晨讀英文美文篇一：激情晨讀英語美文

第一章人生如詩Human Life Like a Poem

I think that, from a biological standpoint,human life almost reads like a poem.It has its own rhythm and beat,its internal cycles of growth and decay.No one can say that a life with childhood,manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;the day has its morning, noon and sunset,and the year has its seasons, and it is goodthat it is so. There is no good or bad in life,except what is good according to its own season.

And if we take this biological view of lifeand try to live according to the seasons,no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealistcan deny that human life can be lived like a poem.——Lin Yutang

我以為，從生物學(xué)角度看，人的一生恰如詩歌。人生自有其韻律和節(jié)奏，自有內(nèi)在的成長與衰亡。人生有童年、少年和老年，誰也不能否認(rèn)這是一種美好的安排。一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好！人生本無好壞之分，只是各個(gè)季節(jié)有各自的好處。如若我們持此種生物學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)，并循著季節(jié)去生活，除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和無可救藥的理想主義者，誰能說人生不能像詩一般度過呢？ ---林語堂

人在旅途W(wǎng)e Are on a Journey

Wherever you are, and whoever you may be,there is one thing in which you and I arejust alike,at this moment, and in all the momentsof our existence.We are not at rest;we are on a journey. Our life is not a mere fact;it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.We are gaining something, or losing something, every day. Even when our position and our character seem toremain precisely the same, they are changing.For the mere advance of time is a change.It is not the same thing to have a bare fieldin January and in July. The season makes the difference.The limitations that are childlike in the child are childishin the man.

Everything that we do is a stepin one direction or another. Even the failure to do somethingis in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward.

The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle isjust as real as the action of the positive pole.To decline is to accept — the other alternative.Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?Yes, — you must be a little nearer to some port or other;

for since your ship was first launched uponthe sea of life you have never been still for a single moment; the sea is too deep,you could not find an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause until you come into port.

人在旅途亨利.凡.戴克

無論你身在何處，也無論你是何人，此時(shí)此刻，有一件事于你我而言都是相同的，而且只要我們活著，這個(gè)共同點(diǎn)就存在。那就是，我們并非停留不前，而是人在旅途。我們的生命是一種運(yùn)動，一種趨勢，是向一個(gè)看不見的目標(biāo)無休止地奮進(jìn)。

每天，我們都有所得，也有所失。即便我們的位置和角色看似與原來無異，但實(shí)際上也是時(shí)時(shí)變化的。因?yàn)闀r(shí)間的推移本身就是一種變化。對于同一片荒地來說，在一月和七月是截然不同的，季節(jié)造成了這種差異。能力的局限在孩子身上被視為天真爛漫，而在大人身上則是幼稚的的表現(xiàn)。我們所做的每件事情都是

朝著某個(gè)方向邁進(jìn)了一步。即使是失敗本身，也是有所得的，失敗可以催人奮進(jìn)，也可以讓人一蹶不振。磁針負(fù)極的作用與正極的作用都是一樣真實(shí)的。拒絕也是一種接受，只不過是另一種選擇罷了。

你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了么？是的，你肯定離某個(gè)港口更近了。因?yàn)樽詮哪愕暮酱瑥纳�命的海洋上啟航的那一刻開始，你沒有哪一刻是靜止的。大海如此深邃，即便你想停泊，也找不到地方；只有當(dāng)你駛?cè)胱约旱母劭�，你才能停止下來�?/p>

人生如詩:真正的高貴The True NobilityBy Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.But all sunshine without shade,all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest — it is a tangled yarn.Bereavements and blessings, one following another,make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itselfmakes life more loving. Men come closest totheir true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorry and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business,it is not intellect that tells so much as character,not brains so much as heart, not genius so muchas self-control, patience, and discipline,regulated by judgment.I have always believed thatthe man who has begun to live more seriouslywithin begins to live more simply without.In an age of extravagance and waste, I wishI could show to the world how fewthe real wants of humanity are.To regret

one‘s errors to the point of not repeating themis true repentance. There is nothing noble in beingsuperior to some other man. The true nobility isin being superior to your previous self. 在風(fēng)平浪靜的大海上,每個(gè)人都是領(lǐng)航員。

但只有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來說,他的生活也是一團(tuán)纏結(jié)在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現(xiàn),使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時(shí)刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實(shí)的自我最為接近。

在生活和事業(yè)的種種事務(wù)之中，性格比才智更能指導(dǎo)我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導(dǎo)我們，而由判斷獲得的克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。

我一向認(rèn)為，內(nèi)心生活開始更為嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)娜�，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物欲橫流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多么可憐。

反思自己的過錯(cuò)不至于重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并沒有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是優(yōu)于過去的自已。

我的世界觀The World as I See ItBy Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals!Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose he knows not, though hesometimes thinks he senses it. But withoutdeeper reflection one knows from daily lifethat one exists for other people —first of all for those upon whose smilesand well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent,and then for the many, unknown to us,to whose destinies we are bound bythe ties of sympathy.

