英語優美的名篇的閱讀參考

一個好的句子和一段好的段落都可以使一篇文章變成另一個樣，所以小編今天就給大家帶來了英語的優美段落，大家多多閱讀一下

　　英語優美段落一

On beauty

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the 1)weaver of your speech?

The 2)aggrieved and the 3)injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own 4)glory she walks among us."

And the 5)passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of 6)might and 7)dread. Like the 8)tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

The tired and the 9)weary say, "Beauty is of soft 10)whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice 11)yields to our silences like a 12)faint light that 13)quivers 14)in fear of the shadow."

But the 15)restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the 16)roaring of lions."

At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."

And at 17)noon-time the 18)toilers and the 19)wayfarers say, "We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."

In winter say the 20)snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."

And in the summer heat the 21)reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."

All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an 22)ecstasy. It is not a mouth 23)thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart 24)enflamed and a soul 25)enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the 26)sap within the 27)furrowed 28)bark, nor a wing attached to a 29)claw, but rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

Beauty is life when life 30)unveils her holy face.

美

如果美不以自身爲途徑，爲嚮導，你們到哪裏，又如何能找到她呢?如果她不是你們言語的編織者，你們又如何能談論她呢?

傷心痛苦者說：“美是善良而溫柔的。她像一位因自己的榮耀而半含羞澀的年輕母親，走在我們的身邊。”

熱情奔放者說：“不，美是強烈而令人驚畏的。她如暴風雨般震動我們腳下的大地，搖撼我們頭上的天空。”

疲憊怠倦者說：“美是溫柔的低語，她在我們的心中訴說。她的聲音波動在我們的沉默中，猶如一道微弱的光在對陰影的恐懼中顫抖。”

但活潑好動者說：“我們曾聽到她在山谷中大聲呼叫，隨其吶喊而來的是足蹄踏地、翅膀拍擊和雄獅怒吼的聲音。”

夜晚，城市的守夜人說：“美將與晨光一同從東方升起。”

正午，辛勤勞作者和長途跋涉者說：“我們曾看到她透過黃昏之窗眺望大地。”

嚴冬，困在風雪中的人說：“她將與春同至，雀躍于山巒之間。”

酷暑，收割莊稼的人說：“我們曾看到她與秋葉共舞，雪花點綴於她的髮梢。”

你們談到關於美的所有這些，實際並非關於她本身，而是關於你們未被滿足的需求，但美並不是一種需求，而是心醉神迷的欣喜。她不是焦渴的脣，也不是伸出的空空的手，而是一顆燃燒的心，一個充滿喜悅的靈魂。她不是你們想看到的形象，也不是你們想聽到的歌聲，而是你們閉上眼睛看到的形象，堵住耳朵聽到的歌聲。她不是傷殘樹皮下的樹液，也不是懸在利爪下的翅膀。而是一座鮮花永遠盛開的花園，一羣永遠在天空飛翔的天使。

當生命摘去遮蓋她聖潔面容的面紗時，美就是生命。

　　英語優美段落二

Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former.

Why have not I the riches, the rank, the power, of such and such, is the common expostulation with fortune; but why have not I the merit, the talents, the wit, or the beauty, of such and such others, is a reproach rarely or never made to nature.

The truth is, that nature, seldom profuse, and seldom niggardly, has distributed her gifts more equally than she is generally supposed to have done. Education and situation make the great difference. Culture improves, and occasions elicit, natural talents I make no doubt but that there are potentially, if I may use that pedantic word, many Bacons, Lockes, Newtons, Caesars, Cromwells, and Mariboroughs at the ploughtail behind counters, and, perhaps, even among the nobility; but the soil must be cultivated, and the season favourable, for the fruit to have all its spirit and flavour.

If sometimes our common parent has been a little partial, and not kept the scales quite even; if one preponderates too much, we throw into the lighter a due counterpoise of vanity, which never fails to set all right. Hence it happens, that hardly any one man would, without reverse, and in every particular, change with any other.

Though all are thus satisfied with the dispensations of nature, how few listen to her voice! How to follow her as a guide! In vain she points out to us the plain and direct way to truth, vanity, fancy, affection, and fashion assume her shape and wind us through fairy-ground to folly and error.

很多人抱怨命運，卻很少有人抱怨自然;人們越是認爲自然對他們仁愛有加，便越是嘀咕命運對他們的所謂不公。

人們常常對命運發出詰難：我爲何沒有財富、地位、權力以及諸如此類的東西;但人們卻很少或從不這樣責怪過自然：我爲何沒有長處、天賦、機智或美麗以及諸如此類的東西。

事實是，自然總是將天賦公平地分配給人們，比人們通常認爲的還要不偏不倚，很少過分地慷慨!也很少吝嗇。人與人之間的巨大差異是由於教育和環境使然。文化修養改良了天賦，機遇環境誘發了天賦。我們並不懷疑在農田耕作，在櫃檯後營業，甚至在豪門貴族中間有很多潛在的培根們、洛克們、牛頓們、凱撒們、克倫威爾們和馬爾伯勒們，如果允許我用“潛在的”這個學究味濃重的詞的話;但是要使果實具有它全部的品質和風味，還必須有耕耘過的泥土，必須有適宜的季節。

倘若大自然有時候有那麼一點偏心，沒有將天平擺正;倘若有一頭過重，我們就會在輕的一頭投上一枚大小適當的虛榮的砝碼，它每次都會將天平重新調平，從不出差錯。因此就出現了這種情況：幾乎沒有人會毫無保留地和另一個人裏裏外外全部對換一下。

雖然對於自然的分配，人人都感到滿意;然而肯聽聽她的忠告的人卻是如此之少!能將她當作嚮導而跟隨其後的人又是如此之少!她徒然地爲我們指出一條通向真理的筆直的坦途;而虛榮、幻想、矯情、時髦卻儼然以她的面貌出現，暗中將我們引向虛幻的歧途，走向愚笨和謬誤。