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英语长篇美文篇一：英语经典美文背诵100篇011

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1\Russell on Affection (罗素论爱)

The best type of affection is reciprocally life-giving; each receives affection with joy and gives it without effort, and each finds the whole world more interesting in consequence of the existence of this reciprocal happiness. There is, however, another kind, by no means uncommon, in which one person sucks the vitality of the other, one receives what the other gives, but gives almost nothing in return. Some very vital people belong to this bloodsucking type. They extract the vitality from one victim after another, but while they prosper and grow interesting, those upon whom they live grow pale and dim and dull. Such people use others as means to their own ends, and never consider them as ends in themselves. Fundamentally they are not interested in those whom for the moment they think they love; they are interested only in the stimulus to their owe activities, perhaps of a quite impersonal sort. Evidently this springs from some defect in their nature, but it is one not altogether easy either to diagnose of to cure(来自:www.zhaoQt.NeT 蒲公英文摘:英语长篇美文). It is a characteristic frequently associated with great ambition, and is rooted, I should say, in an unduly one-sided view of what makes human happiness. Affection in the sense of a genuine reciprocal interest of two persons in each other, not solely as means to each other’s good, but rather as a combination having a common good, is one of the most important elements of real happiness, and the man whose ego is so enclosed within steel walls that this enlargement of it is impossible misses the best that life has to offer, however successful he may be in his career. A too powerful ego is a prison from which a man must escape if he is to enjoy the world to the full. A capacity for genuine affection is one of the marks of the man who has escaped form this prison of self. To receive affection is by no means enough; affection which is received should liberate the affection which is to be given, and only where both exist in equal measure does affection achieve its best possibilities.

最好的那种爱是彼此愉悦的爱；彼此很愉快地接受，很自然地给出，并且由于有了这种互惠的快乐，彼此都觉得整个世界更有趣味。然而，还有一种决非少见的爱，那就是一方吸收着另一方的活力，接受着另一方的给出，但他这一方几乎毫无回报。某些生命力极旺的人便属于这吸血的一类。他们把一个又一个牺牲者的活力吸净，但是当他们越发生机勃勃，兴致盎然之时，那些被榨取的人却变得越来越苍白、黯淡和迟钝。这种人总是把他人当作工具来实现自己的目标，却从不考虑他人也有他自己的目标。他们一时以为他们爱着那些人，其实那些人根本引不起他们的兴趣；他们感兴趣的不过是为自己的活动添些刺激，而他们的活动也许当属全无人格的那种。这种情形显然源于他们本性上的某种缺陷，但是这种缺陷既不容易

诊断也不容易治疗。它往往与极大的野心有关，同时也是由于他们总是不恰当地从单方面去看待人生幸福的缘故。两人真正相互关心意义的爱，不仅是促进彼此幸福的手段，而且是促进共同幸福的手段，是真正快乐的最重要因素之一。凡是把自我禁锢起来不能扩展的人，必然错失人生所能提供的最好的东西，不管他在事业上如何成功。太强的自我是一座监狱，你若想充分地享受人生，就得从这座监狱中逃脱。能有真正的爱，这是一个人已逃出自我监狱的标志之一。光接受爱是绝对不够的；接受的爱应当能激发你奉献出自己的爱，惟有当接受的爱和奉献出的爱等量存在时，爱才能达到它的最佳状态。

3\Blood, Toil, Sweat and Tears

热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水

In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or former colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.

在这生死存亡之际，如果我今天没有向下院作长篇演讲，我希望能够得到你们的宽恕，我还希望，因为这次政府改组而受到影响的任何朋友和同事，或者以前的同事，会对礼节上的不周之处予以充分谅解，这种礼节上的欠缺，到目前为止是在所难免的。

I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears.

正如我曾对参加本届政府的成员所说的那样，我要对下院说："我没什么可以奉献，有的，只是热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水。

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.

摆在我们面前的，是一场极为痛苦的严峻的考验。

We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.

在我们面前，有许多许多漫长的斗争和苦难的岁月。

You ask, what is our policy?

你们问：我们的政策是什么?

I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air.

我要说，在海上、陆地和空中进行战争。

War with all our might and with all the strength God has given up, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.

我们的政策就是用我们全部能力，用上帝所给予我们的全部力量，同一个在人类黑暗悲惨的罪恶史上所从未有过的穷凶极恶的暴政进行战争。

That is our policy.

这就是我们的政策。

You ask, what is our aim?

你们问：我们的目标是什么?

I can answer in one word.

我可以用一个词来回答：

It is victory.

那就是胜利。

Victory at all costs;victory in spite of all terrors;victory, however long and hand the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.

不惜一切代价，去赢得胜利；无论多么可怕，也要赢得胜利，无论道路多么遥远和艰难，也要赢得胜利，因为没有胜利，就不能生存。

Let that be realized.

大家必须认识到这一点。

No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.

没有胜利就不复有大英帝国，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国所象征的一切，没有胜利就不复有多少世纪以来的强烈要求和冲动：人类应当向自己的目标迈进。

I take up my task in buoyancy and hope.

但是当我挑起这个担子的时候，我是心情愉快、满怀希望的。

I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.

我深信，人们不会听任我们的事业遭受失败。

I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."

此时此刻，我觉得我有权利要求大家的支持，我要说："来吧，让我们同心协力，一道前进。"

4\The Four Freedoms(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

我们力求安定的未来日子里,我们期待一个以人类四大基本自由为基础的世界.

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

第一是在全世界任何地方发表言论和表达意见的自由。

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.

第二是在全世界任何地方，人人有以自己的方式来崇拜上帝的自由。

The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.

