初三英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
初三英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
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初三英語(yǔ)美文篇1
Baseball Has a Religion Too
By Joe Williams
There is saying at the race track that you can't "rule a man off for trying." I believe in thisapproach to life on this earth. I believe in God. I believe in my country. I believe in basic humandecency. I believe there is a right and a wrong way to do things. If I were asked to defineAmericanism - what made our country what it is to date - I would say it was the American'swillingness and ambition to stand on his own two feet. I keep a box score on every baseballgame I cover. There is a credit column in which hits are recorded and there is a debit columnin which errors are listed. These are often deceptive. They will give hits to a batter who hasbeen lucky and they will charge errors against a fielder who has been unlucky. This is a smallmirror of life itself. These things over a long run even up just as they do in life.
I've seen shortstops make errors on plays another shortstop would not even try to make. Hehad his record in mind. The shortstop who made the errors had the team's success in mind. Hewas willing to sacrifice his personal record in the greater interest of the team's success. Thereis a kind of religion in that attitude.
I've often wondered how it would be, how it would affect the lives of our people if we all kept adaily box score on ourselves. As a matter of fact, I believe in sports as a way of life. It wasWellington who said battles are won on the playing fields of Eton. I believe it can be stated withequal truth that the principles of decent citizenship are born on the sand lots of Bass River,Massachusetts, Peoria, Illinois, and Southgate, California.
That's where our youngsters first see the religion of sports, if I may be permitted the term, inactual use. They learn about fair play, sportsmanship and working together in a commoncause. And because they frequently learn by ugly contrast, their instincts and the earlyteachings they got from their parents are sharpened against unfair practices, bully-ragging andswell-headedness.
Not too long ago I had what was apparently a narrow escape from death. I was the lastpassenger out of a burning plane, the crash of which had instantly killed the pilot. I believe Iam a physical coward, but singularly I felt not fear when I came to and began to seek a wayto safety. Maybe I was still stunned, but I was completely composed. I did not pray, though Ibelieve in prayer. I did not think of my family, though I am devoted to my family. I was neithersure I would escape nor that I would perish. I was, I suppose, completely resigned towhatever fate awaited me.
They have another saying around the race tracks - "The red board is up." This means the raceis over, the result is final, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. It has gone into therecords.
I believe that somehow much of the philosophy of the people I live with his rubbed off me. Idon't know whether this is good or bad. All I know is that is how it is with me and I've lived ahappy life and I hope a reasonably decent one according to my lights.
棒球運(yùn)動(dòng)中也有信仰
喬·威廉斯
