优美英语短文200字

英语小短文

英语小短文（通用15篇）

　　英语是按照分布面积而言最流行的语言，但母语者数量是世界第三，仅次于汉语、西班牙语。它是学*最广泛的第二语言，是*60个*国家的官方语言或官方语言之一。下面是小编精心整理的英语小短文（通用15篇），仅供参考，欢迎大家阅读。

　　Adult ceremony maybe is not very familiar for our Chinese. Although in the old time, our country also has the tradition to have * ceremony, now most areas have given it up. It is a ceremony to celebrate the children become *s. In German, * ceremony is a traditional festival with a long history. Everyone reaching the age of fourteen is * in their religious belief and custom. Every April or May, they will dress well to take part in the * ceremony with the companion of their parents or friends. At first, there will be a speech spoken by some respectable people. They will remind the kids of their new rights and duties. And then people will congratulate them become *s. Later the *s will hold dancing party for them. This is the German * ceremony. Except German, there are still some places having * ceremony, which will be similar.

　　**礼对于我们*人来说也许不是很熟悉。虽然在以前，我国也有**仪式的传统，但是现在大部分地区已经摈弃了。这是一个庆祝孩子长大**的仪式。在德国，**礼是一个历史悠久的传统节日。在宗教信仰和*俗里每个年满十四岁的就是**。每年的四月或五月，他们会打扮好在他们的父母或者朋友的陪伴下去参加**礼。首先，会有一个德高望重的人来发言。他们会提醒孩子们新的权利和义务。然后大家就会祝贺他们长大**了。后面人们会为他们举办舞会。这是德国的**礼。除了德国之外，还有一些地方也是存在着相似的**礼。

　　On the surface, Chinatown is prosperous - a "model slum," some have called it - with the lowest crime rate, highest employment and least juvenile delinquency of any city district. Walk through its crowded streets at any time of day, and every shop is doing a brisk and businesslike trade: restaurant after restaurant is booming; there are storefront displays of shiny squids, clawing crabs and clambering lobster; and street markets offer overflowing piles of exotic green vegetables, garlic and ginger root. Chinatown has the feel of a land of plenty, and the reason why lies with the Chinese themselves: even here, in the very core of downtown Manhattan, they have been careful to preserve their own way of dealing with things, preferring to keep affairs close to the bond of the family and allowing few intrusions into a still-insular culture. There have been several concessions to Westerners - storefront signs now offer English translations, and Haagen Dazs and Baskin Robbins ice-cream stores have opened on lower Mott Street - but they can't help but seem

　　incongruous. The one time of the year when Chinatown bursts open is during the Chinese New Year festival, held each year on the first full moon after

　　January 19, when a giant dragon runs down Mott Street to the accompaniment of firecrackers, and the gutters run with ceremonial dyes.

　　Beneath the neighborhood's blithely prosperous facade, however, there is a darker underbelly. Sharp practices continue to flourish, with traditional

　　extortion and protection rackets still in business. Non-union sweatshops - their assembly lines grinding from early morning to late into the evening - are still visited by the US Department of Labor, who come to investigate workers' testimonies of being paid below minimum wage for seventy-plus-hour work weeks. Living conditions are abysmal for the poorer Chinese - mostly recent immigrants and the elderly - who reside in small rooms in overcrowded

　　tenements ill-kept by landlords. Yet, because the community has been

　　cloistered for so long and has only just begun to seek help from city officials for its internal problems, you won't detect any hint of difficulties unless you reside in Chinatown for a considerable length of time.

　　The ray of the warm sunlight told us that it was spring. A lion was sleeping peacefully in the forest.

　　While the lion was fast asleep, a mouse went on top of the lion. The bold mouse played happily on top of the lion. "Yuppie! This is really fun." The mouse ran around thumping and stomping here and there.

　　The lion was not able to sleep with all the racket. The lion knew that there was someone on top of him. So, the lion made a surprise attack and rolled on the ground.

　　And the mouse fell over. When the lion saw the mouse he was relieved and said, "Whew! It was only a mouse."

　　However, far away a fox had seen the scene. The fox laughed mockingly to the lion and said, "You're as big as a mountain and you're afraid of the mouse. You're a coward!" The fox kept making fun of the Lion.

　　Finally the lion spoke, "I wasn't afraid of the mouse. I was only shocked to find a bold enough animal not afraid to run around on top of a lion." When the fox heard this he quietly left.

　　Young people are excited, young people are strong, young people work hard, and young people hope. In another Youth Day approaching, bless you, my dear friend, a young, promising career, young people, happy every day.

　　The youth should stand forward, the youth should fire departments, youth on confidence disclosure date, the youth should innumerable twists and turns into a hero Youth Day!, I wish you a beautiful demonstration, repeatedlyspectacular!

　　The youth is Chaoyang, charming, youth is a horse, the pace of flying, the youth is more than the Pentium, the river, the youth is pine, will become the pillars! Youth Day, may you young, positive youth, promising future!

　　Green Cuicui tree Changchun, one year people often red, dee* bless you: good life such as evergreen trees, like saffron Chang Yan, always in youth, often smiling happy youth day!

　　Youth, a life only once, although the youth have rebellion, impetuous, and also have mistakes, but more youth is enthusiasm, beauty and hope. Youth will have happiness after all, because it has the future! Happy youth day!

　　People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records.

　　Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, the negotiations1 of government officials and the events during wars?

　　We do it because, sometimes, the voice of experience can cause us to stop, look and listen. Sometimes, past records, when understood in the right way, can help us decide what to do and what not to do. If we are ever to create lasting peace, we must seek its origins in human experience and in the records of human history.

　　From the stories of courage and devotion of men and women, we create the inspirations of youth. History records the suffering, the self-denial2, the devotion, and the heroic deeds of people in the past. These records can help us when we are confused and when we really need peace.

　　The main purpose of history is to create a better world. History gives a warning to those who promote war, and inspiration to those who seek peace.

　　In short, history helps us learn. Yesterday’s records can keep us from repeating yesterday’s mistakes. And from the pieces of mosaic4 assembled5 by historians come the great murals6 which represent the progress of mankind.

　　A Nail Or A Fly?

　　An old gentleman whose eyesight was failing came to stay in a hotel room with a bottle of wine in each hand. On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail. So the moment he hung them on, the bottles fell broken and the wine spilt all over the floor. When a waitress discovered what had happened, she showed deep sympathy for him and decided to do him a favor.

　　So the next morning when he was out taking a walk in the roof garden, she hammered a nail exactly where the fly had stayed.

　　Now the old man entered his room. The smell of the spilt wine reminded him of the accident. When he looked up at the wall, he found the fly was there again! He walked to it carefully and slapped it with all his strength. On hearing a loud cry, the kind-hearted waitress rushed in. To her great surprise, the poor old man was there sitting on the floor, his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!

　　The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless trees, duanwenw.com that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of the sleigh-bells, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.

　　By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 作者：亨利.沃兹沃思.朗费罗

　　翻译：

　　初雪降临，多么美啊！它整日整夜那么静静地飘着，落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在世人的屋顶上，落在逝者的坟墓上。在一片白茫茫之中，只有河流在美丽的画面上划出一道弯弯曲曲的黑线；还有那叶儿落净的树木，映衬着铅灰色的天空，更显得枝丫交错，姿态万千。初雪飘落时，是何等的.宁谧，何等的幽静！一切声响都趋沉寂，一切噪音都化作柔和的音乐。再也听不见马蹄得得，再也听不见车轮辚辚！唯有雪橇的铃铛，奏出和谐的乐声，那明快欢乐的节拍犹如孩子们心房的搏动。

　　Baby frogs went on a picnic in the woods. Getting out of the pond for the first time, they sang merrily.

　　Then, they found a cow grazing in a field. "Oh, my! What is that?" "It is huge!" All of them wondered what kind of animal it was. "Let's ask Daddy."

　　They returned home in a hurry and shouted, "Daddy, we saw a strange animal." "What kind of animal was it?"

　　"It had large horns on its head and its body was way bigger than you. Even if we all add up our power, we can not defeat that animal."

　　The father was curious what the animal looked like. "Really? Was it bigger than my stomach?" "Yes. Much bigger than that!"

　　The father frog blew up his stomach largely, "Well, now, I'm as big as the animal, right?" "No, you are as big as the animal's heel." The father puffed himself up dee* and blew up his stomach enormously.

　　"How about now? Am I as big as the animal, huh?" "No, not even." Thinking he could not be outdone, the father frog puffed up his stomach even more.

　　The father frog's stomach was blown up as big as he could get. Right at that very moment, the father frog's stomach burst with a bang.

　　Behind every successful person, there will be efforts, and the efforts behind the inspirational, inspiring as a motive, so that it can be successful.

