第一篇：英语演讲名篇和散文
英 语 演 讲 名 篇 和 散 文
外 语 系
英语演讲 经典演讲套路
第一标准步骤：
Introducing Yourself / Starting the Meeting / Opening Remarks Ladies and gentlemen, good morning!(女士们，先生们，上午好)Hello everyone and welcome.（各位，你们好，欢迎你们）It’s my great honor to be here.（我来到这里，倍感荣幸）It’s very happy to see you all.（我很高兴见到大家）Thank you for being here.（感谢大家光临）最常用的自我介绍：
We haven’t all met before, so I’d better/like to / want to introduce myself.I’m Li Yang from LYCE Co./ First let me introduce myself.I’m….(我以为从未会过面，还是让我来做一下自我介绍。我是李阳，来自李阳疯狂英语文化传播有限公司。/首先让我来做个自我介绍。我是….)第二标准步骤：
Preparing the Audience What I am going to talking about today is…（我今天要谈论的是…..）
First I’d like to talk about …(首先，我想谈一谈…..)（开门见山，观点明确）My topic today is very interesting.（我今天谈论的话题很有趣）
I hope I can share my experiences with you.（我希望能和大家分享我的经历）I’ll start with…and then move on to … Finally, I’m going to …/ I’ll begin by describing…then go on to … and I’ll end with….(我将以……开始，然后转向……最后，以……作为结束)（先总后分，条理清晰）I think, if you don’t mind, we’ll leave questions to the end./ If you have any questions I’ll be glad to answer them.(我想如果你们不介意的话，我们将把问题留到最后来解决。/如果你们有问题，我很高兴为大家解答。)（主次分明 以“礼”服人。）
Please hold/save any questions until the end.（请把所有的问题留到最后）Remember this important point.（请记住这个重点）第三标准步骤：
Delivering the Message Firstly….Secondly…/First of all…Next….(首先……其次…….)This Brings me to my next point …/Feel free to interrupt if you have any questions.（这正引出了我下面要讲的一个……./如果你们有问题请尽管打断我。)I must emphasize/stress /make clear/I’d like to turn to/I’d like to stress….（我必须强调/重点指明/我要转向/强调…….）
At this point we must consider…/At this point we have to bear in mind…（在这一点上我们必须考虑…….）
Now, to digress for a moment…/Now to change the subject for a moment…（现在，我们暂时撇开这个话题/现在我们临时换一个话题…….）
To go back to my earlier point…/To return to the point I made earlier…（还回到我先前的话题…..）
Finally…/In conclusion…(最后…..)第四标准步骤： Winding-up Before finishing/closing I’d like to summarize the main points again/ Before I finish, I’d like to run through the main points again.（在结束之前我要将我的要点再总结一下)That’s all I have to say for the moment/now/today./That brings me to the end of my presentation.（这些就是今天/刚才要讲的一切）
Thank you for listening/coming/being here/Thank you for your attention.（谢谢大家前来听我的演讲）
Now if there are any questions.I’ll be happy to answer them./I’ll be glad to take any questions./If you have any questions, I’d be glad to answer them.（如果有任何问题，我将非常乐意为大家解答/我很高兴为大家解答。）Finally I’d like to summarize the mail point.（最后我想总结一下要点）I hope you all enjoy yourself today.（我希望大家过的很开心）Thank you for listening.（感谢你们前来听讲）Thank you for your time.（感谢你们的光临）Thank you very much.（非常感谢）
经典演讲示范
American High School Students 1.Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.It’s my great honor to be here and I am very happy to see you all.Thank you for being here.What I am going to talk about today is American education.2.Firstly, I’d like to talk about American high school students.My topic today is very interesting because American high school students are very different from Chinese high school students.I was a teacher in an American high school and I hope I can share my experiences with you.3.Remember this important point, American students care about their social activities and activities outside school more than anything else.Chinese students care about their schoolwork and exams more than anything else.American students are very independent.They drive their own cars, work at part time jobs and often have their own money.American high school students are often involved in relationships with boyfriends or girlfriends.Students in America must learn how to schedule their time among work, school, friends, sports and of course, fun!This type of responsibility is challenging for young people and often their education suffers.This is just a brief introduction to one of the many aspects of American education.Thank you all for listening and I hope you all enjoy yourselves today.译文：
1、女士们、先生们、早上好！我很荣幸来到这里、并且很高兴见到大家。谢谢你们的光临。我今天要谈论的话题是美国教育。
2、首先，我想谈谈美国的高中生。我今天的话题很有趣，因为美国的高中生与中国的高中生有很大的不同。我是一位来自美国的中学教师，我希望我能和你们一起分享我的经历。
3、请记住一点，美国的高中生把学校之外的社会实践活动看得比任何东西都重要。而中国的学生却把学校表现和考试成绩看得比什么都重要。美国学生很独立。他们拥有自己的车，他们能兼职工作，他们用自己赚的钱去购买电话、电视机、音响和游戏机等。美国的高中生通常还有女朋友或男朋友。美国学生必须学会规划好自己的时间，去应付工作、学习、交友、运动，当然还有娱乐等。这种情况对年轻人来说是一种挑战，通常他们的教育都会受到影响。这只是美国教育这面多棱镜的一角。
4、感谢你们的聆听，并希望大家今天玩得开心愉快。
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King August 28, 1963 马丁·路德·金（公元1929—1968年），美国黑人律师，著名黑人民权运动领袖。一生曾三次被捕，三次被行刺，1964年获诺贝尔和平奖。1968年被种族主义分子枪杀。他被誉为近百年来八大最具有说服力的演说家之一。1963年他领导25万人向华盛顿进军“大游行”，为黑人争取自由平等和就业。马丁·路德·金在游行集会上发表了这篇著名演说。Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check.When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.So we have come to cash this check--a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now.This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children.Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro.This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead.We cannot turn back.There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one.We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells.Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.You have been the veterans of creative suffering.Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today.I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope.This is the faith with which I return to the South.With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!But not only that;let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.From every mountainside, let freedom ring.When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last!free at last!thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” 译文：
我有一个梦想
马丁·路德·金
100年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
然而，100年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。100年后，黑人依然在美国社会中间向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票。我们共和国的缔造者在拟写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时，就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票。这张期票向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可让渡的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权。
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务，而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。但是，我们决不相信正义的银行会破产。我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足。
因此，我们来兑现这张支票。这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。我们来到这块圣地还为了提醒美国：现在正是万分紧急的时刻。现在不是从容不迫悠然行事或服用渐进主义镇静剂的时候。现在是实现民主诺言的时候。现在是走出幽暗荒凉的种族隔离深谷，踏上种族平等的阳关大道的时候。现在是使我们国家走出种族不平等的流沙，踏上充满手足之情的磐石的时候。现在是使上帝所有孩子真正享有公正的时候。忽视这一时刻的紧迫性，对于国家将会是致命的。自由平等的朗朗秋日不到来，黑人顺情合理哀怨的酷暑就不会过去。1963年不是一个结束，而是一个开端。
如果国家依然我行我素，那些希望黑人只需出出气就会心满意足的人将大失所望。在黑人得到公民权之前，美国既不会安宁，也不会平静。反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石，直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临。
但是，对于站在通向正义之宫艰险门槛上的人们，有一些话我必须要说。在我们争取合法地位的过程中，切不要错误行事导致犯罪。我们切不要吞饮仇恨辛酸的苦酒，来解除对于自由的饮渴。
我们应该永远得体地、纪律严明地进行斗争。我们不能容许我们富有创造性的抗议沦为暴力行动。我们应该不断升华到用灵魂力量对付肉体力量的崇高境界。
席卷黑人社会的新的奇迹般的战斗精神，不应导致我们对所有白人的不信任——因为许多白人兄弟已经认识到：他们的命运同我们的命运紧密相连，他们的自由同我们的自由休戚相关。他们今天来到这里参加集会就是明证。
我们不能单独行动。当我们行动时，我们必须保证勇往直前。我们不能后退。有人问热心民权运动的人：“你们什么时候会感到满意？”只要黑人依然是不堪形容的警察暴行恐怖的牺牲品，我们就决不会满意。只要我们在旅途劳顿后，却被公路旁汽车游客旅社和城市旅馆拒之门外，我们就决不会满意。只要黑人的基本活动范围只限于从狭小的黑人居住区到较大的黑人居住区，我们就决不会满意。只要我们的孩子被“仅供白人”的牌子剥夺个性，损毁尊严，我们就决不会满意。只要密西西比州的黑人不能参加选举，纽约州的黑人认为他们与选举毫不相干，我们就决不会满意。不，不，我们不会满意，直至公正似水奔流，正义如泉喷涌。
我并非没有注意到你们有些人历尽艰难困苦来到这里。你们有些人刚刚走出狭小的牢房。有些人来自因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击和警察暴虐狂飙摧残的地区。你们饱经风霜，历尽苦难。继续努力吧，要相信：无辜受苦终得拯救。
回到密西西比去吧；回到亚拉巴马去吧；回到南卡罗来纳去吧；回到佐治亚去吧；回到路易斯安那去吧；回到我们北方城市中的贫民窟和黑人居住区去吧。要知道，这种情况能够而且将会改变。我们切不要在绝望的深渊里沉沦。
朋友们，今天我要对你们说，尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦。这个梦深深植根于美国梦之中。
我梦想有一天，这个国家将会奋起，实现其立国信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。”
我梦想有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，昔日奴隶的儿子能够同昔日奴隶主的儿子同席而坐，亲如手足。
我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州——一个非正义和压迫的热浪逼人的荒漠之州，也会改造成为自由和公正的青青绿洲。
我梦想有一天，我的四个小女儿将生活在一个不是以皮肤的颜色，而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的国家里。
我今天怀有一个梦。我梦想有一天，亚拉巴马州会有所改变——尽管该州州长现在仍滔滔不绝地说什么要对联邦法令提出异议和拒绝执行——在那里，黑人儿童能够和白人儿童兄弟姐妹般地携手并行。
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，深谷弥合，高山夷平，歧路化坦途，曲径成通衢，上帝的光华再现，普天下生灵共谒。
这是我们的希望。这是我将带回南方去的信念。有了这个信念，我们就能绝望之山开采出希望之石。有了这个信念，我们就能把这个国家的嘈杂刺耳的争吵声，变为充满手足之情的悦耳交响曲。有了这个信念，我们就能一同工作，一同祈祷，一同斗争，一同入狱，一同维护自由，因为我们知道，我们终有一天会获得自由。
从到了这一天，上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含义高唱这首歌： 我的祖国，可爱的自由之邦，我为您歌唱。
这是我祖先终老的地方，这是早期移民自豪的地方，让自由之声，响彻每一座山岗。
如果美国要成为伟大的国家，这一点必须实现。因此，让自由之声响彻新罕布什尔州的巍峨高峰！
让自由之声响彻纽约州的崇山峻岭！
让自由之声响彻宾夕法尼亚州的阿勒格尼高峰！让自由之声响彻科罗拉多州冰雪皑皑的洛基山！让自由之声响彻加利福尼亚州的婀娜群峰！
不，不仅如此；让自由之声响彻佐治亚州的石山！让自由之声响彻田纳西州的望山！
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的一座座山峰，一个个土丘！让自由之声响彻每一个山岗！
当我们让自由之声轰响，当我们让自由之声响彻每一个大村小庄，每一个州府城镇，我们就能加速这一天的到来。那时，上帝的所有孩子，黑人和白人，犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，耶稣教徒和天主教徒，将能携手同唱那首古老的黑人灵歌：“终于自由了！终于自由了！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”
迈克尔·乔丹退役演说
I am here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball.It won't be another announcement to baseball or anything to that nature.Mentally, I'm exhausted, I don't feel I have a challenge.Physically, I feel great.The last time in 1993 I had other agendas.I felt that I wanted to play baseball and I felt that at my age, it was a good opportunity and time to do it.And with the death of my father, and I was basically trying to deal with that.Actually I talked to Jerry last year once the season ended and I told Jerry at that time, mentally, I was a little exhausted.I didn't know if I would play next year.I wanted to put him on awareness so that he could possibly prepare going into next season.And Jerry, once we had our conversation, wanted me to take time as I did in 93 to make sure that it was the right decision because it was going to be the final decision.I retired the first time when Phil Jackson was the coach.And I think that even with Phil being the coach I would have had a tough time, mentally finding the challenge for myself.Although he can somehow present challenges for me.I don't know if he could have presented the challenge for me to continue on to this season.“ Even though middle way of this season I wanted to continue to play a couple more years, but at the end of this season I was mentally drained and tired.So I can't say that he would have restored that.I will support the Chicago Bulls.I think the game itself is a lot bigger than Michael Jordan.I've been given an opportunity by people before me, to name a few, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Doctor J, Eljohn Baylor, Jerry West.These guys played the game way before Michael Jordan was born and Michael Jordan came on the heels of all that activity.Mr.Stern and what he's done for the league, gave me an opportunity to play the game of basketball.I played it to the best I could play it, I tried to enhance the game itself.I've tried to be the best basketball player that I could be.译文：
我在这里宣布从篮球场上退役，而且这次退役后不会再去从事棒球或其他类似的运动。
由于精神上很疲惫，我感到自己非常缺乏挑战力；体力倒还不错。1993年那次退役时我有其他计划：想打棒球，我这个年纪正是从事棒球事业的极佳时机。而且父亲刚好去世了，我只想尽力去面对这一切。
事实上，去年赛季刚结束时，我和杰里谈过一次。我告诉他我精神上有些疲惫，不知到下一年还能不能打。我想让他意识到这一点，以便为下一赛季做准备。杰里--有一次我们谈过这个问题--让我要像93年那样，好好考虑，以便做出明智的决定，因为这将是最后决定。
第一次退役时费尔·杰克逊是教练。但我觉得既使本赛季他还担任教练，我也会很困难，内心里，我已感受到了挑战。当然无论如何，他都会给我一些应对方法的。我不知到他是否还有办法使我打完这一赛季。在本赛季中间我还想着再打几年呢，但当赛季结束时，我却感觉精神枯竭，疲惫。因此我确实不能说他会使我恢复精力。我将支持芝加哥公牛队，我认为比赛本身比迈克尔·乔丹重要得多。我的很多机会都是篮球前辈们给的。我这里指出一些： 贾巴尔，博士，韦思特。这些人早在乔丹出生前就活跃在赛场了。迈克尔·乔丹只不过是继承了他们的传统。斯特恩先生及其为联盟做出的贡献给了我打篮球的机会。我已尽我最大能力打球，我想努力推动比赛本身的发展。我一直在努力，尽我所能成为最好的球员。
亚伯拉罕·林肯在葛底斯堡的演说
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.We are met on a great battlefield of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who gave their lives that Nation might live.It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us;that from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;that this Nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom;and that government of the People by the People and for the People shall not perish from the earth.” 译文：
87年前，我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自由和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。我们在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上集会。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们来到这里，是要把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为最后安息之所。我们这样做是完全应该而且是非常恰当的。
但是，从更广泛的意义上来说，这块土地我们不能够奉献，不能够圣化，不能够神化。那些曾在这里战斗过的勇士们，活着的和去世的，已经把这块土地圣化了，这远不是我们微薄的力量所能增减的。我们今天在这里所说的话，全世界不大会注意，也不会长久地记住，但勇士们在这里所做过的事，全世界却永远不会忘记。毋宁说，倒是我们这些还活着的人，应该在这里把自己奉献于勇士们已经如此崇高地向前推进但尚未完成的事业。倒是我们应该在这里把自己奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务——我们要从这些光荣的死者身上汲取更多的献身精神，来完成他们已 经完全彻底为之献身的事业；我们要在这里下定最大的决心，不让这些死者白白牺牲；我们要使国家在上帝福佑下得到自由的新生，要使这个民有、民治、民享的政府永世长存。
Shall We Choose Death? I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.The world is full of conflicts: Jews and Arabs;Indians and Pakistanis;white men and Negroes in Africa;and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between communism and anticommunism.Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues;but I want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings for the moment and consider yourself only as a member of a biological species which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desire.I shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another.All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it.We have to learn to think in a new way.We have to learn to ask ourselves not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps.The question we have to ask ourselves is: What steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all sides? The general public, and even many men in positions of authority, have not realized what would be involved in a war with hydrogen bombs.The general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration of cities.It is understood that the new bombs are more powerful than the old and that, while one atomic bomb could obliterate Hiroshima, one hydrogen bomb could obliterate the largest cities such as London, New York, and Moscow.No doubt in a hydrogen-bomb war great cities would be obliterated.But this is one of the minor disasters that would have to be faced.If everybody in London, New York, and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow.But we now know, especially since the Bikini test, that hydrogen bombs can gradually spread destruction over a much wider area than had been supposed.It is stated on very good authority that a bomb can now be manufactured which will be 25,000 times as powerful as that which destroyed Hiroshima.Such a bomb, if exploded near the ground or under water, sends radioactive particles into the upper air.They sink gradually and reach the surface of the earth in the form of a deadly dust or rain.It was this dust which infected the Japanese fishermen and their catch of fish although they were outside what American experts believed to be the danger zone.No one knows how widely such lethal radioactive particles might be diffused, but the best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with hydrogen bombs is quite likely to put an end to the human race.It is feared that if many hydrogen bombs are used there will be universal deathfor it will be not only men who will perish, but also the animals, whom no one can accuse of communism or anticommunism.I cannot believe that this is to be the end.I would have men forget their quarrels for a moment and reflect that, if they will allow themselves to survive, there is every reason to expect the triumphs of the future to exceed immeasurably the triumphs of the past.There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom.Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal, as a human being to human beings: remember your humanity, and forget the rest.If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise;if you cannot, nothing lies before you but universal death.译文：
