英语大学晨读美文

英语大学晨读美文篇一：晨读英语美文100篇

星火书业 晨读英语美文100篇六级

Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humilitynor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University.I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

Passage 2. “Packing” a Person

A person, like a commodity, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person's unique qualities to their advantage. To display personal charm in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A master packager knows how to integrate art and nature without any traces of embellishment, so that the person so packaged is no commodity but a human being, lively and lovely. A young person, especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a moment of doze. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to conceal the furrows ploughed by time. If you still enjoy life's exuberance enough to retain self-confidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will remain. Elderly people are beautiful if their river of life has been, through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life which now arrives at a complacent stage of serenity indifferent to fame or wealth. There is no need to

resort to hair-dyeing； the snow-capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old synchronizing with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder's company is like reading a thick book of deluxe edition that fascinates one so much as to be reluctant to part with. As long as one finds where one stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity establishes its brand by the right packaging.

Passage 3. Three Passions I Have Lived for

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy—ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy.

[00:47.70]I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness

[00:52.19]—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness

[00:57.46]looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

[01:04.12]I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen,

[01:10.02]in a mystic miniature,

[01:11.89]the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

[01:17.90]This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life,

[01:23.92]this is what—at last—I have found.

[01:28.08]With equal passion I have sought knowledge.

[01:32.12]I have wished to understand the hearts of men.

[01:36.06]I have wished to know why the stars shine ...

[01:40.44]A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

[01:45.37]Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.

[01:53.35]But always pity brought me back to earth.

[01:56.96]Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.

[02:01.67]Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people

[02:08.23]—a hated burden to their sons,

[02:10.97]and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

[02:19.28]I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

[02:25.73]This has been my life.

[02:28.36]I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again

[02:32.52]if the chance were offered me.

[00:01.43]Passage 4. A Little Girl

[00:05.59]Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl.

[00:14.23]With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing,

[00:19.37]while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud

[00:24.08]that hovered like a golden feather above her head.

[00:28.56]The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair,

[00:35.01]gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black.

[00:43.26]So completely absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation seemed addressed,

[00:52.40]that she did not observe me when I rose and went towards her.

[00:57.00]Over her head, high up in the blue,

[01:00.50]a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in rivalry.

[01:07.09]As I slowly approached the child,

[01:10.05]I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl,

[01:16.28]and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.

[01:22.19]Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet,

[01:27.33]were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way,

[01:33.25]and these matched in hue her eyebrows,

[01:36.53]and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the sunlight.

[01:42.43]All this I did not take in at once;

[01:45.28]for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face.

[01:53.26]Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth,

[01:59.06]grew upon me as I stood silently gazing.

[02:02.45]Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty.

[02:09.79]Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me.

[00:00.87]Passage 5 Declaration of Independence

[00:07.00]When in the Course of human events,

[00:10.39]it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands

[00:15.75]which have connected them with another,

[00:17.93]and to assume among the powers of the earth,

[00:21.22]the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,

[00:28.33]a decent respect to the opinions of mankind

[00:32.16]requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

[00:38.08]We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

[00:44.74]that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

[00:50.21]that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

英语大学晨读美文篇二：英语美文赏析,初中美文,英语晨读

A Strange Present

One day, when I was 14, my uncle sent me a pink T-shirt from ST. Louis, Missouri as my birthday present. On a beautiful Sunday morning, I wore this pink T-shirt and walked gently to the market. On the way, some boys whistled at me. I became very nervous, so I walked faster and more properly with more decorum, but more and more boys whistled at me later. Therefore, I couldn’t help but become more agitated. Suddenly, I turned back and run to my home. I asked my mother, “Why did the boys whistled at me?” My mother looked at my T-shirt with a smile and said nothing. Then I turned to my father. “Why did the boys whistle at me?” My father looked at my beautiful new T-shirt and then laughingly asked, “Are you lonely?” Suddenly, I realized why the boys were whistling at me. The message on my pink T-shirt was“I am lonely”.

