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　　英語美文欣賞課的教學,應引導學生在閱讀中度過一段美好的時光,即感悟生活,觸動心靈,讓學生在感受語言美的同時,體驗真摯的情感美,並形成一定的跨文化意識。小編精心收集了短篇的名家英語美文，供大家欣賞學習!

　　短篇的名家英語美文：Maybe Geniuses Just Got Lucky

　　Life is unfair, as eventhe Bible acknowledges.

　　We can't all hit abaseball like DiMaggio or sing like the Beatles.

　　But how much do we understand about those who can.

　　Not enough, says Malcolm Gladwell, in his new book, Outliers: The Story of Success.

　　We attribute the Beatles' fabulous success to their amazing musical talents, whereas Gladwell has a different explanation-as a determinant of success, talent is overrated,compared with, among other things, luck.

　　Outliers opens with a typically Gladwellian puzzle:

　　why are so many professional hockey players born early in the year?

　　生活是不公平的，這一點甚至連《聖經》也不加否認。

　　不是每個人都能把棒球打的像迪馬喬那樣出神入化或把歌唱得像甲殼蟲樂隊那樣震撼人心。

　　但是我們對那些能做得如此完美的人究竟瞭解多少?

　　馬爾科姆·格拉德威爾在他的新書《異類:不一樣的成功啟示錄》中指出我們對這方面的瞭解還只是皮毛而已。

　　我們常把甲殼蟲樂隊的驕人成就歸因於他們驚人的音樂天賦，然而格拉德威爾卻有著獨特的見解—天賦確實是取得成功的一個決定性因素，但是跟其他因素如運氣相比，天賦的作用被過分誇大了。

　　《異類》一開始就提出了一個典型的格拉德威爾之謎:

　　為什麼會有如此多的職業曲棍球運動員出生在一年中的前幾個月份?

　　短篇的名家英語美文：生活的樂趣 The Joy of Living 

　　Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them，giving them the freedom of a bird in the open.

　　Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask.

　　People who have this joy do not need to talk about it; they radiate it.

　　They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glow into other lives as naturally as a bird sings.

　　And those who have and exhibit the joy of living are never those who have been without care, sorrow, failure, disappointment，and discouragement.

　　They are rather those who have suffered and conquered, and who are willing to bear their share of the vicissitudes of life uncomplainingly.

　　The joy of living never comes to the frivolous，the superficial, the selfish.

　　We can never get it by working for it directly.

　　It comes, like happiness, to those who are aiming at something higher.

　　It is a by—product of great, simple living.

　　The joy of living comes from what we put into living，not from what we seek to get from it.

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　　生活的樂趣

　　生活的樂趣來自於快樂的情緒，信賴並放任這些情緒，就像鳥兒在野外自由飛翔一般。

　　生活的樂趣是無法靠擺姿態或罩上面具來偽裝的。

　　有生活樂趣的人無須把生活樂趣掛在嘴上，因為這些人全身都會散發出這種氣息。

　　他們只需感受自己的快樂，並用這種快樂如同鳥兒歌唱的方式，自然而然地感染別人，使他布門感受到快樂的陽光和熱力。

　　而那些擁有並展現出生活樂趣的人，絕不是那些沒有憂慮、痛苦、失敗、失望與沮喪的人。

　　相反地，他們是那些曾吃過苦頭也成功過的一群人，無怨無悔地承擔人生的大起大落。

　　做事輕率、膚淺而又自私的人從不會有生活的樂趣。

　　我們若直接追求生活的樂趣是永遠得不到它的。

　　就像快樂一樣，生活的樂趣只會降臨在那些目標更為遠大的人的身上。

　　生活過得高雅、純樸就會有生活的樂趣。

　　生活的樂趣來自我們對生活所做的投入，而非所求。

　　短篇的名家英語美文：Hunger 飢餓

　　[1]Believe it or not, I've been starving for four days on end.

　　[2] At first, I ate nothing but four baked cakes or two small buns per day, then I cut them down by half and then by another half, until I didn't even own a copper for buying boiled water. When I was thirsty, I would stand under a tap and let its running water pour down my throat through my wide-open mouth. I felt bloated. There was a pain and chill in my stomach. I cannot tell you enough how miserable I was.

　　[3] How did it come that I had been reduced to such poverty? It was because the school where I studied had got into trouble. Many students had been arrested and taken to the police station. Some students had moved house and some had gone home. The school canteen was closed because it refused to serve meals on credit. While trying to rescue the arrested fellow students, I meanwhile had to find enough money to pay my living expenses. So I was terribly busy.

　　[4] Pressed by hunger, I would visit Chunchao Bookstore every day to seek a loan of money. When Kang Nong or Fu Hua was there, I would have no problem in borrowing a couple of silver dollars through them. But I seldom found them in the store and the clerks of course had no say in this matter. Therefore, in nine times out of ten nothing would come of my visit there.

　　[5] 1 was beside myself with joy the day when I found my book The Diary of a Woman Soldier published at long last. Pasted up at the door of the bookstore was an eye-catching colourful poster advertising the book. I went into the store full of curiosity, and, as an ordinary customer would do, took from the shelf a copy of the book, which had on its bright-red front cover a cartoon by Feng Zikai's daughter portraying a little woman soldier riding on a cow. I didn't buy it for I knew I was entitled as its author to at least ten complimentary copies.

　　說出來，有誰相信呢?我已經四天沒吃飯了。

　　起初是一天吃四個燒餅，或者兩個小麵包;後來由四個減成兩個，再由兩個減成一個，最後簡直窮得連買開水的一個銅板也沒有了。口渴時就張開嘴來，站在自來水管的龍頭下，一扭開來，就讓水灌進嘴裡，喝得肚子脹得飽飽的，又冷又痛，那滋味真有說不出的難受。

　　為什麼會窮到這個地步呢?那時學校裡發生了問題，許多同學被抓進捕房去了，許多同學搬了家，也有些回去了的，廚房不肯賒賬，他再不願意開飯給我們吃了。我那時一面還進行援救被捕同學的工作，一面又要籌備自己的生活費，真是忙得頭昏眼花。

　　實在餓得不能忍受了，才每天跑去春潮書店借錢。如果遇到康農和撫華兩人在，還可借給我三元五元，但他們在店裡的日子是很少的，夥計們自然不敢做主，因此去十次總有九次落空的。

　　那是我最快樂的一天，《從軍日記》出版了!春潮書店的大門口貼著一張用各種不同顏色寫的又鮮明又動人的廣告，我懷著一顆好奇心走了進去，也像顧客一般，從書架上抽出來一本封面鮮紅、是豐子皚先生的女公於畫的小兵騎牛的《從軍日記》來看。但我沒有買它，因為我知道，至少可以無條件地得到十本的。

　　[6] "I need money badly. May I have a few dollars now out of the royalties on my book?"

　　[7] Seeing no customers around, I whispered to the cashier with embarrassment.

　　[8] "No, not now. Royalty payments are made only twice a year. How could I pay you ahead of time?"

　　[9] "I just can't wait. Today you've got to give me an advance of a few dollars. I wouldn't be here bothering you if I could help it. Believe me, I can't even afford the streetcar fare going back home. I came here on foot."

　　[10] The uncontrollable desire for food burning within me, I ignored all propriety and poured out my complaints without feeling ashamed. The cashier seemed apathetic, smiling a sardonic smile. A young clerk, however, was kind enough to tell me.

　　[11] "You just need to wait a little while. I'm sure your book will sell quick. Soon you can take all the money that comes from today's sale of it."