英语美文

概括：这道题是暨勘乒同学的课后英语练习题，主要是关于英语美文，指导老师为齐老师。

题目：英语美文

这是我很喜欢的贝特兰•罗素 Bertrand Russell(1872-1970)的名作,后面还有两篇译文,帮助理解.

Three Passions I Have Lived For

Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly（压倒一切地） strong,have governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish（极度的痛苦）,reaching to the very verge （边缘）of despair.

I have sought love,first,because it brings ecstasy （狂喜）- ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy.I have sought it,next,because it relieves loneliness-that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim （边缘）of the world into the cold unfathomable （深不可测的）lifeless abyss（深渊,地狱）.I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature（雏形,缩样）,the prefiguring vision of the heaven thatand poets have imagined.This is what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what-at last-I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine…A little of this,but not much,I have achieved.

Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heavens.But always pity brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors,helpless old people,a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make a mockery （笑柄）of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the evil,but I cannot,and I too suffer.

This has been my life.I have found it worth living,and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

贝特兰•罗素的名作Three Passions I have Lived for译文：

译文一：

吾之三愿

吾生三愿,纯朴却激越：一曰渴望爱情,二曰求索知识,三曰悲悯吾类之无尽苦难.此三愿,如疾风,迫吾无助飘零于苦水深海之上,直达绝望之彼岸.

吾求爱,盖因其赐吾狂喜——狂喜之剧足令吾舍此生而享其片刻；吾求爱,亦因其可驱寂寞之感,吾人每生寂寞之情辄兢兢俯视天地之缘,而见绝望之无底深渊；吾求爱还因若得爱,即可窥视圣哲诗人所见之神秘天国.此吾生之所求,虽虑其之至美而恐终不为凡人所得,亦可谓吾之所得也.

吾求知亦怀斯激情.吾愿闻人之所思,亦愿知星之何以闪光……吾仅得此而已,无他.

爱与知并力,几携吾入天国之门,然终为悲悯之心拖拽未果.痛苦之吟常萦绕吾心：受饥饿之婴,遭压迫之民,为儿女遗弃之无助老叟,加之天下之孤寂、贫穷、苦痛,具令吾类之生难以卒睹.吾愿穷毕生之力释之,然终不能遂愿,因亦悲极.

吾生若此而已,然吾颇感未枉此生；若得天允,当乐而重为之.

译文二：

我的人生追求

有三种简单然而无比强烈的激情左右了我的一生：对爱的渴望,对知识的探索和对人类苦难的难以忍受的怜悯.这些激情象飓风,无处不在、反复无常地吹拂着我,吹过深重的苦海,濒于绝境.

我寻找爱,首先是因为它使人心醉神迷,这种陶醉是如此的美妙,使我愿意牺牲所有的余生去换取几个小时这样的欣喜.我寻找爱,还因为它解除孤独,在可怕的孤独中,一颗颤抖的灵魂从世界的边缘看到冰冷、无底、死寂的深渊.最后,我寻找爱,还因为在爱的交融中,神秘而又具体而微地,我看到了圣贤和诗人们想象出的天堂的前景.这就是我所寻找的,而且,虽然对人生来说似乎过于美妙,这也是我终于找到了的.

以同样的激情我探索知识.我希望能够理解人类的心灵.我希望能够知道群星为何闪烁.我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的数字力量,它支配着此消彼涨.仅在不大的一定程度上,我达到了此目的.

爱和知识,只要有可能,通向着天堂.但是怜悯总把我带回尘世.痛苦呼喊的回声回荡在我的内心.忍饥挨饿的孩子,惨遭压迫者摧残的受害者,被儿女们视为可憎的负担的无助的老人,连同这整个充满了孤独、贫穷和痛苦的世界,使人类所应有的生活成为了笑柄.我渴望能够减少邪恶,但是我无能为力,而且我自己也在忍受折磨.

这就是我的一生.我发现它值得一过.如果再给我一次机会,我会很高兴地再活它一次.

（摘自罗素自传的前言）

举一反三

例1： 求英语美文推荐参加大学英文朗诵比赛时间3分钟[英语练习题]

Catch the Star That Will Take You to Your Dreams 追随你的梦想

Catch the star that holds your destiny,the one that forever twinkles within your heart.Take advantage of precious opportunities while they still sparkle before you.Always believe that your ultimate goal is attainable as long as you commit yourself to it.

