高中英語美文摘抄和翻譯

　　第一篇：青春

　　Youth

　　Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

　　Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

　　Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

　　Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

　　When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.

　　譯文：青春

　　青春不是年華，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

　　青春氣貫長(zhǎng)虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進(jìn)取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

　　歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

　　無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺(tái)天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號(hào)，你就青春永駐，風(fēng)華常存。 、

　　一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實(shí)已垂垂老矣;然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號(hào)，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺年輕。

　　第二篇：從不說他做不到

　　We Never Told Him He Couldn't Do It

　　My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally - but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him walk .

　　The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn't know.

　　In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others - perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

　　He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.

　　Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.

　　從不說他做不到

　　我的兒子瓊尼降生時(shí)，他的雙腳向上彎彎著，醫(yī)生向我們保證說經(jīng)過治療，小瓊尼可以像常人一樣走路，但像常人一樣跑步的可能性則微乎其微。瓊尼3歲之前一直在接受治療，和支架、石膏模子打交道。七八歲的時(shí)候，他走路的樣子已讓人看不出他的腿有過毛病。

　　鄰居的小孩子們做游戲的.時(shí)候總是跑過來跑過去。毫無疑問小瓊尼看到他們玩就會(huì)馬上加進(jìn)去跑啊鬧的。我們從不告訴他不能像別的孩子那樣跑，我們從不說他和別的孩子不一樣。因?yàn)槲覀儾粚?duì)他說，所以他不知道。

　　七年級(jí)的時(shí)候，瓊尼決定參加跑步橫穿全美的比賽。每天他和大伙一塊訓(xùn)練。也許是意識(shí)到自己先天不如別人，他訓(xùn)練得比任何人都刻苦。訓(xùn)練隊(duì)的前7名選手可以參加最后比賽，為學(xué)校拿分。我們沒有告訴瓊尼;也許會(huì)落空，所以他不知道。

　　他堅(jiān)持每天跑4~5英里。我永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)忘記有一次，他發(fā)著高燒，但仍堅(jiān)持訓(xùn)練。我為他擔(dān)心，于是去學(xué)�？此�，發(fā)現(xiàn)他正在一個(gè)人沿著長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的林蔭道跑步呢。我問他感覺怎么樣，"很好。"他說。還剩下最后兩英里。他滿臉是汗，眼睛因?yàn)榘l(fā)燒失去了光彩。然而他目不斜視，堅(jiān)持著跑下來。我們從沒有告訴他不能發(fā)著高燒去跑4英里的路，我們從沒有這樣對(duì)他說，所以他不知道。

　　兩個(gè)星期后，在決賽前的3天，長(zhǎng)跑隊(duì)的名次被確定下來。瓊尼是第六名，他成功了。他才是個(gè)七年級(jí)生，而其余的人都是八年級(jí)生。我們從沒有告訴他不要去期望入選，我們從沒有對(duì)他說他不會(huì)成功。是的，從沒說起過……所以他不知道，但他卻做到了!