中学⽣经典英⽂美⽂【⼀】：爱的礼物 \"Can I see my baby?\" the happy new mother asked. “我可以看看我的宝宝吗？”初为⼈母的她开⼼地问道。
When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. Thedoctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears.
当裹着的婴⼉放到她臂弯⾥，她掀开裹着婴⼉的布，在看到他的⼩脸时，她不禁倒吸了⼀⼝⽓。医⽣快速地转过⾝，透过医院的⾼层窗户向外看去。婴⼉⽣下来就没有⽿朵。
Time proved that the baby's hearing was perfect. It was only his appearance that was marred. When he rushed homefrom school one day and flung himself into his mother's arms, she sighed, knowing that his life was to be a succession ofheartbreaks.
时间证明婴⼉的听⼒毫⽆问题，只是有损他的相貌。⼀天，当他匆匆从学校跑回家，扑向母亲的怀抱时，她叹了⼝⽓，意识到他的⽣活注定会受到⼀连串的打击。
He blurted out the tragedy. \"A boy, a big boy...called me a freak.\" 他脱⼝诉说遭到的不幸：“⼀个男孩，⼀个⼤个⼦男孩……他喊我怪胎。”
He grew up, handsome except for his misfortune. A favorite with his fellow students, he might have been class president,but for that. He developed a gift, a talent for literature and music.
他长⼤了，虽然不幸但还是长得挺帅。颇受同学的欢迎，要不是有缺陷，他很可能当了班长。他对⽂学和⾳乐很有天赋和潜质。
\"But you might mingle with other young people,\" his mother reproved him, but felt a kindness in her heart. “但你可能会和其他年轻⼈⼀样。”母亲责备地说，但从⼼底⾥觉得很欣慰。
The boy's father had a session with the family physician... \"Could nothing be done?\" 男孩的⽗亲与家庭医⽣商量……“难道真⽆法补救吗？”
\"I believe I could graft on a pair of outer ears, if they could be procured,\" the doctor decided. So the search began for aperson who would make such a sacrifice for a young man.
“我认为可以移植⼀双外⽿，如果能够找到的话。”医⽣做了决定，于是他们开始寻求⼀个愿意为这个年轻⼈做出牺牲的⼈。
Two years went by.Then, \"You're going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears youneed. But it's a secret.\" said the father.
两年过去了。对⼉⼦说，“孩⼦，你要住院了。我和*找到愿意为你捐献⽿朵的⼈了。但要求保密。”
The operation was a brilliant success, and a new person emerged. His talents blossomed into genius, and school andcollege became a series of triumphs.
⼿术获得了巨⼤成功，⼀个新⼈诞⽣了。他的潜⼒发展成⼀个天才，在中学和⼤学都取得了⼀连串的成功。
Later he married and entered the diplomatic service. \"but I must know,\" he asked his father, \"Who gave me the ears?Who gave me so much? I could never do enough for him.\"
后来他结婚了，进⼊外交⾏业⼯作。⼀天，他问⽗亲：“是谁给我的⽿朵？谁给了我那么多？我做多少都⽆法报答他/她。” \"I do not believe you could,\" said the father, \"but the agreement was that you are not to know...not yet.\" “我也这样认为，”⽗亲说，“但是协议上说你不能知道……还不到时候。”
The years kept their profound secret, but the day did come. One of the darkest days that ever pass through a son. Hestood with his father over his mother's casket. Slowly, tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick, reddish
brown hair to reveal taht the mother had no outer ears.
他们的秘密遵守了很多年，但这天终于来了，这也是⼉⼦度过的最⿊暗的⽇⼦。他和⽗亲站在母亲的棺材前，慢慢地，轻柔地，⽗亲向前伸出⼀只⼿，掀开母亲浓密的、红褐⾊的头发：母亲竟然没有⽿朵！
\"Mother said she was glad she never let her hair be cut,\" his father whispered gently, \"and nobody ever thought motherless beautiful, did they?\"
“你母亲说过她很⾼兴，她从不理发，”⽗亲轻柔地低声说，“但没⼈觉得母亲没以前美丽，是吧？” 中学⽣经典英⽂美⽂【⼆】：⽗爱
Daddy just didn’t know how to show love. It was Mom who held the family together. He just went to work every day andcame home; she’d have a list of sins we’d committed and he’d scold us about them.
