初中英语美文第1篇Betweenthepreparationandthework,theapprenticeshipandtheactualdealingwithataskoranart,therec下面是小编为大家整理的初中英语美文17篇,供大家参考。
初中英语美文 第1篇
Between the preparation and the work, the apprenticeship and the actual dealing with a task or an art, there comes, in the experience of many young men, a period of uncertainty and wandering which is often misunderstood and counted as time wasted, when it is, in fact, a period rich in full and free development. It is as natural for ardent and courageous youth to wish to know what is in life, what it means, and what it holds for its children, as for a child to reach for and search the things that surround and attract it.
Behind every real worker in the world is a real man, and a man has a right to know the conditions under which he must live, and the choices of knowledge, power, and activity which are offered him.
In the education of many men and women, therefore, there comes the year of wandering; the experience of traveling from knowledge to knowledge and from occupation to occupation. The forces which go to the making of a powerful man can rarely be adjusted and blended without some disturbance of relations and conditions. This disturbance is sometimes injurious, because it affects the moral foundations upon which character rests; and for this reason the significance of the experience in its relation to development ought to be sympathetically studied.
The birth of the imagination and of the passions, the perception of the richness of life, and the consciousness of the possession of the power to master and use that wealth, create a critical moment in the history of youth, —a moment richer in possibilities of all kinds than comes at any later period. Agitation and ferment of soul are inevitable in that wonderful moment. There are times when agitation is as normal as is self-control at other and less critical times.
The year of wandering is not a manifestation of aimlessness, but of aspiration, and that in its ferment and uncertainty youth is often guided to and finally prepared for its task.
初中英语美文 第2篇
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
有一天，你终于知道，
什么是你必须得做，并开始去做，
虽然你周围的声音，
一直喊出，
其各种糟糕的建议——
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your
“Mend my life!”
each voice
But you didn’t
You knew what you had to do,
虽然整个房子，
开始颤抖，
你亦感到那条旧绳索，
绊住了你的脚踝。
“修补我的人生!”
每个声音都在哭喊。
但你并没停止。
你知道什么是你必须得做的，
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundation
though their melancholy
was
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and
虽然风用它僵硬的手指，
直往根基，
撬捣，
虽然它们的忧郁，
着实可怕。
天色，
已经很晚，这是个疯狂的夜晚，
路上满是倒下的，
断枝和石头。
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of cloud
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could
但渐渐地，
当你将它们的声音抛在身后，
星星开始穿透云层，
散发光辉，
一个新的声音出现了，
你慢慢，
意识到，那是你自己的声音，
它伴随着你，
伴你步步，
深入世途，
决心去做，
你唯一能做的事——
决定去拯救，
你唯一能拯救的生命。
初中英语美文 第3篇
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.A mulberry leaf touched with the genius of man becomes silk. A field of clay touched with the genius of man becomes a castle. A Cyprus tree touched with the genius of man becomes a shrine. A cut of sheep’s hair touched with the genius of man becomes raiment for a king.
If it is possible for leaves and clay and wood and hair to have their value multiplied a hundred, yea a thousandfold by man, cannot I do the same with the clay which bears my name?
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
I am liken to a grain of wheat which faces one of three futures. The wheat can be placed in a sack and dumped in a stall until it is fed to swine. Or it can be ground to flour and made into bread. Or it can be placed in the earth and allowed to grow until its golden head divides and produces a thousand grains from the one.
I am liken to a grain of wheat with one difference. The wheat cannot choose whether it be fed to swine, ground for bread, or planted to multiply. I have a choice and I will not let my life be fed to swine nor will I let it be ground under the rocks of failure and despair to be broken open and devoured by the will of others.
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
To grow and multiply it is necessary to plant the wheat grain in the darkness of the earth and my failures, my despairs, my ignorance, and my inabilities are the darkness in which I have been planted in order to ripen.
