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来源：良声英语（liangshengedu）及网络，版权归原作者
To Spring
寄给春天的诗
Oh you, sweet Spring, alight from cherubs wing,
啊，甜蜜的春天，从小天使翅上轻降，
And put the ugly winter full to flight;
吓得讨厌的冬天狼狈逃窜；
And rouse the earth to smile, and larks to sing,
唤醒了万物--大地微笑，云雀歌唱，
With skies so bright and hearts of youth so light.
天空多明亮，青年的心多欢畅。
Your gentle and genial breaths each blossom blow,
你和煦的呼吸吹开一朵朵花苞，
While bees in gardens hum the lullabies.
引来蜂儿在花园里把催眠曲吟唱。
The hills and dales are strippd of mantles of snow,
山岗和山谷脱去了积雪的斗篷，
And streams and rivers freed from irons of ice.
溪涧和河川挣开了冰结的镣铐。
May seasons all be Spring--the pride of years,
但愿四季皆春---一年的最好时光，
That all the thing would eer in glories gleam!
世界万物就会永远灿烂辉煌！
May men be ever in the prime of years!
但愿人人永葆青春年华，
But dream, however sweet, is but a dream.
可是梦境再甜蜜，不过是梦儿一场。
If happy when you come and sad when gone,
如果你来了就快乐，去了就悲伤，
Would that youd never come or never gone!
倒不如压根儿别来也别往。
Animal And Machine
动物与机器
The body of an animal may well be compared with some machine like a locomotive engine. Indeed, the animal body is a machine. It is a machine composed of many parts, each part doing some particular kind of work for which a particular kind of structure fits it; and all the parts are dependent on each other and work together for the accomplishment of the total business of the machine.
动物的身体很可以与某种机器如火车头相比。实际上，动物的身体就是一台机器．它是一台由许多部件组成的机器。每个部件起某种特定的作用，并具有特殊构造使它适合于这种作用，所有的部件互相依赖、彼此合作，以完成机器的整个任务。
The locomotive must be provided with fuel, such as coal or wood or other combustible substance, the consumption of which furnishes the force or energy of the machine. The animal body must be provided with fuel, which is called food, which furnished similarly the energy of the animal. Oxygen must be provided for the combustion of the fuel in the locomotive and of the food in the body. The locomotive is composed of special parts: the fire box for the reception and combustion of fuel; the steam pipes for the carriage of steam; the wheels for locomotion; the smokestack for throwing off waste.
火车头必须添加燃料，如煤，木柴或其他可燃物质。燃料的消耗给机器提供动力或能量。动物的身体也得补充燃料，它被称为食物，给动物同样地提供能量。为使火车头里的燃料燃烧以及动物体内的食物氧化，必须提供氧气。火车头是由特殊部件构成的；接受并燃烧燃料的炉膛、运送蒸汽的管道，使车头运行的轮子及排出废气的烟囱。
The animal body is similarly composed of parts: the alimentary canal for the reception and assimilation of food; the excretory organs for the throwing off of waste matter; the arteries and veins for the carriage oxygen and food-holding blood; the legs or wings for locomotion.
与此相似，动物的身体也是由各种部件构成的：摄入并吸收食物的消化道、排出废物的排泄器官以及运送氧气和保存养料的血液的动脉与静脉，还有使动物行进的腿或翅膀。
Happy Life at a Tavern
小客栈的乐趣
ames Boswell
詹姆斯?鲍斯韦尔
We dined at an excellent inn at Chapelhouse, where Dr. Johnson expatiated on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns, and triumphed over the French for not having, in any perfection, the tavern life.
我们在查普尔壕斯一家极好的小客栈里吃饭，约翰逊博土在那儿详细叙述了英格兰的小客栈和小旅馆的妙处，并得意洋洋地指出法国人没有任何这等完美的小客栈生活。
"There is no private house," said he, "in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern. Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man but a very impudent dogindeed can as freely command what is in another’s house as if it were his own.
