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Overall Analysis and Themes

The dichotomy between "sense" and "sensibility" is one of the lenses through which this novel is most commonly analyzed The distinction is most clearly symbolized by the psychological contrast between the novel's two chief characters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood According to this understanding, Elinor, the older sister, represents qualities of "sense": reason, restraint, social responsibility, and a clear-headed concern for the welfare of others In contrast, Marianne, her younger sister, represents qualities of "sensibility": emotion, spontaneity, impulsiveness, and rapturous devotion Whereas Elinor conceals her regard for Edward Ferrars, Marianne openly and unashamedly proclaims her passion for John Willoughby Their different attitudes toward the men they love, and how to express that love, reflect their opposite temperaments

This dichotomy between "sense" and "sensibility" has cultural and historical resonances as well Austen wrote this novel around the turn of the eighteenth century, on the cusp between two cultural movements: Classicism and Romanticism Elinor represents the characteristics associated with eighteenth-century neo-classicism, including rationality, insight, judgment, moderation, and balance She never loses sight of propriety, economic practicalities, and perspective, as when she reminds Marianne that their mother would not be able to afford a pet horse or that it is indecorous for her to go alone with Willoughby to Allenham It was during the Classical period and its accompanying cultural Enlightenment that the novel first developed as a literary genre: thus, with the character of Elinor, Austen gestures toward her predecessors and acknowledges the influence of their legacy on her generation In contrast, Marianne represents the qualities associated with the emerging "cult of sensibility," embracing romance, imagination, idealism, excess, and a dedication to the beauty of nature: Marianne weeps dramatically when her family must depart from "dear, dear Norland" and willingly offers a lock of her hair to her lover Austen's characterization of Marianne reminds us that she was the contemporary of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Walter Scott, the luminaries of the English Romantic literary scene Austen's depiction of Elinor and Marianne thus reflects the changing literary landscape that served as a backdrop for her life as a writer

However, this novel cannot simply be understood as a straightforward study in contrast Elinor, though representing sense, does not lack passion, and Marianne, though representing sensibility, is not always foolish and headstrong Austen's antitheses do not represent epigrammatic conclusions but a starting- point for dialogue Although Austen is famous for satirizing the "cult of sensibility," in this novel she seems to argue not for the dismissal of sensibility but for the creation of a balance between reason and passion Fanny Dashwood's violent outbreak of feeling towards the end of the novel reveals that too little feeling is as dangerous as too much Both Elinor and Marianne achieve happiness at the end of the novel, but they do so only by learning from one another: together they discover how to feel and express their sentiments fully while also retaining their dignity and self-control The novel's success is not a result of the triumph of sense over sensibility or of their division; rather, we remember Sense and Sensibility as a conjunction of terms that serve together as the compound subject of Austen's novel

How to Be Happy - Why Happiness and Sadness

By Remi Cartier

The 2 concepts are opposite though complimentary As strange as it can be, there would not be happiness without sadness or misery

Life is a question of balance, nature is a question of balance, and as part of this universe we need to conform to those most elementary rules

Take the example of magnets They need to be a polarity for that physical property to exist The same apply to many concepts in life

It doesn't have to be physical properties, but there must be a balance

When people think: "Ah it would be so cool if everybody was equal" It would not work! There need to be some motion, man cannot stand stillness

(At least in their whole lifetime)Usually after a certain age people are eager to stabilize, but before they would feel the need to move,

In any directions, but to move It is like silence Some people think that silence is death, in the same way stillness is death

The thing is that it is becoming truer and truer With manual labors, you could hone your skill till you were the best

There was a physical limit to the speed you could move With our mind-oriented society, the boundaries are expanded a lot!

For example, our eyes usually read at a speed of 300 words per minute, but our brain can read/understand more than 30000 words per minute!

