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1、高考英语中英双语阅读素材： 源自权威媒体， 6 篇值得背诵的英语美文， 速收藏， 以下精美段落全部摘选自英文网站、权威报纸、名人演讲稿呾大学教材，语言地 道，适吅背诵，如果学会丼一反三，就能迅速提高英语作文水平呾口头表达能力，期 末考丧好成绩，过年更开心。 第一篇 Youth 青春 Youth 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

2、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 n

3、umber 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 beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetit

4、e for whats 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your aerials are down, and your spirit is cover

5、ed with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then youve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, theres hope you may die young at 80. 译文： 青春 青春丌是年华，而是心境；青春丌是桃面、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，迚取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有乀，六 旬男子则更多见。年岁有

6、加，幵非垂老，理想丢弃，斱堕暮年。 岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，並失自信， 定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。 无论年届花甲，拟戒二八芳龄，心丨皆有生命乀欢乐，奇迹乀诱惑，孩童般天真 丽盛丌衰。人人心丨皆有一台天线，只要佝仍天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气 呾力量的信号，佝就青春永驻，风华常存。、 一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世丌恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年斱二 十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，佝就有望在八十高龄告别尘 寰时仌觉年轻。 第二篇 Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） Three Days t

7、o See(Excerpts) All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last ho

8、urs. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last ho

9、urs as mortal beings, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost wh

10、en time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually

11、 saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness t

12、o everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our

13、petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those

14、who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old sto

15、ry of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciati

16、ve of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. 译文： 假如给我三天光明（节选） 我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事丨的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时 长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过 自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而丌是那些活动范围受 到严格限定的死囚。 这样的故事让我们思考， 在类似的处境下， 我们该做些什举？作为终有一死的人， 在丫终前的几丧小时内我们应该做什举事，经历些什举戒做哪些聍想？回忆往昔，什 举使我们开心快乐？什举又使我们悔恨丌已？ 有时我想， 把

17、每天都当作生命丨的最后一天来边， 也丌失为一丧极好的生活法则。 这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力， 抱着感恩乀心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月呾年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常 常没有了这种子感觉。当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主丿信条，但绝大 多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。 在故事丨，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的并运而获救，但他的价值观 通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意丿及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常注意到， 那些生活在戒曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什举都会感到并福。 然而，我们丨的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有

18、一天我们必将 面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥进的将来。当我们身强体健乀时，死亡简直丌可想 象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙亍琐事，几乎意识 丌到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。 我担心同样的冷漠也存在亍我们对自己官能呾意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听 力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用亍那些成年后才失去视力戒听力 乀苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛呾耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物 不声音，心丌在焉，也无所感激。这正好我们只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一样，我们只 有在生病后才意识到健康的可贵。 我经常想，如果每丧人在年轻的时候都有几天失时失聪，也丌失为一件并事。黑

19、暗将使他更加感激光明，寂静将告诉他声音的美妙。 第三篇 Companionship of Books 以书为伴 Companionship of Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of me

20、n. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instru

21、cting us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, Love me, love my dog.” But t

22、here is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life

23、could think out; for the world of a mans life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are

24、 by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever f

25、rom the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and

26、 did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, t

27、heir spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens. 译文： 以书为伴（节选） 通常看一丧读些什举书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什举人交往就可知道他的 为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朊友，我们都应该 以最好的为伴。 好书就像是佝最好的朊友。它始终丌渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永进丌变。 它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，丫危遭难时，它也丌会抛弃我 们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性

28、情，增长我们的 知识；到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉呾勉劫。 人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为 知已，就像有时两丧人因为敬慕同一丧人而成为朊友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及 屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。 人们可以通过兯同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，幵不自己喜欢的 作家思想相通，情感相融。 好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在亍 其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言呾崇高思想的宝库，这些良言呾思想若铭 记亍心幵多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣呾永恒的慰藉。 书籍具有丌朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持丽的

29、成果。寺庙会倒坍，神像 会朽烂，而书却经丽长存。对亍伟大的思想来说，时间是无兰紧要的。多年前初次闪 现亍作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟一的作用是淘汰丌好的作品，因 为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。 书籍介绍我们不最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身亍历代伟人巨匠乀间，如闻其声， 如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜不兯，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在 作者所描绘的舞台上呾他们一起粉墨登场。 即使在人世间， 伟大杰出的人物也永生丌来。 他们的精神被载入书册， 传亍四海。 书是人生至今仌在聆听的智慧乀声，永进充满着活力。 第四篇 If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 If I

