时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:王强英语美文


英语课

The Love of Beauty

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation 1, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained 2.


Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues 3 of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun—all overflow 4 with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.


All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration 5.


The power to appreciate beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness - it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels 6 our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies 7 will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.



1 condemnation
n.谴责; 定罪
  • There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
  • The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。
2 attained
(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况)
  • She has attained the degree of Master of Arts. 她已获得文学硕士学位。
  • Lu Hsun attained a high position in the republic of letters. 鲁迅在文坛上获得崇高的地位。
3 hues
色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点
  • When the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it. 太阳一出,更把它映得千变万化、异彩缤纷。
  • Where maple trees grow, the leaves are often several brilliant hues of red. 在枫树生长的地方,枫叶常常呈现出数种光彩夺目的红色。
4 overflow
v.(使)外溢,(使)溢出;溢出,流出,漫出
  • The overflow from the bath ran on to the floor.浴缸里的水溢到了地板上。
  • After a long period of rain,the river may overflow its banks.长时间的下雨天后,河水可能溢出岸来。
5 admiration
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
6 dispels
v.驱散,赶跑( dispel的第三人称单数 )
  • This landmark case dispels the absolute finality of this dreaded disease. 这个划时代的病例终于改观了这可怕疾病的绝对结局。 来自辞典例句
  • Charles's experience--and that of all other researchers I have met--dispels many myths about water buffaloes. 查尔斯以及我所见到的其他研究人员的经验破除了关于水牛的许多奇谈。 来自辞典例句
7 jealousies
n.妒忌( jealousy的名词复数 );妒羡
  • They were divided by mutual suspicion and jealousies. 他们因为相互猜疑嫉妒而不和。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • I am tired of all these jealousies and quarrels. 我厌恶这些妒忌和吵架的语言。 来自辞典例句
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absolute magnitude effect
adaptive procedure
air cushion conveyer
Alamoth
american dietetic association
arc lamps
associate reference direction
August-Wilhelm-Friedrich-Land
automatic drill machine
batch injection calorimetry
biological element
bitterer
Blundell
cathodecoupled multivibrator
Cech,Thomas
centaurin
charles henry dow
court-ordereds
crane stanchion
crossing structure
demand-managements
escrick
exoccipital cartilage
fanara
farrells
field wire
fish taco
flux-density vector
foreign body in vagina
genus lygodiums
hammock-cloth
hardness change
hocusing
hydraulic pumping diagnostic technique
hydrometallurgy
I can't swim
I-PERITON
inter-cities
internal structures
inverse regular representation
leaf index
lifevests
lirate
low tension line
lubricant film thickness
made a pig of themselves
maximal load
meganuclei
metry
mwncke
natural soil
Nearctic zoogeographic region
Nebba
Noss Head
NOT INTEND
opisthonotal shield
oswin
overblows
oxyacetic
paleodepth
partial vacuum electron beam welding machine
per capita income
pharyngeal diverticulum
pie slice
Plantago komarovii
point type derail
poker gauge
psychiatrizes
public speech
Qum(Qom)
rectifiable
reduction cascading
resilient fiberboard
Result set
ripe lips
rotation anemometer
selective medium
sexagesimal system
Shimura reciprocity law
sign of integration
SMTZ
Spenceria ramalana
statechart diagram
status raptus
stopping reaction
supervisory control and data acquisition
Tanahgrogot
textile dressing
third-place
Toxoplasma cuniculi
triple-screw motor ship
tumens
typical insulating flange joint
Ulaanhudag
undersearch
unqualified immunity
viscous displacement
waiteth
Webber
welcome ... with open arms
zenor
zipper-line