英语新闻课外阅读
英语新闻课外阅读
我们提高英语的水平寝室有很多种，有一种就是可以看一些英语的新闻和阅读，还有英语的电视剧和电影，这样可以很快的提高我们的英语口语，接下来小编给大家带来英语新闻，需要的同学们可以看一看。
课外阅读1
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.
规则1：人生不公，泰然处之。
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The worldwill expect you to accomplishsomething before you feel good about yourself.
规则2：世界并不在意个人自尊。自我陶醉前，它冀望你能先有所成就。
Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't beavice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.
规则3：高中一毕业就想一蹴而就，坐拥4万年薪，这是不切实际的。你也不可能摇身一变成为副总，享有携带电话的轿车，这都得靠你自己打拼而来。
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
规则4：如果你觉得你的老师十分苛刻严厉，那么等着瞧你的老板吧。老板可没有任期限制。
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different wordforburger flipping - they called it opportunity.
规则5：君子并非定要远庖厨，做汉堡也不意味着折损尊严。你的祖父母对之另有解释，他们将之称为机遇。
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learnfromthem.
规则6：你的一败涂地与父母无尤，不要喋喋不休的抱怨个不停，应该汲取教训，从中获益。
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They gotthatway from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how coolyou are.So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, trydelousingthe closet in your own room.
规则7：在你出生前，你父母的生活还未像现在这般劳心劳力，单调无趣。现在，他们得忧心你的账单，为你洗衣打扫，聆听你对自己的夸夸其谈，洋洋得意，他们的生活变得枯燥乏味。在你雄心壮志的想要救万民于水火之前，先整理干净房间里的衣柜，一屋不扫何以扫天下。
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In someschoolsthey have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to getthe rightanswer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
规则8：学校不以成败论英雄，生活却并非如此。一些学校废除不及格制，给予学生充足的时间找寻正确答案。这与现实生活截然不同。
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employersareinterested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
规则9：生活不分学期，没有暑假，很少有老板有兴趣帮你找寻自我。自己动手丰衣足食吧!
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life (nor are video games). In real life people actually have toleavethe coffee shop and go to jobs.
规则10：电视上演的与真实生活大相径庭(电子游戏同样如此)。实际上，现实生活中，人们不得不离开咖啡店，回去为生计奔波。
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
规则11：善待令你讨厌的人。很有可能，你最后会为其中之一工作。
课外阅读2
As a kid, I spent my summers with my grandparents on their ranch in Texas. I helped fixwindmills, vaccinate cattle, and do other chores. We also watched soap operas everyafternoon, especially "Days of our Lives." My grandparents belonged to a Caravan Club, a groupof Airstream trailer owners who travel together around the U.S. and Canada. And every fewsummers, we'd join the caravan. We'd hitch up the Airstream trailer to my grandfather's car, and off we'd go, in a line with 300 other Airstream adventurers. I loved and worshipped mygrandparents and I really looked forward to these trips. On one particular trip, I was about 10 years old. I was rolling around in the big bench seat in the back of the car. My grandfather wasdriving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips, andI hated the smell.
在我还是一个孩子的时候，我的夏天总是在德州祖父母的农场中度过。我帮忙修理风车，为牛接种疫苗，也做其它家务。每天下午，我们都会看肥皂剧，尤其是《我们的岁月》。我的祖父母参加了一个房车俱乐部，那是一群驾驶Airstream拖挂型房车的人们，他们结伴遍游美国和加拿大。每隔几个夏天，我也会加入他们。我们把房车挂在祖父的小汽车后面，然后加入300余名Airstream探险者们组成的浩荡队伍。我爱我的祖父母，我崇敬他们，也真心期盼这些旅程。那是一次我大概十岁时的旅行，我照例坐在后座的长椅上，祖父开着车，祖母坐在他旁边，吸着烟。我讨厌烟味。
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate ourgas mileage — figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing anad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puffof a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been twominutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated thenumber of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When Iwas satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front ofthe car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutesper puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，“每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年!”
I have a vivid memory of what happened, and it was not what I expected. I expected to beapplauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff, you're so smart. You had to havemade some tricky estimates, figure out the number of minutes in a year and do somedivision." That's not what happened. Instead, my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in thebackseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying, my grandfather, whohad been driving in silence, pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of thecar and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble? Mygrandfather was a highly intelligent, quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me, andmaybe this was to be the first time? Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car andapologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and noway to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfatherlooked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, "Jeff, one day you'llunderstand that it's harder to be kind than clever."
我清晰地记得接下来发生了什么，而那是我意料之外的。我本期待着小聪明和算术技巧能赢得掌声，但那并没有发生。相反，我的祖母哭泣起来。我的祖父之前一直在默默开车，把车停在了路边，走下车来，打开了我的车门，等着我跟他下车。我惹麻烦了吗?我的祖父是一个智慧而安静的人。他从来没有对我说过严厉的话，难道这会是第一次?还是他会让我回到车上跟祖母道歉?我以前从未遇到过这种状况，因而也无从知晓会有什么后果发生。我们在房车旁停下来。祖父注视着我，沉默片刻，然后轻轻地、平静地说：“杰夫，有一天你会明白，善良比聪明更难。”
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness isa gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard. Youcan seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to thedetriment of your choices. This is a group with many gifts. I'm sure one of your gifts is the giftof a smart and capable brain. I'm confident that's the case because admission iscompetitive and if there weren't some signs that you're clever, the dean of admission wouldn'thave let you in.
今天我想对你们说的是，天赋和选择不同。聪明是一种天赋，而善良是一种选择。天赋得来很容易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择则颇为不易。如果一不小心，你可能被天赋所诱惑，这可能会损害到你做出的选择。在座各位都拥有许多天赋。我确信你们的天赋之一就是拥有精明能干的头脑。之所以如此确信，是因为入学竞争十分激烈，如果你们不能表现出聪明智慧，便没有资格进入这所学校。
Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels. We humans — plodding as we are — will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways to generate clean energy anda lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines that will enter cell walls and makerepairs. This month comes the extraordinary but also inevitable news that we've synthesizedlife. In the coming years, we'll not only synthesize it, but we'll engineer it to specifications. Ibelieve you'll even see us understand the human brain. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton — all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individualgifts as you sit before me. How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts orpride in your choices?
你们的聪明才智必定会派上用场，因为你们将在一片充满奇迹的土地上行进。我们人类，尽管跬步前行，却终将令自己大吃一惊。我们能够想方设法制造清洁能源，也能够一个原子一个原子地组装微型机械，使之穿过细胞壁，然后修复细胞。这个月，有一个异常而不可避免的事情发生了——人类终于合成了生命。在未来几年，我们不仅会合成生命，还会按说明书驱动它们。我相信你们甚至会看到我们理解人类的大脑，儒勒·凡尔纳，马克·吐温，伽利略，牛顿——所有那些充满好奇之心的人都希望能够活到现在。作为文明人，我们会拥有如此之多的天赋，就像是坐在我面前的你们，每一个生命个体都拥有许多独特的天赋。你们要如何运用这些天赋呢?你们会为自己的天赋感到骄傲，还是会为自己的选择感到骄傲?
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