600字英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
600字英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
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600字英語(yǔ)美文篇1
Each day is special 每一天都特別
A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:
"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package." He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".
I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it. I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.
I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.
She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come. I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days". I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.
Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives. And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day. Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
600字英語(yǔ)美文篇2
A goodbye kiss 永別之吻
The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. "How embarrassing.I am getting so clumsy in my old age."
Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments. It came around to Frank who sat quietly listening to the others. Someone said, "Come on, Frank. Tell us your most embarrassing moment."
Frank laughed and began to tell us of his childhood. "I grew up in San Pedro. My Dad was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea.He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that were still at home."
He looked at us and said, "I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow. No matter how much my Mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish."
Frank's voice dropped a bit. "When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheeze and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school,I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here, I was 12 years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!"
He paused and then went on, "I remember the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, 'No, Dad.'
It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face.
I said, 'Dad, I'm too old for a goodbye kiss. I'm too old for any kind of kiss.'
My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked out the windshield. 'You're right,' he said. 'You are a big boy....a man. I won't kiss you anymore.'"
Frank got a funny look on his face, and the tears began to well up in his eyes, as he spoke. "It wasn't long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back. It was a day when most of the fleet stayed in, but not Dad. He had a big family to feed. They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out. He must have gotten into a gale and was trying to save the nets and the floats."
I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again. "Guys, you don't know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek....to feel his rough old face....to smell the ocean on him....to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss."
600字英語(yǔ)美文篇3
手表
I look around me and the room has changed imperceptibly and overtly.There are elephants on thin legs lining the walls, the people around me have become giant insects,my watch melts and slowly drips from my wrist.A Dalinian dream? A Kafkaesque nightmare?The breeze of surrealism blows through my hair; an existential whirlwind captures my imagination.
In the images of these two great creators,I see reflections of beautiful and insatiable imaginations, completely undisciplined, unbounded;yet full of the magic and power of the artists’ visions.These images are not as true as photographs, but they are a hundred times more honest.I, too, often find myself misrepresenting the world.In the midst of a truly dreary lecture I sometimes force wakefulness upon myself by images of what I am learning,and instead of seeing my teacher carrying on about the military campaigns of the Civil War,I see muskets blazing against raised flags.
More often, I see my life as an adventure; romanticized, idealized, exhilarating.Instead of seeing a boring test of memory, I see a test of will; instead of a debate,I see a battle of wits; instead of seeing the photographic image of life,I see the existential and intoxicating war of man against Fate itself.In these images I am sometimes challenged by faceless opponents,sometimes I am climbing a mountain. Perhaps I am fighting a bull or jumping on rooftops.
At times I question the benefits of reinventing the world to suit my fancy.It is true, of course, that everyone does this.Even the strictest of thinkers cannot avoid letting their own vision of the world show through in their works.Dali and Kafka are not exceptions, they are extremes. Why are we all so eager to get away from reality?I find that I, like many others, often don’t seem to fuly belong. But of course I do belong,this is my world as much as anyone else’s.I try to solve this contradiction between the perceived andthe real by altering the world ever so slightly a horse drawn carriage instead of a car, a prize winning essay rather than another homework assignment so that it finds its place around me.
A simple solution indeed.We do not change ourselves to fit the world, but change the world to fit within us.A simple act of wish fulfillment, and all is done.And, of course, to melt a watch with the mind is far better than to enslave the intellect within the watch like a genie in a bottle.Freedom to think requires only so little,and to adjust the world to one’s thought is ever more noble than adjusting thought to the world.
我環(huán)顧周?chē)?，房間發(fā)生的變化微妙卻又明顯。墻壁上排列滿(mǎn)長(zhǎng)著細(xì)腿的大象，我四周的人都已變成了巨大的昆蟲(chóng)，我的手表熔化了，從我的手腕上慢慢地往下滴落。難道是達(dá)利式的夢(mèng)?或者是卡夫卡式的噩夢(mèng)?超現(xiàn)實(shí)主義的微風(fēng)撩動(dòng)著我的頭發(fā);存在主義的旋風(fēng)俘獲了我的想像力。
從這兩位偉大創(chuàng)作者筆下的形象之中，我看到了其反射出的美麗的和永不滿(mǎn)足的想像力，全然不守成規(guī)、狂放不羈，然而又充滿(mǎn)了藝術(shù)家洞察力的神奇和力量。這些形象不如照片那么真實(shí)，但是又比照片可信一百倍。我也常常發(fā)現(xiàn)自己曲解了這個(gè)世界。在聽(tīng)那些著實(shí)乏味枯燥的講演時(shí)，我有時(shí)對(duì)正在學(xué)習(xí)的東西打幵想像之門(mén)，使自己保持清醒;我所看到的并不是老師繼續(xù)講的美國(guó)內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中的戰(zhàn)役，而是看到高舉的旗幟下步槍在射擊。
更多的時(shí)候，我把自己的生命視為一次冒險(xiǎn)，極富傳奇色彩，而且又理想化，令人激動(dòng)振奮。在我眼中，令人厭倦的記憶力測(cè)試變成了對(duì)于意志力的檢驗(yàn);辯論變成了智慧之戰(zhàn);生活的畫(huà)卷變成了人類(lèi)與命運(yùn)之神對(duì)抗的存在主義的，令人癡迷的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。在這些畫(huà)面里，有時(shí)我會(huì)遭遇無(wú)形的敵手的挑戰(zhàn)，有時(shí)我又在登山?；蛟S我正在和一頭公牛鏖戰(zhàn)，或許正在屋頂上跳來(lái)蹦去。
我時(shí)常會(huì)想，如果世界變?yōu)槲蚁胂竦哪?，將?huì)有什么裨益。當(dāng)然，每個(gè)人都確實(shí)這么想過(guò)。即使最嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)乃枷爰乙矔?huì)不可避免地在自己的作品中表現(xiàn)出他們對(duì)這個(gè)世界的設(shè)想。達(dá)利和卡夫卡也不例外，他們是極端的情況。為何我們都如此渴望逃離現(xiàn)實(shí)?我發(fā)現(xiàn)自己像許多人一樣，經(jīng)?？雌饋?lái)不太厲于這個(gè)世界。但是當(dāng)然我又是屬于這個(gè)世界的，因?yàn)檫@個(gè)世界是我的，就像它也是其他任何人的一樣。我試圖通過(guò)對(duì)這個(gè)世界作出細(xì)微的變動(dòng)來(lái)解決感知與真實(shí)之間的矛盾馬車(chē)代替了小轎車(chē)，獲獎(jiǎng)的散文代替了家庭作業(yè)以便世界在我身邊找到自己的位置。
這真是個(gè)簡(jiǎn)單的解決辦法。我們并不是改變自己來(lái)適應(yīng)這個(gè)世界，相反，我們改變世界，以讓它適應(yīng)我們。就靠簡(jiǎn)單的心愿之旅，一切都可以做到。當(dāng)然，用意識(shí)熔化手表遠(yuǎn)比被手表束 縛住才智好得多，后者就像精靈被瓶子困住手腳一樣。思想的自由并不要求太多;調(diào)整世界，使之適合我們的思想，要比調(diào)整 自己的思想使之適合世界高貴得多。
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