第一篇：

A Grain of Sand  
     by William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand, 
And a heaven in a wild fllower, 
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, 
And eternity in an hour. 

一粒沙子

    威廉.布萊克 

從一粒沙子看到一個世界， 
從一朵野花看到一個天堂， 
把握在你手心里的就是無限， 
永恒也就消融于一個時辰。

第二篇： 
Love Your Life  
      Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. 

熱愛生活 

   享利.大衛.梭羅 
不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。城鎮中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨立不羈的生活。也許因為他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。大多數人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們；可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那里去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。

第三篇： 
These Things Shall Never Die 
這些美好不會消逝 
     Charles Dickens/查爾斯.狄更斯 
The pure.the bright,the beautiful, 一切純潔的,輝煌的,美麗的, 
That stirred our hearts in youth, 強烈地震撼著我們年輕的心靈的, 
The impulses to wordless prayer, 推動著我們做無言的禱告的, 
The dreams of love and truth; 讓我們夢想著愛與真理的; 
The longing after something's lost, 在失去后為之感到珍惜的, 
The spirit's yearning cry, 使靈魂深切地呼喊著的, 
The striving after better hopes- 為了更美好的夢想而奮斗著的- 
These things can never die. 這些美好不會消逝。 
The timid hand stretched forth to aid 羞怯地伸出援助的手， 
A brother in his need, 在你的弟兄需要的時候， 
A kindly word in grief's dark hour 傷慟、困難的時候，一句親切的話 
That proves a friend indeed ; 就足以證明朋友的真心； 
The plea for mercy softly breathed, 輕聲地乞求憐憫， 
When justice threatens nigh, 在審判臨近的時候， 
The sorrow of a contrite heart- 懊悔的心有一種傷感-- 
These things shall never die. 這些美好不會消逝。  
Let nothing pass for every hand 在人間傳遞溫情 
Must find some work to do ; 盡你所能地去做； 
Lose not a chance to waken love- 別錯失去了喚醒愛的良機----- 
Be firm,and just ,and true; 為人要堅定，正直，忠誠； 
So shall a light that cannot fade 因此上方照耀著你的那道光芒 
Beam on thee from on high. 就不會消失。 
And angel voices say to thee---你將聽到天使的聲音在說----- 
These things shall never die. 這些美好不會消逝。

第四篇： 
Think it over……好好想想…… 
Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;  
今天我們擁有了更高層的樓宇以及更寬闊的公路，但是我們的性情卻更為急躁，眼光也更加狹隘； 
We spend more,but enjoy less; 
我們消耗的更多，享受到的卻更少； 
We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies; 
我們的住房更大了，但我們的家庭卻更小了； 
We have more compromises,but less time; 
我們妥協更多，時間更少； 
We have more knowledge,but less judgment; 
我們擁有了更多的知識，可判斷力卻更差了； 
We have more medicines,but less health; 
我們有了更多的藥品，但健康狀況卻更不如意； 
We have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values; 
我們擁有的財富倍增，但其價值卻減少了； 
We talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much; 
我們說的多了，愛的卻少了，我們的仇恨也更多了； 
We reached the Moon and came back,but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors; 
我們可以往返月球，但卻難以邁出一步去親近我們的左鄰右舍； 
We have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space; 
我們可以征服外太空，卻征服不了我們的內心； 
We have highter income,but less morals; 
我們的收入增加了，但我們的道德卻少了； 
These are times with more liberty,but less joy; 
我們的時代更加自由了，但我們擁有的快樂時光卻越來越少； 
We have much more food,but less nutrition; 
我們有了更多的食物，但所能得到的營養卻越來越少了； 
These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase; 
現在每個家庭都可以有雙份收入，但離婚的現象越來越多了； 
These are times of finer houses,but more broken homes; 
現在的住房越來越精致，但我們也有了更多破碎的家庭； 
That's why I propose,that as of today; 
這就是我為什么要說，讓我們從今天開始； 
You do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a SPECIAL OCCASION. 
不要將你的東西為了某一個特別的時刻而預留著，因為你生活的每一天都是那么特別；

第五篇： 
The life I desired 
       William Somerset Maugham 
That must be the story of innumerable couples,and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.It reminds you of a placid rivulet,meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees,till at last it falls into the vasty sea;but the sea is so calm,so silent,so infifferent,that you are troubled suddently by a vague uneasiness.Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature,strong in me even in those days,that i felt in such an existence,the share of the great majority,something amiss.I recognized its social value.I saw its ordered happiness,but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights.In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous,shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen. 

