佑玲天涯
开展课外美文阅读对学生 学习英语 大有益处,但要抓好并非易事。它不仅仅是引导学生多看,还要采用适当的 方法 引领学生自主地走进读本,内化、吸收蕴含在字里行间的真谛,孕育出富有个性的美文。我整理了有关英语美文摘抄带翻译，欢迎阅读!有关英语美文摘抄带翻译：I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis "The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity." Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought up in the Christian church. Later I believed for a while that communism offered the best hope for this world. I acknowledge the need for belief, but I cannot forget how through the ages great faiths have been vitiated by fanaticism and dogmatism, by intolerance and cruelty, by the intellectual dishonesty, the folly, the crankiness or the opportunism of their adherents. Have I no faith at all, then? Faith is the thing at the core of you, the sediment that's left when hopes and illusions are drained away. The thing for which you make any sacrifice because without it you would be nothing - a mere walking shadow. I know what my own core is. I would in the last resort sacrifice any human relationship, any way of living to the search for truth which produces my poem. I know there are heavy odds against any poem I write surviving after my death. I realize that writing poetry may seem the most preposterously useless thing a man can be doing today. Yet it is just at such times of crisis that each man discovers or rediscovers what he values most. My poet's instinct to make something comes out most strongly then, enabling me to use fear, doubt, even despair as creative stimuli. In doing so, I feel my kinship with humanity, with the common man who carries on doing his job till the bomb falls or the sea closes over him. Carries on because of his belief, however inarticulate, that this is the best thing he can do. But the poet is luckier than the layman, for his job is always a vacation. Indeed, it's so like a religious vacation that he may feel little need for a religious faith, but because it is always trying to get past the trivial and the transient or to reveal these as images of the essential and the permanent, poetry is at least a kind of spiritual activity. Men need a religious belief to make sense out of life. I wish I had such a belief myself, but any creed of mine would be honeycombed with confusions and reservations. Yet when I write a poem I am trying to make sense out of life. And just now and then my experience composes and transmutes itself into a poem which tells me something I didn't know I knew. So for me the compulsion of poetry is the sign of a belief, not the less real for being unformulated ... a belief that men must enjoy life, explore life, enhance life. Each as best he can. And that I shall do these things best through the practice of poetry. 我希望我能相信 塞(西尔)·戴·刘易斯 “优秀的人们信心尽失， 坏蛋们则充满了炽烈的狂热。” 对我来说，叶芝的这两行诗概括了今天的现实，信仰的货币似乎已经贬值了。我是在____的熏陶下长大的。后来有一段时间我相信共产主义给这个世界带来了最大的希望。我承认信仰的必要性，但我无法忘记历代的伟大信仰是如何因其拥护者的狂热、教条、褊狭、残忍、学术欺诈、愚蠢、偏执或机会主义而遭到损害的。 那么，难道我就没有信仰吗?信仰存在于你的心灵深处，当希望和幻想渐渐枯竭，沉淀下来的就是信仰。为了它，你甘愿做出任何牺牲，因为没有它，你的存在就毫无意义——你只不过是一个会行走的影子。我知道我的内心深处有什么。在别无选择的情况下，我愿意牺牲任何人际关系、任何生活方式去寻找使我能创作诗歌的真理。我知道很有可能我写的每一首诗在我死后都不能流传。我也明白诗歌创作在今天或许是一个人所能做的最荒谬、最无用的事情。然而，正是在这样的危难之时，每一个人才能发现或重新发现他最珍视的东西。于是我那诗人渴望创作的本能在胸中涌动，使我能让恐惧、怀疑，甚至绝望激发自己创作。在诗歌创作中，我觉得我和人类，和平凡的人紧密相连，他们坚守着自己的岗位，直到炸弹落下或是海浪席卷而来将他们淹没。坚守是因为他相信这是他最能做的事情，尽管这信仰难以用语言传达。但诗人比普通人幸运，因为他的工作始终是他的天职。他就像肩负着一种宗教使命一样，或许并不需要有宗教信仰，但因为诗歌或是不涉及琐事和瞬息即逝的事物，或是将它们作为本质和永恒的意象，诗歌至少是一种精神活动。 人需要有一种宗教信仰使他的生活有意义。我希望我也能有这样的信仰，但我的任何信念总会充满困惑和保留看法。然而，我写诗就是努力发掘生活的意义。偶尔，我用诗歌表现自己的经历和感受，从中也明白了我不曾意识到自己已经懂得的道理。因此，对我来说，诗歌创作的冲动表现出来的，不是因为不系统而不太真实的东西……而是一种信仰，那就是，人必须享受生活，探索生活的真谛，提高生活的品质。