關於英語優秀美文欣賞

　　具備英語思維能力是掌握英語的一個重要條件。我國中學生英語學習效率不高，特別是英語交際能力普遍欠缺的一個主要原因是學生不具備英語思維的能力。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　生活的一課

　　“Everything happens for the best,”my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

　　每當我遇到挫折時,母親就會說:"一切都會好的。如果你堅持下去,總有一天會有好事發生。你會認識到,如果沒有以前的挫折就不會有現在的一切。"

　　Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932.I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned down every time.

　　母親是對的,發現這個是在1932年,我剛從大學畢業。我已決定試著在電臺找個事兒做,然後爭取做體育節目的播音員。我搭便車到了芝加哥,挨個電臺地敲門推銷自己――但每次都被拒絕了。

　　In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance,”she said.

　　在一個播音室裡,一位好心的女士告訴我,大的廣播電臺是不會冒險僱用沒經驗的新手的。"去鄉下找一家給你機會的小電臺吧,"她說。

　　I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While them was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father sad Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.

　　我搭車來到我的家鄉,那是伊利諾斯州的迪克森。在迪克森當時還沒有電臺播音員這樣的工作,父親說,蒙哥馬利?沃德開了一家新商店,想僱請一個本地的運動員管理店裡的體育部。我中學時曾在迪克森打過橄欖球,出於這個原因我去申請了這份工作。工作聽起來挺適合我的,但是我沒被聘用。

　　My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.

　　我的沮喪心情一定表現出來了。"一切總會好的,"母親提醒我說。爸爸給我買了一輛汽車找工作用。我試著到愛荷華州達文波特的woc電臺去求職。那裡的電臺節目總監是一個很棒的蘇格蘭人,名叫彼得?麥克阿瑟,他告訴我他們已經僱到播音員了。

　　As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked a1oud,"How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"

　　離開他辦公室時,我的挫折感達到了極點。我大聲地說:"一個連在電臺都找不到工作的傢伙又怎麼能成為體育節目的播映員呢?

　　I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?"Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game.

　　等電梯時，我聽到麥克阿瑟喊道：“你說什麼體育?你懂橄欖球嗎?”接著他讓我站到麥克風前面，請我解說一場想象中的比賽。

　　On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "if you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment" I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

　　在回家的路上――以後也有很多次的，我思考著母親的那句話：“如果你堅持下去，總要一天會有好事發生。如果沒有以前的挫折，就不會有現在的一切。”我常想，如果當年我得到蒙哥馬利?沃德的那份工作，我的人生之路又會怎樣走呢?

　　篇二

　　Mid-Autumn Festival***歡度中秋***

　　The 15th day of the 8th lunar month The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox***秋分***. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon".

　　This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates***石榴***, melons, oranges and pomelos***柚子*** might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro***芋頭***and water caltrope***菱角***, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.

　　The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds***西瓜子***, lotus seeds***蓮籽***, almonds***杏仁***, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard***豬油***. A golden yolk***蛋黃*** from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary***閏月的*** moon.

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties ***2000 B.C.-1066 B.C.***. In the Zhou Dynasty***1066 B.C.-221 B.C.***, people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It becomes very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty***618-907 A.D.*** that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty ***1127-1279 A.D.***, however, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it becomes dark, they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming ***1368-1644 A.D. *** and Qing Dynasties ***1644-1911A.D.***, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense***薰香***, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them.

　　Moon Cakes

　　There is this story about the moon-cake. during the Yuan dynasty ***A.D. 1280-1368*** China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty ***A.D. 960-1280*** were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.

　　For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates***棗子***, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.

　　Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.

　　篇三

　　Greenhouse gases making hurricanes stronger

　　Hurricane breeding grounds ***發源地*** in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are being warmed by greenhouse gases, probably making hurricanes stronger in coming decades, according to a new study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ***PNAS***.

　　The scientists used 22 climate models to investigate the possible causes of a rise in sea surface temperatures ***SST*** of up to 0.67℃ in the Atlantic and Pacific tropics ***熱帶地區*** from 1906 to 2005.

　　Each computer model was run several times to work out how much the SST would have warmed with or without rising levels of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. “We’ve used all the world’s climate models to study the causes of the SST changes in hurricane formation regions,” Santer said.

　　They found that tiny particulates ***微粒*** from volcanoes and sulfates ***硫酸鹽*** from industrial plants blocked the sun, and so cooled the oceans. But the effect was overcome by the rise in greenhouse gases, which led to warmer oceans.

　　“The important conclusion is that the observed SST increases in the regions cannot be explained by natural processes alone,” said Tom Wigley, another researcher of the study, from the Boulder-based National Center for Atmospheric Research ***NCAR***. “The best explanation for these changes has to include a large human influence.” Also, Wigley warns that global temperatures and SSTs may increase even more rapidly over the next century.

　　Hurricanes are a complex phenomenon that is influenced by a variety of physical factors, such as SSTs, wind shear ***剪應力***, water vapor, and atmospheric stability. In the Atlantic and Pacific hurricane formation regions, hurricane intensity is not only determined by the increasing SSTs, which, though, are likely to be one of the most significant influences.