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　　高中生勵志英語美文：What Makes Me Feel Big

　　by J. Frank Dobie

　　"My mind is big when I look at you and talk to you," Chief Eagle of the Pawnees said to George Bird Grinnell when, after years of absence, that noble writer appeared at his friend's tepee.

　　It is very difficult in drawing up a credo to be severely honest about oneself, to avoid all traditional cant. We actually believe in what we value most. Outside of the realms of ccarnality and property, which men appearing in public generally pretend not to notice, I believe in and draw nourishment from whatever makes me "feel big".

　　I believe in a Supreme Power, unknowable and impersonal, whose handiwork the soul-enlarging firmament declares. However, I believe in questionings, doubtings, searchings, skepticism, and I discredit credulity or blind faith. The progress of man is based on disbelief of the commonly accepted. The noblest minds and natures of human history have thought and sung, lived and died, trying to budge the status quo towards a larger and fuller status. I am sustained by a belief in evolution - the increasing purpose of life in which the rational is, with geological slowness, evolving out of the irrational. To believe that goodness and wisdom and righteousness, in Garden of Eden perfection, lie somewhere far ahead instead of farther and farther behind, gives me hope and somewhat explains existence. This is a long view. I do not pretend that it is a view always present in me. It does raise me when I have it, however.

　　I feel no resentment so strongly as that against forces which make men and women afraid to speak out forthrightly. The noblest satisfaction I have is in witnessing the up movement of suppressed individuals and people. I make no pretense to having rid myself freed from certain prejudices, but at times when I have discovered myself freed from certain prejudices, I have felt rare exhilaration.

　　For me, the beautiful resides in the physical, but it is spiritual. I have never heard a sermon as spiritual in either phrase or fact us, "Waters on a starry night are beautiful and free." No hymn lifts my heart higher than the morning call of the bobwhite to the long fluting cry of sandhill cranes out of the sky at dusk. I have never smelled incense in a church as refining to the spirit as a spring breeze laden with aroma from a field of bluebonnets. Not all hard truths are beautiful, but "beauty is truth." It incorporates love and is incorporated by love. It is the goal of all great art. Its presence everywhere makes it free to all. It is not so abstract as justice, but beauty and intellectual freedom and justice, all incorporating truth and goodness, are constant sustainers to my mind and spirit.

　　什麼使我胸懷寬廣

　　J.弗蘭克.多比

　　並非所有堅定的真理都是美好的，但“美即是真”。所有偉大的藝術都追求這樣的目標，即美融合愛，也被愛所融合。它無處不在，唾手可得。

　　在離開朋友波尼族印第安人首領雄鷹的獸皮帳篷幾年後，作家喬治.伯德.格林又回到那裡。這位首領對他高尚的朋友說：“凝視著你，與你交談，讓我感到心胸寬廣。”

　　我們很難為自己擬出一個既能嚴格遵守又能避免傳統教條的信念。事實上，我們最為珍視的東西便是我們的信仰。除了人們在公共場合總會假裝視而不見的俗念與財產之外，所有能讓我胸懷寬廣的都是我的信仰，它們是我力量的源泉。

　　我相信有一種至高無上且無法控制的未知力量，它的創造，宣告了靈魂擁有無限伸展的空間。然而，我也相信詢問、質疑、探索與懷疑，但拒絕輕信或盲從的信仰。人類的進步是基於對普遍接受的質疑。人類歷史上，擁有最高尚思想的人們曾經思考過，歌唱過，生活過，最終離去，他們也曾努力擴充套件並充實現狀。我始終相信進化論，即生活目的在不斷增加，而其中從非理性到理性的進化時間就像地質變化一樣漫長。我相信，伊甸園中完美的善良、智慧與正義就在遙遠的前方，給予我希望，並或多或少地解釋了生存的意義。這是一個長遠的觀點。我不會假裝認為，自己始終擁有這樣的觀點。然而，當我擁有它時，我的靈魂的確得到了昇華。

　　使人不敢坦誠言論的勢力，是我最為憎恨的。當看到受壓迫的個人與民族奮起反抗時，我便會心生敬慕，感到滿足。我並不偽稱自己已經摒棄了所有的偏見，但有時當我發現自己擺脫了某些偏見時，我就會狂喜不已。

　　我認為，美雖然存在於肉體，但卻屬於精神。我從未聽說過，有哪句佈道詞能從言辭或事實上表現出這樣的精神美：

　　“夜晚繁星點點，湖水自由盪漾。”

　　北美鳩清晨的鳴唱或黃昏時天空中沙丘鶴笛鳴般的長吟，是任何讚美詩都無法媲美的。柔和的春風中瀰漫著田野間矢車菊的芳香，讓我的靈魂也更加高尚，這是教堂中任何焚香都無法比擬的。並非所有堅定的真理都是美好的，但“美即是真”。所有偉大的藝術都追求這樣的目標，即美融合愛，也被愛所融合。它無處不在，唾手可得。它不像正義那樣抽象，但美、心智的自由及正義，都與真與善融合，這便是我思想與精神的永恆支柱。

　　高中生勵志英語美文：Freedom is Worth the Risk

　　The philosopher George Santayana, at the age of eighty-eight, admitted that things no longer seemed so simple to him as they did fifty years ago. Even those of use who have not reached Mr. Santayana’s age must share that feeling; but we must act by the best light we have, hoping that the light will grow brighter- and we have reason to hope it will, so long as men remain free to think. The most important thing in the world, I believe, is the freedom of the mind. All progress, and all other freedoms, spring from that. It is a dangerous freedom, but this is a dangerous world. You cannot think right without running the risk of thinking wrong; but for any evils that may come from thinking, the cure is more thinking. Over much of the world, at present, the freedom of the mind is suppressed. We have got to preserve it here, despite the efforts of very earnest men to suppress it—men who say, and perhaps believe, that they are actuated by patriotism, but who are doing their best to destroy the liberties which above all are what the United States of America has meant, to its people and to humanity.

　　This is perhaps a less personal statement than most of those in “ This I believe”. If so, it is because a man of my age, in his relation to himself, runs mostly on momentum; and it is a little difficult to look back and figure out what give him the push, or the various pushes. What he has to consider now is what he can contribute to the present, or the future, as a member of a very peculiar species—possibly even a unique species—which has immense capacities for both good and evil, as it has amply demonstrated during its recorded history. That history to date is ---barring some unpredictable cosmic disaster---the barest beginning of what may lie ahead of us. But we happen to live in one of the turning points of history—by no means the first, as it will not be the last; and the future of mankind will be more than usually affected by what we do in this generation.

　　What should we do? Well, first of all and above all, preserve freedom, and extend it if we can. Beyond that I don’t know how better to define our business than to say we should try to promote an increase of decency. Decency in the sense of respect for other people; of taking no advantage; of never saying,” This man must be miserable in order that I may be comfortable.” This is not as easy as it looks; it’s impossible to exist without hurting somebody, however unintentionally. But there are limits. I do not believe that human life is accurately represented by Viggeland’s famous sculptured column in Oslo, of people climbing over one another and trampling one anther down. The Nazis, when they occupied Norway, greatly admired that sculpture. They would. But the rest of us can do better than that; many men and women in every age have done better, and are doing it still.

　　The Scottish scientist J.B.S.Haldane once said that the people who can make a positive contribution to human progress are few; that most of us have to be satisfied with merely staving off the inroads of chaos. That is a hard enough job—especially in these times, when those inroads are more threatening that they have been for a long time past. But if we can stave them off, and keep the field clear for the creative intelligence, we can feel that we have done our part toward helping the human race get ahead.

　　高中生勵志英語美文：My Father’s Evening Star

　　By William O. Douglas

　　During moments of sadness or frustration, I often think of a family scene years ago in the town of Yakima, Washington. I was about seven or eight years old at the time. Father had died a few years earlier. Mother was sitting in the living room talking to me, telling me what a wonderful man Father was. She told me of his last illness and death. She told me of his departure from Cleveland, Washington, to Portland, Oregon…for what proved to be a fatal operation. His last words to her were these: “If I die it will be glory, if I live it will be grace.” I remember how those words puzzled me. I could not understand why it would be glory to die. It would be glory to live, that I could understand. But why it would be glory to die was something I did not understand until later.

　　Then one day in a moment of great crisis I came to understand the words of my father. “If I die it will be glory, if I live it will be grace.” That was his evening star. The faith in a power greater than man. That was the faith of our fathers. A belief in a God who controlled man in the universe, that manifested itself in different ways to different people. It was written by scholars and learned men in dozens of different creeds. But riding high above all secular controversies was a faith in One who was the Creator, the Giver of Life, the Omnipotent.

　　Man’s age-long effort has been to be free. Throughout time he has struggled against some form of tyranny that would enslave his mind or his body. So far in this century, three epidemics of it have been let loose in the world.

　　We can keep our freedom through the increasing crisis of history only if we are self-reliant enough to be free—dollars, guns, and all the wondrous products of science and the machine will not be enough. “This night thy soul shall be required of thee.”

　　These days I see graft and corruption reach high into government. These days I see people afraid to speak their minds because someone will think they are unorthodox and therefore disloyal. These days I see America identified more and more with material things, less and less with spiritual standards. These days I see America drifting from the Christian faith, acting abroad as an arrogant, selfish, greedy nation, interested only in guns and dollars…not in people and their hopes and aspirations. These days the words of my father come back to me more and more. We need his faith, the faith of our fathers. We need a faith that dedicates us to something bigger and more important than ourselves or our possessions. Only if we have that faith will we be able to guide the destiny of nations, in this the most critical period of world history.