簡短的英語美文摘抄賞析

　　經典美文,經得起時間的考驗,被歷史證明是最有價值、最重要的文化精髓,思想巨集遠,構思巧妙,語言精美。本文是簡短的英語美文，希望對大家有幫助!

　　簡短的英語美文：Believe in yourself 相信自己

　　A professor stood before his class of 20 senior organic biology students, about to hand out the final exam.

　　"I want to say that it's been a pleasure teaching you this semester. I know you've all worked extremely hard and many of you are off to medical school after summer. So that no one gets their GPA messed up because they might have been celebrating a bit too much this week, anyone who would like to opt out of the final exam today will receive a 'B' for the course."

　　There was much rejoicing amongst the class as students got up, passed by the professor to thank him and sign out on his offer. As the last taker left the room, the professor looked out over the handful of remaining students and asked, "Any one else? This is your last chance." One final student rose up and took the offer.

　　The professor closed the door and took attendance of those students remaining. "I'm glad to see you believe in yourself." he said. "You all have 'A' s."

　　一位有機生物學教授站在20名高年級的學生面前，正準備發期末考試的試卷。

　　“我要說的是，這個學期能夠教你們我感到非常榮幸。我明白你們都很努力，你們中的許多人在暑假之後就要去醫學院深造了。為了避免同學們因為參與本週末過多的慶祝活動而影響了學習成績，所以有誰願意放棄這次考試，就可以得‘B’。”

　　許多學生異常驚喜，一個接一個地站了起來，從教授身邊走過，對他表示感謝，並在紙上籤了名。等到最後一個選擇放棄的學生走出教室後，教授看著剩下的同學問：“還有嗎?這是你們的最後機會了。”終於，還是有一名同學站了起來，接受了建議。

　　教授關上門，清點了一下剩餘的同學，說道：“我非常高興看到你們能夠相信自己，你們都得‘A’。”

　　簡短的英語美文：The Athenian and the Theban 雅典人和底比斯人

　　An Athenian and a Theban were on the road together, and passed the time in conversation, as is the way of travelers. After discussing a variety of subjects they began to talk about heroes, a topic that tends to be more fertile than edifying. Each of them was lavish in his praises of the heroes of his own city, until eventually the Theban asserted that Hercules was the greatest hero who had ever lived on earth, and now occupied a foremost place among the gods; while the Athenian insisted that Theseus was far superior, for his fortune had been in every way supremely blessed, whereas Hercules had at one time been forced to act as a servant. And he gained his point, for he was a very glib fellow, like all Athenians; so that the Theban, who was no match for him in talking; cried at last in some disgust, "All right, have your way; I only hope that, when our heroes are angry with us, Athens may suffer from the anger of Hercules, and Thebes only from that of Theseus."

　　一個雅典人和一個底比斯人一同走在路上，就像其他旅行者一樣，他們用聊天來打發時間。聊了一些其他話題之後，他們開始談起英雄，雖然沒有什麼教育意義，但這可是一個頗有談資的內容，一提到讚美各自城市的英雄，兩個人侃侃而談。後來，底比斯斷言，赫拉克勒斯是地球上曾經存在過的最偉大的英雄，現在佔據了眾神之中的首要位置。而雅典人則堅持認為，提修斯遠遠超過了赫拉克勒斯，因為他的命運在各方面都得到了充分的眷顧，而赫拉克勒斯曾一度被迫充當奴隸。他達到了自己的目的，因為他像所有雅典人一樣，是一個非常圓滑的傢伙。而底比斯人在談話中根本不是他的對手，最後有些反感地大吼道：“好吧，隨便你，我只希望，當我們的英雄對我們生氣時，雅典人會從赫拉克勒斯的憤怒中遭殃，而底比斯人則從提修斯的憤怒中受苦。”

　　簡短的英語美文：The Tale of the Sun

　　A long, long time ago, the earth was in complete darkness. There was no sun, only the moon and some stars. This was before people, when giant animals roamed the earth. They were much bigger than animals today. Dinewan the Emu and Bralagah the Brolga were two such animals.

　　One day, they were arguing and fighting over some silly little thing. Bralagah got angry and grabbed one of Dinewan's large eggs and hurled it into the sky. It landed on a pile of firewood where the yellow yolk burst into flames. The flames were so bright, that the world was lit up.

　　One of the good spirits who lived in the sky was watching this and saw how bright and beautiful the world looked. Maybe if a fire was lit everyday, there would always be light.

　　So the good spirit collected wood every night. When the pile was big enough, his friend, the morning star, would come out to let everyone know that the fire was about to start. But what about anyone sleeping? How would they know that the fire was lit? The good spirit thought about this. Then, somewhere in the distance, came a loud laugh.

　　Gugurrgaagaa, gugurrgaagaa

　　The sound of the cackling kookaburra rang out across the earth.

　　'That's it, that's the noise I want,' The good spirit was jumping up and down with excitement. At last he had found a way to wake the world.

　　So now, every morning, just as the dawn is breaking, the laugh of Gugurrgaagaa the Kookaburra can be heard all across Australia, bringing in the new day.