英語經典文章摘抄

　　文學經典閱讀在個體和諧人格構建中發揮著重要的特殊的作用。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - W.B. Yeats

　　他期望有上蒼的衣裳 - W.B. Yeats

　　Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light,

　　假若我有天神的繡袍，鑲嵌著金光和銀光，

　　The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light,

　　那些湛藍、淺灰和深黑色的繡袍，閃爍著夜光、日光和霞光，

　　I would spread the cloths under your feet:

　　我願把它們全都鋪在您的足下：

　　But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

　　但我身無分文只有夢想，

　　I have spread my dreams under your feet;

　　我已經把夢想鋪在您的足下;

　　Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

　　請輕輕踏著走，因為您踏著我的夢想。

　　One True Love

　　真正的愛

　　He never believed that true love existed.

　　他從不相信世上存在真正的愛。

　　His parents divorced when he was young and he didn't think that true love was able to survive in today's world.

　　年輕的時候他的父母就離婚了，他認為當今世界上真正的愛是不可能存在的。

　　He was proven wrong.

　　後來的事實證明，他錯了。

　　His grandparents were always supportive to the kids and tried to help them when their parents divorced. He knew they loved each other, just wasn't sure it was true love. He had never heard them say, "I love you or show any affection other than hugging. They had been married for over fifty years and he thought that their true love was gone.

　　父母離婚後，他的祖父母一直支援他和妹妹，並盡力幫助他們。他，知道他們相互愛戀餚。他，只是不能確信那是否是真正的愛。他從未聽他們說過"我愛你除了擁抱外，他們也沒有愛情的其它表示。他們結婚已經五十多年了，他想他們的真愛早已經煙消雲散了。

　　But again he was wrong. His grandfather, Ralph, was struck ill in his junior year of college and he didn't know how serious it was until he fell and hurt his hip. While in the hospital, the doctors found out a tumor in his lungs. They told him that he had lung cancer and due to previous illnesses, they could not operate and he was too weak for chemotherapy.

　　但是他又錯了。大三時，他的祖父病了。他，不知道祖父的病情有多嚴重，直到祖父跌倒，傷了臀部。在醫院裡，醫生髮現祖父的臍部有一個腫瘤。醫生告訴祖父，他得了肺癌。由於先前的疾病，醫生不能給他做手術;他太虛弱，也不能化療。

　　It was around Thanksgiving Day and by Christmas his condition worsened. The cancer spread and in late January his sister away at college too, called him crying and said she was on her way home because the doctors told our family that their grandfather had only a week to live, that by the weekend he would no longer be with them. Their family came in from around the country and slayed next to his side.

　　事情發生在感恩節前後，到聖誕節時，祖父的病情惡化，癌細胞迅速擴散。一月底，也在外地上大學的妹妹夾著給他打了個電話，說，她在回家的路上，因為醫生告訴我們家人我們的祖父只能活一週了，到週末他會離他們而去。他們的家人從全國各地回來，圍在他的身邊。

　　It was there he realized that true love does exist today and will survive beyond death. Every night as his grandfather grew more fragile, he would whisper sweet words to grandmother, Madge. The night before he died, grandmother was walking out of his room and he said to her "I love you Madge baby".

　　就是在祖父身邊，他才認識到當今世界上真正的愛確實存在著，並且可以超越死亡。每天晚上，當他的祖父變得越來越虛弱時，他會用甜蜜的話語同他的馬奇祖母低聲交談。就在祖父去世前的晚上，當祖母走出他的房間時，祖父對祖母說"我愛你，親愛的馬奇! "

　　The next morning he received a phone call at work that grandfather had passed during the night. Throughout his short battle with cancer, he realized how much two people can love each other and he realized how much it means to be loved and give love. It is the greatest gift on earth and it lasts beyond life because you never forget your one true love.

　　第二天早晨，上班時他收到一個電話:他的祖父在夜裡去真世了。在他的祖父與癌症病魔的短暫抗爭中，他認識到兩位老情人相互愛得是多麼深，他還認識到被愛和愛意味著什麼。這是? 世界上最偉大的禮物，它將超越生命而永存，因為你永遠也不會忘記你的一次真正的愛。

　　Time is running out for my friend.

　　時光荏苒，朋友已經老大不小了。

　　While we are sitting at lunch she casually mentions she and her husband are thinking of startinga family.

　　我們吃午飯時，她漫不經心地提起她和她丈夫正考慮要小孩的事。

　　“We’re taking a survey.” she says, half-joking. “Do you think I should have a baby?”

　　“我們正在作一項調查，”她半開玩笑地說，“你覺得我應該要個小孩嗎?”

　　“It will change your life,” I say, carefully keeping my tone neutral.

