短篇英語美文摘抄_優秀閱讀帶翻譯

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　　短篇英語美文篇一

　　莎士比亞Shakespeare

　　Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influnce of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

　　莎士比亞的才華高於一切作家，至少高於當今的所有作家。他是一位自然的詩人，他的作品將人間百態真實地展現在讀者眼前。他的人物塑造並不拘泥於只為一部分人所遵循的某個特定地區的習俗，也不侷限於一小部分人所從事的特定的研究或職業，也不追隨短暫的潮流或暫時的思想觀點：他們據有人們一貫具備的、普遍的人性特點。就像世界能永不竭地供應，眼睛能永不停地發現。他筆下人物的一言一行都受那些能夠觸動所有人的大眾化的情感和能使整個生命體系得以延續的普遍原則所影響。在其他詩人的作品中，一個人物往往就是一個個體，而莎翁筆下的人物通常代表著一類人。

　　短篇英語美文篇二

　　美國夢American dream

　　To Americans, industriousness, thrift and ambition are possitive values. We encourage our children to be competitive, to get ahead, to make money, to acquire possession. In games and in business alike, the aim is to win the game, the trophy, the contract. We go in for laboursaving devices, gadgets, speed and shortcuts. We think every young couple should set up a home of their own. And we pity the couple who must share their home with their parent, let alone with other relatives. Actually, of course, not all Americans hold all these values. And those who do may hold other, and at times contradictory values that affect their ways of behaving. In the main, however,the collective expectation of our society is that these are desirable goals, and the individual, whatever his personal inclination, is under considerable pressure to conform.

　　對於我們美國人，勤勞、節儉和志氣都是積極的價值觀。我們鼓勵孩子們進取、成功、賺錢、富有。在競賽和商業活動中也是一樣，我們追求的是贏取比賽、獲得獎盃、拿到合同。我們致力於節省勞力的工具、速度和捷徑。我們提倡所有的小兩口都能靠自己的雙手構建家園。我們為那些必須依靠父母或親戚生活的夫婦感到遺憾!其實，並不是所有的美國人都擁有這樣的價值觀，甚至有些人或許會擁有相反的價值觀，這樣的價值觀會影響他們的行為。不過，我們的社會的主流意識/期望還是這種積極的目標，不論個人的傾好如何，他的行為也是被規範在一定的範圍之內的。

　　短篇英語美文篇三

　　領導者The doer of deeds

　　It is not the critic who counts,not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

　　真正令人尊敬的並非那些評論家和那些指出強者是如何跌倒，實幹家本該做得更好的人。

　　The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;who strives valiantly;who errs,and comes short again and again;because there is not effort without error and shortcoming;but who does actually strive to do the deeds;who knows the great enthusiasms,the great devotions;who spends himself in a worthy cause,who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst,if he fails,at least fails while daring greatly,so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

　　榮譽屬於那些親臨競技場，滿臉汙泥，汗水和鮮血的人。他們不懈努力，他們曾犯過過錯，並一再失敗。因為付出即意味著犯錯和失敗。他們滿懷激情地努力做事，執著不懈，將生命奉獻於崇高的事業。他們為經過艱辛努力最終取得的偉大成就而自豪，如果失敗，他們夜敗的榮耀。因而，這樣的人永遠不應與那些不知道勝利，也從未失敗過的冷淡而膽怯的靈魂相提並論。

　　短篇英語美文篇四

　　主動求愛 Initiative in Courtship

　　People regard it as a matter of normality if a man takes the initiative in courtship, but if a woman does that, she is asking for trouble.

　　如果一個男人主動求愛，人們會把它當成一種常態，但如果是一個女人主動求愛，那她就是自找麻煩。

　　Traditionally, Chinese women should be stereotypically quiet, patient, and reserved, and to a large extent they were accessories to men. They didn’t have the right to pursue their own true love and were always waiting for men’s actions. With the improvement of women’s status and their newly¬--gained independence, it seems that this attitude should have disappeared nowadays, however, it still exists today.

　　傳統上,中國女性應該安靜、耐心和有所保留的並在很大程度上他們是男性附屬品。他們沒有權利去追求自己的真愛，總是在等待男人的行為。隨著婦女地位的提高和他們的新獲得的獨立，這種態度似乎應該要消失了，但是，今天仍然存在。

　　There are evidences that amorous initiative is firmly reserved to men, and modern women, although not so subordinate as traditional women, are still in a passive position. It is because that the ambience of society doesn't encourage women to take actions, that men still to some extent hold traditional attitude towards women, and that women themselves also accept the unwritten roles.

　　有證據顯示戀愛中的主動權都是為男性保留的，現代女性，雖然不像傳統女性那樣，但是仍然處於被動地位。這是因為社會環境並不鼓勵婦女採取行動，而男性在某種程度上對於女性還是保持傳統觀念，女性自己也接受了這個不成文的角色。

　　When referring to the issue of courtship, most of my male friends, though being college students, insist that initiative should be reserved to boys and girls should never be too positive, otherwise, it will scare away boys, that is, it is not suitable or reasonable for a girl to chase her affectionate boy. They even assume that even if a girl is cute enough to achieve her goal, she will not be really happy later on, because the boy will not cherish the love that isn't pursued by himself. So this initiative is boys’ privilege while girls even don’t have the freedom of pursuing.

　　在戀愛中談及到這個問題時，雖然我大部分的男性朋友都是大學生，卻堅持認為應該是男孩主動，因為女孩永遠都不會太積極的，否則，她會把男孩嚇跑的，也就是說，讓一個女孩追球她鍾情的男孩是不合適的或著說是不合理的。他們甚至認為即使一個女孩足夠可愛來實現她的目標，到後面她也不會真的快樂。因為那個男孩不會珍惜不是自己追求來的愛。所以主動是男孩的特權，而女孩子甚至沒有追求的自由。

　　It is said that women hold up half the sky. However, this half sky is shaded with some black clouds, not really cleared up. Hopefully, we can see some light going through the black clouds, shining out over the world.

　　都說女人能撐起半邊天。然而，這半邊天空是黑色的雲的陰影，不是真的消失了。希望，我們可以通過黑色的雲看到一些光，照耀了世界。

　　One of my friends ever told me a story, which overturns this stereotype, about a brave young lady who had fallen in love with a boy, decided that she would take actions to show her attractions to him, not just waiting for nothing. With her love and perseverance, though there being so much external and internal pressure, she eventually succeeded in attracting the boy and became a heroine and a good example of the other girls who also saw the promising land from her.

　　我一個朋友曾經告訴過我一個故事。它顛覆了這一觀念。故事是關於一個勇敢的年輕女孩愛上一個男孩，並決定向男孩示愛，而不是乾等。因為她的愛和堅持，儘管有很多的內部和外部壓力，她最終還是成功的追到了那個男孩，成為一個英雄，一個很好的例子，讓別的女孩從她身上看到了希望。

　　Hopefully, there will be many courageous women who try to break up the roles and the stereotypes to pursue their own happiness, making themselves the heroines.

　　希望將會有許多勇敢的婦女試圖打破那種一成不變的角色去追求自己的幸福，讓自己成為女英雄。