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2021年1月24日发(作者:宦)
英语美文背诵文选
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1.

The First Snow
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the
mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save
the river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless tress,
that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their
branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled,
every
noise
changed
to
something
soft
and
musical.
No
more
tramping
hoofs,
no
more
rattling
wheels!
Only
the
chiming
of
sleigh-bell,
beating
as
swift
and
merrily
as
the
hearts
of
children.
(118 words)
From Kavanagh
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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2.

The Humming-bird
Of all animals being this is the most elegant in form and the most brilliant in colors. The stones
and metals polished by our arts are not comparable to this jewel of Nature. She has placed it least
in
size
of
the
order
of
birds.

Miranda
in
minimis.
Her
masterpiece
is
this
little
humming-bird,
and
upon
it
she
has
heaped
all
the
gifts
which
the
other
birds
may
only
share.
Lightness,
rapidity,
nimbleness,
grace,
and
rich
apparel
all
belong
to
this
little
favorite.
The
emerald, the ruby, and the topaz gleam upon its dress. It never soils them with the dust of earth,
and in its aerial life scarcely touches the turf an instant. Always in the air, flying from flower to
flower, it has their freshness as well as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells only
in the climates where they perennially bloom. (149 words)
From Natural History
By George Louise Buffon
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3.

Pines
The pine, placed nearly always among scenes disordered and desolate, bring into them all possible
elements of order and precision. Lowland trees may lean to this side and that, though it is but a
meadow breeze that bends them or a bank of cowlips from which their trunks lean aslope. But let
storm and avalanche do their worst, and let the pine find only a ledge of vertical precipice to cling
to, it will nevertheless grow straight. Thrust a rod from its last shoot down the stem; it shall point
to the center of the earth as long as the tree lives. It may be well also for lowland branches to reach
hither and thither for what they need, and to take all kinds of irregular shape and extension. But
the pine is trained to need nothing and endure everything. It is resolvedly whole, self-contained,
desiring nothing but rightness, content with restricted completion. Tall or short, it will be straight.
(160 words)
From Modern Painters
By John Ruskin

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4.

Reading Good Books
Devote
some
of
your
leisure,
I
repeat,
to
cultivating
a
love
of
reading
good
books.
Fortunate
indeed
are
those
who
contrive
to
make
themselves
genuine
book-lovers.
For
book
lovers
have
some noteworthy advantages over other people. They need never know lonely hours so long as
they
have
books
around
them,
and
the better
the
books
the
more
delightful
the
company.
From
good books, moreover, they draw much besides entertainment. They gain mental food such as few
companions can supply. Even while resting from their labors they are, through the books they read,
equipping
themselves
to
perform
those
labors
more
efficiently.
This
albeit
they
may
not
be
deliberately
reading
to
improve
their
mind.
All
unconsciously
the
ideas
they
derive
from
the
printed paged are stored up, to be worked over by the imagination for future profit.
(135 words)
From Self- Development
By Henry Addington Bruce
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5.

On Etiquette
Etiquette
to
society
is
what
apparel
is
to
the
individual.
Without
apparel
men
would
go
in
shameful nudity which would surely lead to the corruption of morals; and without etiquette society
would be in a pitiable state and the necessary intercourse between its members would be interfered
with
by
needless
offences
and
troubles.
If
society
were
a
train,
the
etiquette
would
be
the
rails
along which only the train could rumble forth; if society were a state coach, the etiquette would be
the wheels and axis on which only
the coach could roll forward. The lack of proprieties would
make
the
most
intimate
friends
turns
to
be
the
most
decided
enemies
and
the
friendly
or
allied
countries declare war against each other. We can find many examples in the history of mankind.
Therefore
I
advise
you
to
stand
on
ceremony
before
anyone
else
and
to
take
pains
not
to
do
anything against etiquette lest you give offences or make enemies. (160 words)
by William Hazlitt
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6.

An Hour Before Sunrise
An hour before sunrise in the city there is an air of cold. Solitary desolation about the noiseless
streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over
the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are warming with life. The drunken, the
dissipated, and the criminal have disappeared; the more sober and orderly part of the population
have not yet awakened to the labors of the day, and the stillness of death is over streets; its very
hue
seems
to
be
imparted
to
them,
cold
and
lifeless
as
they
look
in
the
gray,
somber
light
of
daybreak. A partially opened bedroom window here and there bespeaks the heat of the weather
and the uneasy slumbers of its occupant; and the dim scanty flicker of a light through the blinds of
yonder windows denotes the chamber of watching and sickness. Save for that sad light, the streets
present no signs of life, nor the houses of habitation. (166 words)
From Boz
By Charles Dickens
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7.

The Importance of Scientific Experiments
The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far as the time of Roger Bacon,
the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He
was probable the first in the middle ages to assert that we must learn science by observing and
experimenting
on
the
things
around
us,
and
he
himself
made
many
remarkable
discoveries.
Galileo, however who lived more than 300 years later (1564 to 1642), was the greatest of several
great
men,
who
in
Italy,
France,
Germany
or
England,
began
by
degrees
to
show
how
many
important
truths
could
be
discovered
by
well-directed
observation.
Before
the
time
of
Galileo,
learned
men
believed
that
large
bodies
fall
more
rapidly
towards
the
earth
than
small
ones,
because Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two
unequal stones, and proved to some friends, whom he had brought there to see his experiment, that
Aristotle was in error. It is Galileo's sprit of going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and
theories by experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern science.
(196 words)
From Logic

By William Stanley Jevons
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8.

A Little Girl
Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her
head
bent
back
she
was
gazing
up
at
the
sky
and
singing,
while
one
of
her
little
hands
was
pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had
suddenly
become
very
bright,
shining
on
her
glossy
hair,
gave
it
a
metallic
luster,
and
it
was
difficult
to
say
what
was
the
color,
dark
bronze
or
black.
So
completely
absorbed
was
shi
in
watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head,
high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in
rivalry.
As
I
slowly
approached
the
child,
I
could
see
by
her
forehead,
which
in
the
sunshine
seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.
(159 words)
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9.

Choosing an Occupation
Hodeslea, Eastbourne,
November 5, 1892
Dear Sir,
I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier
reply to your letter.
In
my opinion a man's first
duty is to find a way of supporting himself, thereby relieving other
people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to so work of practical value in
the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very important education the effects of
which make themselves felt in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dare
about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have saved
me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth.
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