A hundred times every dayI remind myself that my inner and outer lifeare based on the labors of other men, living and dead,and that I must exert myself in order to givein the same measure as I have receivedand am still receiving. I am strongly drawnto a frugal life and am often oppressivelyaware that I am engrossing an undue amountof the labor of my fellow-men. I regardclass distinctions as unjustified and,in the last resort, based on force. I alsobelieve that a simple and unassuming lifeis good for everybody, physically and mentally.我們這些肉

體凡胎是多么奇怪��！每個(gè)人來到這個(gè)世上都只作短暫停留，究竟為了什么目的卻無從知曉，雖然有時(shí)覺得自己好像有所感悟。但是，無需深入思考，僅從日常生活就可明白，人是為他人而存在的——首先是為這樣一些人：他們的歡笑、健康和福祉與我們的幸福息息相關(guān)；其次是為那些為數(shù)眾多的陌生人，因?yàn)橥�情他們，使得我們與他們的命運(yùn)聯(lián)系在了一起。每一天，我都上百次地提醒自己，我的精神和物質(zhì)生活都是建立在他人(包括生者和死者)的勞動基礎(chǔ)上，對于我已經(jīng)得到和正在得到的一切，我必須盡力給以相同程度的回報(bào)。我深深向往一種儉樸的生活，由于經(jīng)常意識到自己占用了同胞太多的勞動而心有不安。我認(rèn)為階級區(qū)分是不正當(dāng)?shù)�，其最終的達(dá)成方式常常訴諸暴力。我還認(rèn)為，無論是在身體上還是心理上，過一種簡單而不鋪張浪費(fèi)的生活對每個(gè)人都有好處。

I do not at all believe in human freedomin the philosophical sense. Everybody actsnot only under external compulsion but alsoin accordance with inner necessity.

Schopenhauer‘s saying,that ―A man can do what he wants, but not wantwhat he wants,‖ has been a very real inspirationto me since my youth; it has been a continual consolationin the face of life‘s hardships, my own and others‘,and an unfailing well-spring of tolerance.This realization mercifully mitigates the easilyparalyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us fromtaking ourselves and other people all too seriously;it is conducive to a view of life

which,in particular, gives humor its due.我完全不相信哲學(xué)意義上的人的自由。每個(gè)人的行為不僅受外在力量的約束，還要與內(nèi)在需求協(xié)調(diào)一致。叔本華說：―人可以任意而為，卻不能心想事成�！�這句話從我年輕時(shí)起就一直深深地啟發(fā)著我。在面對生活的艱辛?xí)r——無論是我自己還是他人的艱辛，這句話總能不斷地給我安慰，成為永不枯竭的忍耐的源泉。這一認(rèn)識能夠仁慈地緩和那份令人幾欲崩潰的責(zé)任感，并防止我們太把自己或者他人當(dāng)回事，還有助于形成一種尤其幽默的人生觀。

To inquire afterthe meaning or object of one‘s own existence orthat of all creatures has always seemed to meabsurd from an objective point of view. And yeteverybody has certain ideals which determinethe direction of his endeavors and his judgments.In this sense I have never looked upon easeand happiness as ends in themselves —this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after timehave given me new courage to face life cheerfully,have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Withoutthe sense of kinship with men of like mind, withoutthe occupation with the objective world, the

eternallyunattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors,life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objectsof human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury —have always seemed to me contemptible.