[注释]：

whistle: a small wind instrument for making whistling sounds by means of the breath 口哨 properly: characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting 恰当的 decorum: the conventions of polite behavior 礼貌

agitated: 激动的，表现不安的

Vacations in Space

Want a ride in a spaceship? It will cost you about 20 million US dollars. At least that’s what Dennis Tito recently paid for a trip to the

International Space Station. What if you aren’t rich, but still want to travel in space? Don’t worry. Research supported by NASA might make your dream come true. Scientists are refining a process that, if successful, will enable rockets to take off from the back of an airplane. If people do end up taking vacations in space, don’t worry about finding somewhere to stay. Businessmen like British Richard Branson are already thinking about building hotels out there.

[注释]：

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (美国)

国家航空航天局；美国航天及太空总署

end up: 结束；告终

Keeping Pleasant

In these grim times, weighed down with tension and pressure from the

realities of life, many people have lost their sense of humor. They tend to keep a straight face all day long and fail to keep life in perspective. They forget how to smile and finally become physical and mental wrecks. They regard life as a burden, and tend to look on the dark side of things. Well goes a saying, “Laugh, and grow fat.” Laughter releases tension, and smiling helps create a pleasant social atmosphere. And, thus, in a way,

a sense of humor is an elixir that helps cure mental diseases. Some patients even improve their physical and mental health by reading

humorous stories or watching funny movies. This proves that a sense of humor helps us look at the world in a true and healthy light and makes our life worth living.

[注释]：

grim: rigid 无情的，严酷的

tension: uneasy suspense 紧张(状态)，不安

perspective: subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view 观点，评价；in dim bimbo 又笨又坏的女人

The Man I Respect Most

My father is the man I respect most. Stern as he may be, he never fails to

show his care and consideration. Once I broke a neighbor’s window. Seeing nobody around, I ran away immediately. When Dad came home, he noticed my uneasiness and asked me what had happened. I could only tell him the truth. Rather than scold me, he praised my honesty and then encouraged me to apologize to our neighbor. I learned from this episode that not only does Dad take care of our health but he also teaches us how to be good citizens. How lucky I am to have such a good father!

[注释]：

stern : severe, strict 严厉的

consideration : careful thought; deliberation 体谅，考虑

uneasiness : 不安

episode : an incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence 插

My Time of Happiness Each Day As a student, most of my time is spent on school work and other

school-related activities. Consequently, my time of happiness each day is

very limited.

However, this is not to say that I am not happy every day. In fact, I really enjoy coming home from school each evening and having din(来自:WWw.zHaoqT.net 蒲公 英文 摘:英语大学晨读美文)ner with my family. After dinner, I read or watch some TV with my family. This is a happy time for me every day.

But my happiest time of a day is just before I fall asleep. Lying in

bed, I think about all I achieved that day, and it makes me happy to know that the day was full.

[注释]：

consequently : therefore 从而，因此

achieve : to perform or carry out with success; accomplish 完成，达到

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

《风雪夜 林边停》是一首著名的诗歌。写的是雪夜美景？写的是守诺如一？写的是

人生不得不向前行？不同的读者会有完全不同的理解。这大概就是文学批评中所说的“接受

英语大学晨读美文篇三：英语专业晨读美文

英语专业晨读美文-励志篇 5 Advise Proposed By Alber

[00:00.29]Advise Proposed by Albert Einstein

[00:05.70]Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life

[00:10.41]are based on the labors of other men, living and dead,

[00:13.78]and that I must exert myself in order to give

[00:16.39]in the same measure as I have received

[00:18.72]and am still receiving.—Albert Einstein

[00:21.60]Albert Einstein was an amazing physicist.

[00:25.10]He figured out so many universal principles and equations

[00:29.27]that he was way ahead of his fellow scientists

[00:31.52]at any point of time.