"任何私人住宅，"他说，"都不能使人们象在一家顶好的小客栈里那样舒适愉快。尽管那里好东西应有尽有，尽管屋宇是那样的宏伟，陈设是那样的雅致，尽管主人一心一意要让每个人都感到自由自在，而实标上这是不可能实现的．相反，那里总是有着某种程度的顾虑和急切的心情．屋主人要小心地招待客人，客人要留神地迎合主人．除了非常无礼的鲁莽家伙，决没有人在别人的屋于里会象在自己家里那样可以随心所欲，颐指气使。
Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome; the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcome you are. No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are excited with the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, sir; there is nothing which has as yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
然而在小客栈里就根本没有这种顾虑了．在这里，你肯定是受欢迎的，你嗓门越大，你越添麻烦，你要的好东西越多，你就越受欢迎。没有一个仆人会象受到小费刺激的店倌那样殷勤地侍候你，因为店倌的侍候越中意，你给小费越慷慨。投有的，先生，在人类迄今所创造的一切事物中，投有什么能象一家优美的乡村小客栈或者小旅馆那样给人们提供那么多的乐趣。
A Psalm of Life
人生颂
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
朗费罗
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream! "
for the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
“人生不过是一场幻梦！”
灵魂睡着了，就等于死了，
事物的真相与外表不同。
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest, "
Was not spoken of the soul.
人生是真切的！人生是实在的！
它的归宿绝不是荒坟；
“你本是尘土，必归于尘土，
这是指躯壳，不是指灵魂。
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
我们命定的目标和道路
不是享乐，也不是受苦；
而是行动，在每个明天
都超越今天，跨出新步。
Art is long , and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
智艺无穷，时光飞逝；
这颗心，纵然勇敢坚强，
也只如鼙鼓，闷声擂动着，
一下又一下，向坟地送丧。
In the worlds broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
世界是一片辽阔的战场，
人生是到处扎寨安营；
莫学那听人驱策的哑畜，
做一个威武善战的英雄！
Trust no Future, howeer pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, -act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God oerhead!
别指靠将来，不管它多可爱！
把已逝的过去永久掩埋！
行动吧──趁着活生生的现在！
胸中有赤心，头上有真宰！
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And , departing , leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
伟人的生平启示我们：
我们能够生活得高尚，
而当告别人世的时候，
留下脚印在时间的沙上。
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing oer lifes solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother ,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
也许我们有一个弟兄
航行在庄严的人生大海，
遇险沉了船，绝望的时刻，
会看到这脚印而振作起来。
Let us , then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
那么，让我们起来干吧，
对任何命运要敢于担载；
不断地进取，不断地追求，
要善于劳动，善于等待。
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Night in the open world
露天世界的夜晚
Robert Louis Stevenson
罗伯特?路易斯?斯蒂文森
Night is a dead and monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature.
在室内，夜是死气沉沉，单调乏味的时刻。但是在露天世界里，有星星，有露珠，还有芬芳的香气，黑夜轻快地流逝，而大自然的面貌却在夜里时刻变化着。
What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour, unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet.
禁锢在室内和帘后的人们觉得夜似乎是短暂的死亡，而露宿野外的人却觉得夜只是一场充满生机的微睡。他整夜能听见大自然深沉的、自由自在的呼吸。大自然即使在休息时也在转动和微笑。当沉睡着的半球出现韪醒迹象的时候，室外的万物都起来了，那种忙碌的时刻是居住在室内的人所不知道的。
It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce tile dawn, but like a cheerful watchman speeding the course of night. Cat- fie awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hill-sides, and change to a new lair among the ferns; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night.
雄鸡最先啼鸣，这时不是报晓，而是象欢乐的更夫在催黑夜快走。草地上牛群醒来露珠晶莹的山坡上羊群在进早餐，并且在羊齿植物丛中改换新的羊窝；与禽鸟共眠的无家可归的人们睁开了惺松的双眼，观赏美丽的夜色。
The Flight of Youth
青春的飞逝
Richard Henry Stoddard
理查德?亨利?斯托达德
There are gains for all our losses.
