英语经典美文

在日常学习、工作和生活中，大家经常看到美文吧？一篇美文是建立在真挚情感的基础上的。文字表达的是内心的感受，是真情实感的自然流露，那么问题来了，怎样才能完成一篇优秀的美文呢？下面是小编整理的英语经典美文，仅供参考，希望能够帮助到大家。

英语经典美文1

Wanna prensent you guys a touching story

The story name Christmas Day in the Morning, is written by Pearl Buck. It"s very famous, touching but easy to understand.

Christmas Day in the Morning

He woke suddenly, and completely. It was four o"clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking. Strange how the habits of his youth clung to him still! Fifty years ago, and his father had been dead for thirty years, and yet he awoke at four o"clock in the morning. He had trained himself to turn over and go to sleep, but this morning it was Christmas, he did not try to sleep.

Why did he feel so awake tonight? He slipped back in time, as he did so easily nowadays. He was fifteen years old and still on his father"s farm. He loved his father. He had not known it until one day a few days before Christmas when he had overheard what his father was saying to his mother.

"Mary, I hate to call Rob in the mornings. He"s growing so fast and he needs his sleep. If you could see how he sleeps when I go in to wake him up! I wish I could manage alone."

"Well, you can"t, Adam." His mother"s voice was brisk, "Besides, he isn"t a child anymore. It"s time he took his turn."

"Yes," his father said slowly. "But I sure do hate to wake him."

When he heard these words, something in him woke; his father loved him! He had never thought of it before, taking for granted the tie of their blood. Neither his father nor his mother talked about loving their children, they had no time for such things. There was always so much to do on the farm. Now that he knew his father loved him, there would be no more loitering in the mornings and having to be called again. He got up after that, stumbling blind with sleep, and pulled on his clothes, his eyes tight shut, but he got up.

And then on the night before Christmas, that year when he was fifteen, he lay for a few minutes thinking about the next day. They were poor and most of the excitement was in the turkey they had raised themselves and the mince pies his mother made. His sisters sewed presents and his mother and father always bought something he needed, not only a warm jacket, but maybe something more, such as a book. And he saved and bought them each something, too.

He wished, that Christmas he was fifteen, he had a better present for his father. As usual he had gone to the ten cent store and bought a tie. It had seemed nice enough until he lay thinking the night before Christmas. He looked out of his attic window, the stars were bright.

"Dad," he had once asked when he was a little boy, "What is a stable!"

"It"s just a barn." his father had replied, "like ours."

"Then Jesus had been born in a barn, and to a barn the shepherds had come..."

The thought struck him like a silver dagger. Why should he not give his father a special gift too, out there in the barn? He could get up early, earlier than four, and he could creep into the barn and get all the milking done. He"d do it alone, milk and clean up, and then when his father went to start the milking, he"d see it all done, and he would know who had done it. He laughed to himself as he gazed at the stars. It was what he would do, and he mustn"t sleep too sound.

He must have waked twenty times, scratching a match each time to look at his old watch, midnight, and half past one, and then two o"clock. At a quarter to three he got up and put on his clothes. He crept downstairs, careful of the creaky boards, and let himself out. The cows looked at him, sleepy and surprised. It was too early for them too.

He had never milked all alone before, but it seemed almost easy. He kept thinking about his father"s surprise. His father would come in and get him, saying he would get things started while Rob was getting dressed. He"d go to the barn, open the door, and then he"d go to get the two empty milk cans. But they wouldn"t be waiting or empty; they"d be standing in the milk house, filled.

"What the ...," he could hear his father exclaiming.

He smiled and milked steadily, two strong streams rushing into the pail, frothing and fragrant. The task went more easily than he had ever known it to go before. Milking for once was not a chore. It was something else, a gift to is father, who loved him. He finished, the two milk cans were full, and he covered them and closed the milk house door carefully. Back in his room he had only a minute to pull off his clothes in the darkness and jump into bed, for he heard his father up. He put the covers over his head to silence his quick breathing. The door opened.

"Rob!" his father called. "We have to get up, son, even if it is Christmas."

"Aw-right," he said sleepily.

The door closed and he lay still, laughing to himself. In just a few minutes his father would know. His dancing heart was ready to jump from his body. The minutes were endless, ten, fifteen, he did not know how many, and he heard his father"s footsteps again. The door opened and he lay still.

