英语美文30篇英语美文30 篇01-YouthYouth 原文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 amatter of the will, aquality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love ofease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. Wegrow 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 andturns the spring back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of whatsnext 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 itreceives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you aregrown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may dieyoung at 80.名家译文青春不是年华，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。英语美文30 篇02-Three Days to SeeThree Days to See假如拥有三天光明Helen Keller/海伦.凯勒All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it wasas long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always wewere interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, ofcourse, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.Such stories set up thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.What events, whatexperiences,what What associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings? What happiness shouldwe find in reviewing the past, what regrets?Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such anattitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and akeenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more daysand months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, andbe merry,” most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his senseof values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everythingthey do.Most of us take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in thefuture, when we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out inan endless vista. So we go about our petty task, hardly aware of our listless attitude towards life.The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of 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 whohave lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldommake the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sound hazily, withoutconcentration, and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until welose it, as 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 sometime during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him thejoys of sound.英语美文 30 篇03-Companionship of BooksCompanionship of Books (Samuel Smiles- The political reformer and moralist was born)A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company(playmates) he keeps;（Birds of afeather flock together）for there is a companionship (friendship) of books as well as of men; and one should alwayslive in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. - the author has contrast