英語經典美文背誦

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　　英語經典美文篇1

　　In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion.

　　When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba - no one knew where.No mail or telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly. Whatto do?

　　Some said to the President, “There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan who will find Garcia for you, if anybody can.”

　　Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How the “fellow by the name of Rowan” took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by nightoff the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot and delivered his letter to Garcia - are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. The point that I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, “Where is he at?”

　　By the Eternal! There is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing - “Carry a message to Garcia.”

　　General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man -the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it.

　　Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant.

　　在所有與古巴有關的亊情中，有一個人常常令我無法忘懷。美西戰爭爆發以後，美國必須馬上與反抗軍首領加西亞將軍取得聯絡。加西亞將軍隱藏在古巴遼闊的崇山峻嶺中——沒有人知道確切的地點，因而無法送信或電報給他。但是，美國總統必須要儘快與他建立合作關係。怎麼辦呢?

　　有人對總統推薦說：“有一個名字叫羅文的人，假如有人能找到加西亞將軍，那個人一定就是他。”

　　於是，他們將羅文找來，交給他一封信——寫給加西亞的信。關於那個“名字叫羅文的人"如何拿了信，將它裝進一個油 紙袋裡並打封，吊在胸口藏好,如何用4天的時間乘坐一條敞口 船連夜抵達古巴海岸，而後消失在叢林之中，如何在3個星期之後出現在古巴島的另一端，其間徒步穿越一個危機四伏的國家，將信交到加西亞手上——這些都不是我現在想要詳細講述的。我希望強調的重點是:美國總統麥金萊將一封寫給加西亞的信交給了羅文，而羅文接過信後，並沒有問“他在哪裡?"

　　像羅文這樣的人,我們應該為他塑造不朽的育銅雕像，將其放在美國每一所大學裡。年輕人所需要的不僅僅是學習書本上的知識，也不僅僅是聆聽他人的種種教誨，更需要的是對於一種責任的忠誠，能夠立即採取行動，全心全意去完成任務——"把信送給加西亞"。

　　加西亞將軍已不在人世，但是現在還有其他的“加西亞”。沒有人能經營好這樣的一家企業——雖然需要眾多人手，但時常幾乎讓人驚駭的是，其中大部分人庸庸碌碌——他們要麼能力不足，要麼裉本不願意全心全意去工作。

　　懶懶散散、漠不關心、馬馬虎虎和心不在焉的工作態度，對於許多人來說似乎已成常態。除非苦口婆心、威通利誘地強迫他們做亊，或者，請善意的上帝創造奇蹟，並派一名光芒天使相助，否則，這些人將一亊無成。

　　英語經典美文篇2

　　致威爾士王妃戴安娜的獻詞

　　Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you buthalf a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young, and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult. We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.

　　There is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory, there is no need to do so. You stand tall enough asa human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed, to sanctify your memory wouldbe to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humour with a laugh that bent you double. Your joy for life, transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in thoseunforgettable eyes. Your boundless energy, which you could barely contain. But your greatest gift was yourintuition and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyse what it was about you that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctivefeel for what was really important in all our lives...

　　即使上帝只賜予了你一半的生命，我們今天還是趁此機會來感謝你以自己的那種方式使我們的生命熠熠生輝。我們大家永遠都會有一種上當受騙的感覺，因為你過早地香銷玉殞，但是我們仍然必須學會感恩，因為你畢競曾與我們同在。唯在此刻，當你已離我們遠去，我們才真正意識到我們現在損失了什麼。我們想讓你知道，沒有你，我們的生活會是十分、十分困難的。我們大家都在過去的一週內因為失去了你而感到絕望。在過去的歲月裡，你不斷給別人以奉獻的啟示，唯有這種啟示的威力才為我們提供了朝前邁進的力量。

　　人們情不自禁急於想要尊你為聖徒，其實，並沒有必要這麼做。因為作為一個具有無與倫位元質的凡人，你足夠超凡，無須被視做聖徒。確實，把你尊為聖徒來紀念，或許將會遺漏你性格的核心，那就是你用開懷大笑所表達的絕妙的童心未泯的幽默感。你對生活的欣喜，通過你的微笑和你令人難忘的雙眸中的閃光，傳遍了你的所到之處。還有你那幾乎無法抑制的無窮的活力。但你最傑出的天賦是你的直覺，而你又把它加以睿智地使用。這種能力加強了你其他一切出類拔萃的特質。假如我們特意要分析你身上的什麼東西會有這麼普遍的吸引力，我們就會發現你對所有我們大家生活中真正重要的東西都有一種本能的同情....