　　Some people say that he is a star, perhaps not, back when the road seems, spicy humor humorous playfulness that once bitter tears and heart, and it is obvious that unruly confrontation and fry a grassroots and the fate of the flash; he is a star, when he asked the passion on the fate of the split lock by force with the high spirited heart, in the name of the dream to pluck the stars on the occasion, what is he not a star?

　　He was a single show on the stage - Show Luo.

　　When I was a child, I liked Show Luo very much. He was very imposing on stage. So I wished to be a star when I was young, but my voice was thick and the dance was rotten. It's not a star material.

　　From then on, I thought of Show Luo. Even when he was young, he had no astrology. Even though he was despise and black and fat, he was scolded into a pig. Even though he wrote a letter to a schoolgirl for the first time, he was called back, "well, it's up to you." Even after the debut has been ordered to minimize the occurrence of more shar*, producers expressed his doubts, "how can you be discovered as a singer?" You have to stay in the studio, I won't let the music go! "... Even if is full of sarcasm and ridicule, he was abruptly survived. But those who smile, helpless when Coptis meal, who can really understand!

　　In the future, we should take Show Luo as an idol and learn the spirit of him.

　　When someone looks into your eyes they should see something alive within you. Having a dream is lik搜索e owning a lighthouse1 which directs you on your journey.

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英语小短文

英语小短文（通用21篇）

　　英语成为*政治、经济和文化全面走向国际化的不可或缺的战略性工具,成为国家和人才核心竞争力的所在。以下是小编整理的英语小短文，供大家参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到有需要的朋友。

　　here is no doubt that happiness is the mos

　　t precious thing in the world. Without it, life will be empty and meaningless. If you wish to know how to get happiness, you must pay attention to the following two points. First, health is the secret of happiness (the key to happiness). Only a strong man can enjoy the pleasure of life. Secondly, happiness consists in contentment. A man who is dissatisfied with his

　　present condition is always in distress.

　　Smiling

　　I think smiling is as important as sunshine. Smiling is like sunshine because it can make people happy and have a good day. If you aren?t happy, you can smile, and then you will feel happy. Someone may say, “But I don?t feel happy.” Then I would say, “Please smile as you do when you are happy or play with your friends happily. You will really be happy again.”

　　Smiling can let you have more friends.So I say, smiling is like a flower. It will give you happiness.

　　A Nail Or A Fly?

　　An old gentleman whose eyesight was failing came to stay in a hotel room with a bottle of wine in each hand. On the wall there was a fly which he took for a nail. So the moment he hung them on, the bottles fell broken and the wine spilt all over the floor. When a waitress discovered what had happened, she showed deep sympathy for him and decided to do him a favor.

　　So the next morning when he was out taking a walk in the roof garden, she hammered a nail exactly where the fly had stayed.

　　Now the old man entered his room. The smell of the spilt wine reminded him of the accident. When he looked up at the wall, he found the fly was there again! He walked to it carefully and slapped it with all his strength. On hearing a loud cry, the kind-hearted waitress rushed in. To her great surprise, the poor old man was there sitting on the floor, his teeth clenched and his right hand bleeding!

　　People often wonder why historians go to so much trouble to preserve millions of books, documents and records.

　　Why do we have libraries? What good are these documents and history books? Why do we record and save the actions of men, the negotiations1 of government officials and the events during wars?

　　We do it because, sometimes, the voice of experience can cause us to stop, look and listen. Sometimes, past records, when understood in the right way, can help us decide what to do and what not to do. If we are ever to create lasting peace, we must seek its origins in human experience and in the records of human history.

　　From the stories of courage and devotion of men and women, we create the inspirations of youth. History records the suffering, the self-denial2, the devotion, and the heroic deeds of people in the past. These records can help us when we are confused and when we really need peace.

　　The main purpose of history is to create a better world. History gives a warning to those who promote war, and inspiration to those who seek peace.

　　In short, history helps us learn. Yesterday’s records can keep us from repeating yesterday’s mistakes. And from the pieces of mosaic4 assembled5 by historians come the great murals6 which represent the progress of mankind.

　　When someone looks into your eyes they should see something alive within you. Having a dream is lik搜索e owning a lighthouse1 which directs you on your journey.

　　At every turn we come across its mystery. At each new level we become more of the person we were meant to become. In lonely times, when we pass through a storm of disappointment, we find our faith is unshaken, our strength still strong.

　　Believe in your faith. Set the vision before your eyes. Write down your most sincere dreams and when the opportunity comes, step into your dream. It may take one season or more, but the result is the same. Make big dreams and then go out and make them realities. The highest hopes of the dreamer are revealed with every step taken in their journey to the impossible. For a season we must protect the dream so that it can grow quietly on the inside. But if we tenderly care for our deepest expectations, slowly but surely the dream will become new life.

　　Dreaming is an act of faith. The light of your expectations will cast off the shadows of a disbelieving world. God has given us the dreamer as a gift to light an unbelieving world.

　　Find your treasure within and cherish2 it. Tomorrow is waiting for you to take the first step.

　　Young people are excited, young people are strong, young people work hard, and young people hope. In another Youth Day approaching, bless you, my dear friend, a young, promising career, young people, happy every day.

　　The youth should stand forward, the youth should fire departments, youth on confidence disclosure date, the youth should innumerable twists and turns into a hero Youth Day!, I wish you a beautiful demonstration, repeatedlyspectacular!

　　The youth is Chaoyang, charming, youth is a horse, the pace of flying, the youth is more than the Pentium, the river, the youth is pine, will become the pillars! Youth Day, may you young, positive youth, promising future!

　　Green Cuicui tree Changchun, one year people often red, dee* bless you: good life such as evergreen trees, like saffron Chang Yan, always in youth, often smiling happy youth day!

　　Youth, a life only once, although the youth have rebellion, impetuous, and also have mistakes, but more youth is enthusiasm, beauty and hope. Youth will have happiness after all, because it has the future! Happy youth day!

　　Behind every successful person, there will be efforts, and the efforts behind the inspirational, inspiring as a motive, so that it can be successful.

　　Some people say that he is a star, perhaps not, back when the road seems, spicy humor humorous playfulness that once bitter tears and heart, and it is obvious that unruly confrontation and fry a grassroots and the fate of the flash; he is a star, when he asked the passion on the fate of the split lock by force with the high spirited heart, in the name of the dream to pluck the stars on the occasion, what is he not a star?

　　He was a single show on the stage - Show Luo.

　　When I was a child, I liked Show Luo very much. He was very imposing on stage. So I wished to be a star when I was young, but my voice was thick and the dance was rotten. It's not a star material.

　　From then on, I thought of Show Luo. Even when he was young, he had no astrology. Even though he was despise and black and fat, he was scolded into a pig. Even though he wrote a letter to a schoolgirl for the first time, he was called back, "well, it's up to you." Even after the debut has been ordered to minimize the occurrence of more shar*, producers expressed his doubts, "how can you be discovered as a singer?" You have to stay in the studio, I won't let the music go! "... Even if is full of sarcasm and ridicule, he was abruptly survived. But those who smile, helpless when Coptis meal, who can really understand!

　　In the future, we should take Show Luo as an idol and learn the spirit of him.

　　The ray of the warm sunlight told us that it was spring. A lion was sleeping peacefully in the forest.

　　While the lion was fast asleep, a mouse went on top of the lion. The bold mouse played happily on top of the lion. "Yuppie! This is really fun." The mouse ran around thumping and stomping here and there.

　　The lion was not able to sleep with all the racket. The lion knew that there was someone on top of him. So, the lion made a surprise attack and rolled on the ground.

　　And the mouse fell over. When the lion saw the mouse he was relieved and said, "Whew! It was only a mouse."

　　However, far away a fox had seen the scene. The fox laughed mockingly to the lion and said, "You're as big as a mountain and you're afraid of the mouse. You're a coward!" The fox kept making fun of the Lion.

　　Finally the lion spoke, "I wasn't afraid of the mouse. I was only shocked to find a bold enough animal not afraid to run around on top of a lion." When the fox heard this he quietly left.

　　Baby frogs went on a picnic in the woods. Getting out of the pond for the first time, they sang merrily.

　　Then, they found a cow grazing in a field. "Oh, my! What is that?" "It is huge!" All of them wondered what kind of animal it was. "Let's ask Daddy."

　　They returned home in a hurry and shouted, "Daddy, we saw a strange animal." "What kind of animal was it?"

　　"It had large horns on its head and its body was way bigger than you. Even if we all add up our power, we can not defeat that animal."

　　The father was curious what the animal looked like. "Really? Was it bigger than my stomach?" "Yes. Much bigger than that!"

　　The father frog blew up his stomach largely, "Well, now, I'm as big as the animal, right?" "No, you are as big as the animal's heel." The father puffed himself up dee* and blew up his stomach enormously.

