英语美文英汉对照
One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer’s office.
Apparently, they are there to file a divorce.
Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story.
This couple had been quarreling all their 40 over years of marriage nothing ever seems to go right.
They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing.
Now, all their children have already grown up, have their own family, there’s nothing else the old couple have to worry about, all they wanted is to lead their own life free from all these years of unhappiness from their marriage, so both agree on a divorce.
Lawyer was having a hard time trying to get the papers done, because he felt that after 40 years of marriage at the age of 70, he couldn’t understand why the old couple would still wants a divorce.
While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband.
“I really love you, but I really can’t carry on anymore, I’m sorry.” “It’s OK, I understand.” said the husband.
Looking at this, the lawyer suggested a dinner together, just three of them, wife thought, why not, since they are still going be friends.
At the dining table, there was a silence of awkwardness.
The first dish was roasted chicken, immediately, the old man took the drumstick for the old lady.
“Take this, it’s your favorite.”
Looking at this, the lawyer thought maybe there’s still a chance, but the wife was frowning when she answer.
“This is always the problem, you always think so highly of yourself, never thought about how I feel, don’t you know that I hate drumsticks?” Little did she know that, over the years, the husband have been trying all ways to please her, little did she know that drumsticks was the husband’s favorite.
Little did he know that she never thought he understand her at all, little did he know that she hates drumsticks even though all he wants is the best for her.
That night, both of them couldn’t sleep, toss and turn, tosss and turn.
After hours, the old man couldn’t take it anymore, he knows that he still loves her, and he can’t carry on life without her, he wants her back, he wants to tell her, he is sorry, he wanted to tell her, “I love you.
” He picks up the phone, started dialing her number.
Ringing never stops.
He never stop dialing.
On the other side, she was sad, she couldn’t understand how come after all these years, he still doesn’t understand her at all, she loves him a lot, but she just can’t take it any- more.
Phone’s ringing, she refuses to answer knowing that it’s him.
“What’s the point of talking now that it’s over.
I have asked for it and now.
I want to keep it this way, if not I will lose face.
“She thought.
Phone still ringing.
She has decided to pull out the cord.
Little did she remember, he had heart problems.
The next day, she received news that he had passed away.
She rushed down to his apartment, saw his body, lying on the couch still holding on to the phone.
He had a heart attack when he was still trying to get thru her phone line.
As sad as she could be.
She will have to clear his belongings.
When she was looking thru the drawers, she saw this insurance policy, dated from the day they got married, beneficiary is her.
Together in that file there’s this note.
