【篇一：生命之堅(jiān)持】
Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule! So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.
The past is the bank in which we store our most valuable possession: the memories that give meaning and depth to our lives. Those who truly treasure the past will not bemoan the passing of the good old days, because days enshrined in memory are never lost. Death itself is powerless to still a remembered voice or erase a remembered smile. And for one boy who is now a man, there is a pond which neither time nor tide can change, where he can still spend a quiet hour in the sun.
【參考翻譯】
一些人堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為只有今日與明日最重要。可要按這條規(guī)則來(lái)生活的話，我們將會(huì)變得更加可憐。今天我們所做之事有多少是瑣碎無(wú)功的，很快就被人遺忘.又有多少我們明天要為之事將會(huì)成為泡影。 過(guò)去是一所銀行。我們將最可貴的財(cái)富——記憶珍藏其中，這些記憶賦予我們生命的意義和厚度。真正珍惜過(guò)去之人不會(huì)為美好時(shí)光逝去而哀嘆。那些珍藏于記憶的時(shí)光是永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)消失的。死亡本身也無(wú)法止住記憶中的聲音，或擦除記憶中的微笑。對(duì)于已經(jīng)長(zhǎng)大成人的小男孩來(lái)說(shuō)，那兒將會(huì)有一個(gè)池塘。它不會(huì)因時(shí)間和潮汐而改變，可以讓他大繼續(xù)在陽(yáng)光下享受靜謐的時(shí)光。
【篇二：電視節(jié)目】
Television gives the American people a wide variety of programs from early morning until late at night. Operas, orchestral performances, chamber music and jazz concerts are often presented on television. So most of the leisure at home is used for watching television. Many Americans are so fond of their TV programs that they often have cold luncheon in front of their receiving sets. Television has given people newer and deeper understanding of history, art, music, literature, the ballet, the theater, the discoveries of modern science and the wonders of the universe. Television viewers pay no tax or charges for receiving programs on their sets. The cost of the programs is paid chiefly by those who are given the opportunity to advertise their goods or services during the commercial breaks.
【參考譯文】
美國(guó)人從清晨直到深夜都能看到形形色色的電視節(jié)目。電視屏幕上經(jīng)常播放歌劇、管弦樂(lè)、室內(nèi)音樂(lè)和爵士音樂(lè)演奏。所以家庭中大部分空閑時(shí)間都花在看電視上。許多美國(guó)人酷愛(ài)電視節(jié)目，經(jīng)常在電視機(jī)前邊看電視邊吃冷餐。電視使人們對(duì)歷史、藝術(shù)、音樂(lè)、文學(xué)、舞劇、戲劇、現(xiàn)代科學(xué)的新發(fā)現(xiàn)和宇宙的奧妙有較新和較深切的了解。電視觀眾看電視節(jié)目既不用繳稅，也不必付款，節(jié)目費(fèi)用主要是由那些借此為其商品和服務(wù)做插播廣告的人支付的。
【篇三：讀書(shū)之樂(lè)】
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
Every book stands by itself, like a one-family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something; they are connected with each other and with other cities. The same ideas, or related ones, turn up in different places; the human problems that repeat themselves in life repeat themselves in literature, but with different solutions according to different writings at different times.
Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don't like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax with it, you will almost certainly have a good time--and if you become as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.
【參考翻譯】
讀書(shū)是愉悅心智之事。在這一點(diǎn)上它與運(yùn)動(dòng)頗為相似:一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的讀者必須要有熱情、有知識(shí)、有速度。讀書(shū)之樂(lè)并非在于作者要告訴你什么，而在于它促使你思考。你跟隨作者一起想像，有時(shí)你的想象甚至?xí)阶髡叩�。把自己的體驗(yàn)與作者的相互比較，你會(huì)得出相同或者不同的結(jié)論。在理解作者想法的同時(shí)，也形成了自己的觀點(diǎn)。
每一本書(shū)都自成體系，就像一家一戶的住宅，而圖書(shū)館里的藏書(shū)好比城市里千家萬(wàn)戶的居所。盡管它們都相互獨(dú)立，但只有相互結(jié)合才有意義。家家戶戶彼此相連，城市與城市彼此相依。相同或相似的思想在不同地方涌現(xiàn)。人類生活中反復(fù)的問(wèn)題也在文學(xué)中不斷重現(xiàn)，但因時(shí)代與作品的差異，答案也各不相同。
如果你希望的話，讀書(shū)也能充滿樂(lè)趣。倘若你只讀那些別人告訴你該讀之書(shū)，那么你不太可能有樂(lè)趣可言。但如果你放下你不喜歡的書(shū)，試著閱讀另外一本，直到你找到自己中意的，然后輕輕松松的讀下去，差不多一定會(huì)樂(lè)在其中。而且，當(dāng)你通過(guò)閱讀變得更加優(yōu)秀，更加善良，更加文雅時(shí)，閱讀便不再是一種折磨。