　　"How about now? Am I as big as the animal, huh?" "No, not even." Thinking he could not be outdone, the father frog puffed up his stomach even more.

　　The father frog's stomach was blown up as big as he could get. Right at that very moment, the father frog's stomach burst with a bang.

　　A tiger is hungry, he is looking for food. He sees a frog in front of him. “Ha ha! A frog! My dinner!” so he rushes at the frog.

　　Behind the tiger, there is a tortoise. The little tortoise sees it; he bites the tiger’s tail.“Ouch!” cries the tiger and he looks back. The frog hears the voice and jumps into water. “Thank you, little tortoise.” says the frog.But the tiger is very angry. “Bother it! I’ll throw you to the sky!”“Thank you, I like flying in the sky,” says the tortoise.

　　The tiger stops, “I will throw you into the river.”

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优美英语散文短篇（英语美文精选短文）

今天酱酱以拿破仑的名言作为今天的开场白，送给还在默默奋斗的你：The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible ”.（凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的） ——Bonaparte Napoleon 拿破仑

就像拿破仑所说，世上强者只有一个借口：我要成功；而弱者却有无数种理由去逃避。每天的努力都能让你离成功更进一步。

开始今天的内容吧：

1、I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

翻译：我宁愿和你共度凡人短暂的一生，也不愿一个人看尽这世界的沧海桑田。

出自：《魔戒》

2、You h*e bewitched me, body and soul.

翻译：你让我着了魔，从肉体到灵魂。

出自：《傲慢与偏见》

3、I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible.

翻译：我今晚来这里是因为，当你意识到自己想要与一个人共度余生的时候，你会希望你的余生尽快开始。

出自：《当哈利遇到莎莉》

4、If the evening when the moon rises, the moon shine my doorstep, I hope to meet La Luna me a wish, I’d like a pair of human hands. I would like to put my hands of my lover tightly over at Wye Medium, even if only once.

翻译：如果晚上月亮升起的时候，月光照到我的门口，我希望月光女神能满足我一个愿望，我想要一双人类的手。我想用我的双手把我的爱人紧紧地拥在怀中，哪怕只有一次。

出自：《剪刀手爱德华》

5、Lift up your head princess, if not, the crown falls.

翻译：请抬起你的头， 我的公主，不然皇冠会掉下来。

出自：《罗马假日》

6、That with devotions visage and pious action. we do sugar o’er the devil himself.

翻译：人们往往用至诚的外表和虔敬的行动，掩饰一颗魔鬼般的心。

出自：《V字仇杀队》

7、One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone.

翻译：一个人总要走陌生的路，看陌生的风景，听陌生的歌，然后在某个不经意的瞬间，你会发现，原本是费尽心机想要忘记的事情真的就那么忘记了。

出自：《蓝莓之夜》

8、See,nothing can stop love,Leon.

你看，没有任何事物挡得住爱情，里昂。

出自：《这个杀手不太冷》

9、Tell me that you love me first because I’m afraid that if I tell you first you’ll think that I’m*ing the game.

翻译：你先告诉我你爱我，因为我会担心要是我先告诉你的话，你会认为我是在玩游戏.

出自：《两小无猜》

10、None of us can vow to be perfect. In the end all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we’ve got. Because love’s the best thing we do.

翻译：没有人可以发誓做到完美，最后我们能保证的只有深爱彼此，倾尽所有。因为爱是最美好的事。

出自：《老爸老妈罗曼史》

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英语美文短文欣赏

英语美文短文欣赏（通用8篇）

　　引导语：读书养性，读书可以陶冶自己的性情，使自己温文尔雅，具有书卷气。接下来是小编为你带来收集整理的英语美文短文，欢迎阅读！

　　I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be happy. Well, I thought we were. But the truth was that you had been 2)longing to leave me, not daring to tell me. On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely 3)conscious, you said: “Our story is ending.”

　　The rain was killing the last days of summer. You had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago. I still don’t think I’m gonna make it through another love story. You took it all away from me. And there I stand, I knew I was going to be the one left behind. But still I’m watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending.

　　我仍清晰地记得故事发生的时候。秋叶翻飞，飘落一地。我们曾经孩子般戏水畅游过的小湖盖满落叶，在太阳下闪着光。那时我们幸福过。哦，我是这样认为的。可事实上你早就想离开我，你只是不敢告诉我罢了。在那美丽的夜晚，眼望湖水，恍惚中听见你说：我们的故事已到尽头。

　　雨水扼杀着所剩无几的夏日，而你很久以来也在扼杀我奄奄一息的爱。但我仍不认为自己会再去经历另一段爱情故事。你把一切都带走了。我只有悄然伫立，早已明白自己将会是那个被遗弃的人。而我依然凝望着湖水，恍惚中，我知道生命正离我而去。

　　"I'm going to marry you one day." Beth said to her long time crush Jake. She wore her favorite blue teddy bear shirt. Her four-year-old blue eyes shined in the sun.

　　"No you're not, you're a girl." Jake said.

　　The California afternoon wind blew his light brown hair. Jumping off the monkey bars he laughed back to class.

　　Sitting alone and confused she didn't know what to do. Beth sat high on the monkey bars crying. How can her future husband just leave like that?

　　She was going to get him, but how? "I will not let him get away! I won't! I won't!"

　　15 years later:

　　"I love you, too, Jake." Hanging up the phone she caught her mom smiling. "What?"

　　"When is he coming in from France? He's been there for awhile." She sat down on her black leather couch. The house was made up of different Indian stuff. On the walls were different dream catchers. Her mother was a full blood Cherokee Indian. She passed away when Beth was eight.

　　"He has a lot of schooling to do right now. Maybe this Saturday."

　　Fixing her short overalls she thought of Jake. Who would have thought they were going to date when she turned five?

　　"Is he still living in Colorado?" Her mother Kay wore a white tank top with tan pants. And long blonde hair with pretty blue eyes. She was the most beautiful woman on Earth. And Beth is looking like her by the minute.

　　"Yeah, I hate having a long distance relationship." She plopped on a leather chair.

　　"It's ok baby, you know he loves you more than anything in this world. Love will keep you together."

　　Beth could not help but smile. Her mother is and will always be her best friend.

　　Jake sat in his hotel the school rented for him. School of law. He loved going overseas for everything. But he missed being with Beth. That hurt him the most.

　　Spending the lonely nights in the hotel made him think of how much it would hurt to spend the rest of his life without her in it.

　　Getting up off his bed he went into the bathroom. Watching his reflection in the mirror, all he could think about was Beth. He would leave Thursday, and get there Friday night.

　　Turning off the light he jumped into the cold bed. On a coffee table near his bed rested a frame with them in it. It was taken at a beach about two years ago. It was the best time of their lives.

　　It was Thursday morning and Beth waited for Jake's morning phone call. He would call at eight — it was ten.

　　Beth got out of bed and got her favorite blue tank top. She took off her shirt and screamed at the top of her lungs.

　　"What? What?" Her mother came rushing into her room. Staring at her naked daughter she saw the lump of her breast. "Does it hurt?"

　　Beth could only say "No." Looking at the lump, she cried in pain.

　　"Let's get you to the doctor."

　　"Ok, let me get dressed."

　　Shutting the door behind her, the room became silent. Shaking she put on her shirt, and ran out into the living room.

　　"Mom, where are my blue shorts?"

　　"In the dresser, second drawer."

　　Finishing getting dressed she hopped into her car. Her red mustang drove like a baby.

　　They waited for the doctor to come in. Beth could not begin to think she had cancer. As her mind drifted off her cell phone rang.

　　"Hello?" Her heart skipped a beat, hoping it was Jake.

　　"Hey, how are you?" He asked out of breath.

　　"Could be better. Why didn't you call me this morning?"

　　"Sorry, school got ahold of me today."

　　"Why are you out of breath?" Looking stunned she stared at her mother.

　　"I'm so sorry, he'll call back." Her mother gave Beth a hug.

　　The doctor came in, and greeted his self. "Hello. I'm Kevin Baker." He smiled while examining her breast.

　　Everyone has that period in which they find those who are close to them start to seem annoying .

　　每个人都会经历这样的时期：发现身边那些亲*的人开始变得有点烦了。

　　You suddenly realized that they've always been talking and talking.

　　你会突然意识到，长久以来他们就一直不停地在说啊说。

　　They never stopped.

　　他们从来就没有停过。

　　Some of us get angry with them, thinking they are trying too hard to intervene in our lives.

　　我们中的有些人，会开始变得愤怒，觉得他们对我们的生活介入太多。

　　But don't.

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英语阅读小短文

英语阅读小短文（通用11篇）

　　英语是按照分布面积而言最流行的语言,但母语者数量是世界第三,仅次于汉语、西班牙语。它是学*最广泛的第二语言,是*60个*国家的官方语言或官方语言之一。下面是小编收集整理的英语阅读小短文作文，欢迎阅读，希望大家能够喜欢。

　　Once upon a time, a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family's only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had pasted the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.

