英语经典的短文美文欣赏
有很多人说英语太难学习了，其实不难的。今天就给大家分享一下英语美文欣赏，来欣赏学习一下吧
Let Us Smile
让我们微笑吧
The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile,
那最能赋予生命价值、代价最廉而回报最多的东西，
That costs the least and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
不过一个令人心畅的微笑而已。
The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men,
由衷地热爱同胞的微笑，
Will drive away the clouds of gloom and coax the Sun again.
会驱走心头阴郁的乌云，心底收获一轮夕阳。
It's full of worth and goodness, too, with manly kindness blent;
它充满价值和美好，混合着坚毅的仁爱之心;
It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.
它价值连城却不花一文。
There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile;
当我们看到喜悦的微笑，忧伤就会一扫而光;
It always has the same good look; it's never out of style;
它始终面容姣好，永不落伍;
It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue;
失败令我们沮丧之时，它鼓励我们再次尝试;
The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you.
鼓励的笑靥于你我大有裨益。
It pays the highest interest — for it is merely lent;
它支付的利息高昂无比──只因它是种借贷形式;
It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.
它价值连城却不花一文。
A smile comes very easy — you can wrinkle up with cheer,
来一个微笑很容易──嘴角欢快翘起来，
A hundred times before you can squeeze out a salty tear;
你能百次微笑，可难得挤出一滴泪;
It ripples out, moreover, to the heartstrings that will tug, 它的涟漪深深波及心弦，
And always leaves an echo that is very like a hug.
总会留下反响，宛若拥抱。
So, smile away! Folks understand what by a smile is meant;
继续微笑吧!谁都懂得它意味着什么;
It's worth a million dollars, and it doesn't cost a cent.
它价值连城却不花一文。
A Perfect Wife/完美的妻子
By Ellen Glasgow/ 埃伦;格拉斯哥
After thirty years of married happiness, he could still remind himself that Victoria was endowed with every charm except the thrilling touch of human frailty. Though her perfection discouraged pleasures, especially the pleasures of love, he had learned in time to feel the pride of a husband in her natural frigidity. For he still clung, amid the decay of moral platitudes, to the discredited ideal of chivalry. In his youth the world was suffused with the after-glow of the long Victorian age, and a graceful feminine style had softened the manners,
if not the natures, of men. At the end of that interesting epoch, when womanhood was exalted from a biological factsintosa miraculous power, Virginius Littlepage, the younger son of an old and affluent family, had married Victoria Brooke, the grand-daughter of a tobacco planter, who had made a satisfactory fortune by forsaking his plantation and converting tobaccos into cigarettes. While Virginius had been trained by stern tradition to respect every woman who had not stooped to folly, the virtue peculiar to her sex was among the least of his reasons for admiring Victoria. She was not only modest, which was usual in the nineties, but she was beautiful, which is unusual in any decade.
经过了三十年的幸福婚姻，他仍能时常提醒自己，维多利亚除了缺乏那么一点点令人心动的人性脆弱以外,拥有一切美妙的品质。尽管她的完美减少了乐趣，尤其是爱情的乐趣，经过长时间的生活，作为一个丈夫，他渐渐为她天性中的保守感到骄傲。虽然陈腐的道德已经没落，他却仍然坚守遭到怀疑的骑士风范。他年轻的时候，漫长的维多利亚时代的余晖仍未散去;如果说优雅的女性化风尚没有软化男人们的本性，那它也软化了他们的举止。在这个有趣的年代行将结束的时候，人们对女性的赞美已不再停留在对女人的自然属性的赞美上，而是近乎把女人作为神明来膜拜。在这个时候，弗吉尼亚斯;里托尔培奇，一个古老富有家庭中的小儿子，和维多利亚;布鲁克结婚