The brain is so powerful that a person who really wants to succeed will basically have to learn everyday to reach a sufficient level of knowledge

Most people thing that because they are not more in schools they don't have to learn anymore That is a very big mistake! You will never succeed if you think like that You will stay average and have an average life Happiness also comes from satisfaction, achievements If you stay 40 years in the same company doing the same job, you won't get that feeling, and in that situation reaching a happy state will be harder You will simply be bored, and basically wait for your death A friend of mine used this sentence to describe this situation

"People walk carefully to their death"

Finally we have that polarity between people: leaders, people who want to succeed, who will work to it and followers, people who don't want to take decision and live an average peaceful life

Ask all those achievers how they feel Few will tell you they want to commit suicide!

On the other hand ask an average guy what he thinks about his life Many will tell you they have so many things left to do, and will probably never be able to do them!

As a last word, I would say: Stay in motion it is far easier to move when you are already moving! Motion will bring achievements, and achievements will bring happiness!

Man cannot stay in a positive state forever This would become his normal state, and wouldn't feel happy anymore

You have 2 options Either you move forward, and search greater happiness to enhance your general level, or you move backward, or totally fall Falling is far faster that going backward It can kill you, or it can re-create that feeling, that need of accomplishment starting in a difficult context Life is a game; better know the rules to enjoy your life at maximum!

Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease

There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious

A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease

Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against actual disease models

“This is the first time this contagion has been measured in the way we think about traditional infectious disease,” said biophysicist Alison Hill of Harvard University

Data in the research, in the July 7 Proceedings of the Royal Society, comes from the Framingham Heart Study, a one-of-a-kind project which since 1948 has regularly collected social and medical information from thousands of people in Framingham, Massachusetts

Earlier analyses found that a variety of habits and feelings, including obesity, loneliness, smoking and happiness appear to be contagious

In the current study, Hill’s team compared patterns of relationships and emotions measured in the study to those generated by a model designed to track SARS, foot-and-mouth disease and other traditional contagions They discounted spontaneous or immediately shared emotion — friends or relatives undergoing a common experience — and focused on emotional changes that followed changes in others

In the spread of happiness, the researchers found clusters of “infected” and “uninfected” people, a pattern considered a “hallmark of the infectious process,” said Hill “For happiness, clustering is what you expect from contagion rates Whereas for sadness, the clusters were much larger than we’d expect Something else is going on”

Happiness proved less social than sadness Each happy friend increased an individual’s chances of personal happiness by 11 percent, while just one sad friend was needed to double an individual’s chance of becoming unhappy

Patterns fit disease models in another way “The more friends with flu that you have, the more likely you are to get it But once you have the flu, how long it takes you to get better doesn’t depend on your contacts The same thing is true of happiness and sadness,” said David Rand, an evolutionary dynamics researcher at Harvard “It fits with the infectious disease framework”

The findings still aren’t conclusive proof of contagion, but they provide parameters of transmission rates and network dynamics that will guide predictions tested against future Framingham results, said Hill and Rand And whereas the Framingham study wasn’t originally designed with emotional information in mind, future studies tailored to test network contagion should provide more sophisticated information

Both Hill and Rand warned that the findings illustrate broad, possible dynamics, and are not intended to guide personal decisions, such as withdrawing from friends who are having a hard time

“The better solution is to make your sad friends happy,” said Rand

Quotations By Category: 'Happiness / Sadness'

A joke is a very serious thing

Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so

John Stuart Mill

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained

John Powell

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing

Clive James

Happiness is good health and a bad memory

Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are

Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have

Rabbi H Schachtel , The Real Enjoyment of Living

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience

George Santayana (1863-1952)

He who laughs last didn't get it

Helen Giangregorio

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news

Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke

Terry Cohen

He who laughs last thinks slowest

Seen on a bumper sticker

He who laughs, lasts

Mary Pettibone Poole

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Virginia Woolf

If you want anything done well, do it yourself This is why most people laugh at their own jokes

Bob Edwards

In the end, everything is a gag

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

Laugh and the world laughs with you Snore and you sleep alone

Anthony Burgess

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people

Victor Borge

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at

Lyn Karol

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Now is the time for all good men to come to