我们该选择死亡吗
我不是作为一个英国人、一个欧洲人、一个西方民主国家的一员，而是作为一个人，作为不知是否还能继续生存下去的人类的一员在讲演。世界充满了争斗：犹太人和阿拉伯人；印度人和巴勒斯坦人；非洲的白人和黑人；以及使所有的小冲突都相形见绌的共产主义和反共产主义之间的大搏斗。
差不多每个有政治意识的人都对这类问题怀有强烈的感受；但是我希望你们，如果你们能够的话，把这份感受暂搁一边，并把自己只看作一种具有非凡历史、谁也不希望它灭亡的生物的一员。可能会迎合一群人而冷落另一群人的词语，我将努力一个字都不说。所有的人，不分彼此，都处在危险之中；如果大家都看到了这种危险，那么就有希望联合起来避开它。我们必须学习新的思想方法。我们必须学习不自问能采取什么措施来使我们所喜欢的人群获得军事上的胜利，因为不再有这样的措施。我们必须自问的问题是：能采取什么措施来避免必然会给各方造成灾难的军事竞赛？
普通群众，甚至许多当权人士，不清楚一场氢弹战所包含的会是什么。普通群众仍旧从城市的毁灭上思考问题。不言而喻，新炸弹比旧炸弹更具威力——一颗原弹能毁灭广岛，而一颗氢弹能毁灭像伦敦、纽约和莫斯科这样的大都市。毫无疑问，一场氢弹战将会毁灭大城市。但这只是世界必须面对的小灾难中的一个。假如化敦人、纽约人和莫斯科人都灭绝了，世界可能要经过几个世纪才能从这场灾难中恢复过来。而我们现在，尤其是从比基尼核试验以来很清楚：氢弹能够逐渐把破坏力扩散到一个比预料要广大得多的地区。据非常权威的人士说，现在能够制造出一种炸弹，其威力比毁灭广岛的炸弹大2.5万倍。这种炸弹如果在近地或水下爆炸，会把放射性微粒送入高层大气。这些微粒逐渐降落，呈有毒灰尘或毒雨的状态到达地球表面。正是这种灰尘使日本渔民和他们所捕获的鱼受到了感染，尽管他们并不在美国专家所确认的危险区之内。没有人知道这种致命的放射性微粒怎么会传播得这么广，但是这个领域的最高权威一致表示：一场氢弹战差不多就是灭绝人类的代名词。如果许多氢弹被使用，死神恐怕就会降临全球——只有少数幸运者才会突然死亡，大多数人却须忍受疾病和解体的慢性折磨……
这里，我要向你提起一个直率的、令人不快而又无法回避的问题：我们该消灭人类，还是人类该抛弃战争？人们不愿面对这个抉择，因为消灭战争太难了。消灭 战争要求限制国家主权，这令人反感。然而“人类”这个专门名词给人们的感觉是模糊、抽象的，它可能比任何其他东西都更容易妨碍认识这种形势。人们几乎没有用自己的想象力去认识这种危险不仅指向他们所模模糊糊理解的人类，而且指向他们自己和他们的子子孙孙。于是他们相信只要禁止使用现代武器，也许可以允许战争继续下去。恐怕这个愿望只是幻想。任何不使用氢弹的协定是在和平时期达成的，在战争时期这种协定就被认为是没有约束力的，一旦战争爆发，双方就会着手制造氢弹，因为如果一方制造氢弹而另一方不造的话，造氢弹的一方必然会取胜……
按照地质年代来计算，人类到目前为止只存在了一个极短的时期——最多100万年。在至少就我们所了解的宇宙而言，人类在特别是最近6000年里所达到的认识，在宇宙史上是一些全新的东西。太阳升升落落，月亮盈盈亏亏，夜空星光闪烁，无数岁月就这样过去了，只是到人类出现以后，这些才被理解。在天文学的宏观世界和原子的微观世界，人类揭示了原先可能认为无法提示的秘密。在艺术、文学和宗教领域里，一些人显示了一种崇高的感情，它使人们懂得人类是值得保全的。难道因为很少有人能考虑整个人类多于这个或那个人群，这一切就会在毫无价值的恐怖行动中结束吗？人类是否如此缺少智慧，如此缺少无私的爱，如此盲目，甚至连自我保存的最简单命令都听不见，以致要用灭绝地球上的所有生命来最后证明它那缺乏理智的小聪明？——因为不驻人会被消灭，而且动物也会被消灭，没有人能指责它们是共产主义或反共产主义。
我无法相信结局会是这样。人们如果想让自己生存下去，他们就应暂时忘掉争吵，进行反省，人们有千万条理由期待未来的成就极大地超过以往的成就，如果让我们选择，那么擂在我们面前的有幸福、知识和智慧的持续增长。我们能因为无法忘掉争吵而舍此去选择死亡吗？作为一个人，我向所有的人呼吁：记住你们的人性，忘掉其余的一切。如果你们能这样做，通向一个新的天堂的路就畅通无阻；如果你们做不到这一点，摆在你们面前的就只有全世界的毁灭。
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Winston Churchill May 13, 1940 On Friday evening last I received from His Majesty the mission to form a new administration.It was the evident will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties.I have already completed the most important part of this task.A war cabinet has been formed of five members, representing, with the Labor, Opposition and Liberals, the unity of the nation.It was necessary that this should be done in one single day on account of the extreme urgency and rigor of events.Other key positions were filled yesterday.I am submitting a further list to the King tonight.I hope to complete the appointment of principal Ministers during tomorrow.The appointment of other Ministers usually takes a little longer.I trust when Parliament meets again this part of my task will be completed and that the administration will be complete in all respects.I considered it in the public interest to suggest to the Speaker that the House should be summoned today.At the end of today's proceedings, the adjournment of the House will be proposed until May 2l with provision for earlier meeting if need be.Business for that will be notified to M.P.'s at the earliest opportunity.I now invite the House by a resolution to record its approval of the steps taken and declare its confidence in the new government.The resolution: “That this House welcomes the formation of a government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion.” To form an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself.But we are in the preliminary Phase of one of the greatest battles in history.We are in action at any other points-in Norway and in Holland-and we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean.The air battle is continuing, and many preparations have to be made here at home.In this crisis I think I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today, and I hope that any of my friends and colleagues or for mer colleagues who are affected by the political reconstruction will make all allowances for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act.I say to the House as I said to Ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air.War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.That is our policy.You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word, It is victory.Victory at all costs-victory in spite of all terrors-victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.Let that be realized.No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.I take up my task in buoyancy and hope.I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, “Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”
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热血、汗水和眼泪
温斯顿·丘吉尔
上星期五晚上，我奉陛下之命，组织新的一届政府。
按国会和国民的意愿，新政府显然应该考虑建立在尽可能广泛的基础上，应该兼容所有的党派。
我已经完成了这项任务的最主要的部分。战时内阁已由五人组成，包括工党、反对党和自由党，这体现了举国团结一致。
由于事态的极端紧急和严峻，新阁政府须于一天之内组成，其他的关键岗位也于昨日安排就绪。今晚还要向国王呈报一份名单。我希望明天就能完成几位主要大臣的任命。
其余大臣们的任命照例得晚一些。我相信，在国会下一次召开时，任命将告完成，臻于完善。
为公众利益着想，我建议议长今天就召开国会。今天的议程结束时，建议休会到5月21日，并准备在必要时提前开会。有关事项当会及早通知各位议员。
现在我请求国会作出决议，批准我所采取的各项步骤，启示记录在案，并且声明信任新政府。决议如下：
“本国会欢迎新政府的组成，她体现了举国一致的坚定不移的决心：对德作战，直到最后胜利。”
组织如此规模和如此复杂的政府原本是一项重大的任务。但是我们正处于历史上罕见的一场大战的初始阶段。我们在其他许多地点作战--在挪威，在荷兰，我们还必须在地中海做好准备。空战正在继续，而且在本土也必须做好许多准备工作。
值此危急关头，我想，即使我今天向国会的报告过于简略，也当能见谅。我还希望所有在这次改组中受到影响的朋友、同僚和旧日的同僚们对必要的礼仪方面的任何不周之处能毫不介意。
我向国会表明，一如我向入阁的大臣们所表明的，我所能奉献的唯有热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水我们所面临的将是一场极其严酷的考验，将是旷日持久的斗争和苦难。
若问我们的政策是什么？我的回答是：在陆上、海上、空中作战。尽我们的全力，尽上帝赋予我们的全部力量去作战，对人类黑暗、可悲的罪恶史上空前凶残的暴政作战。这就是我们的政策。
若问我们的目标是什么？我可以用一个词来回答，那就是胜利。不惜一切代价，去夺取胜利--不惧一切恐怖，去夺取胜利--不论前路如何漫长、如何艰苦，去夺取胜利。因为没有胜利就不能生存。
我们务必认识到，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国所 象征的一切，没有胜利就不复有多少世纪以来的强烈要求和冲动：人类应当向自己的目标迈进。
我精神振奋、满怀信心地承担起我的任务。我确信，大家联合起来，我们的事业就不会遭到挫败。
在此时此刻的危急关头，我觉得我有权要求各方面的支持。我要说：“来吧，让我们群策群力，并肩前进！”
2008北京申奥演讲稿
杨澜
Mr.President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good afternoon!Before I introduce our cultural programs, I want to tell you one thing first about 2008.You're going to have a great time in Beijing.China has its own sport legends.Back to Song Dynasty, about the 11th century, people started to play a game called Cuju, which is regarded as the origin of ancient football.The game was very popular and women were also participating.Now, you will understand why our women football team is so good today.There are a lot more wonderful and exciting things waiting for you in New Beijing, a dynamic modern metropolis with 3,000 years of cultural treasures woven into the urban tapestry.Along with the iconic imagery of the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, the city offers an endless mixture of theatres, museums, discos, all kinds of restaurants and shopping malls that will amaze and delight you.But beyond that, it is a place of millions of friendly people who love to meet people from around the world.People of Beijing believe that the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will help to enhance the harmony between our culture and the diverse cultures of the world.Their gratitude will pour out in open expressions of affection for you and the great Movement that you guide.Within our cultural programs, education and communication will receive the highest priority.We seek to create an intellectual and sporting legacy by broadening the understanding of the Olympic Ideals throughout the country.Cultural events will unfold each year, from 2005 to 2008.We will stage multi-disciplined cultural programs, such as concerts, exhibitions, art competitions and camps which will involve young people from around the world.During the Olympics, they will be staged in the Olympic Village and the city for the benefit of the athletes.Our Ceremonies will give China's greatest-and the world's greatest artists a stage for celebrating the common aspirations of humanity and the unique heritage of our culture and the Olympic Movement.With a concept inspired by the famed Silk Road, our Torch Relay will break new ground, traveling from Olympia through some of the oldest civilizations known to man-Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Byzantine, Mesopotamian, Persian, Arabian, Indian and Chinese.Carrying the message “Share the Peace, Share the Olympics,” the eternal flame will reach new heights as it crosses the Himalayas over the world's highest summithigher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation rates.More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.Incomes are rising across the board.Our air and water are cleaner.Our food and drinking water are safer.And more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 years.America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new president, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.Tonight, I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.Through our last four budgets, we've turned record deficits to record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down $600 billion of our national debt, on track to be debt free by the end of the decade for the first time since 1835.Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates, greater prosperity and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.If we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future and provide tax relief.Second, because the world is more connected every day in every way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the world.At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom that ever before.Our alliances are stronger than ever.People all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and security.The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities also make us more subject to global forces of destruction, to terrorism, organized crime and narco-trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and disease, the degradation of the global environment.The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the world who live on the knife's edge of survival.This global gap requires more than compassion.It requires action.Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances.But in our times, America cannot and must not disentangle itself from the world.If we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom and peace.We must embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead, to stand with our allies in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy so that expanded trade benefits all people in all nations, lifting lives and hopes all across the world.Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the fabric of one America.As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder to unite around our common values and our common humanity.We must work harder to overcome our differences.In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation and regardless of when they arrived in our country, always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.Hillary, Chelsea and I join all Americans in wishing our very best to the next president, George W.Bush, to his family and his administration in meeting these challenges and in leading freedom's march in this new century.As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead.My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not.In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of president of the United States.But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.Thank you.God bless you, and God bless America.译文：
同胞们，今晚是我最后一次作为你们的总统，在白宫椭圆形办公室向你们做最后一次演讲。
我从心底深处感谢你们给了我两次机会和荣誉，为你们服务，为你们工作，和你们一起为我们的国家进入21世纪做准备。这里，我要感谢戈尔副总统，我的内阁部长们以及所有伴我度过过去8年的同事们。
现在是一个极具变革的年代，你们为迎接新的挑战已经做好了准备。是你们使我们的社会更加强大，我们的家庭更加健康和安全，我们的人民更加富裕。
同胞们，我们已经进入了全球信息化时代，这是美国复兴的伟大时代。
同胞们，今晚是我最后一次作为你们的总统，在白宫椭圆形办公室向你们做最后一次演讲。
我从心底深处感谢你们给了我两次机会和荣誉，为你们服务，为你们工作，和你们一起为我们的国家进入21世纪做准备。这里，我要感谢戈尔副总统，我的内阁部长们以及所有伴我度过过去8年的同事们。
作为总统，我所做的一切---每一个决定，每一个行政命令，提议和签署的每一项法令，都是在努力为美国人民提供工具和创造条件，来实现美国的梦想，建设美国的未来---一个美好的社会，繁荣的经济，清洁的环境，进而实现一个更自由、更安全、更繁荣的世界。
借助我们永恒的价值，我驾驭了我的航程。机会属于每一个美国公民；(我的)责任来自全体美国人民；所有美国人民组成了一个大家庭。我一直在努力为美国创造一个新型的政府：更小、更现代化、更有效率、面对新时代的挑战充满创意和思想、永远把人民的利益放在第一位、永远面向未来。
我们在一起使美国变得更加美好。我们的经济正在破着一个又一个的记录，向前发展。我们已创造了2200万个新的工作岗位，我们的失业率是30年来最低的，老百姓的购房率达到一个空前的高度，我们经济繁荣的持续时间是历史上最长的。
我们的家庭、我们的社会变得更加强大。3500万美国人曾经享受联邦休假，800万人重新获得社会保障，犯罪率是25年来最低的，1000多万美国人享受更多的入学贷款，更多的人接受大学教育。我们的学校也在改善。更高的办学水平、更大的责任感和更多的投资使得我们的学生取得更高的考试分数和毕业成绩。目前，已有300多万美国儿童在享受着医疗保险，700多万美国人已经脱离了贫困线。全国人民的收入在大幅度提高。我们的空气和水资源更加洁净，食品和饮用水更加安全。我们珍贵的土地资源也得到了近百年来前所未有的保护。
美国已经成为地球上每个角落促进和平和繁荣的积极力量。我非常高兴能于此时将领导权交给新任总统，强大的美国正面临未来的挑战。
今晚，我希望大家能从以下3点审视我们的未来：第一，美国必须保持它的良好财政状况。通过过去4个财政年度的努力，我们已经把破纪录的财政赤字变为破纪录的盈余。并且，我们已经偿还了6000亿美元的国债，我们正向10年内彻底偿还国家债务的目标迈进，这将是1835年以来的第一次。只要这样做，就会带来更低的利率、更大的经济繁荣，从而能够迎接将来更大的挑战。如果我们做出明智的选择，我们就能偿还债务，解决(二战后出生的)一大批人们的退休问题，对未来进行更多的投资，并减轻税收。
第二，世界各国的联系日益紧密。为了美国的安全与繁荣，我们应继续融入世界。在这个特别的历史时刻，更多的美国人民享有前所未有的自由。我们的盟国更加强大。全世界人民期望美国成为和平与繁荣、自由与安全的力量。全球经济给予美国民众以及全世界人民更多的机会去工作、生活，更体面地养活家庭。
但是，这种世界融合的趋势一方面为我们创造了良好的机会，但同时使得我们在全球范围内更容易遭致破坏性力量、恐怖主义、有组织的犯罪、贩毒活动，致命性武器和疾病传播的威胁。
尽管世界贸易不断扩大，但它没能缩小处于全球经济繁荣中的我们同数十亿处于死亡边缘的人们之间的距离。
要解决世界贫富两极分化需要的不是同情和怜悯，而是实际行动。贫穷有可能被我们的漠不关心激化而成为火药桶。
托马斯-杰斐逊在他的就职演说中告诫我们结盟的危害。但是，在我们这个时代，美国不能，也不可能使自己脱离这个世界。如果我们想把我们共有的价值观赋予这个世界，我们必须共同承担起这个责任。
如果20世纪的历次战争，尤其是新近在科索沃地区和波斯尼亚爆发的战争，能够让我
