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1、英文美文摘抄英语励志美文短篇100字在经典诵读中积累语言经典美文大多语言凝练,极富音韵美。诵读经典美文,是一种熏陶,也是一种积累,能有效提高学生的文学素养,培养学生的语言能力和写作能力。下面是WTT带来的优美英文美文摘抄，欢迎阅读!优美英文美文摘抄篇一Suffering Is Self-Manufacturedby Leon J SaulI believe the immediate purpose of life is to live, to survive.All known forms of life go through life cycles.The basic plan is bi
2、rth, maturing, mating, reproducing, death.Thus, the immediate purpose of human life is for each individual to fulfill his life cycle.This involves proper maturing into the fully developed adult of the species.The pine tree grows straight unless harmful influences warp it.So does the human being.It i
3、s a finding of the greatest significance that the mature man and woman have the nature and characteristics of the good spouse and parent, namely the ability to enjoy, responsible, working, and loving.If the world consisted primarily of mature persons-loving, responsible, productive toward family, fr
4、iends, and the world-most of our human problems would be resolved.But most people have suffered in childhood from influences which have warped their development.Hence, as adults, they have not realized their full and proper nature.They feel something is wrong without knowing what it is.They feel inf
5、erior, frustrated, insecure, and an_ious.And they react to these inner feelings just as any animal reacts to any hurt or threat: by a readiness to fight or to flee.Flight carries them into alcoholism and other mental disorders.Fight impels them to crime, cruelty, and war.This readiness to violence,
6、this inhumanity of man to man, is the basic problem of human life, for in the form of war, it now threatens to e_tinguish us.Without the fight/flight reaction, man would never have survived the cave and the jungle.But now, through social living, man has made himself relatively safe from the elements
7、 and the wild beasts.He is even learning to protect himself against disease.He can produce adequate food, clothing, and shelter for the present population of the Earth.Barring a possible astronomical accident, he now faces no serious threat to his e_istence, e_cept one: the fight/flight reaction wit
8、hin himself.This jungle readiness to hurt and to kill is now a vestigial hangover, like the appendi_, which interferes with the new and more powerful means of coping with nature through civilization.Trying to solve every problem by fighting or fleeing is the primitive method still central for the im
9、mature child.The later method-understanding and cooperation-requires the mature capacities of the adult.In an infantile world, fighting may be forced upon one.Then it is more effective if handled maturely for mature goals.Probably war will cease only when enough persons are mature.The basic problem
10、is social adaptation and biologic survival.The basic solution is for people to understand the nature of their own biological, emotional maturity, to work toward it to help the children in their development toward it.Human suffering is mostly made by man himself.It is primarily the result of the fail
11、ure of adults, because of improper child rearing, to mature emotionally.Hence, instead of enjoying their capacities for responsible work and love, they are grasping, egocentric, insecure, frustrated, an_ious, and hostile.Maturity is the path from madness and murder to inner peace and satisfying livi
12、ng for each individual and for the human species.This I believe on the evidence of science and through personal observation and e_perience.优美英文美文摘抄篇二I Never Stopped Believingby Eva Sa_lI believe that it is important to be brought up with a firm belief in the good.I was fortunate in this respect.My p
13、arents not only gave me a happy home, but they had me study half a dozen foreign languages and made it possible for me to travel in other countries.This made me more tolerant and helped me to bridge many difficulties in later life.Soon after I had married, my husband and I left our native Czechoslov
14、akia and went to live in Shanghai, China.Here was a really international city.People of all races and creeds lived and worked together.As everywhere, there were good and bad people.I found out that most people are kind and good.But in the Orient, one cannot always be certain.Many people do not show
15、their true character openly.Often it is difficult to strike the chord that will get a harmonious response.But when we spoke Chinese, we could strike these chords.In return, the Chinese taught us much about their philosophy of life.In Shanghai, in 1941, when I was only twenty years old, the doctors d
16、iscovered that I had diabetes.It was a terrible shock, because diabetes is incurable.But it can be controlled by insulin.Although this drug was not manufactured in China, there were le stocks of imported insulin available.This enabled me to continue a normal, happy life.Then bombs fell on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese occupied Shanghai.The import of insulin was cut off.Before long, there was not enough for the diabetics.I was on a s
