英汉双语读物世界上最美的英文.doc

英文人生名篇 - 第一篇：A Grain of Sand/ 一粒沙子
William Blake/威廉.布莱克

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild fllower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

从一粒沙子看到一个世界，

从一朵野花看到一个天堂，

把握在你手心里的就是无限，

永恒也就消融于一个时辰。

全诗
Auguries of Innocence
　　To see a world in a grain of sand
　　And a heaven in a wild flower,
　　Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
　　And eternity in an hour.
　　A robin redbreast in a cage
　　Puts all heaven in a rage.
　　A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons
　　Shudders hell through all its regions.
　　A dog starved at his master's gate
　　Predicts the ruin of the state.
　　A horse misused upon the road
　　Calls to heaven for human blood.
　　Each outcry of the hunted hare
　　A fibre from the brain does tear.
　　A skylark wounded in the wing,
　　A cherubim does cease to sing.
　　The game-cock clipped and armed for fight
　　Does the rising sun affright.
　　Every wolf's and lion's howl
　　Raises from hell a human soul.
　　The wild deer wandering here and there
　　Keeps the human soul from care.
　　The lamb misused breeds public strife,
　　And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
　　The bat that flits at close of eve
　　Has left the brain that won't believe.
　　The owl that calls upon the night
　　Speaks the unbeliever's fright.
　　He who shall hurt the little wren
　　Shall never be beloved by men.
　　He who the ox to wrath has moved
　　Shall never be by woman loved.
　　The wanton boy that kills the fly
　　Shall feel the spider's enmity.
　　He who torments the chafer's sprite
　　Weaves a bower in endless night.
　　The caterpillar on the leaf
　　Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
　　Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
　　For the Last Judgment draweth nigh.
　　He who shall train the horse to war
　　Shall never pass the polar bar.
　　The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
　　Feed them, and thou wilt grow fat.
　　The gnat that sings his summer's song
　　Poison gets from Slander's tongue.
　　The poison of the snake and newt
　　Is the sweat of Envy's foot.

　　The poison of the honey-bee
　　Is the artist's jealousy.
　　The prince's robes and beggar's rags
　　Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
　　A truth that's told with bad intent
　　Beats all the lies you can invent.
　　It is right it should be so:
　　Man was made for joy and woe;
　　And when this we rightly know
　　Through the world we safely go.
　　Joy and woe are woven fine,
　　A clothing for the soul divine.
　　Under every grief and pine
　　Runs a joy with silken twine.
　　The babe is more than swaddling bands,
　　Throughout all these human lands;
　　Tools were made and born were hands,
　　Every farmer understands.
　　Every tear from every eye
　　Becomes a babe in eternity;
　　This is caught by females bright
　　And returned to its own delight.
　　The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar
　　Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.
　　The babe that weeps the rod beneath
　　Writes Revenge! in realms of death.
　　The beggar's rags fluttering in air
　　Does to rags the heavens tear.
　　The soldier armed with sword and gun
　　Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
　　The poor man's farthing is worth more
　　Than all the gold on Afric's shore.
　　One mite wrung from the labourer's hands
　　Shall buy and sell the miser's lands,
　　Or if protected from on high
　　Does that whole nation sell and buy.
　　He who mocks the infant's faith
　　Shall be mocked in age and death.
　　He who shall teach the child to doubt
　　The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
　　He who respects the infant's faith
　　Triumphs over hell and death.
　　The child's toys and the old man's reasons
　　Are the fruits of the two seasons.
　　The questioner who sits so sly
　　Shall never know how to reply.
　　He who replies to words of doubt
　　Doth put the light of knowledge out.
　　The strongest poison ever known
　　Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
　　Nought can deform the human race
　　Like to the armour's iron brace.
　　When gold and gems adorn the plough
　　To peaceful arts shall Envy bow.
　　A riddle or the cricket's cry
　　Is to doubt a fit reply.
　　The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
　　Make lame philosophy to smile.
　　He who doubts from what he sees
　　Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
　　If the sun and moon should doubt,
　　They'd immediately go out.
　　To be in a passion you good may do,
　　But no good if a passion is in you.
　　The whore and gambler, by the state
　　Licensed, build that nation's fate.
　　The harlot's cry from street to street
　　Shall weave old England's winding sheet.
　　The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
　　Dance before dead England's hearse.
　　Every night and every morn
　　Some to misery are born.
　　Every morn and every night
　　Some are born to sweet delight.
　　Some are born to sweet delight,
　　Some are born to endless night.
　　We are led to believe a lie
　　When we see not through the eye
　　Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
　　When the soul slept in beams of light.
　　God appears, and God is light
　　To those poor souls who dwell in night,
　　But does a human form display
　　To those who dwell in realms of day

英文人生名篇 - 第二篇：Love Your Life/ 热爱生活
--- Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。

It is not so bad as you are.
它不像你那样坏。

It looks poorest when you are richest.
你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。

The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.
爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。

Love your life, poor as it is.
你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hourss, even in a poor-house.
甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;
夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；

the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。

May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也许因为他们很伟大， 所以受之无愧。

Most think that they are above being supported by the town;
大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；

but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be more disreputable.
可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them.
不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。

Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。

英文人生名篇 - 第三篇：These Things Shall Never Die / 这些美好不会消逝
--- Charles Dickens/查尔斯. 狄更斯

