英语名篇名段背诵精华74 Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman (S = Lt. Colonel Frank Slade; T = Mr Trask, the headmaster of Baird School) S: This is such a crock of shit. T: Please watch your language, Mr. Slade, you are in the Baird school, not a barracks. Mr. Simms, I will give you one final

英语名篇名段背诵精华71 All the world's a stage

（William Shakespeare ） All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in th

英语名篇名段背诵精华26 The joys of writing

The Joys of Writing The fortunate people in the worldthe only reallyfortunate people in the world, in my mind, are those whose work is also their pleasure. The class is not a large one, not nearly so large as it is often represented to be; and autho

英语名篇名段背诵精华30 Advice to Youth

Advice to Youth Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. Very well. I ha

英语名篇名段背诵精华40 Three periods of my youth

Three periods of my youth About the twelfth year of my age, my father being abroad, my mother reproved me for some misconduct, to which I made an undutiful reply. And The next first-day, as I was with my father returning from meeting, he told me tha

英语名篇名段背诵精华45 New England weather

New England weather There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the strangers admirationand regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and try

英语名篇名段背诵精华43 Art and life

Art and Life My parents owned six books between them. Two of those were Bibles and the third was a concordance to the Old and New Testaments. The fourth was The House At Pooh Corner. The fifth，The Chatterbox Annual 1923 and the sixth, Malorys Morte

英语名篇名段背诵精华41 The lowest animal

The lowest animal Man is the only animal that robs his helpless fellow of his country-takes possession of it and drives him out of it or destroys him. Man has done this in all the ages. There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possessi

英语名篇名段背诵精华39 The tragedy of old age

What is it like to be old in the United States? What will our own lives be like when we are old? Americans find it difficult to think about old age until they are propelled into the midst of it by their own aging and that of relatives and friends. A

英语名篇名段背诵精华37 Why I want a life

I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me. I want a wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced wh

英语名篇名段背诵精华34 Golden Fruit

Golden Fruit Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the first place it is a perennial----if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocers shop. On the days when dessert is a name given to a handful of chocolates and a little p

英语名篇名段背诵精华33 Three days to see

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endle

英语名篇名段背诵精华31 Companionship of books

Companionship of books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. A

英语名篇名段背诵精华58 My People

My People The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. by Langston Hughes 我的人民 夜色美丽， 我的人民的面孔亦美丽。

英语名篇名段背诵精华57 Quiet Girl

Quiet Girl I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs. By langston Hughes

英语名篇名段背诵精华56 First Fig

My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah,my foes, and oh,my friends- It gives a lovely light! -----Edna St. Vincent Millay 我的蜡烛两头燃烧， 天亮之前就要熄灭； 可是呵，我的敌人，我的朋友 ── 烛光闪烁多麽可爱！ ---------埃德

英语名篇名段背诵精华54 Inauguration address

Inauguration address Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- sym

英语名篇名段背诵精华50 Gettysburg address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or

英语名篇名段背诵精华60 A Girl

The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast- Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child - so high - you are, And all th

英语名篇名段背诵精华61 Do You Fear the Wind

DO YOU FEAR THE WIND? DO you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will