Walt Kelly

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination

Roy Goodman

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time

Sir J Lubbock

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny

Gloria Vanderbilt

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit

W Somerset Maugham

The gods too are fond of a joke

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist For man it is to know that and to wonder at it

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

希望对你有帮助~

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"There" is no better than "Here"

Many people believe that they will be happy once they arrive at some specific goal they set for themselves However, more often than not, once you arrive " there" you will still feel dissatisfied, and move your " there" vision to yet another point in the future By always chasing after another "there," you are never really appreciating what you already have right "here" It is important for human beings to keep soberminded about the age-old drive to look beyond the place where you now stand On one hand, your life is enhanced by your dreams and aspirations On the other hand, these drives can pull you farther and farther from your enjoyment of your life right now By learning the lessons of gratitude and abundance, you can bring yourself closer to fulfilling the challenge of living in the present

Gratitude To be grateful means you are thankful for and appreciative of what you have and where you are on your path right now Gratitude fills your heart with the joyful feeling and allows you to fully appreciate everything that arises on your path As you strive to keep your focus on the present moment, you can experience the full wonder of "here"

There are many ways to cultivate gratitude Here are just a few suggestions you may wish to try:

1 Imagine what your life would be like if you lost all that you had This will most surely remind you of how much you do appreciate it

2 Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, so that you can stay conscious daily of your blessings Do this especially when you are feeling as though you have nothing to feel grateful for Or spend a few minutes before you go to sleep giving thanks for all that you have

3 Spend time offering assistance to those who are less fortunate than you, so that you may gain perspective

However you choose to learn gratitude is irrelevant What really matters is that you create a space in your consciousness for appreciation for all that you have right now, so that you may live more joyously in your present moment

Abundance One of the most common human fears is scarcity Many people are afraid of not having enough of what they need or want, and so they are always striving to get to a point when they would finally have enough

Scarcity consciousness arises as a result of the "hole-in-the-soul syndrome" This is when we attempt to fill the gaps in our inner lives with things from the outside world But like puzzle pieces, you can't fit something in where it does not naturally belong No amount of external objects, affection, love, or attention can ever fill an inner void We already have enough, so we should revel in our own interior abundance

彼岸无尽头，知足才常乐

许多人都相信，一旦他们达到了自己所设定的某个特定目标，他们就会开心、快乐。然而事实往往是，当你到达彼岸时，你还是不知足、不满意，而且又有了新的彼岸--新的幻想和憧憬。由于你总是疲于追逐一个又一个的彼岸，你从未真正欣赏、珍惜你已经拥有的一切。不安于现状的欲望人皆有之，由来已久，但重要的是要对它保持清醒的头脑。一方面，你的生活因为梦想和渴望而更加精彩。另一方面，这些欲望又使你越来越不懂得珍惜和享受现在拥有的生活。假如你能懂得感恩，学会知足，你就接近实现生活在现实中提出的要求。

感恩之心感恩是指你感激、珍惜自己当前所拥有的一切以及所处的人生境遇。心存感恩，你的心灵就充满愉悦，你就能真正领会人生路上的种种体验。如果你努力把眼光锁定在此时此刻，你就能感受它的美妙之处。

感恩之心需要经常加强。许多方法可以培育感恩之心，你不妨试试以下几种：

1．设想如果你失去了你现在所拥有的一切，你的生活将会怎么样。它肯定会使你回想起原来你是多么喜欢和珍视这一切。

2．每天都列出那些值得你感激的事物，那样你就能时时刻刻意识到自己的幸运。每天都要这么做，尤其是当你觉得好像没有什么可感激的时候。另外你也可以每天临睡前花几分钟感恩自己所拥有的一切。