"Rob!"

"Yes, Dad"

His father was laughing, a queer, sobbing sort of laugh. "Thought you"d fool me, did you?" His father was standing beside his bed, feeling for him, pulling away the cover.

"It"s for Christmas, Dad!"

He found his father and clutched him in a great hug. He felt his father"s arms go around him. It was dark and they could not see each other"s faces.

"Rob, I thank you. Nobody ever did a nicer thing!"

"Oh, dad, I want you to know, I do want to be good!" The words broke from him of their own will. He did not know what to say. His heart was bursting with love.

He got up and pulled on his clothes again and they went down to the Christmas tree. Oh, what a Christmas, and how his heart had nearly burst again with shyness and pride as his father told his mother and made the three younger children listen about how, he Rob, had got up all by himself.

"The best Christmas gift I ever had, and I"ll remember it, son, every year on Christmas morning, so long as I live."

They had both remembered it; and now that his father was dead, he remembered it alone: that blessed Christmas dawn when, alone with the cows in the barn, he had made his first gift of true love.

英语经典美文2

People usually say father is quiet and strict, but my father is totally not. He is easygoing. I have a good relationship with my father and we are good friends to each other. We have many topics to talk about because we have much in common. For example, we like playing football. After dinner, we often go to the downstairs to play. I learn many football skills from him. Besides, we like playing video games or computer games. Sometimes, we compete to each other, while sometimes we make a team to compete to others. Of course, he puts study as my priority, so he cares much about my study as well. He once said that he hoped me to study happily. I am really grateful to have such a good father.

人们常说，父亲是安静严厉的，但是我的爸爸完全不是这样，他很随和。我和爸爸关系融洽，我们是彼此的`好朋友。因为我们有很多共同点，所以我们有很多话题来讨论。比如说，我们都喜欢踢足球。晚饭过后我们经常到楼下踢足球，我从他那里学到了很多技巧。除此之外，我们还喜欢玩电游和网游。有时候，我们相互竞争；有时候，我们组成一个团队去和别人竞争。当然，他把学习作为我的首要任务，因此他也非常关心我的学习。他曾经说过希望我开心地学习。我真的很感激有这样一个好爸爸。

英语经典美文3

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as "terminally ill." He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was one in 500.

He could see that the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease. He wondered, "If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?"

He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find - Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.

His pain was so great he could not sleep. Laughing for 10 solid minutes, he found, relieved the pain for several hours so he could sleep.

He fully recovered from his illness and lived another 20 happy, healthy and productive years. (His journey is detailed in his book, Anatomy of an Illness.) He credits visualization, the love of his family and friends, and laughter for his recovery.

Some people think laughter is a waste of time. It is a luxury, they say, a frivolity, something to indulge in only every so often.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we"re not well, laughter helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

Since Cousins" ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a curative effect on the body, the mind and the emotions.

So, if you like laughter, consider it sound medical advice to indulge in it as often as you can. If you don"t like laughter, then take your medicine - laugh anyway.

Use whatever makes you laugh - movies, sitcoms, Monty Python, records, books, New Yorker cartoons, jokes, friends.

Give yourself permission to laugh - long and loud and out loud - whenever anything strikes you as funny. The people around you may think you"re strange, but sooner or later they"ll join in even if they don"t know what you"re laughing about.

Some diseases may be contagious, but none is as contagious as the cure...laughter.

英语经典美文4

The weather in winter is a set of all the phenomena in a given atmosphere at a given time.

It also includes interactions with the hydrosphere.The term usually refers to the activity of these phenomena over short periods (hours or days), as opposed to the term climate, which refers to the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.

When used without qualification, weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth.

英语经典美文5

He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin.

他11岁那年，只要一有机会，就会到他家小屋的码头上钓鱼。

On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening. Then he tied on a small silver lure and practiced casting. When his peapole doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.

鲈鱼季节开放的前一天晚上，他和爸爸早早开始垂钓。他系上鱼饵，练习如何抛线。当鱼杆向下弯的时候，他知道线的另一端一定钓到了一条大鱼。爸爸看着他技巧纯熟地在码头边沿和鱼周旋，眼神充满赞赏。

Finally, he lifted the exhausted fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but is was a bass.

