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英语散文 朗读 英语散文 1、 Words to Live by I’ll give you some advice about life. 给你生活的忠告 Eat more roughage; 多吃些粗粮; Do more than others expect you to do and do it pains; 给别人比他们期望的更多，并用心去做; Remember what life tells you; 熟记生活告诉你的一切; Don’t take to heart every thing you hear. Don’t spend all that you have. Don’t sleep as long as you want; 不要轻信你听到的每件事，不要花光你的所有，不要想睡多久就睡多久; Whenever you say” I love you”, please say it honestly; 无论何时说“我爱你”，请真心实意; Whenever you say” I’m sorry”, please look into the other person’s eyes; 无论何时说“对不起”，请看对方的眼睛; Fall in love at first sight; 相信一见钟情; Don’t neglect dreams; 请不要忽视梦想; Love deeply and ardently, even if there is pain, but this is the way to make your life complete; 深情热烈地爱，也许会受伤，但这是使人生完整的唯一方法; Find a way to settle, not to dispute; 用一种明确的方法解决争议，不要冒犯; Never judge people by their appearance; 永远不要以貌取人; Speak slowly, but think quickly; 慢慢地说，但要迅速地想; When someone asks you a question you don’t want to answer, smile and say, “Why do you want to know?” 当别人问你不想回答的问时，笑着说:“你为什么想知道,” Remember that the man who can shoulder the most risk will gain the deepest love and the supreme accomplishment; 记住:那些敢于承担最大风险的人才能得到最深的爱和最大的成就; Call you mother on the phone. If you can’t, you may think of her in your heart; 给妈妈打电话，如果不行，至少在心里想着她 When someone sneezes say, “God bless you”; 当别人打喷嚏时，说一声“上帝保佑”; If you fail, don’t forget to learn your lesson; 如果你失败了，千万别忘了汲取教训; Remember the three “ respects” .Respect yourself, respect others, stand on dignity and pay attention to your behavior; 记住三个“尊”:尊重你自己;尊重别人;保持尊严，对自己的行为负责; 1 朗读 英语散文 Don’t let a little dispute break up a great friendship; 不要让小小的争端损毁了一场伟大的友谊; Whenever you find your wrongdoing, be quick with reparation! 无论何时你发现自己做错了，竭尽所能去弥补;动作要快～ Whenever you make a phone call smile when you pick up the phone, because someone can feel it! 无论什么时候打电话，摘起话筒的时候请微笑，因为对方能感觉到～ Marry a person who likes talking; because when you get old, you’ll find that chatting to be a great advantage; 找一个你爱聊的人结婚;因为年纪大了后，你会发觉喜欢聊天是一个人最大的优点; Find time for yourself. 找点时间，单独呆会儿; Life will change what you are but not who you are; 欣然接受改变，但不要摒弃你的个人理念; Remember that silence is golden; 记住:沉默是金; Read more books and watch less television; 多看点，少看点电视; Live a noble and honest life. Reviving past times in your old age will help you to enjoy your life again 过一种高尚而诚实的生活。当你年老时回想起过去，你就能再一次享受人生。 Trust God, but don’t forget to lock the door; 相信上帝，但是别忘了锁门; The harmonizing atmosphere of a family is valuable; 家庭的融洽氛围是难能可贵的; Try your best to let family harmony flow smoothly; 尽你的能力让家平顺和谐; When you quarrel with a close friend, talk about the main dish, don’t quibble over the appetizers; 当你和你的亲近的少吵嘴时候，试着就事论事，不要扯出那些陈芝麻、烂谷子的事; You cannot hold onto yesterday; 不要摆脱不了昨天; Figure out the meaning of someone’s words; 多注意言下之意; Share your knowledge to continue a timeless tradition; 和别人分享你的知识，那才是永恒之道; Treat our earth in a friendly way,don’t fool around with mother nature; 善待我们的地球，不要愚弄自然母亲; Do the thing you should do; 做自己该做的事; Don’t trust a lover who kisses you without closing their eyes; 不要相信接吻时从不闭眼的伴侣; Go to a place you’ve never been to every year. 每年至少去一个你从没去过的地方。 2 朗读 英语散文 If you earn much money,the best way to spend it is on charitable deeds while you are alive; 如果你赚了很多钱，在活着的时候多行善事，这是你能得到的最好回报; Remember,not all the best harvest is luck; 记住有时候，不是最好的收获也是一种好运; Understand rules completely and change them reasonably; 深刻理解所有的规则，合理地更新他们; Remember,the best love is to love others unconditionally rather than make demands on them; 记住，最好的爱存在于对别人的爱胜于对别人的索求这上; Comment on the success you have attained by looking in the past at the target you wanted to achieve most; 回头看看你发誓取得的目标，然后评价你到底有多成功; In love and cooking,you must give 100, effort„„but expect little appreciation; 无论是烹饪不是爱情，都用百分之百的负责态度对待，但是不要乞求太多的回报。 