“To my dearest wife, by the time you are reading this, I’m sure I’m no longer around, I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100k, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that I have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have live longer.
I want you to know I will always be around, by your side.
I love you.
” Tears flowed like river.
When you love someone, let them know.
You never know what will happen the next minute.
Learn to build a life together.
Learn to love each other for who they are,Not what they are.
在一个阳光明媚的日子里，一对70多岁的老夫妇走进了律师事务所。
显然地，他们准备到那儿办理离婚手续。
律师对这对年老的夫妇提出要离婚的事感到非常困惑。
后来，跟他们交谈了之后，他得知他们之间有这样一段故事： 这对夫妇从40年前结婚之日起就一直吵个不停。
他们似乎找不到共同点，一切在他们看来都格格不入。
由于担心他们的离婚会给孩子的成长带来不良影响，这对老夫妇把离婚的事搁浅到现在。
现在，他们的孩子都长大成人了，也有他们各自的家庭了。
于是，这对老夫妇再也没有什么事可以担忧的了。
他们现在渴望的就是过各自的生活，免受这些年来婚姻带给他们的种种不幸。
正因为这样，两个老人都赞同通过离婚解决事情的争端。
律师极其艰难地为他们拟造了一份离婚协议书，因为他觉得，经过婚后40年的相濡以沫现在两个老人都70多岁了，他就是弄不明白为什么这对老夫妇仍然坚持要离婚。
当他们签署文件时，老夫人遗憾地告诉丈夫：“我真的很爱你，但我再也不能忍受下去了，我非常抱歉。
“没有关系，我理解。
她的丈夫有点悲伤地回答道。
看到他们夫妇还有一线挽救的希望，律师于是建议他们三个人一起去吃顿晚餐。
就他们三个人，老夫人想道，为什么不呢，反正他们很快就成为朋友了。
餐桌上，这对夫妇沉默不语，尴尬的气氛顿时弥漫开来。
第一道菜是烤鸡。
立刻地，老夫人的丈夫夹了一个鸡腿给她说道：“尝尝这个，我知道你最喜欢吃鸡腿了。
见到这种情景，律师心想，他们相亲相爱到这个地步本不应该提出离婚的。
然而，出奇意料的是，当老夫人接过丈夫所夹的'菜时，眉毛却很不自然地皱了一下答道：“这就是问题所在，你总是自以为是，从来没有顾及过我的感受，难道你就不知道我很讨厌吃鸡腿吗？” 她一点也不清楚，这些年来，她的丈夫一直使尽办法讨她开心；她一点也不知道，鸡腿是她丈夫最喜爱吃的食物。
他一点也不清楚，他的妻子会认为他完全不了解她；他一点也不知道，他妻子讨厌吃鸡腿，尽管他把自己最喜爱吃的都给了她。
那天晚上，两个老人都睡不着，各自在自己的床上辗转反侧，辗转反侧。
挣扎了几个小时后，老夫人的丈夫终于忍耐不住，他发觉他仍然深爱着老夫人。
他的生活不能没有老夫人，他要她回来，他要亲口告诉她，“我很抱歉；”他要亲口告诉她，“我爱你。
于是，他拿起电话，开始按老夫人的电话号码，铃声响个不停，但另一边却没人接。
尽管对方不接通他的电话，他还是一直不停地在按着重拔键。
另一方面，老夫人也很伤心，她搞不清楚为什么经过多年来的相处她丈夫仍然一点都不了解她。
事实上，她也非常爱她的丈夫，但她再也不愿意跟他一起生活了。
电话铃声在响，老夫人知道是她丈夫打来的，但她心意已决不再接他的电话。
“现在谈论还有什么意思呢？我和你的感情已经结束了。
当初，第一次提出离婚的人是我，那我现在也得保持这种现状。
要不然，你会说我反悔，那我岂不是很丢脸。
对，对，就这样下去。
老夫人心想道。
电话铃声仍然在响，她于是索性把电话线拉开了。
悲剧就这样发生了，她一点也不曾记起，她的丈夫有心脏病。
第二天早上，老夫人得知她丈夫昨晚已逝世的消息。
她径直向他的公寓里跑去，发现死后的丈夫躺在沙发上，手里仍然拿着电话。
那天晚上，当她的丈夫试图接通她的电话时，心脏病突然发作，他就这样离开了她。
尽管她很悲伤，老夫人仍不得不亲自动手清理他的遗物。
当老夫人认真细致地翻着一个抽屉时，她发现了一张保险单。
保险日期从他们结婚之日起算起，毫无疑问，保险受益人是她。
在这个文件夹里，还有一份就是她丈夫亲手写的遗嘱，里面说道： “献给我最亲爱的妻子：当你读着这封遗嘱的时候，我确信我已不在人间。
我为你买了这份保险。
虽然金额总数才区区100英磅，但我希望它能帮助我继续履行我们结婚时我所起的照顾你一生一世的诺言。
我不能再陪你一起度过你的余生，但我希望保险金额里的钱能够帮助我实现照顾你后半生生活的愿望，就像我可以重生的话那样照顾你。
我同时也想让你知道，我会一直在你的周围，在你的身边，保护你关心你，我爱你！” 老夫人读着读着，泪水如小河流水般奔涌而出。
当你爱着一个人的时候，务必要让他们知道，因为你永远不知道下一分钟将会发生什么事。
学会一起生活，学会互爱，不是他们是你的什么，而是他们是你的谁.
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
If I Rest, I RustThe significant inscription found on an old key---“If I rest, I rust”---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them.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.Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted 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 science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go 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.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 enduring success.
青春
青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。
如果我休息，我就会生锈
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。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。)
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。著名数学家爱德蒙?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，他就不会成为著名的天文学家。 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。
1、Keep on going never give up.
勇往直前，决不放弃!
2、Never put off what you can do today until tomorrow.
今日事今日毕!
3、Believe in yourself.
相信你自己!
4、You think you can, you can.
你认为你行，你就行。
5、I can because i think i can.
我行，因为我相信我行!
6、Action speak louder than words.