最后他将筋疲力尽的鱼提出水面。这是他所见过的最大的一条，还是一条鲈鱼。

The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.----two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy.

爸爸檫着一根火柴，看了看表。十点了---离开禁还有两个小时。他看了看鱼，又看了看男孩。

"You'll have to put it back, son." he said.

“你得把它放回去，孩子。”爸爸说道。

"Dad!" cried the boy.

“爸爸！”男孩叫道。

"There will be other fish," said his father.

“还有其他的鱼嘛。”爸爸说道。

"Not as big as this one," cried the boy.

“但没这么大。”男孩叫道。

He looked around the lake. No others were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could tell by the clarity of his father's voice that the decision was not negotiable. He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.

男孩环视了一遍湖。月光下附近没有其他人。他又看了看他爸爸。从爸爸不可动摇的语气中，他知道这个决定没有商量余地，即使没有人看到他们，更无从得知他们何时钓到了鱼。他慢慢地将鱼钩从大鲈鱼的唇上取下，然后蹲下将鱼放回水中。男孩想，他可能再也看不到这么大的鱼了。

That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.

那是34年前的事了。现在，男孩是纽约的一个成功的建筑师，他带着自己的儿女仍然在同一个码头上钓鱼。

And he was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish---again and again---every time he comes up against a question of ethics.

他猜得没错。自那次以后，他再也没有钓上过那么大的鱼了。但每次他面临道德难题而举棋不定的时候，他的眼前再三浮现出那条鱼。

For, as his father taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking? Do we refuse to cut corners to get the design in on time? Or refuse to trade stocks based on information that we know we aren't supposed to have?

他爸爸曾告诉他，道德即是简单的对和错的'问题，但要付诸行动却很难。在没人瞧见的时候，我们是否仍遵循道德准则？为了将图纸按时完成，我们是不是也会走捷径？或者在明知道不可以的情况下，仍将公司股份卖掉？

We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the truth. The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our memory.

在我们还小的时候，如果有人教导我们把鱼放回去，我们会这样做，因为我们还在学习真理。正确的决定在我们的记忆里变得深刻而清晰。

It is a story we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren. Not about how we had a chance to beat the system and took it， but about how we did the right thing and were forever strengthened.

这个故事我们可以骄傲地讲给朋友和子孙们听，不是关于如何攻击和战胜某种体制，而是如何做正确的决定，从而变得无比坚强。

英语经典美文6

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famousin all the literature of the world. They were spokenby Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are themost famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet wasspeaking not only for himself but also for everythinking man and woman. To be or not to be, to live ornot to live, to live richly and abundantly andeagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. Aphilosopher once wanted to know whether he was aliveor not, which is a good question for everyone to putto himself occasionally. He answered it by saying: "I think, therefore am." But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: "To be is to bein relations." If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive. Tolive abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations.Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine. But apart from our regularoccupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, youare alive only to that extent. So far as other things are concerned--poetry and prose, music,pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a newaccomplishment--you increase your power of life. No one who is deeply interested in a largevariety of subjects can remain unhappy; the real pessimist is the person who has lostinterest.

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. But we gain new life by contacts, newfriends. What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are alsoalive. Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also. If your thoughts are confined onlyto your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in whichyou live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life. But if you are interested in what isgoing on in China, then you are living in China~ if you’re interested in the characters of agood novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently tofine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion andimagination.

To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.Let widen and intensify our relations. While we live, let live!

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There is so much I have not been, so much I have not seen.

生命中，有那么多我未曾经历过，有那么多我未曾见识过。

I have not thought and have not done or felt enough—the early sun, rain and the seasonal delight of flocks of ducks and geese in flight, the mysteries of late-at-night. I still need time to read a book, write poems, paint a picture, look at scenes and faces dear to me. There is something more to be of value—something I should find within myself—as peace of mind, patience, grace and being kind. I shall take and I shall give, while yet, there is so much to live for—rainbows, stars that gleam, the fields,the hills, the hope, the dream the truth that one must seek.

