经典英语美文阅读

　　在人生的路上我们会碰到很多困惑，而阅读能解答我们这些困惑。下面是小编整理的，希望对大家有用，更多消息请关注应届毕业生网。

　　经典英语美文阅读：生命在于完整

　　Once a circle missed a wedge.The circle wanted to be whole，so it went around looking for its missing piece.But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly，it admired the flowers along the way.It chatted with worms.It enjoyed the sunshine.It found lots of different pieces，but none of them fit.So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching.Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly.It was so happy.Now it could be whole，with nothing missing.It incorporated the missingpiece into itself and began to roll.Now that it was a perfect circle，it could roll very fast，too fast tonotice the flowers or talking to the worms.When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly，it stopped，left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.

　　The lesson of the story，I suggested，was that in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missingsomething.The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man.He will never know what it feels like to yearn，to hope，to nourish his soul with the dream of something better.He will never know the experience ofhaving someone who loves him give him something he has always wanted or never had.

　　There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations，who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive，who can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.

　　Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spelling bee，where no matter how many words you've gotten right，you're disqualified if you make one mistake.Life ismore like a baseball season，where even the best team loses one-third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.

　　When we accept that imperfection is part of being human，and when we can continue rolling through life andappreciate it，we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That，I believe，is what God asks of us not "Be perfect"，not "Don't even make a mistake"，but "Be whole."

　　If we are brave enough to love，strong enough to forgive，generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness，and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all，then we can achieve a fulfillmentthat no other living creature will ever know.

　　从前有一只圆圈缺了一块楔子。圆圈想保持完整，便四处寻找失去的那块楔子。由于它不完整，所以只能滚动很慢。一路上，它对花儿露出羡慕之色。它与蠕虫谈天侃地。它还欣赏到了阳光之美。圆圈找到了许许多多不同的配件，但是没有一件能完美地与它相配。所以，它将它们统统弃置路旁，继续寻觅。终于有一天，它找到了一个完美的配件。圆圈是那样地高兴，现在它可以说是完美无缺了。它装好配件，然后滚动起来。既然它已成了一个完整的圆圈，所以滚动得非常快，快得以至于无暇观赏花儿，也无暇与蠕虫倾诉心声。圆圈快奔急骋，发现眼中的世界变得如此不同，于是，它不禁停了下来，将找到的那个配件留在路旁，又开始了慢慢地滚动。

　　我觉得这个故事告诉我们，从某种奇妙意义上讲，当我们失去了一些东西时反而感到更加完整。一个拥有一切的人其实在某些方面是个穷人。他永远也体会不到什么是渴望、期待以及对美好梦想的感悟。他也永远不会有这样一种体验：一个爱他的人送给他某种他梦寐以求的或者从未拥有过的东西意味什么。

　　人生的完整性在于一个人知道如何面对他的缺陷，如何勇敢地摒弃那些不现实的幻想而又不以此为缺憾。人生的完整性还在于一个男人或女人懂得这样一个道理：他(她)发现自己能勇敢面对人生悲剧而继续生存，能够在失去亲人后依然表现出一个完整的人的风范。

　　人生不是上帝为谴责我们的缺陷而给我们布下的陷阱。人生也不是一场拼字游戏比赛。不管你拼出多少单词，一旦出现了一个错误，你便前功尽弃。人生更像是一个棒球赛季。即使最好的球队比赛也会输掉1/3，而最差的球队也有春风得意的日子。我们的目标就是多赢球，少输球。

　　我们接受了不完整性是人类本性的一部分，我们不断地进行人生滚动并能意识到其价值，我们就会完成完整人生的过程。而对于别人来讲，这只能是一个梦想。我相信这就是上帝对我们的要求：不求"完美"，也不求"永不犯错误"，而是求得人生的"完整".

　　如果我们勇敢得能够去爱，坚强得能够去宽容，大度得能够去分享他人的幸福，明智得能够理解身边充满爱，那么我们就能取得别的`生物所不能取得的成就。

　　经典英语美文阅读：Home

　　What makes a home? Love and sympathy andconfidence.

　　It is a place where kindly affections exist among allthe members of the family. The parents take goodcare of their children, and the children are interestedin the activities of their parents. Thus all of them arebound together by affection, and they find their home to be the cheeriest place in the world.

　　A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is a man. Every civilizedperson is a social being.No one should live alone. A man may lead a successful and prosperouslife,but prosperity alone can by no means insure happiness.

　　Many great personages in the world history had deep affections for their homes. Your homemay be poor and humble, but your duty lies there. You should try to make it cheerful andcomfortable. The greater the difficulties, the richer will be your reward. A home is more than afamily dwelling. It is a school in which people are trained for citizenship. A man will not rendergood service to his country if he can do nothing good for his home; for in proportion as heloves his home, will he love his country. The home is the birthplace of true patriotism. It is thesecret of social welfare and national greatness. It is the basis and origin of civilization.

　　家

　　什么组成了家庭?是爱、同情和信心。

　　在家里，所有的家庭成员都充满了爱意。父母细心照顾自己的孩子，同时，孩子也全身心地投入到与父母的活动当中。所有的家庭成员因为爱而连接在了一起，他们把家当做是世界上最温馨的地方。

　　就像没有灵魂的身体，没有爱的家不再称之为家。每一名有文化的人都是社会的一份子。没有人会独自生活。人们或许会拥有成功、富裕的人生，但是只有财富却不能够保证幸福。

　　世界上的许多名人都对家庭有着深切的感情。你的家可能会很贫穷，但是你却肩负重任。你应该尝试着让它变得更加愉悦，变得更加舒适。困难越大，你的收获也将越多。家庭远远不只是家人栖息的场所。家庭就像是一所学校，在里面的人们接受培训并成为公民。如果一个人不能给家庭带来好处，那么他也将不会尽心尽力地的国家效力，如果他深爱他的家庭，那么他也将深爱他的国家。家庭是爱国主义的诞生地。家庭是社会福利和国家强盛的秘诀。家庭也是文化的源泉。

　　经典英语美文阅读：Youth

　　Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it isnot a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips andsuppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality ofthe imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is thefreshness of the deep springs of life.

　　Youth means a tempera-mental predominance ofcourage over timidity, of the appetite foradventure over thelove 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 spring back to dust.

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailingchildlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heartand my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope,cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

　　When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice ofpessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catchwaves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

　　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。