客觀地說，探求自己或者其他所有生命存在的意義或者目標(biāo)，我一直都認(rèn)為是荒唐之舉。然而，每個(gè)人多少都有自己的理想，決定著他的奮斗目標(biāo)和他對事情的看法。從這個(gè)意義上說，我從來都不會把安逸和幸�？醋鹘K極目標(biāo)——我將這種倫理道德的基礎(chǔ)稱之為―豬圈理想‖。一直以來，是對真、善、美的追求照亮了我的道路，一次又一次給我以新的勇氣，讓我愉快地面對生活。如果沒有對志同道合者的那種親近感，如果沒有對客觀世界——那個(gè)藝術(shù)和科學(xué)研究永遠(yuǎn)也無法窮極的世界——的孜孜以求，生命對我來說就是一場空。那些向來為世人競相追求的目標(biāo)——財(cái)產(chǎn)、奢華和外在的成功——我對此不屑一顧。

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddlywith my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and humancommunities. I am truly a ―lone traveler‖ and have never belonged to my country, my home, myfriend, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I havenever lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings which increase with the years.One becomes sharply aware, but without regret, of the limits of mutual understanding andconsonance with other people. No doubt, such a person loses some of his innocence andunconcern; on the other hand, he is largely independent, of the opinions, habits, a

ndjudgments of his fellows and avoids the temptation to build his inner equilibrium upon suchinsecure foundations.

一方面，我有著強(qiáng)烈的社會正義感和社會責(zé)任感，另一方面，我的內(nèi)心又明顯沒有與他人和社會直接接觸的需求，二者形成了一個(gè)奇怪的對比。我確實(shí)是一個(gè)―孤獨(dú)的旅者‖，我的心從未完全地屬于過我的祖國、我的家庭、我的朋友，甚至我最親近的家人。在面對所有這些羈絆時(shí)，我從來沒有失去過距離感，也沒有擺脫掉孤獨(dú)感——這種感覺隨著年歲的增長還在增加。一個(gè)人開始強(qiáng)烈地意識到人與人之間的相互理解與和諧一致是有限度的，但卻并不為此遺憾時(shí)，此人毫無疑問已經(jīng)失去了部分天真無邪、無憂無慮的童心，但另一方面，他也在很大程度上獲得了獨(dú)立，不再受他人觀點(diǎn)、習(xí)慣和判斷的影響，同時(shí)也能避免內(nèi)心那種要將平衡建立在這種不可靠的基礎(chǔ)之上的強(qiáng)烈愿望。

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotionwhich stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can nolonger wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was theexperience of mystery—even if mixed with fear—that engendered religion. A knowledge of theexistence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason andthe most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and in thisalone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes hiscreatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would Iwant to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear orabsurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of lifeand with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world,together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of theReason that manifests itself in nature.

人類所能享有的最美妙的體驗(yàn)就是神秘感，這是真正的科學(xué)與藝術(shù)的根源中最基礎(chǔ)的情感。無論是誰，如果沒有感受過它的魅力，如果不再感到好奇，不再發(fā)出驚嘆，他就無異于行尸走肉，瞎眼盲心。正是這種神秘的體驗(yàn)——即使夾雜著恐懼——促進(jìn)了宗教的產(chǎn)生。我們知道有某種事物的存在我們無法參透，我們對最深刻的理性與最絢麗的美的感知，只有在它們以最原始的形式出現(xiàn)時(shí)才能有所理解——正是這種認(rèn)知和情感構(gòu)成了真正的宗教信仰。在這種意義上，也只有在這種意義上，我是一個(gè)篤信宗教的人。我無法臆想出一個(gè)對自己創(chuàng)造出來的生命加以獎(jiǎng)賞和懲罰的上帝，也無法想象他會擁有我們自身所擁有的意志。我無法也不愿想象一個(gè)人在肉體死去之后仍然可以活著。讓那些脆弱的靈魂，出于恐懼或者可笑的私利，去擁抱這種想法吧。我滿足于對生命的永恒保持神秘感，滿足于對現(xiàn)存世界神奇結(jié)構(gòu)的粗淺感知和匆匆一瞥，也滿足于通過不懈的努力，對自然本身顯露出的一部分―道‖進(jìn)行理解，哪怕只是極其微小的一部分。 熱愛生活Love Your LifeBy Hey David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorestwhen you are richest. The fault-finder willfind faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sunis reflected from the windows of the

almshouseas brightly as from the rich man‘s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

The town‘s poor seem to me often to livethe most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simplygreat enough to receive without misgiving. Most think thatthey are above being

supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not abovesupporting themselves by dishonest means,which should be more disreputable. Cultivate povertylike a garden herb,

like sage. Do not trouble yourself muchto get new things, whether clothes or friends.Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時(shí)候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點(diǎn)的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點(diǎn)。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個(gè)濟(jì)貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時(shí)候。夕陽反射在濟(jì)貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個(gè)從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨(dú)立不羈的生活。也許因?yàn)樗麄兒軅ゴ�，所以受之無愧。大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們；可是事實(shí)上他們是往往利用了不正當(dāng)?shù)氖侄蝸韺Ω渡�活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那里去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。

