四級(jí)晨讀主題優(yōu)美文章
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President Bush's Christmas Address
Thank you all. Thank you very much. With the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, we observe one of the great traditions of our nation's capital. And throughout the Christmas season, we recall that God's love is found in 1)humble places, and God's peace is offered to all of us. Laura and I are pleased to be with you at this Christmas Pageant of Peace, and we thank you all for coming as well.
I want to thank Barbara for hosting this event. (Applause) I want to thank all the 2)entertainers for making the night such a special evening, thank you all for coming. (Applause) I want to thank Peter and the board of directors and the production team for organizing this fine event. I appreciate Santa coming. (Laughter) Looks like he needs a belt for Christmas. (Laughter) Finally, I want to thank all the good people of the National Park Service. (Applause) The National Christmas Tree is a living tree and the Park Service looks after it every single day of the year.
For nearly 80 years, in times of calm and in times of challenge, Americans have gathered for this ceremony. The simple story we remember during this season speaks to every generation. It is the story of a quiet birth in a little town, on the margins of an indifferent empire. Yet, that single event set the direction of history and still changes millions of lives. For over two 3)millennia, Christmas has carried the message that God is with us - and, because He's with us, we can always live in hope.
In this season, we celebrate with our families - and deeply miss family members no longer with us. Thousands of families in our nation are still grieving over the terrible losses that came to them last year on September the 11th. We pray for their comfort. We pray for the comfort for everyone who has lost a life this year.
Our entire nation is also thinking at this time of year of the men and women in the military, many of whom will spend this Christmas at posts far from home. They stand between Americans and grave danger. They serve in the cause of peace and freedom. They wear the uniform proudly and we are proud of them. (Applause)
Laura and I wish every American family the blessings of this season, happy holidays, and a merry Christmas. And now we have the honor of lighting the National Christmas Tree. And joining us, we've got two new friends, Samara Banks and Ben Schneller, to help us light this tree.
Now, if everybody - you all step up here - (laughter) - get ready. Please join us in the 4)countdown: Five, four, three, two, one. (Applause)
布什總統(tǒng)圣誕講話
謝謝，非常感謝。隨著國(guó)家圣誕樹上燈火亮起，我們迎來(lái)了祖國(guó)首都一個(gè)重要的傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日。整個(gè)圣誕節(jié)讓我們感到世間洋溢著上帝的愛(ài)，人人都享有上帝恩賜的和平。能在這和平的圣誕慶典中與大家相聚我和勞拉都很高興，為此我也要感謝諸位的光臨。
我要感謝芭芭拉主持這場(chǎng)儀式。（掌聲）我要感謝所有的演藝人員，因?yàn)橛辛四銈冏尳裢盹@得格外特別，謝謝你們的到來(lái)。（掌聲）我要感謝彼得、整個(gè)理事會(huì)以及所有的籌備人員，是你們組織了這場(chǎng)盛大的慶典。我感謝圣誕老人的光臨。（笑聲）看起來(lái)他需要一條腰帶過(guò)圣誕節(jié)。（笑聲）最后，我要感謝國(guó)家公園各部門中所有辛勤的工作人員。（掌聲）國(guó)家圣誕樹是一棵活生生的樹，因?yàn)橛袊?guó)家公園的工作人員日復(fù)一日地照看著它。
近八十年來(lái)，時(shí)逢安定，時(shí)逢挑戰(zhàn)，美國(guó)人都要聚到一塊兒舉行慶典。如今，我們記憶中的圣誕節(jié)小故事已是老少皆知。那是一個(gè)生命在一個(gè)冷漠國(guó)度的邊境小鎮(zhèn)上靜靜降生的故事。然而這件事卻劃定了歷史前進(jìn)的方向，并且直到現(xiàn)在仍在改寫著千百萬(wàn)人的命運(yùn)。兩千多年來(lái)，圣誕節(jié)一直傳遞著一個(gè)信息——上帝與我們同在。正因?yàn)樗惆橹覀�，所以我們能永遠(yuǎn)生活在希望之中。
值此佳節(jié)我們與家人一同張燈結(jié)彩，并一同深切緬懷那些離我們而去的親人。我們國(guó)家有成千上萬(wàn)的家庭仍在為去年九月十一號(hào)降臨到他們頭上的那場(chǎng)可怕災(zāi)難而哀慟不已。我們祈禱他們安心，我們祈禱所有今年喪失生活勇氣的人安心。
此時(shí)我們舉國(guó)上下同樣也牽掛著那些軍營(yíng)中的男女軍人，他們中的許多人將會(huì)在遠(yuǎn)離家鄉(xiāng)的崗位上度過(guò)這個(gè)圣誕節(jié)。他們屹立在美國(guó)人與危機(jī)之間，他們捍衛(wèi)著和平與自由，他們自豪地穿著軍裝，而我們?yōu)樗麄冏院�。（掌聲�?/p>
我和勞拉祝愿所有的美國(guó)家庭節(jié)日好運(yùn)、假期愉快、圣誕快樂(lè)�，F(xiàn)在，我們有幸來(lái)點(diǎn)亮這棵國(guó)家圣誕樹。我們也請(qǐng)來(lái)兩位新朋友——莎瑪拉·班克斯和本·施內(nèi)爾勒——幫助我們一起來(lái)點(diǎn)亮這棵樹。
請(qǐng)諸位走上前來(lái)，（笑聲），各就各位。請(qǐng)大家跟著我們一起數(shù)：五、四、三、二、一。（掌聲）
英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美文Competition
It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels.This is exciting.Yet, on the other hand, competition breeze a pragmatic attitude.People choose to learn things that are useful,and do things that are profitable.Todays' college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism. Many college students choose business nor computing programming as their majors convinced that this professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking a part time jobs as a warming up for the real battle.I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving licence to get a licence. Well, I have nothing against being practical. As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical.