2、 Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators. 当今时代是一个电力时代。人们已习惯的电灯，收音机，电视和电话，这是很难想像的生活会变 成没有他们。当有停电，到处捉人，在闪烁的烛光，汽车在街道上犹豫，因为没有交通灯，以引 导他们，在无声冰箱食物战利品。 Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity. 然而，人们开始了解电力工程只有两个多世纪以前。大自然显然已经试验了万多年在这一领域。 科学家们发现了越来越多的生活世界可能持有的电力，可以造福人类许多有趣的秘密。 All living cell send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends out brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small – often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cell are linked together, the effects can be astonishing. 3 朗读 英语散文 所有的活细胞发出的电流脉冲。随着心跳，它会发出脉冲的记录，它们构成了心电图，医生可以 研究，以确定如何心脏工作正常。大脑也发出脑电波的电力，可以在脑电图记录。大多数活细胞 产生的电流非常小 - 通常非常小，敏感的仪器记录他们的需要。但在某些动物的某些肌肉细胞 变得如此专门的发电机，他们不为肌肉细胞的工作的。当这些细胞大量相连，其影响也惊人。 The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can seed a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it live. ( An electric house current is only one hundred twenty volts.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel’s body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body. 电鳗是一个了不起的蓄电池。它可以通过水种，其中过高达800伏特的电压摇晃。 (一个电力 大楼电流仅为120伏。)在4个多的所有的电鳗的身体细胞的五分之四是专门用于发电，以及 它的冲击强度可提供大致相当于其体长。 3、five minutes to spare CAPTURE YOUR SOUL》-FIVE MINUTES TO SPARE No matter how busy you are ,you could spend five minutes: To answer the telephone To read the morning paper To talk with a neighbor To dispute with the laundryman(洗衣工) about a mistake dispute 英[dis'pju:t] 美[d?'spjut] vt. & vi.辩论; 争论 vt. 1.怀疑„的真实性或妥当性 2.对„提出质询;对„示异议(或怀疑) 3.争夺;竞争 n.辩论, 争端, 争执 To watch new furniture (家具)being unloaded next door To chat with a salesman To read a trivial letter(adj.琐碎的, 没有价值的, 没有意义的) Or to write one It takes only five minutes: To say a prayer(祈祷) for the suffering friend To stop and think of God's daily gift of mercy(宽容，怜悯，幸运之事) To remember the cross cross 英[kr?s] 美[kr?s, krɑs] n. 1.十字架 2.十字形饰物 3.画十字的动作 4.杂交品种; 混合物 5.痛苦, 苦难 6.叉字 形记号;十字形记号 7.(表彰英勇行为的)十字勋章 vt. & vi. 1.穿过, 越过, 渡过 2.交叉, 相交; 错过 3.使交叉;使交叠 4.使杂交;使异种 交配 (足球等)横传 6.画横线于 7.画十字圣号 vt.反对, 阻挠; 使受挫折 adj. 1.坏脾气的, 易怒的 2.相反的, 反向的 To make an act of faith(信任，信仰，信心，宗教信仰), hope, and love To whisper(耳语) an"our Father" or "Hail Mary"(圣母经) for someone in need To say a decade(十年) of the Rosary for the pour souls (灵魂) To vist the little statue or picture on the mantle place and tell the Savior how 4 朗读 英语散文 much you love him To make a spiritual(精神上的) communion Which is the better way to spend five minutes? 4、life is a do-it-yourself project LIFE IS A DO-IT-YOURSELF PROJECT 生活是一个自己动手的项目 An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. he told his employer contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck,but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. 一位老木匠准备退休了。他告诉他，他打算离开家建筑企业和享受生活与他的妻子他的大家庭更 加悠闲的生活雇主承包商。他将错过薪水，但他需要退休。他们可以得到的。承包商遗憾地看到 他的好工人走，问他是否可以建立一个有利于个人的房子只有一个。 The carpenter said yes,but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shooddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house,the contractor handed the front door key to the carpenter. "This is your house,"he said,"my gift to you." What a shock! What a shame! 木匠说可以，但在当时是很容易看到，他的心还没有列在工作。 他采取shooddy工艺和使用劣质材料。 这是一个不幸的方式结束自己的职业生涯。 当木匠完成他的工作和建设者来检查房子，交给承包商前门关键木匠。 “这是你的房子，”他说，“我送给你的礼物。” 什么是震惊～真可惜～ If he had only known he was building his own house,he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well. So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way,reacting rather than acting,willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. 如果他只知道他是建设自己的房子，他会做这 一切如此不同。 