们得到某种教训的话，我们从中得到的启示应是：由于捍卫了我们的价值观并领导了自由和和平的力量，我们才达到了目标。我们必须坚定勇敢地拥抱这个信念和责任，在语言和行动上与我们的同盟者们站在一起，领导他们按这条道路前进；循着在全球经济中以人为本的观念，让不断发展的贸易能够使所有国家的所有人受益，在全世界范围内提高他们的生活水平和实现他们的梦想。
第三，我们必须牢记如果我们不团结一致，美国就不能领先世界。随着我们变得越来越多样化，我们必须更加努力地团结在共同价值观和共同人性的旗帜下。
我们要加倍努力地工作，克服生活中存在的种种分歧。于情于法，我们都要让我们的人民受到公正的待遇，不论他是哪一个民族、信仰何种宗教、什么性别或性倾向，或者何时来到这个国家。我们时时刻刻都要为了实现先辈们建立高度团结的美利坚合众国的梦想而奋斗。
希拉里、切尔西和我同美国人民一起，向即将就任的布什总统、他的家人及美国新政府致以衷心的祝福，希望新政府能够勇敢面对挑战，并高扛自由大旗在新世纪阔步前进。
对我来说，当我离开总统宝座时，我充满更多的理想，比初进白宫时更加充满希望，并且坚信美国的好日子还在后面。
我的总统任期就要结束了，但是我希望我为美国人民服务的日子永远不会结束。在我未来的岁月里，我再也不会担任一个能比美利坚合众国总统更高的职位、签订一个比美利坚合众国总统所能签署的更为神圣的契约了。当然，没有任何一个头衔能让我比作为一个美国公民更为自豪的了。谢谢你们！愿上帝保佑你们！愿上帝保佑美国！
12岁少女演讲轰动美民主党全国大会
Ilana Wexler's speech at 2004 Democratic Party Convention 7月27日，12岁的少女伊阿娜·怀克斯勒在民主党全国代表大会上发表演说，抨击副总统切尼，赢得满堂彩。伊阿娜是奥克兰的一名七年级学生。她建立了一个“儿童支持克里”的基层组织，为此她放弃了参加夏令营，全身心地投入了为克里助选中去。克里的夫人上周亲自打电话邀请伊阿娜在民主党大会上发表演讲。伊阿娜称赞克里致力于美国的教育，关心美国的孩子。她说：“如果克里成功当选美国总统，而他的成功也有孩子们的一份功劳，那该多么神奇。”她还批评切尼在与民主党参议员的辩论中说脏话。她说：“如果是我说了这些脏话，我肯定会被判出场。我认为现在切尼应该被判出场。”全体代表对伊阿娜的演讲不断地报以欢呼。伊阿娜的父母为此流出了自豪的泪水。
My name is Ilana Wexler.I'm 12 years old, and I am the founder of “Kids for Kerry.” Kids for Kerry is a grassroots organization of kids that support John Kerry, want to help their futures, and get active in politics.When my parents went to see Teresa Heinz Kerry speak, they told me that she was amazing!--and that they thought John Kerry would make a great President.I decided to find out more about John Kerry.I talk about what I learned by using my ABCs.“A” is America.John Kerry is a hero to America, and he will help our futures.He is a great and positive role model.“B” is Better education.John Kerry wants to make class sizes smaller, so that children get the best part out of learning.He wants to help teachers because being a teacher is educating children, and letting them out into the world to do good things.“C” is Compassion towards children.John Kerry wants to make sure that health care is not a privilege, but it is something that we can all afford.This summer, I was supposed to go to my favorite camp.But instead, I decided to go to the John Kerry office every day.Kids can really help!On KidsforKerry.org, we have an interactive presidential quiz.There are 270 questions for the electoral votes John Kerry will win.Plus, 25 questions to make up for Florida from the last election.Our next goal is to have a petition for “National No Name-Calling Day,” a day that the candidates don't say anything negative about one another.When our Vice President had a disagreement with a Democratic senator, he used a REALLY BAD word.If I said that--If I said that word, I would be put in a “time-out.” I think he should be put in a time-out.The last time I saw John Kerry, he grabbed my arm and said, “See you at the convention.” And here I am!What will be even more amazing will be the inauguration in January, when we have a new President, knowing that kids have made a difference in this election.To summarize, Teresa Heinz Kerry: Inspirational, amazing!John Kerry: American hero, next President.Kids need--Kids need positive--Kids need positive role models in politics.And our Vice President deserves a long time-out.Kids--Kids, this is about our futures.Make sure all adults you know get out and vote.We can have a voice today!Thank you!
安南在清华大学的演讲
Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Thank you, President Gu, for that most flattering introduction.Ladies and Gentlemen，It is a great honour for me to speak at one of China's great academic institutions one that is helping to revive and maintain your country's historic tradition of leading the world in science and technology, and one whose alumni are to be found in positions of leadership throughout the country.Here, as in so many other places in China, no visitor can help feeling the excitement of a great country developing at breakneck speed, and every day opening up new vistas of knowledge and opportunity to its citizens.You can be really proud of your country and what it has achieved in the last 25 years.As I look out over the young faces in this audience I cannot help envying the international students more than a thousand, I am told, from over 50 countries who have the privilege of sharing your learning experience here.It reminds me for a moment of my own student days, when my country, Ghana, was newly independent.We felt we were suddenly reaching out to the world, and making new discoveries every day.But then I also remember that times of rapid change can bring pain and confusion, even destruction, as well as progress and excitement.The more rapid and exciting it is, the more change calls for careful management, and wise, humane leadership.Order and stability have to be preserved, but without choking off the freedom to enquire, and experiment, and express oneself, since as you young researchers know better than anyone knowledge and science have a vital role in national development.And technical expertise needs to be harnessed to the development and security of society as a whole, so that it not only creates greater wealth for the few, but enables all citizens to feel safer and more prosperous.The development of such a great country as China cannot happen in isolation.It affects the whole world, and it draws you into new relationships with other parts of the world.Increasingly, your economy depends on exchanges with other countries both imports and exports, of both goods and capital.Foreign investment plays an essential role in your growth, while your holdings of foreign currencies and your management of your own currency are coming to play a vital part in the international monetary system.This means that you have a stake in the development and prosperity of the wider world.And your security, too, depends on international peace and stability.Your government shows that it understands this, by the role that it plays in the United Nations, and elsewhere.And increasingly, Chinese citizens are called on to take risks, and make sacrifices, in the interests of global security.It was impressive to see, in our newspapers the other day, pictures of Chinese policemen in blue helmets preparing to join the United Nations mission in Haiti an island buffeted by both human and meteorological storms, which is literally on the far side of the world from here.So I am here, in part, to express the world's gratitude.Clearly you in China have understood, as your saying goes, that we all share the same breath.Human misery knows no frontiers, and nor should human solidarity.Indeed, solidarity was one of the fundamental values solemnly reaffirmed, four years ago, by the political leaders from all over the world who met at United Nations Headquarters, and issued the Millennium Declaration.They declared that global challenges must be managed in a way that distributes the costs and burdens fairly…Those who suffer or who benefit least deserve help from those who benefit most.They promised to spare no effort to free more than one billion of their fellow men, women and children from extreme poverty, and to make the right to development a reality for all.And they set themselves precise benchmarks by which their success in keeping these promises could be measured, in the year 2015.Those benchmarks have come to be known as the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs.First among them is the pledge to reduce by half the proportion of people in the world living on an income of less than one dollar a day.Others include the pledge to halt, and begin to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS;and the pledge to integrate the principles of sustainable development into every country's policies and programmes, so that our children and grandchildren will not face the threat of living on a planet irredeemably spoilt by human activities, or whose resources are not sufficient for their needs.Will the world reach these goals by 2015? It depends, in great part, on China.Your population is so large, and your economy is growing so rapidly, that your impact on all global statistics is enormous.It is theoretically possible that we might succeed in halving the proportion of very poor people in the world by 2015, simply because China had succeeded in lifting almost all its people out of that category, even if most countries in Africa still had the same proportion.Conversely, many countries might, by 2015, have made great strides in combating HIV/AIDS, or adopting sustainable models of development.But if China had failed to do those things, there would still be terrible consequences for humanity.However, that need not be the path taken, either in this country or in the rest of the world.Both for your national interests and in the interest of the world as a whole, you have a great responsibility to look after your people, and your natural environment.But your responsibility does not end there.The eighth and last Millennium Development Goal is a global partnership for development.This means that developing countries must not be left to develop on their own.They need the help of the richer and more powerful countries through the removal of unfair trade barriers and subsidised competition;through the elimination of the debts which oblige so many poor countries to spend more on repaying and servicing their creditors than they can on the social needs of their own people;and through more generous official development aid which the rich countries have repeatedly promised to provide.In practical terms, global partnership means that every country where there is extreme poverty is entitled to expect help in forging and pursuing a national strategy to achieve the MDGs by 2015.For the poorest countries, most of which are in Africa, this will be of decisive importance.Without it, they will not reach the Goals.With it, they are in with a real chance.That places a big responsibility on the rich countries and it is one that China shares.I know you are used to thinking of your country as a developing one, and so it is probably the fastest developing country the world has ever seen.But the more successfully it develops, the more it too will be expected to show solidarity with smaller and poorer countries that still need a helping hand.By the same token, as China's geopolitical weight grows, so does its share of responsibility for world security.As well as global solidarity, the Millennium Declaration expressed a shared vision of collective security, rooted in the United Nations Charter.Yet the events of the past two years have called that consensus in question.Some have doubted whether Article 51 of the Charter, which reaffirms the inherent right of self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security, is still sufficient in an age when an armed attack may come without warning, from a clandestine terrorist group, perhaps armed with weapons of mass destruction.They have argued that force must sometimes be used preventively, and that they must be free to decide when their national security requires it.Others have replied that that doctrine is in itself a grave threat to international peace and security since it might imply that any state has the right to use force whenever it sees fit, without regard to other states' concerns.And that is precisely the state of affairs which the United Nations was created to save humanity from.Indeed, the first purpose of the United Nations, laid down in Article 1 of the Charter, is to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace.We must show that the United Nations is capable of fulfilling that purpose, so that States do not feel obliged or entitled to take the law into their own hands.That is why, last year, I asked a small panel of distinguished men and women to make recommendations on ways of dealing with threats and challenges to peace and security in the twenty-first century.I am delighted that a very wise Chinese statesman, Mr.Qian Qichen, agreed to join that panel, whose report should be ready in a few weeks' time.I hope that its recommendations will help us to rebuild and improve our global security system, so that in future no state feels it has to face global threats on its own, and all can feel confident that others will respect the rules.In short, my friends, there is much to be done to make the world safe in this new century, and to give all its inhabitants a real chance of living prosperous and fulfilling lives.Many bold decisions need to be taken, and taken soon.I hope that some of the most important may be taken in September next year, when world leaders will again assemble at the United Nations to review the progress made, or not made, since the Millennium Declaration.This will be the world's best chance for a breakthrough to address the joint global challenges of development and security.Yet the task will be much tougher than five years ag instead of setting goals, this time leaders must agree on concrete decisions to achieve them.For 191 nations to agree on a common path forward, many debates will be needed over the coming year, both within countries and among them.Governments will have to work together and reach compromises, sometimes involving the sacrifice of cherished national goals or interests.And they can do so only if their peoples understand what is at stake, and firmly support it
China, with its remarkable experience in development and expertise in security, can make a leading contribution to this vital global breakthrough.That is why I am so glad to be in Beijing today, and to have the chance to speak not only to your government but also to you here, in one of China's great centres of innovation and creative thought.You young educated people have so much to contribute to development, and to meeting the global challenges that I have spoken about safeguarding world peace and security, developing friendly relations among peoples of different faith or culture, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals.You already have a well-developed network of solidarity between richer and poorer regions within China, and I know many of you will be serving in poor areas, after you graduate.I hope some of you will think also about serving in other parts of the world, where your skills may be even more desperately needed.I urge you all and your contemporaries throughout China to commit yourselves to finding answers to our century's great challenges of poverty, disease, and environmental degradation.I say to you, as I have said to students in the United States, and many other countries, go out and make the world better!
