短小精悍的英語文章

　　語言學習與文化學習是交織在一起的，語言習得者要掌握好一門語言，尤其是第二語言，具備充足的文化背景知識是必不可少的。下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　：Be comfortable with who you are

　　I cherish being around people who are totally comfortable with who they are. There always seems to be an aura of love and acceptance that follows these folks around.

　　I think it's because they've figured out one of the biggest secrets to life: The possibility of being loved and accepted grows exponentially when we can truly say we couldn't be more comfortable with ourselves.

　　People like being around those who are comfortable with themselves because they're less threatening. We all feel the need to protect ourselves from threats aimed at our insecurities.

　　Insecurities are like open wounds, and it hurts when people poke at them.

　　It can be exhausting to hang around folks who constantly poke at us just to gain some kind of external validation through making everyone else feel smaller.

　　My favorite thing about people who are comfortable with themselves is they need no external validation.

　　They have discovered their worth is intrinsic and, by nature, something that cannot be taken away or added to based on what other people think.

　　Ironically enough, this ends up providing comfortable people with more external validation than those who feel they need it most.

　　Because comfortable people's worth comes from within, they see no point in tearing others down. To them, the only sensible way to speak about another is positively.

　　I guess when you realize your worth comes from within, you might as well build others up rather than tear them down, since their size is of no threat to your sense of self-worth.

　　Plus, it's a lot more fun to speak love to others and watch their eyes glow than it is to hurt someone's feelings for a cheap laugh, anyway.

　　When we become comfortable with ourselves through fully accepting who we are, we can silence the noise our insecurities make in public situations and become more attuned to the wonderful reality that unfolds before us.

　　The result is a world with fewer insecurities. To me, that sounds like a better world.

　　：Parenthood

　　If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor!

　　Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results.

　　To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

　　The smartest advice on raising children is to enjoy them while they are still on your side.

　　The best way to keep kids at home is to give it a loving atmosphere - and hide the keys to the car.

　　The right temperature in a home is maintained by warm hearts, not by hot heads.

　　Parents: People who bare infants, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds.

　　The joy of motherhood: What a woman experiences when all the children are finally in bed.

　　Life’s golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car.

　　Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of grandchildren.

　　A child outgrows your lap, but never outgrows your heart.

　　God gave you two ears and one mouth.... so you should listen twice as much as you talk.

　　There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or forbid your children to do it.

　　Adolescence is the age when children try to bring up their parents.

　　Cleaning your house while your kids are at home is like trying to shovel the driveway during a snowstorm.

　　Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

　　There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother’s age.

　　Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

　　Adolescence is the age at which children stop asking questions because they know all the answers.

　　A alarm clock is a device for awakening people who don't have small children.

　　No wonder kids are confused today. Half the adults tell them to find themselves; the other half tell them to get lost.

　　People hardest to convince that it's time for retirement are children at bedtime.

　　Kids really brighten a household; they never turn off any lights.

　　：The Four Freedoms

　　In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

　　The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world.

　　The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.

　　The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants everywhere in the world.

　　The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

　　That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

　　To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

　　Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

　　This nation has placed its destiny in the hands, heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose.

　　To that high concept there can be no end save victory.