我的家庭信條The Road to HappinessBy Bertrand Russell

It is a commonplace among moralists that youcannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only trueif you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carloare pursuing money, and most of them lose itinstead, but there are other ways of pursuingmoney, which often succeed. So it is with happiness.If you pursue it by means of drink, you areforgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it byliving only in congenial society and eating only drybread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people wouldneed something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unlesssupplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personalrule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, excepting rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.幸福之道

道德家們常說：幸�？孔非笫堑貌坏降摹Ｖ挥杏貌幻髦堑姆绞饺プ非蟛攀沁@樣。蒙特卡洛城的賭徒們追求金錢，但多數(shù)人卻把錢輸?shù)袅耍�而另外一些追求金錢的辦法卻常常成功。追求幸福也是一樣。如果你通過暢飲來追求幸福，那你就忘記了酒醉后的不適。埃畢丘魯斯追求幸福的辦法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不涂黃油的面包，節(jié)日才加一點(diǎn)奶酪。他的辦法對他來說是成功的，但他是個(gè)體弱多病的人，而多數(shù)人需要的是精力充沛。就多數(shù)人來說，除非你有別的補(bǔ)充辦法，這樣追求快樂就過于抽象和脫離實(shí)際，不宜作為個(gè)人的生活準(zhǔn)則。不過，我覺得無論你選擇什么樣的生活準(zhǔn)則，除了那些罕見的和英雄人物的例子外，都應(yīng)該是和幸福相容的。

There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. healthand a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases itwould seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we maysay that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from theanimals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions arefavorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for anoccasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but theystill have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, thisis too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective,and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to growrich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has becomerich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate hisnoble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneouspleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought culture

晨讀英文美文篇二：晨讀英語美文60篇

Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture ................................................................................... 1

The beauty industry .............................................................................................................................. 2

Holiday Headache ................................................................................................................................... 2

Arthritis all-clear for high heels ..................................................................................................... 3

Disney World ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Secrets to a Great Life ......................................................................................................................... 5

The 50-Percent Theory of Life ......................................................................................................... 6

The Road to Happiness ........................................................................................................................ 7

Six Famous Words .................................................................................................................................. 8

Write Your Own Life .............................................................................................................................. 8

Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture

A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera.

It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French territory.

Its advertising posters on the Champs Elysee announce "Starbucks - a passion pour le cafe".

But is the company aware of the risk it is taking by challenging the very birthplace of cafe society?

"I think every time we come into a new market we do it with a great sense of respect, a great deal of interest in how that cafe society has developed over time," Bill O'Shea of Starbucks says.

"We recognise there is a huge history here of cafe society and we have every confidence we can enjoy, augment and join in that passion."

And he may be right. Despite some sniffiness in the French press, some younger French are expressing their excitement that they will finally be able to visit the kind of cafe they love to watch on the US TV series Friends.

In fact, for some, it is an exotic rarity, far more exciting than the average French cafe. Melissa, aged 18, says she can hardly wait: "I love Starbucks caramel coffee - it's very good and I like the concept that they're opening in Paris. I think Starbucks will be OK for French people."

An American tourist is equally excited when she spots the sign - this could be just the thing to help her get over the occasional twinge of homesickness.

"I love the French cafes, but Starbucks is so popular in the States and it's become part of American culture and now it's come to France, and that's OK," she said.

But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around the world - even if they are termed handcrafted beverages.

At the traditional cafes, customers worry that the big US coffee house chains could drive out small, family-owned cafes.

Others here think they could come round to the idea of Starbucks, though for them it would never replace the corner cafe or the typical Parisian petit noir coffee.

The beauty industry

The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three million pounds a week. These facts and figures are 'official', and can be accepted as being substantially true.

The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, as we have seen, they have not suffered.Women are retrenching on other things than their faces.

Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hithero reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. The fortunes are made justly by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the sellers of rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.

It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indisinguishable, at future picture shows, from the Portrai of the Artist's Daughter. The success is part due to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, and in part due to impoved health. So for some people, the campaign for more beauty is also a compaign for more health. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of heslth is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. Every middle-in-come preson can afford the cosmetic apparatus and more knowledge of the way in which real herlth can be achieved is being universally aced upon. When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features? The answer is apparent: No,for real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.

Holiday Headache

All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.

So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin rental”at altavista.com, I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.

I was wrong. The first site that I tried, cyberrentals.com, grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding, places as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings.Another site, vacationspot.com, let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter.

