北京环球时代学校美文背诵经典篇章.doc

第1 篇 Hold Fast to Dream紧紧抓住梦想*（入门级）
第2 篇 Music音乐*（入门级）　
第3 篇 The Word "Black"“黑”这个词*（入门级）　
第4 篇 I Love Sports我爱运动*（入门级）
第5 篇 What I have lived for我的人生哲学** （初级）
第6 篇 There is a Lonesome Place in The Sky天上出现了一片空寂的地方—Adlai Stevenson**
第7 篇 Struggle on坚持斗争—Benjamin L.Hooks** （初级）
第8 篇 The Four Freedoms论四大自由***（中级）
第9 篇 Pens笔**（初级）
第10篇 Build Me a Son请给我创造一个儿子—Douglas MacArthur**（初级）
第11篇 Paradox of Our Times我们这个时代的尴尬***（中级）
第12篇 How to Grow Old老之将至—Bertrand Russell***（中级）
第13篇 Youth青春**（初级）
第14篇 The World As I See It我的世界观—Albert Einstein** （初级）
第15篇 Our Family Creed我们的家训—John Rockefeller,Jr.***（中级）
第16篇 Six Famous Words六字真言—William Lyon Phelps** （初级）
第17篇 Why are You Laughing?笑起来！** （初级）
第18篇 Let Your Mind Wonder让心灵活跃起来***（中级）
第19篇 The Declaration of Independence美国独自宣言—Thomas Jefferson***（中级）
第20篇 I Have A Dream我有一个梦想***（中级）
第21篇 The Abdication Speech of Edward Ⅷ 爱德华八世退位演说 —December 1936***（中级）
第22篇 On Resignation论放弃***（中级）
第23篇 The Handsome and Deformed Leg好看的腿和难看的腿***（中级）
第24篇 Humor幽默** （初级）
第25篇 A Thoroughly Negative Place一个丑陋的地方—Albert Camus***（中级）
第26篇 Masterpieces are dumb文学评论：论俄国作家托尔斯泰***（中级）
第27篇 Of Studies论学习—Francis Bacon***（中级）
第28篇 Combating Terrorism反恐—Prof.Wu** （初级）
第29篇 Blood,Sweat and Tears热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水—Winston Churchill***（中级）
第30篇 Inaugural Address就职演讲**（初级）
第31篇 The Gettysburg Address盖茨堡演讲词***（中级）
第32篇 A Psalm of life人生礼颂—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow***（中级）
第33篇 Man Will Prevail人类必胜—William Faulkner** （初级）
第34篇 A Fireside Chat炉边谈话—Fanklin Delano Roosevelt** （初级）
第35篇 Three Days to See假如给我三天光明—Helen Keller***（中级）
第36篇 Spirit of Liberty自由的精神—Judge Learned Hand***（中级）
第37篇 Letter to Mrs.Bixby致比克斯比夫人的信** （初级）
第38篇 Letter to Lord Chesterfiel致切斯特菲尔德伯爵书—Samuel Johnon***（中级）
第39篇 The Road Not Taken未选之路**（初级）
第40篇 Intellect才智***（中级）
第41篇 Ambition抱负**（初级）
第42篇 First Snow初雪—John Boynton Priestley***（中级）
第43篇 The Strenuous Life勤奋的生活—Theodore Roosevelt***（中级）
第44篇 The Road to Success成功之路—Andrew Carnegie** （初级）
1. Hold Fast to Dream
---- Langston Hughs
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly; Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field frozen only with snow.
紧紧抓住梦想
----兰斯顿•休斯
紧紧抓住梦想，因为梦想若是消亡， 生命就像折断翅膀的鸟儿，再也不能飞翔； 紧紧抓住梦想，因为梦想一旦消亡， 生命就像贫瘠的荒野，雪覆冰封，万物不再生长。

