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背诵,作为传统的英语学习方法和行之有效的英语学习方法在中国一直广为应用。我精心收集了关于每日一篇英语短文，供大家欣赏学习!
In recent years, a new definition of the unmarried girls who are more than 30 is called leftover women. The families even the society treat them in the different way, which annoyes them. While in the western countries, no girls will be treated in this way because of the different culture.
近年来,30以上的未婚女性被称为剩女。家庭甚至社会区别对待她们,这给她们带来困扰。然而在西方国家,没有女孩会被这样对待,因为文化不同。
In Chinese tradition, women should stay in the house and take care of the chores, but in the modern society, many girls become independent and they refuse to be the housewife. They not only need to focus on the family, but also want to pursue career. But most men still hold the traditional view that taking care of the children is women’s job, so the girls refuse to marry.
在中国的传统中,女性应该呆在家里,照料家务,但是在现代社会,很多女孩变得独立,她们拒绝成为家庭主妇。她们不仅需要关注家庭,也想要追求事业。但大多数人仍然保持着传统的观点,认为照顾孩子是女人的工作,因此,女孩拒绝结婚。
The call of leftover women disrespects female, while men are treated to be the golden bachelors. Women have the right to pursue what they want, they should not be judged by the marriage. The society always makes the standard for a woman, they believe that married women are happy while unmarried not. So these leftover women are under great pressure.
剩女的叫法是不尊重女性,而男性则为视为黄金单身汉。女性有权追求她们想要的东西,不应该通过婚姻去判断她们。社会总是给女人制定标准,他们认为已婚女人是快乐的而未婚的就不快乐。所以这些剩女承受着巨大压力。
There is no need to care about other people’s thoughts, women should be proud of being independent and live they way they are. no one will be responsible for you but yourself.
不需要在乎别人的想法,女性应该为独立二感到自豪，过自己的生活。没有人会为你负责，只有你自己。
Everybody knows the famous and handsome football player David Beckham, who has a happy family. For a long time, this man’s wife was known to people as David’s beautiful wife, while the fact is that Victoria works so hard for her fashion circle and she makes it. Now everyone treats her as the fashion designer.
大家都知道著名的英俊足球运动员大卫贝克汉姆,他有一个幸福的家庭。在很长一段时间里,这个人的妻子是被人们称为大卫的美丽的妻子,而事实是,维多利亚为她的时尚圈非常努力工作,她成功了。现在每个人都称她为时装设计师。
Victoria was famous for her singing group Spicy Girls, this group was so popular at that time. When she married David Beckham, she decided to quit singing and worked on fashion circle. At first, a lot of people doubt about her ability, because she was just a singer. It seemed not a wise choice to work on fashion.
维多利亚著名于歌唱团体辣妹组合,这个团体在当时是如此受欢迎。她嫁给了大卫?贝克汉姆时，决定退出团体，从事时尚圈。起初,很多人怀疑她的能力,因为她只是一个歌手。似乎不是一个明智的选择。
Victoria later showed great talent in design, the styles she dressed caught the media’s attention, people loved her design. Every new season style was popular by the celebrities. As the family had the great influence, victoria’s fashion design also became famous. Now the brand she has created has great value.
维多利亚之后表现出极大的设计天赋，她穿上去的款式引起了媒体的注意,人们喜欢她的设计。每个新季度的风格都受到了名人的欢迎。随着这个家族的巨大影响力,维多利亚的设计也变得出名。现在她创造的品牌有了巨大的价值。
There is no doubt that Victoria is such a successful woman, she not only has a happy family, but also achieves great success in career.
毫无疑问,维多利亚是一个成功的女人,她不仅有一个幸福的家庭,也在事业获得巨大成功。
When it comes to Madonna, people will call her the mother of popular music or the model of women. There is no doubt that people speak highly of her. Madonna wins her own position in the world, though she is old, she is still the shining star.
当谈到麦当娜，人们总会称她为流行音乐的教母或者女性的楷模。毫无疑问，人们对她的评价是很高的。麦当娜赢得了在世界的一席之地，虽然她不再年轻，但是她仍然是耀眼的明星。
Before Madonna became a singer, her father was very strict to her. He wanted Madonna to study in the college and then worked as a lawyer. But Madonna was not interested in sitting in the office, she wanted to be a dancer, so she came to New York and started to chase her dream. During Madonna’s audition, a CEO decided to sign her and Madonna started her music career.