　　Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

　　As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction.

　　But when he opened it, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady, " he said harshly, "when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package!"

　　The little girl looked up at him with tears rolling from her eyes and said: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

　　The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

　　An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.

　　In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.

　　There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.

　　I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

　　Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

　　Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

　　I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful inpiduals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness".

　　But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.

　　The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the opposite is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

　　As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.

　　Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room‘s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end.

　　They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

　　The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

　　One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn‘t hear the band - he could see it in his mind‘s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

　　Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

　　As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly and painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.

　　The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

　　A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

　　As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold.

　　Angrily, he raised his voice to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" He then stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

　　Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but realizing his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

　　When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago.

　　With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words… "PAID IN FULL".

　　How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged as we expected? I trust you enjoyed this. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Sometimes we don't realize the good fortune we have or we could have because we expect "the packaging" to be different. What may appear as bad fortune may in fact be the door that is just waiting to be opened.

　　Once upon a time there was a baby eagle living in a nest perched on a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley with waterfalls and streams, trees and lots of little animals, scurrying about enjoying their lives.

　　The baby eagle liked the nest. It was the only world he had ever known. It was warm and comfortable, had a great view, and even better, he had all the food and love and attention that a great mother eagle could provide. Many times each day the mother would swoop down from the sky and land in the nest and feed the baby eagle delicious morsels of food. She was like a god to him, he had no idea where she came from or how she worked her magic.

　　The baby eagle was hungry all the time, but the mother eagle would always come just in time with the food and love and attention he craved. The baby eagle grew strong. His vision grew very sharp. He felt good all the time.

　　Until one day, the mother stopped coming to the nest.

　　The baby eagle was hungry. "I'm sure to die," said the baby eagle, all the time.

　　"Very soon, death is coming," he cried, with tears streaming down his face. Over and over. But there was no one there to hear him.

　　Then one day the mother eagle appeared at the top of the mountain cliff, with a big bowl of delicious food and she looked down at her baby. The baby looked up at the mother and cried "Why did you abandon me? I'm going to die any minute. How could you do this to me?"

　　The mother said, "Here is some very tasty and nourishing food, all you have to do is come get it."

　　"Come get it!" said the baby, with much anger. "How?"

　　The mother flew away.

　　The baby cried and cried and cried.

　　A few days later, "I'm going to end it all," he said. "I give up. It is time for me to die."

　　He didn't know his mother was nearby. She swooped down to the nest with his last meal.

　　"Eat this, it's your last meal," she said.

　　The baby cried, but he ate and whined and whined about what a bad mother she was.

　　"You're a terrible mother," he said. Then she pushed him out of the nest.

　　He fell.

　　Head first.

　　Picked up speed.

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优美英语诗文

优美英语诗文

　　Tree at my window, window tree,

　　My sash is lowered when night comes on;

　　But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.

　　Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,And thing next most diffuse to cloud,

　　Not all your light tongues talking aloudCould be profound.But tree,

　　I h*e seen you taken and tossed,

　　And if you h*e seen me when I slept,

　　You h*e seen me when I was taken and sweptAnd all but lost.

　　That day she put our heads together,

　　Fate had her imagination about her,

　　Your head so much concerned with outer,

　　Mine with inner, weather.

　　译文

　　树在我的窗前树在我的窗前，

　　窗前的树，当夜幕降临我放下窗扉;

　　但绝没有拉下窗帘在你和我之间。

　　含混的梦首举出了地面，

　　事情差不多都漫散到云端，

　　并非你的所有高谈阔论都能将深奥显现。

　　但是树啊，我看见你摇曳不安，

　　而如果你曾见过我在睡眠，

　　那你也看到过我的情感遭受熬煎一切尽失落丢散。

　　那天命运发挥了她的想象力，

　　把我们的头放在一起，你的头是那样焦虑外面的气候，

　　我的.却与室内冷暖相关。

　　去说那毁灭的原因冰同样伟大绝伦会满足如此重

　　Let us use it while we may

　　Snatch those joys that haste away!

　　Earth her winter coat may cast,

　　And renew her beeauty past:

　　But, our winter come, in vain

　　We solicit spring again;

　　And when our furrows snow shall cover,

　　Love may return but never lover.

　　译文

　　趁现在可能，我们用用它，

　　把匆匆逝去的欢乐抓紧!

　　大地上会撒下它的冬衣，

　　然后又恢复过去的美丽，

　　但是当我们的冬天来临，

　　我们求春天回来可不行;

　　当白雪盖住我们额头的皱纹，

　　爱可能回来，但爱人决不可能。

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英语励志短文初中

　　励志这东西，是有时间期限的。不要期待一个刺激就可以顺利地改变你，一个人的动力归根结底只能来源于自己。那么英语励志短文初中有哪些呢?以下是小编为大家搜集整理提供到的英语励志短文初中，希望对您有所帮助。欢迎阅读参考学*!

　　英语励志短文初中1

　　愿你的思想永远充满阳光

　　May every day of your life bring you fresh hopes for tomorrow---because hopes give us all our reason for trying.

　　愿你生命中的每一天都对未来充满新的希望，因为有了希望，我们才有追求。

　　May each new day bring a feeling of excitement, joy, and a wonderful sense of expectation. Expect the best, and you'll get it.

　　愿激情、欢愉和期待的美好感觉成为你每一天的主旋律。追求完美，你终将如愿以偿。

　　May you find peace in simple things, because those are the ones that will always be there.、

　　愿你在*凡小事中觅得*和心境，它们呈现出生活最真实的面目。

　　May you remember the good times and forget the sorrow and pain, for the good times will remind you of how special your life has been.

　　May you always feel secure and loved, and know you are the best.

　　May you experience all the good things in life---the happiness of realizing your dreams, the joy of feeling worthwhile, and the satisfaction of knowing you've succeeded.

　　May you find warmth in others, expressions of love and kindness, smiles that encourage you, and friends who are loyal and honest.

　　May you realize the importance of patience and accept others for what they are. With understanding and love, you'll find the good in every heart.

　　May you have faith in others and the ability to be vulnerable. Open your heart and really share the miracle of love and intimacy.

　　Above all, may you always have positive thoughts.

　　愿你铭记甜美幸福的时刻，让悲伤和痛苦烟消云散。对美好生活的回忆能让你体会到生命的特殊含义。

　　愿你时时拥有安全和被爱的感觉。要知道，你是最棒的。

　　愿你体会到生活赐予的所有美好感觉，美梦成真的快乐，努力有所值的欢欣，以及成功的满足。

　　愿你能感受人们的温情、爱心与善良，看到他们沁人心脾的微笑，也交到忠诚正直的朋友。

　　愿你意识到忍耐的重要，接受别人的优缺点。理解和爱能让你看到他们每个人都有闪光的一面。

　　愿你怀抱对他人的信心，不怕接受责难。敞开你的心扉，亲密无间的爱能不可思议地创造奇迹。

　　最重要的是，愿你的思想永远都充满阳光。　　英语励志短文初中2

　　乐观思想

　　It is not easy to think positive thoughts when the world around you appears to be so negative. In fact, it can be as difficult as anything you’ve ever done. However, it is absolutely possible to fill your mind with positive thoughts no matter what the environment is. Doing so makes you powerful like nothing else can.

　　当你周围的人或物都看似消极时,让你持有乐观思想并非是件容易的事。实际上,这和你做过的任何一件事一样难。然而,无论身处怎样的环境,用乐观的思想填充你的大脑是完全可能的。这样做会使你变得无比强大。

　　To think positively is to alignyourselfwith1 the truth that you’re immersed2 in limitless, growing abundance. To think positively is to pleasantly accept that your life is full of meaningful and unique achievements.

　　乐观地思考就是在证明一个事实——你的生活正处于日益丰盈的状态。乐观地思考也是在欣然接受一个事实——你的生活充满着意义深远、与众不同的成就。

　　Instead of placing a judgement on your situation, ap* your most positive purposes to that situation. Instead of seeing the world as negative, see yourself as a powerful agent of the positive possibilities.

　　不要只顾着对你所处的形势作出评价,要把你的积极目标付诸于实际。不要只看到世界的消极一面,要看到自己能够创造积极可能性的强大力量。

　　If you find yourself giving in to negativity4, you are selling yourself short. The moment you feel the slightest pain of a negative thought, stop and remind yourself how powerful you are. Do the intentional work of keeping your thoughts positive. Because whatever you always think is where your life will surely and steadily go.