3．花时间帮助那些没有你那么幸运的人，这样你也许会对生活有正确的认识。

其实，你选择何种方法去学会感恩，这无关紧要，真正重要的是你应该有意识地努力去欣赏和珍视你现在所拥有的一切，这样你就可以更快乐地享受你目前的生活。

知足常乐贫穷是人类最普遍的恐惧之一。许多人担心自己的所需所求不够，所以他们总是孜孜以求有朝一日能心满意足，别无他求。

贫穷感可以归因于"精神空虚综合症"，即我们试图用身外之物来填补内心的空缺。但是，就像拼图游戏一样，你不能把本来不属于那个地方的东西硬塞进去。任何身外之物、情感、关爱和关注都无法填补内心的空虚。我们拥有的已经足够，因此我们应该满足于内心世界的丰富与充实。

还附翻译

　　随着英语的国际化越来越广泛,我国的英语学习者也逐年激增,各大英语学习网站也推出英语美文的赏析和阅读。有很多英语学习者喜欢背诵这些美文以提高自己的英语水平,以下是我为大家整理的关于短篇英语美文朗诵文章，给大家作为参考，欢迎阅读!

短篇英语美文朗诵文章篇1：If I Rest, I Rust

The significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them

Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture---every department of human endeavor

Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have bee a famous geologist The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have bee a famous astronomer

　　Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spa odic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success

译文：

如果我休息，我就会生锈

在一把旧钥匙上发现了一则意义深远的铭文——如果我休息，我就会生锈。对于那些懒散而烦恼的人来说，这将是至理名言。甚至最为勤勉的人也以此作为警示：如果一个人有才能而不用，就像废弃钥匙上的铁一样，这些才能就会很快生锈，并最终无法完成安排给自己的工作。

有些人想取得伟人所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运用自身才能，以便开启知识的大门，即那些通往人类努力探求的各个领域的大门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，文学，农业等。

勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休•米勒在采石场劳作一天后，晚上的时光用来休息消遣的话，他就不会成为名垂青史的地质学家。著名数学家爱德蒙•斯通如果闲暇时无所事事，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙。如果苏格兰青年弗格森在山坡上放羊时，让他那思维活跃的大脑处于休息状态，而不是借助一串珠子计算星星的位置，他就不会成为著名的天文学家。

劳动征服一切。这里所指的劳动不是断断续续的，间歇性的或方向偏差的劳动，而是坚定的，不懈的，方向正确的每日劳动。正如要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一样，要想取得伟大的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努力。

短篇英语美文朗诵文章篇2：panionship 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 forting and consoling us in age

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book” The book is a truer and higher bond of union Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author They live in him together, and he in them

A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, bee our constant panions and forters

Books possess an essence of immortality They are by far the most lasting products of human effort Temples and statues decay, but books survive Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good

Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience bees ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe

The great and good do not die, even in this world Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad The book is a living voice It is an intellect to which on still listens

译文：

以书为伴节选

通常看一个读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴。无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以最好的为伴。

好书就像是你最好的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷愁潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识;到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。

人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句古谚说道：“爱屋及屋。”其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。

好书常如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，最好的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视，就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和永恒的慰藉。

书籍具有不朽的本质，是为人类努力创造的最为持久的成果。寺庙会倒坍，神像会朽烂，而书却经久长存。对于伟大的思想来说，时间是无关紧要的。多年前初次闪现于作者脑海的伟大思想今日依然清新如故。时间惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因为只有真正的佳作才能经世长存。

书籍介绍我们与最优秀的人为伍，使我们置身于历代伟人巨匠之间，如闻其声，如观其行，如见其人，同他们情感交融，悲喜与共，感同身受。我们觉得自己仿佛在作者所描绘的舞台上和他们一起粉墨登场。

即使在人世间，伟大杰出的人物也永生不来。他们的精神被载入书册，传于四海。书是人生至今仍在聆听的智慧之声，永远充满著活力。

短篇英语美文朗诵文章篇3：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 enthusia wrinkles the soul Worry, fear, self-distrust 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 cynici and the ice of pessimi , then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimi , there’s hope you may die young at 80

