英语-名篇名段-背诵-精华(附翻译)精心整理版本

英语名篇名段背诵精华

is a chess-board

The chess-board is the world:the pieces are the phenomena of the

universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The

player

on

the

other

side

is

hidden

from

us.

We

know

that

his

play

is

always

fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never

overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for

Thomas Henry Huxley

参考译文：

棋盘宛如世界：

一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象：

游戏规则就是我们所称的自

竞争对手藏于暗处，

不为我们所见。

我们知晓，

这位对手向来处事公平，

正义凛 然，极富耐心。然而，我们也明白，这位对手从不忽视任何错误，或者因

为我们的无知而 做出一丝让步，所以我们也必须为此付出代价。

of times

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age

of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it

was

the

epoch

of

incredulity;

it

was

the

season

of

light,

it

was

the

season

of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we

had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going

direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

参考译文：

这是一个最好的时代，也 是一个最坏的时代；这是明智的年代，这是愚昧的

年代；这是信任的纪元，这是怀疑的纪 元；这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节；

这是希望的春日，这是失望的冬日；我们面前应 有尽有，我们面前一无所有；我

们都将直下地狱??

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ty and greatness

Between

persons

of

equal

income

there

is

no

social

distinction

except

the distinction of merit. Money is nothing;character,conduct,and

capacity

are

d

of

all

the

workers

being

leveled

down

to

low wage standards and all the rich leveled up to fashionbale income

standards,everybody

under

a

system

of

equal

incomes

would

find

his

or

her

own natural would be great people and ordinary people and

little peolpe,but the great would always be those who had done great

things,and

never

the

idiot

whose

mother

had

spoiled

them

and

whose

father

had

left

a

hunred

thousand

a

year;and

the

little

would

be

persons

of

small

minds and mean characters,and not poor persons who had never had a

is why idiots are always in favour of inequality of

income(their only chance of eminence),and the really great in favour of

equality.

收入相当 的人除了品性迥异以外没有社会差别。金钱不能说明什么；性格，

行为，

能力才代表一切。

在收入平等制度下，

每个人将会找到 他或她正常的地位，

而不是所有的工人被划到应拿低工资阶层，所有的富人被划到应得高 收入的阶

层。人有卓著伟人，平庸之辈和碌碌小人之别，然伟人总是那些有所建树之人，

而非从小深受母亲溺爱，

父亲每年留下一大笔钱之人；

碌碌小人总是那些心胸狭

窄，品德卑劣之人，

而 不是那些从未获取机会的穷人。

愚蠢之众总是赞成收入不

平等< /p>

（他们职能凭借这种机会才能为人所知）

，

而真正伟大之人则主张平等相待，

原因就在于此。

expectation

As

the

night

was

fast

falling,and

as

the

moon,being

past

the

full,would

not

rise

early,we

held

a

little

council:a

short

one,for

clearly

our

course

was

to

lie

by

at

the

first

lonely

tavern

we

could

,they

plied

their

oars once more,and I looked out for anything like a we held

on,speaking little,for four or five dull was very cold,and,a

collier coming by us,with her gallery-fire smoking and flaring,looked

like a comfortable night was as dark by this time as it would

be

until

morning;and

what

light

we

had,seemed

to

come

more

from

the

river

than

the

sky,as

the

oars

in

their

dipping

stuck

at

a

few

reflected

stars.

天黑得很快，偏 巧这天又是下弦月，月亮不会很早升起。我们就稍稍商量了

一下，可是也用不着多讨论，

因为情况是明摆着的，

再划下去我们一遇到冷落的

酒店就得投宿。

于是他们又使劲打起浆来，

我则用心 寻找岸上是否隐隐约约有什

么房屋的模样。

这样又赶了四五英里 路，

一路上好不气闷，

大家简直不说一句话。

< br>天气非常冷，一艘煤船从我们近旁驶过，船上厨房里生着火，炊烟缕缕，火光荧

荧 ，在我们看来简直就是个安乐家了。

这时夜已透黑，

看来就要这 样一直黑到天

明，我们仅有的一点光亮似乎不是来自天空，而是来自河上，一浆又一浆的 ，搅

动着那寥寥几颗倒映在水里的寒星。

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doer of deeds

It

is

not

the

critic

who

counts,not

the

man

who

points

out

how

the

strong

man stumbles,the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arens,whose face

is marred by dust and sweat and blood;who stives valiantly;who errs,and

comes

short

again

and

again;because

there

is

not

effort

without

error

and

shortcoming;but who does actually strive to do the deeds;who knows the

great enthusiasms,the great devotions;who spends himself in a worthy

cause,who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement

and who at the worst,if he fails,at least fails whiledaring greatly,so

that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know

neither victory nor defeat.

真正令人尊敬的并非那些评论家和那些指出强者是如何跌 倒，实干家本该做

得更好的人。

荣誉属于那些亲临竞技场，满脸污泥，汗水和鲜血的人。他们不懈努力，他

们曾犯过过错，并一再失败。

因为付出即意味着犯错和失败。

他们满怀激情地努

力做事，

执着不懈，将生命奉献于崇 高的事业。他们为经过艰辛努力最终取得的

伟大成就而自豪，如果失败，他们夜败的荣耀 。因而，这样的人永远不应与那些

不知道胜利，也从未失败过的冷淡而胆怯的灵魂相提并 论。

peare

Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,

the

poet

of

nature;

the

poet

that

holds

up

to

his

readers

a

faithful

mirror

of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs

of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the

peculiarities

of

studies

or

professions,

which

can

operate

but

upon

small

numbers;

or

by

the

accidents

of

transient

fashions

or

temporary

opinions:

they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will

always

supply,

and

observation

will

always

find.

