经典英语短文

经典英语短篇美文 篇1  The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar s

经典英语短篇美文 篇1

  The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.

  It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.

  She exclaimed pointing to something afar, Look, Venus in rising! I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, Its Jupiter over there!

  More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.

  Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.

  Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !

经典英语短篇美文 篇2

  Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

  Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

  Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

  So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

  It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

  It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

  So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

  What will matter is not what you bought, but what you bui not what you got, but what you gave.

  What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

经典英语短文

  What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

  What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

  What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

  What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.

  What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.

  What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

  Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident.

  It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

  Choose to live a life that matters.

经典英语短篇美文 篇3

  Some people say thatpromises are made to be broken. That certainly seems to be true inthis cutthroat society that we live in. But if you break yourpromise, you will ruin your reputation and no one will trust youanymore. So whenever we say, I give you my word, we should meanit. There is nothing worse than to be let down by others becausethey have not kept their promises.

  In fact, it isnt sodifferent to keep promises. Just remember never to promise anythingwe are not sure we can live up to. In short, therefore, to betrustworthy, we should always say what we mean and mean what wesay.

经典英语短篇美文 篇4

  Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at 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 hills, of city skylines and village halls.

  But 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 get there, so many wonderful dreams will come true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering – waiting,waiting, waiting for the station.

  When we reach the station, that will be it! we cry. When Im 18. When I buy a new 450SL Mercedes Benz. When I put the last kid through college. When I have paid off the mortgage. When I get a promotion. When I reach the age of 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. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly out distances us.

  Relish the moment is a good motto, especially when coupled with Psalm 118:24: This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. It isnt the burdens of today that drive men mad. It is the regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret 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 icecream, go barefoot more often, swim more rivers, watch more sunset, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along. Then the station will come soon enough.

经典英语短篇美文 篇5

  The significant inscription found on an old key—If I rest, I rust—would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.

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