篇一：励志英语文章10篇
1.失败的意义
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure,失败并不代表你是个失败者 It does mean you haven't succeeded yet.它只表明你尚未成功
Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing, 失败并不代表你一无所获 It does mean you have learned something.它只表明你吸取了一次教训 Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool, 失败并不代表你很愚蠢 It does mean you had a lot of faith.它只表明你信心百倍
Failure doesn't mean you've been disgraced, 失败并不代表你无脸见人 It does mean you were willing to try.它只表明你百折不回
Failure doesn't mean you don't have it, 失败并不代表白费功夫
It does mean you have to do something in a different way.它只表明你的方法仍待改进 Failure doesn't mean you are inferior, 失败并不代表你低人一等 It does mean you are not perfect.它只表明你也并非完人
Failure doesn't mean you've wasted your life, 失败并不代表你浪费了生命 It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.它只表明你有理由重新开始 Failure doesn't mean you should give up, 失败并不代表你应该放弃 It does mean you must try harder.它只表明你要加倍努力
Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it, 失败并不代表成功永远不属于你 It does mean it will take a little longer.它只表明你可能需要付出更多的时间 Failure doesn't mean God has abandoned you, 失败并不代表上帝已经将你抛弃 It does mean God has a better idea.它只表明上帝还有更好的主意
2.走自己的路
Don't listen to those who say,别听那些人的话 It's not done that way.这是不能那么做
Maybe it's not, but maybe you will.也许是不能那么做，可是也许你就会那么做
Don't listen to those who say, 别听那些人的话
You're taking too big a chance.你这个险冒得太大了
Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor,米开朗其罗可能在西斯廷教堂里的地板上做过画
and it would surely be rubbed out by today.到今天肯定已经被抹掉了
Most importantly, don't listen ，When the little voice of fear
inside of you rear its ugly head and says, they’re all smarter than you out there. They’re more talented, They're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections…
最重要的是当你心中恐惧的声音抬起她丑陋的头说：那边那些人都比你聪明，他们更有才华，他们更高大，皮肤更白皙，他们更漂亮更幸运，而且认识各种各样的人。
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, But with the strength of conviction，That you can move others by your own efforts, 你千万别理会，我坚信，只要选择一条你感兴趣的路，不排除爱情，敏锐以及与别人的合作，而且坚定的认为通过你自身的努力就能感动他人
And do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live,不把成功或者失败作为你生活的标准
The chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.那么你就可能成为值得自己敬佩的人
3.信念
Faith is the eternal elixir which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought?
Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all miracles,
And all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science!
Faith is the only known antidote for failure! Faith is the element, the chemical which,
When mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
Faith is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.
Faith is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite
Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
Jump on the ride of life And live a new adventure With perseverance And an open mind.
4. 论变化
Change is the only absolute In the world,
The only thing that you can depend on . Nothing stays the same. Tomorrow will come, Bringing with it
New beginnings and sometimes Unexpected endings .
You can hold on to the past And get left in the dust; Or, you can choose to
5.硕果与玫瑰
The man who wants a garden fair,
Or small or very big,
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With flowers growing here and there,
Must bend his back and dig.
The things are mighty few on earth, That wishes can attain,
6.时间的价值
Whatever we want of any worth, We've got to work to gained
It matters not what goal you seek, Its secret here reposes:
You've got to dig from week to week, To get results or roses.
凯瑟琳.桑
To realize the value of one year:要想知道一年的价值
Ask a student who has failed a final exam.就去问期末考试不及格的同学
To realize the value of one month: 要想知道一个月的价值 Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. 就去问生那早产儿的母亲
To realize the value of one week: 要想知道一周的价值 Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper. 就去问问周报的编辑 To realize the value of one hour: 要想知道一小时的价值 Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. 就去问等待相会的恋人
To realize the value of one minute: 要想知道一分钟的价值
Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane. 那就去问问误了火车汽车或飞机的人
To realize the value of one second: 要想知道一秒的价值 Ask a person who has survived an accident. 就去问大难不死的人
To realize the value of one millisecond: 要想知道一毫秒的价值
Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics. 就去问问奥运会获得银牌的人 Time waits for no one.时间不等人
Treasure every moment you have.你拥有的每一分每一秒都要珍惜
7.今天是崭新的一天
Your tomorrows are as bright As you want to make them. There is no reason to carry The darkness of the past With you into today
Today is a wonderful new experience'a3'ac Full of every possibility to make
Your life exactly what you want it to be Today is the beginning of new happiness, New directions and new relationships
Today is the day to remind yourself That you posses the power And strength you need
To bring contentment, love and joy into your life Today is the day to understand you And to give yourself the love And the patience that you need Today is the day to move forward Towards your bright tomorrow
8.梦想
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die
Life is a broken winged bird That cannot fly.