5 朗读 英语散文 现在，他不得不住在他所建没有太好的家。 因此，与我们联系。 我们建立了我们的生活的方式分散，反应，而不是采取行动，愿意把最好的不到了。 在重要的点，我们不给我们工作最大的努力。 然后用震惊，我们在我们创造和发现，我们现在在我们盖的房子住的情形。 If we had realized that we would have done it differently. Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail,place a board or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for day more that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says,"Life is a do-it-yourself project." Who could say it more clearly?Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tommorrow will be the result of your attitudes and choices you make today. 如果我们意识到，我们会做的不同。0 想到自己是木匠。0想想你的房子。0每天你锤钉子， 放置一个板或竖立在墙上。0构建明智。0它是唯一的生活中你都不会建立。 即使你活一天，这一天更值得优雅地生活和尊严。 在墙壁上的牌匾说，“生命是一切事情都需自己动手的项目。” 谁能够说清楚一点,你的生活今天是你的态度和选择，在过去的结果。 你的生活明天将是你的态度和选择，你今天的结果。 5、parenthood parenthood 英['pe?r?nth?d] 美['p?r?nt,h?d] n.父母身份;双亲立场 Parenthood 为人父母 If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor! 如果为人父母是件容易的事，那么“辛劳”二字就无从谈起～ Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. 对着孩子大吼大叫让他们听话就像开车时为了开道而 拼命按喇叭，二者殊途同归。 To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today. 如果希望孩子以后的回忆中有你，你就必须进入到他们今天的生活中 The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are still on your side. 抚养孩子最明智的就是尽量享受他们还在你身边的时光。 The best way to keep kids at home is to give it a loving atmosphere - and hide the keys to the car. 6 朗读 英语散文 把孩子留在家里的最好的方法就是给他一个充满爱的环境——并收好车钥匙 The right temperature in a home is maintained by warm hearts, not by hot heads. 维持家中合适的温度需要的是一颗热心而不是头脑发热 Parents: People who bare infants, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds. 父母就是抚育幼儿，惹青少年心烦，给新婚夫妇提供食宿的人。 The joy of motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the children are finally in bed. 为人母的快乐就是:一个女人在她所有的孩子都上床睡觉之后的感受 Life’s golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car. 人生的黄金时期就是孩子不再需要保姆了，但还没有长到要借用家里车子的年龄阶段 Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren. 祖父母就如同一条细绳子一样触手可及，并能轻而易举就缠住儿孙们的手指 A child outgrows your lap, but never outgrows your heart. 孩子长大后将不再坐在你的双膝上，但他绝不会跨出你的心门 God gave you two ears and one mouth.... so you should listen twice as much as you talk. 上帝给了你两只耳朵、一张嘴巴„„所以你所听的应该是你所说的两倍 There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or forbid your children to do it. 做成某件事有三个方式:自己动手，雇别人去做，或者不准你的孩子去做 Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents. 青春期就是孩子们试图让父母成长的时候 Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like trying to shovel the driveway during a snowstorm. 当孩子在家时，整理房子就像在暴风雪中铲雪清理车道一样 Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. 噢，当我的孩子尚小时，他认为我活得只有他一半精彩，现在则认为他只有我十几岁时的一 半那么愚蠢。 There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother’s age. 孩子们愿意分享的事情只有两个:传染性疾病和母亲的年龄 Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch。 钱不代表一切，但显然它可以让我们和孩子保持联系 Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers. 青春期就是孩子知道一切不再问任何问题的时候 A alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don’t have small children. 闹钟只是用来唤醒那些没有小孩的人的 No wonder kids are confused today. Half the adults tell them to find themselves; the other half tell them to get lost. 难怪今天的小孩感到困惑。大人们一半的告诉他们 要找回自己，另一半则告诉他们要迷失自我 7 朗读 英语散文 People hardest to convince that it’s time for retirement are children at bedtime. 最难劝说的就是让孩子们上床睡觉 Kids really brighten a household; they never turn off any lights. 孩子确实点亮了一个家，他们从未熄灭过一盏灯 6、a smile is a gift that anyone can give A Smile is A Gift That Anyone Can Give It costs noting, but saves much. 微笑不需要花费你一分钱,但却能带来很多. It enriches those who receive,without impovershing those who give. 它使那些得到它的人富有,却不会使付出它的人贫穷. It happens in a flash , and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. 