人可各尽其能，而我则通过写诗尽善尽美地完成我的使命。 附注： 塞(西尔)·戴·刘易斯：英国最杰出的诗人之一。 有关英语美文摘抄带翻译：Life, free to soar by Wayne B.Lynn One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites.Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting anddancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check. Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. Theyshook and pulled, but the restraining string and the cumbersome tail kept them in tow, facingupward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and kept them in tow, facing upward andagainst the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say,”Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” they soared beautifully even as they fought therestriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” itseemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.” Yet freedom from restraint simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic breeze. Itfluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string againsta dead bush. ”Free at last”, free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along theground, and to lodge lifeless against the first obstruction. How much like kites we sometimes are. The heaven gives us adversity and restrictions, rules tofollow from which we can grow and gain strength. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to thewinds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach theheights we might have obtained. We keep part of the commandment and never rise highenough to get our tails off the ground. Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the restraints that we may chafeunder are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve. 自由的代价 在一个有风的春日，我看到一群年轻人正在迎风放风筝玩乐，各种颜色、各种形状和大小的风筝就好像美丽的鸟儿在空中飞舞。当强风把风筝吹起，牵引线就能够控制它们。 风筝迎风飘向更高的地方，而不是随风而去。它们摇摆着、拉扯着，但牵引线以及笨重的尾巴使它们处于控制之中，并且迎风而上。它们挣扎着、抖动着想要挣脱线的束缚，仿佛在说：“放开我!放开我!我想要自由!”即使与牵引线奋争着，它们依然在美丽地飞翔。终于，一只风筝成功挣脱了。“终于自由了，”它好像在说，“终于可以随风自由飞翔了!” 然而，脱离束缚的自由使它完全处于无情微风的摆布下。它毫无风度地震颤着向地面坠落，落在一堆乱草之中，线缠绕在一颗死灌木上。“终于自由”使它自由到无力地躺在尘土中，无助地任风沿着地面将其吹走，碰到第一个障碍物便毫无生命地滞留在那里了。 有时我们真像这风筝啊!上苍赋予我们困境和约束，赋予我们成长和增强实力所要遵从的规则。约束是逆风的必要匹配物。我们中有些人是如此强硬地抵制规则，以至我们从来无法飞到本来能够达到的高度。我们只遵从部分戒律，因此永远不会飞得足够高，使尾巴远离地面。 让我们每个人都飞到高处吧，并且认识到这一点：有些可能会令我们生气的约束，实际上是帮助我们攀升和实现愿望的平衡。 有关英语美文摘抄带翻译：Chain of Love "How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life?" Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. "How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much?" Ms. Keller's answer is a tribute to her dedicated teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown." According to speaker Zig Ziglar, "Little Annie" Sullivan, as she was called when she was young, was no stranger to hardship. She was almost sightless herself (due to a childhood fever) and was, at one time, diagnosed as hopelessly "insane" by her by caregivers. She was locked in the basement of a mental institution outside of Boston. On occasion, Little Annie would violently attack anyone who came near. Most of the time she generally ignored everyone in her presence. An elderly nurse believed there was hope, however, and she made it her mission to show love to the child. Every day she visited Little Annie. For the most part, the child did not acknowledge the nurse's presence, but she still continued to visit. The kindly woman left cookies for her and spoke words of love and encouragement. She believed Little Annie could recover, if only she were shown love. Eventually, doctors noticed a change in the girl. Where they once witnessed anger and