有很多事情，我未曾想够、做够或体会够——朝阳、雨水、由成群飞翔的鸭鹅带来的季节性喜悦以及那些午夜的神秘。我还需要时间读书、写诗、作画、观赏景色以及我所爱的脸庞。还有更多具有价 值的'东西——那些我应该在自己内心发现的东西——心灵的宁静、耐心、优雅与仁慈。我要获取，我也要施予，然而还有许多值得为之而活——彩虹、闪烁的星星、 田野、山丘、希望、梦想以及人必须追求的真理。

I’ll stay here—treasure every day and love the world in my own way!

我会在此——珍惜每一个时日并且用自己的方式惜爱这个世界！

英语经典美文8

Members of President Trump’s team have voiced their disapproval of a Grammy Awards sketch featuring a cameo by Hillary Clinton.

特朗普总统的团队成员对希拉里·克林顿主演的格莱美奖视频表示反对。

The video showed Clinton and several famous musicians, including Cher and Snoop Dogg, reading extracts from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury.

视频展示了希拉里和几位著名的音乐人，包括Cher和Snoop Dogg在内，阅读迈克尔·沃尔夫的《火与怒》的摘录文字。

Grammy host James Corden explained they were hoping to win the award for best spoken word album.

格莱美主持人詹姆斯·科登解释说，他们希望赢得最佳口语专辑奖。

But Donald Trump Jr mocked the sketch, calling Wolff’s book "fake news".

但是小唐纳德·特朗普嘲笑了这个视频，称沃尔夫的书为“假新闻”。

The segment, which aired during the Grammys ceremony on Sunday night, saw Clinton reading a notorious passage about President Trump’s love of fast food.

周日晚上在格莱美典礼上播放的片段可以看希拉里阅读特朗普如何喜爱快餐的一段文字描述。

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned," she said.

她说：“他长期害怕中毒。

"One reason why he liked to eat at McDonalds. No one knew he was coming and the food was safely pre-made."

“他喜欢在麦当劳吃饭的原因之一，是没有人知道他来了，而食物是提前做好的，很安全。”

Her appearance was cheered by the audience in Madison Square Garden but Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was less enthusiastic:"I have always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the Fire and Fury book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it."

麦迪逊广场花园的观众为她的出现而欢呼雀跃，但是美国驻联合国大使尼基·哈利却不那么热情：“我一直都爱格莱美，但是让艺术家们阅读《火与怒》??简直就是毁了它。别用垃圾毁掉伟大的音乐，我们中的一些人喜欢没有搅入政治的'音乐。”

Donald Trump Jr used the opportunity to take a shot at Clinton’s election loss.

小唐纳德·特朗普则利用这个机会对希拉里选举失败进行了抨击。

President Trump’s supporters will have found much to dislike during the three-hour Grammy ceremony.

在三个小时的格莱美仪式上，特朗普总统的支持者会发现很多他们不喜欢的内容。

英语经典美文9

The move comes within two months of the producers, Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar, settling a three-year-old lawsuit with actress Sharon Stone, who claimed they had promised to pay her at least $14 million even if the film was not made.

Stone is now set to reprise her role as Catherine Tramell, the manipulative, seductive novelist at the heart of a murder investigation in the original. That film, her last big hit, also starred Michael Douglas and was directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The sequel was originally due to go into production in 20xx, albeit without Douglas and Verhoeven, who reportedly had problems with each other the first time around. Several directors were attached, including John McTiernan, who pulled out after Stone reportedly vetoed Benjamin Bratt as her co-star.

Caton-Jones has most recently been working on "Shooting Dogs," which is based on the true story of a Catholic priest and an English teacher caught in the Rwandan genocide. Before that, he helmed "City by the Sea," toplining Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand. His other credits include "The Jackal," "Rob Roy" and "Memphis Belle."

英语经典美文10

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. ——Henry David Thoreau

世界对富有想象力的人来说只是一块帆布。——亨利·大卫·梭罗

Creativity is not,as some would have us believed,something to be taken lightly.More than painting pictures or composing original music—creativity could rightly be considered a healing force for societies overwhelmed by the ongoing utilitarian struggles of humanity.Call it a cure for depression,an escape from working—class drudgery,catharsis for the stress and worry that accumulates within us all.Or just call it a fun and productive way to wile away an afternoon.

