簡單的英語優秀的文摘

　　英語的作文一直是很多同學的難點，所以小編今天就給大家分享一下英語文摘，有需要的就多多學習看看

　　肢體語言 Body Language

　　Body language is used by people for sending messages to one another. It is very useful because it can help you make yourself easily understood. When you are talking with others,you are not just using words, but also using expressions and gestures. For example, waving one's hand is to say "Good-bye." A smile and handshake show welcome, and clapping hands means congratulations. Nodding the head means agreement, but shaking the head means disagreement. The gestures are accepted both by Chinese and foreigners as having the same meanings.

　　Different countries have different body language. For example, men in Russia, France and Arab countries kiss each other when they meet, but men in China or Australia shake hands instead of kissing. People in Puerto Rio like touching each other, but people from English speaking countries do not touth each other. If you touch an English person, you should say "Sorry.' People in Arab countries like standing close to one another when they are talking, but English people must keep a distance away when they are talking. In some Asian countries, you must not touch the head of another person. In Arab countries, you eat using the fingers of your right land;the left hand is not used at all. In parts of Asia you must not sit with your feet pointing at another person.

　　When you use a foreign language, it is very important to know the meanings of gestures and movements in the foreign country. Following the customs will help you communicate with people and make your stay there much more pleasant and comfortable.

　　教育 Education

　　Aducation is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.

　　教育不是目的，而是達到目的的手段。換句話說，我們教育孩子不僅僅是為了使他們受到教育。我們的目的是讓他們適應生活。

　　In some modern countries it has been fashionable to think that free education for all can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough.We find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees refusing to do what they think is "low"work, and. in fact, working with one's hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.

　　在有些現代國家中有種流行的想法，那就是全民義務教育可以解決一切社會問題、建立起完美的國家。但我們也能看到，僅有全民義務教育是遠遠不夠的。我們發現在這些國家中，很多擁有大學學位的人拒絕從事那些他們認為“低等”的工作，實際上，在這些國家裡，體力勞動被認為是骯髒、丟人的。

　　But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor~ we can live without education,but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns.

　　但只要我們想一下就能明白，其實那些完全沒受過教育的農民的工作要比教授的工作重要得多;沒有教育我們可以生活，但是沒有食物我們只有死路一條。如果沒有人每天清掃街道，把垃圾從我們家中運走，我們的城鎮就會感染可怕的疾病。

　　In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work is suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

　　事實上，當我們說所有的人都必須接受教育以適應生活的時候，意思是我們必須受到這樣的教育：第一，每個人都可以做任何適合自己智力、能力的工作的;第二，我們應該意識到所有的工作都是社會的必要組成，為某人的工作感到羞恥是很不正確的。只有這樣的教育才能被認為是真正對社會有益的教育。

　　守財奴的故事

　　Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up.

　　從前，有個守財奴將他的金塊埋到一棵樹下，每週他都去把他挖出來看看。

　　One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole.

　　一天晚上，一個小偷挖走了所有的金塊。 守財奴再來檢視時，發現除了一個空洞什麼都沒有了。

　　He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him. He told them how he used to come and visit his gold.

　　守財奴便捶胸痛哭。哭聲引來了鄰居，他告訴他們這裡原來有他的金塊。

　　"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them. "No," he said, "I only came to look at it." "Then come again and look at the hole," said the neighbor, "it will be the same as looking at the gold."

　　問明瞭原因後，一個鄰居問："你使用過這些金塊嗎?" "沒用過，" 他說，"我只是時常來看看。""那麼，以後再來看這個洞，"鄰居說，"就像以前有金塊時一樣。"