500字英語美文摘抄
500字英語美文摘抄
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500字英語美文篇1
擁抱今天
Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are travelling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving on a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
But the uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we reach there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will be fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes loitering, waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
"When we reach the station, that will be it", we cry. "When I'm 18", "When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz", "When I put my last kid through collage", "When I have paid off the mortgage", "When I get a promotion", "When I reach the age of the retirement, I shall live happily ever after."
Sooner or later, we must realize that there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. Thetrue joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
"Relish the moment" is a good motto, especially when coupled withe the Psalm 118:24:"This is the day whichthe Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tommorrow. Reget and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more icecreams, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as wego along. Then the station will come soon enough.
我們的潛意識里藏著一派田園詩般的風(fēng)光!我們仿佛身處一次橫貫大陸的漫漫旅程之中!乘著火車,我們領(lǐng)略著窗外流動的景色：附近高速公路上奔馳的汽車、十字路口處招手的孩童、遠山上吃草的牛群、源源不斷地從電廠排放出的煙塵、一片片的玉米和小麥、平原與山谷、群山與綿延的丘陵、天空映襯下城市的輪廓,以及鄉(xiāng)間的莊園宅第!
然而我們心里想得最多的卻是最終的目的地!在某一天的某一時刻,我們將會抵達進站!迎接我們的將是樂隊和飄舞的彩旗!一旦到了那兒,多少美夢將成為現(xiàn)實,我們的生活也將變得完整,如同一塊理好了的拼圖!可是我們現(xiàn)在在過道里不耐煩地踱來踱去,咒罵火車的拖拖拉拉!我們期待著,期待著,期待著火車進站的那一刻!
"當(dāng)我們到站的時候,一切就都好了!"我們呼喊著!"當(dāng)我18歲的時候!""當(dāng)我有了一輛新450SL奔馳的時候!""當(dāng)我供最小的孩子念完大學(xué)的時候!""當(dāng)我償清貸款的時候!""當(dāng)我官升高任的時候!""當(dāng)我到了退休的時候,就可以從此過上幸福的生活啦!"
可是我們終究會認(rèn)識到人生的旅途中并沒有車站,也沒有能夠"一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正樂趣在于旅行的過程,而車站不過是個夢,它始終遙遙領(lǐng)先于我們!
"享受現(xiàn)在"是句很好的箴言, 尤其是當(dāng)它與《圣經(jīng)·詩篇》中第118頁24行的一段話相映襯的時候, 更是如此："今日乃主所創(chuàng)造;生活在今日我們將歡欣、高興! "真正令人發(fā)瘋的不是今日的負(fù)擔(dān),而是對昨日的悔恨及對明日的恐懼!悔恨與恐懼是一對孿生竊賊,將今天從你我身邊偷走!
那么就不要在過道里徘徊吧,別老惦記著你離車站還有多遠!何不換一種活法,將更多的高山攀爬,多吃點兒冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴,經(jīng)常光著腳板兒溜達,在更多的河流里暢游,多看看夕陽西下,多點歡笑哈哈,少讓淚水滴答!生活得一邊過一邊瞧!車站就會很快到達!
500字英語美文篇2
微塵與棟梁
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses ofothers. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned themand so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attentionaway from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them,find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and wemust accept the good and bad in ourselves together.
But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them,but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything thatoffends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance:how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he hasnever told not one, but a hundred?
There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness andlittleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character,or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, butpotentially they are the same. For my part, Ido not think I am any better or any worse thanmost people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that hascrossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge thatthese reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as wellas toothers. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent andrespectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.