Now, like the wheat grain which will sprout and blossom only if it is nurtured with rain and sun and warm winds, I too must nurture my body and mind to fulfill my dreams. But to grow to full stature the wheat must wait on the whims of nature. I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
And how will I accomplish this? First I will set goals for the day, the week, the month, the year, and my life. Just as the rain must fall before the wheat will crack its shell and sprout, so must I have objectives before my life will crystallize. In setting my goals I will consider my best performance of the past and multiply it a hundredfold. This will be the standard by which I will live in the future.
Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to arm my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock?
初中英语美文 第4篇
Jerry was the kind of guy who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say.
One day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. "
"Yeah, right, it’s not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I changed my job. We lost touch.Several years later, I heard that Jerry was robbed and was shot. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "I feel really good.”
I asked him what had gone through his mind when he was taken to the hospital.
Jerry replied, “The first thing came to my mind was that I should have closed the back door. Then I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live. ”
Jerry continued, "The nurses kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses scared me. In their eyes, I read,‘He’s a dead man. ‘I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, a nurse asked if I was allergic to anything," said Jerry, ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses were waiting for my reply... I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live positively.
初中英语美文 第5篇
Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isn’t something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.
Abundance is a philosophy；
it appears in your physiology, your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs. You walk with it, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well.
Abundance doesn’t always require money. Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside. Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients, like love, care, kindness and gentleness, thoughtfulness and compassion. Abundance is a state of being. It radiates outward. It shines like the sun among the many moons in the world.
Being from the brightness of abundance doesn’t allow the darkness to appear or be in the path unless a choice to allow it to. The true state of abundance doesn’t have room for lies or games normally played. The space is too full of abundance. This may be a challenge because we still need to shine for other to see.
Abundance is seeing people for their gifts and not what they lack or could be. Seeing all things for their gifts and not what they lack.
Start by knowing what your abundances are, fill that space with you, and be fully present from that state of being. Your profession of choice is telling you of knowing and possibilities. That is their gift. Consultants and customer service professionals have the ministrative assistants and virtual assistants have an abundance of coordination and time management. Abundance is all around you, and all within. See what it is；
love yourself for what it is, not what you’re missing, or what that can be better, but for what it is at this present moment.
Be in a state of abundance of what you already have. I guarantee they are there；
it always is buried but there. Breathe them in as if they are the air you breathe because they are yours. Let go of anything that isn’t abundant for the time being. Name the shoe boxes in your closet with your gifts of abundance；
pull from them every morning if needed. Know they are there.
Learning to trust in your own abundance is required. When you begin to be within your own space of abundance, whatever you need will appear whenever you need it. That’s just the way the higher powers set this universe up to work. Trust the universal energy. The knowing of it all will humble you to its power yet let the brightness of you shine everywhere it needs to. Just by being from a state of abundance, it is being you.
富足是一种生活方式。它不是你偶尔买来，从架子上拿下来，抹去灰尘用上一两次然后又放回到架子上的东西。
富足是一种哲学，它体现于你的生理机能和价值观之中，并带有自己的一套信仰。无论走路，睡觉，洗澡你都会感受到它，你还要维护并照顾它。
富足并不一定需要金钱。许多人拥有金钱所能买到的一切，但却内心空虚。富足源自内心，其中包含一些重要的自我成分，比如爱，关心，善良和温柔，体贴与同情。富足是一种存在状态，它向处发散，像处于众多星球之间的太阳那样发光发亮。
来自富足的光亮不允许黑暗的出现或存在，除非选择允许它存在。真正的富足不给谎言或通常玩的游戏留有空间，因为富足已经把空间填得太满了。这可能是一个挑战，因为我们仍然需要为了让别人看见而发光。
富足是看到人们的天赋，而不是他的缺陷。所有的事物都要看其天赋而不是缺陷。
从知道自己的富足是什么时开始，填写满空间，全身心投入生活。你的选择已经告诉你。例如：教练能够了解队员并激发其潜力，那是他们的天赋；
顾问和客服专业人士通常能够提供很多成功且很具实用性的案例；
行政助理和虚拟助理熟识直辖市配合和时间管理的技巧。富足充盈于你的四周以及你的内心。明白富足的内容，爱本色的自己，不要为自己缺少的或是能变得更好的方面爱自己，而是为此时此刻的富足而爱自己。
要处于你已经拥有的事物的富足状态。我保证它们就在那儿，深藏不露却从未远离。将其看成空气，吸入体内，因为它们是你的。放开暂并不富足的东西。把你富足的所有天赋写在橱柜里的鞋盒子上，如果需要就每天早晨拉开橱柜，知道你的天赋都在那儿。
你需要学会信任自己的富足。当你开始处在自己富足的空间之内时，你需要的东西都会在你需要的时刻出现。这就是更高的力量设置这个宇宙动转的方式。要相信宇宙的能量。知道这一点会让你在其力量面前保持谦卑，但也会让你的光亮闪耀在所有需要的地方。只要处于富足的状态，就是做你自己。
初中英语美文 第6篇
In 1982 Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He was floating in a life raft, alone. When three fishermen found him seventy-six days later (the longest anyone has survived a shipwreck on a life raft alone), he was still alive.