hostility, they now noted an emerging gentleness and love. They moved her upstairs where she continued to improve. Then the day finally came when this seemingly "hopeless" child was released. Anne Sullivan grew into a young woman with a desire to help others as she, herself, was helped by the kindly nurse. It was she who saw the great potential in Helen Keller. She loved her, disciplined her, played with her, pushed her and worked with her until the flickering candle that was her life became a beacon of light to the world. Anne Sullivan worked wonders in Helen's life; but it was a loving nurse who first believed in Little Annie and lovingly transformed an uncommunicative child into a compassionate teacher. "If it had not been for Anne Sullivan, the name of Helen Keller would have remained unknown." But if it had not been for a kind and dedicated nurse, the name of Anne Sullivan would have remained unknown. And so it goes. Just how far back does the chain of redemption extend? And how for forward will it lead? Those you have sought to reach, whether they be in your family or elsewhere, are part of a chain of love that can extend through the generations. Your influence on their lives, whether or not you see results, is immeasurable. Your legacy of dedicated kindness and caring can transform lost and hopeless lives for years to come. 爱的涟漪 英国维多利女王曾问海伦·凯勒：“ 你一生中获得如此卓越成就的原因是什么?你又聋又盲，你是如何取得如此巨大的成就的?” 凯勒女士将这一切归功于她那赋予奉献精神的老师。“如果没有安妮·沙利文, 海伦凯勒的名字也许永远不会为人所知。” 据金克·金克拉说，小安妮——沙利文幼时的名字——可是没少经历苦难。她自己因为儿时发高烧而几乎双目失明，且一度被看护者们诊断为精神失常，无法医治。她被所在波士顿城外一个精神医院的地下室里。有时，小安妮惠狂暴的攻击每一个靠近她的人,但多数时候她则对身边的每一个人不理不睬。 尽管如此，一位上了年纪的护士认为仍有希望。她把爱护这个孩子作为自己的职责，每天都去看小安妮。大多数时候，这孩子都意识不到护士的存在，但她仍旧不断地去看她。这位好心的女士给孩子留下饼干，对她说鼓励和慈爱的话语。她坚信，只要有爱，小安妮就一定能恢复正常。 终于，医生发现了小姑娘身上的变化。以往他们看到的是愤怒和敌意，但现在看到的确是逐渐显现的温顺和爱意。他们把她搬到了楼上，在那里，她的情况继续好转。终于有一天，这个看来无药可救的孩子出院了。 安妮·沙利文长成了一个大姑娘。她热切地渴望去帮助别人，就像她自己被那位好心的护士帮助一样。正是她看到了身上的潜质。她爱护她， 教育 她，和她一起玩耍，该她鼓励，和她一起工作，直到她生命微弱的烛光变成了照亮世界的一束强光。安妮·沙利文创造了海伦生命的奇迹，但首先是一位好心的护士相信小安妮，并慈爱的绛一个无法交流的孩子变成了一个有爱心的老师。 “如果没有安妮·沙利文，海伦·凯勒的名字也许永远不为人知。”但是如果没有那个好心且赋予奉献精神的护士，安妮·沙利文的名字也会远不为人所知。这样推下去，这条救助的链条会绵延到哪里?它又会向前延伸多远? 那些你所想到的人，不管他们在你的家里或是其他什么地方，都是这条在几代人间延续的爱的链条上的一环。你对他们生命的影响，不管你是否看到结果，都是无法估量的。你所奉献的爱心与关怀将会在未来的岁月中转变那些处于迷失和绝望之中的生命。 看了“有关英语美文摘抄带翻译”的人还看了： 1. 英语美文摘抄带翻译 2. 关于英语美文欣赏励志篇 3. 关于优秀英语美文欣赏 4. 关于优秀英语美文摘抄大全 5. 关于经典英语美文摘抄精选
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英语美文摘抄带翻译（一）
ent. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of
catastrophes. an immediately behind the t all this confusion, for they greedily devoured dust is usually a forbidding place. But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop. There is alething e in, but that he could not be bothered to open it. Frank begged him to do so and the dealer reluctantly prised it open. The contents of the packing-case. As its composition and line reminded him of an Italian painting he kne behind one of the e from one of the chimneys, but as there were so many of them, the firemen could not be certain which one it was. They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man's cries. After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney. As it was extremely narrow, the man was unable to move, but the firemen were eventually able to free him by cutting a huge hole in the wall. The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged, at once admitted that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney. He had been there for nearly ten hours. Justice had been done even before the man was handed over to the police.