我们失去的一切都能得到补偿，
There are balms for all our pain:
我们所有的痛苦都能得到安慰，
But when youth, the dream, departs
可是梦境似的青春一旦消逝，
It takes something from our hearts,
它带走了我们心中某种美好的事物，
And it never comes again.
从此一去不复返回。
We are stronger, and are better,
严峻的成年生活将我们驱使，
Under manhood’s sterner reign:
我们变得日益刚强、更臻完美，
Still we feel that something sweet
可是依然感到某种甜美的东西，
Followed youth, with flying feet,
已随着青春飞逝，
And will never come again.
永不再返回。
Something beautiful is vanished,
美好的东西已经消失，
And we sigh for it in vain;
我们枉自为此叹息，
We behold it everywhere,
虽然在天地之间，
On the earth, and in the air,
我们到处能看见青春的魅力，
But it never comes again !
可是它永不再返回!
An Hour before Sunrise
日出前的一小时
Charles Dickens
查尔斯?狄更斯
An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are swarming with life.
日出前的一小时，城里一片冷清和孤寂，我们惯于看到的在一日中其他时刻挤满匆忙人群的大街变得空荡荡、静悄悄，整天人来人往，活动频繁的房屋，此刻门户紧闭，寂静无声。
The drunken, the dissipated, and tile criminal have disappeared; the more sober and orderly part of the population have not yet awakened to the labors of the day, and the stillness of death is over the streets; its very hue seems to be imparted to them, cold and lifeless as they look in the gray, somber light of day-break.
醉鬼，放荡者、犯罪分子都不见了，居民中比较循规蹈矩，持重沉着的人们还没有醒来开始他们一天的工作，大街死一般地寂静，似乎也染上了死一般的色彩，在拂晓阴沉、灰暗的光线里显得冷清而毫无生气。
A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant; and the dim scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of yonder windows denotes the chamber of watching and sickness.
到处都有一扇扇半开半掩的卧室窗户，表明天气炎热，屋主人睡眠不宁，那边百叶窗里透露出摇曳的微光，表明那房间里有人卧病或守夜。
Save for that sad light, the streets present no signs of life, nor the houses of habitation.
除了那忧郁的灯光，街上一片死寂，住房里也没有人活动的迹象。
Reading Good Books
阅读好书
Henry Addington Bruce
H?爱丁顿?布鲁斯
Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating a love of reading good books.
我再说一遍，把你的一部分空闲时光用来培养阅读好书的爱好吧。
Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers.
那些设法把自己培养成为真正爱好读书的人，确实是幸运的。
For book- lovers have some noteworthy advantages over other people.
因为爱读书的人比之别人有着明显的好处。
They need never know lonely hours so long as they have books around them, and the better the books the more delightful the company.
只要手头有书，他们就从来不知寂寞。
From good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment.
书越好，读来越是津津有味。
They gain mental food such as few companions can supply.
他们从好书中不但得到乐趣，而且受到很多教益。
Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read, equipping themselves to perform those labors more efficiently.
他们从中获得的那种精神食粮，从其他地方是很难得到的。即使是在工作休息时，通过读书，他们的工作效率也能更加提高。
This albeit~ they may not be deliberately reading to improve their mind.
尽管他们未必有意识地想到读书是为了提高才智。
All unconsciously the ideas they derive from the printed pages are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for their future profit.
在钱然不知不觉中，他们从书中吸取的知识积累起来，经过想想象力的加工，对将来大有用处。
The Choice of Companion
选择朋友
A good companion is better than a fortune, for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character which make companionship a blessing. The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves, for we are inspired by his wisdom and virtue to nobler deeds.