9.一条没有走过的路
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. To leave the world a little better, Whether by a healthy child, A Garden patch,
Or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed With enthusiasm
And sung with exultation; To know even one life has Breathed easier
Because you have lived…… This is to have succeeded.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
10.成功的内含
What is success?
To laugh often and love much;
To win the respect of Intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the
Approbation of honest critics And endure the betrayal of false Friends;
To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give one's Self;
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篇二：简单英语文章精选阅读
English learning
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O. Hey was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Hey went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank, when some money went missing from the bank O. Hey was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the reader?s surprise.
manage to do sth(设法做某事) be believed to have done sth.(被认为做过某事)
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One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London?s big medical schools, He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton (人体骨骼) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase (箱子). At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.
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On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi?an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles.”Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi?an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xi?an and his early dreams were coming true. Robert Friedlander?s next destinations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.
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Mr. Grey was the manager of a small office in London. He lived in the country, and came up to work by train. He liked walking from the station to his office unless it was raining, because it gave him some exercise.
One morning he was walking along the street when a stranger stopped him and said to him, “You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London without a penny in my pockets, I stopped you in this street and asked you to lend me some money, and you lent me ￡ 5, because you said you were willing to take a chance so as to give a man a start on the way to success.”Mr. Grey thought for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember you. Go on with your story!” “Well,” answered the stranger, “are you still willing to take a chance?”
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Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground. You cannot jump any higher because the earth pulls you hard. The pull of the earth is called gravity.You can easily find out the pull of the earth. If you weigh yourself, you will know how much gravity is pulling you.Since there is gravity, water runs down hill. When you throw a ball into the air, it falls back down. Because of gravity, you do not fall off the earth as it whirls (旋转) around.
Then, can we get away from the earth and go far out into space? Now you can do it, because spaceships have been invented. Then spaceship will go so fast that it can escape (逃出) the earth?s gravity and carry you into space.
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An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon caught up with by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to make out the ticket, the woman behind the wheel said proudly, “Before you go any further, young man, I think you should know that the mayor of this city is a good friend of mine.”The officer did not say a word, but kept writing. “I am also a friend of chief of police Barens,”continued the woman, getting more angry each moment, Still he kept on writing. “Young man,”she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson and State Senator (参议员) Patton.” Handing the ticket to the woman, the officer asked pleasantly , “Tell me, do you know Bill Bronson.”“Why, no,”she answered.
“Well, that is the man you should have known,”he said, heading back to his motorcycle, “I an Bill Bronson.”
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Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling. In 1849, after graduation from medical school. She decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.
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In today?s age of fast travel, the world seems a smaller place---- and to some people, a less exciting place, Fifty years ago only a few English people and holidays abroad, People who didn?t travel thought of other countries as very far away and different. For example, people thought the French all eat garlic(大蒜), the Italians all eat spaghetti(细条实心面). and the Americans all drink Coca Cola, These definite(明确的) ideas of other nationalities are called stereotypes(陈规老套) . But do we have the same stereotypes today? People travel more, we all watch the same TV programmers, and ideas travel quickly too. Nowadays everyone eats garlic and spaghetti and drinks Coca Cola. Everyone listens to the same music. wears the same fashions(流行式样) , buys the same cars. They just do it in a different language!
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We are used to the idea of aging in ourselves. We are so used to this that it comes as a surprise to find that there may be some animals that do not age. Sea anemones(海葵) are an example. Some have been kept for nearly a century without showing any signs of lifelessness. Some kinds of sea worms can even “grow backwards.” If kept in the dark and given nothing to eat, they get steadily smaller, They finally end as a ball of cells(细胞) looking rather like the egg from which they came. Under good conditions the ball will turn back to a worm and start growing again. One could probably keep them growing and un-growing again and again.
