經典英語美文閱讀：對青春常在的感想
優美的文字於細微處傳達出美感，並浸潤着人們的心靈。通過英語美文，不僅能夠感受語言之美，領悟語言之用，還能產生學習語言的興趣。度過一段美好的時光，即感悟生活，觸動心靈。下面本站小編爲大家帶來經典英語美文閱讀，希望大家喜歡!
經典英語美文閱讀：對青春常在的感想
No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother's, and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown--the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own.
年輕人不相信自己會死。這是我哥哥的話，可算得一句妙語。青春有一種永生之感--它能彌補一切。人在青年時代好像一尊永生的神明。誠然，生命的一半已經消失，但蘊藏着不盡財富的另一半還有所保留，我們對它也抱着無窮的希望和幻想。未來的時代完全屬於我們--
The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us.
無限遼闊的遠景在我們面前展現。
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
死亡，老年，不過是空話，毫無意義;我們聽了，只當耳邊風，全不放在心上。這些事，別人也許經歷過，或者可能要承受，但是我們自己，“在靈符護佑下度日”，對於諸如此類脆弱的念頭，統統付之輕蔑的一笑。像是剛剛走上愉快的旅程，極目遠眺--
Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
向遠方的美景歡呼!
And see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations, nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. We have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness to our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. Our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union--a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us--we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more--objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
此時，但覺好風光應接不暇，而且，前程更有美不勝收的新鮮景緻。在這生活的開端，我們聽任自己的志趣馳聘，放手給它們一切滿足的機會。到此時爲止，我們還 沒有碰上過什麼障礙，也沒有感覺到什麼疲憊，因此覺得還可以一直這樣向前走去，直到永遠。我們看到四周一派新天地--生機盎然，變動不居，日新月異;我們 覺得自己活力充盈，精神飽滿，可與宇宙並駕齊驅。而且，眼前也無任何跡象可以證明，在大自然的發展過程中，我們自己也會落伍，衰老，進入墳墓。由於年輕人 天真單純，可以說是茫然無知，因而將自己跟大自然劃上等號;並且，由於經驗少而感情盛，誤以爲自己也能和大自然一樣永世長存。我們一廂情願，癡心妄想，竟 把自己在世上的暫時棲身，當作千古不變、萬世長存的結合，好像沒有冷淡、爭執、離別的蜜月。像嬰兒帶着微笑入睡，我們躺在用自己編織成的搖籃裏，讓大千世 界的萬籟之聲催哄我們安然入夢;我們急切切，興沖沖地暢飲生命之杯，怎麼也不會飲幹，反而好像永遠是滿滿欲溢的;森羅萬象紛至沓來，各種慾望隨之而生，使 我們騰不出工夫去想死亡。
經典英語美文閱讀：自由思想與心靈的作用
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion, when the National Anthem was time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else. This is organized major league baseball, and I am standing here with all the others; and everything that takes place includes me.
1947年的世界職業棒球大賽開賽那天，當美國國歌奏響的那一刻，我產生了一種全新的情感。這一次，國歌是爲我而奏，就像爲其他人奏一樣。我終於能和其他人一樣，站在職業棒球大聯盟球賽的賽場上，成爲這一切的一部分。
About a year later, I went to Atlanta, Georgia, to play in an exhibition game. On the field, for the first time in Atlanta, there were Negroes and whites. Other Negroes, besides me. And I thought: What I have always believed has come to be.
大約一年以後，我參加了在喬治亞州首府亞特蘭大舉辦的一次棒球表演賽。這是亞特蘭大的賽場上第一次同時出現白人和黑人運動員。除我之外，還有其他黑人選手。那一刻，我一直堅守的信念終於實現了。
And what is it that I have always believed? First, that imperfections are human. But that wherever human beings were given room to breathe and time to think, those imperfections would disappear, no matter how slowly. I do not believe that we have found or even approached perfection. That is not necessarily in the scheme of human events. Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices — all of these are imperfect. Yet, they have to be reckoned with because they are in the scheme of human events.