But I have spoken long enough.Now it's your turn.If you have questions, I will try to answer them.But I hope you may also have comments, so that I can learn from you.Thank you very much.译文：
顾校长，感谢你充满溢美之词的介绍。
女士们、先生们：
清华大学是中国最具声望的学府之一，来到这里演讲使我感到十分荣幸。中国具有领先世界科技的历史传统，贵校正在努力恢复和保持这一传统，贵校的毕 业生遍布全国各地的领导岗位。
和在中国其他许多地方一样，凡是来到清华大学参观的人，都不能不对伟大中国突飞猛进的发展，每天给人民带来的新的知识和机会而感到兴奋。各位，你们尽可对自己的国家和国家25年来的成就感到骄傲。
看着听众席上一张张年轻的面孔，我不得不对国际学生充满羡慕之情。我听说，来自50多个国家的1000多名学生有幸与大家一起在贵校同窗学习。
这使我想起了我自己的求学岁月，当时我的祖国加纳刚刚获得独立。我们突然感到，我们的国家正在走向世界，我们每天都有新的发现。
但是，我也记得迅速变化的年代带来的不仅是进步和兴奋，它同样能带来痛苦和困惑，甚至是破坏。
变化越是迅速、越是令人兴奋，就越需要谨慎把握，需要明智和以人为本的领导。
我们必须找出办法保护贫穷和弱势群体的利益不受侵犯，朝气蓬勃的年轻一代不被剥夺变化带来的各种机会。
我们必须维护秩序和稳定，但也不应扼杀探索、试验和表达意见的自由。作为年轻的学者，你们比任何人都更清楚地知道，在国家的发展中，知识和科学有着举足轻重的作用。应该把科技专门知识用于全社会的发展和保障，既要为少数人带来更大的财富，又要使全体公民感到更加安全，更加富裕。
中国是一个伟大的国家，中国的发展不可能在孤立中实现。中国的发展对全世界产生了影响，而发展又把中国带入了与世界其他地区建立的新型关系。
就商品和资金的进出口而言，中国经济对与其他国家交流的依赖程度越来越大。外国投资对于中国经济的增长发挥着根本的作用，而中国的外汇储备以及贵国对本国货币的管理，将在国际货币体系中发挥重要的作用。
这就是说，全世界的发展与繁荣对中国利害攸关。中国的安全也离不开国际的和平和稳定。
中国政府通过在联合国以及其他场所发挥的作用表明，中国认识到了这一点。中国公民越来越多地被要求为全球安全的利益承担风险，作出牺牲。前几天我们看到，我们的报纸上刊登了中国警察头戴蓝盔，准备奔赴海地参加联合国特派团工作的照片，这给我们留下了深刻的印象。天灾人祸不断的岛国海地，的确与中国远隔重洋。
因此，今天我来到贵校也是为了表达全世界对中国的感激之情。中国人民显然理解，正如。中国谚语所说，应该“同呼吸共命运”。我们还可以再加一句：在全球化的年代里，一个人的呼吸，足以使世界另一半球的人打喷嚏。人类的苦难没有国界，人类的团结也应同样不分国界。的确，四年前世界各国领导人在联合国总部对团结的根本价值作出了庄严承诺，并发表了《千年宣言》。
他们宣布，“必须以公平承担有关代价和负担的方式处理各种全球挑战……遭受不利影响或得益最少的人有权得到得益最多者的帮助。” 他们承诺“竭尽全力”，使世界上为数十亿的男子、妇女和儿童摆脱赤贫，并使发展权成为所有人民的现实。
他们制订了精确的标准，用以衡量到2015年履行承诺的成就。
人们把这些标准称作千年发展目标。千年发展目标中的第一条，就是把世界上每天收入不足一美元的人口减少一半。其他目标还有：制止并开始扭转艾滋病毒/艾滋病的蔓延：把可持续发展原则纳入各国的政策和计划，以使我们的子孙后代不会面临居住的地球因遭到人类活动破坏而无法补救、或资源无法满足人类需要的威胁。
那么，到 2015年全世界是么能够实现这些目标？这在很大程度上取决于中国。
中国是一个人口众多、经济迅速发展的国家，中国对全球所有统计数字都有着巨大的影响。即使非洲许多国家的问题依然如旧，但在理论上只要中国基本消除了最贫困人口，到2015年我们就能实现把全世界这类人口减少一半的目标。
相反，到2015年也许许多国家可能在防治艾滋病毒／艾滋病、或在采取可持续发展模式方面取得了巨大的进展。但是，如果中国未能采取同样的行动，那么这仍将会给整个人类带来可怕的后果。
然而，中国和世界其他国家都可以不走这样的道路。为了中国的利益，也为了全世界的利益，你们应该承担起改善本国人民生活、保护本国自然环境的重大责任。
但是，你们的责任并非仅此而已。
千年发展目标的第八项也是最后一项是全球合作促进发展。这就意味着不能抛开发展中国家不管，任其自己发展。发展中国家需要较为富裕、较为强大的国家给予帮助，这就需要消除不公平的贸易壁垒，消除补贴式竞争；需要免除债务，许多贫穷国家为了向债主偿还债务，所费开支远远超出了这些国家为满足本国人民的社会需求所作的开支：还需要更为慷慨的官方发展援助，许多富裕国家曾屡作承诺，提供这种援助。
具体说来，全球伙伴关系意味着每一个存在赤贫的国家都有权利期望获得帮助，以拟定并执行到2015年实现千年发展目标的国家战略。这一点对于大多数位处非洲的最贫穷的国家来说，具有至关重要的意义。如果没有这种帮助，这些国家就不能实现千年发展目标。如果能够得到这种帮助，这些国家就真正有机会实现这些目标。
这就使富裕国家担负起一个重大责任，对此，中国也责无旁贷。我知道，你们习惯将自己的国家作为一个发展中国家来看待，中国也的确是一个发展中国家，也许是世界上前所未有的发展速度最快的囚家。不过，中国发展越成功，人们也就越期待中国能够对那些仍然需要援助之手的小国、穷国表现出同舟共济的精神。
同样，随着中国在地缘政治方面地位不断提高，她在世界安全方面也应分担更大的责任。《千年宣言》体现了全球团结的精神，也表达了集体安全这一植根于《联合国宪章》的共同理想。
然而，过去两年来发生的各种事件使人们对这一共识产生了疑虑。
《宪章》第八十一条重申“联合国会员国受武力攻击时，在安全理事会采取必要办法，以维持国际和平及安全以前，行使自卫之自然权利”。而在当今时代，秘密的恐怖主义集团可能在没有任何警告的情况下发动武装攻击，这些集团也许持有大规模毁灭性武器，在这样一个时代，一些人对上述条款是否依然具有足够效力产生怀疑。
这些人辩解说，这些时候必须为了预防而使用武力，而在他们国家安全需要时，必须有权自由作出此种决定。
还有些人则认为，这种理论本身就是对国际和平与安全的严重威胁，因为这就意味着任何国家，只要自己认为合适，都有权动武，而不必考虑其他国家所关切的问题。然而，创立联合国恰恰是为了使人类免于遭受这种局面。的确，《宪章》第一条规定，联合国的首要宗旨是“采取有效集体办法，防止且消除对和平之威胁”。
我们必须表现出联合国有能力履行这一宗旨，以使各国不必感到必须或有权利自行执法。
正是出于这一原因，我于去年请一个名人小组就如何在二十一世纪解决对和平与安全的威胁和挑战提出建议。我感到欣慰的是，一位充满智慧的中国政治家钱其琛先生同意参加该小组，再过几个星期小组的报告就可以提交了。
我希望小组的建议将有助于我们重新建立并改进我们的全球安全体系，这样，未来将没有任何一个国家会感到必须要单枪匹马地面对全球性威胁，而所有国家都会充满信心地认为其他国家将会遵守这些规则。
简言之，朋友们，要在这个新世纪里使世界变得安全，并赋予全世界所有居民以真正的机会，欣欣向荣，充实地生活，尚有许多工作要做。需要作出许多具有胆识的决定，而且时不我待。
明年九月，世界领导人将再一次在联合国聚集一堂，审查《千年宣言》以来有哪些进展，或缺乏进展，我希望，届时将会作出一些极为重要的决定。这将是世界在应对发展与安全这一双重全球性挑战方面实现突破的绝佳机遇。不过与五年前相比，任务将更加艰巨，这次领导人不是制订目标，而是为实现这些目标商定具体的决策。
要使191个国家就共同的前进道路达成协议，还需要在未来的一年进行许多讨论，在一国之内和各国之间都要开展辩论。各国政府必须共同努力，并且还要达成妥协，有时甚至要对宝贵的国家目标或国家利益忍痛作出牺牲。但要做到这点，就必须使本国人民懂得利害相关所在，赢得他们的坚定支持。
中国在发展方面有出色经验，在安全方面也独具专长，因此，可以为这一至关重要的全球性突破作出主导性贡献。
因此，我今天来到北京非常高兴，能够有机会不仅同贵国政府交谈，而且来到中国著名的学府，这个发明与创新思想的摇篮，与在座各位交谈。我刚刚谈到了各种挑战，包括保卫世界和平与安全，在不同信仰或文化的人民之间发展友好关系，实现千年发展目标等等，为应对这些全球性挑战，为实现发展，你们这些有教育的青年可以大有作为。
在中国，你们在富裕和贫困地区之间已经建立了十分发达的互助网络，而且我知道你们许多人将在毕业之后去贫困地区服务。我希望你们中的一些人也会考虑到世界的其他地方去服务，在那里，也许更加迫切的需要你们的技艺。
我鼓励你们全体，全中国各地的你们这一代人，立志求索，为解决贫穷、疾病及环境退化等我们这个世纪所面临的各种巨大挑战，寻求途径。我曾对美国的学生，对其他许多国家的学生说过，现在也对你们说：“走出去，把世界变得更美好！”
我说的时间已经够长了。现在该轮到你们了。如果你们有问题，我将尽力回答。不过我还希望你们作出评论，这样我可以向你们学习。
谢谢大家。
散文、随笔
Beautiful Smile and Love The poor are very wonderful people.One evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street.And one of them was in a most terrible condition, and I told the sisters: You take care of the other three.I take care of this one who looked worse.So I did for her all that my love can do.I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face.She took hold of my hand as she said just the words “thank you” and she died.I could not help but examine my conscience before her and I asked what would I say if I was in her place.And my answer was very simple.I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself.I would have said I am hungry, that I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more-she gave me her grateful love.And she died with a smile on her face.As did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home.“I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.” And it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything.Like an angel-this is the greatness of our people.And that is why we believe what Jesus had said: I was hungry, I was naked, I was homeless, I was unwanted, unloved, uncared for, and you did it to me.I believe that we are not real social workers.We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world.For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours…And I think that in our family we don’t need bombs and guns, to destroy, to bring peace, just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of
each other in the home.And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.And with this prize that I have received as a Prize of Peace, I am going to try to make the home for many people who have no home.Because I believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor I think that more and more love will spread.And we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace be the good news to the poor.The poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world.To be able to do this, our Sisters, our lives have to be wove with prayer.They have to be woven with Christ to be able to understand, to be able to share.Because to be woven with Christ is to be able to understand, to be able to share.Because today there is so much suffering…When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied.I have removed that hunger.But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society-that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable…And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.译文：
美丽的微笑与爱心
穷人是非常了不起的人。一天晚上，我们外出，从街上带回了四个人，其中一个生命岌岌可危。于是我告诉修女们说：“你们照料其他三个，这个濒危的人就由我来照顾了。”就这样，我为她做了我的爱所能做的一切。我将她放在床上，看到她的脸上绽露出如此美丽的微笑。她握着我的手，只说了句“谢谢您”就死了。我情不自禁地在她面前审视起自己的良知来。我问自己，如果我是她的话，会说些什么呢？答案很简单，我会尽量引起旁人对我的关注，我会说我饥饿难忍，冷得发抖，奄奄一息，痛苦不堪，诸如此类的话。但是她给我的却更多更多――她给了我她的感激之情。她死时脸上却带着微笑。我们从排水道带回的那个男子也是如此。当时，他几乎全身都快被虫子吃掉了，我们把他带回了家。“在街上，我一直像个动物一样地活着，但我将像个天使一样地死去，有人爱，有人关心。”真是太好了，我看到了他的伟大之处，他竟能说出那样的话。他那样地死去，不责怪任何人，不诅咒任何人，无欲无求。像天使一样――这便是我们的人民的伟大之所在。因此我们相信耶稣所说的话――我饥肠辘辘――我衣不蔽体――我无家可归――我不为人所要，不为人所爱，也不为人所关心――然而，你却为我做了这一切。
我想，我们算不上真正的社会工作者。在人们的眼中，或许我们是在做社会工作，但实际上，我们真的只是世界中心的修行者。因为，一天24小时，我们都在触摸基督的圣体。我想，在我们的大家庭时，我们不需要枪支和炮弹来破坏和平，33 或带来和平――我们只需要团结起来，彼此相爱，将和平、欢乐以及每一个家庭成员灵魂的活力都带回世界。这样，我们就能战胜世界上现存的一切邪恶。
我准备以我所获得的诺贝尔和平奖奖金为那些无家可归的人们建立自己的家园。因为我相信，爱源自家庭，如果我们能为穷人建立家园，我想爱便会传播得更广。而且，我们将通过这种宽容博大的爱而带来和平，成为穷人的福音。首先为我们自己家里的穷人，其次为我们国家，为全世界的穷人。为了做到这一点，姐妹们，我们的生活就必须与祷告紧紧相连，必须同基督结结一体才能互相体谅，共同分享，因为同基督结合一体就意味着互相体谅，共同分享。因为，今天的世界上仍有如此多的苦难存在……当我从街上带回一个饥肠辘辘的人时，给他一盘饭，一片面包，我就能使他心满意足了，我就能躯除他的饥饿。但是，如果一个人露宿街头，感到不为人所要，不为人所爱，惶恐不安，被社会抛弃――这样的贫困让人心痛，如此令人无法忍受。因此，让我们总是微笑想见，因为微笑就是爱的开端，一旦我们开始彼此自然地相爱，我们就会想着为对方做点什么了。
Love Can Last Forever I can honestly say it was the best of times and the worst of times.I was joyfully expecting my first child at the same time that my once-energetic, zestful mother was losing her battle with a brain tumor.For ten years, my fiercely independent and courageous mother had fought, but none of the surgeries or treatments had been successful.Still, she never lost her ability to smile.But now, finally, at only fifty-five, she became totally disabled--unable to speak, walk, eat or dress on her own.As she grew closer and closer to death, my baby grew closer and closer to life inside me.My biggest fear was that their lives would never connect.I grieved not only for the upcoming loss of my mother, but also that she and my baby would never know each other.My fear seemed well-founded.A few weeks before my due date, Mother lapsed into a deep coma.Her doctors did not hold any hope;they told us her time was up.It was useless to put in a feeding tube, they said;she would never awaken.We brought Mother home to her own bed in her own house, and we insisted on care to keep her comfortable.As often as I could, I sat beside her and talked to her about the baby moving inside me.I hoped that somehow deep inside, she knew.On February 3, 1989, at about the same time my labor started, Mother opened her eyes.When they told me this at the hospital, I called her home and asked for the phone to be put to Mom's ear.“Mom--Mom--listen.The baby is coming!You're going to have a new grandchild.Do you understand?”
“Yes!”
What a wonderful word!The first clear word she'd spoken in months!
When I called again an hour later, the nurse at her house told me the impossible: Mom was sitting up, her oxygen tubes removed.She was smiling.“Mom, it's a boy!You have a new grandson!” “Yes!Yes!I know!”
Four words.Four beautiful words.By the time I brought Jacob home, Mom was sitting in her chair, dressed and ready to welcome him.Tears of joy blocked my vision as I laid my son in her arms and she clucked at him.They stared at each other.They knew.For two more weeks, Mother clucked, smiled and held Jacob.For two weeks she spoke to my father, her children and grandchildren in complete sentences.For two miracle weeks, she gave us joy.Then she quietly slipped back into a coma and, after visits from all her children, was finally free of the pain and confines of a body that no longer did her will.Memories of my son's birth will always be bittersweet for me, but it was at this time that I learned an important truth about living.For while both joy and sorrow are fleeting, and often intertwined, love has the power to overcome both.And love can last forever.译文：
永恒的爱
我真的只能说那是最精彩的一刻同时又是最伤感的一刻。在我满心欢喜的期待着我的第一个孩子出世的同时我那曾经充满活力和热情的母亲被脑瘤这个恶疾击倒。
母亲非常独立勇敢的和病魔斗争了10年，但是任何手术和治疗都没能奏效。尽管如此，她始终可以微笑。但是现在，仅仅才55岁的她终于全部瘫痪——不能说话，不能独立行走，吃饭,穿衣。
她离死神越来越近的同时，我腹内的婴儿离出生越来越近。最让我担心的是她们的生命永不会相遇。我不单单是只为了即将失去母亲而伤心，同时也为她和我的孩子不能相见而难过。
我的担心不是多余的。在我预产期的几个星期前，母亲陷入了深度昏迷。医生们已不抱任何希望,告诉我们说她的大限已到。他们说插入进食管已经没有用，她再也不会醒过来了。
我们把母亲接回了家把她安置在她房间自己的床上，同时我们坚持照料她让她舒适一些。我尽可能多地坐在她的床前告诉她我腹中蠕动的婴儿的情况。我希望无论如何在意识深处她能明白我讲的一切。
1989年2月3日，几乎是在我分娩的同时，母亲睁开了眼睛。当他们在医院里告诉我这个消息时，我把电话打回了家并要求将电话放在母亲的耳边。
“妈妈--妈妈--听我告诉你。孩子快要出世了。你就要有一个新的外孙了。你明白了吗？”
“明白！”
多么让人吃惊的一句话呀！这是她几个月来第一次清楚的讲话。
我在一个小时后再次打电话给她的时候，她房里的护士告诉了我一件不可思议的事情：妈妈坐起来了，她的氧气管已经拿掉。她在微笑。
“妈妈，是个男孩儿！你有一个新孙子了！” “是！是！我知道了！” 四句话。美丽的四句话。
到我带着雅克布回家的时候，妈妈收拾一新，坐在椅子上准备迎接他的到来。我把儿子放到妈妈怀里她逗弄着他.他们互相对视着。
他们好象早已相识。
有两个多星期，妈妈微笑，抱着雅克布，逗弄他。在这两个星期里她用完整的句子和我父亲，她的儿孙们讲话。在这奇迹般的两个星期里，她带给了我们欢乐。
接下来在所有的孩子们看望过她以后，她便又安静地，逐渐地陷入昏迷，直到最后从疼痛中解脱出来，她的肉体不再听命于她的灵魂…
儿子出生的记忆将总是喜忧参半的，但正是在这个时候我认识到了生活中的一个重要的真理。那就是快乐和悲伤都是短暂的，并且常常是纠缠在一起的，爱则有力量超越这两者。且爱可以永恒！
Moving Thoughts Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've every had.It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back!Don't expect love in return;just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.It takes only a minute to get a crush on
someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.Don't go for looks;they can deceive.Don't go for wealth;even that fades away.Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.Find the one that makes your heart smile.There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!
