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　　經典英語美文短文篇1

　　希望是鳥兒

　　Hope is the thing with feathers

　　That perches in the soul,

　　And sings the tune without the words,

　　And never stops at all.

　　The sweetest in the gale is heard;

　　And sore must be the storm

　　That could abash the little bird

　　That kept so many warm.

　　I've heard it in the chillest land,

　　And on the strangest sea;

　　Yet, never,in extremity,

　　It asked a crumb of me.

　　希望是鳥兒，

　　在人們心靈棲居，

　　唱著無詞的歌兒，

　　永無止息。

　　心靈是甜蜜的避風港

　　只有猛烈的風暴，

　　才能威脅希望，

　　這慰藉心靈的小鳥。

　　它歌唱在最寒冷的地方

　　最陌生的海洋

　　縱然身處絕境，

　　也不索取分毫。

　　經典英語美文短文篇2

　　微笑

　　"I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled in my pockets to see if ther were any cigarettes, which had escaped their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. "I looked through the bars at my jailer.He did not make eye contact with me. I called out to him ‘Have you got a light?‘ He looked at me,shrugged [3]and came over to light my cigarette. "As he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. At that moment, I smiled. I don‘t know why I did that. Perhaps it was nervousness, perhapsit was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to smile. In any case,I smiled. In that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn‘t want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too.He lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.

　　"I kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension too. ‘Do you have kids?‘ he asked. " ‘Yes, here, here.‘ I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes filled with tears. I said that I feared that I‘d never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. "Suddenly, without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.

　　"My life was saved by a smile." Yes, the smileDthe unaffected, unplanned, natural connection between people.I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we wouldn‘tbeenemies. We couldn‘t have hate or envy or fear.

　　一想到自己明天就沒命了，不禁陷入極端的惶恐。我翻遍了口袋，終於找到一支沒被他們搜走的香菸，但我的手緊張得不停發抖，連將煙送進嘴裡都成問題，而我的火柴也在搜身時被拿走了。 “我透過鐵欄望著外面的警衛，他並沒有注意到我在看他，我叫了他一聲：‘能跟你借個火嗎?’他轉頭望著我，聳了聳肩，然後走了過來，點燃我的香菸。 當他幫我點火時，他的眼光無意中與我的相接觸，這時我突然衝著他微笑。我不知道自己為何有這般反應，也許是過於緊張，或者是當你如此靠近另一個人，你很難不對他微笑。不管是何理由，我對他笑了。他點完火後並沒立刻離開，兩眼盯著我瞧，臉上仍帶著微笑。

　　我也以笑容迴應，彷彿他是個朋友，而不是個守著我的警衛。他看著我的眼神也少了當初的那股凶氣，‘你有小孩嗎?’他開口問道。 ‘有，你看。’我拿出了皮夾，手忙腳亂地翻出了我的全家福照片。他也掏出了照片，並且開始講述他對家人的期望與計劃。這時我眼中充滿了淚水，我說我害怕再也見不到家人。我害怕沒機會看著孩子長大。他聽了也流下兩行眼淚。 “突然間，他二話不說地打開了牢門，悄悄地帶我從後面的小路逃離了監獄，出了小鎮，就在小鎮的邊上，他放了我，之後便轉身往回走，不曾留下一句話。

　　一個微笑居然能救自己一條命。是的，微笑是人與人之間最自然真摯的溝通方式。如果我們能用心靈去認識彼此，世間不會有結怨成仇的憾事;恨意、妒嫉、恐懼也會不復存在。

　　經典英語美文短文篇3

　　人與自然

　　The intimacy between man and Nature began with the birth of man on the earth, and becomes each century more intelligent and far-reaching. To Nature, therefore, we turn as to the oldest aim most influential teacher of our race; from one point of view once our task-master, now our servant; from another point of view, our constant friend, instructor and inspirer. The very intimacy of this relation robs it of a certain mystery and richness which it would have for all minds if it were the reward of the few instead of being the privilege of the many. To the few it is, in every age, full of wonder and beauty; to the many it is a matterof course.

　　The heavens shine for all, but they have a changing splendor to those only who see in every midnight sky amajesty of creative energy and resource which no repetition of the spectacle can dim. If the stars shone but once in a thousand years, men would gaze, awe struck and worshipful, on a vision which is not less but more wonderful because it shines nightly above the whole earth. In like manner, and for the same reason, we become indifferent to that delicately beautiful or sublimely impressive sky scenery which the clouds form and reform, compose and dissipate, a thousand times on a summer day. The mystery, the terror, and the music of the sea; the secret and subduing charm of the woods, so full of healing for the spent mind or the restless spirit; the majesty of the hills, holding in their recesses the secrets of light and atmosphere; the infinite variety of landscape, never imitative or repetitious, but always appealing to the imagination with some fresh and unsuspected loveliness; who feels the full power of these marvelous resources for the enrichment of life, or takes from them all the health, delight, and enrichment they have to bestow?

　　人與自然的親密關係從地球上人類誕生就開始了，並且每個世紀變得愈發理性和深遠。因此，我們求助於自然就好像求助於我們人類最年長最有影響力的老師。從某個觀點來看，自然曾是我們的監工，現在卻是我們的奴僕。但從另一個觀點來看，自然一直是我們的朋友、教導者和啟發者。如果自然僅僅是少數人的回饋而不能作為作為大多數人的禮遇，這種親暱關係就會剝奪去相當一部分它在所有人心中的神祕感和富足感。對於少數人而言，這種關係在每個時代充滿奇幻和美妙，對於大多數人也理所當然。

　　天空照耀著每一個人，但是隻在少數人的心中有一種變化多端的壯美，他們每個半夜都能欣賞到天空創造能力和源泉的莊嚴之美，這種美沒有什麼光景可以使之暗淡。如果星辰一千年才閃耀一次，人們將懷著敬畏之心去凝視這種美景，而這種景色每晚在全世界的上空照耀，它的美妙不會減損，反而會更勝。同樣，一個道理，我們對夏日天空浮雲聚散飄忽所形成的一日之間千變萬化或柔美或壯闊的景色也變得熟視無睹。海的神祕、恐怖和樂章;叢林的神祕感和魔幻力可治癒疲憊的心靈和煩躁的精神;群山的奇峻把光與氣之玄妙藏於幽深處;變幻無窮的風景從不模仿或重複，永遠以一種出乎意料的新鮮美麗來衝擊人的想象力——誰能感受到這些奇幻事物給我們生活的富足帶來的全部力量，或者得到它們賜予我們的健康、快樂和充實?

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