初中生英語美文摘抄大全
在我國,英語教學仍然主要是在英語課堂中進行,對於絕大多數中學生來說,英語課堂便是他們接觸英語、使用英語的主要場所。下面是小編帶來的初中生英語美文摘抄，歡迎閱讀!
初中生英語美文摘抄篇一
How Small People Make A Big Difference Repression
Today, as I was relaxing at the beach, I couldn't help but eavesdrop***竊聽，偷聽***on a conversation four high school kids we having on the beach blanket next to me. Their conversation was about making a positive difference in the world. And it went something like this…
"It's impossible to make a difference unless you're a huge corporation or someone with lots of money and power," one of them said.
"Yeah man," another replied. "My mom keeps telling me to move mountains – to speak up and stand up for what I believe. But what I say and do doesn't even get noticed. I just keep answering to ‘the man’ and then I get slapped back***山谷回聲*** in place by him when I step out of line."
"Repression…" another snickered.
I smiled because I knew exactly how they felt. When I was their age, I was certain I was being repressed and couldn't possibly make a difference in this world. And I actually almost got expelled from***驅逐，開除*** school once because I openly expressed how repressed I felt in the middle of the principals’ office.
I Have A Dream
Suddenly, one of the kids noticed me eavesdropping and smiling. He sat up, looked at me and said, "What? Do you disagree?" Then as he waited for a response, the other three kids turned around too.
Rather than arguing with them, I took an old receipt***收據*** out of my wallet,ripped***撕，扯*** it into four pieces, and wrote a different word on each piece. Then I crumbled the pieces into little paper balls and handed a different piece to each one of them.
"Look at the word on the paper I just gave you and don't show it to anyone else." The kids looked at the single word I had handed each of them and appeared confused. "You have two choices," I told them. "If your word inspired you to make a difference in this world, then hold onto it. If not, give it back to me so I can recycle the paper." They all returned their words.
I scooted***快走*** over, sat down on the sand next to their beach blanket and laid out the four words that the students had returned to me so that the words combined to form the simple sentence, "I have a dream."
"Dude, that's Martin Luther King Jr.," one of the kids said.
"How did you know that?" I asked.
"Everyone knows Martin Luther King Jr." the kid snarled. "He has his own national holiday, and we all had to memorize his speech in school a few years ago."
"Why do you think your teachers had you memorize his speech?" I asked.
"I don't really care!" the kid replied. His three friends shook their heads in agreement. "What does this have to do with us and our situation?"
"Your teachers asked you to memorize those words, just like thousands of teachers around the world have asked students to memorize those words, because they have inspired millions of repressed people to dream of a better world and take action to make their dreams come true. Do you see where I'm going with this?"
"Man, I know exactly what you're trying to do and it's not going to work, alright?" the fourth kid said, who hadn't spoken a word until now. "We're not going to get all inspired and emotional about something some dude said thirty years ago. Our world is different now. And it's more screwed up than any us can even begin to imagine, and there's little you or I can do about it. We're too small, we're nobody."
Together
I smiled again because I once believed and used to say similar things. Then after holding the smile for a few seconds I said, "On their own, ‘I' or ‘have’ or ‘a’ or ‘dream’ are just words. Not very compelling or inspiring. But when you put them together in a certain order, they create a phrase that has been powerful enough to move millions of people to take action – action that changed laws, perceptions, and lives. You don't need to be inspired or emotional to agree with this, do you?"
The four kids shrugged and struggled to appear totally indifferent, but I could tell they were listening intently. "And what's true for words is also true for people," I continued. "One person without help from anyone else can't do much to make a sizable difference in this crazy world - or to overcome all of the various forms ofrepression***抑制，壓抑*** that exist today. But when people get together and unite to form something more powerful and meaningful then themselves, the possibilities are endless.
Together is how mountains are moved. Together is how small people make a big difference.
初中生英語美文摘抄篇二
Camp in a California wilderness"It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man," wrote Teddy Roosevelt, of camping in Yosemite Park.
At about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep; of shivering***顫抖*** in the cold mountain air – despite going to bed fully dressed and with a wool hat pulled down over my ears – and trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up andwhimpering***幽咽*** in the chill; of futilely attempting to find a position on the air mattress that didn't send my lower back into spasms***肌痙攣*** ; of listening to sounds that might or might not have been a bear sniffing around outside our tent, I finally couldn't stand it any more.
