500字英语美文摘抄
500字英语美文摘抄
美文,让人荡气回肠,让人心驰神往,然而,美文从何而来?从真、善、美中来。小编精心收集了500字英语美文，供大家欣赏学习!
500字英语美文篇1
拥抱今天
Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are travelling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving on a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls.
But the uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we reach there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will be fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes loitering, waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.
"When we reach the station, that will be it", we cry. "When I'm 18", "When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz", "When I put my last kid through collage", "When I have paid off the mortgage", "When I get a promotion", "When I reach the age of the retirement, I shall live happily ever after."
Sooner or later, we must realize that there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. Thetrue joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.
"Relish the moment" is a good motto, especially when coupled withe the Psalm 118:24:"This is the day whichthe Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it." It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regrets over yesterday and the fear of tommorrow. Reget and fear are twin thieves who rob us of today.
So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more icecreams, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as wego along. Then the station will come soon enough.
我们的潜意识里藏着一派田园诗般的风光!我们仿佛身处一次横贯大陆的漫漫旅程之中!乘着火车,我们领略着窗外流动的景色：附近高速公路上奔驰的汽车、十字路口处招手的孩童、远山上吃草的牛群、源源不断地从电厂排放出的烟尘、一片片的玉米和小麦、平原与山谷、群山与绵延的丘陵、天空映衬下城市的轮廓,以及乡间的庄园宅第!
然而我们心里想得最多的却是最终的目的地!在某一天的某一时刻,我们将会抵达进站!迎接我们的将是乐队和飘舞的彩旗!一旦到了那儿,多少美梦将成为现实,我们的生活也将变得完整,如同一块理好了的拼图!可是我们现在在过道里不耐烦地踱来踱去,咒骂火车的拖拖拉拉!我们期待着,期待着,期待着火车进站的那一刻!
"当我们到站的时候,一切就都好了!"我们呼喊着!"当我18岁的时候!""当我有了一辆新450SL奔驰的时候!""当我供最小的孩子念完大学的时候!""当我偿清贷款的时候!""当我官升高任的时候!""当我到了退休的时候,就可以从此过上幸福的生活啦!"
可是我们终究会认识到人生的旅途中并没有车站,也没有能够"一到永逸"的地方!生活的真正乐趣在于旅行的过程,而车站不过是个梦,它始终遥遥领先于我们!
"享受现在"是句很好的箴言, 尤其是当它与《圣经·诗篇》中第118页24行的一段话相映衬的时候, 更是如此："今日乃主所创造;生活在今日我们将欢欣、高兴! "真正令人发疯的不是今日的负担,而是对昨日的悔恨及对明日的恐惧!悔恨与恐惧是一对孪生窃贼,将今天从你我身边偷走!
那么就不要在过道里徘徊吧,别老惦记着你离车站还有多远!何不换一种活法,将更多的高山攀爬,多吃点儿冰淇淋甜甜嘴巴,经常光着脚板儿溜达,在更多的河流里畅游,多看看夕阳西下,多点欢笑哈哈,少让泪水滴答!生活得一边过一边瞧!车站就会很快到达!
500字英语美文篇2
微尘与栋梁
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses ofothers. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned themand so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attentionaway from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to consider them,find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and wemust accept the good and bad in ourselves together.
But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them,but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything thatoffends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance:how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he hasnever told not one, but a hundred?
There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness andlittleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character,or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, butpotentially they are the same. For my part, Ido not think I am any better or any worse thanmost people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that hascrossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge thatthese reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as wellas toothers. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent andrespectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.
