優秀英語美文作文摘抄

　　美文,不禁浮現出一個美麗的情境,賦予優美的語境和豐富的情感;美文,不禁聯想到一種美幻的意境,充滿情感的體驗和豐富的表達。美文,大概就是美的化身,它是一種情感,一種體驗和一種表達。本文是優秀英語美文，希望對大家有幫助!

　　優秀英語美文：The Grass Is Always Green Right Under Your Feet

　　Have you ever thought life would be better anywhere other than where you are right now? Maybe some of your thoughts go something like this:

　　Life will be better once I'm out of debt.

　　I can't wait until I'm retired because then I can do what I want when I want.

　　If only I lived somewhere warm I could exercise all year round and I would be so fit.

　　If I could just lose 10 pounds I know I would feel better.

　　Truth is some of your problems may go away once you have met all of your "if only's" and "better when's" but it won't make the perfect life that fairy tales are made of. New problems will arise and you'll likely find yourself wishing for this "perfect" life to be different still. We can only imagine that the grass will be greener on the other side because it's only when we live it do we actually see it for what it really is.

　　Whatever ideal you have in mind about an alternate lifestyle, location, financial situation etc ... rest assured that each one will be met with it's own unique set of problems.

　　So what can you do about this? Choose to be content with what you already have.

　　Look around you and be truly grateful for all that you see. Realize that there are people less fortunate than you and right now, rightly or wrongly, they are wishing for your exact lifestyle. Think back to 2 years ago, what were you wishing for then? Where did you want to be? Odds are you were largely wishing to be right where you are now. Life happens so gradually that you tend to lose all perspective of achievements, growth and progress.

　　It's great to dream big. But those dreams should not cloud the greatness you have in front of you right now. Consider the truth in the grass being the greenest right under your feet.

　　優秀英語美文：This Beautiful Moment

　　There is no rush, there is no hurry. For this beautiful moment is already here.

　　There is no lack, there is no limit. For the possibilities of now stretch out in all directions.

　　There is no worry, there is no regret. For this is the time to live and to act.

　　Even when you have no reason to enjoy life now, enjoy it anyway. For joy is its own best reason. Open your eyes to the rich depth of this moment's gloden treasures. Breath in deeply, filling your sense with the fresh, cool sweetness.

　　Being here now is a remarkable blessing. The more you enjoy the moment you're in, the more treasures it will bring.

　　Right here and right now life overflows with richness. What a beautiful moment to live!

　　優秀英語美文：Stop Wasting Time Being a Perfectionist

　　When you are first learning or perfecting a skill, whether it be baking, archery, or public speaking, it is easy to get stuck in the cycle of analysis paralysis. You want to learn as much as you possibly can before you actually do the task, but you end up wasting time preparing yourself instead of just trying to do it.

　　Major League Baseball pitchers don't throw a perfect game every time they play, so why do you expect to be perfect all the time?

　　Jonathan Fields recently wrote an excellent piece on how the key to getting better at something is to make more bad stuff.

　　That is a powerful message. In a world filled with perfectionists who don't want to share what they've created with anyone unless they think it is perfect, the best way to get better is actually with hands-on practice. And the best way to practice is by trying over and over again until you stop failing miserably.

　　Jonathan uses the example of building a guitar, but wanting the first one to be perfect.

　　'Go and make a really bad guitar.' Stop waiting around, go buy a kit and do it. Today.

　　The first one...will be bad. Maybe really bad. But you'll learn more making one bad guitar than you will waiting to do something and then taking a course that teaches you how to do it right. You'll understand a lot more about the "why" behind good and bad building, and that'll put you in a radically different position to do it better moving forward.

　　- Jonathan Fields

　　優秀英語美文：意外領悟：樓梯上的陌生人

　　A brief act of kindness brings an unexpected insight.

　　I was shopping at a department store and had just boarded the down escalator when I noticed a woman standing to the side. She looked about 65, and her expression told me she was scared. I turned toward her and asked, " Do you need help?" As the escalator continued moving I heard the woman reply softly, " I’m afraid." There was a hint of incredulity in her voice." Want me to come back and get you?" I called to her. She nodded. But by the time I reached her, the woman had reconsidered. " I don’t think I can do it," she said. I was suddenly aware that I had made a far greater investment than I expected." I know we can do it," I said. " I can hold on to you." She looked down at the beast. Then her eyes came back to mine, looking doubtful. " This has never happened to me before," she said, as much to herself as to me. I felt that her sudden fear had to do with the escalator’s mechanical nature, its basic inhuman untrustworthiness. I took her arm. " Shall we?" She made a little sound of alarm as we stepped on, but we’d passed the point of no return. She relaxed slightly as the stairs moved us downward." I don’t understand this at all," she said. As we neared the bottom, her grip tightened again, but we did fine." I’m so grateful..." she began." It was nothing," I said. " I was happy to do it." Happy, yes. I do very little to help others. I am busy caring for a family and working full time. For a brief moment, I had a flash of insight into why someone would become a nurse or a social worker or a minister. When I helped the woman, I felt pure and whole, purposeful. It was a happier moment than I’d had in weeks.

　　一次簡單的善意幫助卻帶來了出乎意料的領悟。

　　我到一家百貨商店買東西，就在我踏上自動扶梯剛要下樓時，突然注意到扶梯邊站著一位婦女。她看上去差不多有65歲，從她臉上的表情可以看出她很害怕。於是我轉向她問道：“需要幫忙嗎?”自動扶梯載著我向下移動著，我只聽到她用低低的聲音回答："我很怕。"聲音中流露出一絲遲疑。“要我回來幫你嗎?”我衝著她叫道，她點了點頭。我又回到了樓上，可老人卻改變了主意。“我不行。”她說。直到這時，我才突然意識到這件事並不像我原想的那樣簡單。“我們能行，”我說，“我會攙扶著你。”她低下頭，看著那個龐然大物，隨後她轉回來，看著我，目光中滿是疑慮;“我以前從未遇到過這種情況。”她說道，既像是在對我，又像是在自言自語。我覺得老人這種突如其來的恐懼與自動扶梯的機械性質有關--它歸根結底是非人性的東西，很難給人以安全感。我拉起她的胳臂，問道：“可以嗎?”我們邁上扶梯時，她輕輕地尖叫了一聲。然而，既然我們已踏上了扶梯，也就不能再回頭了。直到扶梯載著我們下行了一段，她才略微放鬆下來。“我一點也不明白這種東西，”她說。我們接近扶梯底部時，她又一次緊緊抓住我，但我們順利走下了扶梯。“我不知怎麼謝你才好……”她開口說道。“這沒什麼，”我說，“我很高興這樣做。”我很高興，的確如此。平時我很少幫助別人，整日忙於工作和照顧家庭。就在這一剎那，我突然明白了為什麼有人會去做護士、社會工作者或者牧師。在我幫助這位婦女的時候，我感到我的生活是純粹、完整和有意義的。這是我幾周來最高興的時刻。