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Now I?d like to talk to you about your final exam. The exam will be held next Thursday, the last day of the exam week. Remember to bring two of three pens in case you run out of ink. And unlike the midterm exam, this test will not include multiple --- choice questions; it will consist entirely of essays(文章). You?ll have to answer three of the five essay questions. The exam will be comprehensive (全面的), which means you?ll be responsible for all of the subject matters we covered in class this term, I would suggest you review your midterm exam as well as textbooks and your class notes. The final exam will count as 50 percent of your grade of the course. The research project (项目) will count as 20 percent and the midterm exam 30 percent. I?ll be in my office almost all day next Tuesday. If you run into any problems, please drop in. Good luck to you and I?ll see you on Tuesday.
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When Dean Arnold got his first job, he was miserable (痛苦的), Each time he went to work, he coughed and he couldn?t breathe. Working in a bakery(面包房) when you are allergic to (对…过敏) flour can be painful.
But Arnold stayed with the National Biscuit Company for ten years. He was a businessman and he helped them improve production. At last his health problems became too serious. He left and formed his own company.
With his wife and mother, he founded Arnold Bakery. They tried new recipes (配方). changing the kind and amount of flour used. This enabled Arnold to work there without too much pain. The bread, made with unbleached flour (标准粉), was baked in a brick oven (烘炉).They began by baking two dozen loaves. The bread was sold door to door for fifteen cents a loaf. Winning customers to his unusual, old-fashioned bread took time. But Arnold, struggling against his allergy, built his bakery into one of the largest in the United States.
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When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes, Everything else seems blurry(=unclear). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near—sighted. ThenPeople who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm?s length. If they want to do much reading ,they must get glasses, too. Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people?s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle (角度). To prove this to yourself, look at an object our of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object?s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.
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Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of priceless, individually (独特地) tailored stories with which American grandparents of her day brought up children. There was the story of the little boys who had been taught complete, quick obedience (服从). One day when they were out on the grassy plain, their father shouted. “Fall down on your faces!” They did, and the terrible prairie(草原) fire swept over them and they weren?t hurt. There was also the story of three boys at school, each of whom received a cake sent from home. One saved his, and the mice ate it; one ate all of his , and he got sick; and who do you think had the best time? —Why, of course, the one who shared his cake with his friends.
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The most important use of drifting (漂流) bottles is to find ocean currents. When the position and direction of currents are known, ships can use the forward movement of a current or stay away from currents that would carry them off their course. Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to use bottles in the study of currents. He wondered why British mall ships needed a week or two longer than U.S. ships needed in order to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Franklin thought the Gulf Stream (墨西哥湾流) might explain this difference.Franklin talked with captains of U.S. ships. He found that they knew each turn of the Gulf Stream. They used the current in every possible way. From his talks with the captains. Franklin made his first
map of the Gulf Stream. Then he checked his map by using sealed (密封的) bottles. The map that he finally made is still used, with only a few changes, today.
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The Guidance Department (教导处) at Burrville High School has a staff (职员) of eleven. Most of their work is done with the students. But the staff sees a lot of parents, too. “Parent meetings form a clear monthly pattern,” says Mildred Foreman, Guidance Director. “This pattern stays much the same from year to year. The busy months are October, March and May.”September starts rather slowly. Few parents come in, Most of these want to discuss the schedules (日程安排). October brings many behaviour (行为) problems. Some parents are called in. Others come by themselves. Things quiet down in November December is a quiet month. “It?s the holiday,” Ms Foreman says. “People want to come in, I know , but they decide to wait until after New Year?s Day.”
Report cards go home just before Christmas holidays. Bad marks bring parents in as school reopens. This happens again in March, another report card month. May is always the year?s busiest month. That?s when parents realize that their children might be held back (留级). They come in to see if anything can be done before things are decided in June.
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Maliyuwa, a nearby village. They lived with the man?s big family—his parents his brothers, their wives and children. They family kept an elephant, in which the young woman soon took a great interest. Every day she fed it with fruit and sugar.Three months later the woman went back to her parents? home, having quarrelled with her husband. Soon the elephant refused to eat and work. It appeared to be ill and heart—broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house.It went to the woman?s home. On seeing her, the elephant waved its trunk and touched her with it. The young woman was so moved (感动) by the act of the animal that she returned to her husband?s home.