追随能够改变你命运的那颗星,那颗永远在你心中闪烁的明星.当它在你面前闪耀时,抓住这宝贵的机会.请谨记,只要你坚持不懈,最终的目标总能实现.

Though barriers may sometimes stand in the way of your dreams,remember that your destiny is hiding behind them.Accept the fact that not everyone is going to approve of the choices you've made,have faith in your judgment,catch the star that twinkles in your heart,and it will lead you to your destiny's path.Follow that pathway and uncover the sweet sunrises that await you.

尽管实现梦想的途中有时会遇到障碍,要知道这是命运对你的挑战.不是每个人都会赞成你的选择,接受这个现实,并相信自我的判断,追随那颗在你心中闪烁的明星,它会引领你踏上命运的征途.坚持不懈,你就能享受那些幸福时刻.

Take pride in your accomplishments,as they are stepping stones to your dreams.Understand that you may make mistakes,but don't let them discourage you.Value your capabilities and talents for they are what make you truly unique.The greatest gifts in life are not purchased,but acquired through hard work and determination.

每前进一步,你都应引以为豪,因为它们是你实现梦想的阶梯.要知道在这个过程中你也许会犯错误,但不要气馁.珍视自我的潜能,因为它们使你独一无二.生命中最珍贵的礼物不是花钱买来的,而是通过努力和决心而获取的.

This is Faith at Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax.Find the star that twinkles in your heart for you alone are capable of making your brightest dreams come true.Give your hopes everything you've got and you will catch the star that holds your destiny.

您正在收听的是faith轻松电台.寻找心中那颗闪耀的明星,因为只有你自己才能够让美好的梦想变成现实.满怀希望并全力以赴,你就能摘下改变命运的那颗星.

One of the most important habits in life is to feed your mind with positive mental food.Remember,you are very susceptible to the suggested influences in your environment,whether radio,television,newspapers,magazines,billboards or conversations with other people.Your mind is your most important and precious asset.You must protect it and keep it clean,clear and focused on what you want,rather than allowing it to be polluted by the negative influences around you.

生活中最重要的习惯之一就是要经常为自己补充积极的精神食粮.要记住,你对周围的环境非常敏感,无论是收音机、报纸、电视、杂志、广告或与他人的对话,都会对你产生很大影响.你的心灵是你最重要和珍贵的资产,你必须尽力保护,维持其纯净清明.同时要专注于自己向往的事物,不受消极因素的影响.

Refuse to watch terror or trash on television.Refuse to read about all the murders,robberies,rapes and tragedies in the newspapers.Refuse to listen to endless hours of mindless radio commentary on all the problems in the modern world.Refuse to engage in endless conversations with people about all the political and social problems in your nation or community.Keep your mind clean,clear,positive and free.

拒绝收看电视渲染的暴力和色情,拒绝阅读报纸上有关谋杀、抢劫、强奸的报道,拒绝收音机里滔滔不绝的无意义时事评论,拒绝参与对于政治和社会的无休止辩论.保持你的心灵纯净、清明、积极且自由自在.

Not only do you become what you think about,but also you become what you feed into your mind on a regular basis.If you want to be positive,optimistic and happy,continually feed your mind with positive books and articles,positive audio learning programs,positive input and information from other experts in your field,and positive conversations with other optimistic goal-oriented people who are going somewhere with their lives.

你是自己思想的产物,也是心灵食粮的产物.如果你希望自己积极、乐观、快乐,必须为自己补充“心灵维他命”,这包括积极的书籍和文章、积极的语音课程节目、专家的专业知识分享,或是经常与乐观的人沟通对话.

例2： 【自我介绍的英语文章大家好,我的名字是xxx,我今年11岁了,我是一个开朗的女孩.我课余时间喜欢打乒乓球和看书,乒乓球使我的脑袋更加机灵；书籍开阔了我的知识,给予了我丰富的精神食粮.希】[英语练习题]

Hello, everyone! My name is xxx. I'm fourteen years old. I'm an outgoing girl. I like playing table tennis and reading books. Playing Table tennis makes me a clever girl. Books can open my mind and b...