2.Music
Music, we may say, is the art of organizing sounds. Music is a rhythmic poem that inspires, a harmonious tone that tranquilizes, and a melody of mystery and beauty. There are many kinds of music. Since we have different ideas of what is beautiful, we have our choices from the magnificent compositions of music masters like Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Wagner, to the popular songs and tunes of the common music-hall. Only people of educated musical taste can appreciate the former, and only they find no pleasure in the latter, while the common people are bored with what is called classical music, and find pleasure only in what musicians would call vulgar tunes.
However, good music often has a wonderful effect upon the feelings of even ignorant people. One poet has said, “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” Soft and sweet music soothes the wearied, the sad, the restless, and grand music will fill strong men with great ambitions; the regimental band puts courage into the hearts of troops; the solemn hymns fill the worshippers with reverence. Indeed, as the poet Dryden once asked, “What passion cannot music raise and quell?”

音乐
可以说，音乐是组织声响的艺术。音乐是触动灵感的韵诗，是抚慰心灵的谐音，是神秘而美丽的曲调。
音乐有多种类型。由于审美观的不同，人们对音乐有不同的选择。有的人爱好音乐大师贝多芬，巴赫，肖邦，瓦格纳所创作的气势磅礴的音乐，有的人钟情于普通音乐厅的流行歌曲。
音乐大师的宏伟作品只是受过音乐品味教养的人才懂得欣赏，他们从流行歌曲中找不到任何乐趣；平民百姓则对所谓的“古典音乐”感到枯燥无味，他们只能欣赏音乐家门称为庸俗的曲调。
不管怎样，美妙的音乐即使对平庸无知的人也常常产生奇特的影响。一位诗人说过：“音乐具有抚慰野蛮心灵的魔力。”
柔和甜美的音乐抚慰疲乏，伤心和不安的人；雄浑的音乐使强者雄心勃勃；军乐使战士鼓足勇气，庄严的颂诗使礼拜者充满恭敬虔诚。的确，正如诗人德莱顿曾经说过的那样：“有哪一种激情是音乐所不能激发或平息的呢？”
3.The Word “Black”
-----Langston Hughes
“I am black. When I look in the mirror, I see myself, but I am not ashamed. God made me. He did not make us no badder than the rest of the folks. The earth is black and all kinds of good things comes out of the earth. Trees and flowers and fruit and sweet potatoes and corn and all that keeps men alive comes right up out of the earth----good old black earth. Coal is black and it warms your house and cooks your food. The night is black, which has a moon, and a million stars, and is beautiful. Sleep is black which gives you rest, so you wake up feeling good. I am black. I feel very good this evening.“What is wrong with black?”

4.I Love Sports
------Prof. Wu
I love sports and athletics.
Sports and athletics are not just building our bodies but also refueling our spirits. They give us energy to continue our work and studies as well as incentive and momentum to create. They help us maintain a positive attitude towards life and stay competitive whenever facing any challenges. Without sports and athletics, we should definitely be in a tedious world living a tedious life.

5.What I have lived for
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind, These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy--ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness―that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what ? At last ? I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.
But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

我的人生哲学
三种激情，单纯而极其强烈，支配着我的人生，那就是对于爱情的渴望，对于知识的追求，以及对于人类苦难痛彻肺腑的怜悯。这些激情犹如狂风，把我吹到这儿吹到那儿，直至那绝望的边缘。
我追求爱情，首先，因为它带给我极大的欢乐，这使我乐意牺牲我余下的生命以换得几小时这样的快乐。我追求爱情，又因为他能减轻孤独---那可怕的孤独啊，一个颤抖的灵魂在这孤独中望着世界边缘之外冰冷而无生命的无底深渊。我追求爱情，还因为在爱的广阔世界里，我在一种神秘的缩影中隐约看到了圣者和诗人曾经想象过的天堂。这是我所追求的，尽管这种爱对人的生活来说似乎还太过美好，但它毕竟是我最终找到的东西。
我以同样的激情追求知识，我曾渴望理解人类的心灵。我想了解星辰为何灿烂。我还试图弄懂毕达哥拉斯学说，他认为数字是高居于万流之上的永恒力量。我在这方面略有成就，但不多。爱情和知识会尽其可能把我向上导往天堂。
但是，怜悯又总是把我带回人间。痛苦的呼喊在我心中反响，回荡。孩子们受饥荒煎熬，无辜者被压迫者折磨，孤弱无助的老人在自己儿子的眼中变成可恶的累赘，以及世上触目皆是的孤独，贫困和痛苦---这些都在嘲弄着人类应该过的生活。我渴望能减少罪恶，可我做不到，于是我也感到痛苦。这就是我的一生。我觉得这一生是值得活的。如果真有可能再给我一次机会，我愿意重活一次。