译文：

青春

青春不是年华，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢巨集的想象，炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的讯号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。 、

一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观讯号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

短篇英语美文朗诵文章篇4：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 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 life Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound

译文：

假如给我三天光明节选

我们都读过震撼人心的故事，故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的时光，有时长达一年，有时却短至一日。但我们总是想要知道，注定要离世人的会选择如何度过自己最后的时光。当然，我说的是那些有选择权利的自由人，而不是那些活动范围受到严格限定的死囚。

这样的故事让我们思考，在类似的处境下，我们该做些什么作为终有一死的人，在临终前的几个小时内我们应该做什么事，经历些什么或做哪些联想回忆往昔，什么使我们开心快乐什么又使我们悔恨不已

有时我想，把每天都当作生命中的最后一天来边，也不失为一个极好的生活法则。这种态度会使人格外重视生命的价值。我们每天都应该以优雅的姿态，充沛的精力，抱着感恩之心来生活。但当时间以无休止的日，月和年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种子感觉。当然，也有人奉行“吃，喝，享受”的享乐主义信条，但绝大多数人还是会受到即将到来的死亡的惩罚。

在故事中，将死的主人公通常都在最后一刻因突降的幸运而获救，但他的价值观通常都会改变，他变得更加理解生命的意义及其永恒的精神价值。我们常常注意到，那些生活在或曾经生活在死亡阴影下的人无论做什么都会感到幸福。

然而，我们中的大多数人都把生命看成是理所当然的。我们知道有一天我们必将面对死亡，但总认为那一天还在遥远的将来。当我们身强体健之时，死亡简直不可想象，我们很少考虑到它。日子多得好像没有尽头。因此我们一味忙于琐事，几乎意识不到我们对待生活的冷漠态度。

我担心同样的冷漠也存在于我们对自己官能和意识的运用上。只有聋子才理解听力的重要，只有盲人才明白视觉的可贵，这尤其适用于那些成年后才失去视力或听力之苦的人很少充分利用这些宝贵的能力。他们的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受着周围的景物与声音，心不在焉，也无所感激。这正好我们只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一样，我们只有在生病后才意识到健康的可贵。

我经常想，如果每个人在年轻的时候都有几天失时失聪，也不失为一件幸事。黑暗将使他更加感镭射明，寂静将告诉他声音的美妙。

Fw: Sweet Love

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8

year-olds, "What does love mean" The answers they got were broader

and ndeeper than anyone could have imagined See what you think:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint

her toenails anymore So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too That's love" Rebecca - age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different You

just know that your name is safe in their mouth" Billy - age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other" Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French

fries without making them give you any of theirs" Chrissy - ag e 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired" Terri - age 4

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip

before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK" Danny - age 7

"Love is when you kiss all the time Then when you get tired of

kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more My Mommy and Daddy are like that They look gross when they kiss" Emily - age 8

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening

presents and listen" Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend

who you hate," Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday" Noelle - age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still

friends even after they know each other so well" Tommy - age 6

"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling He was the only one doing that I wasn't scared anymore" Cindy - age 8

"My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else

kissing me to sleep at night" Clare - age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken" Elaine -

age 5

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is

handsomer than Robert Redford" Chris - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him

alone all day" Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old

clothes and has to go out and buy new ones" Lauren - age 4

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little

stars come out of you" (what an imagination) Karen - age 7

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think

it's gross" Mark - age 6

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it But if

you mean it, you should say it a lot People forget" Jessica - age 8

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked

about a contest he was asked to judge The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbour was

an elderly gentleman who had rece ntly lost his wife Upon seeing the

man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbour, the little

boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry"

When there is nothing left but love, that is when you find out that

love Is all you need

whether should i stay or leave

On writing this passage, to say truth,my feeling is really very very complicated I do not know what should I say or how should I say, I just wanna speak all my unhappiness out,i just wanna cry out to let all my angry out coz I am too tired in mental,I thought is the right time to make a decision or to leave

