第一篇：英語經典散文欣賞

英語經典散文欣賞

熱情成就未來

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, “Barbara, be enthusiastic!Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”

How right they were.Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough.It is the inner voice that whispers, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can't.”

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted.Yet she didn't let up on her experiments.Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach.As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes.Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure.As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, “Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself.“Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means “God within.” And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love--proper love of self(self-acceptance)and, from that, love of others.Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power.If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw.This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, “I am tempted to call Layton a genius.” Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.We can't afford to waste tears on “might-have-beens.” We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be.”

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses--finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow.It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls。

經典英語散文賞析：輕松地生活

To a large degree，the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment．Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year，and what may or may not happen tomorrow，the present moment is where you are－always．

Without question，many of us have mastered the neurotic1)art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things －all at once．We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate our present moments，so much so that we end up anxious，frustrated，depressed，and hopeless．On the flip side，we also postpone our gratification，our stated priorities2)，and our happiness，often convincing ourselves that ‘someday’ will be better than today．Unfortunately，the same mental dynamics3)that tell us to look toward the future will only repeat themselves so that ‘someday ’never actually arrives．John Lennon once said，‘Life is what’s happening while we’re busy making other plans．’When we’re busy making ‘other plans’，our children are busy growing up，the people we love are moving away and dying，our bodies are getting out of shape，and our dreams are slipping away．In short，we miss out4)on life．Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal5)for some later date．It isn’t．In fact，no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow．Now is the only time we have，and the only time that we have any control over．When our attention is in the present moment，we push fear from our minds．Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future－we won’ t have enough money，our children will get into trouble，we will get old and die，whatever．To combat fear，the best strategy6)is to learn to bring your attention back to the present．Mark Twain said，‘I have been through some terrible things in my life，some of which actually happened．I don’t think I can say it any better．Practice keeping your attention on the here and now．Your efforts will pay great dividends7)．

我們內心是否平和在很大程度上是由我們是否能生活在現實之中所決定的。不管昨天或去年發生了什么，不管明天可能發生或不發生什么，現實才是你時時刻刻所在之處。

毫無疑問，我們很多人掌握了一種神經兮兮的藝術，即把生活中的大部分時間花在為種種事情擔心憂慮上---而且常常是同時憂慮許多事情。我們聽憑過去的麻煩和未來的擔心控制我們此時此刻的生活，以致我們整日焦慮不安，萎靡不振，甚至沮喪絕望。而另一方面我們又推遲我們的滿足感，推遲我們應優先考慮的事情，推遲我們的幸福感，常常說服自己“有朝一日”會比今天更好。不幸的是，如此告誡我們朝前看的大腦動力只能重復來重復去，以致“有朝一日”永遠不會真正來臨。約翰·列農曾經說過：“生活就是當我們忙于制定別的計劃時發生的事。”當我們忙于制定種種“別的計劃”時，我們的孩子在忙于長大，我們摯愛的人離去了甚至快去世了，我們的體型變樣了，而我們的夢想也在悄然溜走了。一句話，我們錯過了生活。

許多人的生活好像是某個未來日子的彩排。并非如此。事實上，沒人能保證他或她明天肯定還活著。現在是我們所擁有的惟一時間，現在也是我們能控制的惟一時間。當我們將注意力放在此時此刻時，我們就將恐懼置于腦后?？謶志褪俏覀儞鷳n某些事情會在未來發生---

我們不會有足夠的錢，我們的孩子會惹上麻煩，我們會變老，會死去，諸如此類。

若要克服恐懼心理，最佳策略便是學會將你的注意力拉回此時此刻。馬克·吐溫說過：“我經歷過生活中一些可怕的事情，有些的確發生過?！蔽蚁胛艺f不出比這更具內涵的話。經常將注意力集中于此情此景、此時此刻，你的努力終會有豐厚的報償

My dictation:

Now the VOA special English program-words and their stories.Expressions about water are almostly as common as water itself.But many of the expressions using water have unpleasent meannings.The expression “to be in hot water ” is one of them.It is a very old expression.Hot water was used five hundred years ago to mean being in trouble.One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies attacking a castle.That no longer happens.But we still get “in hot water”.When we are in hot water, we are in trouble.It can be any kinds of trouble, serious or not so serious.A person who breaks a law can be in hot water with the police.A young boy can be in hot water with his mother if he walks in the house with dirty shoes.“Being in deepwater” is almost the same as being in hot water.When you are in deep water, you are in a difficult position.Imaging a person who can not swim being thrown in water over his head.You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you don’t have the ability to solve.You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks without knowing anything about the stock market.“To keep your head above water” is a colorful expression that meaning staying out of debt.A company seeks to keep it's head above water during economic hard times.A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until he finds a new job.“Water over the dam” is another expression about past event.It is something that it is finished, and it cannot be changed.The expression comes from the idea that water has floated over a dam cannot be brought back again.When a friend is troubled by a mistake she have made.You might tell her to forget about it, you say it is water over the dam.Another common expression“ to holdwater” is about the strength or weakness of an idea or opinion that you may be arguing about.It probably comes from a way of testing the condition of a container.If it can hold water, it is strong and has no holes in it.If your argument can hold water, it is strong and does not have any holes;if it does not hold water, then, it is weak and not worth debating.“Throwing coldwater ”also is an expression that deals with ideas or proposles, it means to not like an idea.For example, you want to buy a new car because the old one has some problems, but your wife throws cold water on the idea because she says a new car costs too much.

