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1、名篇集萃小说Best of timesIt was the best of times ,it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ;it was the season of light ,it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of des
2、pair ;we had everything before us ,we had nothing before us ;we were all going direct to Heaven ,we were all gonging direct the other way.译文：最好的时代 查尔斯 狄更斯 这是一个最好的时代，也是一个最坏的 时代；这是明智的时代，这是愚昧的时 代；这是信任的纪元，这是怀疑的纪元 ；这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节； 这是希望的春日，这是失望的冬日；我 们面前应有尽有，我们面前一无所有； 我们都将直上天堂，我们都将直下地狱 。I Have As Much Sou
3、l As You “I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion . “do you think I can stay to become nothing to you ?do you think I am an automaton?-a machine without feelings ?And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips ,and my drop of living water dashed from my cup
4、 ?do you think ,because I am poor ,obscure,plain, and little ,I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong !- I have as much soul as you ,- and full as much heart !And if god had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth ,I should have made it as hard for you to leave me ,as it is now for me to lea
5、ve you .I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom ,conventionalities ,nor even of mortal flesh ;-it is my spirit that addresses your spirit ;just as if both had passed through the grave ,and we stood at gods feet ,equal ,-as we are!”译文： 我的心灵一样丰富 夏洛蒂 勃朗特 “我告诉你我非走不可！”我反驳道，感情很有些冲动。“ 你难道认
6、为我会留下来甘愿做一个对你来说无足轻重的人 ？你以为我是一架机器？一架没有感情的机器？能够 容忍别人把一口面包从我嘴里抢走，把一滴生命之水从我 杯子里泼掉？难道就因为我一贫如洗，默默无闻，长相平 庸，个子瘦小，就没有心灵和心肠了？你想错了！我的心 灵和你一样丰富，我的心胸跟你一样充实！要是上帝给予 我一点姿色和财富，我会使你难以离开我，就像现在我很 难离开你一样。我不是根据习俗，常规，甚至也不是血肉 之躯同你讲话，而是我的灵魂同你的灵魂在对话，就仿佛 我们两人穿过坟墓，站在上帝脚下，彼此平等，本来就如 此！”散文Life is a chess-board The chess-board is
7、the world :the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of game are what we call the laws of nature .the player on the other side is hidden from us .we know ,to our cost ,that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance .译文： 人生是盘棋 托马斯.亨利.赫胥黎 棋盘宛如世界：一个个棋子仿佛世
8、间万象； 游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。竞争对 手藏于暗处，不为我们所见。我们知晓，这 位对手向来处事公平，正义凛然，极富耐心 。然而，我们还是吃过苦头才知道，这位对 手从不忽视任何错误，也不因为我们的无知 而做出一丝让步。Youth Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of t
9、he emotions; It is the freshness of the deep spring of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20. nobody grows merely by the number of years;we grow old by deser
10、ting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust1 bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats next and the jo
11、y of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from infinite, so long as you are young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynic
12、ism and the ice of pessimism, then youve grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, theres hope you may die young at 80. 译文 青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面，丹唇，柔膝，而是深沉 的意志，恢宏的想象，炽热的感情；青春是生命的源泉在不息的涌 流。青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯懦，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，弱 冠后生有之，耳顺之年，则亦多见，年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢 弃，方堕暮年。岁月悠悠，
13、衰微只及肌肤，热忱抛却，颓唐必至灵魂。忧烦， 惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。无论年届古稀，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之 诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆深植一片追求，只要你从 天上，人间追求美好，希望，欢乐，勇气和力量，你就青春永驻， 风华长存。一旦追求消失，锐气如同冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭，自暴自弃油然 而生，即使年方二十，实已老矣。然坚持追求，你就有望在百岁高 龄告别尘寰时仍觉年青。演讲I Have a dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the great
14、est demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames
15、of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred
16、 years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and th