Since the first day I come to shanghai, I made up my mind I should stay here coz I love this city and next I found a job which until now I still like very much especially the working atmosphere Yet lucky is only temporarary,I met a bizzar, strict ,harsh boss moreover she is a woman To surprised me more is that she got advanced in office, and now she is the vice general manager of our company So she has to leave her marketing department to work in the main company in Nanhui districtYet the international part of our company has been charged by her for several years and other memembers could not qualified for this position, so ,I am a bitterness boy was chosen to work with her and responsible for the India project in Main Company in Nanhui district, and reture to my market department until September 2007I have no choice only to work there

Just from that time, my igony life has began I am a member of marketing department, but the work I do is beyond my scope,mostly what I did is more or less the same as what a sectarary should doBut that is not important, after all I am a new member,to work more,to be delligent is a good habit But what i could not understand is her bad temper,even a tiny thing, she will shout to you ,to criticize you,so my office is full of the smell of gunpowder(but mostly I choose in silience),I try my best to make a harmonious working atmosphereBut she is just like the valcano and erupt at any time So these days my feeling is changeable coz she is just so

These time, most of my friends said, just keep up, this is nothing, u can deal with her, so no matter what kind of boss u will meet later, u can get on well with them, so I keep to stand her bad temper

In December, our marketing department had accepted too many bidding books, so it needs assistant urgently, there is no doubt that I and my aweful boss was asked to come back to support marketing department I am very happy coz I finally could come back and work with a lot of workmates instead of staying with the boss in a single office yet what I thought is wrongThe situation is even worse, her bad temper made all the members in the room disgust to her but they could say nothing but I am have to be blamed all the time What I could stand is her aweful voice make everybody hear,maybe she just want to reach such effect I do not know what my current marketing department manager thought In a word, the result should be negative

These days, I am making the bidding books, it is complete new to me, so I try my best to complete this task, but she did not trust me at all and asked a more expericenced member to review what I did,I think is right for her to do so, but every time after the check of the member, she still could select a lot of mistakes, then I will be blamed Yesterday, nearly 90% of the book was finished, just a name of certain component was wrong, she said I am "making up", I nearly crazy, and shout to meI never thought a vice general manager can say such words I really do not konw how to express my feeling that timeI want to resign immediately that time, but I did not I try my best to hide my bad mood but that is so painful And I try my best to use the medium words to argue with her, and that is the bottom line of my break out

A few days is going to be Spring FestivalI decide not to go home,and I also want to reflect myself what I should do, whether to stay or to leave whether is it worthwhile for me to stay with the aweful woman(in fact, nearly everyone in our company hate her,but I am bad luch just work direct under her),I think it is the right time to make an end

I admitted now I am unlucky, but I do not believe bad luck always belongs to me, moreover, there should be fmany aults in my work, all of these worth me thinking of for a long time

How long should I continue to walk

holland 荷兰

hope our love lasts and never dies

希望我们的爱永恒不变

italy 意大利

I trust and love you 我相信你和爱你

libya 利比亚

love is beautiful; you also 爱是美丽的 你也是

france 法兰西

friendships remain and never can end友谊永固

China 中国

Come here i need affection 来这 我需要爱

burma 缅甸

between us, remember me always 我们之间,常常记得我

nepal 尼泊尔

never ever part as lovers 像情人一样永不分开

india 印度

i nearly died in adoration 我差点在狂爱中死去

kenya 肯尼亚

keep everything nice, yet arousing 全部东西保养好来 保持趣味

C,a,n,a,d,a 加拿大

cute and naughty action that developed into attraction

可爱和顽皮的动作建造成吸引力

korea 南韩

keep optimistic regardless of every adversity

虽然事与愿违 保持乐观

egypt 埃及

everything's great, you pretty thing!!

