得了完美的準確度。

　　人們都為警察歡呼鼓掌，而那位女人的家人現在也可以帶著欣慰為將來打算了。

　　篇三

　　Abstract Art

　　Abstract art used to be controversial. On one hand, the artists stopped painting delicate figures but attempted to adopt special techniques to give people different visual impacts. On the other hand, their works, including sculptures carved out of marble or fragile clay, were all with a specific aim of showing feelings. Some conventional scholars who were allergic to abstract art said it was evidently ridiculous and neither art nor geometry. Their Traditional Art Committee predicted its soon disappearing.

　　But nowadays, abstract art has become part of the permanent possessions of contemporary civilization. Galleries along the Madison Avenue give scores of superb exhibitions on typical abstract works, appealing to many who have a preference for abstract art. The Shadow of Egypt, a café in this district, has become the home to those aggressive abstract artists. Consequently, it is not a coincidence for you to meet one of these artists of great reputation in the flesh. They are asked for signatures and given bunches of fragrant flowers plus they are given a great deal of praise by their faithful fans.

　　抽象藝術

　　抽象藝術曾經頗受爭議，一方面，抽象藝術家們不再畫精緻的畫像，而是試圖採用特別的技巧給人們以不同的視覺衝擊;另一方面，他們的作品，包括用大理石和易碎的粘土雕刻出來的雕像，都以表達感情為其明確的目的。有些對抽象藝術反感的傳統學者說抽象藝術是極其明顯地荒謬可笑，說它既不是藝術，又不是幾何學，他們的傳統藝術委員會還預言了它的迅速消失。

　　但是到了今天，抽象藝術已經成為當代文明永久財產的一部分，麥蒂遜大道的畫廊為典型的抽象藝術作品舉辦了許多出色的展覽，吸引了許多對抽象藝術有偏愛的人。這區有家叫埃及之影的咖啡館已經成為那些有進取精神的抽象藝術家們活動的根據地，所以，親眼見到一位名聲極大的藝術家本人並不是什麼巧合的事，他們被忠實的崇拜者索取簽名，並被給予成束的芬芳花朵和大量的讚揚。