爸爸根本不知道怎样表达爱。把这个家维系在⼀起的⼈是妈妈。爸爸天天去上班，回家，然后是妈妈向他数落我们所做的⼀连串错事，爸爸再为了这些事把我们骂⼀顿。
Once when I stole a candy bar, he made me take it back and tell the man I stole it and that I’d pay for it. But it was Momwho understood I was just a kid.
有⼀次我偷了⼀根棒棒糖。爸爸硬是要我送回去，还要我告诉卖糖的⼈是我偷了糖，并说我愿意帮他拆箱开包作为赔偿。但妈妈却理解我，她知道我只不过是个孩⼦。
I broke my leg once on the playground swing and it was Mom who held me in her arms all the way to the hospital. Dadpulled the car right up to the door of the emergency room and when they asked him to move it saying the space was reservedfor emergency vehicles, He shouted, “What do you think this is? A tour bus?”
再有⼀次，我在操场荡秋千摔坏了腿，⼀路抱着我到医院的⼈是妈妈。爸爸将车正好停在急诊室门⼝。因为那⼉是专供急救车停靠的，医院⾥的⼈就叫我爸爸把车开⾛。爸爸⼤声吼叫起来：“你以为这是什么车？难道是旅游车吗？”
At my birthday parties, Dad always seemed sort of out of place, He just busied himself blowing up balloons, setting uptables, and running errands, it was Mom who carried the cake with the candles on it for me to blow out.
在我的⽣⽇聚会上，爸爸总显得有点不得其所。他不是忙于吹⽓球，就是摆桌⼦，或做些跑腿的活⼉。将插着蜡烛的⽣⽇蛋糕捧进来让我吹灭的⼈总是妈妈。
When I leaf through picture albums, people always ask, “What does your Dad took like?” “Who knows? He was alwaysfiddling around with the camera taking everyone else’s picture. I must have a zillion pictures of Mom and me smilingtogether.”
我随便翻阅相册时，别⼈总会问“你爸爸长什么模样？”这还真说不出。他总是摆弄着相机为别⼈拍照。我和妈妈在⼀起微笑的照⽚⼀定多得都数不清了。
I remember when Mom told him to teach me how to ride a bicycle. I told him not to let it go, but he said it was time. I felland Mom ran to pick me up, but he waved her off. I was so mad that I showed him, got right back on that bike and rode itmyself. He didn’t even feel embarrassed and just smiled.
我还记得有⼀次妈妈叫爸爸教我骑⾃⾏车。我叫他扶着车⼦别松⼿，他却说是时候了。我摔了下来，妈妈跑来扶我，他却挥⼿让妈妈开⾛。我真是⽓得发疯，决⼼⾮要让他看看我的本事不可。我马上骑上车，竟能⼀个⼈骑了。爸爸却⼀点也不尴尬，只是笑笑。
When I went to college, Mom did all the writing. He just sent checks and a little note about how great his lawn lookednow that I wasn’t playing football on it.
我上⼤学了，给我的信总是妈妈写的。爸爸只知道寄钱，顶多附上⼀张便条，告诉我他的草坪现在修整得多么好，⽽如今我却不能在上⾯踢球。
Whenever I called home, he acted like he wanted to talk, but he always said, “I’ll get your mother.”When I got married, itwas Mom who cried. He just blew his nose loudly and left the room. All my life he said, “Where are you going? What time areyou coming home? No, you cannot go.”
每次我打电话回家，爸爸总像是有话要说，但结果他总是说“我把*叫来接”。我结婚的时候，妈妈哭了，爸爸只是⼤声打着⿐响，离⾛出了房间。在我⼀⽣中，他总是说：“你去哪⼉？你什么时候回家？不，你不能去。” Daddy just didn’t know how to show love, unless…
爸爸就是不知道怎样表达爱，只会这样…… Is it possible he showed it and didn’t recognize it ? 爸爸向我们表达了爱，难道他只是没有意识到吗？ 中学⽣经典英⽂美⽂【三】： 宽容之⼼
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reasonis that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannotexcuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward events to considerthem, find it easy to condone them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good andbad in ourselves together.
让⼈奇怪的是，和别⼈的过错⽐起来，我们⾃⾝的过错往往不是那样的可恶。我想，其原因应该是我们知晓⼀切导致⾃⼰犯错的情况，因此能够设法谅解⾃⼰的错误，⽽别⼈的错误却不能谅解。我们对⾃⼰的缺点不甚关注，即便是深陷困境⽽不得不正视它们的时候，我们也会很容易就宽恕⾃⼰。据我所知，我们这样做是正确的。缺点是我们⾃⾝的⼀部分，我们必须接纳⾃⼰的好和坏。
But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge hem, but by an image that wehave formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes ofthe world. To take a trivial stance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he hasever told not one, but a hundred?
但是当我们评判别⼈的时候，情况就不同了。我们不是通过真实的⾃我来评判别⼈，⽽是⽤⼀种⾃我形象来评判，这种⾃我形象完全摒弃了在任何世⼈眼中会伤害到⾃⼰的虚荣或者体⾯的东西。举⼀个⼩例⼦来说：当觉察到别⼈说谎时，我们是多么地蔑视他啊！但是，谁能够说⾃从未说过谎？可能还不⽌⼀百次呢。
There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and tininess, of virtue and vice, ofnobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another givetheir instincts freer play, but initially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than mostpeople, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world wouldconsider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with
tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent andrespectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.
⼈和⼈之间没什么⼤的差别。他们皆是伟⼤与渺⼩，善良与*，⾼尚与低俗的混合体。有的⼈性格⽐较坚毅，机会也⽐较多，因⽽这个或那个⽅⾯，能够更⾃由地发挥⾃⼰的禀赋，但是⼈类的潜能却都是相同的。⾄于我⾃⼰，我认为⾃⼰并不⽐⼤多数⼈更好或者更差，但是我知道，假如我记下我⽣命中每⼀次举动和每⼀个掠过我脑海的想法的话，世界就会将我视为⼀个*的怪物。每个⼈都会有这样的怪念头，这样的认识应当能够启发我们宽容⾃⼰，也宽容他⼈。同时，假如因此我们得以⽤幽默的态度看待他⼈，即使是天下秀最令⼈尊敬的⼈，⽽且假如我们也因此不把⾃⼰看得过于重要，那是很有裨益的。 中学⽣经典英⽂美⽂【四】：勤劳的意义
The significant inscri ption found on an old key \"If I rest, I rust\" would be an excellent motto for those who are afflictedwith the slightest taint of idleness. Even the most industrious might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if oneallows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do thework required of them.
在⼀把旧钥匙上发现了⼀则意义深远的铭⽂——如果我休息，我就会⽣锈。对于那些懒散⽽烦恼的⼈来说，这将是⾄理名⾔。甚⾄最为勤勉的⼈也以此作为警⽰：如果⼀个⼈有才能⽽不⽤，就像废弃钥匙上的铁⼀样，这些才能就会很快⽣锈，并最终⽆法完成安排给⾃⼰的⼯作。
Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use,so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art,literature, agriculture --- every department of human endeavor.
有些⼈想取得伟⼈所获得并保持的成就，他们就必须不断运⽤⾃⾝才能，以便开启知识的⼤门，即那些通往⼈类努⼒探求的各个领域的⼤门，这些领域包括各种职业：科学，艺术，⽂学，农业等。
Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, haddevoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated
mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to scienceof mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness. Had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain togo to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he
would never have become a famous astronomer
勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休⽶勒在采⽯场劳作⼀天后，晚上的时光⽤来休息消遣的话，他就不会成为名垂青史的地质学家。数学家爱德蒙斯通如果闲暇时⽆所事事，就不会出版数学词典，也不会发现开启数学之门的钥匙。如果苏格兰青年弗格森在⼭坡上放⽺时，让他那思维活跃的⼤脑处于休息状态，⽽不是借助⼀串珠⼦计算星星的位置，他就不会成为的天⽂学家。
Labor vanquishes all --- not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor, but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduringsuccess.
劳动征服⼀切。这⾥所指的劳动不是断断续续的，间歇性的或⽅向偏差的劳动，⽽是坚定的，不懈的，⽅向正确的每⽇劳动。正如要想拥有⾃由就要时刻保持警惕⼀样，要想取得伟⼤的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努⼒。
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