十全十美,你这漂亮的东西

manila 马尼拉

may all nights inspire love always

漫漫长夜时时刻刻感到爱

peru 秘鲁

phorget (forget) everyoneremember us

忘记全部人 记得我们

thailand 泰国

totally happy always in love and never dull

完全快乐时时刻刻蜜运中

japan 日本

just a pig, a nut

只是个猪和白痴

　　朗读是学生 学习英语 的一种有效的 方法 ;是提高听、说、读、写综合能力的一种行之有效的途径;能使学生更好地体会、理解和表达课文或读物的思想感情。我精心收集了适合朗读的英语 文章 ，供大家欣赏学习!

　　适合朗读的英语文章篇1

When The Wind Blows

Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast He constantly advertised for hired hands Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc(肆虐) on the buildings and crops As the farmer interviewed applicants for the job, he received a steady stream of refusals

Finally, a short, thin man, well past middle age, approached the farmer "Are you a good farmhand" the farmer asked him

"Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answered the little man

Although puzzled by this answer, the farmer, desperate for help, hired him The little man worked well around the farm, busy from dawn to dusk, and the farmer felt satisfied with the man's work

Then one night the wind howled(嚎叫，咆哮) loudly in from offshore Jumping out of bed, the farmer grabbed a lantern and rushed next door to the hired hand's sleeping quarters He shook the little man and yelled, "Get up! A storm is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!"

The little man rolled over in bed and said firmly, "No sir I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows"

Enraged by the response, the farmer was tempted to fire him on the spot Instead, he hurried outside to prepare for the storm To his amazement, he discovered that all of the haystacks had been covered with tarpaulins(防水油布) The cows were in the barn, the chickens were in the coops(笼子), and the doors were barred The shutters were tightly secured Everything was tied down Nothing could blow away

The farmer then understood what his hired hand meant, so he returned to his bed to also sleep while the wind blew

MORAL: When you're prepared, spiritually, mentally, and physically, you have nothing to fear

Can you sleep when the wind blows through your life The hired hand in the story was able to sleep because he had secured the farm against the storm

适合朗读的英语文章篇2

The Art of Bouncing Back

I think the center of my faith is an absolute certainty of good Like everyone else, I get low and there are times when I feel as if I have my fins backwards and am swimming upstream in heavy boots But even in these dark times, even though I feel cut off, perhaps, and alone, I am aware - even if distantly - that I am part of a whole and that the whole is true and real and good

I have never had any difficultly in believing in God I don't believe in a personal God and I don't quite see how it is possible to believe in a God who knows both good and evil and yet to trust in him I believe in God, Good, in One Mind, and I believe we are all subject to and part of this oneness

It's taken me time to understand words like "tolerance" and "understanding" I have given lip service to "tolerance" and to "understanding" for years but only now do I think I begin to understand a little what they mean If we are all one of another, and this, though uncomfortably, is probably the case, then sooner or later we have got to come to terms with each other I believe in the individuality of man, and it is only by individual experience that we can, any of us, make a contribution to understanding

I've always been a bit confused about self and egotism(自负) because I instinctively felt both were barriers to understanding And so in a sense they are

I used to worry a lot about personality and that sort of egotism I noticed that certain artists - musicians, for instance - would allow their personalities to get between the music and the listener But others, greater and therefore humbler, became clear channels through which the music was heard unimpeded(畅通无阻的) And it occurred to me, not very originally, that the good we know in man is from God so it is a good thing to try to keep oneself as clear as possible from the wrong sort of self And it's not very easy, particularly if you are on the stage!