讓人奇怪的是，和別人的過錯比起來，我們自身的過錯往往不是那樣的可惡。我想，其原因應(yīng)該是我們知曉一切導(dǎo)致自己犯錯的情況，因此能夠設(shè)法諒解自己的錯誤，而別人的錯誤卻不能諒解。我們對自己的缺點不甚關(guān)注，即便是深陷困境而不得不正視它們的時候，我們也會很容易就寬恕自己。據(jù)我所知，我們這樣做是正確的。缺點是我們自身的一部分，我們必須接納自己的好和壞。
但是當(dāng)我們評判別人的時候，情況就不同了。我們不是通過真實的自我來評判別人，而是用一種自我形象來評判，這種自我形象完全摒棄了在任何世人眼中會傷害到自己的虛榮或者體面的東西。舉一個小例子來說：當(dāng)覺察到別人說謊時，我們是多么地蔑視他啊!但是，誰能夠說自從未說過謊?可能還不止一百次呢。
人和人之間沒什么大的差別。他們皆是偉大與渺小，善良與邪惡，高尚與低俗的混合體。有的人性格比較堅毅，機會也比較多，因而這個或那個方面，能夠更自由地發(fā)揮自己的稟賦，但是人類的潛能卻都是相同的。至于我自己，我認(rèn)為自己并不比大多數(shù)人更好或者更差，但是我知道，假如我記下我生命中每一次舉動和每一個掠過我腦海的想法的話，世界就會將我視為一個邪惡的怪物。每個人都會有這樣的怪念頭，這樣的認(rèn)識應(yīng)當(dāng)能夠啟發(fā)我們寬容自己，也寬容他人。同時，假如因此我們得以用幽默的態(tài)度看待他人，即使是天下最優(yōu)秀最令人尊敬的人，而且假如我們也因此不把自己看得過于重要，那是很有裨益的。
500字英語美文篇3
洛克非勒家族信條
They are the principles on which my wife and I have tried to bring up our family .They are theprinciples in which my father believed and by which he governed his life .They are theprinciples,many of them ,whichI learned at my mother's knee.
They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death.
If they mean to you what they mean to me, they may perhaps be helpful also to our sons fortheir guidance and inspiration.
Let me state them:
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life ,liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opportunity ,an obligation ;everypossession,a duty.
I believe that the law was made for the man and not man for the law;that government is theservant of people and not their master.
I believe in the dignity of the labor,whether with head or hand;that the world owes no man aliving but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of asound financial structure,whether in government,business or personal affairs.
I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
I believe in the sacredness of a promise,that a man's word should be as good as his bond,thecharacter--not wealth or power or position--is of supreme worth.
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only inthe purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of thehuman soul set free.
I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God,named by whatever name,and that the individual'shighest fulfillment,greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living inharmory with His will.
I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world;that it alone can overcome hate;that rightcan and will triumph over might.
There sre the principles,however formulated,for which all good men and women throughout theworld,irrespective of race or creed,education,social position or occupation,are standing,and forwhich many of them are suffering and dying.
These are the principles upon which alone a new world recognizing the bortherhood of man thefatherhood ofGod can be established.
這些信條是我太太和我努力用以持家育子的原則。它們是我父親深信不疑并籍以安身立命的原則。其中有很多是我在母親膝前學(xué)到的原則。
這些信條指出了一條活得快樂有用、死得勇敢安詳?shù)牡缆贰?/p>
如果它們對你的意義正如對我的一樣,它們或許也將有助于我們的子女從中獲得引導(dǎo)和啟發(fā)。
讓我陳述如下:
我相信個人至高無上的價值及生存、自由與追求幸福的權(quán)利。
我相信每一項權(quán)利都伴隨著一種職責(zé);每一個機會都伴隨著一份義務(wù);每一次都擁有都伴隨著一種責(zé)任。
我相信法律是為人制訂,人卻并非為法律而存在;政府是人民的仆人,而非人民的主人。
我相信勞動的尊嚴(yán),不論是腦力或體力勞動;世界不應(yīng)給予任何人生計,但它應(yīng)給予每人一個謀生的機會。
我相信儉樸是井然有序的生活所必須;節(jié)約是健全的財務(wù)結(jié)構(gòu)之必要,不論是政府、企業(yè)或個人事物皆是如此。
我相信真理與正義是社會秩序長久維系的基礎(chǔ)。
我相信諾言的神圣,一句承諾應(yīng)該如同契約一般有效;品格——而非財富、權(quán)勢或地位——具有至為崇高的價值。
我相信報效社會是人類共同的責(zé)任;惟有在犧牲奉獻的煉火中,自私自利的渣滓才能燒毀,而人類靈魂的偉大也才能發(fā)揮出來。
我相信全能博愛的上帝,不論其名稱為何;而個人最高的成就,最大的幸福以及最大的作用都在符合上帝意旨的生活中才能找到。
我相信愛是世界上最偉大之物;惟有愛能夠克服仇恨;公理能夠而且必將戰(zhàn)勝強權(quán)。
不管如何闡述,這些就是全世界所有善良的男女——不分種族、信仰、教育、社會地位或職業(yè)——所共同堅持的原則,而為了這些原則,他們當(dāng)中許多人正飽受煎熬或瀕臨死亡。
惟有在這些信條的基礎(chǔ)上 ,一個認(rèn)同人類手足情和上帝慈父愛的世界才能建立起來。
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