行动胜于言语!
7、Never say die.
永不气馁!
8、Winners do what losers don't want to do.
胜利者做失败者不愿意做的事!
9、Jack of all trades and master of none.
门门精通，样样稀松。
10、Wasting time is robbing oneself.
浪费时间就是掠夺自己。
11、Judge not from appearances.
人不可貌相，海不可斗量。
12、Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
任何值得做的事就值得把它做好!
13、Don't give up and don't give in.
不要放弃，不要言败!
14、Life is but a span.
人生苦短。
15、Do one thing at a time, and do well.
一次只做一件事，做到最好!
16、Zero in your target,and go for it.
从零开始，勇往直前!
17、Give more than you planned to.
多多给予，不必计较。
18、Hang on to your dreams.
追逐梦想。
19、Take control of your own desting.
命运掌握在自己手上。
20、Live well, love lots, and laugh often.
善待生活，热爱一切，经常开怀大笑。
21、Quitters never win and winners never quit.
退缩者永无胜利，胜利者永不退缩。
22、You're uinique, nothing can replace you.
你举世无双，无人可以替代。
23、Understand yourself in order to better understanding others.
知己方能解人。
24、The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好!
25、Knowlegde can change your fate and English can accomplish your future.
知识改变命运，英语成就未来。
26、Learn and live.
活着，为了学习。
27、Let bygones be bygones.
过去的就让它过去吧。
28、Life is not all roses.
人生并不是康庄大道。
29、Knowledge is power.
知识就是力量。
30、Knowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud.
博学使人谦逊，无知使人骄傲。
31、Read, study and learn about everything imporant in your life.
点点滴滴皆重要，处处学习是诀窍。
32、Enrich your life today,. yesterday is history.tomorrow is mystery.
充实今朝，昨日已成过去，明天充满神奇。
33、Learn to walk before you run.
先学走，再学跑。
34、Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools by their own.
聪明人从别人的错误中学得教训;笨人则自己付出代价。他山之石可以攻玉。
35、If a thing is worth doing it is worth worth doing well.
如果事情值得做，就值得好好做。
36、Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
无热情成就不了伟业。
37、Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
没有恒心只有力量是完不成伟业。
38、The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
成功的秘诀在于持之于恒。
39、To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书不思考，犹如吃饭不消化。
40、The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
人生之要事在于确立伟大的目标与实现这目标的决心。
41、Asking costs nothing.
问人不费分文。
42、Better an empty purse than an empty head.
宁可钱袋瘪，不要脑袋空。
43、Big mouthfuls ofter choke.
贪多嚼不烂。
44、Bind the sack before it be full.
做事应适可而止。
45、Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水穿石。
46、Experience is the mother of wisdom.
经验是智慧之母。
47、All things are difficult before they are easy.
凡事必先难后易。
48、Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
只要有一颗意志坚强的心，没事不成。
49、Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.
不管追求什么目标，都应坚持不懈。
50、Every man is his own worst enemy.
一个人最大的敌人就是他自己。
51、From small beginnings comes great things.
伟大始于渺小。
52、Keep trying no matter how hard it seems. it will get easier.
坚持不懈，难也变易。
53、Birth is much, but breeding is more.
出身固然重要，教养更且重要。
54、Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
不经灾难不知福。
55、Never give up, Never lose the opportunity to succeed .
不放弃就有成功的机会。
56、All things come to those who wait.
苍天不负有心人。
57、Nothing seek, nothing find.
无所求则无所获。
58、Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand.
脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。
59、Bitter pills may have wholesome effects.
良药苦口利于病。
60、He that can have patience, can have what he will.
唯坚韧者始能遂其志。
100句英语
61、Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.
我们绝大多数的失败都是因为缺乏自信之故。
62、Energy and persistence conquer all things.
能量和坚持可以征服一切事情。
63、Work makes the workman.
勤工出巧匠。
64、Constant dropping wears the stone.
滴水穿石。
65、Between two stools one falls to the ground.
脚踏两头要落空。
66、Sow nothing, reap nothing.
春不播，秋不收。
67、By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
读书可以使我门的思想充实，谈话使其更臻完美。
68、Pain past is pleasure.
过去的痛苦即快乐。
69、The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
一个人的声音没有力量。
70、A great ship asks for deep waters.
大船要走深水。