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The blue eyes that looked at him from outside the door were like the light through a magnifying glass (放大镜) when it is at its brightest and smallest, when paper and leaves begin to smoke.“Hey ,” said the man in the door. “Remember me?” “Yes,” the boy said, whispering. “Rick.”He felt so surprised to see Rick. All of Rick seemed to be shown in the eyes, with a strong feeling that ought to have hurt him“You knew me,” Rick said. “You hadn?t forgotten.”“You?re ——just the same,” the boy said, and felt much thankful.He seemed even to be wearing the same clothes, the same blue shirt and grey trousers. He was thin, but he was built to be lean; and he was still, or again, sunburnt (晒黑了). After everything, the slow white smile still showed the slight feeling of happiness.“Let?s look at you,” Rick said, dropping into a chair. Then slowly he felt more at home, and he became once more just Rick, as if nothing had happened. There were lines about his eyes, and deeper lines on his cheeks (面颊), but he looked like——just Rick, lined by sunlight and smiling.
“When I look at you,” he said, “You make me think about me, for we look like each other.”
“Yes,” said the boy, eagerly, “they all think we both look like my grandfather.”
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Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe that trees do communicate (交际) with each other. Not long ago, researchers learned some surprising things. First a willow tree attacked in the woods by caterpillars (毛虫) changed the chemistry of its leaves and made them taste so terrible that they got tired of the leaves and stopped eating them. Then even more astonishing, the tree sent out a special smell---a signal (信号) causing its neighbors to change the chemistry of their own leaves and make them less tasty.Communication, of course, doesn?t need to be in words. We can talk to each other by smiling, raising our shoulders and moving our hands. We know that birds and animals use a whole vocabulary of songs, sounds, and movements. Bees dance their signals, flying in certain patterns that tell other bees where to find nectar (花蜜) for honey. So why shouldn?t trees have ways of sending message?
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The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single—engined aeroplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn?t know how high she was flying. At night, and in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged (冲) into the sea.Just before dawn, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames (火焰) coming from the engine. Would she be able to reach land? There was nothing to do except to keep going and to hope.In the end, Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.
What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty—six minutes.In the years that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on each occasion (时刻) she set a new record for flying time. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show that women had a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful.
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A nobleman and a merchant once met in an inn. For their lunch they both ordered soup. When it was brought, the nobleman took a spoonful, but the soup was so hot that he burned his mouth and tears came to his eyes, The merchant asked him why he was weeping. The nobleman was ashamed to admit (承认) that he had burned his mouth and answered, “Sir, I once had a brother who committed a great crime (犯罪), for which he was hanged. I was thinking of his death, and that made me weep.” The merchant believed this story and began to eat his soup. He too burned his mouth, so that he had tears
in his eyes. The nobleman noticed it and asked the merchant, “Sir, why do you weep?” The merchant, who now saw that the nobleman had deceived (欺骗) him, answered, “My lord(=master), I am weeping because you were not hanged together with your brother.”
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver?s Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man?s inhumanity (残酷) to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down the Mississippi River on a raft (木排). To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose—thumbing at (对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated (受挫折) in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is effective communication (交流). It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that “We have only one life to live.” If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ?bed and breakfast? houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.“We didn?t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ?VACANCIES? meant ?holidays?, because the Spanish word for ?holidays” is ?vacaciones?. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ?VACANCLES?, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ?NO VACANCLES?, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ?DIVERSION? means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ?DIVERSION? on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more. coffee, I said ?Thank you? in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ?Thank you? in French means ?Mo, thank you.?
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A beautiful and very successful actress was the star of a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn?t want to have to go back there every night, so she rented (租用) an expensive flat in the centre of the city, bought some beautiful furniture (家具) and hired a man to paint the rooms in new colours.It was very difficult to get tickets for her show because everybody wanted to see it, so she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better and more willingly for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the painter?s bill. At the bottom of it were the words “Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance,￡3,” with this note： “After 5 p.m. I get fifteen shillings an hour instead of ten shillings.”
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The basenji is a central African hunting dog. It comes from a country called Chad, which is north of the Central African Republic. The basenji was well—known as the “silent dog” because for centuries no basenjis has ever been known to bark (吠). Then at a dog show in London in 1953, a basenji actually barked.
As well as being clever, basenjis are known for their natural courage and are still popular hunting dogs in Africa. But in America people keep them mainly because they are gentle and full of fun. The basenji has an unusual habit, it washes itself all over like a cat. It is a middle—sized dog, 16 or 17 inches high from the shoulder. It weighs about 20 pounds. A basenji?s coat is short and silky. It may be brown, white, or gold , or a mixture of these three colours.