一个好友胜过一笔财富，因为钱财买不到人的某些品德因素，而正是这些因素，使友情成为一种恩惠。最好的朋友是那些比我们更睿智、更出色的人，我们会受到他们的智慧和美德的激励，从而使我们的行为更加高尚。
"Keep good company, and you shall be one of the number," said George Herbert. "A man is known by the companion he keeps. " Character makes character in the associations of life faster than anything else. Purity begets purity, like begets like; and this fact makes the choice of companion in early life more important even than that of teachers and guardians.
“与优秀者为伍，你也会成为优秀者中的一员。”乔治•赫伯特曾说，“从一个人所交的朋友可知其为人。”在社会交往中，品性对品性的塑造胜过其他任何因素。纯洁的品格会培养纯洁的品格，爱好会引发相同的爱好。这一事实使得在年少时选择朋友甚至比选择老师和监护人还要重要。
It is true that we cannot always choose all of our companions, some are thrust upon us by business or the social relations of life, we do not choose them, we do not enjoy them; and yet, we have to associate with them more or less. The experience is not altogether without compensation, if there be principle enough in us to bear the strain. Still, in the main, choice of companions can be made, and must be made. It is not best or necessary for a young person to associate with "Tom, Dick, and Harry" without forethought or purpose. Some fixed rules about the company he or she keeps must be observed. The subject should be uttermost in the thoughts, and canvassed often.
事实上，并非所有的朋友都是我们选择的，有些是生意或社会关系强加于我们的。我们没有选择他们，也不喜欢他们，可是我们不得不或多或少地与他们交往。不过，在情势的压力之下,只要我们自有主张，这样的交往也并非全无益处。大多数情况下，我们还是可以而且必须要选择朋友的。一个年轻人无所考虑、无所目的地随意与张三李四交往是不好的，也是没必要的，他/她必须遵循一些交友的定例，择友时应首先考虑这些定例，并经常加以审视。
Companionship is education, good or not; it develops manhood or womanhood, high or low; it lifts the soul upward or drags it downward; it ministers to virtue or vice. Sow virtue, and the harvest will be virtue, Sow vice, and the harvest will be vice. Good companionships help us to sow virtue;evil companionships help us to sow vice.
无论是有益还是有害，友谊就是一种教育。它可以培育高贵或卑微的品格；它可以升华灵魂，也可以使之沉沦；它可以滋生美德，也可以助长邪恶。播种美德，就会收获美德；播种邪恶,就会收获邪恶。有益的友谊帮助我们播种美德，而有害的友谊则使我们播种邪恶。
The Love of Beauty
爱美
The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained.
爱美乃是健全人性不可或缺之一部分。它是一种道德品质。缺乏这种品质并不能作为受到责难的充分理由，但是拥有这种品质则是心灵美好的永恒标志。品德的高尚与美好所达到的程度可能与对美的感受程度成正比。
Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun---all overflow with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.
大自然的美无处不在，整个宇宙就是美的殿堂。美，在春日百花中绽放；美，在绿叶嫩芽间摇曳；美，在深海幽谷里游弋；美，在奇石与贝壳的缤纷色彩中闪烁。不只是这些细微之物，还有海洋、山川、云彩、繁星、日升日落——一切都洋溢着美。这样的美是如此珍贵，与我们最温柔、最高尚的情愫是如此相宜。然而，想到很多人置身于美之中，却几乎对它熟视无睹，真是令人痛心不已。
All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration. The power to appreciated beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness---it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.
所有的人都应该去认识大自然之美。没有一条我们踩过的小虫，没有一片在秋风拂略之际飞舞的树叶不值得我们研究与赞赏。欣赏美的能力不仅增加了我们快乐的来源，也加强了我们德行的修养。美使我们不安的心平静下来，也驱散了我们的忧虑。到田野或森林去，在夏日的海边或山上呆上一天，那么你所有微不足道的困惑与焦虑都会烟消云散。倾听悦耳的音乐，你那愚蠢的恐惧与狭隘的嫉妒都会过去。世界之美将有助于我们找到为善之美。
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