I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, (轉(zhuǎn) 載于:www.91mayou.com 蒲公 英文摘:晨讀英文美文)I was ready to throw my computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a headache.I finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place.

Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I dreamed it would be.

Arthritis all-clear for high heels

Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are

unfounded,sayresearchers.

But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford Brookes Universtity found.

They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice of shoes was not a factor

The study was published in the Journal of Epidemilology and public health.

More than 2% of the population aged over 55 suffers extreme pain as a result of osteoarthrits of the knee.

The condition is twice as common in 65-year-old women as it is in men of the same age. Women's and men's knees are not biologically different, so the reserachers wanted to find out why twice as many women as men develop osteoarthritis in the joint.

Some researchers have speculated tha high-heeled shoes maybe to blame.

The women in the study were quizzed on details of their height and weight when they left school, between 36 and 40 and between 51 and 55.

They were asked about injuries, their jobs, smoking and use of contraceptive hormones. Howere, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years was not.

The researchers wrote:"Most of the women had been exposed to high heeled shoes over the years-nevertheless, a consistent finding was a reduced risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.

There was an even more pronounced link between regular dancing in three-inch heels and a reduced risk of knee problems.

The researchers described this finding as "surprising", but said that they would not expect a larger-scale study to overturn their findings.

Disney World

Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4 thousand acres, and is twice the size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles.

Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

There is very little that could be called vulgar in Disney World. It attracts people of most tastes and most income groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, forest trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the MagicKingdom.

Between the huge parking lots and the MagicKingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers of Cinderella’s Castle. Even getting to the MagicKingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippipaddlewheeler, or you can glide around the shore in a streamlined monorail train.

When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and

there is no traffic except a horse-drawn streetcar and an ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the MagicKingdom, you are actually walking on top of a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all other material needs of the MagicKingdom are invisibly supplied.

Secrets to a Great Life

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be.Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease.

A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. S—Simplify.

A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E—Effort.

A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It means looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

3. C—Create Priorities.

A great life is the result of creating priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you. Make sure you are honoring your priorities.

4. R—Reserves.

A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E—Eliminate distractions.

A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

6. T—Thoughts.

晨讀英文美文篇三：美文賞讀(瘋狂英語晨讀)

by Michael Josephson

Choose to live a life that matters.

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more suises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived. It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

So what will matter? How will the value or your days be measured?

What is matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassions, courage and sacrifice that eiched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

New Words and Expressions

① temporal: [ 'temp?r?l ] a. 當(dāng)時(shí)的,暫時(shí)的,現(xiàn)世的

② shrivel: [ '?rivl ] v. 枯萎,皺縮vi. 枯萎,干枯

③ irrelevance: [ i'rel?v?ns ] n. 不切題(不相干,不中肯,沒關(guān)系,枝節(jié)問題)

④ grudge: [ gr?d? ] n. 怨恨,惡意v. 懷恨,嫉妒,吝惜

⑤ resentment: [ ri'zentm?nt ] n. 怨恨,憤恨

⑥ frustration: [ fr?s'trei??n ] n. 打破,挫折,頓挫

⑦ jealousy: [ 'd?el?si ] n. 妒忌

⑧ expire: [ iks'pai?, eks- ] v. 期滿,失效,終止,斷氣

⑨ ethnicity: [ eθ'nisiti ] n. 種族劃分, 種族性

⑩ irrelevant: [ i'reliv?nt ] a. 不恰當(dāng)?shù)?無關(guān)系的,不相干的

11 integrity: [ in'tegriti ] n. 誠實(shí),正直,完整,完善

12 emulate: [ 'emjuleit ] v. 效法,盡力趕上 [計(jì)算機(jī)] 仿真

13 competence: [ 'k?mp?t?ns ] n. 能力

參考譯文

何謂重要？

無論你是否準(zhǔn)備好，有一天一切都會結(jié)束。不再有旭日東升，不再有燦爛白晝，也不再有一分一時(shí)的光陰。你收藏的一切，無論是彌足珍貴的還是被你遺忘的，都將留給別人。

你的財(cái)富、名望和世俗的權(quán)力都將變成無關(guān)緊要的東西。不管你擁有的還是別人虧欠你的，都不再重要。

你的嫉恨、冤仇，挫敗和嫉妒終將消失。同樣，你的希望、抱負(fù)、計(jì)劃和未竟之事都將終止。曾經(jīng)無比重要的成敗得失也將變得無足輕重。你來自哪里，用什么方式生活都不再重要。你是貌美如花還是才華橫溢也不再重要。你的性別、膚色、種族都將變得無關(guān)緊要。

那何為重要呢?又將如何衡量你生命的價(jià)值呢?