我所追求的生活 

      威廉.薩姆塞特.毛姆
這一定是世間無數對夫妻的生活寫照，這種生活模式給人一種天倫之美。它使人想起一條平靜的溪流，蜿蜒暢游過綠茵的草場，濃蔭遮蔽，最后注入煙波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太過平靜，太過沉默，太過不動聲色，你會突然感到莫名的不安。也許這只是我自己的一種怪誕想法，在那樣的時代，這想法對我影響很深：我覺得這像大多數人一樣的生活，似乎欠缺了一點兒什么。我承認這種生活有社會價值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的沖動卻渴望一種更桀驁不馴的旅程．這樣的安逸中好像有一種叫我驚懼不安的東西．我的心渴望一種更加驚險的生活。只要生活中還能有變遷———以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁滿布的海灘。

第六篇: 
Virtue 美德 
     G.Herbert/赫伯特 
Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright! 甜美的白晝，如此涼爽、安寧、明媚！ 
The bridal of the earth and sky- 天地間完美的匹配----- 
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; 今宵的露珠兒將為你的消逝而落淚； 
For thou must die. 因為你必須離去。 
Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave, 美麗的玫瑰，色澤紅潤艷麗， 
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, 令匆匆而過的人拭目而視， 
Thy root is ever in its grave, 你的根永遠扎在墳墓里， 
And thou must die. 而你必須消逝。 
Sweet spring,full of sweet days and roses, 美妙的春天，充滿了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰， 
A box where sweets compacted lie, 如一支芬芳滿溢的盒子， 
My music shows ye have your closes, 我的音樂表明你們也有終止， 
And all must die, 萬物都得消逝。 
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 唯有美好而正直的心靈， 
Like season'd timber,never gives; 猶如干燥備用的木料，永不走樣； 
But though the whole world turn to coal, 縱然整個世界變為灰燼， 
Then chiefly lives. 它依然流光溢彩。

第七篇: 
The country Maid and Her Milk Can 
A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head,when she fell into the following train of reflections."The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred,These eggs,allowing for what may prove addle,and what may be destroyed by vermin,will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens.The chickens will be fit to carry to market just at the time when poultry is always dear;so that by the new year I cannot fail of having money enough to purchase a new gown.Green-let me consider-yes,green becomes my complexion best .and green it shall be, In this dress I will go to the fair,where all young fellows will strive to have me for a parter;but no-I shall refuse every one of them,and with a disdainful toss turn from them." 
Transported with this idea,she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind,when down came the can of milk!And all her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment.

村姑和牛奶罐    
一個村姑頭上頂著一罐牛奶在路上行走。走著走著，她的腦子里浮現出一連串的幻想：“我賣了這罐牛奶后，用這筆錢買雞蛋，這樣我有的雞蛋可以增加到300個。用這300個雞蛋孵小雞，這就算有壞的、生蟲的，至少也能孵出250只小雞。等小雞長大后，正好能趕上賣個好市價；那么到了新年，我就能有錢買一件新晚裝。買一件綠色的——讓我好好想想——對，綠色與我的膚色最相襯。我穿上這件衣服去趕集，所有的年輕小伙子都會搶著邀請我做舞伴；但是不行——我要輕蔑地把頭一揚，轉身過去不理他們，讓他們人人都碰個釘子。 
她想得得意忘形，情不自禁地把頭一揚，剎那間，牛奶罐跌了下來！她幻想的一切幸福瞬間破滅了。