在个别情况下，正义不再是一种抽象概念。奖惩的实施是不受人意志支配的。在这种时候，正义像一种有生命的力量行使其职能。当我们说"他罪有应得"这句话的时候，我们部分承认了某种特定的环境使得正义自动地起了作用。
一天上午，当一个小偷在一家大型珠宝店里被人抓住的时候，店员一定会忍不住说："他罪有应得。"那是一座老式的、经过改造的房子，店里有许多废置不用的大壁炉和又高又窄的烟囱。快到中午的时候，一个女售货员听见从一堵墙里传出一种闷声闷气的叫声。由于这种喊叫声重复了几次，她跑去报告经理，经理当即给消防队挂了电话。喊叫声肯定是从烟囱里传出来的，然而，因为烟囱太多，消防队员无法确定到底是哪一个。他们通过叫击烟囱倾叫声而确定传出声音的那个烟囱。他们凿透了18英寸厚的墙壁，发现有个人卡在烟囱里。由于烟囱太窄，那人无法动弹。消防队员在墙上挖了个大洞，才终于把他解救出来。那个看来满脸沮丧、浑身漆黑的家伙从烟囱里一出来，就承认头天夜里他企图到店里行窍，但让烟囱卡住了。他已经在烟囱里被困了将近10个小时。甚至在那人还没被送交给警察之前，正义就已得到了伸张。
巴黎文化
Ah, beautiful paris. For centuries this city has attracted the admiration of the an outdoor concert nearby classical, jazz, opera or chansons, those French folk songs. parisians love their music. The starry sky is their auditorium. You can also hear concerts in the chateaux and cathedrals. In paris the Music never ends.
Don't miss the highlight of paris evening: eating out. parisians are proud of their cuisine. And rightly so; it's s up in front of you the Notre Dame Cathedral （Cathedral of Our Lady）。 Stand in the square in front of the cathedral. Here, you are standing in the center of France. All distances are measured from the front of Notre Dame. Every road in France leads to her front door. All French kings and leaders have journeyed here to commemorate important occasions and give thanks. Notre Dame is the heart ofparis and the heart of France.
Your visit in paris has only just begun. You've just started to discover the charm ofthis old city. May the rest of yourjoumey be unforgettable. pany,even panion that es home at night he cannot sit doy that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it.
大部分时候，我发现独处都是有益于健康的。有人陪伴，即使是最好的同伴，不久也会心生厌烦，兴致将消散。我爱独处。我没有遇见比孤独更好的伴侣了。我们置身国外，立行人群之中，通常比独处室内更加寂寞。一个思考着的或工作着的人总是孤独的，就让他去他想去的地方吧。孤独不是以和同伴之间的距离里程来衡量的。真正勤奋的学生，在剑桥学院一个拥挤的蜂房里，就像沙漠中的苦行僧一样孤单。农夫可以整日在田间或林中独自工作，耕地或者伐木，却并不感到寂寞，因为他有活儿干；可是当他晚上回到家中，却不能在房间坐下独自思考，而必须去“能看到乡亲”的地方消遣娱乐，正如他所想的，去补偿他五天的孤寂；因此他不明白学生如何可以整日整夜地独坐在家里，而不感到倦怠和“优郁”；但他没有意识到，学生虽然身处室内，却依然在自己的田野上耕耘，在自己的森林中采伐。就像农夫在他的田地林间工作一样，之后学生也和农夫一样要去寻求消遣，山要去交朋结友，只是娱乐方式可能更加简明一些。
短篇英语美文摘抄（三）
e to open war.ter if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.The value of a man is not in his skin.