I simply had to pee. Gritting my teeth, I turned on a flashlight, put on my shoes, unzipped the door of my tent, stumbled out into the night, and made a dash for the pit-toilet at the edge of the camp site.
There was no bear. But there were an impossibly large number of stars twinkling above.
I peed, ran back to my tent, and half-slept till dawn.
Hours later, as the sun crept up over the edge of the awesome Lassen peak – the jagged relic of a powerful volcanic explosion that strewed boulders over hundreds of square miles – in the remote northeast of California, I pulled my sleeping bag over my head and whined***發牢騷*** exhaustedly that "everything has gone wrong."
Like so many other grouchy early morning, pre-coffee utterances***表達，說話*** I make, this one was ludicrously off-key. Things weren't wrong; they were right.
My wife and I were in one tent with our two young kids; our friends Jessica and Michael, and their two children, were in another. A hundred yards away was Summit Lake, the glorious early morning mists shimmering off the water. A couple miles to the south-west was the base of the Lassen Peak Trail. The base was 8,000ft above sea level, huge snowbanks dotting the landscape even in mid August. The peak of the volcano soared 2,500ft above, its ragged tree line halfway up, marking the outer limits of ecological regeneration following a series of hundreds of "minor" eruptions in the early 20th century that were immortalised in the photographs of BF Loomis.
Above, lay a rocky, craggy***崎嶇的*** moonscape. Further west still was Bumpass Hell, an inferno of bubbling, sulphurous***含硫磺的*** mud and water, with plumes of steam rising up through the delicate crust surrounding the cauldrons.
We fired up the camp stove, got out our cold boxes from the heavy metal bear-locker, fried up some bacon, cut open some bagels, and boiled up a thermos-full of coffee.
Half an hour later, my six-year-old daughter and I were in the parking lot of the Lassen peak trail, getting ready to hike as far as we could up the mountainside. We wouldn't make it all the way – young legs get pretty tired on a steep mountain trail in the thin air two miles above sea level – but it didn't matter. We would see nature at its extremes: grand vistas spread out below us, the volcanic ash that layered on the earth turning the melting snows an eerie pink as the sun struck it; the blues of the sky shading into the blues of distant lakes, which in turn shaded into the whites and pinks and grays of the snowpack.
My daughter grabbed my camera. She wanted to take a photo of "the composite" of colours. Looking out over that landscape, and seeing my daughter grappling with the immensity of nature, I felt stupid about my morning tirade***長篇大論*** .
Yes, camping is uncomfortable. And yes, there's a lot to be said for getting out a credit card, reserving a room in a nice hotel with a large TV in front of which to park the kids, and going out for a fancy meal and a good glass of wine. But there's also something infinitely wonderful about being so close to raw nature. And, as important, there's something vital about getting young children out of their increasingly technology-padded comfort zones and forcing them to encounter the non-cyber world around them.
We lose something when we spend all our time cocooned***緊緊包住*** inside a carefully constructed modernity, when we read about daily affronts to the environment – yet, removed from the majesty of nature, don't fully realise what is at stake. It's a good thing to reconnect every so often with the Great Outdoors.
Lassen has no hotels. If you want to see the splendours of this landscape, you have no choice but to stay in one of the campsites***露營營地*** nestling on the edge of the lakes and against the sides of the mountains.
After camping in Yosemite, Teddy Roosevelt once declared that "It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man." That sentiment holds as true today as it did in Roosevelt's time. What a wondrous thing is nature. And what a joy to see a child grasp that simple truth.
初中生英語美文摘抄篇三
The Life I Pursued
That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid***平靜的，溫和的*** rivulet***小溪，小河*** ,meandering***漫步*** smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague***模糊的*** uneasiness***不安，擔憂*** .
Perhaps it is only by a kink***扭結，奇想*** in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, somethingamiss***有毛病的，有缺陷的*** . I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.
There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged***鋸齒狀的*** rocks and treacherous***奸詐的，叛逆的*** , shoals***淺灘，沙洲*** it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.