Dream what you want to dream;go where you want to go;be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.Always put yourself in others' shoes.If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.The brightest future will always be based on a
forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship.And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message.译文：
人生絮语
或许上帝安排，最终找到知音之前，我们总要遇到一些不尽如意的人，只有这样，我们才能对知音这份礼物充满感激之情。
一道幸福之门关闭时，另一扇就会打开。我们经常太多太多地只看见关闭的门，而对开启的门却熟视无睹。
也许最好的朋友就是那些你坐在门廊下，看到的来回过往的行人。你与他们一言未语，走开时却感到好象有过最好的交谈。
无疑，一件东西只有失去时，我们才回懂得其真正的价值。同样，一件东西在得到之前，我们并不意识它的缺少。
将爱全部付出，并不能确保一定会得到回报。别指望爱有什么回报，耐心地等待她在你所爱的人的心里生根发芽，成长壮大。即使不会那样，也要感到满足，相信爱会在自己的心里成长。迷恋一个人只需要一分钟，喜欢一个人需要一个小时，爱上一个人需要一天，而要忘记一个人则需要一辈子的时间。
不要追求华丽的外表，外表常常具有欺骗性。不要追求万贯家产，财富也会散尽。寻找那些可以使你永远微笑的人们，只要微笑才能使黑暗的日子变得光明。寻找那些能够使你心灵微笑的人。
生活中，有时强烈的思念使我们恨不得一把将所爱的人从梦中带走，带到现实中事实在在的拥抱起来。
做自己想做的梦吧。去自己想去的地方吧。做自己想做的人吧。生命只有一次，机会只有一回。
愿你有欢乐，使自己甜蜜；有考验，使自己坚强；有悲伤，使自己富有人性；有希望，使自己幸福。
要经常换在他人的位置上思维。一件事，要是你感到对自己有伤害，就可能对他人同样有伤害。
最幸福的人并不是那些拥有最好东西的人，他们只是能够将得到的东西变为最好。
幸福属于那些会哭泣的人，那些受过伤害的人，那些身体力行做试验的人。只有他们才懂得对自己生活中有影响的人们的重要。爱以微笑开始，在亲吻中成长，以泪水终结。光明灿烂的明天建立在忘却的过去之上。只有让以往的失败和伤心随风而去，你才能过的更好。
出生伊始，哭啼的是你，周围的人却在微笑。珍视生活，好好的活着，这样入死，让周围的人哭啼，自己却在微笑。
请把这些语言送给那些你所关心的人，那些在生活中这样或那样同自己打交道的人，那些需要是能给你带来微笑的人，那些在逆境中依然使你能看到光明的人，那些珍视友谊的人。即使你没有这样做，也不要紧。没有什么大不了的事情，你只是错过了用这些言语照亮他人日子的机会。
Mother's Hands By Louisa Godissart McQuillen 38 Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years.Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean
down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.I don't remember when it first started annoying me--her hands pushing my hair that way.But it did annoy me, for they felt work-worn and rough against my young skin.Finally, one night, I lashed out at her: ”Don't do that anymore--your hands are too rough!“ She didn't say anything in reply.But never again did my mother close out my day with that familiar expression of her love.Lying awake long afterward, my words haunted me.But pride stifled my conscience, and I didn't tell her I was sorry.Time after time, with the passing years, my thoughts returned to that night.By then I missed my mother's hands, missed her goodnight kiss upon my forehead.Sometimes the incident seemed very close, sometimes far away.But always it lurked, hauntingly, in the back of my mind.Well, the years have passed, and I'm not a little girl anymore.Mom is in her mid-seventies, and those hands I once thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.She's been our doctor, reaching into a medicine cabinet for the remedy to calm a young girl's stomach or soothe a boy's scraped knee.She cooks the best fried chicken in the world...gets stains out of blue jeans like I never could...and still insists on dishing out ice cream at any hour of the day or night.Through the years, my mother's hands have put in countless hours of toil, and most of hers were before automatic washers!
Now, my own children are grown and gone.Mom no longer has Dad, and on special occasions, I find myself drawn next door to spend the night with her.So it was that late on Thanksgiving Eve, as I drifted into sleep in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly stole across my face to brush the hair from my forehead.Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my brow.In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night my surly young voice complained: ”Don't do that anymore--your
hands are too rough!“ Catching Mom's hand in hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night.I thought she'd remember, as I
did.But Mom didn't know what I was talking about.She had forgotten--and forgiven--long ago.That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.译文：
妈妈的手
夜复一夜，她总是来帮我来盖被子，即使我早已长大。这是妈妈的长期习惯，她总是弯下身来，拨开我的长发，在我的额上一吻。
我不记得从何时起，她拨开我的头发令我非常不耐烦。但的确，我讨厌她长期操劳、粗糙的手摩擦我细嫩的皮肤。最后，一天晚上，我冲她叫： “别再这样了——你的手太粗糙了！”她什么也没说。但妈妈再也没有象这样对我表达她的爱。直到很久以后，我还是常想起我的那些话。但自尊占了上风，我没有告诉她我很后悔。
时光流逝，我又想到那个晚上。那时我想念我妈妈的手，想念她晚上在我额上的一吻。有时这幕情景似乎很近，有时又似乎很遥远。但它总是潜伏着，时常浮现，出现在我意识中。
一年年过去，我也不再是一个小女孩，妈妈也有70多岁了。那双我认为很粗糙的手依然为我和我家庭做着事。她是我家的医生，为我女儿在药橱里找胃药或在我儿子擦伤的膝盖上敷药。她能烧出世界上最美味的鸡…… 将牛仔裤弄干净而我却永远不能……而且可以在任何时候盛出冰激凌。
这么多年来，妈妈的手做了多少家务！而且在自动洗衣机出现以前她已经操劳了绝大多数时间。
现在，我的孩子都已经长大，离开了家。爸爸去世了，有些时候，我睡在妈妈的隔壁房间。一次感恩节前夕的深夜，我睡在年轻时的卧室里，一只熟悉的手有些犹豫地、悄悄地略过我的脸，从我额头上拨开头发，然后一个吻，轻轻地印在我的眉毛上。
在我的记忆中，无数次，想起那晚我粗暴、年青的声音：“别再这样了——你的手太粗糙了！”抓住妈妈的手，我冲口而出因为那晚，我是多么后悔。我以为她想起来了，象我一样。但妈妈不知道我在说些什么。她已经在很久以前就忘了这事，并早就原谅了我。
那晚，我带着对温柔母亲和体贴双手的感激入睡。这许多年来我的负罪感已经消失无踪。
译文：
Louder than Anything You Can Say I teach economics at UNLV three times per week.Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my students how their weekend had been.One young man said that his weekend had not been so good.He had his wisdom teeth removed.The young man then proceeded to ask me why I always seemed to be so cheerful.His question reminded me of something I'd read somewhere before: ”Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about how you want to approach life that day,“ I said.”I choose to be cheerful.“
”Let me give you an example,“ I continued, addressing all sixty students in the class.”In addition to teaching here at UNLV, I also teach out at the community college in Henderson, 17 miles down the freeway from where I live.One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson.I exited the freeway and turned onto College Drive.I only had to drive another quarter mile down the road to the college.But just then my car died.I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn't turn over.So I put my flashers on, grabbed my books, and marched down the road to the college.“As soon as I got there I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck to meet me at my car after class.The secretary in the Provost's office asked me what has happened.'This is my lucky day,' I replied, smiling.”Your car breaks down and today is your lucky day?' She was puzzled.'What do you mean?' “I live 17 miles from here.' I replied.'My car could have broken down anywhere along the freeway.It didn't.Instead, it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway, within walking distance of here.I'm still able to teach my class, and I've been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class.If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn't have been arranged in a more convenient fashion.'
The secretary's eyes opened wide, and then she smiled.I smiled back and headed for class.” So ended my story.I scanned the sixty faces in my economics class at UNLV.Despite the early hour, no one seemed to be asleep.Somehow, my story had touched them.Or maybe it wasn't the story at all.In fact, it had all started with a student's observation that I was cheerful.Deepak Chopra has quoted an Indian wise man as saying, “Who you are speaks louder to me than anything you can say.” I suppose it must be so.译文：
行胜于言
我在内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校教经济学，每周上三次课。上周一，在刚开始上课的时候，我兴致勃勃地问学生们周末过得怎么样。一个男生说，他的周末不太愉快，因为他的智齿被拔掉了，结果让他痛了一整天。然后，他又问我为何我总能保持那么快乐的心情。
他的问题使我想起了一句不知出处的话：“每天早上，当你起床的时候，你可以选择如何面对一天的生活”，我说：“我选择快乐。”
“我给你们举个例子吧，”我对着全班六十个学生继续说道，“除了在这儿上课，我还在一所社区大学任教，那儿离我家17英里。几周前的一天，我驾车前往那所学校，41 驶离高速公路后，我转入了校园区。在只差400多米就到学校的时候，我的汽车抛锚了。我努力重新发动引擎，但就是不行。我只好把指示灯打亮，然后抓起课本直奔学校。”
我一到学校就马上打电话给汽车协会，让他们在我下课后开辆拖车过来。院长办公室的秘书问我发生了什么事。“今天我真走运。”我笑着答道。
“你的车坏了，你还说今天走运？”她一脸的困惑。“你什么意思啊？”
我回答到：“我住在离这儿17英里的地方。其实我的车有可能在高速公路上的什么地方就坏掉了的，但庆幸的是，没有。相反，汽车是在离开了高速公路后才抛锚，而且距离学校很近。我还赶得及上课，还能够安排拖车在课后来处理。如果我的汽车是注定了要在今天抛锚的，那在这个位置抛锚已经是非常幸运了。”
“那个秘书听得目瞪口呆地，然后她笑了。我也冲她笑了一下，便上课去了。”这就是我的故事。
我扫视了一下全班六十张脸。虽然是在大清早，但没有一个学生在打盹儿。不知道为什么，他们好像被我的故事触动了。也许触动他们的并不是故事本身。其实，从一开始有学生发现我兴致高昂的时候，他们便已经被我的快乐感染了。
著名的印度作家乔布拉，曾经引述过一位印度智者的名言：“你为人行事的本身，比你的语言更具说服力。”我认为这的确是真理。
Roses for Rose Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose.And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows.The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door.The card said, “Be my Valentine”, like all the years before.Each year he sent her roses, and the note would always say, “I love you even more this year than last year on this day.” “My love for you will always grow, with every passing year.” She knew this was the last time that the roses would appear.She thought, he ordered roses in advance before this day.Her loving husband did not know that he would pass away.He always liked to do things early, way before the time.Then, if he got too busy, everything would work out fine.She trimmed the stems, and placed them in a very special vase.Then, sat the vase beside the portrait of his smiling face.She would sit for hours in her husband's favorite chair, While staring at his picture, and the roses sitting there.A year went by, and it was hard to live without her mate, With loneliness and solitude, that had become her fate.Then, the very hour, as on Valentines before，42 The doorbell rang, and there were roses, sitting by her door.She brought the roses in, and then just looked at them in shock.Then, went to get the telephone to call the florist shop.The owner answered and she asked him if he would explain, Why would someone do this to her, causing her such pain? “I know your husband passed away, more than a year ago,” The owner said, “I knew you'd call and you would want to know.The flowers you received today were paid for in advance.Your husband always planned ahead, he left nothing to chance.There is a standing order that I have on file down here, And he has paid, well in advance, you'll get them every year.There also is another thing that I think you should know He wrote a special little card...he did this years ago.Then, should ever I find out that he's no longer here, That's the card...that should be sent to you the following year.” She thanked him and hung up the phone, her tears now flowing hard.Her fingers shaking as she slowly reached to get the card.Inside the card, she saw that he had written her a note.Then, as she stared in total silence, this is what he wrote...“Hello, my love, I know it's been a year since I've been gone, I hope it hasn't been too hard for you to overcome.I know it must be lonely, and the pain is very real.For if it were the other way, I know how I would feel.The love we shared made everything so beautiful in life.I loved you more than words can say, you were the perfect wife.You were my friend and lover, you fulfilled my every need.I know it's only been a year, but please try not to grieve.I want you to be happy, even when you shed your tears.That is why the roses will be sent to you for years.When you get these roses, think of all the happiness That we had together and how both of us were blessed.I have always loved you and I know I always will.But, my love, you must go on, you have some living still.Please...try to find happiness, while living out your days.I know it is not easy, but I hope you find some ways.The roses will come every year and they will only stop When your door's not answered when the florist stops to knock.He will come five times that day, in case you have gone out.But after his last visit, he will know without a doubt
To take the roses to the place where I've instructed him.And place the roses where we are, together once again.”
