英语经典短篇美文欣赏【篇一：英语经典短篇美文欣赏】一生必读的英文经典美文48篇一生必读的英文经典美文48篇新概念英语晨读系列：一生必读的48篇英文经典美文上册，是英语听力频道英语美文栏目下的内容，48篇英语美文，mp3和文本。
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【篇二：英语经典短篇美文欣赏】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：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 独处第十九篇：giving life meaning 给生命以意义第二十篇：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 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youthyouth 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 vigor of the emotions; it isthe 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 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, the unfailing appetite for what’s 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 covered with snows of cyni cism and the ice of pessimism, then you’vegrown 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 seeall of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. sometimes it was as long asa 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 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 hours 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 whichare often lost when 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 bechastened by the certainty of impending death.in stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minuteby 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 do.most of us, however, take life for granted. we know that oneday we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. when we are in buoyant health, death is all butunimaginable. we seldom think of it. the days stretch out in an endless vista. so we go about our 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 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 story 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 appreciative 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。