英語名著經典段落

　　經過了時間的沉澱和篩選而被後人認可的古今中外的名著經典,堪稱人類最寶貴的精神食糧,是影響學生精神,滋潤學生品質的最優秀、最重要和最有效的媒體。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

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　　1. Life is a chess-board The chess-board is the world: the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

　　By Thomas Henry Huxley

　　棋盤宛如世界：一個個棋子彷彿世間的種種現象：遊戲規則就是我們所稱的自然法則。競爭對手藏於暗處，不為我們所見。我們知曉，這位對手向來處事公平，正義凜然，極富耐心。然而，我們也明白，這位對手從不忽視任何錯誤，或者因為我們的無知而做出一絲讓步，所以我們也必須為此付出代價。

　　2. Best of times It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

　　這是一個最好的時代，也是一個最壞的時代;這是明智的年代，這是愚昧的年代;這是信任的紀元，這是懷疑的紀元;這是光明的季節，這是黑暗的季節;這是希望的春日，這是失望的冬日;我們面前應有盡有，我們面前一無所有;我們都將直下地獄……

　　3. Equality and Greatness Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing; character, conduct and capacity are everything. Instead of all the workers being leveled down to low wage standards and all the rich leveled up to fashionbale income standards,everybody under a system of equal incomes would find his or her own natural level.There would be great people and ordinary people and little peolpe,but the great would always be those who had done great things,and never the idiot whose mother had spoiled them and whose father had left a hunred thousand a year;and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters,and not poor persons who had never had a chance.That is why idiots are always in favour of inequality of income***their only chance of eminence***,and the really great in favour of equality.

　　收入相當的人除了品性迥異以外沒有社會差別。金錢不能說明什麼;性格，行為，能力才代表一切。在收入平等制度下，每個人將會找到他或她正常的地位，而不是所有的工人被劃到應拿低工資階層，所有的富人被劃到應得高收入的階層。人有卓著偉人，平庸之輩和碌碌小人之別，然偉人總是那些有所建樹之人，而非從小深受母親溺愛，父親每年留下一大筆錢之人;碌碌小人總是那些心胸狹窄，品德卑劣之人，而不是那些從未獲取機會的窮人。愚蠢之眾總是贊成收入不平等***他們職能憑藉這種機會才能為人所知***，而真正偉大之人則主張平等相待，原因就在於此。

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　　1. Wuthering Heights——《呼嘯山莊》

　　You'll pass the churchyard, Mr Lockwood, on your way back to the Grange, and you'll see the three graverestones close to the moor. Catherine's, the middle one, is old now, and half buried in plants which have grown over it. On one side is Edgar Linton's, and on the other is Heathcliff's new one. If you stay there a moment, and watch the insects flying in the warm summer air, and listen to the soft wind breathing through the grass, you'll understand how quietly they rest, the sleepers in that quiet earth.

　　您回畫眉山莊的路上會經過教堂墓地，洛克伍德先生，您可以看見靠近荒原的三個墓碑。中間凱瑟琳的已經很舊了，被周圍生長的雜草掩蓋住了一半。一邊是艾加•林頓的，另一邊是西斯克裡夫的新墓碑。如果您在那兒呆一會兒，看著在溫暖夏日的空氣裡紛飛的昆蟲，聽著在草叢中喘息的柔風，您就會知道在靜謐的泥土下，長眠的人在多麼平靜的安息。

　　2. The Scarlet Letter——《紅字》

　　The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel. Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

　　新殖民地的開拓者們，不管他們的頭腦中起初有什麼關於人類品德和幸福的美妙理想，總要在各種實際需要的草創之中，忘不了劃出一片未開墾的處女地充當墓地，再則出另一片土地來修建監獄。根據這一慣例，我們可以有把握地推斷：波士頓的先民們在谷山一帶的某處地方修建第一座監獄，同在艾薩克.約朝遜①地段標出頭一塊壟地幾乎是在同一時期。後來便以他的墳塋為核心，擴充套件成王家教堂的那一片累累墓群的古老墓地。可以確定無疑地說，早在鎮子建立十五年或二十年之際，那座木造監獄就已經因風吹日晒雨淋和歲月的流逝而為它那猙獰和陰森的門面增加了幾分晦暗悽楚的景象，使它那橡木大門上沉重的鐵活的斑斑鏽痕顯得比新大陸的任何陳跡都益發古老。象一切與罪惡二字息息相關的事物一樣，這座監獄似乎從來不曾經歷過自己的青春韶華。從這座醜陋的大房子門前，一直到軋著車轍的街道，有一片草地，上面過於繁茂地簇生著牛蒡、茨藜、毒莠等等這類不堪入目的雜草，這些雜草顯然在這塊土地上找到了共通的東西，因為正是在這塊土地上早早便誕生了文明社會的那棟黑花——監獄。然而，在大門的一側，幾乎就在門限處，有一叢野玫瑰挺然而立，在這六月的時分，盛開著精緻的寶石般的花朵，這會使人想象，它們是在向步入牢門的囚犯或跨出陰暗的刑徒奉獻著自己的芬芳和嫵媚，藉以表示在大自然的深深的心扉中，對他們仍存著一絲憐憫和仁慈。