有那些好的英文美文值得背下來，默寫出來？

01-08

學習英語，方法有很多，背美文是一個不錯的選擇，但我又是剛入門，請問大神們有什麼值得推薦的美文可以背誦，能夠做到由簡到難，循序漸進！

我認為美文不如新聞時事。FT，BBC，CNN的很多新聞中都是各種表達方法和邏輯性很強的句子，實用性很高。

比掌握好幾種我愛你的表達方式顯然重要一些。

謝邀

推薦天堂遇見的五個人 the five people you meet in heaven 因為這是我唯一看過的英文故事書不長句子寫的很好

另外很多電影裡面有經典對白和句子跟著讀把自己代入進去我覺得這個培養語感很有幫助; 歌詞都可以唱歌都能學英語簡直不要太好...

另外聽是必不可少的比背書重要很多多聽很關鍵~

好像新東方有這種書的，什麼英語美文幾十篇之類的，但是我覺得背這些意義不大，而且很花時間，還不如去看看英語新聞英文小說啊。

課件偷偷發的……老師要求每周背一篇她找的美文。上上學期跟讀奧巴馬演講，聽力口語時事都能捎上～這幾篇四六級水平吧

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pK7IgyR奧巴馬演講音頻和文檔

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1qYtdnjQ背誦文章

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The Gettysburg address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new

nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created

equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any

nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the field, as a final resting

place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether

fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can

not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have

consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note,

nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is

for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who

fought here have thus far so nobly advance. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to

the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased

devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we

here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation,

under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people,by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

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Youth

------Samuel Ullman

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 tempera mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the

appetite for adventure over the love 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

unfailing childlike appetite of what』s next and the joy of the game of living. In the

center of your heart and my heart there if 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 of pessimism, then you are grown even at 20, but as long as your aerials

are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

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Of Study

------Francis Bacon（節選）

Studies serve for delight for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight

is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the

judgement and disposition of business for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge

of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of

affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is

sloth, to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgement wholly

by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by

experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning, by study; and

studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded

in by experience.

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer

little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much

cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the

mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.

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A Beautiful Campus

------Ralph W. Ellison

It was beautiful college. The buildings were old and covered with vines and the

roads gracefully winding, lined with ledges and wild roses that dazzled the eyes in the

summer sun. Honeysuckles and purple wisteria hung heavy from the trees and white

magnolias mixed with their scents in the bee-humming air. I』ve recalled it often. How

the grass turned green I the springtime and how the mocking birds fluttered their tails

and sang, how the moon shone on the buildings, how the bell on the chapel tower rang

out the precious short-lived hours; how the girls in bright summer dresses

promenaded the grassy lawn.

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Beautiful and Plentiful August

------Charles Dickens

There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful

appearance than in the month of August! Spring has many beauties, and May is a

fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced by their

contrast with the winter season. August has no such advantage. It comes when we

remember nothing but clear skies, green fields and sweet-smelling flowers -------

when the recollection of snow, and ice, and bleak winds, has faded from our minds as

completely as they have disappeared from the earth ------- and yet what a pleasant

time it is! Orchards and corn-fields ring with the hum of labor; trees bend beneath the

thick clusters of rich fruit which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn piled

in graceful sheaves, or waving in every light breath that sweeps above it, as if it

wooed the sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue. A mellow softness appears

to hand over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend itself to the

very waggon, whose slow motion across the well-raped field, is perceptible only to

the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear.

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On Etiquette

------William Hazlitt

Etiquette to society is what apparel is to the individual. Without apparel men

would go in shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and

without etiquette society would be in a pitiable state and the necessary intercourse

between its members would be interfered with by needless offences and troubles. If

society were a train, the etiquette would be the rails along which only the train could

rumble forth; if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be the wheels and axis

on which only the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would make the

most intimate friends turn to be the most decided enemies and the friendly or allied

countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the history of

mankind. Therefore I advise you to stand on ceremony before anyone else and o take

pains not to do anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make enemies.

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The Road to Happiness

By Bertrand Russell

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see

that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an

activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming i

nto existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this ki

nd of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science g

et happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many hu

mbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in

the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, a

nd when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

Youth 以下是我自己的翻譯

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 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 unfailing childlike appetite of what"s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and 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 of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

譯:

赤子不在年少，在乎心之境求矣。

赤子不在靈肌朱唇體敏捷，在乎狂意自發情難收，生生泉出猶汩然，

在乎勇而不畏，進之不退。

而其赤子之心，甲子老叟常有，既冠秀木難尋。

年華易逝，其逝隨年乎？隨勞乎？隨心也。

志氣息，情消逝，狂意散，心無靈者，日行千里，飛檐走壁，老矣，衰矣。

駒隙弱其筋骨，無為猶衰心志。

寵辱若驚，嗔痴貪懼，卑屈其心，塵埃其神。

夫人神好奇，而心平之；人心好探，而欲敗之。遣其欲則心自靈，澄其心而神自樂。在世有樂而視之不見，聽之不聞，老朽至矣。

青眉負劍，蒙其心，蔽其神，赤子遠矣。

霜鬢執杖，逐青鵬，眼藏歡，猶作頑童。

《小王子》

文章用詞不是很複雜，語言平凡卻不膚淺：The only things you learn are the things you tame,said the fox.people haven"t time to learn any thing.they buy things ready made in stores.but since there are no stores where you can buy friends,people no longer have friends.If you want a friend,tame me.

