經典英語美文摘抄加賞析

　　只有通過大量賞識美文佳作,才能發現其閃光點,才能抒作者胸中之臆,享作者心中之情,在人與美文佳作不斷的對話碰撞中,使賞識美文佳作成為學生內在的需要。小編整理了經典英語美文，歡迎閱讀!

　　經典英語美文：做一個樂觀者

　　If you change your mind - from pessimism to optimism - you can change your life.Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut, ot upon the hole?Suddenly these cliches are scientific questions, as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking.Research is proving that optimism can help you to be happier, healthier and more successful.Pessimism leads, by contrast, tohopelessness, sickness and failure, and is linked to depression,loneliness and painful shyness. If we could teach people to think more positively,it would be like inoculating them against these mental ills.

　　Your habits count but the belief that you can succeed affects whether or not you will.In part, that’s because optimists and pessimists deal with the same challenges and disappointments in very different ways.When things go wrong the pessimist tends to blame himself.“I’m not good at this.”“I always fail.”He would say. But the optimist looks for loopholes.Negative or positive, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.If people feel hopeless they don’t bother to acquire the skills they need to succeed.

　　A sense of control is the litmus test for success. The optimist feels in control of his own life.If thingsare going badly, he acts quickly, looking for solutions, forming a new plan of action,and reaching out foradvice. The pessimist feels like fate’s plaything and moves slowly.He doesn’t seek advice, since he assumes nothing can be done.Many studies suggest that the pessimist’s feeling of helplessness undermines the body’s natural defenses,the immune system. Research has found that the pessimist doesn’t take good care of himself.Feeling passive and unable to dodge life’s blows, he expects ill health and other misfortunes,no matter what he does. He munches on junk food, avoids exercise, ignores the doctor, has another drink.

　　Most people are a mix of optimism and pessimism, but are inclined in one direction or the other.It is a pattern of thinking learned at our mothers’ knees.It grows out of thousands of cautions or encouragements, negative statements or positive ones.Too many “don’t” and warnings of danger can make a child feel incompetent, fearful and pessimistic. Pessimism is a hard habit to break - but it can be done.

　　經典英語美文：思維的飛躍

　　You’ve had a problem, you’ve thought about it till you were tired,forgotten it and perhaps slepton it, and then flash!When you weren’t thinking about it suddenly the answer has come to you,as a gift from thegods.

　　Of course all ideas don’t come like that, but the interesting thing is that so many do,particularlythe most important ones.They burst into the mind, glowing with the heat of creation. Howthey do it is a mystery.Psychology does not yet understand even the ordinary processes ofconscious thought,but the emergence ofnew ideas by a “leap in thought” is particularlyintriguing,because they must have come from somewhere.For the moment let us assume thatthey come from the “unconscious”.This is reasonable, for the psychologists use this term todescribe mental processes which are unknown to the subject,and creative thought consistsprecisely in what was unknown becoming known.

　　It seems that all truly creative activity depends in some degree on these signals from theunconscious,andthe more highly intuitive the person, the sharper and more dramatic thesignals become.

　　But growth requires a seed,and the heart of the creative process lies in the production of theoriginal fertile nucleus from which growth can proceed.This initial step in all creationconsists in the establishment of a new unity from disparate elements, oforder out ofdisorder, of shape from what was formless. The mind achieves this by the plastic reshaping,so as to form a new unit, of a selection of the separate elements derived from experience andstored in memory. Intuitions arise from richly unified experience.

　　This process of the establishment of new form must occur in pattern of nervous activity in thebrain, lying below the threshold of consciousness, which interact and combine to form morecomprehensive patterns. Experimental physiology has not yet identified this process, for itsmethods are as yet insufficiently refined,but it may be significant that a quarter of the totalbodily consumption of energy during sleep goes tothe brain, even when the sense organs are atrest, to maintain the activity of ten million brain cells. These cells, acting together as a singleorgan, achieve the miracle of the production of new patterns of thought.No calculatingmachine can do that, for such machines can “only do what we know how to design them to do”,and these formative brain processes obey laws which are still unknown.

　　Can any practical conclusions be drawn from the experience of genius? Is there an art ofthought for the ordinary person? Certainly there is no single road to success; in the world ofthe imagination each has to find his own way to use his own gift.

　　經典英語美文：人類將取勝

　　I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work，a life’s work in the agonyand sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit,but to create out of thematerials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.So this award is only mine intrust. It will not be diffcult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate withthe purpose and significance of its origin.But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too,

　　by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men andwomen already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that onewho will some day stand here whereI am standing.

　　Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that wecan even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: Whenwill I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten theproblems of the human heart in conflictwith itself which alone can make good writing becauseonly that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

　　He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that,forget itforever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths ofthe heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed，loveand honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he laborsunder a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, ofdefeats in which nobody loses anything ofvalue, of victories whthout hope and, worst of all, without pityor compassion.His griefs grieveon no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but ofthe glands.

　　Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end ofman. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simplybecause he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from thelast worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there willstill be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to acceptthis. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal,not because healone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capableof compassion and sacrfice and endurance.

　　The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help manendure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and prideand compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’svoice need not merely be the record of man,it can be one of the props, the pillars to help himendure and prevail.