Question

求适合高一学生背诵的英语美文啊。。 一篇就行，最好附有翻译， 谢谢了！。。

Answer 1

你的人生是什么味道的咖啡，并不取决于装咖啡的杯子 经典英语哲理美文欣赏之上帝的咖啡God's Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversationsoon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有陶瓷的、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define,nor change the quality of Life we live.Sometimes,by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。想想吧：生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!
上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。······享受你们的咖啡吧。
"The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the rest to God.
最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。其他的，就留给上帝吧。

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Answer 2

Youth 青春
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
青春不是年华，而是心境；

It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees.
青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，

It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions;
而是深沉的意志、宏伟的想象、炽热的感情；

It is the freshness of the deep spring of life.
青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，

of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
进去压倒苟安，如此锐气，

This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20.
二十后生有之，六旬男子则更多见。

nobody grows merely by the number of years;we grow old by deserting our ideas.
年年有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓唐必至灵魂。

Worry, fear, self-distrust1 bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
烦忧、惶恐、丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders,
无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，

the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living.
孩童般天真久盛不衰。

In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station;
人人心中皆有一台天线，

so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from infinite,
只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，

so long as you are young.
你就青春永驻，风华常存。

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,
一旦天线倒塌，锐气被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，

then you've grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up,
几十年方二十，实已垂老矣；

to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.
然则只要竖起天线，捕捉乐观的信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉得年轻。