世界上最美丽的英文在线阅读中英文对照

        第四篇： 
        Think it over……好好想想……

        Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrower points of  view; 
        今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

        We spend more,but enjoy less; 
        我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

        We have bigger houses,but smaller famillies; 
        我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

        We have more compromises,but less time; 
        我们妥协更多，时间更少；

        We have more knowledge,but less judgment; 
        我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

        We have more medicines,but less health; 
        我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

        We have multiplied out possessions,but reduced out values; 
        我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

        We talk much,we love only a little,and we hate too much; 
        我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

        We have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space; 
        我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

        We have highter income,but less morals; 
        我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；

        These are times with more liberty,but less joy; 
        我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；

        We have much more food,but less nutrition; 
        我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；

        These are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home,but divorces increase; 
        现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；

        These are times of finer houses,but more broken homes; 
        现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；

        That's why I propose,that as of today; 
        这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；

        You do not keep anything for a special occasion.because every day that you live is a SPECIAL OCCASION. 
        不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；

        Search for knowledge,read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs; 
        寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；

        Spend more time with your family and friends,eat your favorite foods,visit the places you love; 
        花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方；

        Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment;not only about survival; 
        生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；

        Use your crystal goblets.Do not save your best perfume,and use it every time you feel you want it. 
        举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！

        Remove from your vocabulary phrases like"one of these days"or "someday"; 
        从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；

        Let's write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"! 
        曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！

        Let's tell our families and friends how much we love them; 
        告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；

        Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life; 
        不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；

        Every day,every hour,and every minute is special; 
        每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；

        And you don't know if it will be your last. 
        你无从知道这是否最后刻。

        第五篇： 
        The life I desired 
        我所追求的生活 威廉.萨姆塞特.毛姆 /William Somerset Maugham

        That must be the story of innumerable couples,and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely grace.It reminds you of a placid rivulet,meandering smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees,till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm,so silent,so infifferent,that you are troubled suddently by a vague uneasiness.Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature ,strong in me even in those days,that i felt in such an existence,the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value.I saw its ordered happiness,but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights.In my heart was desire to live more dangerously.I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous,shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen.

        这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。也许这只是我自己的一种怪诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深：我觉得这像大多数人一样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。我承认这种生活有社会价值，我也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀骜不驯的旅程．这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西．我的心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。只要生活中还能有变迁———以及不可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩。