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生而为赢新东方英语背诵美文30篇文本 沪江daisy8475整理欢迎收藏，谢绝转贴，支持购买正版生而为赢新东方英语背诵美文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：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 is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventureover 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 beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child like appetite 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, cheer courage and power from man and from the infinite（无穷的）, 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 youve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, theres hope(快速) you may die young at 80. 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） Three Days to SeeAll of us(快速) 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 man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminalswhose sphere of activities is strictly delimited.（不是那些活动范围被严格地被界线判刑的罪犯）Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events what experiences, what associations（联合）should we crowd into those last hours as mortal (凡人) beings, what happiness should we find in reunion the past, what regrets? （懊悔, 悔恨）Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule（出色的规则）to live each dayas if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply（强烈的锋利地）the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama（不变的全景）of more days and months and years to go. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto(美食的座右铭) of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened（呛森特）by the certainty of impending death.（但是大多数人会被紧迫的死亡惩戒）In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke（死旧克）of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning life and its permanent spiritual values（永恒的崇高的价值观）. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness（芳醇的甜美）to everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted（假定）. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant（心情愉快的）health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom (很少) think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista（狭长的景色）. So we go about our petty tasks（着手做琐碎的任务）, hardly aware of our listless（倦怠的, 冷漠的）attitude toward life. The same lethargy（昏睡; 不活泼）, I am afraid, characterizes赋予特色the use of all our faculties and senses (才能和感官）. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings（多方的祝福） that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But thosewho 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（模糊地), 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 blessingif each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darknesswould make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. 第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选） Companionship of BooksA 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 men.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（抛弃） upon us in times of adversity（逆境; 窘境） or distress（悲痛; 不幸）. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing（有趣）and instructing（教导） us in youth, and comforting（令人欣慰的） and consoling（安慰, 慰问）us in age. Men often discover their affinity（类同, 喜好） to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friendby the admiration （dmren赞美）which both entertain（招待; 款待）for a third. There is an old proverb（谚语, 箴言）, Love me, love my dog.” But there 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同情with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.（他们住在他在一起，他在其中。）A good book is often the best urn（瓮, 骨灰瓮）of a life enshrining（铭记）the best that life 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.（最好的书是金玉良言的宝库，这些黄金的想法，其中，怀念和珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和慰藉）Books possess an essence of immortality（书籍具有不朽的本质）. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort（它们是迄今人类活动的最持久的成果）. Temples and statues decay（寺庙和雕像腐烂）, but bookssurvive. 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（生动地; 鲜明地）as ever from the printed page（他们当时的言论和思想仍然对我们说话生动如初从书页中）. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good（时间惟一的作用已筛选出不良产品;的作品，只有真正的好的才能长久生存）.Books introduce us into the best society （ssat）; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived（他们带入了有史以来最伟大的心灵面前）. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve（grv悲伤; 哀悼）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.（我们觉得如果我们与他们在衡量行为者他们所描绘的场面）The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad（书的防腐处理使他们的精神四海）。. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.（书是一个活的声音。这是一个智慧至今仍在聆听）第四篇：If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription(重要的碑铭) found on an old key-“If I rest, I rust”-would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted（折磨）with the slightest bit of idleness（懒惰; 安逸）. Even the most industrious（勤勉的; 刻苦的）person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.（即使是最勤奋的人都会接受并利用它作为一个警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，最后，他们无法完成被要求的工作）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（使他们可以开启知识的大门）, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture-every department of human endeavor. （大门把守入口，专业，科学，艺术，文学，农业 - 各部门的人的努力）Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement（勤奋使明亮的钥匙开启成功宝库）. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist（如果休米勒在采石场劳作后整天，晚上的时光都献给休息和娱乐，他就不会成为著名的地质学家）. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, （著名数学家爱德蒙斯通，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙）if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating（计算; 预测）the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer. （小苏格兰青年弗格森，如果他闲暇时无所事事，让忙碌的大脑去睡觉时，他倾向于在山坡上放羊，而不是计算星星的一串珠子位置，他就不会成为著名的天文学家）Labor vanquishes（打败, 克服）all-not inconstant, spasmodic（ spasmodic）, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. （不是断断续续的，间歇性或生病导向劳动，而是坚定的，不懈的，朝着良好引导的目的，每天的努力。正如真正作为永恒的警惕是自由的代价，因此是永恒的产业崇高而持久成功的代价）第五篇：Ambition 抱负 AmbitionIt is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions（磨擦，磨耗）, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection反思. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. （这些工作，就象他们将不是为自身，而是为了整个集体）Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated除去, tension紧张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（艺术将不再是困扰，但其功能将纯粹为了庆典）. Longevity长寿would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous纷乱的endeavor.（长寿会越来越少人会死于心脏病发作或中风引起的纷乱的激烈拼争） Anxiety zat would be extinct（焦虑将会灭绝）. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. （时光流逝，抱负却早已远离人心）Ah, how unrelieved无变化的 boring life would be!There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth神话, and ambition therefore a sham（假的, 伪造的）. 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.（这些努力伴随着运动和事件的力量而没有意义）now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming尊重, nor all ambition worth cultivating培养. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on ones own.（对自己值得和不值得很快就能学会）. But even the most cynical愤世嫉俗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 likely to be deranging扰乱.It is, in its implications（含意, 暗示）, to remove all motives for competence（以消除能力的所有动机）, interest in attainment达到, and regard for posterity（考虑后裔）.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 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 what 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 lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.第六篇：What I have Lived for 我为何而生 What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly（压倒性地）strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable（无法忍受的）pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither（把我吹到这里和那里）, in a wayward course（在不确定的路线）, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.（在绝望的边缘）I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-ecstasy（狂喜）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 in which one shivering（颤抖的）consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss（深不可测的无生命的深渊）. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature（神秘的缩图里）, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined（这是圣人和诗人所想象的天堂）. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what-at last-I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean（配坏给云） power by which number holds sway above the flux. （我力图领悟毕达哥拉斯的才能,他的才能使数字支配着不断变动的事物）A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine（饥荒,）, victims tortured by oppres