His account of how he survived is fascinating. But the thing that caught my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no point in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life raft was punctured and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to fix it, it was still leaking air. Giving up would have seemed the only sane option.
When people survive these kinds of circumstances, they do something with their minds that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in similarly desperate circumstances give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the guts to carry on in spite of overwhelming odds.
"I tell myself I can handle it," wrote Callahan in his narrative."Compared to what others have been through, I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over, building up fortitude..."
I wrote that down after I read it. It struck me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed far off or when my problems seemed too overwhelming. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my senses.
The truth is our circumstances are only bad compared to something better. But others have been through much worse. I’ve read enough history to know you and I are lucky to be where we are, when we are, no matter how bad it seems to us compared to our fantasies. It’s a sane thought and worth thinking.
So whatever you’re going through, tell yourself you can handle it. Compared to what others have been through, you’re fortunate. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help you get through the rough spots with a little more fortitude.
篇六：高中英语晨读美文The Farmer"s Donkey
One day a farmer"s donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was"t worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly. Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt. As the farmer"s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone. Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.2. The Farmer"s Donkey
One day a farmer"s donkey fell into an abandoned well.The animal cried piteouslyfor hours as the farmer tried to figured out what to do.Finally,he decided the animal was too old and the well needed to covered up anyway;so it just was"t worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.
He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.Realizing what was happening,the donkey at first cried and wailed horribly.
Then,a few shovel-fullslater,hequiteted down completely.The farmer peered down into the well,and was astounded by what he saw.With every shovel-full of dirt that hit his back,the donkey would shake it off and take a step up on the new layer of dirt.
As the farmer"s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up.Prettysoon,the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off,to the shock and astonishment of everyone.
Life is going to shovel dirt on you,all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to stop wailing,and not let the dirt bury you,but to shake it off and take a step up.Each one of our troubles is a stepping-stone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stoping,never giving up!Shake it off and take a step up.
初中英语美文 第7篇
Song of Tomorrow
by Wen Jia
Tomorrow comes and again comes tomorrow,
Tomorrows are like rivers that endlessly flow。
If all my things are put off till tomorrow,
My time wasted to no purpose will brew woe。
All mortals are tired for the sake of tomorrow,
The passage of time will make them old before they know。
In the morning they see water eastward running,
At dusky they see the sun in the west low hanging。
How many tomorrows are in your lifetime, do you know?
Please listen to me sing the Song of Tomorrow。
文嘉·《明日歌》
明日复明日，明日何其多。
我生待明日，万事成蹉跎。
世人若被明日累，春来秋去老将至。
朝看水东流，暮看日西坠。
百年明日能几何，请君听我明日歌。
初中英语美文 第8篇
Time, like people in the life of the hurried passer, often in our unwittingly, quietly and go, without leaving a trace.