　　如果你发现自己正向消极屈服,那么你就是在轻视自己。在你感受到消极思想所带来的一丝疼痛的那一刻,停下来吧,提醒自己你是多么强大。做一些有利于塑造积极思想的事情,因为你的思想正引领着你生活稳步前行的方向。　　英语励志短文初中3

　　Surrounding you are angels, they are there to guide your path. If weakness overcomes you, they'll give you strength if you will ask. duanwenw.com They are your protection when life seems too hard to bear, and though you feel alone at times, the angels, they are there…

　　围绕在你身边的是天使，她们一直在那里指引着你的道路。如果软弱正吞噬着你，去请求力量吧，她们会赐予你力量。她们是你的护身符，当生活看上去非常艰难，当你有时觉得很孤独时，你的天使，她们一直就在那里……

　　Their faces may be hidden, and their voices you might not hear, but they are always with you through your laughter or your tears.

　　你可能看不见她们的脸，听不见她们的声音，但她们一直都在那里，伴随着你的欢笑和泪水陪你前行。

　　They'll walk along beside you, they'll guide your steps along the way, they'll comfort you and hold you, protect you night and day. They'll hold to your hand tightly, and will not ever let it go, and they'll gently lead you forward, taking each step very slow.

　　在人生的旅途中，她们指引你前行，安慰你，拥抱你，日夜保护着你，她们永远都将紧紧握着你的手，轻柔地引导你前行，慢慢地帮助你走出每一步。

　　When life is overwhelming, and your spirit has grown tired, know that duanwenw.com they'll be there for you to uplift and to inspire. And when you're torn and lonely, and you see no hope ahead, know that they will nourish you, and your spirit will be fed.

　　当生活变得很无奈，你的灵魂开始疲惫，你知道她们一直在那里陪着你给你重新振作起来的勇气。当你身心疲惫，感觉孤独，看不到前方是否有希望时，你知道他们会滋润你的心灵，充实你的灵魂。

　　For even in the darkest hour, when all of hope seems gone, they'll give you strength to live your life, and desire to go on. And if your faith in Heaven should ever fade away, they'll help renew your spirit, and help you find your way.

　　即使在最黑暗的日子里，当所有的希望似乎都变得渺茫，天使会赋予你生活的力量和继续前进和动力。如果你所坚信的美好在现实面前有些褪色，她们会再次激励你，并帮助你找到自己的方向。

　　Angles are always there; and upon their strength and guidance, you always may rely.

　　天使一直就在我们身边;有了天使赐予我们的力量和指引，你可以勇往直前。

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英语短文阅读带翻译

英语短文阅读带翻译

　　学*任何语言都需要大量的阅读，阅读是获取知识最直接最有效的途径。接下来小编来分享英语短文阅读带翻译的文章，大家不妨看看，同时加深理解和体会。

　　电视节目

　　Television gives the American people a wide variety of programs from early morning until late at night.Operas,orchestral performances,chamber music and jazz concerts are often presented on television.So most of the leisure at home is used for watching television.Many Americans are so fond of their TV programs that they often have cold luncheon in front of their receiving sets.Television has given people newer and deeper understanding of history,art,music,literature,the ballet,the theater,the discoveries of modern science and the wonders of the universe.Television viewers pay no tax or charges for receiving programs on their sets.The cost of the programs is paid chiefly by those who are given the opportunity to advertise their goods or services during the commercial breaks.

　　美国人从清晨直到深夜都能看到形形色色的电视节目。电视屏幕上经常播放歌剧、管弦乐、室内音乐和爵士音乐演奏。所以家庭中大部分空闲时间都花在看电视上。许多美国人酷爱电视节目，经常在电视机前边看电视边吃冷餐。电视使人们对历史、艺术、音乐、文学、舞剧、戏剧、现代科学的新发现和宇宙的奥妙有较新和较深切的了解。电视观众看电视节目既不用缴税，也不必付款，节目费用主要是由那些借此为其商品和服务做插播广告的人支付的。

　　给予

　　Like most people,I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting.It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important discovery: giving-away makes life so much more exciting.You need not worry if you lack money.This is how I experimented with giving-away.If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store flashes to me,I step in and make the suggestion to the storekeeper.One discovery I made about giving-away is that it is almost impossible to give away anything in this world without getting something back,though the return often comes in an unexpected form.One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special delivery letter to my home,though it was addressed to me at my office.I wrote the postmaster a note of appreciation.More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was starting.I was told at the window that there were no boxes left,and that my name would have to go on a long waiting list.As I was about to leave,the postmaster appeared in the doorway.He had overheard our conversation.“Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home?” I said yes.“Well,you certainly are going to have a box in this post office if we have to make one for you.You don’t know what a letter like that means to us.We usually get nothing but complaints.”

　　像大多数人，我长大看待生命是一个过程获得。直到我在30月底，我作出这一重要发现：给予，距离使我们的生活如此更令人兴奋的。您不必担心如果缺乏资金。这是我尝试让-消失。如果一个主意，可以改善窗口显示一个闪烁附*商店给我，我的步骤，并提出上述建议的仓库保管员。一发现我付出，离开是，它几乎是不可能放弃任何在这个世界上，没有得到回报，尽管返回往往在一个意想不到的形式。一个星期天上午，当地邮局作了重要特别的递送信件到我家里，但给我在我的办公室。我写了一份说明邮政的赞赏。一年多后，我需要一个后Office中的一个新的业务，我开始。我被告知的窗口，没有框的左边，我的名字将不得不在很长的等候名单。当我正准备离开，邮政出现在门口。他听到我们的交谈。 “是不是你，我们该信中写道：一年前为客户提供一份特别的递送到您的家? ”我说是的。 “嘿，你肯定将会有一个盒子在这个邮政局如果我们要取得一个适合您。你不知道什么样的信，这意味着给我们。我们通常会只是投诉。 题目的答案：ACBCD，题目不祥。

　　篮球

　　Interest in basketball in the United States peaks around three big championship events in the spring: the college championships for men and women in late March or early April and the professional playoffs that climax in June.

　　But that’s only organized basketball.Informally,the game has been learned by generations of American youths on city playgrounds and schoolyards,on lonely baskets put up in backyards of rural homes and on the driveway basketball courts of countless suburban homes.Here,playing on teams,going one-on-one against a single opponent or just shooting the ball hour after hour alone,some of the finest basketball players have developed their skills to incredible levels.

　　But as brilliant as some players may be,basketball requires coaching to teach athletes skills they are deficient in and to blend a group of individuals into a team.Styles of coaching vary.Some coaches favor an extremely disciplined game with each player having a specific role while others are more inclined to let their players dictate the style of play.

　　美国人对篮球的兴趣在春季三大锦标赛期间达到高潮。这包括三月底或四月初举行的大学男篮锦标赛和大学女篮锦标赛，以及在六月份进入决赛高潮的职业篮球赛。

　　上面说的只是有组织的正式比赛。在市内的运动场和学校的操场上，在农舍后院的简易篮球筐下，或是在无数市郊住宅的自家车道上划出的篮球场上，一代代的美国青少年的学*打篮球。一批最优秀的篮球选手，就是在这种队与队的对抗，单与单的较量，或是一个人数小时的投篮练*中，练就一身出神入化的球技的。

　　尽管有些球员很有天赋，篮球运动还是需要有教练指导的，帮助球员学*他们掌握欠佳的技术，并把一个个球员熔合成一个队，教练的风格各异。有些教练部署严谨，队员各司其职;有的则倾向于让队员去决定比赛的`打法和风格。

　　生命之坚持

　　Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter.But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten.So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.

　　The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives.Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days,because days enshrined in memory are never lost.Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile.And for one boy who is now a man,there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change,where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.

　　一些人坚持认为只有今日与明日最重要。可要按这条规则来生活的话，我们将会变得更加可怜。今天我们所做之事有多少是琐碎无功的，很快就被人遗忘.又有多少我们明天要为之事将会成为泡影。 过去是一所银行。我们将最可贵的财富——记忆珍藏其中，这些记忆赋予我们生命的意义和厚度。真正珍惜过去之人不会为美好时光逝去而哀叹。那些珍藏于记忆的时光是永远不会消失的。死亡本身也无法止住记忆中的声音，或擦除记忆中的微笑。对于已经长大**的小男孩来说，那儿将会有一个池塘。它不会因时间和潮汐而改变，可以让他大继续在阳光下享受静谧的时光。

　　任教印象

　　The main impression growing out of twelve years on the faculty of a medical school is that the No.1 health problem in the U.S.today,even more than * or cancer,is that Americans don’t know how to think about health and illness.Our reactions are formed on the terror level.

　　We fear the worst,expect the worst,thus invite the worst.The result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs,a self-medicating society incapable of

　　distinguishing between casual,everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention.

　　Early in life,too,we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs,and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury.Equal emphasis,however,is not given to the presiding fact that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons and the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible life-style.