What do I have to do?asked the little prince.

You have to be very patient,the little fox answered.first you will sit down a little ways away from me,over there,in the grass.I will watch you out of the corner of my eye,and you won"t say anything.language is the source of misunderstandings.but day by day,you will be able to sit a little closer...

早上起來往窗外一看，就看到了紛紛揚揚的大雪，屋頂和樹枝，都已經覆蓋上了一層厚厚的白雪。北京的第一場雪，在靜悄悄的黎明，宣告了冬天的來臨。

　　時光在不知不覺之間就流走了，還記得春天迎春花開的時候，天氣一點點變暖，緊接著玉蘭花、丁香花一起開放，天地之間突然就溫暖熱鬧了起來，樹從光禿禿的枝椏，一點點發芽，最後披上滿身蓬勃的綠色，宣示著春天結束，夏天降臨。夏天是生命繁盛的季節，蜂飛蝶舞，蟬鳴聲聲。蟬聲未落，蟋蟀唧唧，秋天已經來到門檻。於是樹葉轉紅變黃，藍天白雲下，秋天一片斑斕的色彩，這預示著豐收的季節，也開啟了萬物的凋零；片片落葉，讓人感嘆傷情。葉未落盡，白雪已經飄然而至，冬天在不知不覺之間來到人間。

　　時間似在不在，一年的時間過去了恍若過了一天，花開在夢裡，醒來已是一片蕭瑟。在蕭瑟中大地已經開始孕育下一個春天。年年歲歲花相似，歲歲年年人不同，在各種匆忙中，好像時間並沒有流動，突然發現只有精心打坐，時間的滴答聲才最為清晰。一年過去，多了一些閱歷，多了一些憂傷，多了一些時光的感嘆。攬鏡自照，覺得自己的長相併沒有什麼變化，好像時光之刀忘了雕刻自己。直到偶然翻出自己十年前的照片，才發現自己不知不覺已經老去很多很多，也許有一天再回首，驀然會發現自己老得不堪回首。

　　生命總要前行，天地不仁，以萬物為芻狗。在人世間，和天地季節相應，有振奮、有熱鬧、有蓬勃、有憂傷、有凋零、有奮起；人生的主色調也許就是一場時光之歌，在春夏秋冬之間反覆吟唱，直到生命的最後一天，讓一場雪覆蓋自己的一切，給天地人間留下一片潔白。

新概念英語第2/3/4冊。

我是認真的，每一篇都值得背。

必須是葛底斯堡演講

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

從一粒沙子看到一個世界,從一朵野花看到一個天堂

把握在你手心裡的就是無限,永恆也就消融於一個時辰.

infinity：n.無窮大; 無限的時間或空間;

eternity:n.永恆; 不朽; [宗]來世，永生，永劫; 萬年;

Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment, not only about survival

生活是一串串的快樂時光,我們不僅僅是為了生存而生存

a chain of：一連串的

survival:n.倖存，生存; 倖存者; 遺物; 遺風;

Let』s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days".

曾"打算有那麼一天"去寫的信,就在今天寫吧.

I love you not because of who you are,

Because of who I am when I am with you .

我愛你,不是因為你是一個怎樣的人,

而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is worth make you cry.

沒有人值得你流淚.值得讓你這麼所的人,不會讓你哭泣.

「who is worth 」做「the one」的定語。

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can』t have them.

失去某人,最糟糕的莫過於,他近在身旁,卻猶如遠在天邊.

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

對於世界而言,你是一個人;但是對於某個人,你是他的整個世界.

Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

縱然傷心,也不要愁眉不展,因為你不知道是誰會愛上你的笑容。

Don』t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn』t willing to waste their time on you.

不要為那些不願在你身上花費時間的人而浪費你的時間.

Just because someone doesn』t love you the way you want them to doesn』t mean they don』t love you with all they have.

愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式來愛你,那比能夠不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你.

Don』t cry because it is over, smile，because it happened.

不要因為結束而哭泣.微笑吧,為你的曾經擁有.

And forever has no end.

永永遠遠,永無止境.

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

生命是一束純凈的火焰,我們依靠自己內心看不見的太陽而存在.

生如夏花之絢爛，死如秋葉之靜美。

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves。

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