[00:33.01]But he is also remembered for another thing,

[00:35.97]a quality which made people call him a genius:

[00:39.45]his words. Prof. Einstein was a philosopher

[00:42.73]who clearly understood the laws of success

[00:45.29]and explained them like the way he did with his equations.

[00:48.55]Here is a list of 10 things out of

[00:51.26]the numerously wonderful things he had said;

[00:53.54]10 golden lessons that you can put to use in your everyday life.

[00:57.75]1. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

[01:02.87]Most people don't try new things because of their fear of failure.

[01:07.37]Failing is not something to be afraid of.

[01:09.98]It is often the losers

[01:11.65]who learn more about winning than the winners.

[01:14.16]Our mistakes always give us opportunities to learn and grow.

[01:18.45]2. Education is what remains after one has forgotten

[01:22.93]what one has learned in school.

[01:24.36]30 years from now, you won't possibly remember

[01:27.48]what chapters you had in your science book;

[01:29.72]you'd only remember what you learn on your way.

[01:32.34]Life lessons stay with you forever.

[01:34.33]Real education starts from within.

[01:36.87]3. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

[01:41.83]Imagination is more important than knowledge.

[01:44.88] Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

[01:49.23]When you reflect on how far we humans have come from

[01:52.45]the prehistoric caves to mind-blowing technological advancements,

[01:56.26]you would feel the power of imagination.

[01:59.03]What we have now was built from the imagination of our forefathers.

[02:03.70]What we will have in future will be built from our imagination.

[02:07.97]4. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

[02:14.08]Creativity and uniqueness often depends on

[02:16.97]how well you hide your sources.

[02:19.42] You can get inspired and influenced by other great people;

[02:22.80] but when you are on stage with the whole world watching,

[02:25.91] you must become a unique,

[02:27.75]individual force that learnt different values from different people.

[02:31.21]5. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives

[02:35.57]and not in what he is able to receive.

[02:38.70]Try not to become a man of success,

[02:41.21]but rather try to become a man of value.

[02:44.97]If you think of all the top people in the world,

[02:48.42]they would have added something of value to the world.

[02:51.12]You must give in order to take.

[02:53.22]When your purpose is contributing or adding value to the world,

[02:56.64]you will be elevated to a higher level of living.

[02:59.60]6. There are two ways to live:

[03:02.84]you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

[03:05.76]you can live as if everything is a miracle.

[03:08.81]When nothing is a miracle,

[03:11.12]you gain the power of doing anything you want

[03:13.92]and you have no limits. And when everything is a miracle,

[03:17.56]you stop by to appreciate even the smallest of

[03:20.61]beautiful things in the world.

[03:22.66]Thinking both ways will give you a productive and happy life.

[03:27.06]7. When I examine myself and my methods of thought,

[03:31.89]I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy

[03:34.96]has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

[03:39.69]Dreaming about all the great things

[03:42.62]that you can achieve is the key to a life filled with positivity.

[03:46.24]Let your imagination run amuck and create the world

[03:49.53]that you would wish to be in.

[03:51.08]8. In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep,

[03:55.36]one must above all be a sheep oneself.

[03:57.94]If you want to become a very successful entrepreneur,

[04:01.40]you must start a business right away.

[04:03.59]Wishing to become one, but fearing the consequences will not help.

[04:08.17] The same applies to everything—in order to win a game,

[04:11.56] one must above all play the game.

[04:13.29]9. You have to learn the rules of the game.

[04:16.75]And then you have to play better than anyone else.

[04:19.71]Learn the rules of your game and start playing it best.

[04:22.90]Keep competing like your life depended on it.

[04:25.64]And after a while you will have no one else

[04:28.47]but you to compete against. At that point, better your best.

[04:32.34]10. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

[04:36.30] Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

[04:39.12]Intelligent people ask. Keep questioning yourself

[04:43.13]and others to find solutions.

[04:44.83]This will help gain knowledge and analyze your growth

[04:48.02]in all walks of life.

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