　　英語經典美文篇3

　　奧運會的另一面

　　The Olympics represents the noble ideal of sports overcoming the barriers of politics with champion athletes of all nations gathering in the spirit of sportsmanship. However, the stakes go beyond who wins the gold medal. Shortly after each competition, nations begin to vie afresh for the bid to host the next game. Winning the vote to host is not merely an honor, it is a political conquest in global recognition. It also spins revenue from the influx of tourists, participants and Olympic related paraphernalia.

　　However, all that glitters is not gold. For some residents of Beijing, the site of Olympic 2008, the impact of winning the bid cuts deep and far into their personal lives. The capital is expecting to pour billions of dollars into sports facilities and related upgrades such as roads, public transport, landscaping and sanitation. For the bustling city of bicycles and traffic jams tucked among imperial relics, the Olympics is an opportunity for urban renewal.

　　Yet for those within the areas, something must give way to make room for the model Olympic Village.

　　Decades of family homes will be uprooted and dispersed among apartments on the outskirts of the city. Although modern plumbing and sanitation will replace chamber pots, the move is an upheaval of a community and its way of life and social dynamics. It will be interesting to follow up on those and study the effects ofthe transplant.

　　The Olympics upgrades are not disposable stage props that can be easily discarded after the show. Experts are afraid that without the heartbeat of ordinary people dwelling in the ancient city, the high tech Olympic City would become culturally dry. Careful urban planning and stringent regulations such as building restrictions can preserve the impression of an intact neighborhood. Nevertheless, without the residents, aesthetic is lost and only the facade remains, waiting to be filled by tourists and businesses.

　　Nonetheless who can begrudge anyone a more comfortable living environment? Even without the Olympics, can the drumbeat of modernization be stopped? And whether the changes are for better or worse, who should presume to judge such things other than those whose lives bear the brunt of the impact?

　　奧運會所代表的崇高理想，就是各國的運動選手用運動員精神超越政治障礙聚集在一起。可是，其利害關係不僅在於誰獲得金牌。每一屆奧運會後不久，各國又重新開始爭奪下一屆奧運會的主辦權。獲得主辦權不僅僅是一種榮譽，也代表著在政治上被全球認同的勝利。此外，還可以通過接踵而來的遊客、參賽者和和奧運會有關的裝置迅速增加稅收。

　　然而，我們不能只看其表面***該句亦可直譯為"閃閃發光的未必都是金子”***。對於北京2008年奧運會場地的那些居民來說，獲得主辦權對他們生活的影響是深遠的。首都預計要在運動設施及其相關的改進，如道路、公共交通、環境景觀和公共衛生等方面投入數十億美元。對於其皇家遺址中到處存放自行車、交通擁堵的繁忙城市，奧運會是一次都市翻新的機會。可是對於那些住在規劃用地的人而言，他們必須放棄一些東西來為—個現代化的奧運村騰地兒。

　　幾十年的家園被連根拔起，而被分散到城市郊區的公寓。雖然現代化的管道和衛生裝置將取代便盆，但是遷移對一個社群及其生活方式和社會變遷過程仍然是一個大變動。追蹤這些人並研究遷移給他們帶來的影響將是很有意義的。

　　為奧運會所做的改進工程，並非是戲劇演出結束後輕易就可以丟棄的舞臺小道具。專家們擔心在這座古城中缺乏了普通 居民的聲跡，高科技的奧運城會在文化上幾近枯竭。即使細心的城市規劃和嚴厲的法規,例如建築管制可以保留原封不動的社群外觀，然而沒有了居民，美感仍會失落,而只留下空殼，等待遊客和商業的填充。

　　不過，誰能妒忌一些人有較舒適的居住環境呢?即使沒有奧運會，現代化的鼓點聲是否能被阻擋?而且社會變遷的好與壞，除了那些深受其影響的人以外，還有誰能擅自判斷呢?