让人奇怪的是，和别人的过错比起来，我们自身的过错往往不是那样的可恶。我想，其原因应该是我们知晓一切导致自己犯错的情况，因此能够设法谅解自己的错误，而别人的错误却不能谅解。我们对自己的缺点不甚关注，即便是深陷困境而不得不正视它们的时候，我们也会很容易就宽恕自己。据我所知，我们这样做是正确的。缺点是我们自身的一部分，我们必须接纳自己的好和坏。
但是当我们评判别人的时候，情况就不同了。我们不是通过真实的自我来评判别人，而是用一种自我形象来评判，这种自我形象完全摒弃了在任何世人眼中会伤害到自己的虚荣或者体面的东西。举一个小例子来说：当觉察到别人说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊!但是，谁能够说自从未说过谎?可能还不止一百次呢。
人和人之间没什么大的差别。他们皆是伟大与渺小，善良与邪恶，高尚与低俗的混合体。有的人性格比较坚毅，机会也比较多，因而这个或那个方面，能够更自由地发挥自己的禀赋，但是人类的潜能却都是相同的。至于我自己，我认为自己并不比大多数人更好或者更差，但是我知道，假如我记下我生命中每一次举动和每一个掠过我脑海的想法的话，世界就会将我视为一个邪恶的怪物。每个人都会有这样的怪念头，这样的认识应当能够启发我们宽容自己，也宽容他人。同时，假如因此我们得以用幽默的态度看待他人，即使是天下最优秀最令人尊敬的人，而且假如我们也因此不把自己看得过于重要，那是很有裨益的。
500字英语美文篇3
洛克非勒家族信条
They are the principles on which my wife and I have tried to bring up our family .They are theprinciples in which my father believed and by which he governed his life .They are theprinciples,many of them ,whichI learned at my mother's knee.
They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death.
If they mean to you what they mean to me, they may perhaps be helpful also to our sons fortheir guidance and inspiration.
Let me state them:
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life ,liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility;every opportunity ,an obligation ;everypossession,a duty.
I believe that the law was made for the man and not man for the law;that government is theservant of people and not their master.
I believe in the dignity of the labor,whether with head or hand;that the world owes no man aliving but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of asound financial structure,whether in government,business or personal affairs.
I believe that truth and justice are fundamental to an enduring social order.
I believe in the sacredness of a promise,that a man's word should be as good as his bond,thecharacter--not wealth or power or position--is of supreme worth.
I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only inthe purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of thehuman soul set free.
I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God,named by whatever name,and that the individual'shighest fulfillment,greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living inharmory with His will.
I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world;that it alone can overcome hate;that rightcan and will triumph over might.
There sre the principles,however formulated,for which all good men and women throughout theworld,irrespective of race or creed,education,social position or occupation,are standing,and forwhich many of them are suffering and dying.
These are the principles upon which alone a new world recognizing the bortherhood of man thefatherhood ofGod can be established.
这些信条是我太太和我努力用以持家育子的原则。它们是我父亲深信不疑并籍以安身立命的原则。其中有很多是我在母亲膝前学到的原则。
这些信条指出了一条活得快乐有用、死得勇敢安详的道路。
如果它们对你的意义正如对我的一样,它们或许也将有助于我们的子女从中获得引导和启发。
让我陈述如下:
我相信个人至高无上的价值及生存、自由与追求幸福的权利。
我相信每一项权利都伴随着一种职责;每一个机会都伴随着一份义务;每一次都拥有都伴随着一种责任。
我相信法律是为人制订,人却并非为法律而存在;政府是人民的仆人,而非人民的主人。
我相信劳动的尊严,不论是脑力或体力劳动;世界不应给予任何人生计,但它应给予每人一个谋生的机会。
我相信俭朴是井然有序的生活所必须;节约是健全的财务结构之必要,不论是政府、企业或个人事物皆是如此。
我相信真理与正义是社会秩序长久维系的基础。
我相信诺言的神圣,一句承诺应该如同契约一般有效;品格——而非财富、权势或地位——具有至为崇高的价值。
我相信报效社会是人类共同的责任;惟有在牺牲奉献的炼火中,自私自利的渣滓才能烧毁,而人类灵魂的伟大也才能发挥出来。
我相信全能博爱的上帝,不论其名称为何;而个人最高的成就,最大的幸福以及最大的作用都在符合上帝意旨的生活中才能找到。
我相信爱是世界上最伟大之物;惟有爱能够克服仇恨;公理能够而且必将战胜强权。
不管如何阐述,这些就是全世界所有善良的男女——不分种族、信仰、教育、社会地位或职业——所共同坚持的原则,而为了这些原则,他们当中许多人正饱受煎熬或濒临死亡。
惟有在这些信条的基础上 ,一个认同人类手足情和上帝慈父爱的世界才能建立起来。
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