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An ape has a larger brain than any animal except man, though it is much smaller than a man?s brain. Apes all belong to the hot countries of the world—tropical Africa and South—east Asia.The gorilla is the largest of the apes. He is as tall as six feet when standing upright. Many people think that gorillas are very fierce. They are often described as standing upright like a man, beating their fists and roaring. In their home, in the forests of Cetral Africa, however, they are not at all like this, They are peaceful animals and never use their great strength unless attacked. Even then, they retreat if they can.
Gorillas have black faces and long, black, hairy coats. They feed during the day on plants and fruit. At night the old male often sleeps on the ground at the foot of a tree, while the others each make a sleeping platform in the tree bending the leafy branches. Besides this, gorillas climb trees very seldom.
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Sam and Joe were astronauts. There was once a very dangerous trip and the more experienced astronauts knew there was only a small chance of coming back alive (活着). Sam and Joe, however, thought it would be exciting though a little dangerous. “we?re the best men for the job,” they said to the boss. “There may be problems, but we can find the answers.” “They?re the last people I?d trust,” thought the boss. “But all the other astronauts have refused to go.”
Once they were in space, Joe had to go outside to make some repairs. When the repairs were done, he tried to get back inside the spaceship. But the door was locked. He knocked but there was no answer. He knocked again, louder this time, and again no answer came. Then he hit the door as hard as he could and finally a voice said, “Who?s there?” “It?s me! Who else
could it be?” shouted Joe. Sam let him in all right but you can imagine that Joe never asked to go on a trip with Sam again!
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Moscow, Russia (Space news)—“The computer is a better chess player,” insisted Viktor Prozorov, the loser. “It seemed as if it were laughing after every good move. I know I should have beaten it for the sake of mankind (为人类着想), but I just couldn?t win,” he announced and shook his head sadly.Prozorov?s disappointment was shared by several grand masters who were present, some of whom were so upset that they shouted at the machine. Many chess players said that this meant the end of chess championships (锦标赛) around the world, since the fun had been taken out of the game.The computer walked—or rather, rolled—away with 5,000 dollars in prize money and limited its remarks to a set of noises and lights.
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“I would almost rather see you dead,” Robert S. Cassatt, a leading banker (银行家) of Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old eldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th century, playing at drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a young lady, but serious work in art was not. And when the young lady?s family ranked among (跻身于) the best of Philadelphia?s social (社交界的) families, such an idea could not even be considered.That was how Mary Cassatt, born 1844, began her struggle as an artist. She did not tremble before her father?s anger. Instead, she opposed (抗拒) him with courage and at last made him change his mind. Mary Cassatt gave up her social position (社会地位) and all thought of a husband and a family, which in those times was unthinkable for a young lady. In the end, after long years of hard work and perseverance (坚持), she became America?s most important woman artist and the internationally recognized leading woman painter of the time.
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Annealing is a way of making metal softer by heating it and then letting it cool very slowly. If metal is heated and then cooled very quickly, for example by dipping (浸) it in water, it will be very hard but also very brittle (脆) that is, it will break easily. Metal that has been annealed is soft but does not break as easily. It is possible to make metal as hard or as soft as is wished, by annealing it. The metal is heated, and allowed to cool slowly for a certain length of time. The longer the heated metal takes to cool slowly, the softer it becomes. Annealing can also be used on other material, such as glass.
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A well-known old man was being interviewed (采访) and was asked if it was correct that he had just celebrated his ninety—ninth birthday.“That?s right.”said the old man. “Ninety—nine years old, and I haven?t an enemy in the world. They?re all dead.”“Well, sir,”said the interviewer, “I hope very much to have the honour of interviewing you on your hundredth birthday.”The old man looked at the yound man closely, and said, “I can?t see why you shouldn?t. You look fit and healthy to me!”
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Joe and Helen Mills had two small children. One was six and the other four. They always resisted going to bed, and Helen was always complaining (抱怨) about this and asking Joe for help. But as he did not come home until after they had gone, to bed during the week, he was unable to help except at weekends.Joe considered himself a good singer, but really his voice was not at all musical. However, he decided that, if he sang to the children when they went to bed, it would help them to relax, and they would soon go to sleep.He did this every Saturday and Sunday night until he heard his small son whispered to his younger sister, “If you pretend that you?re asleep, he stops.”
