大學經典英語背誦美文

　　在英語學習的眾多方面中閱讀至關重要,閱讀是人們獲取資訊和了解一門語言的重要手段。英語閱讀不僅能夠培養學習者的語感,同時還能增加他們的詞彙量。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　Girls of summer夏日女孩

　　We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid潮溼的，溼潤的 summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school, no rules , no parents, and no constructs構圖，建築物 other than our fantasies. We were good girls, my sister and I. We had nothing to rebel against. This was just life as we knew it, and we knew the summers to be long and to be ours.

　　The road that ran past our house was a one-lane rural route. Every morning, after our parents had gone to work, I'd wait for the mail lady to pull up to追上 our box. Some days I would put enough change for a few stamps into a mason jar玻璃瓶 lid and leave it in the mailbox. I hated bothering mail lady with this transaction交易，辦理 , which made her job take longer. But I liked that she knew that someone in our house sent letters into the outside world.

　　I liked walking to the mailbox in my bare feet and leaving footprints on thedewy帶露水的 grass. I imagined that feeling the wetness on the bottom of my feet made me a poet. I had never read poetry, outside of some Emily Dickinson. But I imagined that people who knew of such things would walk to their mailboxes through the morning dew晨露 in their bare feet.

　　We planned our weddings with the help of Barbie dolls and the tiny purple wild flowers growing in our side yard. We became scientists and tested concoctions調和，混合 of milk, orange juice, and mouthwash漱口水 . We ate handfuls ofbittersweet苦樂參半的 chocolate chips and licked peanut butter花生醬 off spoons. When we ran out of sweets to eat, we snitched sugary Flintstones vitamins out of the medicine cabinet. We became masters of the Kraft macaroni通心麵條 and cheese lunch, and we dutifully called our mother at work three times a day to give her updates on our adventures. But don't call too often or speak too loudly or whine too much, we told ourselves, or else they'll get annoyed and she'll get fired and the summers will end.

　　We shaped our days the way we chose, far from the prying愛打聽的，窺探的eyes of adults. We found our dad's Playboys and charged the neighborhood boys money to look at them. We made crank易怒的 calls around the county, telling people they had won a new car. "What kind?" they'd ask. "Red," we'd always say. We put on our mom's old prom舞會 dresses, complete with gloves and hats, and sang backup to the C.W. McCall song convoy, " which we'd found on our dad's turntable.

　　We went on hikes into the woods behind our house, crawling under barbed wire fences and through tangled undergrowth. Heat and humidity溼度，溼氣 found their way throught he leaves to our flushed faces. We waded in streams that we were always surprised to come across. We walked past cars and auto parts that had beenabandoned拋棄 in the woods, far from any road. We'd reach the tree line and come out unexpectedly into a cow pasture牧場，牧草 . We'd perch on the gate or stretch out on the large flat limes邊界，界限 tone outcrop that marked the end of the Woods Behind Our House.

　　One day a thunderstorm blew up along the Tennessee River. It was one of those storms that make the day go dark and the humidity disappear. First it was still and quiet. There was electricity in the air and then the sharp crispness易碎，酥脆 of a summer day being blown wide open as the winds rushed in. We threw open all the doors and windows. We found the classical radio station from two towns away and turned up the bass and cranked up把聲音調大，啟動 the speakers. We let the wind blow in and churn攪動，攪拌 our summer day around. We let the music we were only vaguely曖昧地，含糊地 familiar with roar吼叫，咆哮 through the house. And we twirled轉動，旋轉 . We twirled in the living room in the wind and in the music. We twirled and we imagined that we were poets and dancers and scientists and spring brides.

　　We twirled and imagined that if we could let everything --- the thunder, the storm, the wind , the world --- into that house in the banks of the Tennessee River, we could live in our summer dreams forever. When we were girls.

　　篇二

　　感悟生活

　　Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling玩雜耍 some five balls in the air. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends, Spirit. And you re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back反彈 . But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably不能取消地 scuffed磨損 , marked, nicked割進，刻痕 , damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.

　　How?

　　Don't undermine破壞，危害 your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't take for granted認為……理所當然 the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would cling to your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

　　Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

　　Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us each together. Don't be afraid to encounter遭遇 risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.

　　把生活想象成一個在空中拋接五隻球的遊戲。這五隻球被你分別稱為：工作、家庭、健康、友誼和精神。你努力不讓它們從空中掉下來。你馬上就發現惟有工作是一個橡皮球。如果你將它掉到地上，它還會彈回來。但其它四隻球——家庭、健康、朋友和精神都是玻璃的。如果你把任何一個掉到地上，便會不可挽回地留下疤痕、裂縫、受損甚至摔得粉碎。它們永遠也無法恢復原樣。你必須懂得這一點並在生活中努力保持平衡。

　　怎樣做到這一點呢?

　　不要總拿自己與別人比從而貶低自身的價值。正因為我們彼此的差異不同，我們才會各有千秋。別人認為重要，並不能作為你確定目標的根據。只有你自己知道，什麼東西對你最好。與你內心最貼近的東西，切莫等閒視之。要像堅守生命一樣堅守住它們，因為失去它們，生活就會毫無意義。

　　不要耽於過去或未來，而讓生命從指間悄悄溜走。一次只活一天，活在今日，你就充實地活過生命中的每一天。如果你還可以付出，就不要輕言放棄。在你停止努力那一刻之前，什麼都沒有真正結束。正因為我們都不完美，我們才會彼此需要。不要害怕遭遇風險。只有通過冒險，我們才能學會如何變得勇敢。

　　別說真愛難求，而將愛拒之門於生活之外。獲得愛的捷徑是給予愛，失去愛的捷徑是扼住愛，而守住愛的捷徑是給愛插上翅膀。

　　不要一生奔忙，匆匆而過，以至於忘了自己從何而來，往何而去。

　　不要忘記一個人最大的感情需要是得到別人的理解。

　　不要害怕學習。知識沒有重量：它是你隨時可以輕鬆攜帶的寶藏。

　　不要漫不經心地打發時間或口無遮攔地說話，失去的時間和說出去的話都無法挽回。

　　生活不是一場賽跑，而是每一步都宜細細品嚐的人生旅程。

　　篇三

　　Refusing to accept failure

　　"Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but Ill beat you the next time"

　　Sir閣下，爵士 Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest珠穆朗瑪峰 . On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feetstraight up直率地，真實地 . He was knighted授予爵位 for his efforts.

　　He even made American Express card美國運通卡 commercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.

　　You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.

　　Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous像打雷的 applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform.

　　He made a fist握拳 and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"