第三是不虞匮乏的自由－－这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是一种经济上的融洽关系，它将保证全世界每一个国家的居民都过健全的、和平时期的生活。

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

第四是免除恐惧的自由－－这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是世界性的裁减军备，要以一种彻底的方法把它裁减到这样的程度：务使世界上没有一个国家有能力向全世界任何地区的任何邻国进行武力侵略。

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

这绝不是对遥远未来的幻想。在我们这个时代，我们这代人就可以在这一实实在在的基础之上，建立起一个新的世界。这个世界是与独裁者们想用炸弹炸出来的所谓暴政新秩序截然相反的。

Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

自美国有史以来，我们一直致力于变革。这是一种从未间断的和平革命，一种扎实渐进的革命，悄然地进行调整，以适应变化多端的形势，没有集中营，也没有万人坑。我们所追求的世界新秩序是自由国家之间的合作，是自由国家在一个友好、文明的世界里同心协力，共同努力。

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

我们的国家已经将它的命运交到她千百万自由男女的手里、脑里和心里。她已将她对于自由的信仰交由上帝指引。自由意味着在任何地方，人权高于一切。我们支持一切为争取、捍卫这种权力而斗争的人们。我们的力量就在于我们目标一致。

To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

为了实现这一崇高的信念，我们不获全胜，绝不罢休。

5\Hard Work Is Good for Health努力工作有利健康

Scientists find that the hard-working prestigious people live longer than average men and women. Career women are healthier than housewives. Evidences show that the jobless are in poorer health than job-holders. An investigation shows that whenever the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate increases correspondingly by 2%. All this comes down to one point: work is helpful to health.

Why is work good for health? It is because work keeps people busy, away from lonehness

英语长篇美文篇二：英语美文

self-confidence

Confidence is power --the power to attract,persuade, influence,and succeed.Imagine what your life would be like if you had an abundance of self-confidence!

Confidence isn't an inherited trait,it's a learned one.This means that you can have an abundance of self-confidence.Start here,right now.

Confidence starts in the mind.What you think of yourself very much influences the way you feel about yourself.This,in turn,affects the way you speak and act.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

自信

自信就是力量---吸引人、说服人、影响人并取得成功的力量。设想一下，如果你充满自信，你的生命会是怎样一番景象！

自信并非来自遗传，是需要后天学习的。这就意味着，你也可以充满自信。从现在、从这里开始。

自信必须首先从想法开始。你怎么样看待自己，很大程度上就影响了你觉得自己怎样。转而也影响了你说话、做事的方式。

没有你的默认，谁也无法将你看低一等。

On A Quiet Night (静夜思)

I saw the moonlight before my couch.

And wondered if it were not the frost on the ground.

I missed my head and looked out on the mountain moon.

I bow my head and thought of my far-off home.

The Importance Of Choice

Ladies and Gentlemen:I want to tell you something very important today.I want to tell you that life is about choices. You can choose to be miserable or you can choose to enjoy life.You can choose to improve your health or you can choose to destroy it. I hope you will make correct choices. I hope you will choose to enjoy your family,enjoy your friends,enjoy your work ,and enjoy your everyday life.Life is a gift and we really should enjoy every minute of it.Join the group of people who make good choices.Enjoy your life!

You prefer to face challenge all by yourself or depend on others As for me, I do not prefer to face challenge all by myself. First of all, people working together can share the resources of their own. That is also the reason why I like preparing the exam in group. We could discuss and solve questions with other members. In addition, as we know, if one face challenges all by him, he may feel lonely and helpless, and maybe someday he will choose to give up. However, if we face together, we may encourage and inspire each other. And this will help us to defeat the challenge more easily.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.

译文：

青春

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。 、

一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

英语长篇美文篇三：把长篇英语文章一次转为中文的方法

MEMS老师让我们读懂一篇长篇英语论文，这对我们可是一个巨大的挑战（学电子的英语不强是硬伤啊）。找好pdf论文后，接下来便开始尝试各种翻译，金山快译，有道翻译，谷歌翻译，bing翻译??各种方法都是有长度限制，每次只能翻译一部分，文章长了后需要复制粘贴多次，很麻烦。而且文章里一般都配一些图，我希望翻译后文档图片仍然保留，只是英文部分换为译文。于是乎在百度，谷歌等各大引擎狂搜，翻了几十页网页后，终于找到了一个方法（吐槽一下：百度提问许多人不是好好回答问题，人家说了谷歌翻译试过了，希望一次都翻译出来，他们还给人简单的回答个用谷歌翻译。鄙视一下！！！）。接下来我把过程用图文详细写出来。一、准备工作

首先你的电脑必须得有两个软件，一个是adobe acrobat，一个是谷歌浏览器。adobe acrobat是专业的pdf编辑软件，功能上完全秒杀adobe reader和福昕阅读器，如何你平时只是阅读pdf文档，那福昕阅读器就不错，小巧而且功能也不少，如果你经常编辑pdf文档，那adobe acrobat是必备了，软件有点大，安装完1G多。它有哪些强大的功能，以及下载安装和破解大家自行搜索吧，反正度娘很强大（记得安装成专业版的，标准版的少一些功能）。还有一点，pdf不能是扫描版的，扫描版不能使用这个方法（如何看是不是扫描版自己搜索），我个人很讨厌扫描版的，又模糊又体积大。第二个软件是谷歌浏览器，看介绍说全球用户量已经超过了IE，用了用感觉是简洁清爽。好了，废话不说了，接下来开始教程。

二、具体步骤

1.你需要把你的pdf文档另存为网页形式。用adobe acrobat专业版打开文件后点击“文件”-----“另存为其它”----“HTML网页”

选择存放路径和文件名称（我保存在桌面），你会看到多出这两个文件

2.接下来使用谷歌浏览器打开刚才保存的网页文件，选中文件单击右键，选择“打开方式”----谷歌浏览器

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