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Arli has learnt how to type for several years. Still, he types rather slowly, and he can only spell out words of four letters or less. But Arli is doing quite well for a dog.He is black, white, and brown. He uses a special typewriter it has shallow bowl—like keys that are about two inches wide. His owner calls out the letter, the dog hits the keys with this nose.
Arli does very well at typing “good dog”. But he seems to have a bit of trouble when he is asked to spell out “bad dog”.
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Schools and parents in Shenzhen City have been asked to take better care of children?s eyesight as 45 percent of them, were found to be shortsighted. Too much reading, poor lighting and too much TV are blamed. Of the city?s high school graduates. who applied to attend college this summer, two—thirds had to have their choices limited because of poor eyesight, Shenzhen Special Zone (特区) Daily said.
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SINGAPORE-Another Thai worker died in his sleep last Friday, the second such death in the past three days and the 10th since the beginning of the year. Thongehai Sombattra, 22, is said to be the youngest to have died mysteriously this year.
A total of 10 young Thai construction workers in their late 20s and 30s who appeared well and healthy when they went to bed have died since the beginning of this year. They were either found dead in the morning or had died suddenly in the middle on the night after some difficulty in breathing.From China Daily, March 19,1990
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The man sitting opposite Robert was the Financial Controller. Everybody called him “the FC” for short. He made all the decisions about money. Robert needed some more. That was why he had to see him. The two men did not get on very well. In fact, they had always disliked each other.“Your request is out of the question,” the FC said. Robert had difficulty in controlling himself, but he managed somehow. He explained that he wanted the money in order to make more programmes. “And why do you want to do that?” the FC asked sharply. Again, Robert almost lost his temper. “Because more and more people are listening to my department?s programmes. There?s great demand for them,” he answered.The FC did not
篇三：经典优美励志的英文句子50句(上)
经典优美励志英文句子（上）
每天阅读背诵一句，不要求多背，贵在持之以恒！在阅读背诵的感受句子背后带来的生活启示，在轻松中学习英语！
1、If it is wrong to love you, then my heart just won’t let me be right——爱上你是一种错，但我的心却怂恿我一错再错。
2、The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. - 生活中最大的幸福 是坚信有人爱着我们。
3、Not every morning wake up your alarm clock, but dream! 每天早上叫醒你的不是闹钟，而是梦想!
4、Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.——Tagore 有福之人，是因为他的真实比他的名誉更耀眼。——泰戈尔
5、Life is too short to not experience the madness of love. 生命太短，不能不疯狂地去爱一把。
6、Sometimes goodbye is the only way. 有时候，除了说再见，无路可走。
7、Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 人生太短暂，不要把时间浪费在伤害他人上。
8、Sometimes it sucks being strong. Because when people know that you are strong, they think that it is okay to hurt you, over and over again. 有时候坚强并不是什么好事情，因为有些人会认为你坚强，所以伤害你问题不大，于是一再的伤害你。
9、Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress——选择让你快乐的那个人来共度余生，而不是你必须努力取悦的那一个。
10、Shall I hang on or shall I let you go? 我该死缠烂打，还是放手让你走？
11、Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.-Aristotle 认识自己是一切智慧的开端。-亚里士多德
12、Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. 我们忘记学校所教的东西以后，最终剩下的就是教育。--Albert Einstein
13、A conundrum of a city. Same scenes, same routes, and same destinies.迷宫般的城市，让人习惯看相同的景物，走相同的路线，到相同的目的地.
