英語口語文章

　　隨著中國對外交流的日益頻繁,整個社會越來越重視英語的應用。英語口語表達作為英語的最重要的應用形式,已經得到了廣大學生的重視,下面就是小編給大家整理的，希望大家喜歡。

　　：一杯牛奶的溫暖

　　One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.

　　However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I owe you?"

　　"You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but it also increased his faith in God and the human race. He was about to give up and quit before this point.

　　Years later the young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists can be called in to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately, he rose and went down through the hospital hall into her room.

　　Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and determined to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her case.

　　After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was positive that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words...

　　"Paid in full with a glass of milk."

　　***Signed*** Dr. Howard Kelly

　　Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently: "Thank You, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands."

　　：享受過程的樂趣

　　If you have ever been discouraged because of failure, please read on.

　　For often, achieving what you set out to do is not the important thing. Let me explain.

　　Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch.

　　"What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors.

　　"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers volunteered excitedly.

　　The older boys began to laugh, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible.

　　After a long silence, one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and a wide assortment***分類，混合物*** of insects. He removed the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the scoffing visitors.

　　Then he said quietly and confidently, "Even if we don't dig all the way through the earth, look what we found along the way!"

　　Their goal was far too ambitious, but it did cause them to dig. And that is what a goal is for-to cause us to move in the direction we have chosen; in other words, to set us to digging!

　　But not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job will end successfully. Not every relationship will endure. Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every endeavor will be completed. Not every dream will be realized.

　　But when you fall short of your aim, perhaps you can say, "Yes, but look at what I found along the way! Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tried to do something!"

　　It is in the digging that life is lived. And I believe it is joy in the journey, in the end, that truly matters.

　　：比金錢更重要的

　　It is physically impossible for a well-educated intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; as physically impossible as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them.

　　All healthy people like their dinner, but their dinner is not the mainobject of their lives. So all healthy-minded people like making money--ought to like it and to enjoy the sensation of winning; but the main object of their lives is not money; it is something better than money.

　　A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay-very properly so-and justly grumbles***抱怨，喃喃*** when you keep him ten months without it; still, his main notion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.

　　So too of doctors. They like fees no doubt-ought to like them; yet the entire object of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole desire to cure the sick, would rather cure their patients and lose their fee than kill them and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men: their work is first, their fee is second, very important always, but still second.

　　But in every nation, there is a vast class of people who are cowardly, and more or less stupid. And with these people, just as certainly the fee is first and the work second, as with brave people the work is first and the fee second.

　　And this is no small distinction***區別*** . It is the whole distinction in a man. You cannot serve two masters; you must serve one or the other. If your work is first with you, and your fee is second, work is your master.

　　Observe, then, all wise work is mainly threefold in character. It is honest, useful, and cheerful. I hardly know anything more strange than that you recognize honesty in play, and do not in work.

　　In your lightest games you have always someone to see what you call "fair play". In boxing you must hit fair; in racing, start fair. Your watchword***口號，標語*** is fair play; your hatred, foul play. Did it ever strike you that you wanted another watchword also, fair work, and another hatred also, foul work?