第二篇：英語散文欣賞

品味生活 Relish Moment Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision.We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent.We are traveling by train.Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.我們的潛意識里藏著一派田園詩般的風光!我們仿佛身處一次橫貫大陸的漫漫旅程之中!乘著火車,我們領略著窗外流動的景色：附近高速公路上奔馳的汽車、十字路口處招手的孩童、遠山上吃草的牛群、源源不斷地從電廠排放出的煙塵、一片片的玉米和小麥、平原與山谷、群山與綿延的丘陵、天空映襯下城市的輪廓, 以及鄉間的莊園宅第!But uppermost in our minds is the final destination.On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station.Bands will be playing and flags waving.Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle.How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering--waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.“然而我們心里想得最多的卻是最終的目的地!在某一天的某一時刻,我們將會抵達進站!迎接我們的將是樂隊和飄舞的彩旗!一旦到了那兒,多少美夢將成為現實,我們的生活也將變得完整,如同一塊理好了的拼圖!可是我們現在在過道里不耐煩地踱來踱去,咒罵火車的拖拖拉拉!我們期待著, 期待著, 期待著火車進站的那一刻!

When we reach the station, that will be it!”we cry.“When I'm 18.”“When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz!”“When I put the last kid through college.”“When I have paid off the mortgage!”“When I get a promotion.”“When I reach the age of retirement, I shall live happily ever after!” “當我們到站的時候,一切就都好了!”我們呼喊著!“當我18歲的時候!”當我有了一輛新450SL奔馳的時候!“"當我供最小的孩子念完大學的時候!”“當我償清貸款的時候!”“當我官升高任的時候!”“當我到了退休的時候, 就可以從此過上幸福的生活啦!” Sooner or later, we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all.The true joy of life is the trip.The station is only a dream.It constantly outdistances us.可是我們終究會認識到人生的旅途中并沒有車站,也沒有能夠“一到永逸”的地方!生活的真正樂趣在于旅行的過程, 而車站不過是個夢, 它始終遙遙領先于我們!“Relish the moment ”is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118：24:“This is the day which the Lord hath made;we will rejoice and be glad in it.”It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad.It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow.Regret and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.“享受現在”是句很好的箴言,尤其是當它與《圣經·詩篇》中第１１８頁２４行的一段話相映襯的時候,更是如此：“今日乃主所創造；生活在今日我們將歡欣、高興!”真正令人發瘋的不是今日的負擔,而是對昨日的悔恨及對明日的恐懼!悔恨與恐懼是一對孿生竊賊,將今天從你我身邊偷走!

So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles.In stead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more, cry less.Life must be lived as we go along.The station will come soon enough.那么就不要在過道里徘徊吧,別老惦記著你離車站還有多遠!何不換一種活法,將更多的高山攀爬,多吃點兒冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴,經常光著腳板兒溜達溜達,在更多的河流里暢游,多看看夕陽西下, 多點歡笑哈哈, 少讓淚水滴答!生活得一邊過一邊瞧!車站就會很快到達!陽光下的時光

“?I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days.”-----Henry David Thoreau.“??我雖然不富甲天下，卻擁有無數個艷陽天和夏日?！?---亨利·大衛·梭羅 When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden.Pond he knew as a boy.寫這句話時，梭羅想起孩提時代的瓦爾登湖。

Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its setting.A boy could go to the pond and lie on his back against the seat of a boat, lazily drifting from shore to shore while the loons dived and the swallows dipped around him.Thoreau loved to recall such sunny hours and summer days “when idleness was the most attractive and productive business.”