例3： 【英语美文找一篇关于Mother'sDay的文章带汉语翻译!】[英语练习题]

母亲节Mother's day

The second Sunday in May is Mother's day.

Mother's day is a special day for everyone!On that day,children .

我不知道为什么只能写入100 字.很多内容,无法写.

例4： 【谁有英语美文?请高手给我几篇英语美文,每篇40个单词左右,谢谢啦〜】[英语练习题]

我和英语-若即若离

记得刚上学学英语时,老师上课讲的东西我从来没有听懂过,单词也从来没有背过.可是第一次考试竟然考了班里的第二,仅比那个暑假学过英语的第一名少1分.那时,我还不知道骄傲是怎么回事.因为我对英语压根就是个白痴,好多东西全凭感觉.后来才知道是语感.

初中四年,英语成绩一直都很好,还创造了几次满分的奇迹.那是因为没有听力.有了听力,我的英语就不如别人了.听力成了我的心病,一直带到现在.

我的高中在人称“监狱”的英中度过,可想而知是怎样的一种高中生活.在那里我接触了三位风格不同的英语老师.高一的英语老师对我宠爱有加,在那里我的英语犹如鱼儿在 水中畅游；到高二,那位男老师对俺不理不睬,英语成绩一落千丈；到了高三,所有的老师对俺都照顾有佳,生怕连本科也上不了,更别说重点了.英语老师更是如此,因为我和她师出同门,她造就认识我了.英语算是又拣回来了.可是,高考还是跌在英语上了,当时,我是100分的伤心,辛苦白费；300分的后悔,后悔高二一年对英语不重视.

阴差阳错,现在的我成了英语专业的学生.口语是我唯一骄傲的优势,可是大二上到现在我发现我的口语没有丝毫的进步.到了考专业四级,我怕的乱七八糟的,天天像疯了一样的准备.最后还是紧张,紧张的不行.哎,到成绩公布还有5个月,又是一场痛苦等待的独角戏.就在考试结束回宿舍的路上,我怎么也走不到宿舍,感觉回家的路没有尽头.

这一辈子,注定与英语有缘,不知道是不是孽缘.单我肯定我不会考英语专业的研究生.与英语保持若即若离,将是我最好的选择,因为没有英语我会受不了,有了她,我同样痛苦.

I and English-distance I remember just learning English in school,school teacher things I never understood before,words have never been back.But the first test is a test of the two classes,only that summer than the first few one who has studied English sub.At that time,I do not know what is the pride thing.English because I was using a race and many things helped feeling.Later I learned that a sense of the term.Middle school for four years,results have been very good English,and also created several points miracle.I agree because there was no hearing.With hearing,my English is better than others on.I became the anxiety of the hearing has been brought to the present.My high school in so-called "prison" of the British to pass,how can a high school life.Where I contacted three different styles of English teachers.A high English teachers have added to my favourites,where I enjoyed the English like fish in water; To the school,that I neglect to male teachers,English results fall; By three,I have to take care of all teachers are good,we might even have to be,not to mention the key.English teachers especially,because I and her division of the same doors,she created awareness of me.English is also Jianhuilai.However,the college entrance examination in English or,or,at the time,I was 100 hours of sad and hard in vain ;300 hours of regret,it is not a high priority in 1921 for the English.Yinchayangcuo,now I have become English professional students.Speaking is my only pride advantage,but now I find that I feared,the paper has not the slightest progress.Professional Grade 4 to the test,I fear things,the same day as crazy prepared.Finally or tense,tense work.Oh,there are still five months to results announced,is a painful wait for the song.At the end of college examinations on the road,I can also come to the stage quarters of the way home feeling no end.This life is doomed and English Marriage depends on fate,do not know whether it was a sin.I am sure I will not take a single English professional postgraduate.Maintain safe and English,I would be the best option,because I will take no English,she had,I am equally painful.

例5： 几篇英语文章大概一版信纸左右,要几篇,多有多加悬赏[英语练习题]

My Father - 父爱无边

My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not read music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it. When he was younger, he was a member of a small country music band. They would play at local dances and on a few occasions would play for the local radio station. He often told us how he had auditioned and earned a position in a band that featured Patsy Cline as their lead singer. He told the family that after he was hired he never went back. Dad was a very religious man. He stated that there was a lot of drinking and cursing the day of his audition and he did not want to be around that type of environment.