创造力并不像人们让我们相信的那样，是不以为然的东西。这不像绘画或者原创音乐那样，创造力可以看做是治愈被持续的社会功利斗争所压迫人性的力量.我们称之为治疗抑郁的良药，逃避工薪阶层的苦差事，积压在我们内心所有压力和忧虑的宣泄。或者只是一个消磨一个下午的有趣高效的方法。

But the spark of creativity is not always easily lit.As children,our creative zeal is generally encouraged and allowed to thrive,but as we move into adulthood that zeal tends to atrophy from neglect.Other things take over our lives,such as hectic career schedules and increased social pressure to achieve "status".According to Elisabeth Keating inPieces of Beauty,this is an unhealthy trend spawned from an overly materialistic culture.She gose on to detail the spiritual benefits of a more creative life.

但创造力的火花并不容易点燃。作为孩子，我们的创作热情容易受到鼓励和发展，但随着我们进入成年期，热情往往容易减退。其它事情占据了我们的生活，如简单忙碌的职业计划和为了获得地位产生的社会压力。根据伊丽莎白.基庭的《美丽碎片》，这是由过度的物质文化产生的一种不健康趋势。她继续深究更有创造性的`生活的精神上的益处。

Tongue in cheek,Melvin Durai exposes creativity from a more "everyday" and practical angle in his humorous piece,Let the Beer Come to You.Not only have great minds invented personal computers and cell phone technology,they might also bless us with beertossing refrigerators and couches that spit out lost remote controls.

Melvin Durai在用他的诙谐作品《让啤酒来到你的身边》开玩笑似的从日常和实践的角度剖析创造性。

Clearly,the expression of artistic creativity throughout history has been just a instrumental in imprroving the human condition as any business venture or economic boom.Without it there would be no great works of art to enjoy and puzzle over,no songs to sing badly in the shower,no ho new fashion trends,no novels to read.I ask you,is that the sort of world you want to live in?

显然，纵观历史，艺术创作的表达一直只是一个改善人类生存条件成为一切商业风险和经济繁荣的工具。没有创造力就不会有伟大的艺术作品供欣赏和思索，就没有糟糕的洗澡歌，就没有潮流趋势，就没有小说可以读。我问你们，那是你们想要生活的那种世界吗？

英语经典美文11

A friend’s grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe.After settling down at Ellis Island.he went into a cafeteria in lower Manhattan to get something to eat.He sat down at an empty table and waited for someone to take his order.

一个朋友的祖父从东欧到美国来。在埃利斯岛安顿下来后。他去下曼哈顿的.一家自助餐厅吃饭。他在一张空桌子边坐下，等待侍者拿来菜单。

Of course nobody did.Finally, a woman with a tray full of food sat down opposite him and informed him how a cafeteria worked.

没有人来招呼他。最后，一位女士拿着满满一托盘食物走过来坐在他对面并告诉他自助餐厅怎样进餐的。

"Start out at that end," she said. "Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay."

她说：“出去排队等，到你的时候点你想要的东西，餐厅服务生会告诉你该付多少钱。”

"I soon learned that's how everything works in America," the grandfather told a friend.

他对一个朋友说：“接着我很快了解到这就是美国人的工作方式”。

"Life's a cafeteria here.

生活就像自助餐。

You can get anything you want as long as you are willing to pay the price.You can even get success.

你可以去要你想要的任何东西,只要你能付得起他们的价格。你也可以想要成功。

But you'll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you.

但是如果你什么都不做等着别人能把它送到你身边的话是永远都不可能得到的。

You have to get up and get it yourself."

你必须主动出击，自己去追求它。

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#CASE 1

Getting married is like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

#CASE 2

At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren"t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied, "Yes, I am. I married the wrong man."

#CASE 3

Before a man is married, he is incomplete. Then when he is married, he is finished.

#CASE 4

Marriage is an institution in which a man losses his bachelor"s degree and the woman gets her master"s status.

#CASE 5

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married??" And the father replied, "I don"t know son, I"m still paying for it."

#CASE 6

Young son : "Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa, a man doesn"t know his wife until he marries her?" Dad : "That happens in most countries son."

#CASE 7

Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and then it was too late."

#CASE 8

A happy marriage is a matter of give and take; the husband gives and the wife takes.

#CASE 9

When a newly married man looks happy, we know why. But when a ten-year married man looks happy, we wonder why. Affair ?

#CASE 10

Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen.

#CASE 11

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you." And the Husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn"t notice it."