The pure. the bright, the beautiful, 一切纯洁的, 辉煌的, 美丽的,
That stirred our hearts in youth, 强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的,
The impulses to wordless prayer, 推动着我们做无言的祷告的,
The dreams of love and truth; 让我们梦想着爱与真理的;
The longing after something's lost, 在失去后为之感到珍惜的,
The spirit's yearning cry, 使灵魂深切地呼喊着的,
The striving after better hopes- 为了更美好的梦想而奋斗着的-
These things can never die. 这些美好不会消逝。
The timid hand stretched forth to aid 羞怯地伸出援助的手，
A brother in his need, 在你的弟兄需要的时候，
A kindly word in grief's dark hour 伤恸、困难的时候，一句亲切的话
That proves a friend indeed; 就足以证明朋友的真心；
The plea for mercy softly breathed, 轻声地乞求怜悯，
When justice threatens nigh, 在审判临近的时候，
The sorrow of a contrite heart- 懊悔的心有一种伤感
These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。
Let nothing pass for every hand 在人间传递温情
Must find some work to do; 尽你所能地去做；
Lose not a chance to waken love- 别错失去了唤醒爱的良机
Be firm, and just , and true; 为人要坚定，正直，忠诚；
So shall a light that cannot fade 因此上方照耀着你的那道光芒
Beam on thee from on high. 就不会消失。
And angel voices say to thee--- 你将听到天使的声音在说---
These things shall never die. 这些美好不会消逝。

英文人生名篇 - 第四篇： Think it over……/ 好好想想……

Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;
今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

We spend more, but enjoy less;
我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

We have bigger houses, but smaller famillies;
我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

We have more compromises, but less time;
我们妥协更多，时间更少；

We have more knowledge, but less judgment;
我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

We have more medicines, but less health;
我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

We have multiplied out possessions, but reduced out values;
我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

We talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much;
我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

We reached the Moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;
我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；

We have conquered the uter space, but not our inner space;
我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

We have highter income, but less morals;
我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；

These are times with more liberty, but less joy;
我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；

We have much more food, but less nutrition;
我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；

These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase;
现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；

These are times of finer houses, but more broken homes;
现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；

That's why I propose, that as of today;
这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；

You do not keep anything for a special occasion. because every day that you live is a SPECIAL OCCASION.
不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；

Search for knowledge, read more , sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;
寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；

Spend more time with your family and friends eat your favorite foods, visit the places you love;
花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方；

Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival;
生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；

Use your crystal goblets. Do not save your best perfume, and use it every time you feel you want it.
举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！

Remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday";
从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；

Let's write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!
曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！

Let's tell our families and friends how much we love them;
告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；

Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;
不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；

Every day, every hour, and every minute is special;
每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；

And you don't know if it will be your last.
你无从知道这是否最后刻。

英文人生名篇 - 第五篇： The life I desired / 我所追求的生活
--- 威廉. 萨姆塞特. 毛姆 /William Somerset Maugham

That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.
这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。

It eminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea;
它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海；

but the sea is so calm, so silent, so infifferent, that you are troubled uddently by a vague uneasiness.
但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。

Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those ays, that i felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss.
也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深; 我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。

I recognized its social alue. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.
我承认这种生活有社会价值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的旅程．

There seemed to me omething alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.
这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西．我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。

I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the xicitement of unforeseen.
只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激，我意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。

英文人生名篇 - 第六篇: Virtue / 美德
--- G. Herbert/赫伯特

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright! 甜美的白昼，如此凉爽、安宁、明媚！
The bridal of the earth and sky- 天地间完美的匹配-----
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; 今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪；
For thou must die. 因为你必须离去。
Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave, 美丽的玫瑰，色泽红润艳丽，
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 令匆匆而过的人拭目而视，
Thy root is ever in its grave, 你的根永远扎在坟墓里，
And thou must die. 而你必须消逝。
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 美妙的春天，充满了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰，
A box where sweets compacted lie, 如一支芬芳满溢的盒子，
My music shows ye have your closes, 我的音乐表明你们也有终止，
And all must die, 万物都得消逝。
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 唯有美好而正直的心灵，
Like season'd timber, never gives; 犹如干燥备用的木料，永不走样；
But though the whole world turn to coal, 纵然整个世界变为灰烬，
Then chiefly lives. 它依然流光溢彩。

英文人生名篇 - 第七篇: The country Maid and Her Milk Can / 村姑和牛奶罐

A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections. "The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred, These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will
produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market just at the time when poultry is always dear; so that by the new year I cannot fail of having money enough to purchase a new gown. Green-let me consider-yes, green becomes my complexion best . and green it shall be, In this
dress I will go to the fair, where all young fellows will strive to have me for a parter; but no-I shall refuse every one of them, and with a disdainful toss turn from them. "
Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind, when down came the can of milk!And all her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment.

一个村姑头上顶着一罐牛奶在路上行走。走着走着，她的脑子里浮现出一连串的幻想：“我卖了这罐牛奶后， 用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300 个。用这300 个鸡蛋孵小鸡，这就算有坏的、生虫的， 至少也能孵出250 只小鸡。等小鸡长大后，正好能赶上卖个好市价；那么到了新年，我就能有钱买一件新晚装。买一件绿色的——让我好好想想——对，绿色与我的肤色最相衬。我穿 上这件衣服去赶集，所有的年轻小伙子都会抢着邀请我做舞伴；但是不行——我要轻蔑地把头一扬，转身过去不理他们，让他们人人都碰个钉子。
她想得得意忘形，情不自禁地把头一扬，刹那间，牛奶罐跌了下来！她幻想的一切幸福间破灭了。

英文人生名篇 - 第八篇:The Rainy Day / 雨天
--- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 亨利. 沃兹渥斯. 朗费罗

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark and dreary;
It rains and the wind is never weary;
My though still cling to the moldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart!And cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

天冷、阴暗、沉闷；
下着雨，风也刮个不停；
藤还攀附着颓垣残壁，
每来一阵狂风，枯叶附落纷纷，
天真是阴暗而沉闷。