當時伐木者和火車尚未嚴重破壞湖畔的美麗景致。小男孩可以走向湖中，仰臥小舟。自一岸緩緩漂向另一岸，周遭有鳥兒戲水，燕子翻飛。梭羅喜歡回憶這樣的艷陽天和夏日，“慵懶是最迷人也是最具生產力的事情！”

I too was a boy in love with a pond, rich in sunny hours and summer days.Sun and summer are still what they always were, but the boy and the pond changed.The boy, who is now a man, no longer find much time for idle drifting.The pond has been annexed by a great city.The swamps where herons once hunted are now drained and filled with houses.The bay where water lilies quietly floated is now a harbor for motor boats.In short, everything that the boy loved no longer exists----except in the man's memory of it.我也曾經是熱愛湖塘的小男孩，擁有無數個艷陽天與夏日。如今陽光、夏日依舊，男孩和湖塘卻已改變。那男孩已長大成人，不再有那么多時間泛舟湖上。而湖塘也為大城市所并。曾有蒼鷺覓食的沼澤，如今已枯竭殆盡，上面蓋滿了房舍。睡蓮靜靜漂浮的湖灣?，F在成了汽艇的避風港。總之，男孩所愛的一切已不復存在----只留在人們的回憶中。

Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter.But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule!So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten.So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.有些人堅持認為只有今日和明日才是重要的，可是如果真的照此生活，我們將是何其可憐！許多今日我們做的事徒勞不足取的，很快就會被忘記。許多我們期待明天將要做的事卻從來沒有發生過。

The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.過去是一所銀行。我們將最可貴的財產---記憶珍藏其中。記憶賜予我們生命的意義和深度。Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost.Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile.And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quite hour in the sun.真正珍惜過去的人，不會悲嘆舊日美好時光的逝去。因為藏于記憶中的時光永不流失。死亡本身無法止住一個記憶中的聲音，或擦除一個記憶中的微笑。對現已長大成人的那個男孩來說，那兒將有一個湖塘不會因時間和潮汐而改變，可以讓他繼續在陽光下享受安靜時光。

生存還是毀滅

Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but also for every thinking man and woman.To be or not to be, to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely.A philosopher once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally.He answered it by saying: “I think, therefore am.” “生存還是毀滅?！比绻选妒ソ洝烦猓@六個字便是整個世界文學中最有名的六個字了。這六個字是哈姆雷特一次喃喃自語時說的，而這六個字也就成了莎士比亞作品中最有名的幾個字了，因為這里哈姆雷特不僅道出了他自己的心聲，同時也代表了一切有思想的男男女女。是活還是不活——是要生活還是不要生活，是要生活得豐滿充實，興致勃勃，還是只是活得枯燥委瑣，貧乏無味。一位哲人一次曾想弄清他自己是否是在活著，這個問題我們每個人也大可不時地問問我們自己。這位哲學家對此的答案是： “我思故我在。”

But the best definition of existence ever saw did another philosopher who said: “To be is to be in relations.” If this true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive.To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity of our relations.Unfortunately we are so constituted that we get to love our routine.But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? If you are interest-ed only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent.So far as other things are concerned--poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs--you are dead.但是關于生存我所見過的一條最好的定義卻是另一位哲學家下的：“生活即是聯系?！比绻@話不假的話，那么一個有生命者的聯系越多，它也就越有生氣。所謂要活得豐富充實也即是要擴大和加強我們的各種聯系。不幸的是，我們往往會因為天性不夠豐厚而容易陷入自己的陳規舊套。試問除去我們的日常工作，我們的真正生活又有多少?如果你只是對你的日常工作才有興趣，那你的生趣也就很有限了。至于在其它事物方面，比如詩歌、散文、音樂、美術、體育、無私的友誼、政治與國際事務，等等——你只是死人一個。

Contrariwise, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest--even more, a new accomplishment--you increase your power of life.No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy;the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.但反過來說，每當你獲得一種新的興趣——甚至一項新的造詣——你就增長了你的生活本領。一個能對許許多多事物都深感興趣的人是不可能總不愉快的，真正的悲觀者只能是那些喪失興趣的人。

Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend.But we gain new life by contacts, new friends.What is supremely true of living objects is only less true of ideas, which are also alive.Where your thoughts are, there will your live be also.If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow cir-conscribed life.But if you are interested in what is going on in China, then you are living in China~ if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interesting people, if you listen intently to fine music, you are away from your immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination.培根曾講過，一個人失去朋友即是死亡。但是憑著交往，憑著新朋，我們就能獲得再生。這條對于活人可謂千真萬確的道理在一定程度上也完全適用于人的思想，它們也都是活的。你的思想所在，你的生命便也在那里。如果你的思想不出你的業務范圍，不出你的物質利益，不出你所在城鎮的狹隘圈子，那么你的一生便也只是多方受著局限的狹隘的一生。但是如果你對當前中國那里所發生的種種感到興趣，那么你便可說也活在中國；如果你對一本佳妙小說中的人物感到興趣，你便是活在一批極有趣的人們中間；如果你能全神貫注地聽點好的音樂，你就會超脫出你的周圍環境而活在一個充滿激情與想象的神奇世界之中。

To be or not to be--to live intensely and richly, merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.Let widen and intensify our relations.While we live, let live!生存還是毀滅——活得熱烈活得豐富，還是只是簡單存在，這就全在我們自己。但愿我們都能不斷擴展和增強我們的各種聯系。只要一天我們活著，就要一天是在活著。生命的沉浮