　　在医学院任教十二年来，我获得的主要印象是，当今美国头号健康问题——一个比艾滋病或癌症更为严重的问题——是美国人不知道如何去认识健康与疾病。我们的反应是惊恐万状。我们怕最坏的事，想着最坏的事，而恰恰就召来了最坏的事。结果 ，我们变成了一个孱弱不堪，总疑心自己有病的民族，一个分不清哪些是日常偶发症状，哪些是需要治疗的症状，而自己擅自用药的社会。

　　我们年轻的时候还染上了一种奇怪的观念：一种肉眼看不见的叫做细菌的小妖怪在不断向我们进攻，我们必须长备不懈地保护自己不受其伤害。然而，对另一个重要事实，我们却未能给予同样的重视，那就是，我们的身体装备精良，足以对付这些小妖怪，而且防止妖怪进攻的最佳途径就是保持合理的生活方式。

　　读书之乐

　　Reading is a pleasure of the mind,which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader.Reading is fun,not because the writer is telling you something,but because it makes your mind work.Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his.Your experience,compared with his,brings you to the same or different conclusions,and your ideas develop as you understand his.

　　Every book stands by itself,like a one-family house,but books in a library are like houses in a city.Although they are separate,together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities.The same ideas,or related ones,turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature,but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.

　　Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be.If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "ought" to read,you probably won't have fun.But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you,and then relax with it,you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading,better,wiser,kinder,or more gentle,you won't have suffered during the process.

　　读书是愉悦心智之事。在这一点上它与运动颇为相似:一个优秀的读者必须要有热情、有知识、有速度。读书之乐并非在于作者要告诉你什么，而在于它促使你思考。你跟随作者一起想像，有时你的想象甚至会超越作者的。把自己的体验与作者的相互比较，你会得出相同或者不同的结论。在理解作者想法的同时，也形成了自己的观点。

　　每一本书都自成体系，就像一家一户的住宅，而图书馆里的藏书好比城市里千家万户的居所。尽管它们都相互独立，但只有相互结合才有意义。家家户户彼此相连，城市与城市彼此相依。相同或相似的思想在不同地方涌现。人类生活中反复的问题也在文学中不断重现，但因时代与作品的差异，答案也各不相同。

　　如果你希望的话，读书也能充满乐趣。倘若你只读那些别人告诉你该读之书，那么你不太可能有乐趣可言。但如果你放下你不喜欢的书，试着阅读另外一本，直到你找到自己中意的，然后轻轻松松的读下去，差不多一定会乐在其中。而且，当你通过阅读变得更加优秀，更加善良，更加文雅时，阅读便不再是一种折磨。

　　美丽人生 Beautiful Life

　　Marisa who is a beautiful girl from England,she works as a fitness instructor.She is also a fashionable icon.Having so many identities makes her life wonderful.But before Marisa was 20,who can imagine that she is a very fat girl.When Marisa was a small girl,she liked to eat all kinds of food,which made her a big fat girl.As she grew up,she noticed her difference and the boy she liked fell in love with her best friend.Marisa realized that she needed to lose weight,she refused to the junk food and ate the organic food.She kept practise every day.Finally,a year passed and she lose more than 80 pounds.She began her beautiful life.

　　玛丽莎来自英格兰，是一个美丽的女孩,她是一名健身教练。她也是一个时尚偶像。多重身份使得她的生活精彩。但在玛丽莎20岁之前,谁能想象到她是一个非常胖的女孩。当玛丽莎还是一个小女孩的时候,她喜欢吃各种各样的食物,这使她成为一个大胖女孩。当她长大了,她注意到自己与众不同,她喜欢的男孩爱上了她最好的朋友。玛丽莎意识到她需要减肥,她拒绝垃圾食品,吃有机食品。她每天都锻炼。最后,一年过去了,她减掉了80多磅。她开始她的美丽生活。

　　The Heat of Learning Chinese

　　In China,English is the indispensable suject for students to learn.Some students complain that there is no need to learn English because we live in China,while when we look around the world,we can find that there are more and more foreigners learn Chinese.As the world gets globalized,the world is watching us and foreigners are very interested in our culture.some of them learn Chinese for they sense the great commercial potential and want to do business with us.There is even a competition for foreigners to show their level of Chinese.I am so surprised by their insistance.The foreigners can learn Chinese so well,so there no reason for us to give up English.

　　在*,英语是学生来说是必不可少的学*科目。一些学生抱怨说,没有必要学*英语,因为我们生活在*,而当我们放眼世界,我们可以发现,越来越多的外国人在学*汉语。随着世界变得越来越全球化,全世界都在关注着我们，外国人对我们的文化很感兴趣。他们中的一些人学*中文因为他们感觉到巨大的商业潜力，想与我们做生意。甚至有节目来让外国人展示他们的中文水*。他们的坚持让我很吃惊。外国人学*中文学得那么好,所以我们没有理由放弃英语。

　　The Gym In My School

　　Recently,it has been said that the new building in my school will be finished soon and all the students can use it.It is such exciting news,because we have been looking forward to taking exercise in the gym for such a long time.The new building is used as the gym and there are all kinds of equipments in it.There are badminton court,ping-pong court and basketball court.I love the gym so much.I have always dream to take exercise in such a good gym.Playing sports indoor makes me feel not bad hot and as a girl,I don’t have to turn black.From now on,I will keep taking exercise everyday.

　　最*,据说我们学校的新大楼将很快完成,所有的学生都可以使用。这是如此令人兴奋的消息,因为我们一直期待能够在健身房锻炼。新建筑用作健身房，里面有各种各样的设备。有羽毛球场,乒乓球场和篮球场。我喜欢健身房。我一直梦想在这么好的健身房里面锻炼。室内运动让我感觉到不那么热,作为一个女孩,我也不会被晒黑。从现在起,我会每天做运动。

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英语小短文翻译对照

英语小短文翻译对照（通用23篇）

　　在*日的学*、工作和生活里，大家对小短文都再熟悉不过了吧，你知道作文怎样写才规范吗？　下面是小编整理的英语小短文翻译对照的内容，一起来看看吧。

　　The sun changed green

　　Absurd，absurd，really absurd。The sun unexpectedly changes green!What is happening?Is the sun catches up with fashionably trades the new clothing，Or fell ill?What under did the green suns world have to change：

　　The tree，Changed green;The grass, changed green。On earth all changed green, including desert.

　　太阳变绿了

　　荒唐，荒唐，真荒唐，太阳居然变绿啦！这是怎么回事呢？是太阳赶时髦换新装，还是生病了？绿色太阳下的世界发生了什么变化呢？

　　树，变绿了；草，变绿了。大地上的一切都变绿了，包括沙漠。

　　Every girl like to be beautiful, I am no exception. Once, I thought I was fat, in order to look as perfect as the movie stars, I went on diet, I refused the delicious food, which made me sick. Finally, I gave up, I realized that I wasn’t a star, I just need to be myself. Maybe I am not beautiful in outlook, but I can be an excellent girl. To be an excellent girl, I need to read more books. Books indeed bring me the nutrition which makes me different. Books broaden my vision, I see the different sceneries in the books, I feel like I am growing up. I am no longer narrow-minded, I start to treat things in different ways. When other girls are talking about how to look beautiful, I don’t care about it, I just care about how to live my own way.

　　每个女孩都想要变得漂亮，我也不例外。曾经，我觉得自己胖，为了看起来像电影明星那样完美，我节食了，我拒绝了美味的食物，这让我觉得不舒服。最后，我放弃了，我意识到我不是明星，我只需要做自己。也许我外表上并不漂亮，但是我能成为一名优秀的女孩。成为一名优秀的女孩，我需要读多点书。书本确实给我带来了营养，使得我与众不同。书本开阔了我的视野，我在书中看到了不一样的风景，我觉得自己长大了。我不再思想狭隘，开始用不同的方式看待事物。当其他女孩在谈论如何变得漂亮时，我不在意这个，我只在意如何活出自己的方式。

　　Since I go to high school, I have many annoyances. On the one hand, I am under great pressure on my study, I need to take the exams every month, once I am falling behind other students, I will feel that I am not doing well. I always want to be the best, but things can’t go on my way. On the other hand, I don’t want to talk to my parents, if they ask me the questions, I will answer them with few words. I think they won’t understand me, so I am not willing to communicate with my parents. I know I am in the adolescence, my body grows fast, changes happen on me, my emotion is unstable. So I need to learn to adjust myself and get used to these changes. I need to open my heart and have less pressure.