我们相聚的时间十分短暂，没有足够的时间让彼此获得任何有价值的新事物。我们在一日三餐的时候见面，我们就如陈腐的奶略，却让彼此相互品尝出新味道。我们必须一致同意若干条规则，也就是我们所谓的礼节和礼貌，使这种经常的聚会相安无事，我们还要一致同意我们没有争吵的必要。我们在邮局碰面，在社交场合碰面，每天晚上在炉火边碰面；我们生活得很拥挤，相互干扰，彼此牵绊，我想，我们因此失去了对彼此的尊重。当然，所有重要的、真诚的沟通，次数少一些就足够了。想一想工厂里的女工——永远不会独处，甚至在梦中也难得是独自一人。如果一平方英里只有一个居民，就像我这样，那要好多了。一个人的价值不在于他的外在。
绿树成荫，小草旺盛，河堤柳絮轻拂着绚烂的夏花，与夏花为邻，小草尽显绿美；与小草为邻，夏花尽显娇艳。
试想，没有小草为邻，夏花何以生存，柳堤何以坚固？植物相互为邻，共生共赢。植物界如此，人与人之间又是怎样的呢？
古人云：“远亲不如近邻。”可见在中国人眼中，邻里关系是非常重要的，但现实生活却忍不住让人反思：我们所信仰的“远亲不如近邻”的观念哪一去了？我们所追求的“一与邻为善，与邻为伴”的和谐哪去了？我们熟读的“肯与邻翁相对饮，隔篱呼取尽余杯”的理想哪方了？我们所羡慕的“莫笑农家腊酒浑，丰年留客足鸡豚”的淳朴哪去了……我们所见的只有一张张冷漠的脸和一颗颗互相猜忌的心。
我们在繁华的城市里追求奢侈的物质生活，却把最纯真的邻里关系抛在脑后，等到我们清醒时才发现：通往城市的路始终开放着，通往邻里的门却始终紧闭着。当宽阔小院老槐树下几位老邻“陈年旧活，农谚桑麻”已成为过去时，我们有的只是在钢筋水泥的“金丝笼”里寻求一方栖息之地，那不断进步的防盗设施在给我们内心安宁的同时，也把我们和邻居彻底隔绝开来。在环境优美的小区和高楼大厦中，邻里间原本惯常的嘘寒问暖和互相关照，似乎都被冰冷的防盗门阻挡在外，有事没事串串门的邻里关系不知不觉中离我们越来越远。殊不知，在这坚实牢笼的编织下，“与邻为善，与邻为伴”的字眼也从我们脑海中消失殆尽。
俗语说：“一百万买房子，一千万一买邻居。”面对渐行渐远的邻里关系，你一可曾想过要做些什么廿；挽救这将被冷漠吞噬的真情呢？是继续守着“各人自扫门前雪，莫竹他人瓦霜”的大众思维，还是伸出一只善意的手“赠人玫瑰，手有余香”'是继续紧锁大门，锁住他人也锁住自己，从猫眼里窥探世界，还是打开内心的门，架起沟通的桥梁？是见面时沉默不语，还是报以善意的微笑和贴心的话语？
高山流水鸣于耳畔，瘦菊幽兰馨于鼻尖。我想，每个人心中都有向往睦邻的梦想，每个人都会为睦邻关系作出自己的贡献，睦邻必将成为社会的常态。
赏析：
作者从小草写到了邻居，然后深入探究邻里关系，这应该是本篇作文之所以拿到满分的关键。另外，作文没有太多华丽的辞藻，质朴的文字与主题相呼应，难怪会打动人心了。
美文摘抄带赏析（二）读书带给我的乐趣
英国学者培根说：“知识就是力量。”
我常常独自一人，捧着一本书，在书墨香气中穿梭。不同的书带给我不同的美的享受。读《三过演义》我领略了诸葛亮舌战群儒的风采；读《钢铁是怎样炼成的》我领悟了人生的真谛和生命的意义；读《西游记》我学到了孙悟空的智勇双全；读《红楼梦》我体会了封建社会大家庭衰落的必然性；读《童年》我了解了当时俄罗斯下层人民生活的苦难。那一部部闪耀着理性光辉的名着带领着我穿越时空：屈原在汨（mì）罗江边的倾诉，盲诗人荷马的吟唱，上下五千年，纵横九万里，我沉醉其中，其乐无穷。
读书还让我懂得了很多的道理。
英国着名小说家杰克伦敦，他的学识全是靠自修得来的，他经常把书里和词典里的词句抄在小纸片上，然后把这些纸片挂在窗帘上、衣架上床帐上、以便随时都能看一看，记一记。由于不断地记诵，他掌握了大量的词语，写起文章来得心应手。它让我懂得：成功不在于你有多聪明而在于你有多努力。伟大的成功和辛勤的劳动是成正比的，有一分辛勤就有一分收获。写作也一样，字词句段，日积月累，从少到多，奇迹就可以创造出来。所以，我一面读书，一面写作，乐此不疲也有了一些收获。每一期校刊里都有我的文章，每一次作文比赛我总能获奖，语文老师也经常夸我能写文章。但我知道“一分播种，一分收获。”只有不读地看书，学习才能采撷到人生的甘果。
赏析：
这篇小作文写的是读书带给自己的乐趣，通篇也能看出读书带给作者的快乐。从标题来看，这篇作文要讲述的重点是乐趣，所以如果只讲读了哪些书，有什么收获是不够的。而小作者抓住了这个中心，每一段都是在介绍通过读书来收获快乐。
字里行间，我们也能感受到收获的快乐。
美文摘抄带赏析（三）感受奥运，从身边开始
你是否曾为2001年7月13日那一声“2008，北京”激动得热泪盈眶，是否早就想到奥运赛场喊几声“中国，加油”？你是否已经做过光荣的奥运志愿者？教室里的黑板报是否早就被你做成“奥运专版”？你的房间是不是摆满了福娃？你的日记里是不是写满了奥运冠军的名字……
2008年已经不知不绝到来了，当我看到那句“Welcome to beijing"英语时，不禁想到2008年的到来是否要做些什么呢？这次奥运会是在我们北京举行，我们要做好一个榜样，顿时我的脑子里浮现了三个词：“迎奥运，讲文明，树新风。”