The Ebb and Flow of Life By Charlie Badenhop During my first year in Japan I took a hitchhiking trip and went to numerous fishing villages on the west coast of Japan.In one village I had the privilege of meeting a very special man.He was in his sixties and walked with a noticeable limp.He told me that as a youth he was very involved in karate, but that at the age of twenty five he was injured while working on his father's fishing boat, and he had been limping ever since.as he told me about his life.He said once he realized he would no longer be able to actively take part in karate, he made a firm commitment to use his life as a fisherman to further his martial arts studies.He read various martial arts books and then applied what he read to his work life.在日本的第一年，我曾搭便車旅行，到過西海岸的很多漁村。

在一個小村子里，我有幸遇見了一個很特別的人。他60多歲，腿瘸得很厲害。他告訴我自己年輕時曾熱衷于空手道，但是25歲那年，在父親的漁船上干活時不慎受傷，從此成了瘸子。一天夜里，我們坐在外面的小木碼頭上，他向我講起了自己的人生。他說，當意識到自己再也不能積極參加空手道運動時，他便下定決心，為了進一步研究武術，此生甘愿做個漁民。他閱讀了各種各樣的武學書籍，并將學到的知識運用到工作生活中。

We sat out on a small wooden dock one night “One of the most important things I have learned,” he said, “Is to create a rhythm with your presence, movements, and breathing, that matches the rhythm of nature.This is a phrase numerous martial arts masters wrote about in the books I have read.”

他說：“我學到的最重要的一樣東西是創造一種與大自然的節律相諧調的自身存在、運動和呼吸的節律。我讀過的書中許多武術大師都提到過節律這個詞。

”As we sat by the water, he invited me to notice the ebb and flow of the ocean....and the sounds of the tide lapping against the pilings of the pier.“You can sense the movement and sounds of the ocean....As you also notice your movements and breathing....And realize how you go IN...and OUT...of rhythm with this flow.”

我們坐在水邊，他邀我關注大海的潮漲潮落??聆聽潮水拍打木樁的聲音?！熬拖耜P注你自己的運動和呼吸那樣，去感受大海的運動和聲音，體會如何與潮汐的節律相諧調?！?/p>

I began to do as he suggested, and I quickly felt I was being drawn into a parallel world, that I was somehow usually ignoring, or simply not noticing.我開始按他的建議去做，很快感到自己正被引入一個常常忽視或根本沒有注意過的相似的世界。

“Feel the life force of the ocean” he said, “and breathe with the ocean.Feel the life force of the ocean, and without doing anything, allow yourself to move with the ocean...Breathe, move, and feel your heartbeat...Invite your heartbeat to synchronize with the heartbeat of the ocean.” 他說：“感受大海的生命力，與大海一起呼吸。感受大海的生命力，不做任何事，讓自己與大海一起運動??呼吸，運動，感受自己的心跳??讓自己的心跳與大海的心跳同步。” Now you are becoming one with the water, and the fluid inside your body begins to become a tiny powerful ocean that ebbs and flows throughout your system.Now, like the ocean you can begin to feel the power of flowing without resisting.Flowing without fighting against.現在你漸漸與海水融為一體，體內的液體開始變成很微小卻能量巨大的海洋，起伏遍及你周身的系統。

The water surrounds and moves past all obstacles.There is no forcing, and no need for strength.“Only flow....The power is IN the flow, and each drop of water is pliant and soft.No one drop of water is powerful on its own.” 現在就像大海一樣，你能感受到沒有抵抗的流動的力量，感受到沒有斗爭的流動的力量。海水包圍并通過了所有障礙。沒有靠強力，也無須強力?！爸皇橇鲃??力量就在流動中，每一滴水都是順從的，柔軟的。沒有哪滴水自身是強大的?！?/p>

We sat there together for a while.The man, myself, and the ocean.I felt the power and presence of the ocean, myself, and the fisherman.Not separate, but together.And I knew very clearly that all this power was really One.The one tiny drop of water that you are.我們在一起坐了一會兒。老人、我和大海。我感受到了大海、我自己和老漁夫的力量和存在。我們不是分散開的，而是合而為一。我非常清楚地知道所有的力量實際上都是一體的。

你就是那微小的水滴。

The ebb and flow of your life mirrors the ebb and flow of all life.When you calm yourself, slow down, and become one with your surroundings, you realize that nature offers you a parallel understanding of life.The tiny drop of water known as “me” is an integral part of the ocean of life, and your power manifests most gracefully when you join your individual spirit with the spirit of all creation.Breathe deeply, calm yourself, and begin to notice and appreciate the ebb and flow of the world around you...You will discover the power of the universe is the power that feeds your life.你的生命沉浮能反映出所有生命的沉浮。當你平靜下來，放慢節奏，與周圍環境融為一體的時候，你就會認識到大自然對于生命的看法是相似的?？煽醋鳌拔摇钡男∷问巧Ｑ笾胁豢扇鄙俚囊徊糠?。當個人的精神同宇宙萬物的精神結合在一起的時候，你的力量才會最完美地展示出來。