在麦当娜成为一名歌手前，她的父亲对她是很严格的。他想要麦当娜在大学里学习，然后从事律师的工作。但是麦当娜没有兴趣坐在办公室里，她想要成为一名舞者，因此她去纽约，开始追求她的梦想。在麦当娜试音的时候，一位总裁决定签下她，麦当娜开始了她的音乐事业。
Madonna created the fashion, she was not in the sweet image, she was a wild girl. Many girls followed her and showed their individuality. In the following years, she also acted in the movie. She played so well in Evita Peron, which helped her win the prize.
麦当娜创造了时尚，她不是甜美女孩的形象，她是一个狂野的女孩。很多女孩子追随她，展示她们的个性。在接下来的日子里，她也演了电影。她在《贝隆夫人》里有着优异的表现，帮助她赢得了奖。
Though some people criticized her for her sexy show in the video, Madonna has the successful career. She is popular all the time.
虽然有些人批评麦当娜在录像带中的性感表演，但是她有着成功的事业。她一直都受欢迎。
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英语是目前世界上通用程度最高的语言,也是人们参与国际交流和竞争必备的技能。下面是我带来的每日英语晨读美文，欢迎阅读!
Causes Are People
by Susan Parker Cobbs
IT HAS NOT been easy for me to meet this assignment. In the first place, I am not a very articulate person, and then one has so many beliefs, changing and fragmented and transitory beliefs---besides the ones most central to our lives. I have tried hard to pull out and put into words my most central beliefs. I hope that what I say won’t sound either too simple or too pious.
I know that it is my deep and fixed conviction that man has within him the force of good and the power to translate force into life. For me, this means that a pattern of life that makes personal relationships more important. A pattern that makes more beautiful and attractive the personal virtues: courage, humility, selflessness and love. I used to smile at my mother because the tears came so readily to her eyes when she heard or read of some incident that called out these virtues. I don’t smile any more because I find I have become more and more responsive in the same inconvenient way to the same kind of story.
And so I believe that I both can and must work to achieve the good that is in me. The words of Socrates keep coming back to me: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” By examination we can discover what is our good and we can realize that knowledge of good means its achievement. I know that such self-examination has never been easy---Plato maintained that it was soul’s central search. It seems to me peculiarly difficult now. In a period of such rapid material expansion and such wide spread conflicts, black and white have become gray and will not easily separate.
There is a belief which follows this. If I have the potential of the good life within me and compulsion to express it, then it is a power and compulsion common to all men. What I must have for myself to conduct my search, all men must have: freedom of choice, faith in the power and the beneficent qualities of truth. What frightens me most today is the denial of these rights, because this can only come from the denial of what seems to me the essential nature of man. For if my conviction holds, man is more important than anything he has created and our great task is to bring back again into a subordinate position the monstrous superstructures of our society.
I hope this way of reducing our problems to the human equation is not simple an evasion of them. I don’t believe it is. For most of us it is the area in which we can work : the human area---with ourselves, with the people we touch, and through these two by vicarious understanding, with mankind. I believe this is the safest starting point. I watch young people these days wrestling with our mighty problems. They are much more concerned with them and involved in them than my generation of students ever was. They are deeply aware of the words “quality” and “justice” In their great desire to right wrong they are prone to forget that causes are people, that nothing matters more than people. They need to add to their crusades the warmer and more affecting virtues of compassion and love. And here again come those personal virtues that bring tears to the eyes.
One further word, I believe that the power of good within us is real and comes there from a source outside and beyond ourselves. Otherwise, I could not put my trust so firmly in it.
Keep the Innocent Eye
By Sir Hugh Casson
When I Accepted the invitation to join in "This I Believe," it was not-goodness knows-because I felt I had anything profound to contribute. I regarded it-selfishly, perhaps-as a chance to get my own ideas straight. I started, because it seemed simplest that way, with my own profession. The signposts I try to follow as an architect are these: to keep the innocent eye with which we are all born, and therefore always to be astonished; to respect the scholar but not the style snob; to like what I like without humbug, but also to train my eye and mind so that I can say why I like it; to use my head but not to be frightened to listen to my heart (for there are some things which can be learned only through emotion); finally, to develop to the best of my ability the best that lies within me.