　　Occasionally, Dad would get out his mandolin and play for the family. We three children: Trisha, Monte and I, George Jr., would often sing along. Songs such as the Tennessee Waltz, Harbor Lights and around Christmas time, the well-known rendition of Silver Bells. "Silver Bells, Silver Bells, its Christmas time in the city" would ring throughout the house. One of Dad's favorite hymns was "The Old Rugged Cross". We learned the words to the hymn when we were very young, and would sing it with Dad when he would play and sing. Another song that was often shared in our house was a song that accompanied the Walt Disney series: Davey Crockett. Dad only had to hear the song twice before he learned it well enough to play it. "Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" was a favorite song for the family. He knew we enjoyed the song and the program and would often get out the mandolin after the program was over. I could never get over how he could play the songs so well after only hearing them a few times. I loved to sing, but I never learned how to play the mandolin. This is something I regret to this day.

　　Dad loved to play the mandolin for his family he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was like that. If he could give pleasure to others, he would, especially his family. He was always there, sacrificing his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to mature into a man and have children of my own before I realized how much he had sacrificed.

　　I joined the United States Air Force in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home on leave, I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. Nobody played the mandolin like my father. He could touch your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his pride in his ability to play so well for his family.

　　When Dad was younger, he worked for his father on the farm. His father was a farmer and sharecropped a farm for the man who owned the property. In 1950, our family moved from the farm. Dad had gained employment at the local limestone quarry. When the quarry closed in August of 1957, he had to seek other employment. He worked for Owens Yacht Company in Dundalk, Maryland and for Todd Steel in Point of Rocks, Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was involved in an accident. His job was to roll angle iron onto a conveyor so that the welders farther up the production line would have it to complete their job. On this particular day Dad got the third index finger of his left hand mashed between two pieces of steel. The doctor who operated on the finger could not save it, and Dad ended up having the tip of the finger amputated. He didn't lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, but it did impact his ability to play the mandolin.

　　After the accident, Dad was reluctant to play the mandolin. He felt that he could not play as well as he had before the accident. When I came home on leave and asked him to play he would make excuses for why he couldn't play. Eventually, we would wear him down and he would say "Okay, but remember, I can't hold down on the strings the way I used to" or "Since the accident to this finger I can't play as good". For the family it didn't make any difference that Dad couldn't play as well. We were just glad that he would play. When he played the old mandolin it would carry us back to a cheerful, happier time in our lives. "Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier", would again be heard in the little town of Bakerton, West Virginia.

　　In August of 1993 my father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He chose not to receive chemotherapy treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life in dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said "okay". He knew it would probably be the last time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few notes. When I looked around, there was not a dry eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet humble man with an inner strength that comes from knowing God, and living with him in one's life. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. We felt at the time that he wouldn't have enough strength to play, and that makes the memory of that day even stronger. Dad was doing something he had done all his life, giving. As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!

相关思考练习题：

题1：英语短篇美文4篇

点拨：1、If not to the sun for smiling, warm is still in the sun there, but wewill laugh more confident calm; if turned to found his own shadow, appropriate escape, the sun will be through the heart,warm each place behind the corner;...

题2：英文名家名篇 美文

点拨：海明威的True Nobility真正的高贵。我直接拿来熟背，非常非常经典的内容，太有思想了。高一的话努力努力应该没问题。查下生词就好。 True Nobility In a calm sea, every man is a pilot. But all sunshine without shade,all pleasure without ...

题3：英语短文

点拨：First Flight Mr. Johnson had never been up in an aerophane before and he had read a lot about air accidents, so one day when a friend offered to take him for a ride in his own small phane, Mr. Johnson was very worried about acc...

题4：求英语美文，小说，带翻译的

点拨：The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.- Eric Hoffer 世界上最难的算术题是如何清点我们的祝福。 According to legend, a young man while roaming the desert came across a spring of delicious...

题5：英语美文阅读

点拨：Right Beside You 身边总有你 The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the young woman with the white cane made her way1 carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to feel the location of th...