我一直堅守的信念是什麼呢?首先，我知道人類不可避免會有缺陷。但只要人類有一息尚存，只要人類還能思考，這些缺陷一定會逐漸消失，無論過程會多麼漫長。我 並不認爲我們已經到達或正在接近完美無缺的境界。完美無缺的境界並非人類社會不可或缺的一部分。有些缺陷，例如殘疾、障礙和偏見，在人類社會中都存在，也 就需要我們勇敢地去面對。
Whatever obstacles I found made me fight all the harder. But it would have been impossible for me to fight at all, except that I was sustained by the personal and deep-rooted belief that my fight had a chance. It had a chance because it took place in a free society. Not once was I forced to face and fight an immovable object. Not once was the situation so cast-iron rigid that I had no chance at all. Free minds and human hearts were at work all around me; and so there was the probability of improvement. I look at my children now, and know that I must still prepare them to meet obstacles and prejudices.
我一路上遇到的阻礙都促使我更加努力地去抗爭、去奮鬥。然而，如果不是我內心深處堅信我的奮鬥有希望，我就根本無法堅持。我的奮鬥有希望，因爲這是一個自 由的社會。在這裏，我不止一次遇到過無法逾越的障礙，也不止一次經歷過令人絕望的境況。但那時，思想與心靈的自由便能起作用，讓我擺脫困境。如今我看着自 己的孩子們，我知道我仍需要他們準備面對困難與歧視。
But I can tell them, too, that they will never face some of these prejudices because other people have gone before them. And to myself I can say that, because progress is unalterable, many of today's dogmas will have vanished by the time they grow into adults. I can say to my children: There is a chance for you. No guarantee, but a this chance has come to be, because there is nothing static with free people. There is no Middle Ages logic so strong that it can stop the human tide from flowing forward. I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe — and with every fiber in me — that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.
然而，我可以告訴他們，正因爲前人的努力奮鬥，他們今後不必再經受我們現在承受的某些偏見。我也告訴自己，社會進步是必然的，當我的孩子們長大成人時，現 在社會上的許多教條一定會消失。因此，我可以告訴我的孩子們：你們有希望——我不敢保證什麼，但肯定有希望。有自由思想的人決不會停滯不前，所以你們有希 望。再也沒有中世紀強大荒謬的邏輯能阻擋人類歷史的潮流滾滾向前。我並不認爲從事任何職業的任何人都能排除一切障礙獲得成功——這樣的完美不現實。但我的 確有一條堅定不疑的信念——我現在所做到的一切是因爲我們能夠拋開從前的教條(無論多麼緩慢)，能探尋當下的真理，也許還能發現未來的美好。
I believe in the human race. I believe in the warm heart. I believe in man's integrity. I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that the society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it — and to fight against whatever imperfections may fight was against the barriers that kept Negroes out of baseball. This was the area where I found imperfection, and where I was best able to fight. And I fought because I knew it was not doomed to be a losing fight. It couldn't be a losing fight-not when it took place in a free society. And in the largest sense, I believe that what I did was done for me — that it was my faith in God that sustained me in my fight. And that what was done for me must and will be done for others.
我相信人類。我相信熱誠的心。我相信人們的正直與誠實。我相信自由社會中的美德。我相信只要我們願意爲之奮鬥，願意與所存在的缺陷抗爭到底，這個社會就能永遠美好。棒球比賽將黑人拒之門外就是人類社會的一種缺陷。既然我有這個能力，我就要和這種現象抗爭到底。我抗爭，因爲我知道這場戰鬥並非註定以失敗告終。這場戰鬥不會失敗——在一個自由社會中這場戰鬥不可能失敗。大而言之，我所做到的一切都市上蒼的眷顧——正是我對上帝的信仰支撐着我，給我抗爭的勇氣。我相信被眷顧的不僅僅是我一個人，而應是、也將是我們所有人。