译文：
来自天堂的玫瑰
罗丝最喜欢红玫瑰，她的名字也是玫瑰的意思。
每一年，丈夫都会送给她一些玫瑰花，花上系着漂亮的丝带。
这一年，她丈夫去世了，玫瑰花依然送到了她的门前，卡片上仍然像以前一样写着“做我的妻子吧！”
年年送花，他都写着这样的话：“对你的爱今朝更胜往年，时光流转爱你越来越多。”
她想，今年的玫瑰一定是丈夫提前预定的。以后再也不会有玫瑰花了。一想到这些，罗丝禁不住泪如泉涌。
她心爱的丈夫并不知道自己的心会如此逝去。
他总是喜欢把事情提前安排妥当，以往即使再忙的时候，凡事仍能从容办好。罗丝修理了玫瑰，把花插进一只很特别的花瓶里，花瓶旁摆放着丈夫满面笑容的遗像。
她在丈夫心爱的椅子里一坐就是几个小时，伴着玫瑰花，痴望着他的相片，沉浸在美好的回忆中。
一年过去了，失去了丈夫的日子她觉得十分难熬，孤独和寂寞占据了她的生命。情人节前夕，门铃响了，有人送来了玫瑰花。
她把花拿进来，心中非常惊讶。是谁在恶作剧，为什么要惹她痛苦?于是她打电话给花店。
店主解释说：“我知道您的丈夫一年前去世了，也知道您会打电话来询问究竟。您今天收到的花，是您丈夫提前预购的。您丈夫总是提前做好计划，万无一失。他预付了货款，委托我们每年送花给您。去年他还写了一张特别的小卡片，嘱咐着：如果他不在了，卡片就在第二年送给你。”
她谢过店主，挂上了电话，泪水涌流而下。手指不住地颤抖着，慢慢地打开了附在玫瑰花上的卡片。
卡片里是一张他写给她的便条。她静静地看着：“你好吗，我的妻子?我知道我已经去世一年了，我希望挺过这一年的你没有受太多的苦。我知道你一定很孤单，很痛苦。我们的爱使生活里的一切如此美好，我爱你千言万语说不尽，你是完美的妻子，是我的朋友和情人，让我心满意足。时光只过去了一年，请不要悲伤，我要你即使是流泪的时候也是幸福的，这就是为什么玫瑰花将会年年送来给你。当你收到玫瑰的时候，想想所有的快乐吧，我们曾经是多么幸福。我的妻子，你一定要好好地活着啊。请……珍惜生命，追寻幸福吧。我知道那不容易，但是你一定要想想办法。玫瑰花每年都会如期而至，除非你不再应门，花店才会停止送花。那一天，44 花店的伙计会上门来访5次，以防你只是出门去了。但是，访问过5次之后，他就可以确认：这些花该送到另一处我指示给他的地方一一我们重逢相聚的地方。”
柔弱的眼泪，坚强的心
A little boy asked his mother “why are you crying?” “Because i'm a woman,” she told him.“I don't understand,” he said.His mum just hugged him and said, “and you never will” Later the little boy asked his father, “why does mother seem to cry for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.“ The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.Finally he put in a call to god;and when god got on the phone, he asked, ”god, why do women cry so easily?“ God said: ”when i made the woman she had to be special.i made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world;yet, gentle enough to give comfort“ ”I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children“ ”I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining “ ”I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly“
”I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart“
”I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly“ ”And finally, i gave her a tear to shed.this is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.“
”You see: the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.“
”The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.“
译文：
一个男孩问他的妈妈：“你为甚么要哭呢？”
妈妈说：“因为我是女人啊。”
男孩说：“我不懂。”
他妈妈抱起他说：“你永远不会懂得。”
後来小男孩就问他爸爸：“妈妈为甚么毫无理由的哭呢？”
“所有女人都这样。”他爸爸回答。
小男孩长成了一个男人，但仍就不懂女人为甚么哭泣。
最後，他打电话给上帝；当上帝拿起电话时，他问道：“上帝,女人为什么那么容易哭泣呢？”
上帝回答说：“当我创造女人时，让她很特别。我使她的肩膀能挑起整个世界的重担。并且又柔情似水。
我让她的内心很坚强,能够承受分娩的痛苦和忍受自己孩子多次的拒绝。”
我赋予她耐心使她在别人放弃的时候继续坚持,并且无怨无悔的照顾自己的家人渡过疾病和疲劳。
我赋予她在任何情况下都会爱孩子的感情,即使她的孩子伤害了她。
我赋予她包容她丈夫过错的坚强和用他的勒骨塑成她来保护他的心。
我赋予她智慧让她知道一个好丈夫是绝不会伤害他的妻子的,但有时我也会考验她支持自己丈夫的决心和坚强。
最後，我让她可以流泪。只要她愿意。这是她所独有的。
你看，女人的漂亮不是因为她穿的衣服，她保持的体型或者她梳头的方式。
女人的漂亮必须从她的眼睛中去看，因为那是她心灵的窗户和爱居住的地方。
Youth
Samuel Ullman 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 tempera-mental 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 spring back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.46 When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.译文：
青春
塞缪尔·厄尔曼
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。
A Grain of Sand
Here is a story.A participant in the long-distance race got his shoes filled with sand when he was crossing a beach.He had to stop to get the sand out hastily before he resumed running.1 Unfortunately a grain of sand remained rubbing the sole and became increasingly telling so that each step meant a twinge of pain.2 Reluctant to halt and get rid of the sand，he continued to run in spite of the pain until he could stand no more.3 He dropped out of the contest just a few yards from the finishing line.As he managed to get out of the shoe painfully，he was surprised to find the cause of his lasting torment was only a grain of sand.It seems that the greatest obstacle on one's way forward may not be a high mountain or a deep valley but a grain of sand that is hardly visible.To avoid blame on a minor fault one may tell a lie.That adds a burden to a heavy heart and weighs it down.In the days to come he will have to fabricate one falsehood after another to cover the lie he told and the fault he committed.Thus he will never be able to free himself from lingering anxiety, worry and regret, to the
ignorance that all his sufferings originate in only a grain of sand--the first lie he told.译文：
一粒沙子
有这么一个故事：有一个参加长跑比赛的选手在经过一片沙滩时，鞋子里灌满了沙子，他匆匆把鞋子脱下，胡乱地把沙子倒出，便又急忙地继续往前跑。可是有一粒沙子仍留在他的鞋里，在他以后的路程中，那粒沙子磨着他的脚，使他走一步，痛一步。但他并没有停下把鞋子脱掉，抖出那粒磨自己脚的沙子，而仍是匆匆前行，在离终点不远的地方，因脚痛难忍，他不得不止步，最后放弃了比赛。当他忍着揪心的痛把鞋脱掉时，他发现让自己痛苦并放弃比赛的竟仅仅是一粒沙子。
看来，有时阻挠我们前进的不是高山、深渊，而是极细小的一粒沙子。为了避免因一次轻微的过失遭指责，我们便编出谎言来掩盖。于是从编造第一个谎言开始，我们便背上了两个沉甸甸的包袱：”过失“与”谎言“。以后的日子，便常常为掩饰”过失“与”谎言“而不得不再造出新的谎言，从此自己便不得不在紧张、担心、痛苦的岁月中熬过。那第一个谎言，就是一粒沙。
Spring Thoughts A Letter Written by Emily Dickinson It is Sunday now, John, and all have gone to church.The wagons have done passing and I have come out in the new grass to listen to the anthems.Three or four hens have followed me and we sit side by side.And while they crow and whisper, I’ll tell you what I see today, and what I would that you saw.You remember the crumbling wall that divides us from Mr.Sweetzer;and the crumbling elms and evergreens and other crumbling things that spring and fade and cast their bloom within a simple twelve months? Well they are here!And skies on me fair and far than Italy in blue eye look down, up.See? Away a league from here on the way to heaven.And here a robin’s just got home and giddy crows and jays andhere’s a bumblebee.Not such as summer brings, John, earnest manly bees, but a kind of a cockney, dressed in jaunty clothes.Much that is gay have I to show.If you were here with me, John, upon this April grass!
Then there are sadder features.Here and there, wings have gone to dust that fluttered so last year, a moldering prune, an empty house in which a bird resided where last year’s flies their errand ran and last year’s crickets fell.We too are flying, fading, John.And the song here lies soon upon the lips that live us
now will have hummed and ended.Thank you for your letter, John.Glad I was to get it, and gladder had I got them both.And glad indeed to see if in your heart another lies bound one day to me amid your momentous cares, pleasant to know that langsyne has its own place.That nook and cranny still retain their accustomed guest and when busier cares and dustier days and cobwebs less in frequent shut what was away.Still as a ballad hummed and lost, remember early friend and drop a tear if a troubadour that strain may chance to sing.译文：
春日闲思
约翰：今天是礼拜天，他们全都上教堂去了。车子消失了踪影，我走到新长出的草地上倾听着赞美诗。有三、四只母鸡尾随着我，我们并排坐在一起。它们叽叽咕咕地窃窃私语着，我要告诉你我今日的所见所闻，还有我将见到的那些你所看过的旧景旧物。
你可还记得隔着斯威泽先生和我们的那堵烂墙，还有那些斑驳的榆树、常青树、以及别的破败的东西吗？在短短的十二个月里，它们由荣至枯，又开始轮回。嗳，它们就在这儿呢！我头顶上，意大利的晴空辽远，蓝色的眼睛向下俯视着。就在上边。你看到了吗？一群队伍经过，远去了，走向天国。一只知更鸟正在归巢，这儿还有令人眼花缭乱的乌鸦与鸟儿，还有--无论如何请相信我--这儿还有一只大黄蜂。约翰，它可不像夏天里那些辛勤而雄赳赳的蜜蜂，而像是一个穿戴洋洋自得的伦敦东区的人。我一定得把这告诉你，这多让人感到欣喜快乐呀。约翰，如果你能和我一同在这四月的青草上，那该有多好！
还有些让人伤心的事。每一处，去年曾经拍打的羽翼都化成了尘土，李子在腐烂，那座房子--鸟儿曾在里面栖息，去年苍蝇还在那儿奔忙，蟋蟀还在那儿戏耍--如今却已空空。我们也同样会飞舞着，然后老去，约翰。如今在我们唇上轻绕的曲子很快也要唱完了。
谢谢你的来信，约翰。我很高兴收到了信，更高兴的是收到了两封。看到在你心中有一份对我的深切关怀的确令我开怀，明白到你对旧情的珍重令我喜悦。有时候，忙碌、尘封的岁月与蛛网也不会将往日隔离，在我心灵深处，仍有一个僻静的角落永
We're Just Beginning ”We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite..."
I do not know who wrote these words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it.We can take the
第二篇：英语演讲名篇
I have a dream
——by Dr.Martin Luther King
(Aug 28, 1963)
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyousdaybreak to end the long night of their captivity.But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check.When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.And so we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning.Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice.In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny.And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.We cannot walk alone.And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.We cannot turn back.There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations.Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells.Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality.You have been the veterans of creative suffering.Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification;one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.This is our hope.This is the faith that I will go back to the South with.With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.And this will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, “My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!” And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.And so let freedom ring--from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.Let freedom ring--from the mighty mountains of New York.Let freedom ring--from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.Let freedom ring--from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.Let freedom ring--from the curvaceous slopes of California.But not only that.Let freedom ring--from Stone Mountain of Georgia.Let freedom ring--from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.Let freedom ring--from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual，“Free at last, free at last.[/sell]
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
第三篇：散文名篇欣赏（定稿）
白色山茶花
——席慕容
山茶又开了，那样洁白而又美丽的花朵，开了满树。
每次，我都不能无视地走过一棵开花的树。那样洁白温润的花朵，从青绿的小芽儿开始，到越来越饱满，到慢慢地绽放；从半圆，到将圆，到满圆。花开的时候，你如果肯仔细地去端详，你就能明白它所说的每一句话。就因为每一朵花只能开一次，所以，它就极为小心地绝不错一步，满树的花，就没有一朵开错了的。它们是那样慎重和认真地迎接着唯一的一次春天。
所以，我每次走过一棵开花的树，都不得不惊讶与屏息于生命的美丽。
匆匆
朱自清
燕子去了，有再来的时候；杨柳枯了，有再青的时候；桃花谢了，有再开的时候。但是，聪明的，你告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？——是有人偷了他们罢：那是谁？又藏在何处呢？是他们自己逃走了罢：现在又到了哪里呢？
我不知道他们给了我多少日子；但我的手确乎是渐渐空虚了。在默默里算着，八千多日子已经从我手中溜去；像针尖上一滴水滴在大海里，我的日子滴在时间的流里，没有声音，也没有影子。我不禁头涔涔而泪潸潸了。
去的尽管去了，来的尽管来着；去来的中间，又怎样地匆匆呢？早上我起来的时候，小屋里射进两三方斜斜的太阳。太阳他有脚啊，轻轻悄悄地挪移了；我也茫茫然跟着旋 转。于是——洗手的时候，日子从水盆里过去；吃饭的时候，日子从饭碗里过去；默默时，便从凝然的双眼前过去。我觉察他去的匆匆了，伸出手遮挽时，他又从遮挽着的手边过去，天黑时，我躺在床上，他便伶伶俐俐地从我身上跨过，从我脚边飞去了。等我睁开眼和太阳再见，这算又溜走了一日。我掩着面叹息。但是新来的日子的影儿又开始在叹息里闪过了。
在逃去如飞的日子里，在千门万户的世界里的我能做些什么呢？只有徘徊罢了，只有匆匆罢了；在八千多日的匆匆里，除徘徊外，又剩些什么呢？过去的日子如轻烟，被微风吹散了，如薄雾，被初阳蒸融了；我留着些什么痕迹呢？我何曾留着像游丝样的痕迹呢？我赤裸裸来到这世界，转眼间也将赤裸裸的回去罢？但不能平的，为什么偏要白白走这一遭啊？
你聪明的，告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？
春天吹着口哨
刘湛秋
沿着开花的土地,春天吹着口哨； 从柳树上摘一片嫩叶，从杏树上掐一朵小花，在河里浸一浸，在风中摇一摇；于是，欢快的旋律就流荡起来了。哨音在青色的树枝上旋转，它鼓动着小叶子快快地成长。风筝在天上飘，哨音顺着孩子的手，顺着风筝线，升到云层中去了。
新翻的泥土闪开了路，滴着黑色的油，哨音顺着犁铧地镜面滑过去了。呵，那里面可有蜜蜂的嗡嗡？可有百灵鸟得啼啭？可有牛的叫？
沿着开花的土地，春天吹着口哨； 从柳树上摘一片嫩叶，从杏树上掐一朵小花，在河里浸一浸，在风中摇一摇；于是，欢快的旋律就流荡起来了。它悄悄的掀开姑娘的头巾，从她们红润润的唇边溜过去。它追赶上了马车，围着红缨的鞭子盘旋。
它吻着拖拉机的轮带，它爬上了司机小伙子的肩膀。
呵，春天吹着口哨，漫山遍野地跑；在每个人的耳朵里，灌满了一个甜蜜的歌声——早！
金色花
(印度)泰戈尔
假如我变成了一朵金色花，为了好玩，长在树的高枝上，笑嘻嘻地在空中摇摆，又在新叶上跳舞，妈妈，你会认识我么？
你要是叫道：“孩子，你在哪里呀？” 我暗暗地在那里匿笑，却一声儿不响。
我要悄悄地开放花瓣儿，看着你工作。
当你沐浴后，湿发披在两肩，穿过金色花的林荫，走到做祷告的小庭院时，你会嗅到这花香，却不知道这香气是从我身上来的。
当你吃过午饭，坐在窗前读《罗摩衍那》，那棵树的阴影落在你的头发与膝上时，我便要将我小小的影子投在你的书页上，正投在你所读的地方。
但是你会猜得出这就是你孩子的小小影子吗？
当你黄昏时拿了灯到牛棚里去，我便要突然地再落到地上来，又成了你的孩子，求你讲故事给我听。
“你到哪里去了，你这坏孩子？”
“我不告诉你，妈妈。”这就是你同我那时所要说的话了。
橡树
（意）费拉里斯
——生与死相互交替的规律
初春，大地从沉睡中苏醒。田野里飘来一阵阵泥土的清香；草儿吐露出娇嫩的幼芽，好奇地窥视着人间；姑娘们穿着艳丽的衣裳，在碧绿色的草地上欢快地歌唱。
万木争春，小溪哗哗作响，两岸铺上翡翠般的地毯。举目眺望，大自然一片生机，令人陶醉，使人神往。
只有一棵橡树默默地站在一旁。它没有穿上新装，它那饱经沧桑、满是皱纹的老皮一丝不挂地袒露着；它雄伟、挺拔、巍然屹立，干枯的树枝直拂天穹，犹如高举双臂，祈求上帝怜悯。可是它的血液已经凝滞，生命的火花已经消失，严酷的寒冬结束了它的残生。
不久前，它还神采奕奕，英姿勃勃的。然而自它睡下去，就再也没有醒来。
几天之后，来了几个人，七手八脚把它锯断，又把它连根刨出，装车运走。在生长过它的地方，只剩下一堆黄土。
橡树啊，我童年的伙伴和朋友，你曾赋予我多少甜蜜的幻想!我喜欢在你高大的躯干上攀登，在你坚韧而富有弹性的树枝上尽情地悠荡。
多少次，我在你那幽静、凉爽的浓荫下悠闲地歇息，自由地畅想。如今，那些甜蜜的时光同你一起离开了我们可爱的故乡。
幼小的橡树长出第一批嫩叶，又把枝条向四处伸延，转眼之间填补了你留下的空间。茁壮的幼苗变成参天大树，孩子们又会在它的树荫下嬉笑、玩耍，成年人又会在那里歇息、畅想。
雨之歌
（[黎巴嫩]纪伯伦）
我们是上帝从天上撒下的银线；大自然将我们接住，用我们来美化山川。
我们是从阿斯塔特女神王冠上落下的美丽的珍珠，早晨的女儿抢走了我们，将我们撒遍大地。我在哭，一个个小山丘却在笑；我往下掉，花儿们却高高的昂起了头。
乌云和大地是一对恋人，我同情他们，并为他们传递书信。我倾注着冲淡了他们俩中间的这一个强烈欲念，抚慰了另一个受创心灵。
雷声和闪电预示着我的到来，天空的彩虹宣布了我的终结。生活就是这样，他从愤怒的雷电脚下开始，然后在安谧的死亡的怀抱里结束。
我从海里升起，在太空的羽翼上翱翔。看到美丽的花园，我就下降，我去亲吻鲜花的嘴唇，拥抱树木的枝条。
万籁俱寂，我用纤细的手指敲着窗上的水晶玻璃，这声音组成了歌曲，使多愁善感的心灵沉醉。
大气的炎热生育了我，我却要趋散这炎热的大气，正象女人一样，她们总是从男人那里取得了征服他们的力量。
我是海洋的叹息，是苍穹的眼泪，也是大地的微笑。爱情也是这样，它是感情的海洋里发出的叹息，是沉思的天空滴下的泪水，是心田里浮出的微笑。
白鹭
（郭沫若）1942年10月31日
白鹭是一首精巧的诗。
色素的配合，身段的大小，一切都很适宜。
白鹤太大而嫌生硬，即如粉红的朱鹭或灰色的苍鹭，也觉得大了一些，而且太不寻常了。然而白鹭却因为它的常见，而被人忘却了它的美。
那雪白的蓑毛，那全身的流线型结构，那铁色的长喙，那青色的脚，增之一分由嫌长，减之一分则嫌短，素之一忽则嫌白，黛之一忽则嫌黑。
在清水田里时有一只两只站着钓鱼，整个的田便成了一幅嵌在玻璃框里的画面。田的大小好像有心人为白鹭设计的镜匣。
晴天的清晨，每每看见它孤独地站立有小树的绝顶，看来像是不安稳，而它却很悠然。这是别的鸟很难表现的一种嗜好。人们说它是在望哨，可它真是在望哨吗？
黄昏的空中偶见白鹭的低飞，更是乡居生活中的一种恩惠。那是清澄的形象化，而且具有了生命了。
或许有人会感到美中的不足，白鹭不会唱歌。但是白鹭的本身不就是一首很优美的歌吗？——不，歌未免太铿锵了。
白鹭实在是一首诗，一首韵在骨子里的散文的诗。
[赏析] 《白鹭》这篇韵在骨子里的散文诗，虽没有华丽迷人的词藻，也没有浓妆艳抹的渲染，显得那么朴素无华。但是，它正是运用了如白鹭一般朴素的句子，让我们感受到平常事物中蕴含的美！作者仅仅对白鹭寥寥数笔的描绘，就揭示了它平常的美。先是同白鹤、朱鹭和苍鹭作比照，彰显了白鹭“全身的流线型结构”，这就突出白鹭一种无与伦比的独特的美，颇有点儿“百鸟之中我为首”的意思了。不是吗？白鹤“增一点儿则嫌长，减一一点儿则嫌短；素一点儿则嫌白，深一点儿则嫌黑”。文末说“白鹭实在是一首诗，一首韵在骨子里的散文诗。”“白鹭是诗”，这一不寻常的比喻，特别是结尾具体化为“散文诗”，突出了白鹭的平凡而美好、朴素而高洁的特点，赞颂了白鹭的美。
多彩的森林
柴徳森
大自然中最神秘的莫过森林了，森林里最丰富的莫过色彩了！
清晨是苏醒的色彩。远山从青白的天宇隐约透出轮廓，嫩绿的林木披着晶莹的露珠，曲曲弯弯的河水沏了浓酽的香，澄黄而又清澈。雪白的卵石铺了一层河底，河水静悄悄地走过。苏醒的色调需要音响作陪衬，一只翠鸟叽叽喳喳地在树头上唱着歌„„
正午是奔放的色彩。
黛色的山峦把湛蓝的天宇勾出波纹的花边，浓绿的林木郁郁葱葱深邃悠远，河水快步流淌，泛起刺眼的银色波光，护河红柳搭了一条朱红的长廊，暴马丁香白花绽开了，白得耀人目光。
奔放的色调恰需音响作烘托，一只桦皮船飞来了，桨翅儿把河水拍响了„„
傍晚是沉思的色彩。
褐色的峰巅托着瑰丽的夕阳，夕阳把余热蒸腾为斑斓的云霞，云霞轻轻地把墨绿的林木遮掩，微风不起，水波不惊，凝重的乳白色雾气在水面上轻柔地飘动。沉思的色调更要音响作启迪，嘎嘎嘎的拖拉机履带声带着欢笑的勘测队员归来„„
森林有着丰富的内涵和灵感!