第八篇: 
The Rainy Day  
     by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The day is cold,and dark,and dreary; 
It rains,and the wind is never weary; 
The vine still clings to the moldering wall, 
But at every gust the dead leaves fall, 
And the day is dark and dreary. 
My life is cold and dark and dreary; 
It rains and the wind is never weary;  
My though still cling to the moldering past, 
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, 
And the days are dark and dreary. 
Be still,sad heart!And cease repining; 
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
Thy fate is the common fate of all, 
Into each life some rain must fall, 
Some days must be dark and dreary. 

雨天

   亨利.沃茲渥斯.朗費羅 
天冷、陰暗、沉悶； 
下著雨，風也刮個不停； 
藤還攀附著頹垣殘壁， 
每來一陣狂風，枯葉附落紛紛， 
天真是陰暗而沉悶。 
我的生活寒冷、陰郁、沉悶； 
下著雨，風也刮個不停； 
我的思想還糾纏著消逝的往事， 
大風里，我的青春希望相繼熄滅， 
天真是陰暗而沉悶。 
安靜吧，憂傷的心！別再悔恨； 
烏云后面太陽依然輝煌燦爛； 
你命運和大家的一樣， 
每個人一生都得逢上陰雨， 
有些日子必然陰暗而沉悶。 

第九篇： 
Love 愛情 
I love you not because of who you are,but because of who I am when I am with you. 
我愛你，不是因為你是一個怎樣的人，而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺。 
No man or woman is worth your tears,and the one who is ,won't make you cry. 
沒有人值得你流淚，值得讓你這么做的人不會讓你哭泣。 
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them. 
失去某人，最糟糕的莫過于，他近在身旁，卻猶如遠在天邊。 
Never frown,even when you are sad,because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 
縱然傷心，也不要悉眉不展，因為你不知是誰會愛上你的笑容。 
To the world you may be one person,but to one person you may be the world. 
對于世界而言，你是一個人；但是對于某人，你是他的整個世界。 
Don't waste your time on a man/woman,who isn't willing to waste their time on you. 
不要為那些不愿在你身上花費時間的人而浪費你的時間。 
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. 
愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式愛你，那并不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你。 
Don't try to hard,the best things come when you least expect them to. 
不要著急，最好的總會在最不經意的時候出現。 
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the person,we will know how to be grateful. 
在遇到夢中人之前，上天也許會安排我們先遇到別人；在我們終于遇見心儀的人時，便應當心存感激。 
Don't cry because it is over,smile because it happened. 
不要因為結束而哭泣，微笑吧，為你的曾經擁有。 
Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us.-------Sir Thomas Browne 
“生命是束純凈的火焰，我們依靠自己內心看不見的太陽而存在。”--------托馬斯?布朗爵士

第十篇： 
On the Feeling of Immortality in youth  
                       William Hazlitt
No young man believes he shall ever die.It was a saying of my brother's,and a fine one.There is a feeling of Eternity in youth,which makes us amend for everything.To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.One half of time indeed is flown-the other half remains instore for us with all its countless treasures;for there is no line drawn,and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes.We make the coming age our own- 

The vast,the unbounded prospect lies before us.  

Death.old age.are words without a meaning.that pass by us like the idea air which we regardnot.Others may have undergone,or may still be liable to them-we "bear a charmed life",whichlaughs to scorn all such sickly fancies.As in setting out on delightful journey,we strain our eager gaze forward-  

Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!  

-and see no end to the landscape,new objects presenting themselves as we advance;so,in the commencement of life,we set no bounds to our inclinations.nor to the unrestricted opportunities of grastifying them.we have as yet found no obstacle,no disposition to flag;and it seems that we can go on so forever.We look round in a new world,full of life,and motion,and ceaseless progress;and feel in ourselves all the vigour and spirit to keep pace with it,and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things,decline into old age,and drop into the grave.It is the simplicity,and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,that(so to speak)identifies us with nature ,and(our experience being slight and our passions strong)deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.Our short-lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves,is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness,jar,nor separation.As infants smile and sleep,we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies,and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around us,filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. 