Cherish the time, that is, to cherish every short eternal eternity. Tao Yuanming said: "prime not to - day difficult morning. In time to encourage, the years do not wait for people. " Life is short, we want to succeed in a short period of time, we must grasp every minute, do not let the time pass, not to idle away the remorse. We have to create a beautiful miracle in a limited period of time to express the glorious chapter of life. There was a person, I get up at 5 o"clock every morning, the desk has been written 8 o"clock in the evening, within 15 hours, he just rest for a moment, at dinner he said: "the time to give up, give up his time." The secret of his success is that he never gives up time. He is Verne, a French popular science writer.
To cherish the time, we should make full use of time. Every person"s life is limited, and people have life, and they are gradually dying. We have a lot of time, time like money, day by day in the lost. Day by day, we can"t catch it. We can"t catch it. We can"t keep it. We can only make full use of our time, grasp today, cherish everything we have now, and create a better tomorrow. That"s the real happiness. Before we go to bed, have you ever thought about what I did today? Is it not a waste of time for today"s limited time? How many people can hold every second of life and make use of our savings to make every day a harvest?
Cherish the time, can make tomorrow"s brilliance. When we are old, memories of the past, only to find the time flies, his life has not changed, still so simple, ordinary. Only by cherishing time can our life be colorful, or life will be reduced. We must hold today to create the glory of tomorrow. Let us take today"s wings, make tomorrow more brilliant, and make tomorrow brilliant and eternal.
"Time is money", we should cherish every minute, to find the time, and not let the time come to us. Let"s fly on the wings of time.
初中英语美文 第9篇
Touch me. Don"t be afraid. I can"t hurt you. Go ahead and touch my smooth surface. Feel the cold, glass-like smoothness and the crevices and lines that make me what I am. Use both hands if you wish. We are more similar than you dare to believe.
抚摸我吧。别害怕。我不会伤害你。来吧，抚摸我光滑的皮肤。感觉玻璃般的冰冷与光滑，以及其中的裂缝和刮痕，感受我的存在。如果你愿意请用双手抚摸吧。我们的相似之处将超越你的想象。
Touch my face. Yes, I have a face like yours. It has weathered the centuries as yours has the years. My face portrays my evolution. Yours, the birth and death of a generation. My face has aged like yours as we have endured together the testimony of earth"s elements.
抚摸我的脸。没错，我有着和你一样的面孔。我的脸随着时代的变迁而风化如同你的脸随着岁月的流逝而逐渐苍老。我的脸展示了我的世纪进程。你的, 则描绘了一生的沧桑曲折。当我们一起忍受了尘世中风雨的考验时，脸上也被刻下了岁月的痕迹！
I have eyes like yours. My inscriptions stare out at you as I search for the meaning of why we are here. I look into your eyes and see who you are. Who am I? I was formed millions of years past and now you see the results of my evolution.
我有着和你一样的眼睛。我的碑铭注视着你，仿佛在寻找生命的意义。让我透过你的双眼看看你是谁。而我又是谁？我已生存了数百年，你看到的是我最终的演变。
I can feel your hands and the sweat from your palms flow into the countless combination of the letters that make me. I know you. I have known you since I was able to breathe in the air as my smoothness began to take shape and my color matured along with natural flaws. You have known me since the days when you came to take me from my mother.
我可以感觉到你的双手，汗水从手掌流入数不清的碑文的缝隙。我认得你。从我可以呼吸，从我开始成型，从我的色彩在风的侵袭下而越变浓烈时，我就认识你。你也早已认识我，当你带我离开母亲时。
You cannot hear me. I am static and unmoving. But, I can hear your murmurs and your cries of pain and sadness. Your sons and daughters ask why? There are no answers. I am very old. I have seen everything and I am none the wiser for the pain and suffering I have witnessed since I rose from the bowels of the earth. I have witnessed the conflict, the death, the civilizations, and the societies that have come before you. Yet I remain mystified about this day.