深呼吸，平靜下來，開始關注并欣賞周圍世界的沉浮，你會發現宇宙的力量正是滋養你生命的力量。談讀書

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring;for ornament, is in discourse;and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.讀書足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以長才。其怡情也，最見于獨處幽居之時；其傅彩也，最見于高談闊論之中；其長才也，最見于處世判事之際。

For expert and execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one;but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best form those that are learned.練達之士雖能分別處理細事或一一判別枝節，然縱觀統籌，全局策劃，則舍好學深思者莫屬。To spend too much time in studies is sloth;to use them too much for ornament, is affectation;to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.讀書費時過多易惰，文采藻飾太盛則矯，全憑條文斷事乃學究故態。

They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning(pruning)by study;and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in/ by experience.讀書補天然之不足，經驗又補讀書之不足，蓋天生才干猶如自然花草，讀書然后知如何修剪移接，而書中所示，如不以經驗范之，則又大而無當。

Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them;for they teach not their own use;but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.有一技之長者鄙讀書，無知者羨讀書，唯明智之士用讀書，然書并不以用處告人，用書之智不在書中，而在書外，全憑觀察得之。

Read not to contradict and confute;nor to believe and take for granted;nor to find talk and discourse;but to weigh and consider.讀書時不可存心詰難作者，不可盡信書上所言，亦不可只為尋章摘句，而應推敲細思。Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested;that is, some books are to be read only in parts;others to be read, but not curiously;and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.書有可淺嘗者，有可吞食者，少數則須咀嚼消化。換言之，有只需讀其部分者，有只須大體涉獵者，少數則須全讀，讀時須全神貫注，孜孜不倦。

Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others;but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books;else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.書亦可請人代讀，取其所作摘要，但只限題材較次或價值不高者，否則書經提煉猶如水經蒸餾，淡而無味。Reading maketh a full man;conference a ready man;and writing an exact man.And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory;if he confer little, he had need have a present wit;and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.讀書使人充實，討論使人機智，筆記使人準確。因此不常做筆記者須記憶力特強，不常討論者須天生聰穎，不常讀書者須欺世有術，始能無知而顯有知。

Histories make men wise;poets witty;the mathematics subtile;natural philosophy deep;moral grave;logic and rhetoric able to contend.Abeunt studia in morse.(Studeis go to make up a man’s character.)

讀史使人明智，讀詩使人靈秀，數學使人周密，科學使人深刻，倫理學使人莊重，邏輯修辭之學使人善辯；凡有所學，皆成性格。

Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises.Bowling is good for the stone and reins;shooting for the lungs and breast;gentle walking for the stomach;riding for the head;and the like.人之才智但有滯礙，無不可讀適當之書使之順暢，一如身體百病，皆可借相宜之運動除之。滾球利睪腎，射箭利胸肺，慢步利腸胃，騎術利頭腦，諸如此類。

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics;for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen;for they are cymini sectores.If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases.So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.如智力不集中，可令讀數學，蓋演題需全神貫注，稍有分散即須重演；如不能辯異，可令讀經院哲學，蓋是輩皆吹毛求疵之人；如不善求同，不善以一物闡證另一物，可令讀律師之案卷。如此頭腦中凡有缺陷，皆有特效可醫。（王佐良 譯）

散文欣賞-追憶似水年華

Can it really be sixty-two years ago that I first saw you?

我們初次相遇，難道真的是六十二年前嗎？

It is truly a lifetime, I know.But as I gaze into your eyes now, it seems like only yesterday that I first saw you, in that small café in Hanover Square.年華似水，倏忽間我們已相攜一世。望著你的眼睛，當年的邂逅歷歷如在昨昔，就在漢諾威廣場的那間小咖啡館里。From the moment I saw you smile, as you opened the door for that young mother and her newborn baby.I knew.I knew that I wanted to share the rest of my life with you.從見到你的那一刻起，那一刻你正為一位年輕的母親和她的小寶寶開門，那一刻當看到你的盈盈笑靨，我就明白我只愿與你執手攜老，共度今生。

I still think of how foolish I must have looked, as I gazed at you, that first time.I remember watching you intently, as you took off your hat and loosely shook your short dark hair with your fingers.I felt myself becoming immersed in your every detail, as you placed your hat on the table and cupped your hands around the hot cup of tea, gently blowing the steam away with your pouted lips.我仍然不時想起，那天自己那樣地盯著你，一定很傻；就那樣情不自禁怔怔地望著你，追隨你摘下小帽，用手指松了松短短的黑發，追隨你把帽子放在桌前，雙手捧起暖暖的茶杯，追隨你微撅櫻唇，輕輕吹走飄騰的熱氣，我的目光始終追隨著你，感覺自己在你的溫柔舉止間慢慢融化。