賽場(chǎng)上有一種說(shuō)法，“選手有嘗試的機(jī)會(huì)”。我相信生活中也應(yīng)采取這種態(tài)度。我還相信上帝，相信我的祖國(guó)，相信人性本善，相信處事原則有對(duì)有錯(cuò)。如果讓我來(lái)界定什么是美國(guó)精神，也就是我們的國(guó)家得以有今日之成就的這種精神，我認(rèn)為它指的就是美國(guó)人民自強(qiáng)自立的意愿和志向。我保留著自己報(bào)導(dǎo)過(guò)的每場(chǎng)棒球比賽的成績(jī)一覽表。表上正分那一欄記錄的是擊出安打的次數(shù)，負(fù)分那一欄則記錄著失誤的次數(shù)。這樣的記錄常常不準(zhǔn)確，因?yàn)橛袝r(shí)會(huì)把安打球記在某位走運(yùn)的擊球員身上，而有時(shí)又會(huì)把失誤記在某位倒霉的守場(chǎng)員身上，但久而久之總的數(shù)據(jù)還是會(huì)基本扯平——生命中的許多事情又何嘗不是如此。
我見(jiàn)過(guò)有些游擊手在比賽中故意出現(xiàn)失誤，這些失誤其他游擊手壓根兒不會(huì)考慮，因?yàn)樗麄兡X子里想的是自己的個(gè)人表現(xiàn)記錄。選擇故意失誤的游擊手想的是球隊(duì)的勝利，為了顧全球隊(duì)的大局，他們寧可犧牲自己的個(gè)人成績(jī)。我想這種態(tài)度就是一種信仰的體現(xiàn)。
我常想，如果我們每人每天都能填寫(xiě)一份自己的成績(jī)與不足一覽表，那我們的生活將會(huì)怎樣變化!其實(shí)我一直都認(rèn)為體育運(yùn)動(dòng)也是一種生活方式。威靈頓公爵曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)，人生的勝負(fù)是在伊頓公學(xué)的操場(chǎng)上決定的。我想這句話對(duì)棒球場(chǎng)也同樣適用。馬薩諸塞州的巴斯河，伊利諾伊州的皮奧里亞，加利福尼亞州的紹斯蓋特——在這些棒球訓(xùn)練場(chǎng)上，公民的優(yōu)良品質(zhì)得以形成、得以體現(xiàn)。
在棒球運(yùn)動(dòng)中，我們的年輕人第一次發(fā)現(xiàn)體育運(yùn)動(dòng)中實(shí)際上也有信仰，如果能允許我使用“信仰”這個(gè)詞。他們明白了什么叫公平競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，什么是運(yùn)動(dòng)精神，學(xué)會(huì)了通過(guò)團(tuán)結(jié)合作去實(shí)現(xiàn)共同的目標(biāo)。他們也經(jīng)常在體育比賽中看到不公平競(jìng)爭(zhēng)、威脅恐嚇或是驕傲自大等丑陋現(xiàn)象。正是這種丑惡與美德形成的強(qiáng)烈反差讓他們?cè)醋杂谔煨砸约霸缒昙彝ソ逃哪切﹥?yōu)良品質(zhì)得以發(fā)揚(yáng)光大。
不久以前我有過(guò)一次死里逃生的驚險(xiǎn)經(jīng)歷。我乘坐的飛機(jī)著了火，我剛一逃出機(jī)艙飛機(jī)就墜毀了，駕駛員當(dāng)場(chǎng)喪生。我是個(gè)畏懼自然法則的人，但奇怪的是，當(dāng)我回過(guò)神來(lái)逃生時(shí)，我一點(diǎn)也不害怕。也許我受了驚嚇，但我非常鎮(zhèn)靜。在那一刻，我沒(méi)有禱告，盡管我相信禱告的力量：我也沒(méi)有想到家人，盡管我深愛(ài)著他們。我既不知道自己能否死里逃生，也不知道自己是否必死無(wú)疑。我想我當(dāng)時(shí)是將自己完全交給了命運(yùn)去安排。
賽場(chǎng)上還有一種說(shuō)法，叫做“豎起紅板”，指的是比賽已然結(jié)束，勝負(fù)已見(jiàn)分曉，一切都已載入記錄，誰(shuí)也改變不了。
我身邊許多人的人生哲學(xué)都對(duì)我產(chǎn)生了影響。我不知這是好是壞。我只知道這就是我的生活態(tài)度，而我也過(guò)著快樂(lè)的生活，希望這是一種在我看來(lái)正派的生活。
附注：
喬·威廉斯：是《紐約世界電訊太陽(yáng)報(bào)》的體育欄目責(zé)任編輯，還是斯克里普斯-霍華德報(bào)系的體育專欄作家。
初三英語(yǔ)美文篇2
Growing in the Middle Ground
Anne Phipps
I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage ofmetamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps,I shall spend my life searching.
Until this winter, I believed in outward things, in beauty as I found it in nature and art. Beautypast—swift and sure—from the outside to the inside, bringing intense emotion. I felt aformless faith when I rode through summerwoods, when I heard the counterpoint of breakingwaves, when I held a flower in my hand.
There was the same inspiration from art, here and there in flashes; in seeing for the first timethe delicacy of a green jade vase, or the rich beauty of a rug; in hearing a passage of musicplayed almost perfectly; in watching Markov dance Giselle; most of all, in reading. Other people’screations, their sensitivity to emotion, color, sound, their feeling for form, instructed me. Thenecessity for beauty, I found to be the highest good, the human soul’s greatest gift. But therewere moments when I wasn’t sure. There was an emptiness inside, which beauty could not fill.
This winter, I came to college. The questions put to me changed. Lists of facts—and whodragged whom how many times around the walls of what—lost importance. Instead, I wasasked eternal question: what is beauty, what is truth, what is God? I talked about faith withother students. I read St. Augustine and Tolstoy. I wondered if I hadn’t been worshippingaround the edges. Nature and art were the edges, and inner faith was the center. I discovered—really discovered—that I had a soul.