你听不到我的声音，因为我是静止的。但我却听到了你的低声诉语，你的痛苦哀号。你的子女们问“为什么？”这没有答案。我已经老了。我看到了一切，但我承认面对自己所目睹的苦难沧桑我并不是一个智者。我目睹了战争、死亡、人类文明还有人类社会这些曾经你所经历的种种，但我依然困惑不解。
I feel sad yet alive with a purpose. I have come to know those who are now an integral part of the reason for my being here at this place and time. That purpose has become apparent as I stand before you on this day while your brethren gather to witness my reflections and the changes of light that mirror your soul.
我感到悲伤，却清楚地感受到自己存在的目的。我渐渐了解那些刻在我身上的名字，是他们让我有存在的理由。今天，当你们围聚在我身边，看那些名字在我身上的反射，而光线的变化也折射出你们的灵魂我越发清楚我存在的目的。
初中英语美文 第10篇
幸福的本质
I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.
我住在好莱坞。你可能认为住在这样一个魅力四射、充满欢笑的地方要比其他人更幸福。倘若如此，你就误解了幸福的本质。
Many intelligent people still equatehappiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.
许多聪明人依旧将幸福与娱乐等同起来。事实上，娱乐与幸福很少、甚至毫无共同之处。娱乐是某个活动进行中的体验，而幸福则是活动之后的体验。幸福是更深刻、更持久的情感。
Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.
去游乐场或去看球赛，看电影或看电视，这些都是娱乐活动，有助于我们放松身心，暂时忘却自己的难题，甚至让我们放声大笑。但是，这一切并不能带来幸福，因为娱乐一结束，它们的正面效应亦随之终结。
I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorousparties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".
我常常这样想，如果好莱坞明星起到某种作用的话，那就是向我们昭示幸福与娱乐毫无关系。作为个人，他们富有，楚楚动人，可以随时出席令人神往的宴会，拥有顶尖级汽车、昂贵的.宅第--这一切似乎意味着“幸福”。
But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.
然而，在一部又一部的回忆录中，名流们揭示了隐藏在这一切娱乐活动背后的不幸：忧郁、酗酒、吸毒成瘾、失败的婚姻、饱受困扰的孩子、极度的孤独。
The way people clingto the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
人们执迷不悟，以为充满欢笑、没有痛苦的生活就等于幸福;这实际上减少了他们真正臻于幸福之境的可能性。如果娱乐和快乐等同于幸福的话，那么痛苦必然等同于不幸福。可事实正相反：导致幸福的一切常常蕴含着些许痛苦。
As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civicor charitablework, and self-improvement.
因此，许多人不愿努力，而这些努力恰恰正是真正幸福的源泉。诸如婚姻、抚育子女、职业成就、宗教信仰、公共及慈善事业、自身修养等必然带来痛苦，他们因而对于这一切心怀畏惧。
初中英语美文 第11篇
We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear. Maybe some of our fears are brought on by your own experiences, by what someone has told you, by what you’ve read in the papers. Some fears are valid, like walking alone in a bad part of town at two o’clock in the morning. But once you learn to avoid that situation, you won’t need to live in fear of it.
Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear can destroy fortunes. Fear can destroy relationships. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
Let me tell you about five of the other enemies we face from within. The first enemy that you’ve got to destroy before it destroys you is indifference. What a tragic disease this is! “Ho-hum, let it slide. I’ll just drift along.” Here’s one problem with drifting: you can’t drift your way to the to of the mountain.
The second enemy we face is indecision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity and enterprise. It will steal your chances for a better future. Take a sword to this enemy.
The third enemy inside is doubt. Sure, there’s room for healthy skepticism. You can’t believe everything. But you also can’t let doubt take over. Many people doubt the past, doubt the future, doubt each other, doubt the government, doubt the possibilities nad doubt the opportunities. Worse of all, they doubt themselves. I’m telling you, doubt will destroy your life and your chances of success. It will empty both your bank account and your heart. Doubt is an enemy. Go after it. Get rid of it.
