【正文】 英語美文背誦30篇 　　目錄： 　　第一篇：Youth 青春 　　第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如給我三天光明（節(jié)選） 　　第三篇：Companionship of Books 以書為伴（節(jié)選） 　　第四篇：If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就會生銹 　　第五篇：Ambition 抱負(fù) 　　第六篇：What I have Lived for 我為何而生 　　第七篇：When Love Beckons You 愛的召喚 　　第八篇：The Road to Success 成功之道 　　第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 論見名人 　　第十篇：The 50Percent Theory of Life 生活理論半對半 　　第十一篇：What is Your Recovery Rate? 你的恢復(fù)速率是多少？ 　　第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space 清理心靈的空間 　　第十三篇：Be Happy 快樂 　　第十四篇：The Goodness of life 生命的美好 　　第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within 直面內(nèi)在的敵人 　　第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style 富足的生活方式 　　第十七篇：Human Life a Poem 人生如詩 　　第十八篇：Solitude 獨(dú)處 　　第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning 給生命以意義 　　第二十篇：Relish the Moment 品位現(xiàn)在 　　第二十一篇：The Love of Beauty 愛美 　　第二十二篇：The Happy Door 快樂之門 　　第二十三篇：Born to Win 生而為贏 　　第二十四篇：Work and Pleasure 工作和娛樂 　　第二十五篇：Mirror, MirrorWhat do I see鏡子,鏡子,告訴我 　　第二十六篇：On Motes and Beams 微塵與棟梁 　　第二十七篇：An October Sunrise 十月的日出 　　第二十八篇：To Be or Not to Be 生存還是毀滅 　　第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演說 　　第三十篇：First Inaugural Address(Excerpts) 就職演講（節(jié)選） 　　 第一篇：Youth 青春 　　Youth 　　 　　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, selfdistrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. 　　 　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. 　　 When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20。 but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80. 　　 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如給我三天光明（節(jié)選） 　　Three Days to See 　　 　　All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. 　　 　　Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets? 　　 　　Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to e. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. 　　 　　In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He bees more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. 　　 　　Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. 　　 　　The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. 　　 　　I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight。 silence would teach him the joys of sound. 　　 第三篇：Companionship of Books 以書為伴（節(jié)選） 　　Companionship of Books 　　 　　A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the pany he keeps。 for there is a panionship of books as well as of men。 and one should always live in the best pany, whether it be of books or of men. 　　 　　A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of panions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness。 amusing and instructing us in youth, and