1、 1 新东方美文 30 篇 目录： 第一篇： Youth 青春 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） 第三篇： Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选） 第四篇： If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 第五篇： Ambition 抱负 第六篇： What I have Lived for 我为何而生 第七篇： When Love Beckons You 爱的召唤 第八篇： The Road to Success 成功之道 第九篇： On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人 第十篇
2、： The 50-Percent Theory of Life 生活理论半对半 第十一篇： What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢复速率是多少？ 第十二篇： Clear Your Mental Space 清理心灵的空间 第十三篇： Be Happy 快乐 第十四篇： The Goodness of life 生命的美好 第十五篇： Facing the Enemies Within 直面内在的敌人 第十六篇： Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式 第十七篇： Human Life a Poem 人生如诗 第十八篇： Solitude 独处
3、 第十九篇： Giving Life Meaning 给生命以意义 2 第二十篇： Relish the Moment 品位现在 第二十一篇： The Love of Beauty 爱美 第二十二篇： The Happy Door 快乐之门 第二十三篇： Born to Win 生而为赢 第二十四篇： Work and Pleasure 工作和娱乐 第二十五篇： Mirror, Mirror-What do I see 镜子 ,镜子 ,告诉我 第二十六篇： On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁 第二十七篇： An October Sunrise 十月的日出 第二十八篇： To Be
4、 or Not to Be 生存还是毁灭 第二十九篇： Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说 第三十篇： First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就职 演讲（节选） 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 of the imagination, a vi
5、gor 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 number of years. We grow
6、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 being?s heart the lure of wonders, th e unfailing childlike appetite for what?s
7、 next and the joy of the game of living. In 3 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 covered with s
8、nows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you?ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there?s hope you may die young at 80. 译文： 青春 青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、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，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想
9、丢弃，方堕暮年。 岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。 无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有 一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。 、 一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） Three Days to See All o
10、f 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 hours. I speak, of cour
11、se, 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 hours as mortal beings,
12、 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 when time stretches bef
13、ore 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 4 would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last
14、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 to everything they d
15、o. 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 petty tasks, hardly
16、 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 who have lost sight
17、 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 story of not being gra
18、teful 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 appreciative of sight; silenc
19、e 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，故事中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，而不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，我们该做些什么？作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想？回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐？什么又使我们悔恨不已？ 有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生
20、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，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和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”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到 即将到来的死亡的惩罚。 在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的幸运而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常5 注意到，那些生活在或曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什么都会感到幸福。 然而，我们中的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有一天我们必将面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥远的将来。当我们身强体健之时，死亡简直不可想象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙于琐事，几乎意识不到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。 我担心同样的冷漠也存在于我们对自己 官能和意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用于那些成年后才失去视力或听力之苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物与声音，心不在焉，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