The fourth enemy within is worry. We’ve all got to worry some. Just don’t let conquer you. Instead, let it alarm you. Worry can be useful. If you step off the curb in New York City and a taxi is coming, you’ve got to worry. But you can’t let worry loose like a mad dog that drives you into a small corner. Here’s what you’ve got to do with your worries: drive them into a small corner. Whatever is out to get you, you’ve got to get it. Whatever is pushing on you, you’ve got to push back.
The fifth interior enemy is overcaution. It is the timid approach to life. Timidity is not a virtue; it’s an illness. If you let it go, it’ll conquer you. Timid people don’t get promoted. They don’t advance and grow and become powerful in the marketplace. You’ve got to avoid overcaution.
Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what’s holding ou back, what’s keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.
初中英语美文 第12篇
Toconquerourfears，wemustgopastthem.
Tofearisnatural;togopastthemisheroic.Fearisanormalpartoflife，symbolizingthattherearenew，extraordinarythingstocomeacrossandface.Tobeabletoseethesethingsbeforetheyhappenisasignofwisdom.Fearisnothingoutoftheordinary.Toadmitthatwearefearingistoprovethatwevalueourlife.
Andmenshouldpayattentiontothecalloffears.Totrulybealeaderorsomeonewhoisheroicandbrave，weshouldfocusongettingpastthesefears.Anditisfrightfulforpeopletogothroughlifeignoringfears，becausetheymayoftenforgettheirheartandstepintolifewithoutresponsibility.
Tobebornistolive.Toliveistofear.Tofearistobechallenged.Toacceptourfearsistobemature.Itneedsbravery，maturityandvitalitytofaceourfears，acceptthechallengesandhopeforthebest.
翻译：克服恐惧
若想克服恐惧，我们就必须要敢于正视它们。
恐惧是一件很自然的事，但克服恐惧却是一种英勇的行为。恐惧是日常生活中不可或缺的一部分，它意味着我们要去面对和处理层出不穷的、意想不到的事情。能够预知将要发生的事情是一种智慧。恐惧并不是什么稀奇事儿，而且承认恐惧是证明我们珍视生命的有力证据。
人人都应该对恐惧的到来有先见之明。要想成为真正的佼佼者或者英勇之人，我们就必须集中精力去正视恐惧。那些在生活中忽视恐惧的人是非常可怕的，因为他们不仅常常违背自己的心意，而且在缺少责任心中苟且偷生。
生者为生，生来为惧，惧为应站，迎惧者谙事理。要想正视恐惧、接受挑战、憧憬美好未来，那就要具备大无畏的勇气、成熟的心智与顽强的生命力。
初中英语美文 第13篇
Everydayofyourlife，itisimportanttotakethetimeto“smelltheroses”—toappreciatetheexperiencesthatleadtohappiness.Thisispartofbeingtrulyhappy.
Happinessisastateofmind.Itstartswithacceptingwhereyouare，knowingwhereyouaregoingandplanningtoenjoyeverymomentalongtheway.Youknowhowtobehappy，andfeelthatyouhaveenoughtimeormoneyorloveorwhateveryouneedtoachieveyourgoals.Andjustfeelingthatyouhaveenoughofeverythingmeansthatyoudoindeedhaveenough.
Youhavetochoosetobehappy，andfocusuponbeinghappy，inordertobehappy.Ifyouinsteadfocusuponknowingthatyouwillbehappyifyouachievesomething，youwillneverbehappy，asyouhavenotlearnedto“smelltheroses”.Theironyisthatwhenyouarehappy，youareinevitablymoreproductive，andfarmorelikelytoachievewhateverything-seekersareseeking.
