中學(xué)必讀的英文經(jīng)典美文

　　美文,大概就是美的化身,它是一種情感,一種體驗和一種表達。下面小編整理了必讀的48篇英文經(jīng)典美文，希望大家喜歡!

　　必讀的英文經(jīng)典美文品析

　　Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 最后一美元

　　Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers. Both of us liked rock'n'roll, and several years after we left high schooll, Cam became a disc jockey.

　　Recently he told me the story about the day he was down to his last dollar. It was the day his luck -and his life -changed.

　　In the early 1970s, Cam was an announcer and disc jockey at KYAL in McKinney, Texas, and had attained celebrity status. He met many country-music stars, and he enjoyed flying to Nashville in the company plane with the owner.

　　One night Cam was in Nashville for an evening at the Grand Ole Opry. After the show an acquaintance invited him backstage with all the Opry stars, "I didn't have any paper for autographs, so I took out a dollar bill," Cam told me ,"Before the night ended, I had virtually every Opry personality's autograph, I guarded that dollar bill and carried it with me always, I knew I would treasure it forever."

　　The station KYAL was put up for sale, and many employees found themselves without a job, Cam landed part_time work at VBAP in Fort Worth and planned to hang on to This job long enough for a full_time position to open up.

　　The winter of 1976-77 was extremely cold. The heater in Cam's old Volkswagen emitted only a hint of warm air; the windshield defroster didn't work at all. Life was hard, and Cam was broke. With the help of a friend who worked at a local supermarket, he occasionally intercepted outdated, dumpster-bound TV dinners. "This kept my wife and me eating, but we still had no cash,"

　　One morning as Cam left the radio station, he saw a young man sitting in an old yellow Dodge in the parking lot Cam waved to him and drove away. When he went back to work that night, he noticed the car again, parked in the same space. After a couple of days, it dawned on him that this car had not moved, The fellow in it always waved cordially to him as he came and went. What was he doing sitting in his car for three days, in the terrible cold?

　　Cam discovered the answer the next morning. This time as he walked near the car, the man rolled his window down. "He introduced himself and said he had been in his car for days with no money or food," Cam recalled,."He had driven to Fort Worth from out of town to take a job, But he arrived three days early and couldn't go to work right away.

　　"Then, very reluctantly, he asked if he night borrow a dollar for a snack to get him by until the next day, when he would start work and get a salary advance, I didn't have a dollar to lend him; I barely had gas to get home. I explained my situation and walked to my car, wishing I could have helped him."

　　Then Cam remembered his Frand Ole Opry dollar. He wrestled with his conscience a minute or two, pulled his wallet out and studied the bill. Then he walked back to the man and gave him his bottom dollar, "Somebody has written all over this ,"the man said, but he didn't notice that the writing was dozens of autographs. He took the bill.

　　"That very morning when I was back home trying not to think about what I had done, things bigan to happen,"Cam told me. The phone rang; a recording studio wanted him to do a commercial that paid $ 500. It sounded like a million. Cam hurried to Dallas and did the spot. and in the next few days more opportunities came to him out of nowhere. "Good things kept coming steadily," said Cam. "and soon I was back on my feet."

　　The rest, as they say, is history. Things improved dramatically for Cam. His wife had a baby. Cam opened a successfil auto-body shop and built a home in the country. And it all started that morning in the parking lot, when he parted with his bottom dollar.

　　Cameron never saw the man in the old yellow Dodge again. But whether the guy was a beggar or an angel doesn't matter.

　　Cam was tested that cold morning-and he passed.

　　經(jīng)典的必讀的英文經(jīng)典美文

　　A Simple Hello 簡單的一句問候

　　I have always felt sympathy and compassion for the kids I see at school walking all alone, for the ones that sit in the back of the room while everyone snickers and makes fun of them. But I never did anything about it. I guess I figured that someone else would. I did not take the time to really think about the depth of their pain. Then one day I thought,what if I did take a moment out of my busy schedule to simply say hello to someone without a friend or stop and chat with someone eating by herself? And I did. It felt good to brighten up someone else's life. How did I know I did? Because I remembered the day a simple kind hello changed my life forever.

　　關(guān)于必讀的英文經(jīng)典美文

　　The Importance of Being Honest

　　誠信無價

　　In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.

　　在繁華的紐約，曾經(jīng)發(fā)生了這樣一件震撼人心的事情。

　　On a friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of them slowed down their paces and put some money into the hat of the young man.

　　星期五的傍晚，一個貧窮的年輕藝人仍然像往常一樣站在地鐵站門口，專心致志地拉著他的小提琴。琴聲優(yōu)美動聽，雖然人們都急急忙忙地趕著回家過周末，但還是有很多人情不自禁地放慢了腳步，時不時地會有一些人在年輕藝人跟前的禮帽里放一些錢。

　　The next day, the young artist came to the gate of the subway station, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different than the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground and put some stones on it. Then he adjusted the violin and began playing. It seemed more pleasant to listen to.