奥运的到来使得所有人都改变了。我爸爸就是一个改变最大的人。
爸爸再以前经常说脏话，可以说脏话天天挂在嘴边，时不时就说一说。可自从2008年奥运的到来，他的脏话渐渐减少了不少，有一天，我问了问爸爸：“爸，这几天你可变了不少呀！脏话越来越少，是什么改变了你呀？”“迎奥运，讲文明，树新风！”爸爸不假思索的脱口而出，“我们要做好一个主人，让外国人知道我们中国人是可以把这届奥运会办好的！”我听完后不禁大为感动，这就象肖复兴说过得：“一个国家、一座城市，能够举办一次奥运会，会使得这个国家、这座城市和这里的人民变得多么美好。那一刻你就会明白，体育不仅仅是体育，他以自身特殊的魅力影响着一切。”
这几天我坐公车经常可以看见一些年轻人将座位让给老人、孕妇；有人在路上看到塑料瓶，将其仍进垃圾箱；一个下雨天，一个等公车的路人没带雨伞，十分焦急，另一个路人看见了，走去将雨伞和那个路人共打……
象这样的文明事迹还有很多很多，我们可以随时随地地去发现。我相信，我们每个人迈出一小步，就会使社会迈出一大步，所以我发现，文明是一种力量，就好像奥运火炬传递一样，在每个人手中传递，也能够汇聚所有人的热情。我希望大家和我一起携手迎接奥运，让文明铸在我们每一人的心中。
迎奥运、讲文明、树新风。
赏析：
2008年是中国的奥运年，北京奥运会已经越来越走近我们的生活。新北京新奥运，这次我们宣传的口号是迎奥运、讲文明、树新风，而这篇作文也是围绕这一点来写的。
与其他作文不同的是，小作者并没有泛泛地去写如何树立新风，如何支持奥运，而是通过对身边的变化来体现讲文明树新风的奥运精神。这样写更真实，也更容易写充实具体。
If the past has taught us anything,it is that every cause brings effect -- every actionhas a consequence.This thought,in my opinion,is the moral foundation of the universe; it applies equally in this e ething simple can completely reshape your life.It's just like the Butterfly Effect and you never knopetition the human heart.
Ah, hoence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
抱负
一个缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样，这不难想象。或许，这将是一个更为友善的世界：没有渴求，没有磨擦，没有失望。人们将有时间进行反思。他们所从事的工作将不是为了他们自身，而是为了整个集体。竞争永远不会介入；冲突将被消除。人们的紧张关系将成为过往云烟。创造的重压将得以终结。艺术将不再惹人费神，其功能将纯粹为了庆典。人的寿命将会更长，因为由激烈拼争引起的心脏病和中风所导致的死亡将越来越少。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝，抱负却早已远离人心。
啊，长此以往人生将变得多么乏味无聊！
有一种盛行的观点认为，成功是一种神话，因此抱负亦属虚幻。这是不是说实际上并不丰在成功？成就本身就是一场空？与诸多运动和事件的力量相比，男男女女的努力显得微不足？显然，并非所有的成功都值得景仰，也并非所有的抱负都值得追求。对值得和不值得的选择，一个人自然而然很快就能学会。但即使是最为愤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就的意义举足轻重，而把世上男男女女的所作所为说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽之谈。认为成功不存在的观点很可能造成混乱。这种观点的本意是一笔勾销所有提高能力的动机，求取业绩的兴趣和对子孙后代的关注。
我们无法选择出生，无法选择父母，无法选择出生的历史时期与国家，或是成长的周遭环境。我们大多数人都无法选择死亡，无法选择死亡的时间或条件。但是在这些无法选择之中，我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式：是勇敢无畏还是胆小怯懦，是光明磊落还是厚颜无耻，是目标坚定还是随波逐流。我们决定生活中哪些至关重要，哪些微不足道。我们决定，用以显示我们自身重要性的，不是我们做了什么，就是我们拒绝做些什么。但是不论世界对我们所做的选择和决定有多么漠不关心，这些选择和决定终究是我们自己做出的。我们决定，我们选择。而当我们决定和选择时，我们的生活便得以形成。最终构筑我们命运的就是抱负之所在。