The Rainy Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the moldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.My life is cold and dark and dreary;It rains and the wind is never weary;My though still cling to the moldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary.Be still, sad heart!And cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.中文翻譯：

雨天

亨利-沃茲渥斯-朗費羅

天冷、陰暗、沉悶； 下著雨，風也刮個不停； 藤還攀附著頹垣殘壁，每來一陣狂風，枯葉附落紛紛，天真是陰暗而沉悶。

我的生活寒冷、陰郁、沉悶； 下著雨，風也刮個不停；

我的思想還糾纏著消逝的往事，大風里，我的青春希望相繼熄滅，天真是陰暗而沉悶。

安靜吧，憂傷的心！別再悔恨； 烏云后面太陽依然輝煌燦爛； 你命運和大家的一樣，每個人一生都得逢上陰雨，有些日子必然陰暗而沉悶。

第三篇：散文欣賞

散文欣賞：

等咱老師有了錢

等咱老師有了錢，懸賞100萬通緝那個說“沒有教不會的學生，只有不會教的老師”的家伙，讓他來教教50個參差不齊的學生，看他能不能把他們都培養成社會主義四有人！

等咱老師有了錢，讓那些專家拿本教材去上課，然后我去開門聽課，做個專家，對他們指手畫腳。

等咱老師有了錢，把薄弱學校和民工子弟學校掛牌為“教育系統領導干部實踐基地”，讓他們頒布政策理念前先用實踐去檢驗可行性。等咱老師有了錢，教師節的時候咱也坐著小車去慰問，給他們一人發條毛巾，發瓶金龍魚，然后用溫暖的大手握得他們熱淚盈眶！

等咱老師有了錢，讓領導去下鄉支教，咱去歐洲考察！

等咱老師有了錢，讓領導也去師生同考，考不好的列入黑名單！

等咱老師有了錢，讓政府領導替我陪酒喝酒，我叫他喝多少就喝多少，他就是喝吐血，還說謝謝關懷！

等咱老師有了錢，開個教師法律援助中心，哪個家長無理取鬧，咱也告他個誹謗侵犯！

等咱老師有了錢，金嗓子喉寶要列入醫保藥物。

等咱老師有了錢，給任課老師配個秘書，專門負責打雜的！

等咱老師有了錢，每人買輛小車。憑啥人家有車貼，咱大老遠坐公車都沒個貼？

等咱老師有了錢，論文一天發表一篇，要帶刊號的！反正那些出版社也都認錢，評這評那又硬卡這個。

等咱老師有了錢，自己辦學校自己編教材！三天兩頭換教材所謂新版都是換湯不換藥，煩不煩？干脆自己定標準！

等咱老師有了錢，進修培訓一律報銷，職業進修也是為工作服務，干嘛又燃燒自己還又要自己掏腰包？

等咱老師有了錢，誰不把學生當人的，我一律端了他的飯碗；誰不把教師當人的，我一律摘了他的烏紗帽！

等咱老師有了錢，我也讓那些領導時不時地去考試，然后排名次，然后上墻公布??！

等咱老師有了錢，我也不做老師了，做公務員，享受陽光工資；讓那些公務員去做老師，拿績效工資，急死也好，笑死也

第四篇：散文欣賞

那年少的心，年少的等待，在彈指間蕩然湮滅，回首間，誰的笑容，誰的眼神，倒映著誰的模樣。黑白鍵交替舞動記憶的漣漪，卻在行云里驚醒陣陣的雨珠，飄落空中，滴在心頭?！差}記〕

往昔，尋你千百度，山遙遙，水迢迢，路漫漫，日出到遲暮，可你卻不在燈火斕珊處。如今尋你不再千百度，花紛紛，風蕭蕭，雪飄飄，一個季節的變化，可你卻不在客舟中。當尋你不再千百度時，一生流浪，一世漂浮，一輪回不再尋覓。生生世世，你我已不在輪回之中。

恰似春風吹化雨，春天的雨飄飄灑灑，在心中濺起漣漪水花，雨過天晴水面如鏡平滑，有誰知道在我心里已添了多少牽掛。平淡的相遇，誰也不知道那是故事的開始。是命中注定還是彼此的牽掛在縱容，初次相遇中的背影朦朧，心竟然在隱隱陣痛，沒有風雨伴奏，沒有一見鐘情的奇幻，沒有目光的交流，沒有童話中的浪漫，只是平平淡淡的，在茫茫人海中我遇見了你，你坐在我面前，留給我一個心痛的背影，平凡的相遇卻有不平凡的感受，你的背影從此住進我心底。