有感于青春常在

  威廉.赫茲里特  
年輕人不相信自已會死。這是我哥哥的話，可算得一句妙語。青春有一種永生之感——它能彌補一切。人在青年時代好像一尊永生的神明。誠然，生命的一半已以消逝，但蘊藏著不盡財富的另一半還有所保留，我們對它也抱著無窮的希望和幻想。未來的時代完全屬于我們—— 

無限遼闊的遠景在我們面前展現 

死亡，老年，不過是空話，毫無意義；我們聽了，只耳邊風，全不放在心上。這些事，別人也許經歷過，或者可能要承受，但是我們自己，“在靈符護佑下度日”，對于諸如此類脆弱的念頭，統統付之輕蔑的一笑。像是剛剛走上愉快的旅程，極目遠眺—— 

向遠方的美景歡呼！ 

此時，但覺好風光應接不暇，而且，前程更有美不勝收的新鮮景致。在這生活的開端，我們聽任自己的志趣馳騁，放手給它們一切滿足的機會。到此為止，我們還沒有碰上過什么障礙，也沒有感覺到什么疲憊，因此覺得還可以一直這樣向前走去，直到永遠。我們看到四周一派新天地——生機盎然，變動不居，日新月異；我們覺得自己活力充盈，精神飽滿，可與宇宙并駕齊驅。而且，眼前也無任何跡象可以證明，在大自然的發展過程中，我們自己也會落伍，衰老，進入墳墓。由于年輕人天真單純，可以說是茫然無知，因而將自己跟大自然劃上等號；并且，由于經驗少而感情盛，誤以為自己也能和大自然一樣永世長存。我們一廂情愿，癡心妄想，竟把自己在世上的暫時棲身，當作千古不變、萬事長存的結合，好像沒有冷淡、爭執、離別的密月。像嬰兒帶著微笑入睡，我們躺在用自己編織成的搖籃里，讓大千世界的萬籟之聲催哄我們安然入夢；我們急切切，興沖沖地暢飲生命之杯，怎么也不會飲干，反而好像永遠是滿滿欲溢；森羅萬象紛至沓來，各種欲望隨之而生，使我們騰不出工夫想死亡。

第十一篇： 
A Forever Friend 
永遠的朋友 
"A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out." 
"別人都走開的時候，朋友仍與你在一起。” 
Sometimes in life, 
有時候在生活中， 
You find a special friend; 
你會找到一個特別的朋友; 
Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. 
他只是你生活中的一部分內容，卻能改變你整個的生活。 
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop; 
他會把你逗得開懷大笑； 
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. 
他會讓你相信人間有真情。 
Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.  他會讓你確信，真的有一扇不加鎖的門，在等待著你去開啟。 
This is Forever Friendship. 
這就是永遠的友誼。 
when you're down, 
當你失意， 
and the world seems dark and empty, 
當世界變得黯淡與空虛， 
Your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. 
你真正的朋友會讓你振作起來，原本黯淡、空虛的世界頓時變得明亮和充實。 
Your forever friend gets you through the hard times,the sad times,and the confused times. 
你真正的朋友會與你一同度過困難、傷心和煩惱的時刻。 
If you turn and walk away, 
你轉身走開時， 
Your forever friend follows, 
真正的朋友會緊緊相隨， 
If you lose you way, 
你迷失方向時， 
Your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. 
真正的朋友會引導你，鼓勵你。 
Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. 
真正的朋友會握著你的手，告訴你一切都會好起來的。 
And if you find such a friend, 
如果你找到了這樣的朋友， 
You feel happy and complete, 
你會快樂，覺得人生完整， 
Because you need not worry, 
因為你無需再憂慮。 
Your have a forever friend for life, 
你擁有了一個真正的朋友， 
And forever has no end. 
永永遠遠，永無止境。

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