14、Never do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset. 不要因为一时的心烦，做出一辈子的傻事。
15、Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ——人在许诺时都一样，不同之处在于他们的行动。
16、Only few people know that life is beautiful for lacking something. The so-called turning-around is that you not only miss the sun in day time but also the stars at night——只有很少的人才懂得，人生是因为缺憾而美丽，而所谓的回头，只不过是丢掉了白天的太阳之后，又错过了夜晚的星星。
17、True friends see your tears before they even fall. 真正的朋友总在你的眼泪滑落之前，就看到了眼里的泪水。
18、If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't, nothing can make him stay. 如果他爱你，没人能妨碍他靠近；如果他忘情，也无力去阻止他离去。
19、Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours. 有时候让别人在乎你的最好方法，就是你不要再那么在乎他们。
20、I’ve learned the hard way. I can’t control everything, plan everything. 我已经学到了这个教训。我不能控制一切，计划一切。－《Gossip Girl》
21、If plan A doesn’t work, just remember：there are 25 more letters of the alphabet. 如果A计划宣告失败的话，你要记得，字母表上还有其他25个字母呢。
22、Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment, not only about survival.———人生应该由一串串快乐的时光组成，不应当只为生存而生存。
23、Success comes from doing what you really love and what you are really good at .——只有做自己真正喜欢并且擅长的事时，才有可能取得成功。
24、To me, you are perfect.? 你在我心中是最美
25、The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa。人们对爱的渴望，比饥饿的人对面包的渴望更加强烈。-特蕾莎修女
26、If you love someone, set them free.?爱一个人，就是让他自由自在的做他自己。－《Gossip Girl》
27、Sometimes I drive so fast . Just to feel the danger . I wanna scream ，It makes me feel alive.——Avril 有时我把车开的超快，只是为了体验危险。 我有时也想大声尖叫，这可以让我觉得自己还活着 ——艾薇儿
28、Expectation is the root of all heartache. 期待是所有心痛的根源。
29、Sometimes the world tries to knock it out of you, but I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales .——《August Rush》 世人会不时的践踏你的梦想，但我相信那旋律真实存在，就像有些人相信童话一样。——《八月迷情》
30、Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.——Tagore 有福之人，是因为他的真实比他的名誉更耀眼。——泰戈尔
31、Three things in life when gone never come back: time, opportunity, and words. 人生有三样东西不可挽回：时间，机遇，以及说出去的话。
32、Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. 记得要开心噢，你永远不会知道谁会因为你的微笑而爱上你。
33、Don't let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present. - 别让过去的悲催，或者未来的忧虑，毁掉当下的快乐。
34、In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different。——Coco Chanel 要做到不可替代，就要与众不同。——香奈儿
35、Be alike flower. Spread beauty and happiness wherever you stay; irrespective of your surroundings. 像花儿一样，无论身在何处，不管周遭环境如何，都依然潇洒的绽放自己的美丽，活出自己的精彩。
36、If we didn't have stupid thoughts, we'd have no interesting thoughts at all. 如果没有傻乎乎的想法，我们就不会撞上有意思的点子。
37、Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of. 爱很难投入，但一旦投入，便更难走出
38、If you love someone, you will know everything about her without asking her; if you don't love someone, you will forget everything even if she told you everything——如果你爱一个人，你会了解她的一切，而不需要问她；如果你不爱一个人，即使她告诉你她的一切，你也还是会忘记的。
39、Not every morning wake up your alarm clock, but dream! 每天早上叫醒你的不是闹钟，而是梦想!
40、In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an ueachable dream and an unforgettable love. 人的一生，都有一些说不出的秘密，挽不回的遗
憾，触不到的梦想，忘不了的爱。
41、Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing. - 快乐和痛苦都是人生的财富，与其消极的逃避，不如勇敢一些面对，其实能够回忆也是一种幸福。
42、A smile is the shortest distance between two people. - 微笑是两个人之间最短的距离
43、Some people were supposed to walk into your life, teach you a lesson, and then walk away. - 很多人闯进你的生活，只是为了给你上一课，然后转身离开。
44、Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest. 别气馁，因为万事总是开头最难。
45、Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. 每天出去走走，奇迹就在身边。
46、Stop competing with others. Start competing with yourself——不要老拿自己跟别人比，要比就跟自己比。
47、Remember these simple guidelines for happiness: 1. Free your heart from hate; 2. Free your mind from worry; 3. Live simply; 4. Give more; 5. Expect less. 幸福五大原则：1. 心中无恨；2. 脑中无忧； 3. 生活简单； 4. 多些付出； 5. 少些期待。
48、It’s quite ironic that in life, the person that brings out the best in you and makes you strong is actually your weakness. 揭发一个相当讽刺的真相：那个能激发出你最好的一面，使得你变得越来越强大的人，其实，是你的弱点。
49、You can hurt with your words but sometimes you can hurt more with your silence.生活中，你说的话可能会伤到别人，但有时候，你的沉默会让人伤得更深。
《简单励志的英语文章精选》出自：百味书屋
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