　　打从我上高中起，我就有很多烦恼。一方面，我在学*方面面临很大的压力，我每个月都要参加很多的开始，一旦比别的学生落后，我就会觉得我做得不好。我总是想要成为第一名，但是事情并不总是按照我的意愿走。另一方面，我不想要和我父母交流，如果他们问我问题，我就三言两语搪塞他们。我觉得他们并不了解我，因此我不愿意和父母交流。我知道我处于青春期，我的身体长得很快，我身上发生了变化，情绪变得很不稳定。所以我学着去调节自己，适应这些变化。我需要打开心扉，减少压力。

　　Last week, I went to Guangzhou with my friends. We were so excited about the trip, it took us three hours to arrive in Guangzhou railway station. At first, we were so confused about how to get out of the railway station, then we saw the big sign which showed us to take the metro. When we got to the subway station, a big picture was showed in front of us, we figured out our way quickly. When we were in the metro, we counted the time, we never thought it was so quickly, we just spent ten minutes to reach our destination, we found our hotel soon. Metro is so convenient, we don’t have to go out of the railway station, we just need to find the subway’s entrance. What’s more, it is very fast, unlike bus, which will turn around many roads, metro just goes the straight line.

　　上周，我和朋友们去广州玩。我们对这次的旅游很兴奋，我们花了3个小时到到广州火车站。一开始，我们不知道怎么样走出站，然后我们看到了一个大的指示语，指示我们去搭地铁。在我们到达地铁站的时候，一幅大大的地图展示在我们面前，我们很快就找到了路。我们上了车，数了下时间，从来没有想到会这么快，我们仅仅花了十分钟就到达了我们的目的地，并且很快就找到了宾馆。地铁很方便，我们不用走出火车站，只需要找到地铁站的入口。而且，地铁也很快，不像公交车，到处拐路线，地铁就走直线。

　　When talk about the sport, I will feel very excited, because I like sport so much, I love playing tennis, it is my favorite sport. I remember one day when I came home after school, I opened the TV and watched a tennis match. At first, I was caught by the beautiful tennis women players, they wore the beautiful outfits, when I had been watching for ten minutes, I found the match was so excellent, from then on, I started to watch tennis match. I have learned the tennis, I will call my friends to play with me when I have time. Now I am a big fan of the tennis match, I will watch the tour matches once I am free. My love to tennis is more than I could express, I am so lucky to have some friends who share the same interest with me.

　　当谈到运动的时候，我会感到很兴奋，因为我很喜欢运动，我喜欢打网球，这是我最喜欢的运动。我记得有一天当我放学回家后，我打开了电视机，看到了一场网球比赛。刚开始，我被美丽的女选手吸引，她们穿着美丽的球服，看了十分钟以后，我发现比赛很好看，从那时候起，我开始看网球比赛。我已经学*了网球，我会在有空的时候叫上朋友，一起打网球。如今我是一名网球的超级粉丝，我会在有空的时候看网球巡回赛。我对网球的爱无法用言语表达，我很幸运能有和我一样对网球有幸福的伙伴。

　　I am so afraid of the exam, because I want to be No.1 all the time, I just want my parents to be happy. Every time when I get the high marks, I will show it to my parents and they will be very happy and proud of me. But this time, I don’t do well in the exam, I am so careless, I am afraid that my parents will let down, I am not going to tell them the result. When I go home, my mother looks at me and I don’t seem to be happy. I rush to my room, then my mother asks me what happened, I decide to be honest and tell her the exam. She smiles and tells me that she doesn’t care my result, she is still proud of me, she believes me can do well next time. I am so happy to be honest to my parents.

　　我很害怕考试，因为我总是想成为第一名，我只是想要让父母开心。每次当我拿到高分的时候，我会展示给我的父母看，他们也会很开心，并为我感到自豪。但是这一次，我在考试中没能做好，我很粗心，害怕让我的父母失望了，我不打算告诉他们考试的结果。当我回到家里，妈妈看着我，我看上去不开心。我冲回房间，然后妈妈问我发生了什么事情，我决定坦诚，告诉她考试的事情。她笑了笑，告诉我她不在意我的分数，她仍然为我感到自豪，她相信我下次能做得好。我很开心对父母坦诚。

　　When I was small, I lived in my hometown, it is a small village, but the scenery is so beautiful, the trees are so green and the water is so clean. But when I went to primary school, I moved to the city with my parents, I missed the time in my hometown so much. When I was in my hometown, I woke up early in the morning, some people took a walk and some were doing their farm work. I would always go to the mountain with my grandma, we took care of the fruit trees. The little dog would come with me, when my grandma was doing her work, I played with the dog, how happy I was. Sometimes I would go to the river with my friends to catch the fish, I saw the fish clearly. These are beautiful memory for me, I keep it all the time.

　　当我还小的时候，我住在家乡，那是一个小村庄，但是风景很美，树木很绿，水很清澈。但是当我上初中的时候，我随父母搬到了城市，我很想念在家乡的时光。我在家乡的时候，我早上起得很早，一些人在散步，还有一些人在干他们的农活。我总会跟我的奶奶去山上，我们在料理果树。小狗会跟着我，在我奶奶干活的时候，我和小狗在玩耍，多么开心啊。有时候我会和朋友到河边抓鱼，我能清楚地看到鱼。这些对于我来说都是美丽的回忆，我一直都铭记着。

　　Flow. This is a popular concept on the Internet these days — the state we enter when we are completely focused on the work or task before us. We are so immersed in our task that we lose track of time. Having work and leisure that gets you in this state of flow will almost undoubtedly lead to happiness. People find greatest enjoyment not when they’re passively mindless, but when they’re absorbed in a mindful challenge. Action steps: Find work that you’re passionate about. Seriously — this is an extremely important step. Find hobbies that you’re passionate about. Turn off the TV — this is the opposite of flow — and get outside and do something that truly engages you.

　　流动。这是最*网络上一个流行的概念——当我们全神贯注于眼前的工作和任务时我们进入的状态。我们太过沉浸于我们的任务以至于没了时间观念。拥有工作和休闲会让你出于流动的状态，这几乎毫无疑问会让你幸福。当人们被动地没有意识时不会找寻到巨大地愉悦感，这种感觉只有当他们专注于挑战时才能获得。动作步骤：找一份你热爱地工作。这是至关重要地一步。在找一个你有兴趣地爱好。关掉电视机(这是流动的反面)，走到户外，进行些你能够真正参与进去的活动。

　　Positive thinking. I’m obviously a big proponent of positive thinking as the best way to achieve your goals, but it turns out that it can lead to happiness too. Optimism and self-esteem are some of the best indicators of people who lead happy lives. Happy people feel empowered, in control of their lives, and have a positive outlook on life. Action steps: Make positive thinking a habit. In fact, this should be one of the first habits you develop. Get into the habit of squashing all negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones. Instead of “I can’t” think“I can”. It may sound corny, but it has worked for me, every time.

　　积极的思考。积极思考是达成你目标的最佳方式，我很显然是这一想法的强烈支持者，但同时它也能指引你走向幸福。乐观和自尊是快乐生活的人们的最佳写照。快乐的人们感到充满活力，能够控制他们的生活，同时积极看待生活。动作步骤：把积极思考培养成*惯。事实上，这应该是你首先培养的*惯之一。养成粉碎你的负面想法并用积极的想法替代它们的*惯。用“我能”的想法替代“我不能”。尽管听起来毫无新意，但对我来说每次都很奏效。

　　In my opinion, the schoolwork now being assigned to high school students is too heavy. While it is true that students need to study, they need other things as well if they are to grow into healthy and well-rounded *s. High school students should be allowed more time for play. Playing is not wasting time, as some think. It gives them physical exercise, and also exercises their imagination. Which tends to be stifled by too much study. Finally, the pressure put on high school students by excessive schoolwork can cause serious stress, which is unhealthy physically and mentally. I do not advocate the elimination of schoolwork. I do think, however, that a reduction of the current heavy load would be beneficial to students and to the society as a whole.

　　我认为高中生的课业实在太重了，虽然说学生的确应当念书，但是要想长大成为健全的人，他们还需要一些其它的东西，所以应该给高中生较多从事娱乐的时间。娱乐并不如某些人所想的，是在浪费时间，它可以让学生锻炼身体，发挥被繁重课业扼杀的想象力。最后，繁重的课业加诸在高中生身上的压力可能引起严重的情绪紧张，这对身心都有害。我并非主张废除学校课业，但是我认为减轻繁重的课业对于学生和整个社会都是有益的。

　　Lost time is never found again. This is something which I learned very clearly last semester. I spent so much time fooling around that my grades began to suffer. I finally realized that something had to be done. It was time for a change.

　　Now I have a new plan for using my time wisely. I have set my alarm clock ahead half an hour. This will give me a head start on the day. I have also decided to keep a log of what I do and when I do it. Looking back on what I’ve done will give me some ideas on how to reorganize my time.