However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism is prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation of students' minds,or nurturing of their soul. We will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines.If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mind-forged medicals lost in the money-making ventures;we will see humality lossing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous.I'd like to think society as a courage and people persumed for profit or fame as a horese that pulls the courage.Yet without the driver picking direction the courage would go straight and may even end out in a precarious situation .A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities ,these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way.In today's world, whether highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise , but vision and strategy. Your intellectual quality largely determinds how far you can go in your career.
英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美文
Chinese Undergraduates in the US
Each year, elite American universities and liberal arts colleges, such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst and Wellesley, offer a number of scholarships to Chinese high school graduates to study in their undergraduate programs. Four years ago, I received such a scholarship from Yale.
What are these Chinese undergrads like? Most come from middle-class families in the big urban centers of China. The geographical distribution is highly skewed, with Shanghai and Beijing heavily over-represented. Outside the main pool, a number of Yale students come from Changsha and Ningbo,swhereseach year American Yale graduates are sent to teach English.
The overwhelming majority of Chinese undergraduates in the US major in science, engineering or economics. Many were academic superstars in their high schools - gold medallists in international academic Olympiads or prize winners in national academic contests. Once on US campuses, many of them decide to make research a lifelong commitment.
Life outside the classroom constitutes an important part of college life. At American universities the average student spends less than thirteen hours a week in class. Many Chinese students use their spare time to pick up some extra pocket money. At Yale, one of the most common campus jobs is washing dishes in the dining halls. Virtually all Chinese undergraduates at Yale work part-time in the dining halls at some point in their college years. As they grow in age and sophistication, they upgrade to better-paying and less stressful positions. The more popular and interesting jobs include working as a computer assistant, math homework grader, investment office assistant and lab or research assistant. The latter three often lead to stimulating summer jobs.
Student activities are another prominent feature of American college life. Each week there are countless student-organized events of all sorts - athletic, artistic, cultural, political or social (i.e. just for fun). New student organizations are constantly being created, and Chinese undergrads contribute to this ferment. Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China. At Yale, intramural sports from soccer to water polo take place all year long; hence athletic talent is a real social asset. One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago was a versatile sportsman. His athletic talents and enthusiastic participation in sporting events, combined with his other fine qualities, made him a popular figure in his residential college.
英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美文
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.
It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, without moving to hide it
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
I want to know if you can see beauty , if you can source your life from god’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”
英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美文Beauty
there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.
I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her deeply.
Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.
It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.
The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.
英語(yǔ)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)美文Work and Pleasure
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
工作和娛樂(lè)
要想獲得真正的快樂(lè)與安寧，一個(gè)人應(yīng)該有至少兩三種愛(ài)好，而且必須是真正的愛(ài)好。到晚年才說(shuō)“我對(duì)什么什么有興趣”是沒(méi)用的，這只會(huì)徒然增添精神負(fù)擔(dān)。一個(gè)人可以在自己工作之外的領(lǐng)域獲得淵博的知識(shí)，不過(guò)他可能幾乎得不到什么好處或是消遣。做你喜歡的事是沒(méi)用的，你必須喜歡你所做的事�？偟膩�(lái)說(shuō)，人可以分為三種：勞累而死的'、憂慮而死的、和煩惱而死的。對(duì)于那些體力勞動(dòng)者來(lái)說(shuō)，經(jīng)歷了一周精疲力竭的體力勞作，周六下午讓他們?nèi)ヌ咦闱蚧蛘叽虬羟蚴菦](méi)有意義的。而對(duì)那些政治家、專業(yè)人士或者商人來(lái)說(shuō)，他們已經(jīng)為嚴(yán)肅的事情操勞或煩惱六天了，周末再讓他們?yōu)楝嵤聞谏褚彩菦](méi)有意義的。
也可以說(shuō)，那些理性的、勤勉的、有價(jià)值的人們可分為兩類，一類，他們的工作就是工作，娛樂(lè)就是娛樂(lè)；而另一類，他們的工作即娛樂(lè)。大多數(shù)人屬于前者，他們得到了相應(yīng)的補(bǔ)償。長(zhǎng)時(shí)間在辦公室或工廠里的工作，回報(bào)給他們的不僅是維持了生計(jì)，還有一種強(qiáng)烈的對(duì)娛樂(lè)的需求，哪怕是最簡(jiǎn)單的、最樸實(shí)的娛樂(lè)。不過(guò)，命運(yùn)的寵兒則屬于后者。他們的生活很自然和諧。對(duì)他們來(lái)說(shuō)，工作時(shí)間永遠(yuǎn)不嫌長(zhǎng)。每天都是假日，而當(dāng)正常的假日來(lái)臨時(shí)，他們總是埋怨自己所全身心投入的休假被強(qiáng)行中斷了。不過(guò)，有些事情對(duì)兩類人是同樣至關(guān)重要的，那就是轉(zhuǎn)換一下視角、改變一下氛圍、將精力轉(zhuǎn)移到別的事情上。確實(shí)，對(duì)那些工作即是娛樂(lè)的人來(lái)說(shuō)，最需要隔一段時(shí)間就用某種方式把工作從腦子里面趕出去。
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