翻译：幸福是一种思考状态
在你生活中的每一天，花些时间“闻闻身边的玫瑰”是十分重要的——停下脚步，品味那些带给你幸福的经历。这是真正快乐的一部分。
幸福是一种思考状态。当你开始接受自己现在的生活状态，知晓你将来如何发展，并已做好准备享受这过程中的每个瞬间时，幸福便已悄悄来到你身边。你知道如何才能幸福，并感到自己拥有充裕的时间和金钱，足够的爱，和其他任何能够帮助你达成目标的东西。当你感到自己已拥有一切，这才是真正的知足。
如果你想幸福，就必须去选择它。你需要专注于幸福这件事本身，以使幸福降临。但如果你总是想着，你若能完成某件事就会变得很幸福，那么你将永远无法得到幸福，因为你没有学会“闻闻身边的玫瑰”。而讽刺的是，当你感到幸福美满，你将不可避免地更加富有成就，并更有可能比那些“执着于得到一切的人”拥有更多。
初中英语美文 第14篇
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the
想象生命是一场不停丢掷五个球于空中的游戏。
You name them-work, family, health, friends and spirit and you"re keeping all of these in the
这五个球分别是工作、家庭、健康、朋友和心灵，你很努力地掷着这五个球，不让它们落地。
You will soon understand that work is a rubber
很快你就会了解工作是一个橡皮球，
If you drop it, it will bounce
如果你不幸失手落下它，它还会弹回来的。
But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit are made of
但是家庭、健康、朋友和心灵这四个球是用玻璃做成的。
If you drop one of these,
一旦你失手落下，
they will be irrevocably scuffed,
它们将无法再像以前那样。
marked, nicked, damaged or even
它们可能会少了一角，留下无法挽回的记号、刻痕、损坏甚至碎落一地。
They will never be the
它们将无法再像以前那样。
You must understand that and strive for balance in your
你必须了解这个道理，并且为了平衡你的生命而努力。
How? Don"t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with
别拿自己和他人比较，这只会降低你的价值。
It is because we are different that each of us is
因为我们都是独一无二的，因为我们每一个人都很特别。
Don"t set your goals by what other people deem
别人认为重要的事不一定是你的目标。
Only you know what is best for
只有你自己知道什么是最适合你的。
Don"t take for granted the things that are closest to your
不要将贴近你的心的人、事物视为理所当然。
Cling to them as they would be your life,
你必须将他们视为生命一般，
for without them, life is
认真对待。因为没有他们，生命将失去意义。
Don"t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the
别让你的生命总是在依恋过去的种.种或是在未来的寄望中逝去。
By living your life one day at a time,
如果你活在每个当下，
you live ALL the days of your
那就活好你生命中的每一天。
Don"t give up when you still have something to
当你还能给予的时候就别轻言放弃。
Nothing is really over until the moment you stop
只要你不放弃，就有无限延伸的可能。
Don"t be afraid to admit that you are less than
别害怕承认你并不完美。
It is this fragile thread that binds us each
正因如此，我们才得以藉由这犹丝脆弱紧密地绑在一起。
Don"t be afraid to encounter
遇到危险时别害怕。
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be
正因如此，我们才得以藉由这些机会学习勇敢。
Don"t shut love out of your life by saying it"s impossible to
另以爱太难寻找作为借口而紧闭你的心扉。
The quickest way to receive love is to give it;
最迅速找到爱的方法就是给予你的爱;
the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
最快速失去爱的方法就是紧紧地守着你的爱。
and the best way to keep love is to give it
维持爱的最快好方式就是给爱一双翅膀。
Don"t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you"ve been,but also where you are
不要匆忙地度过你的一生，那匆忙让你忘了曾经到过哪里，也让你忘了你要去哪里。
Don"t forget that a person"s greatest emotional need is to feel
别忘记，人类情感上最大的需要是感恩。
Don"t be afraid to
不要害怕学习。
Knowledge is weightless,
知识没有重量，
a treasure you can always carry
它是可以随身携带的珍宝。
Don"t use time or words
别漫不经心地蹉跎光阴或口无遮拦。
Neither can be
时间与言词两者都是一放就收不回来的。
Life is not a race,
生命不是一场赛跑，
but a journey to be savored each step of the
而是一步一个脚印的旅程。
Yesterday is
昨天已成历史。
Tomorrow is a
明天还是未知。
Today is a gift:
而今天则是上天的恩赐
That"s why we call it The
因此，我们才称今天为“现在”。
初中英语美文 第15篇
"Everything happens for the best," my mother saidwhenever faced disappointment. "If you can carryon, one day something good will happen. And you"llrealize that it wouldn"t have happened if not for thatprevious disappointment. " Mother was right, as Idiscovered after graduating from college in 1932. Ihad decided to try for a job in radio, then work myway up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicagoand knocked on the door of every station -and got turned down every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn"t risk hiring inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that"ll give you a chance," she said.
