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初中英語美文篇1
Love and Time
Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge and all of the others, including Love. One day, it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left, except for Love.
Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment.
When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.
Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Lovesaid, "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you."
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!" "I can't help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered.
Sadness was closed by, so Love asked, "Sadness, Let me go with you." "Oh... Love, I am so sad that I need to be myself!"
Happiness passed by Love, too. But she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went her own away.
Realizing how much was owed the elder, Love asked Knowledge, another elder, "Who helped me?"
"It was Time," Knowledge answered.
"Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?"
Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is."
愛情與時間
很久以前，一個小島上住著快樂、悲傷等各種情感，還有智慧以及其它，當然還有愛情。某天，這座小島突然被宣佈即將沉沒，所有的情感都造好了自己的船離開，除了愛情。
愛情是唯一一個留下來的人，他希望能夠堅持到最後一刻!
當小島即將沒頂之際，愛情決定尋求幫助。
財富開著一條大船經過。愛情問，“財富，你可以帶上我嗎?”財富答道：“不，不行。我的船上裝滿了金銀財寶，裝不下你了。”
愛情決定問開著漂亮的船從旁邊經過的虛榮。“虛榮，請你救救我吧!”“我不能幫你，愛情，你渾身溼透了，你會弄髒我的船的!”
悲傷也在附近，於是愛情問：“悲傷，帶我一起走吧。” “噢，愛情，我是那麼的痛苦，痛苦的只想一個人呆著。”
快樂也經過了愛情，可是她快樂過頭了，沒聽見愛情在呼喚她。
突然，一個聲音響起，“來吧，愛情，我來幫你。”那是一個智者。愛情非常高興，高興的甚至忘了問他們要去哪兒。當他們抵達陸地時，老人獨自離開了。
愛情意識到自己欠了老人很多，於是問身邊的另一個智者智慧，“幫我的那個人是誰?”
智慧老人答道，“是時間。”
“時間?可是他為什麼要幫助我?”愛情不解。
智慧微笑著，充滿睿智地答道：“因為愛情的價值只有時間才能理解!”
初中英語美文篇2
Friends and valuative--On Making Friends
Everyone needs friends,and if you fail to make friends,you should examine yourself and see if there is something wrong with your personality.
May be you have social faults such as snobbishness,talkativeness and using slang etc. which drive away your new acquaintances.Whatever your social faults may be,look at them honestly and make real effort to correct them.
To be friendly you must feel friendly.Cheerfulness is the basis of friendliness.A cheerful people smiles.A smile is a magnet which draws people.Smile at someone and you are almost sure to get a smile in return.
A friendly person does his best to make a stranger feel at home,wherever he happens to be.Put yourself in the other fellow's place and make them feel welcome.
Try to remember names.It makes your new acquaintances feel happy when you call them by their names.It gives them the feeling that they have made an impression on you and that mean something to them because you remember them.
If you don't agree with other people on a certain matter,you should appear to be friendly.Don't argue,but discuss.You always lose friends if you argue too much.
A friendly person thinks of others,and doesn't insist on his own "rights".People who refuse to consider others have few friends.
Finally,don't treat people only according to their social positions.Really friendly people respect everyone at all times.
關於交友
人人都需要朋友，若你在交朋友方面總是失敗，就該反省自己，看是否你的個性有什麼問題。
或許你有些在社交上應該避諱的缺點，比如勢力、饒舌、說髒話等，這些都會妨礙你結交新朋友。無論你有什麼社交缺點，都該正視它們，盡力摒棄。
要友善，你一定要給人友好的感覺：快樂是友善的基礎。一個快樂的人總會面帶微笑。微笑好似有吸引力的磁鐵，你對別人微笑，你也會得到他微笑的回報。
無論在哪裡，友善之人都會讓陌生人有居家般自在舒適的感覺，設身處地為陌生人考慮，讓他有備受歡迎的感覺。
儘量記住人名。對新認識的朋友直呼其名會令他們很高興，他們會覺得你對他有了一定的印象，這說明你記住了他們，這對他們很重要。
若在某件事上你不能與別人達成一致意見，你該表現出友好。可以討論，但不要爭吵。爭吵過甚會使你失去朋友。
友善之人常為他人考慮，不會為自己爭取“權力”。不顧及別人的人，他的朋友寥寥無幾。
最後，切勿以社會地位論人。真正的友善之人往往尊重別人。
初中英語美文篇3
Enthusiasm takes you further
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys o`r the scurrying of a beetle.
It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self ***self-acceptance*** and, from that, love of others.
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money o`r title o`r power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.
Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-been." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooth the wrinkles from our souls.
熱情成就未來
多年前， 當我第一次找工作時， 不少明智之士強烈向我建議：“巴巴拉，要有熱情!熱情比任何經驗都更有益。”這話多麼正確，熱情的人可以把沉悶的車程變成探險， 把加班變成機會， 把生人變成朋友。
“沒有熱情就不會有任何偉大的成就，” 拉爾夫•沃爾多.愛默生寫道當事情進展不順時，熱情是幫助你堅持下去的粘合劑當別人叫喊“你不行”時， 熱情是你內心發出的聲音：“我能行”。
1983年諾貝爾醫學獎的獲得者遺傳學家巴巴拉•麥克林托克早年的工作直到很多年後才被公眾所承認，但她並沒有放棄實驗工作，對她來說是一種如此巨大的快樂， 她從未想過要停止它。
我們都生來好奇, 睜大眼睛，滿懷熱情——每一個看到過嬰兒聽到鑰匙聲或看見亂爬的甲蟲就興奮不已的人都會明白這一點。
正是這種孩子氣的好奇給了熱情的人們***不論年齡大小***一種青春的氣息。大提琴家帕布羅•卡薩爾斯在90歲時還堅持以拉巴赫開始他的每一天音樂從他的指間流出， 他彎著的背挺直起來， 歡樂再度溢滿他的眼眸音樂對卡薩爾斯來說, 是使人生變成無止境的探索之旅的靈丹妙藥就像作家兼詩人塞繆爾•厄爾曼曾寫過的：“歲月使面板起了皺紋， 但如果失去熱情， 便會使靈魂起皺紋”。
怎樣才能找回孩提時代的熱情呢?我相信答案就在“熱情”這個詞本身“熱情”一詞源於希臘語， 原意是“內在的上帝”這裡所說的“內在的上帝”不是別的, 而是一種持久不變的愛——恰當的自愛***自我接受***， 並推而及於他人。
熱情的人們同樣熱愛他們所做的事，而不是考慮錢位權如果我們不能把熱愛的事作為正式職業， 我們也可把它當作業餘消遣：比如有國家元首喜歡畫畫的， 有修女參加馬拉松長跑的， 有行政官員手工製作傢俱的。
堪薩斯州韋爾斯維爾市的伊麗莎白•萊頓到68歲才開始畫畫這一愛好消除了曾糾纏她至少達30年之久的憂鬱症而她的作品水準之高使得一個評論家說：“我忍不住要稱萊頓為天才”伊麗莎白又找回了她的熱情。
我們不應該把眼淚浪費在“早該”之類的後悔上我們需要把眼淚化為汗水，去追求“可能”之物。
我們需要以全副身心去度過生命中的每一分鐘——在後花園的芬芳中在6歲小孩的蠟筆畫中在彩虹醉人的美中找到快樂正是這種對生活的熱愛， 讓我們雙目有神，讓我們步履矯健，讓我們靈魂的皺紋展平。