重要的不是你所買到的，而是你所建造的；不是你所得到的，而是你所付出的。重要的不是你的成功，而是你的價(jià)值。重要的不是你所學(xué)到的，而是你傳授的。重要的是你每一次正直、憐憫、勇敢和犧牲的行為都能使人充實(shí)、給人以力量或是激勵(lì)他人，讓他們以你為榜樣。重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。重要的不是你認(rèn)識多少人，而是在你離開時(shí)有多少人會感到這是永久的損失。重要的不是你的記憶，而是那些愛你的人的記憶。重要的是人們會懷念你多久，誰會懷念你，為什么懷念你。

過有意義的人生并非偶然，也非環(huán)境所能決定，而是你自己的選擇。

要選擇過有意義的生活。

"He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is really a wise man who will not."

The habit of keeping pleasant is indeed better than an income of a thousand dollars a year. The life without cheerfulness is like the severe winter without sun.

We all love cheerful company, but we are apt to forget that cheerfulness is a habit that can be cultivated by all.

We find it very difficult to be gay when we are in distress. It requires great courage. We should never forget that to be cheerful when it is not easy to be cheerful shows greatness. Thorny may be our way, but how happy is the conqueror's song!

The perfection of cheerfulness consists in the happy frame of mind. It is displayed in good temper and kind behaviour. It arises partly from personal goodness and partly from the belief in the goodness of others. It sees the glory in the grass and the sunshine of the flower. It encourages happy thoughts, and lives in an atmosphere of peace. It costs nothing, and yet it is invaluable. It blesses its possessor, and affords a large measure of enjoyment to others.

New Words and Expressions

be apt to 易于；傾向于

frame of mind 心情，心境

consist in 在于

參考譯文

保持快樂的心情

“不會生氣的人是愚者，不生氣的人乃是真正的智者�！�

保持快樂的心情勝于年薪上千美元的收入。生活中若沒有快樂，就如同嚴(yán)寒的冬季沒有陽光。 快樂的伙伴受人喜愛，而我們卻忘了快樂是每個(gè)人都可以培養(yǎng)的習(xí)慣。悲傷之時(shí)，讓我們快樂起來很難，那需要有很大的勇氣。謹(jǐn)記，轉(zhuǎn)悲為歡是一件很了不起的事。也許，前方的道路荊棘滿布，然而，勝利者之歌卻洋溢著快樂！

快樂的心態(tài)可以成就完美的快樂。它表現(xiàn)在好的性情和得體的舉止上。它一部份緣于個(gè)人的善良，另一部分源于對他人善良的信賴。它能使人看到撒在草地上的光輝和折射在花朵上的光芒�？鞓返乃枷胩�躍在和平靜謐的氛圍中。它能帶給你無限的價(jià)值，卻不要你付出任何代價(jià)。它會保佑其所有者，并帶給別人無窮無盡的快樂。

Don't worry about what lies dimly at a distance, but do what lies clearly ahead.

To solve any problem or to reach your goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. Don't procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem, break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

If you can get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. It's the job you never start that takes the longest to finish. Don't worry about what lies dimly at a distance, but do what lies clearly ahead.

Your biggest opportunity is where you are right now. Once you begin you're half done.

詞匯引擎

① of one’s own accord 自愿地

② procrastinate [ pr?u'kr?stineit ] v. 延遲,遷延,耽擱

參考譯文

你隨時(shí)都可以邁向成功 要解決任何問題或?qū)崿F(xiàn)自己的目標(biāo)，你無須提前知道所有的答案。但你必須清楚地了解你所面臨的問題或你希望達(dá)到的目標(biāo)。 你唯一要做的就是知道自己欲往何方。自然而然，你就會得出答案。遇到大難題時(shí)不要拖延，應(yīng)該把問題分成幾個(gè)部分，然后逐一解決。 如果你能鼓起勇氣去開始，那么你就有勇氣去獲取成功。需要花最多時(shí)間完成的正是那些你從未著手去做的工作。不要擔(dān)心遠(yuǎn)處暗淡模糊的事物，而是要做清楚擺在眼前的那些事。

你現(xiàn)在所處的位置就是你最大的機(jī)遇。一旦開始，你就成功了一半。

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.

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 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 adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a

相關(guān)熱詞搜索：英文 美文 初中生晨讀英文美文 晨讀英文美文100篇