值得背誦的英語材料有哪些推薦？

01-06

已背完新概念英語，覺得還很不足，求推薦一些值得背的材料。

最值得推薦背誦的，應該是那些帶有文化底蘊的經典作品，而不是新概念這種單純的語言學習材料。

如果我再年輕20歲，我會選擇去背整部《失樂園》。可惜現在時間不允許了。

有人以為只有中國才推崇背誦，這是一種錯誤的觀念。

我讀研時候一位老教授曾是西南聯大的學生，他提到當時英國的William Empson（《朦朧的七種類型》的作者）教他們莎士比亞，沒有教材，Empson是把莎士比亞的作品一字一字背給他們的。

新東方的《美文背誦30篇》（也就是@徐曉柔所說的born to win）裡面選取的美文短小精悍，都是名家名作。從各個角度來說都是相當好的背誦材料。

針對考試的作文範文（對應試和整理自己的寫作思路很有幫助。而且不會很長，結構基本差不多，記憶起來也比較方便。寫作的時候，腦子裡會有儲備，不會感覺下筆很難）。

名家名篇的英語選集。應該就是born to win的加長版、擴充版、詳細版。

想提高英語水平新概念三、四什麼的比較經典；想更進一步找點經典的演講，比如奧巴馬的很多演講都不錯；想了解英國文化的找點詩歌也行

新概念第三冊，熟練背誦100次。背到脫口而出，背到滾瓜爛熟。

難的不是背，而是在背誦之中的那種寂寞和不理解。

有人罵你瘋，有人說你傻，每天就抱的一本新概念。

背了一半，還沒背完。繼續背誦中，願與樓主共勉！

到英文報紙和雜誌上找一些文章；與時俱進

the declaration of independence

一些英語文學名著段落，比如The Great Gatsby的最後，我到現在還記憶猶新。

He had come a longway to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that』s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

隨手拿了只水筆默寫了下來，字難看請見諒。

葛底斯堡演說

英文演說本就有feel，

這篇的中文翻譯更是厲害！

I"m sorry but I don"t want to be an Emperor - that"s not my business - I don"t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other"s happiness, not by each other"s misery. We don"t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men"s souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness
in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish...
Soldiers - don"t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to
do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
Don"t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don"t hate - only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don"t fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written the kingdom of God is within man - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you! You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure! Then in the name of democracy let us use that power - let us all unite!!! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a
chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to
power, but they lie! They do not fulfil their promise, they never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men"s happiness.
Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!!!
[Speech by Charlie (Charles) Chaplin (1889-1977) from The Great Dictator movie (1940)]

國外的講演都可以背誦的。

額，這個要看你個人喜好和目前的英語水平啦，如果是喜歡溫情和勵志的，就新東方的born to win小冊子，如果想要挑戰一下難度，就選名家原著的片段來背，我覺得Thomas Merton的 No man is an island非常不錯，一些散文集也可以。如果想難度再升高一點，就去背莎士比亞的十四行詩，戲劇經典片段，那時候上本科，老師就是這樣折磨我們的。如果偷懶，不想東找西找，就喜歡新概念這種一套的，就找來英語專業的幾冊課本來背吧！

先看這個回答：從文學角度評價，哪本英文書籍最值得背誦？ - edward wang 的回答

接著推薦一本書，我們上課的時候用的

《美國總統演講名篇賞析（高級實用英語系列教材）》(徐中川...)【簡介

非常經典的總統演講都收錄在裡面，上面提到的葛底斯堡演說和獨立宣言都有節選或全部在裡面。

感覺《經濟學人》用詞文筆都不錯，文章也很新鮮。。。。不過一期就那麼兩篇適合背誦

新概念是經久不衰的經典。除此之外似乎背字典是不錯的選擇。雅思考官範文、Reader"s Digest等都可以嘗試背誦。

劇本。

莎士比亞、蕭伯納、王爾德。

很多文章也很好，很優美，但是主要目的是用來閱讀的，是一種書面語，是一種文字化的語言。如果是背誦的話，最好選擇聽說性的語言，比如說演講稿。但是很多演講稿還是太長，內容豐富。並不是說容量大不好，而是年紀也大了，沒有兒童時期那種記憶力了，兒童時期簡直是照相機式的腦子，現在不行了，多了記不住。劇本就像相聲，你一句我一句，互相提示，妙語連珠。大段的獨白也有，但是少，但是一旦出現一定是經典，這是一個個人表演的時刻，個人英雄主義的時刻，必須背下來，以供炫耀。

背誦劇本要聲情並茂，要充分情緒化，充分體會語感、情感、韻律感。要控制呼吸，吞吐平穩，氣息通達。哪裡停頓，怎樣斷句，哪裡重讀，怎樣強調，什麼語氣是傲慢，什麼地方語速要加快，怎樣表現不屑一顧，怎樣表達極度憤怒，怎樣深情表白，怎樣破口大罵。

劇本和電影不同，有的電影不需要台詞，有的電影純粹是肢體語言。但是劇本最初面向的是話劇，是以語言表達為突出手段的藝術形式，單純閱讀劇本尚不足以體現它的價值，必須走進劇場，必須把它表演出來，才能感受那種震撼。有一次老師指著我的鼻子怒斥：「你就是個語言上的巨人，行動上的矮子。」我剛聽到前半句就被震住了，真是振聾發聵，以至於後半句根本沒聽到。

感覺英語經濟學教材，專業書籍值得背誦。