優秀青春英語美文朗誦
通常來說,青春文學這個概念的定義比較複雜,至少有兩種含義:一種是所有年齡處在青春期的作者寫的作品叫青春文學,另一種則是以題材來劃分,作品中的人物或內容是圍繞著青春期來展開的,表現當下青少年在青春期的生活、學習、心理活動。下面是小編帶來的,歡迎閱讀!
篇一
Three Days to SeeExcerpts假如給我三天光明節選
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 come. 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 becomes 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 adult 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 adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
譯文:
假如給我三天光明節選
我們都讀過震撼人心的故事,故事中的主人公只能再活一段很有限的時光,有時長達一年,有時卻短至一日。但我們總是想要知道,註定要離世人的會選擇如何度過自己最後的時光。當然,我說的是那些有選擇權利的自由人,而不是那些活動範圍受到嚴格限定的死囚。
這樣的故事讓我們思考,在類似的處境下,我們該做些什麼?作為終有一死的人,在臨終前的幾個小時內我們應該做什麼事,經歷些什麼或做哪些聯想?回憶往昔,什麼使我們開心快樂?什麼又使我們悔恨不已?
有時我想,把每天都當作生命中的最後一天來邊,也不失為一個極好的生活法則。這種態度會使人格外重視生命的價值。我們每天都應該以優雅的姿態,充沛的精力,抱著感恩之心來生活。但當時間以無休止的日,月和年在我們面前流逝時,我們卻常常沒有了這種子感覺。當然,也有人奉行“吃,喝,享受”的享樂主義信條,但絕大多數人還是會受到即將到來的死亡的懲罰。
在故事中,將死的主人公通常都在最後一刻因突降的幸運而獲救,但他的價值觀通常都會改變,他變得更加理解生命的意義及其永恆的精神價值。我們常常注意到,那些生活在或曾經生活在死亡陰影下的人無論做什麼都會感到幸福。
然而,我們中的大多數人都把生命看成是理所當然的。我們知道有一天我們必將面對死亡,但總認為那一天還在遙遠的將來。當我們身強體健之時,死亡簡直不可想象,我們很少考慮到它。日子多得好像沒有盡頭。因此我們一味忙於瑣事,幾乎意識不到我們對待生活的冷漠態度。
我擔心同樣的冷漠也存在於我們對自己官能和意識的運用上。只有聾子才理解聽力的重要,只有盲人才明白視覺的可貴,這尤其適用於那些成年後才失去視力或聽力之苦的人很少充分利用這些寶貴的能力。他們的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受著周圍的景物與聲音,心不在焉,也無所感激。這正好我們只有在失去後才懂得珍惜一樣,我們只有在生病後才意識到健康的可貴。
我經常想,如果每個人在年輕的時候都有幾天失時失聰,也不失為一件幸事。黑暗將使他更加感鐳射明,寂靜將告訴他聲音的美妙。
篇二
We Are on a Journey
Wherever you are, and whoever you maybe, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on a journey. Our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July. The season makes the difference.
The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man. Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another. Even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept- the other alternative. Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes, you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was first launched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment; the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would; there can be no pause until you come into port.
篇三
I Wish
I wish you the ability to develop the light that is within you, to strengthen your spiritual faith, to help your faith in yourself to grow and thrive. You have the gift of self-sufficiency, and the possibility of growing into a person who is strong and able. But may you not grow too strong, though, so that you reject the help and love and caring of others who wish to be there for you. Balance your strength with your needs and the needs of others to be helpful and to show their caring.
I wish you the power of a perspective that allows you to see the beauty of the darkness, no matter how threatening your current situation, or how uneasy you may feel. There always is light for us to access, whether it be the light of God or the light of a close friend, or even the light within ourselves that is the power and the strength with which we've all been blessed to one extent or another. I wish you light in your darkest hours. When life seems to be confusing or empty, and when your path seems to be hidden in the shadows of pain, doubt, despair, or unrest, may you find the light inside of you that will help you to see things as they truly are, for every night comes to an end, every storm runs its course, and light and peace always return to us.
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