色彩是森林的生命!
天窗
茅 盾
乡下的房子只有前面一排木板窗。暖和的晴天，木板窗扇扇开直，光线和空气都有了。
碰着大风大雨，或者北风虎虎地叫的冬天，木板窗只好关起来，屋子里就黑的地洞里似的。
于是乡下人在屋面开一个小方洞，装一块玻璃，叫做天窗。夏天阵雨来了时，孩子们顶喜欢在雨里跑跳，仰着脸看闪电，然而大人们偏就不许，“到屋里来呀！“孩子们跟着木板窗的关闭也就被关在地洞似的屋里了；这时候，小小的天窗是唯一的慰藉。
从那小小的玻璃，你会看见雨脚在那里卜落卜落跳，你会看见带子似的闪电一片；你想象到这雨，这风，这雷，这电，怎样猛厉地扫荡了这世界，你想象它们的威力比你在露天真实感到的要大这么十倍百倍。小小的天窗会使你的想象锐利起来！
晚上，当你被逼着上床去”休息“的时候，也许你还忘不了月光下的草地河滩，你偷偷地从帐子里伸出头来，你仰起了脸，这时候，小小的天窗又是你唯一的慰藉！
你会从那小玻璃上面的一粒星，一朵云，想象到无数闪闪烁烁可爱的星，无数像山似的，马似的，巨人似的，奇幻的云彩；你会从那小玻璃上面掠过的一条黑影想象到这也许是灰色的蝙蝠，也许是会唱的夜莺，也许是恶霸似的猫头鹰，——总之，美丽的神奇的夜的世界的一切，立刻会在你的想象中展开。
啊唷唷！这小小一方的空白是神奇的！它会使你看见了若不是有了它你就想不起来的宇宙的秘密；它会使你想到了若不是有了它你就永远不会联想到的种种事件！
发明这”天窗“的大人们，是应得感谢的。因为活泼会想的孩子们会知道怎样从”无“中看出”有“，从”虚“中看出”实"，比任其他看到的更真切，更阔达，更复杂，更确实！
明月夜
(台湾)席慕蓉
很晚了，她才和母亲从台北回来。车子开上了乡间那条小路的时候，月亮正从木麻黄的树梢后升了起来，路很暗，一辆车也没有，路两旁的木麻黄因而显得更加高大茂密。一直沉默着的母亲忽然问她：“你大概不会记得了吧？那时候，你还太小，我们住在四川乡下，家在一个山坡上，种着很多松树，月亮升起来的时候，就像今天晚上这样„„”
那么，妈妈，那多年来的幻象竟然是真实的了！
她怎么会不记得呢？心里总有着一轮满月冉冉升起，映着坡前的树影又黑又浓密，记得很清楚的是一个山坡，有月亮，有树，却一直想不起来会在哪里见过，一直不知道那是个什么样的地方？
“你大概不会记得的了，你那时候应该只有两三岁，还老是要我抱的年纪。”
那么，妈妈，那必定是在一个满月的夜晚了，在家门前的山坡上，年轻的妇人抱着幼儿，静静地站立着。
那夜，一轮皓月正从松树后面冉冉升起，山风拂过树林，拂过妇人清凉圆润的臂膀。
在她怀中，孩子正睁大着眼睛注视着夜空，在小小漆黑的双眸里，反映着如水的月光。
原来，就是那样的一种月色，从此深植过她的心中，每个月圆的晚上，总会给她一种似曾相识的感觉，给她一种恍惚的乡愁。在她的画里，也因此而反复出现一轮极圆极满的皓月，高高地挂在天上，在画面下方，总是会添上一丛又一丛浓密的树影。
妈妈，生命应该就是这样了吧？在每一个时刻里都会有一种埋伏，却要等待几十年之后才能够得到答案，要在不经意的回顾里才会恍然，恍然于生命中种种曲折的路途，种种美丽的牵绊。
到家了，她把车门打开，母亲吃力地支着拐杖走出车外，月光下，母亲满头的白发特别耀眼。
月色却依然如水，晚风依旧清凉。
榕树
(印度)泰戈尔
喂，你站在池边的蓬头的榕树，你可会忘记了那小小的孩子，就像那在你的枝上筑巢又离开了你的鸟儿似的孩子？ 你不记得是他怎样坐在窗内，诧异地望着你深入地下的纠缠的树根么？
妇人们常到池边，汲了满罐的水去，你的大黑影便在水面上摇动，好像睡着的人挣扎着要醒来似的。
日光在微波上跳舞，好像不停不息的小梭在织着金色的花毡。两只鸭子挨着芦苇，在芦苇影子上游来游去，孩子静静地坐在那里想着。
他想做风，吹过你的萧萧的枝杈；想做你的影子，在水面上，随了日光而俱长；想做一只鸟儿，栖息在你的最高枝上；还想做那两只鸭，在芦苇与阴影中间游来游去。
论求知
(英)培根
求知可以作为消遣，可以作为装饰，也可以增长才干。
当你孤独寂寞时，阅读可以消遣。当你高谈阔论时，知识可供装饰。当你处世行事时，正确运用知识意味着力量。懂得事物因果的人是幸福的。有实际经验的人虽能够办理个别性的事务，但若要综观整体，运筹全局，却唯有掌握知识方能办到。
求知太慢会弛惰，为装潢而求知是自欺欺人，完全照书本条条办事会变成偏执的书呆子。
求知可以改进人和天性，而实验又可以改进知识本身。人的天性犹如野生的花草，求知学习好比修剪移栽。实习尝试则可检验修正知识本身的真伪。
狡诈者轻鄙学问，愚鲁者羡慕学问，唯聪明者善于运用学问。知识本身并没有告诉人怎样运用它，运用的方法乃在书本之外。这是一门技艺。不经实验就不能学到。
不可专为挑剔辩驳去读书，但也不可轻易相信书本。求知的目的不是为了吹嘘炫耀，而应该是为了寻找真理，启迪智慧。
有的知识只须浅尝，有的知识只要粗知。只有少数专门知识需要深入钻研，仔细揣摩。所以，有的书只要读其中一部分，有的书只须知其中梗概即可，而对于少数好书，则要精读，细读，反复地读。
有的书可以请人代读，然后看他的笔记摘要就行了。但这只限于质量粗劣的书。否则一本好书将象已被蒸馏过的水，变得淡而无味了！读书使人的头脑充实，讨论使人明辩是非，作笔记则能使知识精确。因此，如果一个人还原做笔记，他的记忆力就必须强而可靠。如果一个人只愿孤独探索，他的头脑就必须格外锐利。如果有人不读书又想冒充博学多知，他就必定很狡黠，才能掩饰他的无知。
读史使人明智，读诗使人聪慧，演算使人精密，哲理使人深刻，伦理学使人有修养，逻辑修辞使人善辩。总之，“知识能塑造人的性格”。
不仅如此，精神上的各种缺陷，都可以通过求知来改善----正如身体上的缺陷，可以通过运动为改善一样。例如打球有利于腰肾，射箭可扩胸利肺，散步则有助于消化，骑术使人反应敏捷，等等。同样，一个思维不集中的人，他可以研习数学，因为数学稍不仔细就去出错。缺乏分析判断力的人，他可以研习经院哲学，因为这门学问最讲究繁琐辩证。不善于推理的人，可以研习法律学，如此等等。这种种头脑上的缺陷，可以通过求知来疗治。
心田上的百合花开
林清玄
在一个偏僻遥远的山谷里，有一个高达数千尺的断崖。不知道什么时候，断崖边上长出了一株小小的百合。百合刚刚诞生的时候，长得和杂草一模一样。但是，它心里知道自己并不是一株野草。
它的内心深处，有一个内在的纯洁念头：“我是一株百合，不是一株野草。唯一能证明我是百合的办法，就是开出美丽的花朵。”
有了这个念头，百合努力地吸收水分和阳光，深深的扎根，直直地挺着胸膛。终于在一个春天的清晨，百合的顶部结出第一个花苞。
百合的心里很高兴，附近的杂草却很不屑，它们在私底下朝笑着百合：“这家伙明明是一株草，偏偏说自己是一株花，还真以为自己是一株花，我看它顶上结的不是花苞，而是头上长瘤了。”
公开场合，它们则讥讽百合：“你不要做梦了，即使你真的会开花，在这荒郊野外，你的价值还不是跟我们一样。”偶而也有飞过的蜂蝶鸟雀，它们也会劝百合不用那么努力开花：“在这断崖边上，纵然开出世界上最美的花，也不会有人来欣赏呀！”百合说“我要开花，是因为我知道自己有美丽的花，我要开花，是为了完成作为一株花的庄严使命，我要开花，说由于自己喜欢以花来证明自己的存在。不管你们怎么看我，我都要开花！”
在野草和蜂蝶的鄙夷下，百合努力地释放内心的能量。有一天，它终于开花了，它那灵性的白和秀挺的风姿，成为断崖上最美丽的风景。这时候，野草与蜂蝶再也不敢嘲笑它了。百合花一朵一朵地盛开着，花朵上每天都有晶莹的石珠，野草们以为那是昨夜的露水，只有百合自己知道，那是极深沉的喜欢所结的泪滴。
年年春天，百合努力地开花、结籽。它的种子随着风。落在山谷、草原和悬崖边上，到处都开满洁白的百合。
几十年后，远在百里外的人，从城市，从农村，千里迢迢赶来欣赏百合开花。许多孩童跪下来，问嗅百合花的芬芳，许多情侣互相拥抱，许下了“百年之好”的誓言；无数的人看到这从未见过的美，感动得落泪，触动内心那纯净温柔的一角。那里，被人称为“百合谷地”。
不管别人怎么欣赏，满山的百合花都谨记着地一株百合的教导：“我们要全心全意默默地开花，以花来证明自己的存在。”
希望我们每个人的心田上都有一株百合花。
高处何处有
(台湾)张晓风
很久很久以前，在一个很远很远的地方，一位老酋长正病危。他找来村中最优秀的三个年轻人，对他们说：“这是我要离开你们的时候了，我要你们为我做最后一件事。你们三个都是身强体壮而又智慧过人的好孩子，现在，请你们尽其可能的去攀登那座我们一向奉为神圣的大山。你们要尽其可能爬到最高的、最凌越的地方，然后，折回头来告诉我你们的见闻。”
三天后，第一个年轻人回来了，他笑生双靥，衣履我鲜：“酋长，我到达山顶了，我看到繁花夹道，流泉淙淙，鸟鸣嘤嘤，那地方真不坏啊！”老酋长笑笑说：“孩子，那条路我当年也走过，你说的鸟语花香的地方不是山顶，而是山麓。
“你回去吧！”一周以后，第二个年轻人也回来了，他神情疲倦，满脸风霜：“酋长，我到达山顶了。我看到高大肃穆的松树林，我看到秃鹰盘旋，那是一个好地方。”
“可惜啊！孩子，那不是山顶，那是山腰。不过，也难为你了，你回去吧！”一个月过去了，大家都开始为第三位年轻人的安危担心，他却一步一蹭，衣不蔽体地回来了。他发枯唇燥，只剩下清炯的眼神：“酋长，我终于到达山顶。但是，我该怎么说呢？那里只有高风悲旋，蓝天四垂。”
“你难道在那里一无所见吗？难道连蝴蝶也没有一只吗？” “是的，酋长，高处一无所有。你所能看到的，只有你自己，只有‘个人’被放在天地间的渺小感，只有想起千古英雄的悲激心情。”
“孩子，你到的是真的山顶。按照我们的传统，天意要立你做新酋长，祝福你。”
真英雄何所遇？他遇到的是全身的伤痕，是孤单的长途，以及愈来愈真切的渺小感。
梨花
许地山
她们还在园里玩，也不理会细雨丝丝穿入她们的罗衣。池边梨花的颜色被雨洗得更白净了，但朵朵都懒懒地垂着。
姊姊说：“你看，花儿都倦得要睡了！” “待我来摇醒他们。”
姊姊不及发言，妹妹的手早已抓住树枝摇了几下。花瓣和水珠纷纷地落下来，铺得银片满地，煞是好玩。
妹妹说：“好玩啊，花瓣一离开树枝，就活动起来了！” “活动什么？你看，花儿的泪都滴在我身上哪。”姊姊说这话时，带着几分怒气，推了妹妹一下。她接着说：“我不和你玩了；你自己在这里罢。”
妹妹见姊姊走了，直站在树下出神。停了半晌，老妈子走来，牵着她，一面走着，说：“你看，你的衣服都湿透了；在阴雨天，每日要换几次衣服，教人到哪里找太阳给你晒去呢？” 落下来的花瓣，有些被她们的鞋印入泥中；有些粘在妹妹身上，被她带走；有些浮在池面，被鱼儿衔入水里。那多情的燕子不歇把鞋印上的残瓣和软泥一同衔在口中，到梁间去，构成它们的香巢。
信 念
张歧
窄窄的木板，是一支飞鸣的利箭。小小的三角帆，是一只彩色的大翅膀。
幽蓝的大海给了它那么些自由，又给了它那么多惊险，于是它一会儿腾跃，一会儿打旋，一会儿倾斜。腾跃时，模样像是欢乐；打旋时，模样像是眩晕；倾斜时，模样像是胆怯„„
我替哥耽心，手心捏一把湿漉漉的汗。
哥哥上岸了，身上的汗比我手心捏的多得多；可脸上挂着笑——爸爸闯海归来那样的笑。
我问：“那么急的海风、海流，帆板为什么不倒，难道它乖乖听话？”
哥哥点头：“驾驭者是帆板不弯的脊梁，帆板是驾驭者踢波踩浪的脚丫，驱使帆板听话的是直往无前的信念！”
“信念是什么？”
“信念是凝聚的智慧、力量和胆！” 我好像听懂了，我觉得手心发痒。
