2016經典英語美文欣賞
英語美文用簡單溫暖的文字、真實動人的情感傳達語言之美,讓讀者在閱讀之後,感同身受,觸動心靈。下面是本站小編帶來的經典英語美文欣賞，歡迎閱讀!
Perseverance
堅持不懈
perseverance depends upon three things - purpose, will, and enthusiasm.
堅持不懈取決於於三個方面--目標，意志和熱情。
He who has a purpose is always concentrating his forces.
一個目標明確的人總是能夠集中精力。
By the will, the hopes and the plans are prevented from evaporating into dreams.
有了堅定的決心，就能夠避免希望和計劃在夢想中化爲泡影。
Enthusiasm keeps the interest up, and makes the obstacles seem small.
而沖天的熱情，能夠讓人永遠興致勃勃，藐視一切艱難險阻。
Life is in a sense a battle.
從某種意義上講，生活就是一場戰役。
The man who thinks to get on by mere smartness and by idling meets failure at last.
那種妄想憑藉小聰明閒混到出人頭地的人最終只會落得失敗的下場。
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, and holds the key to those treasure-houses of knowledge from which the world has drawn its wealth both of wisdom and of Moral worth.
堅持不懈是那些信念堅定的人主導性的精神動力，其把持着開啓那些知識寶庫的鑰匙，全世界的人都可以從中獲取智慧和道德的財富。
Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
偉大的人們從不坐等機會;他們會自行創造。
They seize upon whatever is at hand, work out their problem, and master the situation.
他們會抓住一切手邊的機會，解決遇到的難題，並且自己掌控局面。
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.
在這個世界上，一個人所能做的最偉大的事情就是，從給予他的有限的機會之中進行最大可能的發掘。
This is success and there is no other.
這便是成功，僅此而已。
One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat.
人生最重要的一課，便是學會如何從失敗之中邁向成功。
It takes courage and stamina, when mortified by humiliating disaster, to seek in the ruins the elements of future conquest.
身負失敗的屈辱和不幸，我們需要勇氣和毅力，在失敗的廢墟中尋找未來獲勝的要素。
Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail.
而這恰能衡量出成功者與失敗者的不同。
We cannot measure a man by his failures.
我們不能用失敗來衡量一個人。
We must know what use he makes of them.
我們必須瞭解他如何從這些失敗中吸取教訓。
The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict does not know the highest meaning of success.
一個不思上進、沒有絕望掙扎的傷痕烙在心頭的人，無法體會成功的最高意境。
經典英語美文欣賞閱讀Developing Self-Confidence
培養自信
Confidence is a feeling—an inner fire and an outer radiance1, a basic satisfaction with what one is plus a reading out to become more. Confidence is not something a few people are born with and others are not, for it is an acquired characteristic.
自信是一種感覺—一種來自內心的火焰和外在的燦爛，使人們可以獲得更多基本的滿足感。自信不是某些人天生就有而另一些人沒有，它是後天培養起來的性格。
Confidence is the personal possession of no one; the person who has it learns it – and goes on learning. The most gifted individual on earth has to construct confidence in his gifts from the basis of faith and experience, like anybody else. The tools will differ from one person to the next, but the essential task is the same. Confidence and pose are available2 to us all according to our abilities and needs – not somebody else’s – provided we utilize our gifts and expand them.
自信不是任何人的私有財產;人們通過學習獲得自信並且堅持繼續學習。這個世界上最聰明的人也要像其他人一樣，在信念和經歷的基礎上來培養自信。一個人和另一個人用的工具可能不同，但是核心的任務是一樣的。倘若運用我們的才智並使之不斷增長，依靠我們自己的而不是別人的能力和需求，我們就可以做到自信和沉着冷靜。
One of the most rewarding3 aspects of confidence is that it sits gracefully on every age and level of life – on children, men, women, the famous, the obscure4, rich, poor, artist, executive, teen-ager, the very old. And you can take it with you into old age. There is nothing more inspiring than an old person who maintains his good will, humor, and faith in himself, in others, in the future. Conversely, the root cause of old people’s despair is feeling of not being wanted, of nothing to contribute, no more to conquer and become.