But what, you may say, about the really big problems of life- Religion? Politics? World Affairs? Well, to be honest, these great problems do not weigh heavily upon my mind. I have always cared more for the small simplicities of life-family affection, loyalty of friends, joy in creative work.
Religion? Well, when challenged I describe myself as "Church of England," and as a child I went regularly to church. But today, though I respect churchgoing as an act of piety and enjoy its sidelines, so to speak, the music and the architecture, it holds no significance for me. Perhaps, I don't know, it is the atmosphere of death in which religion is so steeped that has discouraged me-the graveyards, the parsonical voice, the thin damp smell of stone. Even today a "holy" face conjures up not saintliness but moroseness. So, most of what I learned of Christian morality I think I really learned indirectly at home and from friends.
World Affairs? I wonder if some of you remember a famous prewar cartoon. It depicted a crocodile emerging from a peace conference and announcing to a huge flock of sheep (labeled "People of the World"), "I am so sorry we have failed. We have been unable to restrain your warlike ambitions." Frankly, I feel at home with those sheep-mild, benevolent, rather apprehensive creatures, acting together by instinct and of course very, very woolly. But I have learned too, I think, that there is still no force, not even Christianity, so strong as patriotism; that the instinctive wisdom with which we all act in moments of crisis-that queer code of conduct which is understood by all but never formulated-is a better guide than any panel of professors; and finally that it is the inferiority complex, usually the result of an unhappy or unlucky home, which is at the bottom of nearly all our troubles. Is the solution, then, no more than to see that every child has a happy home? I'm not sure that it isn't. Children are nearer truth than we are. They have the innocent eye.
If you think that such a philosophy of life is superficial or tiresomely homespun or irresponsible, I will remind you in reply that the title of this series is "This I Believe”-not "This I ought to believe," nor even "This I would like to believe”-but, "This I Believe."
Dreams Are the Stuff Life Is Made Of
By Carroll Carroll
I believe I am a very lucky man.
My entire life has been lived in the healthy area between too little and too much. I’ve never experienced financial or emotional insecurity, but everything I have, I’ve attained by my own work, not through indulgence, inheritance, or privilege.
Never having lived by the abuses of any extreme, I’ve always felt that a workman is worthy of his hire, a merchant entitled to his profit, an artist to his reward.
As a result of all this, my bargaining bump may be a little underdeveloped, so I’ve never tried to oversell myself. And though I may work for less than I know I can get, I find that because of this, I’m never so afraid of losing a job that I’m forced to compromise with my principles.
Naturally in a life as mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially fortunate as mine has been, a great many people have helped me. A few meant to, most did so by accident. I still feel I must reciprocate. This doesn’t mean that I’ve dedicated my life to my fellow man. I’m not the type. But I do feel I should help those I’m qualified to help, just as I’ve been helped by others.
What I’m saying now is, I feel, part of that pattern. I think everyone should, for his own sake, try to reduce to six hundred words the beliefs by which he lives—it’s not easy—and then compare those beliefs with what he enjoys—not in real estate and money and goods, but in love, health, happiness, and laughter.
I don’t believe we live our lives and then receive our reward or punishment in some afterlife. The life and the reward…the life and the punishment—these to me are one. This is my religion, coupled with a firm belief that there is a Supreme Being who planned this world and runs it so that “no man is an island, entire of himself…” The dishonesty of any one man subverts all honesty. The lack of ethics anywhere adulterates the whole world’s ethical content. In these—honesty and ethics—are, I think, the true spiritual values.
I believe the hope for a thoroughly honest and ethical society should never be laughed at. The most idealistic dreams have repeatedly forecast the future. Most of the things we think of today as hard, practical, and even indispensable were once merely dreams.
So I like to hope that the world need not be a dog-eat-dog jungle. I don’t think I’m my brother’s keeper. But I do think I’m obligated to be his helper. And that he has the same obligation to me.
In the last analysis, the entire pattern of my life and belief can be found in the words “do NOT do unto others that which you would NOT have others do unto you.” To say “Do unto others as you would have others DO unto you” somehow implies bargaining, an offer of favor for favor. But to restrain from acts which you, yourself, would abhor is an exercise in will power that must raise the level of human relationship.
“What is unpleasant to thyself,” says Hillel, “THAT do NOT unto thy neighbor. This is the whole law,” and he concluded, “All else is exposition.”
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