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1、4 分钟以内的英语美文篇一： 4 分钟以内的英语美文】1. 你是卓越的 you are awesome consider.you. in all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. you are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. wow! stop and think about that. youre better than one in a m
2、illion, or a billion, or a gazillion.试想一下你！ 一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会 有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。 哇！想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。you are the only one like you in a sea of infinity! 在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的！ youre amazing! youre awesome! and by the way, tag, youre it. as amazing and awesome as you already are, you c
3、an be even more so. beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. but you dont become beautiful just by virtue of the aging process. 你是了不起的！你是卓越的！没错，就是你。你已经是了不起的， 是卓越的，你还可以更卓越更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇 想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自 然而然地变得 “美丽 ”。real beauty
4、comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. that is the art of life. you can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. you are the artist that paints
5、 your future with the brush of today. 真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。 你可以只听天由命 , 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以 选择加速自己的成长，故意地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手 握今日之刷描绘自己未来的艺术家。paint a masterpiece. 画出一幅杰作吧！god gives every bird its food, but he doesnt throw it into its nest. wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, its t
6、ruly up to you. 上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要 去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。 unique 独一无二的 awesome 了不起的 , 精彩的 intentionally 有意地 ; 故意地 be up to sb 由某人决定2. a chip on your shoulder 肩上的碎屑every week at this time we tell the story of words and expressions used in american english. some of them are old. some are
7、 new. together, they form the living speech of the american people.some popular expressions are a mystery. no one is sure how they developed. one of these is the expression, carry a chip on your shoulder. a person with a chip on his shoulder is a problem for anybody who must deal with him. he seems
8、to be expecting trouble. sometimes he seems to be saying, im not happy about anything, but what are you going to do about it? a chip is a small piece of something, like a chip of wood. how did this chip get on a persons shoulder? well, experts say the expression appears to have been first used in th
9、e united states more than one hundred years ago.one writer believes that the expression might have come from an old saying. the saying warns against striking too high, or a chip might fall into your eye. that could be good advice. if you strike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that is
10、 cut off will fall into your eye. the saying becomes a warning about the dangers of attacking people who are in more important positions than you are.later, in the united states, some people would put a real chip on their shoulder as a test. they wanted to start a fight. they would wait for someone
11、to be brave enough to try to hit it off. the word chip appears in a number of special american expressions. another is chip off the old block. this means that a child is exactly like a parent.this expression goes back at least to the early sixteen hundreds. the british writer of plays, george colman
12、, wrote these lines in seventeen sixty-two. youll find him his fathers own son, i believe. a chip off the old block, i promise you! the word chip can also be used in a threatening way to someone who is suspected of wrongdoing. an investigator may say, were going to let the chips fall where they may.
13、 this means the investigation is going to be complete and honest. it is also a warning that no one will be protected from being found guilty.chips are often used in card games. they represent money. a poker player may, at any time, decide to leave the game. he will turn in his chips in exchange for
14、money or cash.this lead to another meaning. a person who finished or died was said to have cashed in his chips. which is a way of saying it is time for me to finish this program.3. what will matter? 什么才重要？ ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. there will be no more sunrises, no days, no
15、 hours or minutes. all the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。 那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟。 你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手 中。your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. it will not matter what you owned or what you were o
16、wed. 不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会 变成和你毫不相干的东西。your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.你的怨恨、愤慨、挫折和妒忌最终也将消失。so, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.the wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. 因此，你的希望、抱负、计划以及行动日程表也将全部结束。当初看得比较重的成功得失也会消失。it wont matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.你来自何方，住在穷人区还是富人区也都不重要了。 it wont matter whethe