　　“這會改變你的生活。”我小心翼翼地說道，儘量使語氣保持客觀。

　　“I know,” she says, “no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous holidays...”

　　“我知道，”她答道，“週末睡不成懶覺，也不能隨心所欲地休假……”

　　But that’s not what I mean at all. I look at my friend, trying to decide what to tell her.

　　但我絕不是那個意思。我看著我的朋友，試圖整理一下自己的思緒。

　　I want her to know what she will never learn in childbirth classes.

　　我想讓她知道她永遠不可能在分娩課上學到的東西。

　　I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but becoming a mother willleave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will be vulnerable forever.

　　我想告訴她：分娩的有形傷疤可以癒合，但是做母親的情感傷痕卻永遠如新，她會因此變得十分脆弱，永遠都是。

　　I consider warning her that she will never again read a newspaper without thinking: “What ifthat had been my child?” That every plane crash, every house fire will haunt her.

　　如果那件事情發生在我的孩子身上將會怎樣啊?”每一次飛機失事、每一場住宅火災都會讓她提心吊膽。

　　That when she sees pictures of starving children, she will wonder if anything could be worsethan watching your child die.

　　我想告誡她，做了母親後，每當她看報紙時就會情不自禁地想：“看到那些忍飢挨餓的孩子們的照片時，她會思索，世界上還有什麼比眼睜睜地看著自己的孩子餓死更慘的事情呢?

　　I look at her carefully manicured nails and stylish suit and think that no matter howsophisticated she is, becoming a mother will reduce her to the primitive level of a bearprotecting her cub.

　　我打量著她精修細剪的指甲和時尚前衛的衣服，心裡想到，不管她打扮多麼考究，做了母親後，她會變得像護崽的母熊那樣原始而不修邊幅。

　　I feel I should warn her that no matter how many years she has invested in her career, she willbe professionally derailed by motherhood.

　　我覺得自己應該提醒她，不管她在工作上投入了多少年，一旦做了母親，工作就會脫離常規。

　　She might arrange for child care, but one day she will be going into an important businessmeeting, and she will think her baby’s sweet smell.

　　她當然可以安排他人照顧孩子，但說不定哪天她要去參加一個非常重要的商務會議，卻忍不住想起寶寶身上散發的甜甜乳香。

　　She will have to use every ounce of discipline to keep from running home, just to make sureher child is all right.

　　她不得不拼命剋制自己，才不致為了看看孩子是否安然無恙而中途跑回家。

　　I want my friend to know that every decision will no longer be routine.

　　我想讓我的朋友知道，有了孩子後，每一個決定都不再是例行公事。

　　That a five-year-old boy’s desire to go to the men’s room rather than the women’s at arestaurant will become a major dilemma.

　　在餐館，5歲的兒子想進男廁而不願進女廁，將成為擺在她眼前的一大難題。

　　The issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that achild molester may be lurking in the lavatory.

　　她將在兩個選擇之間權衡一番：尊重孩子的獨立和性別意識，還是讓他進男廁所冒被潛在的兒童性騷擾者侵害的危險。

　　However decisive she may be at the office, she will second-guess herself constantly as amother.

　　任憑她在辦公室多麼果斷，作為母親，她仍經常後悔自己當時的決定。

　　Looking at my attractive friend, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the addedweight of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself.

　　看著我這位漂亮迷人的朋友，我想讓她明白，她最終會恢復到懷孕前的體重，但是她對自己的感覺已經截然不同。

　　That her own life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child.

　　她現在如此看重的生命，將隨著孩子的誕生而變得不那麼寶貴。

　　She would give it up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for moreyears—not to accomplish her own dreams—but to watch her children accomplish theirs.

　　為了救自己的孩子，她時刻願意獻出自己的生命。但她也開始希望多活一些年頭，不是為了實現自己的夢想，而是為了看著孩子們美夢成真。

　　I want to describe to my friend the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to hit a ball.

　　我想向朋友形容自己看到孩子學會擊球時的喜悅。

　　I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog for thefirst time.

　　我想讓她留意孩子第一次觸控狗的絨毛時的捧腹大笑。

　　I want her to taste the joy that is so real it hurts.

　　我想讓她品嚐快樂，儘管這快樂是如此真實地令人心痛。

　　My friend’s look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes.

　　朋友的表情讓我意識到，自己已經是熱淚盈眶。

　　“You’ll never regret it.” I say finally.

　　“你永遠不會後悔的,”我最後說。

　　Then, squeezing my friend’s hand, I offer a prayer for her and me and all of the mere mortalwomen who stumble their way into this holiest of callings.

　　然後緊緊地握住朋友的手，為她、為自己，也為每一位艱難跋涉、準備響應母親這一神聖職業的召喚的平凡女性，獻上自己的祈禱。