　　时光一去不复返，这是我上学期清楚学到的教训。我浪费很多时间四处游荡，以致于我的成绩开始退步。最后我终于了解到我必须有所作为，该是痛改前非的时候了。

　　现在我有一个明智运用时间的新方法。我已将闹钟早拨半小时，这将使我这一天的作息提前开始。我也决定将我所做的一切及做这些事的时间记录下来。回顾我所做的事情会启发我如何重新安排我的时间。

　　Work and play do not contradict each other; in fact, they complement each other. As the saying goes, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." A life burdened with work leads you nowhere, for you would get tired and bored with your daily routine work. On the other hand, proper recreation will relieve the tension and discomfort of our monotonous life because it offers you various ways to let out your pent-up emotions.

　　What I usually do to relax after school is jogging and watching movies. Usually I don't spare time for exercise, but I value the physical education class at school. Jogging several rounds in the field certainly relieves the day's pressure. On weekends, I'll catch the morning movie for my visual enjoyment. I feel revived and energetic for another week's work-load.

　　工作与娱乐并不互相冲突，事实上，它们之间的关系还相辅相成。有句格言说：「整日工作而没有休闲娱乐，会令人变得沉闷乏味。」被工作重担压得喘不过气来的生活，将使你一事无成，因为你将对一成不变的例行公事感到厌烦。由另一方面来说，适度的娱乐活动能提供各种管道，来宣泄你被压抑的情绪，减轻单调生活中的紧张与不悦。

　　放学之后，我最常做的休闲活动，便是慢跑与看电影。通常我并不特地拨出时间来做运动，但是我很重视学校的体育课。在操场上慢跑几圈，无疑地可以减轻一天的压力。在周末时，我都去看早场电影，享受视觉盛宴。如此一来，我将有如再生般的充沛活力，去面对下一星期的工作量。

　　My first job was at a cramming school. It was three years ago when I just graduated from junior high school and finished the entrance examination. since I had nothing to do that summer, I decided to find a job, tasting the joy of independence.

　　I was responsible for answering the telephone and taking the message. I worked eight hours a day, six days a week. The work was not difficult nor heavy to me and I guess I did well. The most delighted thing was perhaps that I could spend the money I earned all by myself.

　　我的第一份工作是在一家补*班做事。那是三年前我刚从国中毕业，考完联考时的事了。既然我整个夏天都闲着没事，倒不如找份差事，尝尝独立赚钱的快乐。

　　我负责接听电话且纪录留言的工,一天工作八小时，一星期工作六天。那份工作对我而言既不困难亦不沉重，所以我想我还满称职的。而最令人快乐的事大概莫过于花全部由自己赚来的钱了！

　　Sports help everyone to keep healthy, happy and efficient. So I pay special attention to games, especially table tennis. Table tennis is my favorite game. I play it almost every day.

　　Table-tennis is an ideal game for us because it brings the whole body into action. It strengthens our muscles, expands our lungs, promotes the circulation of the blood, and causes a healthy action of the skin. Besides, it is very amusing and does not cost us much money. Table-tennis is very moderate; it is not so rough as football. It is an indoor game and can be played even on rainy days. Thus, it is my favorite kind of exercise.

　　运动能帮助每一个人保持健康、快乐和有效率。所以我特别重视运动，特别是乒乓球，乒乓球是我最喜欢的运动。我几乎每天玩。

　　乒乓球对我们而言，是一项理想的运动，因为它可以使我们全身运动，它可以增强我们的肌肉，扩张我们的肺部，促进血液循环，并且使肌肤产生健康作用，此外，它很有趣而且所费不多。乒乓球是相当温和适中的，它不像足球那么粗野。它是一种室内运动，甚至在下雨天也能玩。因此，乒乓球是我最喜爱的一种运动。

　　One morning a fox saw a cock.He thought,"This is my breakfast.''

　　He came up to the cock and said,"I know you can sing very well.Would you like to sing for me?''The cock was glad.He closed his eyes and began to sing.The fox saw that and caught him in his mouth and carried him away.

　　People in the field saw the fox.They shouted："Look,look!The fox is carrying our cock away.''

　　The cock said to the fox,"Mr Fox,do you understand?The people say you are carrying their cock away.Tell them it is yours.Not theirs.''

　　The fox opened his mouth and said,"The cock is mine,not yours.''Just then the cock ran away from the fox and fled into the tree.

　　一天早上，一只狐狸看到了一只公鸡。他想：这是我的早餐。

　　他朝公鸡走来，对他说：“我知道，你唱歌非常好听，你能唱首歌给我听么？”公鸡很高兴。他闭上眼睛开始唱歌。狐狸看到这些，抓住它放到自己的嘴里走了。

　　在田地里的人们看到了狐狸。大喊大叫：“看，看！狐狸抓住公鸡逃走了。”公鸡对狐狸说：“狐狸先生，你能理解么？人们认为你叼走了他们的公鸡。告诉他们这是你的，不是他们的。”

　　狐狸张开他的嘴说：“公鸡是我的，不是你们的。”就在那时，公鸡逃离了狐狸的嘴巴，跑到了树底下。

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巧克力的由来英语短文

巧克力的由来英语短文

　　英语是一种西日耳曼语支，最早被中世纪的英国使用，并因其广阔的殖民地而成为世界使用面积最广的语言。以下是小编帮大家整理的巧克力的.由来英语短文，欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。

　　The History of Chocolate

　　American-made chocolate and cocoa（可可） products number in the hundreds. There is a fascinating（迷人的）story behind these wonderful products.

　　Chocolate Through the Years

　　The story of chocolate, as far back as we know it, begins with the discovery of America. Until 1492, the Old World（指欧洲大陆，相对于美洲大陆）knew nothing at all about the delicious and stimulating flavor富有刺激性的口味） that was to become the favorite of millions.

　　The Court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella got its first look at the principal ingredient（调料、原料）of chocolate when Columbus returned in triumph from America and laid before the Spanish throne（王位）a treasure trove of many strange and wonderful things. Among these were a few dark brown beans（豆）that looked like almonds（杏仁）and seemed most unpromising（无指望的）. They were cocoa beans, today's source of all our chocolate and cocoa.

　　The King and Queen never dreamed how important cocoa beans could be, and it remained for Hernando Cortez（科尔特斯）, the great Spanish explorer, to grasp（把握住）the commercial possibilities of the New World offerings.

　　Food of the Gods

　　During his conquest of Mexico, Cortez found the Aztec Indians（阿兹特克印第安人）using cocoa beans in the preparation of the royal drink of the realm, "chocolate," meaning warm liquid. In 1519, Emperor Montezuma, who reportedly drank 50 or more portions daily, served（提供，招待） chocolate to his Spanish guests in great golden goblets（高脚杯）, treating it like a food for the gods.

　　For all its regal（王室的） importance, however, Montezuma's chocolate was very bitter（苦）, and the Spaniards did not find it to their taste. To make the concoction（调制品） more agreeable to Europeans, Cortez and his countrymen conceived the idea of sweetening it with cane sugar.

　　The new drink quickly won friends, especially among the Spanish aristocracy（贵族）. Spain wisely proceeded to plant cacao in its overseas colonies, which gave birth to a very profitable（利润高的） business. Remarkably enough, the Spanish succeeded in keeping the art of the cocoa industry a secret from the rest of Europe for nearly a hundred years.

　　Chocolate Spreads to Europe

　　Spanish monks, who had been consigned（托运） to process the cocoa beans, finally let the secret out. It did not take long before chocolate was acclaimed（受到欢迎） throughout Europe as a delicious, health-giving food. For a while it reigned（主宰）as the drink at the fashionable Court of France. Chocolate drinking spread across the Channel to Great Britain, and in 1657 the first of many famous English Chocolate Houses（作坊）appeared.

　　The 19th Century marked two more revolutionary developments in the history of chocolate. In 1847, an English company introduced solid "eating chocolate" through the development of fondant（半软糖） chocolate, a smooth and velvety（光滑柔和）variety that has almost completely replaced the old coarse grained（颗粒粗糙的） chocolate which formerly dominated（统领） the world market. The second development occurred in 1876 in Vevey, Switzerland, when Daniel Peter devised a way of adding milk to the chocolate, creating the product we enjoy today known as milk chocolate.

　　Chocolate Comes to America

　　In the United States of America, the production of chocolate proceeded at a faster pace than anywhere else in the world. It was in pre-Revolutionary New England-1765, to be exact-that（可以肯定地说）the first chocolate factory was established in this country. During World War II, the U.S. government recognized chocolate's role in the nourishment（营养品）and group spirit（士气、团队精神） of the Allied Armed Forces, so much so that（到这样的程度以至于）it allocated valuable shipping space（分配宝贵的船舱空间）for the importation（运输） of cocoa beans. Many soldiers were thankful for the pocket chocolate bars（块、条） which gave them the strength to carry on until more food rations（配给）could be obtained. Today, the U.S. Army D-rations（美国陆军D类配给食品） include three 4-ounce chocolate bars（4盎司巧克力块）late has even been taken into space as part of the diet（食品供应、食谱）astronauts（宇航员）.

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