【正文】 第一篇：英語美文欣賞《A Bag of Potatoes》A Bag of Potatoes—By Doreen如果你把怨恨積郁于心,負累的人是你,而不是你怨恨的人。所以,學會原諒才能輕松上路。A teacher let her class play a teacher told each child to bring a bag containing a few potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put into his / her bag will depend on the number of people the child children had two potatoes。some had three and others had up to five teacher then told the children to carry the bag wherever they go for a the days went by, the children started to plain because of the unpleasant smell ing from the rotten the students with five potatoes also had to carry heavier a week, the teacher asked, “How did you feel?” The children started plaining about the trouble they had to go through, when they had to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes everywhere they the teacher said, “This is the situation when you carry your hate for somebody inside your smell of hate will pollute your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you you cannot bear the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for your lifetime?”Note:rotten , 惡臭的第二篇：英語美文欣賞True Nobility真正的高貴In a calm sea every man is a ,每個人都是領航員。But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at the lot of the happiestit is a tangled and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by death itself makes life more e closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and ,只有快樂沒有痛苦,他的生活也是一團纏結在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現(xiàn),使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近。In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as selfcontrol, patience, and discipline, regulated by ，性格比才智更能指導我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導我們，而由判斷獲得的克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity ，內心生活開始更為嚴謹的人，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物欲橫流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多么可憐。To regret one39。s errors to the point of not repeating them is true is nothing noble in being superior to some other true nobility is in being superior to your previous 。高人一等并沒有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是優(yōu)于過去的自已。Write Your Own Suppose someone gave you a pen — a sealed, solidcolored couldn’t seehow much ink it ，一枝密封的、純色的水筆，里面有多少墨水你看不到。It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(or several)that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of don’t know before you ；也可能足以完成一部或幾部杰作，永存于世，使世事為之大變。Under the rules of the game, you really never have to take achance!而這一切你在動筆之前卻是一無所知。根據游戲的規(guī)則，你確實永遠也不會知道，只能冒一下險。Actually, no rule of the game states you must do of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, ，也沒有規(guī)則說你就一定要做些什么。你大可以把筆擱在架子上、放在抽屜里，棄置不用，任墨水蒸發(fā)干凈。But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game?然而，如果你真的決定使用，你會做什么？怎么來做這個游戲？Wouldyou plan and plan before you ever wrote a word?你會左計劃、右計劃，然后才慢慢下筆嗎？Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?計劃會不會太泛太多，根本就達不到寫作這一步？Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?會不會提筆在手迫不及待地投入其中，任由手中的筆、筆下的字帶著你在詞海中上下翻騰、左突右沖？Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend or believe(or pretend to believe)that the pen will write forever and proceed accord gly?會不會下筆謹小慎微，似乎墨水隨時都將干涸？會不會假裝或相信、或假裝相信筆中墨水永不會枯竭，任你揮灑？And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun?Misery?Life?Death?Nothing Everything?你會寫些什么？愛情？仇恨？樂趣？痛苦？生命？死亡？虛無空空抑或世事萬種？Would you write to please just yourself? Or others?Or yourself by writing for others?是會用來自娛？還是取悅他人？還是為人寫作而愉悅自身？Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain?你的一筆一劃會顫抖怯懦還是亮麗大膽？花里胡哨還是樸實無華？Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw?你確實會去寫嗎？你一旦有了這枝筆，卻也沒有規(guī)則說你一定就要去寫。你會粗粗寫來？潦潦草草？信手涂鴉？還是認真描畫？Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they? There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there?你會寫在線里還是寫在線上，或者對紙上的線格根本就視而不見？真的有什么線格嗎？此時此刻，有很多東西值得思考，不是嗎？Now, suppose someone gave you a life...那么，假設有人給了你一次生命……cherish now no longer missed 珍惜現(xiàn)在不再錯過John, a famous musician, took his priceless antique zither and played it in the crowded subway music emanating from the zither was delicately streaming throughout the whole , during the onehour play, only six or seven people were truly appreciating the charming threeyearold kid was so fascinated by the music that he forgot everything only got 52 for his work that ，悄悄來到人潮不斷的地鐵站演奏。弦音曼妙，在空曠處流淌。將近一小時的演奏中，真正駐足聆聽者只有六七人。最捧場的是一位三歲小童，聽得入神。約翰當天得到52美元賞金。However, in normal days, when John is about to hold a concert, one ticket can be sold at more than 100 dollars and it is extremely hard to buy a ticket even at such a high , later, many passersby in the station that day felt deeply regretful for not recognizing the famous musician and missing such a valuable but cheap music ，約翰的演奏會舉行時，一張票超過100美元，且一票難求。后來，不少當時就在地鐵站的觀眾扼腕自己眼拙，錯過了一場免費或者廉價的音樂盛宴。I have a very busy friend who had totally changed after knowing that hiswife came down with acute cooked by himself for the family and took a walk with his wife every , his wife still did not manage to conquer the illness and passed away after three that, he often sighed miserably that due to his past busy life, he had missed a lot of beautiful time with his now, it is impossible to make up for ，徹頭徹尾變了一個人：親自下廚，陪太太散步……可是妻子敵不過病魔摧殘，三個月后就撒手人寰。他很傷感地說，太忙了，錯過與妻子營造最美好的人生時光，想彌補卻彌補不