6.There is a Lonesome Place in the Sky
---- Adlai Stevenson
Today we meet in sadness to mourn one of the world’s greatest citizens. Sir Winston Churchill is dead. The voice that led nations, raised armies, inspired victories and blew fresh courage into the hearts of men is silenced. We shall hear no longer the remembered eloquence口才;雄辩and wit, the old courage and defiance, the robust强壮的; 健全的serenity of indomitable faith. Our world is thus poorer, our political dialogue is diminished and the sources of public inspiration run thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against the sky.

天上出现了一片空寂的地方
今天，我们怀着悲痛的心情在这里集会。哀悼一个世界上最伟大的公民。温斯顿·丘吉尔逝世了。那个曾领导世界许多国家、指挥千军万马、激励人们取得一个又一个胜利和把新的勇气注入人们心田的声音沉默了。我们将再也听不到那熟悉的，充满雄辩与机智、勇气与抗争、坚定信念与不屈精神的演说了。我们的世界因此而变得更加不幸，政治对话受到了削弱，鼓舞大众的滚滚政治洪流变成了涓涓细水。天上出现了一片空寂的地方。
serenity n.
1.安详;宁静2.尊贵的阁下
defiance n. 1.违抗, 挑衅的态度; 蔑视

7.Struggle on
----- Benjamin L. Hooks
My brothers and sisters…I want you to know that the struggle that we will face through the remaining period of the eighties and on through the twenty-first century will not be an easy one. It is fraught with pitfalls and plagued with setbacks, but we as a people have developed a resiliency which has made it possible for us to survive slavery and vicious discrimination. We must never tire or become frustrated by difficulties. We must transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones and march on with the determination that we will make America a better nation…
Struggle on: we want more schoolhouses and less jail houses,
Struggle on: We want more books and less weapons,   
Struggle on: We want more learning and less vice,
Struggle on: We want more employment and less crime in our communities
Struggle on: We want more justice and less vengeance,
Struggle on: We want more of our children to graduate from high school able to read and write, not more on unemployment lines,
Struggle on: We want more statesmen and less politicians.
Struggle on: We want more workers in our ranks and less cynics,
Struggle on: We want more hope and less dope,
Struggle on: We want more faith and less despair…

坚持斗争
兄弟姐妹们，……我希望你们明白，我们在八十年代剩余的时间里乃至整个二十一世纪所要面临的都将不是一场轻松的斗争，这其中充满了危险和曲折。但是我们的民族从奴隶制和万恶的歧视下幸存至今，有着顽强的生命力。我们要永远不知疲惫，在困难面前不灰心丧气。我们要把绊脚石变成脚踏板，带着把美国变得更美好的决心前进……
坚持斗争，我们要多一些校舍，少一些监狱
坚持斗争，我们要多一些书籍，少一些武器
坚持斗争，我们要多一些知识，少一些罪恶
坚持斗争，我们要多一些工作，社区里少一些犯罪
坚持斗争，我们要多一些正义，少一些报复
坚持斗争，我们要多的孩子中学毕业就能读书写字，而不是更多的人加入失业大军
坚持斗争，我们要多一些国务活动家，少一些政客
坚持斗争，我们要多一些辛勤劳动者，少一些玩世不恭的人
坚持斗争，我们要多一些希望，少一些麻木
坚持斗争，我们要多一些信心，少一些绝望

8.The Four Freedoms
-----Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.The first is freedom of speech and expression―everywhere in the world.The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way―everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want―which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants―everywhere in the world.The forth is freedom from fear―which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable可到达的,可得到的in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis对立of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.To that new order we oppose the greater conception ? The moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change―in a perpetual peaceful revolution―a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions―without the concentration camp or the quick?Clime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.  