#CASE 12

A man ed an "ad" in the classified : "Wife wanted". The next day, he received hundreds letters. They all said the same thing "You can have mine."

#CASE 13

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing : either the car is new or his wife is new.

#CASE 14

A woman was telling her friend : "It is I who made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" the friend asked. The woman replied, "A multimillionaire."

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每天你都有机会和很多人擦肩而过，或者你对他们一无所知，不过某天他会变成你的朋友或知已。是的，人海茫茫，相识是缘，相知更是前世修，让我们朋友越来越多，生活越来越好……

On the first day of the new term, I was new in the class and didn t know anyone. After school, I had something to deal with and left my bag on a desk. As soon as I returned, I saw a bag, which was exactly like mine on a desk. I took it away without examining it. When I got home, I was surprised to see that the bag I took home wasn t mine. It belonged to a student with the name Selena.

The next day, we returned our bags to each other. In this way, we became good friends. We soon found that we had a lot in common and got on well with each other. We always stayed together, so everyone said: "If you find Julia, you will also find Selena."

But there were also quarrels between us.

Once, I took a long time to make a model ship for an exhibition. I invited Selena to my home to see it. She liked it very much as soon as she saw it. I said to Selena "Oh, I forgot to buy a book. Stay here and enjoy yourself. I’ll be back." Then I went out. However, when I returned home, I found Selena holding my ship, which had been broken. I was shocked. I shouted at her: "What are you doing?"

"Julia, listen to me…" Selena replied.

"I don t want to listen to you," I cried.

She left without a word.

For a long time we did not talk to each other until one day my brother said to me, "Sorry. I didn t have the courage to tell you the truth. It was not Selena s fault. When you went out that day, I was so interested in the ship that I broke it accidentally. I was afraid that you would blame me, so I went home immediately. " My God! I had wronged Selena. I didn t know what to do. I felt very ashamed and said to her, "I’m very sorry. Please forgive me that I misunderstood you."

She smiled and said, "It doesn t matter."

"So we are still friends, aren’t we?" I asked.

"Nothing can separate us. We will be best friends forever."

Last November, I was going to take part in a speech contest, so I had to collect as much information as possible. I had prepared well, but I still needed a book which would help me a lot in the contest.

"I ll give you a hand to find it," said Selena.

"But it isn t easy to come by." "Don t worry. I ll get it."

Sure enough, she gave me the book in time. I was so successful that I won first prize in competition. My teacher and classmates congratulated me. But I could not find Selena among them.

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As a teenager，I felt I was always letting people down. I was rebellious1 out－side，but I wanted to be liked inside.

Once I left home to hitch-hike2 to California with my friend Penelope. The trip wasn?t easy，and there were many times I didn?t feel safe. One situation in particular kept me grateful to still be alive. When I returned home，I was different，not so outwardly sure of myself.

I was happy to be home. But then I noticed that Penelope，who was staying with us，was wearing my clothes. And my family seemed to like her better than me. I wondered if I would be missed if I weren?t there. I told my mom，and she explained that though Penelope was a lovely girl，no one could replace me. I pointed out，“Ｓhe is more patient and is neater than I have ever been.” My mom said these were

wonderful qualities，but I was the only person who could fill my role. She made me realize that even with my faults—and there were many－I was a loved member of the family who couldn?t be replaced.

I became a searcher，wanting to find out who I was and what made me unique. My view of myself was changing. I wanted a solid base to start from. I started to resist3 pressure to act in ways that I didn?t like any more，and I was delighted by who I really was. I came to feel much more sure that no one can ever take my place.

Each of us holds a unique place in the world. You are special，no matter what others say or what you may think. So forget about being replaced. You can?t be.

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The Strenuous Life

A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual.

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose. If the freedom thus purchased is used aright, and the man still does actual work, though of a different kind, whether as a writer or a general, whether in the field of politics or in the field of exploration and adventure, he shows he deserves his good fortune.

But if he treats this period of freedom from the need of actual labor as a period, not of preparation, but of mere enjoyment, even though perhaps not of vicious enjoyment, he shows that he is simply a cumberer on the earth's surface; and he surely unfits himself to hold his own place with his fellows, if the need to do so should again arise. A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

As it is with the individual, so it is with the nation. It is a base untruth to say that happy is the nation that has no history. Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.