英语短篇美文

英语短篇美文

英语短篇美文（通用21篇）

随着网络文化的发展，美文的概念已经不限定于某种文体，或某类内容。网络文化是一种开放、自由的文化，给美文的概念也赋予了更多的开放自由的元素，以下是店铺帮大家整理的英语短篇美文，欢迎大家分享。

英语短篇美文 篇1

The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero,

but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the

most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they

were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so

accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring

me loneliness and ennui.

It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My

roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart

in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting

away.

She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in

rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend

in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny

lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”

More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing

here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in

the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the

distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the

numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.

Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all

the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars

hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.

Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !

英语短篇美文 篇2

You must study to be frank with the world:frankness is the

child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do, on

every occasion. If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it, if it is

reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot. You would

wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one. The

man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

Deal kindly but firmly with all your classmates. You will find it the

policy which wears best. Above all, do not appear to others what

you are not.

If you have any fault to find with any one, tell him, not others,

of what you complain. There is no more dangerous experiment

than that of undertaking to do one thing before a man's face and

another behind his back. We should say and do nothing to the

injury of any one. It is not only a matter of principle, but also the

path of peace and hornor.

By Robert E. Lee

英语短篇美文 篇3

The fortunate people in the world—the only reallyfortunate

people in the world, in my mind, are those whose work is also

their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as

it is often represented to be; and authors are perhaps one of the

most important elements in its composition.They enjoy in this

respect at least a real harmony of life.

To my mind, to be able to make your work your pleasure is

the one class distinction in the world worth striving for; and I do

not wonder that others are inclined to envy those happy human beings who find their livelihood in the gay effusions of their fancy,

to whom every hour of labour is an hour of enjoyment, to whom

repose—however necessary—is a tiresome interlude. And even a

holiday is almost deprivation.

Whether a man writes well or ill, has much to say or little, if

he cares aboutwriting at all, he will appreciate the pleasures of

composition. To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four

clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper,

and a Squeezer pen—that is true happiness.

The complete absorption of the mind upon an agreeable

occupation—what more is there than that to desire? What does

it matter what happens outside？The House of Commons may

do what it likes, and so may the House of Lords. The heathen may

rage furiously in every part of the globe.

The bottom may be knocked clean out of the American

market. Consols may fall and suffragettes may rise. Nevermind,

for four hours, at any rate, we will withdraw ourselves from a

common, ill-governed, and disorderly world, and with the key of

fancy unlock that cupboard where all the good things of the

infinite are put away.

英语短篇美文 篇4

John and Bobby joined a wholesale company togther just

after graduation from college the same year. Both worked very

hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to

theposotion of manager but John remained an ordinary

employee. John could not take it anymore, tendered his

resignation to the boss and complained the boss did not know

how to delegate and did not value hard working staff, but only

promoted those who flattered him.