Just sitting in the sun one day, I realized the shattering meaning of St. Augustine’s statementthat, “The sun and the moon, all the wonders of nature, are not God’s first works but secondto spiritual works.” I had, up till then, perceived spiritual beauty only through the outward. Ithad come into me. Now I am groping towards an inner, spiritual consciousness that will beable to go out from me. I am lost in the middle ground. I’m learning.
在探索中成長(zhǎng)
安妮.菲普斯
我堅(jiān)信，自己的信仰一直在改變。沒(méi)有什么事情是絕對(duì)的?；蛟S，我還只是處在幼體的發(fā)育階段，總有一天我會(huì)發(fā)育完全，就會(huì)對(duì)一切深信不疑;或許，我將用一生的時(shí)間去探索。
在這個(gè)冬天以前，我信仰外界的事物，信仰在自然與藝術(shù)中所發(fā)現(xiàn)的美。美麗總會(huì)稍縱即逝，從外到內(nèi)，給人留下無(wú)盡的感傷。當(dāng)我騎馬穿過(guò)夏日的樹(shù)林，當(dāng)我聆聽(tīng)著浪花翻滾的韻律，當(dāng)我手中握著一朵鮮花時(shí)，我感覺(jué)到一種無(wú)形的信念。同樣的靈感也來(lái)源于藝術(shù)——它無(wú)處不在，轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝。當(dāng)我初次看到一只精妙的白玉花瓶時(shí)，或者看到一塊華麗的地毯，聽(tīng)到一段演奏得近乎完美的音樂(lè)，看到馬爾科娃在《吉賽爾》中優(yōu)美的舞姿時(shí)，都會(huì)有這種靈感。然而，最多的靈感卻是來(lái)自于閱讀。他人的思想，對(duì)情感、顏色、聲音的敏銳，以及對(duì)形式的感知，都會(huì)給我?guī)?lái)啟迪。我發(fā)現(xiàn)，對(duì)美的需求是人類最崇高的善舉，是人類靈魂最偉大的天賦。但是，我想它并非一切。
今年冬天，我開(kāi)始了大學(xué)生活。我所面臨的問(wèn)題也有所改變。很多事實(shí)與那些“誰(shuí)拉著誰(shuí)徘徊在哪個(gè)墻邊?”的問(wèn)題已變得毫無(wú)意義。相反，一些永恒的問(wèn)題出現(xiàn)在我的面前，比如，何為美?何為真?
何為上帝?我與其他學(xué)生探討信仰的問(wèn)題，我閱讀圣奧古斯丁與亞里士多德的著作。我想知道，自己是否一直徘徊在信仰的邊緣。自然與藝術(shù)皆為邊緣，心中的信仰才是核心所在。我真實(shí)地發(fā)現(xiàn)，自己擁有一個(gè)靈魂。
一天，當(dāng)我坐在陽(yáng)光下時(shí)，我猛然明白了圣尼古斯丁的話的涵義：太陽(yáng)與月亮，所有自然界的奇跡，皆非上帝的“初作”，而是精神上的二次創(chuàng)造。直到那一刻，通過(guò)外部的事物，我才認(rèn)識(shí)到精神上的美，那種美已經(jīng)走進(jìn)我的心中。如今，我正在通往內(nèi)在精神意識(shí)的道路上摸索前行，希望有一天能夠?qū)⑺鼈儚奈业膬?nèi)心喚醒。我迷失在探索之中，我在學(xué)習(xí)。
初三英語(yǔ)美文篇3
The Light of a Bright Day
By Helen Keller
I choose for my subject faith wrought into life, apart from creed or dogma. By faith I mean avision of good one cherishes and the enthusiasm that pushes one to seek its fulfillmentregardless of obstacles. Faith is a dynamic power that breaks the chain of routine and gives anew, fine turn to old commonplaces. Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections andawakens a sense of creativeness.
Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair. After all,faith is not one thing or two or three things; it is an indivisible totality of beliefs that inspireme. Belief in God as infinite good will and all-seeing Wisdom whose everlasting arms sustainme walking on the sea of life. Trust in my fellow men, wonder at their fundamental goodnessand confidence that after this night of sorrow and oppression they will rise up strong andbeautiful in the glory of morning. Reverence for the beauty an preciousness of the earth, and asense of responsibility to do what I can to make it a habitation of health and plenty for all men.Faith in immortality because it renders less bitter the separation from those I have loved andlost, and because it will free me from unnatural limitations and unfold still more faculties I havein joyous activity. Even if my vital spark should be blown out, I believe that I should behavewith courageous dignity in the presence of fate and strive to be a worthy companion of thebeautiful, the good, and the True. But fate has its master in the faith of those who surmountit, and limitation has its limits for those who, thought disillusioned, live greatly. True faith isnot a fruit of security, it is the ability to blend mortal fragility with the inner strength of thespirit. It does not shift with the changing shades of one's thought.