论四大自由
我们努力保证未来的岁月能够安定，我们期待着将来有一个建立在四项人类基本自由基础之上的世界。第一是在世界的一切地方，一切人都有言论与表达意见的自由。第二是在世界的一切地方，一切人都有自由以自己的方式崇拜上帝。第三是免于匮乏的自由。从世界范围的意义上说就是在经济上达到谅解，保证世界的一切地方，每一个国家的居民都能够过一种健康的和平生活。第四是免于恐惧的自由。从世界范围的意义上说就是进行世界性的彻底裁军，使世界上的一切地方，没有任何一个国家有能力向任何邻国发起侵略行动。
这不是对遥远未来的黄金时代的幻想。这是我们所追求的世界必须具有的基础，这世界可以在这个时代，由我们这一代人赢得。我们追求的世界，跟独裁者企图用炸弹炸出来的所谓“新秩序”的暴政正好相对立。我们以道德秩序这伟大的观念来反对那种新秩序。一个正好的社会，能够毫无恐惧的面对企图主宰世界以及在别国发动革命的各种计划。自有美国历史以来，我们就从事于改革---从事不间断的和平改革。我们持久地进行革命，沉静地使革命不断适应外间变化的情况。我们的革命没有集中营，也没有万人冢。我们要建立的世界秩序是自由国家之间的合作，是在一个友好文明的社会中共同工作。我们的国家已经将她的命运交托给千百万自己的男女公民，由他们的双手、头脑和心灵来决定；我们的国家已经将她对自由的信念置于上帝的指引之下。自由就是人权在所有地方高于一切。我们支持一切为了得到并保持这些权利而奋斗的人们。我们目标一致，使我们得到力量。这种崇高的观念舍胜利而外无其他结局。

9.Pens
Small as it is, the pen has changed the course of history, shaped the destiny of nations, facilitated the commerce of peoples, imprisoned the elusive thoughts of man, recorded events, carried news, and done more work for mankind than all other tools or weapons.
Progress without it would have been almost impossible. The invention of the wheel and screw, the introduction of steam-power, the use of electricity, all these have changed the lives of millions; but the pen has done more. It has removed mountains. It has prepared the way for all advancement. Whatever plans have been drawn up, whatever laws formulated, have come from the pen.

笔
笔虽很小，却已经改变了历史的进程，决定了民族的兴衰，推进了民间的贸易, 钳制了难以捉摸的不良思想，记录事件，传播消息，为人类做了比任何其他工具或武器更多的工作。
没有它，进步几乎是不可能的。车轮和螺丝的发明，蒸汽机的问世，电力的使用，所有这些都曾改变了亿万人的生活；然而，笔却做得更多。他创造了奇迹。他为所有的前进铺平了道路。任何计划的拟订，任何法律的制定，无一不出自于笔。

10.Build Me a Son
-----Douglas MacArthur
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak; and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee -- and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom and the meekness of true strength.Then I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain!"

请给我造就这样一个儿子
啊，上帝，请给我造就这样一个儿子，他将坚强得足以认识自己的弱点，勇敢得足以面对恐惧，在遇到正常的挫折时能够昂首而不卑躬屈膝，在胜利时能够谦逊而不趾高气扬。
请给我造就这样一个儿子，他将不以思想替代行动，一个懂得上帝的儿子，一个懂得知识的基石便是认识自我的儿子。我祈求，请不要把他引上平静安逸的道路，而要把他置于困难和挑战的考验和激励之