名如其人，婉約惜情。何必幽徑談畫，你就是一幅墨丹青；何必月下吟詩，你就是一首蝶戀花；何必傾訴委屈，你就是最好的慰藉。你來，便有一種溫暖，潛入心底，眼睛不由發亮。最真實的感覺，生活的靈光因而而被點亮。

曾記否，第一次交談的時候，彼此心中那份莫名的感覺，是相見恨晚。你的笑容是我最愜意的風景，一如那蘇州城外的微笑。

可是，平凡的相遇注定著我們要痛苦的離別。離別的那天，風雨來湊熱鬧。撒下的句點，滴答打碎了我的心，久久疼痛。

我的心你可懂得 愛上你卻不知道怎樣訴說

第五篇：欣賞《散文》兩篇

欣賞《散文》兩篇

作者

作者本名為莫懷戚，為何語文課本中署名為莫懷成？為此，作者在1993年10月17日的《重慶日報》發表文章《關于一篇課文的署名》，寫道：

此文初作于1985年，發表在《中國青年報》上，后被一些雜志乃至中央電視

臺、電臺以不同形式轉發。

1988年，甘肅的雜志《讀者文摘》載了此文，作者始誤成“莫懷成”。我因此去信，談了“我的姓名之意，是不要帶著憂愁，而不是不要有所成就。戚，古漢語有憂傷之意，例：君子坦蕩蕩，外人常戚戚。”后《讀者文摘》以“來信照登”

登了，竊以為一切也就了了。

殊不知，謬種已經流傳。次年的初中語文的補充教材選用該文，就沿襲了“莫懷成”的署名，至現在，成了課文，情形未變。

為什么一直不去更正呢？ 一、一個人的文章，被定成課文，全國法定學習，已是殊榮，不該苛求。

二、知我者，何須更正？不知我者，更正了何用？

三、國家審度，看文章的內容形式，不去查作者的祖宗三代，對于以前被“政審”怕了的我，歡欣鼓舞還來不及呢。所以歡喜國家的大迸步，不計個入小損失，并非什么淡泊名利，高風亮節，沒那么玄。①

背景

如作者自己所分析的：本文寫作契機是兩個。其一是一次全家三輩四口人的散步，的確如文中所說：初春，南方的原野，哄了一陣才將母親帶上路??當時我兒子正上幼兒園。他叫“前面也是媽媽和兒子，后面也是媽媽和兒子”也是真的。

第二個契機則是較有理性色彩。我與美國漢學家柯爾特先生相熟后，常就中西文化的異同進行淺層次交談。出我意料的是他對中國文化中的“孝悌”的看法——他反對“悌”（他說弟弟沒有必要高看兄長），而對“孝悌”卻大加贊賞，說中國人的敬老愛幼，是“文化的精髓”，又說英國哲學家培根說過，“哺育子女是動物也有的本能，贍養父母才是人類的文化之舉”，這個，全世界數中國人做得最

好，云云。

我們自己丟掉的，發達國度的人卻拾起來，如獲至寶，這使我感慨不已，開始

重新正視這份看起來很陳舊已無什么油水的民族遺產寫作的念頭就產生了。

選材時，我最終確定第一個契機為文章的外延，或曰思想感情之載體，是這樣

考慮的：

一、這是一次真實的散步，有真人真景及部分真事（細節），這樣，想象加工的部分便有了依托，較之純粹的虛構更有實感；

二、剛好三代人，主體“我”和“我的妻”，客體“兒子”“母親”齊全，便于

“導演”；

三、說“導演”，是因為近年的散文http://jiaoan.cnkjz.com/ws/Index.html>寫作傾向之一，是情節化（也有稱細節化的），總之寓理于事之風長，單純說理之風

消；可讀性越來越被強調。

切入角度：強化“生命”，淡化倫理，一是因為倫理說得已經太多，出新很難；二是“生命之說”不但本質，而且人性與動物性的參照也出來了——只有人類才不但保護幼小的生命，而且善待衰老的生命。②

體裁

散步》寫于1985年，因為是發一種“生命的感慨”，所以注定了它的抒情色彩。因我（作者——編者注）不善詩作，它就成了散文。所以說體裁這東西，往往非作者的刻意選取，實在只是一種自然結果。②

全篇只寫了“散步”一事，但讀來饒有興味，除了真情動人外，再一個原因就是敘事波瀾起伏，引人入勝。入題寫“我和母親走在前面，我的妻予和兒子走在后面”，“散步”已經起步，本該照直走下去，而文章在這里起了一個波瀾：“母親要走大路”，“兒子要走小路”。等到“我”出于愛母之心決定走大路時，事情偏偏又不照“我”的決定發展，母親要改走小路。真是一波末平，一波又起。這兩處波瀾不僅使記敘擺脫了平鋪直敘的弊病，而且展示了“我”對母親的摯愛，母親對孫子的親情。③