It was a terrible blow to my faith when I learned that millions of my fellow creatures must laborall their days for food and shelter, bear the most crushing burdens and die without havingknown the joy of living. My security vanished forever, and I have never regained the radiantbelief of my young years that earth is a happy home and hearth for the majority of mankind.But faith is a state of mind. The believer is not soon disheartened. If he is turned out of hisshelter, he builds up a house that the winds of the earth cannot destroy.
When I think of the suffering and famine, and the continued slaughter of men, my spiritbleeds, but the thought comes to me that, like the little deaf, dumb and blind child I once was,mankind is growing out of the darkness of ignorance and hate into the light of a brighter day.
更光明的未來(lái)
海倫.凱勒
我選擇生活的信念作為主題，而不是信條或教義。我認(rèn)為，信念是一個(gè)人所珍愛(ài)的美好想象，是鼓勵(lì)某人不顧艱難實(shí)現(xiàn)夢(mèng)想的熱情。信念是一種充滿活力的力量，它能打破常規(guī)的束縛，讓平凡陳舊的事物煥然一新。信念能使人的意志再次振作，使人的情感更為豐富，并能喚醒人的創(chuàng)造力。
積極的信念是無(wú)畏的，它守護(hù)著我遠(yuǎn)離憤世嫉俗和絕望的境地。除此之外，信念并非一種或兩三種具體的事物，而是鼓舞著我所有信仰的整體，是無(wú)法分割的。我相信，當(dāng)我在生命的海洋中前行時(shí)，是擁有無(wú)限善意和無(wú)盡的智慧的上帝，用他永恒的臂膀?yàn)槲抑蔚摹Ｎ蚁嘈盼业耐?，驚奇于他們善良的天性與信念。他們相信，在經(jīng)歷了悲傷與壓迫的漫漫長(zhǎng)夜后，他們將會(huì)在清晨的美麗光影中堅(jiān)強(qiáng)地重新站起來(lái)。我崇敬著地球上一切美麗與珍貴的事物，感覺(jué)到自己有責(zé)任為全人類能擁有一個(gè)健康而富饒的家園盡心盡力。永恒能減輕我與深愛(ài)但已失去的人分離時(shí)的痛苦;它能讓我擺脫人為的束縛，發(fā)現(xiàn)享受歡樂(lè)的能力，因此我相信永恒。就算我的生命之火終將熄滅，我還是堅(jiān)信，自己能夠勇敢且充滿尊嚴(yán)地面對(duì)命運(yùn)，成為真善美稱職的戰(zhàn)友。但那些戰(zhàn)勝命運(yùn)者的信仰也會(huì)受命運(yùn)的主宰，那些理想雖破滅但依然勇敢生存者的權(quán)利也會(huì)受到局限。真正的信念充滿了危險(xiǎn)，它是人類致命的脆弱與精神內(nèi)在力量的能力結(jié)合。它不會(huì)隨一個(gè)人想法的轉(zhuǎn)變而改變。
當(dāng)我得知數(shù)不清的同伴都在為他們的生計(jì)終日勞作，忍受著最沉重的壓力，不曾享受生活的樂(lè)趣就黯然而逝的時(shí)候，我的信念遭到了嚴(yán)重的打擊。我永遠(yuǎn)地失去了安全感，也永遠(yuǎn)失去了兒時(shí)那令人欣喜的信仰：地球是多數(shù)人的幸福家園。但信念是精神的一種狀態(tài)。人只要擁有信念，就不會(huì)輕言放棄。倘若他不得已顛沛流離，也會(huì)再次建起一座房子，那是地球上任何颶風(fēng)都無(wú)法摧毀的。
當(dāng)我想到人們依然遭受著苦難與饑荒，想到人類無(wú)休止的殺戮，我的心便會(huì)滴血。但我的腦海里會(huì)出現(xiàn)這樣的想法：正如我曾經(jīng)是個(gè)又聾又啞又盲的小女孩一樣，人類也正在無(wú)知與憎恨的黑暗中慢慢成長(zhǎng)，向更光明的明天走去。
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