I am one of those naturally happy people even when they get low soon bounce back In minor things like housekeeping and keeping in sight of letters to be answered I am a Planny-Annie That is to say I get through the chores in order to enjoy the space beyond But I do find that, believing in the operation of good as I do, I cannot make plans - important ones, I mean - but I must prepare the ground and then leave the way free as far as possible This, of course, means being fearless and isn't fatalistic, because you see I believe that when I am faithful enough to be still and to allow things to happen serenely, they do And this being still isn't a negative state but an awareness of one's true position

Friends are the most important things in my life - that and the wonder of being necessary to someone But these things pass and in end one is alone with God I'm not nearly ready for that yet, but I do see it with my heart's eye

I don't understand it entirely, but I believe there is only now and our job is to recognize and rejoice in this now Now Not, of course, the man-measured now of Monday, Friday, or whenever, but the now of certain truth That doesn't change Surely everything has been done - is done Our little problem is to reveal and enjoy

适合朗读的英语文章篇3

美国社会学家对大学 毕业 生的建议

1 Don't worry about making your dreams come true

College graduates are often told: "follow your passion," do "what you love," what you were "meant to do," or "make your dreams come true" Two-thirds think they're going find a job that allows them to change the world, half within five years Yikes

This sets young people up to fail The truth is that the vast majority of us will not be employed in a job that is both our lifelong passion and a world-changer; that's just not the way our global economy is So it's ok to set your sights just a tad below occupational ecstasy Just find a job that you like Use that job to help you have a full life with lots of good things and pleasure and helping others and stuff A great life is pretty good, even if it's not perfect

2 Make friends

Americans put far too much emphasis on finding Mr or Ms Right and getting married We think this will bring us happiness In fact, however, both psychological well-being and health are more strongly related to friendship If you have good friends, you'll be less likely to get the common cold, less likely to die from cancer, recover better from the loss of a spouse, and keep your mental acuity as you age You'll also feel more capable of facing life's challenges, be less likely to feed depressed or commit suicide, and be happier in old age Having happy friends increases your chance of being happy as much as an extra $145,500 a year does So, make friends!

3 Don't worry about being single

Single people, especially women, are stigmatized(污辱，指责) in our society: we're all familiar with the image of a sad, lonely woman eating ice cream with her cats in her pajamas(睡衣) on Saturday night But about 45 percent of US adults aren't married and around one in seven lives alone

This might be you Research shows that young people's expectations about their marital status (eg, the desire to be married by 30 and have kids by 32) have little or no relationship to what actually happens to people So, go with the flow

And, if you're single, you're in good company Single people spend more time with friends, volunteer more, and are more involved in their communities than married people Never-married and divorced women are happier, on average, than married women So, don't buy into the myth of the miserable singleton(独身)

4 Don't take your ideas about gender and marriage too seriously

If you do get married, keep going with the flow Relationship satisfaction, financial security, and happy kids are more strongly related to flexibility in the face of life's challenges than any particular way of organizing families The most functional families are ones that can bend So partnering with someone who thinks that one partner should support their families and the other should take responsibility for the house and children is a recipe for disaster So is being equally rigid about non-traditional divisions of labor It's okay to have ideas about how to organize your family but your best bet for happiness is to be flexible

5 Think hard about whether to buy a house

Our current image of the American Dream revolves around homeownership, and buying a home is often taken for granted as a stage on the path to full-fledge adulthood But the ideal of universal home ownership was born in the 1950s It's a rather new idea

With such a short history, it's funny that people often insist that buying a house is a fool-proof investment and the best way to secure retirement In fact, buying a house may not be the best choice for you The mortgage may be less than rent, but there are also taxes, insurance, and the increasingly common Home Owners Association (HOA) fees You may someday sell the house for more than you bought it but, if you paid interest on a mortgage, you also paid far more than the sale price You have freedom from a landlord, but may discover your HOA is just as controlling, or worse And then there's the headache: renting relieves you from the stress of being responsible for repairs It also offers a freedom of movement that you might cherish

So, think carefully about whether buying or renting is a better fit for your finances, lifestyle, and future goals

6 Think even harder about having kids

One father had this to say about children: "They're a huge source of joy, but they turn every other source of joy to shit" In fact, having children correlates with both an increased sense of purpose in life and a long-lasting decrease in individual and marital happiness Having kids means spending a lot of your short life and limited income on one source of joy You have only so much time and money and there are lots of ways to find satisfaction, pleasure, and meaning in this life Consider all your options

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