中心

八百字短章，一曲溫馨雋永的親情之歌、倫理之歌、生命之歌。其思想內涵的三個層面清晰可辨，耐人尋味。

故事層面：親情。

文章的基本線條是：“我”勸母親散步→全家人一塊散步→走大路與走小路的分歧→“我”母親依從了“我”兒子的→在不好走的地方，“我”和妻子分別背起母親和兒子。從而寫出了一家人之間的互相愛護、尊重、體貼和理解。

寓意層面：使命感。

《散步》的第一人稱敘事視角，與其說為了真實親切，不如說為了強化主體意識，實現使命感。文章中的“我”，一個中年人，上有老，下有小，肩負著承前啟后的責任。當“我”背著母親，妻背著兒子，“慢慢地，穩穩地，走得很仔細”時，覺得“我背上的同她背上的加起來，就是整個世界”。這里通過定格描寫，強化了中間一代人的主體意識，強化了使命感。這種使命感，是親情向倫理道德的升華。

哲理層面：生生不息。

文學反映生活總折射著一定的文化心態，因而，常常閃耀出哲理的光芒。當我們從贍養與撫養的意義上來審視《散步》的三代人時，我們說文章字里行間“滲透著對生活的使命感”；當我們

從生命與時空的意義上來審視三代人的“散步”時，卻應該說，這里還隱含著“生生不息”的哲學道理。尤其是兒子的一個“偉大”發現：散步的三代四口人“前面也是媽媽和兒子，后面也是媽媽和兒子”，這世代的延續，是生命的強音，從而給了使命感以應有的神圣色彩。

字·詞·句

一、“我決定委屈兒子”

“我決定委屈兒子”并非不愛兒子。只是拿母親和兒子比較來看，母親年事已高，在世時日已短，今后像這樣的“散步”很難說還有幾回了。“我”十分孝敬母親，想盡最大的努力滿足母親的愿望，這種孝心是難能可貴的。

二、“一霎時，我感到了責任的重大。”

猛一看似乎是“小題大作”，聯系上下文的感情基調，就會覺得它新穎而風趣，、恰切地表達出“我”當時的處境和心情，突出了“我”極富責任感的性格特征。

三、“??我和妻子都是慢慢地，穩穩地，走得很仔細，好像我背上的同她背上的加起來，就是整個世界?！?/p>

“我”背的是母親，妻子背的是兒子。母親給我們以生命，兒子又是這生命的延續。這血脈相連的三代人緊緊連接在一起，構成了生命的整體。如今，我們把母親和兒子背在背上前行，正是背負著完整的生命世界，因而油然產生了一種深沉、莊嚴的感覺，這正是家庭生活中、人類社會中承前啟后的一代中年人特有的心理感受。

本文注重語言的藝術特色，主要表現在以下幾方面：

一、情趣盎然

“她現在很聽我的話，就像我小時候很聽她的話一樣。”這句話寫母子關系，母親明理，兒子孝順，相映成趣?！靶〖一锿蝗唤衅饋恚骸懊嬉彩菋寢尯蛢鹤樱竺嬉彩菋寢尯蛢鹤印！覀兌夹α恕！边@兩句話充滿生活情趣，既表現了小家伙的天真、聰穎，又表現了家庭的幸福、溫馨。

二、含義豐富

“我的母親又熬過了一個嚴冬”，寫出“我”為母親最終安然無恙而慶幸的心情?！捌拮幽?，在外面，她總是聽我的?！边@一句表現了妻子的賢惠?！??好像我背上的同她背上的加起來，就是整個世界?！边@句話含義深刻。它以輕襯重，突出了“尊老愛幼”的重大意義，還寫出了中年人已意識到自己責任的重大，正在繼

承和發揚“尊老愛幼”的優良傳統。

三、意在言外

“這南方初春的田野，大塊小塊的新綠??這一切都使人想著一樣東西——生命?！边@段話通過初春秀色的描繪，表現了春天蓬勃的生機，暗示熬過了嚴冬的母親將會獲得新的活力。⑤

其他

審美賞析：

一、尺水興波折射至高至上的人性美

一件簡單的生活小事，作者何以將它寫得饒有興味、發人深思呢？細味之，不外乎采用了尺水興波、一波三折的寫法，在波谷與波峰上折射出親情、人性的亮麗之光。

二、輕描淡寫蘊藉含蓄雋永的詩意美

《散步》一文對景物描寫著墨不多，僅有兩處，可在這輕描淡寫之中卻充滿了濃郁的詩情畫意，為常見的散步提供了一個美妙的背景。

三、娓娓道來展示曉暢素雅的語言美

文未有幾分含蓄外，其余則明白如話。但通