自信最令人滿意的方面之一是它不分年齡和生活水準不懈地跟隨我們每個人—小孩，男人，女人，名人，平凡人，富人，窮人，藝術家，行政人員，青少年，老人。你還可以把自信帶入老年。再沒有比一個老人能夠保持對自己，對別人和未來懷有美好意願、心情、信念更能鼓舞人心的了。相反，老人絕望的根本原因是不被需要，無所貢獻，無所征服和無所成就的感覺。
Most people have more to work with than they realize. One noted physicist calls this unused excellencies and finding and releasing this potential in ourselves is one of the major challenges of modern life. The great danger is not that we shall overreach our capacities but that we shall undervalue and under-employ them, thus blighting5 our great possibilities.
大多數人都比他們意識到的更大有可爲。一位著名的物理學家把它稱之爲未被利用的優點，找到並且釋放我們身上的這些潛能是當代生活中重要的挑戰之一。最多的危險不是我們高估我們的能力，而是我們會低估並且不能充分利用這些能力，這會破壞我們的潛能。
The goal of life is not a problemless existence, which would be unbearably6 dull, but a way to handle problems creatively. That word “problem” may sound a little prickly, but it only means a question put forth for solution, and actually life consists of a series of problems-and-solutions, each different from the last.
生活的目標不是無憂無慮，那樣會無聊得無法忍受，而應該是創造性的解決問題—解決問題構成的，每一個問題都與上一個不同。
Confidence is delight — delight6 in living, in being who you are, in what you do, in growing, in the endless and sometimes exasperating7 adventure of what it means to be human. The teacher who delights in teaching has no time for bogging down8 in a swamp of doubt that he or she is doing it “right,” and they are well aware that they can become a better teacher tomorrow, but only by doing their best today and enjoying today. So, too, the mother who delights in being a mother does not worry overmuch about whether she fits the rules. She is not the mother, after all, of something material but of a living child.
自信是喜悅，生活的喜悅，是自我的快樂，做事的快樂，成長的快樂，體驗人類種種坎坷歷程的快樂。以教學爲快樂的老師，沒有時間懷疑他做得是否對，通過今天的努力工作並感到滿意，他們很清楚明天會做得更好。母親也如此，她們也不會過多地擔心她是否適合這個角色。她照顧的畢竟不是無生命的物質，而是一個活生生的孩子。
Rules can often be a guide to successful living, but they are not a substitute for living. Rules never quite keep up with reality, because rules come from experience, not the other way around. Life happens, and it is infinitely inventive. It will always outrun and outmaneuver9 any attempt to bottle it up10 in a cut-and-dried system, for life is perpetual becoming. When life turns your wisest plans or best rules upside down, throw out the plans and bend with the circumstance. You will find powers you did not suspect, and possibilities undreamed of.
規則是通往成功生活的嚮導，但不是生活的替代品。規則不是十分符合現實，因爲規則來自於經驗，而不是經驗來自規則。生活的真諦遠勝於發明創造。生活總會超越那些束縛它的一板一眼的制度，因爲生活總在變化。當生活把你最聰明的計劃或最好的準則推翻時，扔掉那些計劃，適應環境，你會找到你意想不到的力量，以及你做夢也沒想到的可能性。
Confidence is not always winning, not always victory. Indeed, it is that very quality in humanity which refuses to stay defeated. A kind of stubborn11 cheerfulness. Remember there are two things you can do with mistakes: you can run away and you can grow.
自信並不總能勝利，總能打贏。實際上，它是人類不甘於失敗餓品質，一種絕不退讓的快活。記住對於錯誤你可以採取兩種態度：你可以逃避，也可以從中成長。
經典英語美文欣賞學習Touched by the Moon
月色撩人
Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage in the Himalayas.
不久以後，我要住在喜馬拉雅山的一座小村舍裏。
There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains,
在那裏我可以種菜，讀書，漫步山間
and perhaps write, but not in anger.
也可能寫作，但並不憤慨。
I may grow old there,
我可能會在那直到很老
and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled
穿破我的褲腳，
and measure out my life in coffee spoons.
在品味咖啡中享受生命。
But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
但是我會在涼爽寂靜的夜晚踱步戶外，去觸摸那月亮。