　　第二天黃昏，年輕的藝人又像往常一樣準(zhǔn)時來到地鐵門口，把他的禮帽摘下來很優(yōu)雅地放在地上。和以往不同的是，他還從包里拿出一張大紙，然后很認真地鋪在地上，四周還用自備的小石塊壓上。做完這一切以后，他調(diào)試好小提琴，又開始了演奏，聲音似乎比以前更動聽更悠揚。

　　Before long, the young violinist was surrounded with people, who were all attracted by the words on that paper. It said, "Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Please come to claim it soon."

　　不久，年輕的小提琴手周圍站滿了人，人們都被鋪在地上的那張大紙上的字吸引了，有的人還踮起腳尖看。上面寫著：“昨天傍晚，有一位叫喬治·桑的先生錯將一份很重要的東西放在我的禮帽里，請您速來認領(lǐng)。”

　　Seeing this, it caused a great excitement and people wondered what it could be. After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran there in a hurry and rushed through the crowd to the violinist and grabbed his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's you. You did come here. I knew that you're an honest man and would certainly come here."

　　見此情景，人群之間引起一陣騷動，都想知道這是一份什么樣的東西。過了半小時左右，一位中年男人急急忙忙跑過來，撥開人群就沖到小提琴手面前，抓住他的肩膀語無倫次的說：“啊!是您呀，您真的來了，我就知道您是個誠實的人，您一定會來的。”

　　The young violinist asked calmly, "Are you Mr. George Sang?"

　　年輕的小提琴手冷靜地問：“您是喬治·桑先生嗎?”

　　The man nodded. The violinist asked, "Did you lose something?"

　　那人連忙點頭。小提琴手又問：“您遺落了什么東西嗎?”

　　"Lottery. It's lottery," said the man.

　　那位先生說：“獎票，獎票”。

　　The violinist took out a lottery ticket on which George Sang's name was seen. "Is it?" he asked.

　　小提琴手于是掏出一張獎票，上面還醒目地寫著喬治·桑，小提琴手舉著彩票問：“是這個嗎?”

　　George nodded promptly and seized the lottery ticket and kissed it, then he danced with the violinist.

　　喬治·桑迅速地點點頭，搶過獎票吻了一下，然后又抱著小提琴手在地上跳起了舞。

　　The story turned out to be this: George Sang is an office clerk. He bought a lottery ticket issued by a bank a few days ago. The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of 0,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning. However when he was cleaning up he found the lottery ticket. Thinking that the owner would return to look for it, he cancelled the flight and came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.

　　原來事情是這樣的，喬治·桑是一家公司的小職員，他前些日子買了一張一家銀行發(fā)行的獎票，昨天上午開獎，他中了50萬美元的獎金。昨天下班，他心情很好，覺得音樂也特別美妙，于是就從錢包里掏出50美元，放在了禮帽里，可是不小心把獎票也扔了進去。小提琴手是一名藝術(shù)學(xué)院的學(xué)生，本來打算去維也納進修，已經(jīng)定好了機票，時間就在今天上午，可是他昨天整理東西時發(fā)現(xiàn)了這張獎票，想到失主會來找，于是今天就退掉了機票，又準(zhǔn)時來到這里。

　　Later someone asked the violinist: "At that time you were in needed to pay the tuition fee and you had to play the violin in the subway station every day to make the money. Then why didn't you take the lottery ticket for yourself?"

　　后來，有人問小提琴手：“你當(dāng)時那么需要一筆學(xué)費，為了賺夠這筆學(xué)費，你不得不每天到地鐵站拉提琴。那你為什么不把那50萬元的獎票留下呢?”

　　The violinist said, "Although I don't have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty I won't be happy forever."

　　小提琴手說：“雖然我沒錢，但我活得很快樂;假如我沒了誠信，我一天也不會快樂。”

　　Through our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. but being honest should always be with us. If we bear ourselves in a deceptive and dishonest way, we may succeed temporarily. however, from the long-term view, we will be a loser. such kind of people are just like the water on the mountain. it stands high above the masses at the beginning, but gradually it comes down inch by inch and loses the chance of going up.

　　在人的一生中，我們會得到許多，也會失去許多，但守信用卻應(yīng)是始終陪伴我們的。如果以虛偽、不誠實的方式為人處世，也許能獲得暫時的“成功”，但從長遠看，他最終是個失敗者。這種人就像山上的水，剛開始的時候，是高高在上，但漸漸地它就越來越下降，再沒有一個上升的機會。