英语经典名著的优美段落阅读

英语优美段落一 To see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean, to walk upon the green earth, and to be a lord of a thousand creatures to look down giddy precipices or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread out under one's finger in a map, to bring the stars near, to view the smallest insects in a microscope, to read history and witness the revolutions of empires and the succession of generations, to hear the glory of Sidon and Tyre of Babylon and Susa, as of a fade pageant and to say all these were and are now nothing. to think that we exist in such a point of time, and in such a corner of space, to be at once spectators and a part of the moving scene to watch the return of the seasons, of spring and autumn, to hear— The stock dove plain amid the forest deep, That drowsy rustles to the sighing gale. —to traverse desert wildness, to listen to the dungeon's gloom,or sit in crowded theatres and see life itself mocked, to feel heat and cold,pleasure and pain right and wrong,truth and falsehood, to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton to be and to do all this and then in a moment to be nothing to have it all snatched from one like a juggler's ball or a phantasmagoria... 我们看到金色的太阳，蔚蓝的天空，广阔的海洋;我们漫步在绿油油的大 地上，做万物的主人;我们俯视令人目眩心悸的悬崖峭壁，远眺鲜花盛开的山 谷;我们把地图摊开，任意指点全球;我们把星辰移到眼前观看，还在显微镜 下观察极其微小的生物，我们学历史，亲自目睹帝国的兴亡，时代的交替;我 们听人谈论西顿、推罗、巴比伦和苏撒的勋业，如同听一番往昔的盛会，听 了以后，我们说这些事确实发生过，但现在却是过眼云烟了;我们思考着自己 生活的时代，生活的地区;我们在人生的活动舞台上既当观众，又当演员;我 们观察四季更迭，春秋代序，我们听见了—— 野鸽在浓密的树林中哀诉， 树林随微风的叹息而低语。 ——我们横越大漠;我们倾听了子夜的歌声;我们光顾灯火辉煌的厅堂， 走下阴森森的地牢，或者坐在万头攒动的剧院里观看生活本身受到的摩拟;我 们亲身感受炎热和寒冷，快乐和痛苦，正义和邪恶，真理和谬误;我们钻研艺 术作品，把自己的美感提高到极其敏锐的程度;我们崇拜荣誉，梦想不朽;我 们阅读莎士比亚，或者把自己和牛顿爵士视为同一族类，正当我们面临这一 切，从事这一切的时候，自己却在一刹那之间化为虚无，眼前的一切像是魔 术师手中的圆球，像是一场幻影，一下子全都消失得无影无踪…… 英语优美段落二 Remember, my son, you have to work. Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel-barrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. If you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the hardest. Don't be afraid of killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, and do not go home until two in the morning. It’s the interval that kills, my son. The work gives you an appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday. 谨记，我的年轻人，你们必须工作.不管你是使锄头还是用笔，也不管是 推手推车还是编记账簿，也不管你是种地还是编辑报纸，是拍卖师亦或是作 家，都必须有一份工作，并为之努力奋斗.如果仔细观察周围的人，你就会发 现，那些工作最努力的人最有可能安享晚年而无须去工作.不要害怕超负荷的 工作会缩短你的寿命，不足三十岁的年龄，你的承受能力远不止如此.如果说 真的有人过早送命，那完全是因为他们在晚上六点结束工作，却要在外流连 到凌晨两点才归家.我的年轻人，正是晚上六点到凌晨两点的这段时间的生活 毁了他们自己.工作会增加你的食欲，工作会使你安然入睡，工作将会使你心 满意足地享受假日。 There are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as “old So-and-So’s boy”. Nobody likes them; the great, busy world doesn’t know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you. 有的年轻人不工作，但世界并不会因他们自豪。它不知道他们的姓名， 甚至简单地将他们概括为“老令人讨厌者的男孩 ” 。没有人喜欢他们 ;伟大， 繁忙的世界不知道他们在那里。因此，找出哪些你想成为和做的，脱下你的 外衣，把粉尘抛在世界上。越是繁忙的你越是少受伤害，甜蜜将成为您的睡 眠，光明和幸福着您的假期，更好地满足你的意志世界。