它发生在一瞬间,但它的记忆有时却是永恒的. None is so rich that he can get along without it; none so poor that he is not enriched by it. 如果人们可以没有微笑,那么,无论拥有什么都会觉得贫穷.如果人们无法因此而丰富,那么就 没有什么比这更贫穷了. It creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business,and is the countersign of friends. 微笑为家庭到来欢笑,为工作增添善意,是友谊的象征. It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sick, and Nature's best antidote for trouble. 它是缓解疲劳的良药,是征服气馁的日光,是治疗疾病的阳光,是自然界中战胜困难的灵丹妙 药. It cannot be bought, borrowed, or stolen, for it is no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. 它不能买,不能借,也不能偷,因为在它被给予他人之前是毫无用处的. If you meet someone too burdened with grief or worry to smile, just give him one of yours. 如果你遇见某人被悲伤和焦虑压得喘不过气来,只要给他一个微笑就行. For nobody needs a smile so much as he who has none left to give. 因为当一个人无法再给予微笑的时候,他也就不那么需要微笑了! 7、Confidence Every day is a new day in our life. There is much to do today. The early morning sun inspires us to start things freshly and put back our past. Only a handful of us make use of this fresh bunch of energy. In various walis of life this affects the way we behave and our confidence level. Confidence is a key to survive in this world. It is the only key tool to win the rat race in every walk of life. 8 朗读 英语散文 Confidence in ones owns capabilities combined with sincere efforts help one to achieve unthinkable heights. 每一天，是我们生活中新的一天。 有许多这样做了。 清晨的太阳激励我们刚开始我们并重新投入我们的过去。 我们只有极少数利用这一新能源束的使用。 在生活的各个瓦利斯这会影响我们的行为方式和我们的信心水平。 信心是关键，在这个世界上生存。 这是唯一的关键手段赢得各行各业的老鼠比赛。 在拥有的信心与能力相结合的真诚努力帮助实现一个不可思议的高度。 But many times we see that this basic element of confidence is missing in us. As a result of lack of confidence we perform well below our caliber. Be it in a public speech, proposing your beloved, visas for your college or in an interview or say even on the eve before your exams. This can be due to fear of being rejected or any other reason. If we look into our hearts and think, we will come to know that fear inside us I going to get us nowhere. The confidence inside us is going to take us places. This is because with confidence we can put our thoughts into words in a better and pleasing way. So we have to get out of that shell where we think whether people will accept us as we are? 但是很多时候，我们看到，这种信心的基本要素是我们丢失。 由于我们的信心，远低于我们的口径执行所致。 在公开演说中，提出您的大学或在接受采访时挚爱，签证，甚至前夕说，在您的考试。 这可能是由于害怕被拒绝或任何其他原因。 如果我们看看我们的心，以为，我们会知道，害怕我们内心本人将一事无成。 内部我们有信心，是我们要花费的地方。 这是我们可以用语言来表达我们的想法是因为有信心更好，愉快的方式。 因此，我们获得那掏出我们认为，人们是否会接受我们，因为我们, Instead of living in these unending moments of fear and thoughtless analysis, it is better if we project ourselves with the skills we have with the gloss of confidence. With confidence we can portray the finer points of our personality in such a way that the places where we do lack are never highlighted. Confidence should glow in us only till the point where our personality is boosted. Above this it leads to over-confidence that is harmful. Over-confidence results in unsatisfied performance levels as the seed of ego grows into a plant into our mind. 而不是在恐惧和轻率的分析，这些无休止的时刻生活，最好是，如果我们的项目，我们的技能与 光泽有自己的信心。 有信心我们可以描绘这样一种方式的地方，我们做我们缺乏个性的细节永远不会突出。 信心，对我们的发光到那里只有我们的个性，是推动了点。 以上这一点，导致过度自信，是有害的。 9 朗读 英语散文 过度作为种子自我表现的消费者信心水平不满意结果长成我们的头脑到工厂。 We then imagine and make big talks just to maintain our ego. So guys don’t let the seed of ego to germinate in your mind, as this seed should be used only for you to live up to your expectations. Confidence is all about being cool, calm and composed. So guys do you have it in you? If you think you don't,boost up yourselves as your mind is your greatest mentor. You are your greatest helper. 然后，我们想象，使大会谈只是为了保持我们的自我。 所以，不要让球员的自我种子发芽在你的心目中，因为这种子应只为你使用不辜负您的期望。 信心是所有关于被冷静，沉着冷静。 所以，球员，你有你吗, 如果你认为你不这样做，增强了自己的主意是你最大的良师益友。 你是你最大的帮手。 10