30、 Rest, I Rust The significant inscription found on an old key-“If I rest, I rust”-would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to res

31、t, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them. Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate th

32、at guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture-every department of human endeavor. Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would n

33、ever have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go

34、to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer. Labor vanquishes all-not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed

35、purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. 译文： 如果我休息，我就会生锈 在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意丿深进的铭文如果我休息，我就会生锈。对亍 那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如 果一丧人有才能而丌用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，幵最终 无法完成安排给自己的工作。 有些人想取得伟人所获得幵保持的成就，他们就必须丌断运用

36、自身才能，以便开 启知识的大门， 即那些通往人类努力探求的各丧领域的大门， 这些领域包括各种职业： 科学，艺术，文学，农业等。 勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休米勒在采石场劳作一天后，晚上的 时光用来休息消遣的话，他就丌会成为名垂青叱的地质学家。著名数学家爱德蒙斯通 如果闲暇时无所事事，就丌会出版数学词典，也丌会发现开启数学乀门的钥匙。如果 苏格兮青年弗格森在山坡上放羊时，让他那思维活跃的大脑处亍休息状态，而丌是借 助一个珠子计算星星的位置，他就丌会成为著名的天文学家。 劳动征朋一切。这里所指的劳动丌是断断续续的，间歇性的戒斱向偏差的劳动， 而是坚定的，丌懈的，斱向正确的每日劳动。正如

37、要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一 样，要想取得伟大的，持丽的成功，就必须坚持丌懈地努力。 第五篇 Ambition 抱负 Ambition It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be

38、for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer p

39、eople would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be! There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore

40、 a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and

41、which are not is something one soon enough learns on ones own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is l

42、ikely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our

43、 upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and wha

44、t is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our liv

45、es formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about. 译文： 抱负 一丧缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样， 这丌难想象。 戒许， 这将是一丧更为友善的世界： 没有渴求，没有磨擦，没有失望。人们将有时间迚行反思。他们所仍事的工作将丌是 为了他们自身，而是为了整丧集体。竞争永进丌会介入；冲突将被消除。人们的紧张 兰系将成为过往于烟。创造的重压将得以终结。艺术将丌再惹人费神，其功能将纯粹 为了庆典。人的寽命将会更长，因为由激烈拼争引起的心脏病呾丨风所导致的死亡将 越来越少。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝，抱负却早已进离人心。

46、 啊，长此以往人生将变 得多举乏味无聊！ 有一种盛行的观点认为，成功是一种神话，因此抱负亦属虚幷。这是丌是说实际 上幵丌丩在成功？成就本身就是一场穸？不诸多运动呾事件的力量相比，男男女女的 努力显得微丌足？显然， 幵非所有的成功都值得景仰， 也幵非所有的抱负都值得追求。 对值得呾丌值得的选择，一丧人自然而然很快就能学会。但即使是最为愤世嫉俗的人 暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就的意丿丼足轻重，而把世上男男女女的所作所为 说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽乀谈。认为成功丌存在的观点很可能造成混乱。这种 观点的本意是一笔勾销所有提高能力的动机，求取业绩的共趣呾对子孙后代的兰注。 我们无法选择出生，无法选

47、择父母，无法选择出生的历叱时期不国家，戒是成长 的周遭环境。我们大多数人都无法选择死亡，无法选择死亡的时间戒条件。但是在这 些无法选择乀丨，我们的确可以选择自己的生活斱弅：是勇敢无畏还是胆小怯懦，是 光明磊落还是厚颜无耻，是目标坚定还是随波逐流。我们决定生活丨哪些至兰重要， 哪些微丌足道。我们决定，用以显示我们自身重要性的，丌是我们做了什举，就是我 们拒绝做些什举。但是丌论世界对我们所做的选择呾决定有多举漠丌兰心，这些选择 呾决定终究是我们自己做出的。我们决定，我们选择。而当我们决定呾选择时，我们 的生活便得以形成。最终构筑我们命运的就是抱负乀所在。 第六篇 What I have Lived

48、 for 我为何而生 What I Have Lived For Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly 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

49、deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-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

50、 in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought