優秀英語晨讀美文閱讀

　　作為外語學習者語言輸入的重要途徑,晨讀是鍛鍊學生 聽 說 讀 的有效途徑。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!

　　篇一

　　We Are on a Journey

　　人在旅途

　　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.

　　無論你在何處，無論你是何人，此刻，而且在我們生命的每時每刻，你與我有一點是類似的。我們不是在休息，我們在旅途中。生命是一種運動，一種趨勢，一個穩步、持續的通往一個未知目標的過程。每天，我們都在獲得，或失去。儘管我們的地位和性格看起來好像一點都沒變，但是它們在變化。因為時光的流逝本身是一種變化。在一月和七月擁有一片貧瘠的土地是不同的，是季節本身帶來了變化。孩童時可愛的缺點到了成人時便成了幼稚。

　　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.

　　我們做的每件事都是邁向一個或另外一個方向，甚至“什麼都沒做”本身也是一種行為，它讓我們前進或倒退。一棵磁針的陰極的作用與陽極是一樣的。拒絕即接受??接受反面。

　　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 lunched 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.

　　你今天比昨天更加接近你的目標了嗎?是的，你肯定是離一個或另一個碼頭或更近一些了。因為自從你的小船從生命的海洋上啟航時，你沒有哪一刻是停止的。大海是這樣深，你想拋錨時找不到地方。在你駛入碼頭之前，你不可能停留。

　　篇二

　　The True Nobility By Ernest Hemingway

　　In a calm sea every man is a pilot.But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

　　在風平浪靜的大海上,每個人都是領航員。但只有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活。就拿最幸福的人來說,他的生活也是一團纏結在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現,使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近。

　　In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

　　在生活和事業的種種事務之中，性格比才智更能指導我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導我們，而由判斷獲得的剋制、耐心和教養比天分更能讓我們受益。我一向認為，內心生活開始更為嚴謹的人，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物慾橫流的年代，但願我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多麼可憐。反思自己的過錯不至於重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等並沒有什麼值得誇耀的。真正的高貴是優於過去的自己。

　　篇三

　　The World as I See It

　　我的世界觀

　　How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people—first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellowmen. I regard class distinctions as unjustified and, in the last resort, based on force. I also believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

　　我們這些肉體凡胎是多麼奇怪啊!每個人來到這個世上都只作短暫停留，究竟為了什麼目的卻無從知曉，雖然有時覺得自己好像有所感悟。但是，無需深入思考，僅從日常生活就可明白，人是為他人而存在的——首先是為這樣一些人：他們的歡笑、健康和福祉與我們的幸福息息相關;其次是為那些為數眾多的陌生人，因為同情他們，使得我們與他們的命運聯絡在了一起。每一天，我都上百次地提醒自己，我的精神和物質生活都是建立在他人包括生者和死者的勞動基礎上，對於我已經得到和正在得到的一切，我必須盡力給以相同程度的回報。我深深嚮往一種儉樸的生活，由於經常意識到自己佔用了同胞太多的勞動而心有不安。我認為階級區分是不正當的，其最終的達成方式常常訴諸暴力。我還認為，無論是在身體上還是心理上，過一種簡單而不鋪張浪費的生活對每個人都有好處。

　　I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying, “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants,” has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.

　　我完全不相信哲學意義上的人的自由。每個人的行為不僅受外在力量的約束，還要與內在需求協調一致。叔本華說：“人可以任意而為，卻不能心想事成。”這句話從我年輕時起就一直深深地啟發著我。在面對生活的艱辛時——無論是我自己還是他人的艱辛，這句話總能不斷地給我安慰，成為永不枯竭的忍耐的源泉。這一認識能夠仁慈地緩和那份令人幾欲崩潰的責任感，並防止我們太把自己或者他人當回事，還有助於形成一種尤其幽默的人生觀。

　　To inquire after the meaning or object of one’s own existence or that of all creatures has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view. And yet everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects of human efforts—possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

　　客觀地說，探求自己或者其他所有生命存在的意義或者目標，我一直都認為是荒唐之舉。然而，每個人多少都有自己的理想，決定著他的奮鬥目標和他對事情的看法。從這個意義上說，我從來都不會把安逸和幸福看作終極目標——我將這種倫理道德的基礎稱之為“豬圈理想”。一直以來，是對真、善、美的追求照亮了我的道路，一次又一次給我以新的勇氣，讓我愉快地面對生活。如果沒有對志同道合者的那種親近感，如果沒有對客觀世界——那個藝術和科學研究永遠也無法窮極的世界——的孜孜以求，生命對我來說就是一場空。那些向來為世人競相追求的目標——財產、奢華和外在的成功——我對此不屑一顧。