I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, myfather said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage itssports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The jobsounded just right for me. But I wasn"t hired.
My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to hunt for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The programdirector, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired anannouncer.
As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be asport announcer if he can"t get a job in a radio station? "
I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said aboutsports? Do you know anything about football? " Then he stood me before a microphone andasked me to broadcast an imaginary game.
On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother"s words: "if you carryon, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn"t have happened if not for thatprevious disappointment" I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I"dgotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
初中英语美文 第16篇
It is the habit of the poets, and of many who are poets neither in vision nor in faculty, to speak of youth as if it were a period of unshadowed gaiety and pleasure, with no consciousness of responsibility and no sense of care.
The freshness of feeling, the delight in experience, the joy of discovery, the unspent vitality which welcomes every morning as a challenge to one"s strength, invest youth with a charm which art is always striving to preserve, and which men who have parted from it remember with a sense of pathos; for the morning of life comes but once, and when it fades something goes which never returns. There are ample compensations, there are higher joys and deeper insights and relationships; but a magical charm which touches all things and turns them to gold, vanishes with the morning. All this is true of youth, which in many ways symbolises the immortal part of man"s nature, and must be, therefore, always beautiful and sacred to him. But it is untrue that the sky of youth has no clouds and the spirit of youth no cares; on the contrary, no period of life is in many ways more painful.
The finer the organisation and the greater the ability, the more difficult and trying the experiences through which the youth passes. George Eliot has pointed out a striking peculiarity of childish grief in the statement that the child has no background of other griefs against which the magnitude of its present sorrow may be measured. While that sorrow lasts it is complete, absolute, and hopeless, because the child has no memory of other trials endured, of other sorrows survived. In this fact about the earliest griefs lies the source also of the pains of youth. The young man is an undeveloped power; he is largely ignorant of his own capacity, often without inward guidance towards his vocation; he is unadjusted to the society in which he must find a place for himself.
He is full of energy and aspiration, but he does not know how to expend the one or realise the other. His soul has wings, but he cannot fly, because, like the eagle, he must have space on the ground before he rises in the air.
初中英语美文 第17篇
Motion pictures are most popular not only in the United States, but throughout the world.
Although color television and video recording are gaining greater popularity and may be threatening the future of the movies, motion pictures have somewhat managed to cope with the film crisis in the seventies and remain one of the favorite forms of entertainment of the people.
There are 11,000 motion picture theaters, or cinema, and about 4,000 outdoor "drive-ins", where people sit in their own automobiles and watch domestic and foreign films. Heavy use of the highways in the United States has resulted in the rapid development of what we call roadside business of various kinds, including outdoor movie theaters, or drive-ins, and motels. Both outdoor drive-ins and motels are usually located on main roads near cities and at seaside and other resort areas.
In a drive-in, an enormous screen is put up in an open space, and the cars are all parked facing the screen in long rows. When you have parked, you may open the car window and bring in the instrument that is being handed over to you which gives the sound that accompanies the picture, and perhaps bring in a heater, too. If it is cold, you may well shut the window again, with the sound-reproducing device inside the car, so that you can hear while watching the big screen in front of your car. Drive-in cinemas usually have some kind of cafe in the area, and you can buy Coca-Cola and coffee to drink in the car.
The first drive-in was opened on June 6, 1933 in Camden, New Jersey. Newspapers of the period suggested that the automobile movie theater was an immediate success. On the opening night it was jammed to capacity with six hundred cars. The initial advertisement didn"t mention the name of the film to be shown that night, and the people didn"t care. The real attraction was clearly the theater itself. Since that night, drive-ins have been welcomed by the people across the whole country.