His

persons

act

and

speak

by

the

influnce

of

those

general

passions

and

principles

by

which

all

minds

are

agitated,

and

the

whole

system

of

life

is

continued

in

motion.

In

the

writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those

of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.

参考译文：

莎士比亚的才华高于一切 作家，至少高于当今的所有作家。

他是一位自然的诗人，

他的作 品将人间百态真实地展现在读者眼前。

他的人物塑

造并不拘泥于 只为一部分人所遵循的某个特定地区的习俗，

也不局限于一小部分

人所从事的特定的研究或职业，

也不追随短暂的潮流或暂时的思想观点：

他们据

有人们一贯具备的、普遍的人性特点。

就像世 界能永不竭地供应，

眼睛能永不停

地发现。

他笔下人物的一言一行都受那些能够触动所有人的大众化的情感和能使

整个生命体系 得以延续的普遍原则所影响。

在其他诗人的作品中，

一个人物往 往

就是一个个体，而莎翁笔下的人物通常代表着一类人。

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of a stranger

The most loved place, for me, in this country has in fact been many

places. It has changed throughout the years, as I and my circumstances

have

changed.

I

haven't

really

lost

any

of

the

best

places

from

the

past,

though. I may no longer inhabit them, but they inhabit me, portions of

memory, presences in the mind...My best place at the moment is very

different,

although

I

guess

it

has

some

of

the

attributes

of

that

long-ago

place.

It

is

a

small

cedar

cabin

on

the

Otonabee

river

in

southern

Ontario.

I've lived three summers there, writing, birdwatching, riverwatching. I

sometimes

feel

sorry

for

the

people

in

speedboats

who

spend

their

weekends

zinging up and down the river at about a million miles an hour. For all

they're able to see,

the riverbanks might just as well be green concrete

and the river itself flowing with molten plastic.

参考译文：在这个国家里我最喜欢的地方其实 一直有很多。这些年来，由于

我们自己和情况的变迁，我最爱的地方也随着改变。虽然如 此，

过去我喜爱过的

任何一个地方我并没有真正地失去它们。< /p>

我或许不再居住在那儿，

但它们却存在

于 我的心里，

成为我记忆中的片段，

时常浮现在脑海中??此刻我 最喜爱的地方

相当不同，但我想它仍具有和老早的那个地方（即明湖，

< br>Clear

Lake

）相同的某

些特质。

这个地方是安大略省南方奥托拿比河边的一间松木小屋。

我在那儿居住

了三个夏天：写作、赏鸟、观河。有时候我为那些来此地度周末，却驾 着快艇以

极速在河上往来呼啸的人感到难过，

因为这些人看见的 河岸只不过是绿色的混凝

土岸，而河流本身也仿佛只是条闪亮的流动塑料。

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ts in a grave yard

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies

in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, even inordinate desire

goes

out;

when

I

meet

with

the

grief

of

parents

upon

a

tombstone,

my

heart

melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents of themselves,

I consider the vanity of grieving for those who deposed them, when I

consider

rival

wits

placed

side

by

side,

or

the

holy

men

that

divided

the

world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and

astonishment

on

the

little

competitions,

factions,

and

debates

of

mankind.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday,

and some six hunderd years ago, I consider that great when we shall all

of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance t from

Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison

参考译文：当我瞻仰伟 人的坟墓，心中所有的嫉妒顿时烟消云散；当我读到

伟人的悼文，

所有的非分之想顷刻消失殆尽；

当我遇见在墓碑旁悲痛欲绝的父母

亲，我的心中也满怀同情；当我看到那些父母亲自己的坟墓，我不禁感慨：既然

我们 很快都要追随逝者的脚步，

悲伤又有何用。

当我看到国王与那些 将他们废黜

的人躺在一起，

当我想到那些争斗一生的智者，

或是那些通过竞争和争执将世界

分裂的圣人们被后人并排葬在一起，

我对人类的那些微不足道的竞争、

内讧和争

论感到震惊和悲伤。当我看到一些坟墓上的日期，有的死于昨日，

而有的死于六

百年前，我不禁想到，有那么一天我们都会在同一个时代同时出现在世人眼前。

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10.I have as much soul as you

automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel

of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from

my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I

am souless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as

you,--and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty

and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as

it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the

medium of custom, conventionalities, nor evern of mortal flesh;--it is

my spirit that adresses your spirit; just as if both has passed through

the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,--as we are!

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

参考译文：“我告诉你我非走不可！”我回驳着，感情很 有些冲动。“你难

道认为，我会留下来甘愿做一个对你来说无足轻重的人？你以为我是一 架机器

——一架没有感情的机器？能够容忍别人把一口面包从我嘴里抢走，

把一滴生命

之水从我杯子里泼掉？难道就因为我一贫如洗、

< br>默默无闻、

长相平庸、

个子瘦小，

就没有灵魂和心肠了？你想错了！

-----

我的心灵跟你一 样丰富，我的心胸跟你

一样充实！要是上帝赐予我一点姿色和财富，

我会使你难以离开我，

就像现在我

很难离开你一样。我不是 根据习俗、常规，甚至也不是血肉之躯同你说话，而是

我的灵魂同你的灵魂在对话，就仿 佛我们两人穿过坟墓，站在上帝脚下，

彼此平

等，本来就如此！ ”

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