第四篇：借景抒情的散文名篇
借景抒情是指作者带着强烈的主观感情去描写客观景物，把自身所要抒发的感情、表达的思想寄寓在此景此物中，接下来小编搜集了借景抒情的散文名篇，仅供大家参考，希望帮助到大家。
篇一：挖荠菜
我对荠菜，有着一种特殊的感情……
小的时候，我是那么馋！刚抽出嫩条还没打花苞的蔷薇枝，把皮一剥，我就能吃下去；刚割下来的蜂蜜，我会连蜂房一起放进嘴巴里；更别说什么青玉米棒子、青枣、青豌豆罗。所以，只要我一出门儿，碰上财主家的胖儿子，他就总要跟在我身后，拍着手、跳着脚地叫着：“馋丫头！馋丫头！”盖得我连头也不敢回。
我感到又羞恼，又冤屈！七八岁的姑娘家，谁愿意落下这么个名声？可是有什么办法呢？我饿啊！我真不记得什么时候，那种饥饿的感觉曾经离开过我，就是现在，每当我回忆起那个时候的情景，留在我记忆里最鲜明的感觉，也还是一片饥饿……
吃那些没收进主人家仓房里的东西，‘我还一次也没有被人家抓到过。倒不是因为我的运气格外好，而是人们多半并不想认真地惩罚一个饥饿的孩子。可有一次，我在财主家的地里掰玉米棒子，被他的大管家发现了，他立刻拿着一根又粗又直的木头棒子，毫不留情地紧紧向我追来。我没命地逃着。我想我一定跑得飞快，因为风在我的耳朵旁边呼呼直响。不知是我被吓昏了，还是平时很熟悉的那些田间小路有意捉弄我，为什么面前偏偏横着一条小河？追赶我的人越来越近了。我害怕到了极点，便不顾一切地纵身跳进那条河。
河水并不很深，但是足以没过我那矮小的身子。我一声不响地挣扎着，扑腾着，身子失去了平衡。冰凉的河水呛得我好难受，我几乎背过气去，而河水却依旧在我身边不停地流着，流着……在由于恐怖而变得混乱的意识里，却出奇清晰地反映出岸上那个追赶我的人的残酷笑声。
我简直不知道我是怎么样才爬上对岸的。更使我丧气的是脚上的鞋子不知什么时候掉了一只。我实在没有勇气重新回头去找那只丢失了的鞋子，可我也不敢回家，我怕妈妈知道。不，我并不是怕她打我。我是怕看见她那双被贫困的生活折磨得失去了光彩的、哀愁的眼睛。那双眼睛，会因为我丢失了鞋子而更加暗淡。
我独自一人游荡在田野里。太阳落山了，城用色的晚霞渐渐地从天边退去。远处，庙里的钟声在薄幕中响起来。羊儿咋咋地叫着，由放羊的孩子赶着回圈了；乌鸦也派派地叫着回巢去了。夜色越来越浓了，村落啦，树林子啦，坑洼啦，沟渠啦，好像一下子全都掉进了神秘的沉寂里。我听见妈妈在村口焦急地呼唤着我的名字，只是不敢答应。一种比饥饿更可怕的东西平生头一次潜入了我那童稚的心……
说过了这些，人们也许会理解我为什么对芥菜有着那么特殊的感情。
经过一个没有什么吃食可以寻觅、因而显得更加饥饿的冬天，大地春回、万物复苏的日子重新来临了！田野里长满了各种野菜：雪蒿、马齿苋、灰灰菜、野葱……最好吃的是养菜。把它下在玉米糊糊里，再放上点盐花，真是无上的美味啊！而挖荠菜时的那种坦然的心情，更可以
称得上是一种享受：提着篮子，迈着轻捷的步子，向广阔无垠的田野里奔去。嫩生生的养菜，在微风中挥动它们绿色的手掌，招呼我，欢迎我。我再也不必担心有谁会拿着大棒子凶神恶煞似地追赶我，我甚至可以不时地抬头看看天上吱吱喳喳飞过去的小鸟，树上绽开的花儿和蓝天上白色的云朵。那时，我的心里便会不由地升起一个热切的愿望：巴不得这个世界上的一切，都像荠菜一样是属于我们每一个人的。解放以后，我进了城。偶然，在大菜场里，也可以看到人工培植的荠菜出售。长得肥肥大大的，总有半尺来长，洗得干干净净，水灵灵的。一小扎，一小扎，码得整整齐齐地摆在菜摊子上，价钱也不贵。可我，总还是怀念那长在野地里的荠菜，就像怀念那些与自己共过患难的老朋友一样。
多少年来，每到春天，我总要挑个风和日丽的日子，带上孩子们到郊区的野地里去挖荠菜。我明白，孩子们之所以在我的身旁跳着，跑着，尖声地打着唿哨，多半因为这对他们来说，是一种有趣的游戏——和煦的阳光，绿色的田野，就像一幅优美的风景画似的展现在他们面前，使他们的身心全都感到愉快。他们长大一些之后，陪同我去挖荠菜，似乎就变成了对我的一种迁就了，正像那些恭顺的年轻人，迁就他们那些因为上了年纪而变得有点怪癖的长辈一样。这时，我深感遗憾：他们多半不能体会我当年挖荠菜的心情！
等到我把一盘用精盐、麻油、味精、白糖精心调配好的荠菜放到餐桌上去的时候（小的时候，我可是做梦也没有想到我那可爱的荠菜会享受到今天这样的“荣华富贵”），他们也还是带着那种迁就的微笑，漫不经心地用筷子挑上几根荠菜……看着他们那双懒洋洋的筷子，我的心
里就像翻倒了五味瓶，什么滋味都有。因为我知道，这种赏光似的迁就，并不只是表现在对挖荠菜这一桩事情上，它还表现在对我们这一代人的一些见解和行为上。在他们看来，我们的有些见解和行为，都像陈列在博物馆里的出土文物——离他们的现实生活太远了，不顶用了。自然，我也并不认为我们的见解和行为就完全正确。只要他们不觉得厌烦，我甚至愿意跟他们谈谈我们在探索人生方面曾经走过的弯路，以便他们少付出一些不必要的代价。我真希望我们之间不要成为隔膜很深的两代人，而是心动相通的朋友。
孩子，让我们多谈谈心吧，让妈妈多讲讲当“馋丫头”时的故事给你们听吧。想想你们妈妈当年挖荠莱的情景，你们就会珍爱荠菜，珍爱生活。你们就会懂得什么是幸福，怎样才会得到幸福。
篇二：荷塘月色
这几天心里颇不宁静。今晚在院子里坐着乘凉，忽然想起日日走过的荷塘，在这满月的光里，总该另有一番样子吧。月亮渐渐地升高了，墙外马路上孩子们的欢笑，已经听不见了；妻在屋里拍着闰儿，迷迷糊糊地哼着眠歌。我悄悄地披了大衫，带上门出去。
沿着荷塘，是一条曲折的小煤屑路。这是一条幽僻的路；白天也少人走，夜晚更加寂寞。荷塘四面，长着许多树，蓊蓊郁郁的。路的一旁，是些杨柳，和一些不知道名字的树。没有月光的晚上，这路上阴森森的，有些怕人。今晚却很好，虽然月光也还是淡淡的。
路上只我一个人，背着手踱着。这一片天地好像是我的；我也像超出了平常的自己，到了另一世界里。我爱热闹，也爱冷静；爱群居，也爱独处。像今晚上，一个人在这苍茫的月下，什么都可以想，什么都可以不想，便觉是个自由的人。白天里一定要做的事，一定要说的话，现在都可不理。这是独处的妙处，我且受用这无边的荷香月色好了。
曲曲折折的荷塘上面，弥（mi）望的是田田的叶子。叶子出水很高，像亭亭的舞女的裙。层层的叶子中间，零星地点缀着些白花，有袅娜地开着的，有羞涩地打着朵儿的；正如一粒粒的明珠，又如碧天里的星星，又如刚出浴的美人。微风过处，送来缕缕清香，仿佛远处高楼上渺茫的歌声似的。这时候叶子与花也有一丝的颤动，像闪电般，霎时传过荷塘的那边去了。叶子本是肩并肩密密地挨着，这便宛然有了一道凝碧的波痕。叶子底下是脉脉的流水，遮住了，不能见一些颜色；而叶子却更见风致了。
月光如流水一般，静静地泻在这一片叶子和花上。薄薄的青雾浮起在荷塘里。叶子和花仿佛在牛乳中洗过一样；又像笼着轻纱的梦。虽然是满月，天上却有一层淡淡的云，所以不能朗照；但我以为这恰是到了好处——酣（han）眠固不可少，小睡也别有风味的。月光是隔了树照过来的，高处丛生的灌木，落下参差的斑驳的黑影，峭楞楞如鬼一般；弯弯的杨柳的稀疏的倩影，却又像是画在荷叶上。塘中的月色并不均匀；但光与影有着和谐的旋律，如梵（fan）婀玲（夏注：这里是音译violin小提琴的意思。）上奏着的名曲。
荷塘的四面，远远近近，高高低低都是树，而杨柳最多。这些树将一片荷塘重重围住；只在小路一旁，漏着几段空隙，像是特为月光留下的。树色一例是阴阴的，乍看像一团烟雾；但杨柳的丰姿，便在烟雾里也辨得出。树梢上隐隐约约的是一带远山，只有些大意罢了。树缝里也漏着一两点路灯光，没精打采的，是渴睡人的眼。这时候最热闹的，要数树上的蝉声与水里的蛙声；但热闹是它们的，我什么也没有。
忽然想起采莲的事情来了。采莲是江南的旧俗，似乎很早就有，而六朝时为盛；从诗歌里可以约略知道。采莲的是少年的女子，她们是荡着小船，唱着艳歌去的。采莲人不用说很多，还有看采莲的人。那是一个热闹的季节，也是一个风流的季节。梁元帝《采莲赋》里说得好：
于是妖童媛女，荡舟心许；鷁首徐回，兼传羽杯；欋将移而藻挂，船欲动而萍开。尔其纤腰束素，迁延顾步；夏始春余，叶嫩花初，恐沾裳而浅笑，畏倾船而敛裾。
可见当时嬉游的光景了。这真是有趣的事，可惜我们现在早已无福消受了。
于是又记起《西洲曲》里的句子：
采莲南塘秋，莲花过人头；低头弄莲子，莲子（夏注：谐音“怜子”，爱你之意。）清如水。
今晚若有采莲人，这儿的莲花也算得“过人头”了；只不见一些流水的影子，是不行的。这令我到底惦着江南了。——这样想着，猛一抬头，不觉已是自己的门前；轻轻地推门进去，什么声息也没有，妻已睡熟好久了。
篇三：林海
我总以为大兴安岭奇峰怪石，高不可攀。这回有机会看到它，并且走进原始森林，脚踩在积得几尺厚的松针上，手摸到那些古木，才证实这个悦耳的名字是那样亲切与舒服。
大兴安岭这个“岭”字，跟秦岭的“岭”可大不一样。这里的岭的确很多，横着的，顺着的，高点儿的，矮点儿的，长点儿的，短点儿的，可是没有一条使人想起“云横秦岭”那种险句。多少条岭啊，在疾驶的火车上看了几个钟头，既看不完，也看不厌。每条岭都是那么温柔，自山脚至岭顶长满了珍贵的树木，谁也不孤峰突起，盛气凌人。
目之所及，哪里都是绿的。的确是林海，群岭起伏的林海的波浪。多少种绿颜色呀：深的，浅的，明的，暗的，绿得难以形容。恐怕只有画家才能描出这么多的绿颜色来呢！
兴安岭上千般宝，第一应夸落叶松。是的，这里是落叶松的海洋。看，海边上不是还泛着白色的浪花吗？那是些俏丽的白桦的银裙，不是像海边的浪花吗？
两山之间往往流动着清可见底的小河。河岸上有多少野花呀。我是爱花的人，到这里我却叫不出那些花的名儿来。兴安岭多么会打扮自己呀：青松作衫，白桦为裙，还穿着绣花鞋。连树与树之间的空隙也不缺乏彩：松影下开着各种小花，招来各色的小蝴蝶—它们很亲热地落在客人身上。花丛里还隐藏着珊瑚珠似的小红豆。兴安岭中酒厂所造的红豆酒，就是用这些小野果酿成的，味道很好。
看到数不尽的青松白桦，谁能不学向四面八方望一望呢？有多少省市用过这里的木材呀，大至矿井、铁路，小至椽柱、桌椅。千山一碧，万古常青，恰好与广厦、良材联系在一起。所以，兴安岭越看越可爱！它的美丽与建设结为一体，美得并不空洞。叫人心中感到亲切、舒服。
及至看到了林场，这种亲切之感更加深厚了。我们伐木取材，也造林护苗，一手砍一手载。我们不仅取宝，也作科学研究，使林海不但能够万古常青，而且可以综合利用。山林中已经有不少的市镇，给兴安岭添上了新的景色，添上了愉快的劳动歌声。人与山的关系日益密切，怎能不使我们感到亲切、舒服呢？我不晓得当初为什么管它叫兴安岭，由今天看来，它的确有兴国安邦的意义。
篇四：雨后春景
一场小雨过后，我独自走在公园草坪边湿漉漉的小路上，呼吸着泥土带来芳香的气息，观赏着大自然特有的美景。
远处，那一座座隐约的大山像一个躺着的巨人，飘飘悠悠的白雾像一层神密的面纱，遮掩着巨人的身影。公园边的楼房都掩映在绿荫花影中。公园中，小草更绿了，小花绽放了，大树吐出了新芽。登高俯视，公园就好似一张镶着宝石的大花毯。也许这正是春姑娘落下的花头巾呢！再看看小花、小草、树叶上的晶莹的露珠，这不正是春姑娘笑出的眼泪吗！
“嘎、嘎……”你听，这是什么声音？噢，原来是几只小鸭子在池塘中玩耍戏水。就连小鸟也在树枝上唧唧喳喳叫个不停。
一阵微风吹过，春姑娘的纤纤玉手使湖水荡起了阵阵涟漪。湖里，几条小鱼从湖水中跃出又钻了回去。这景象给如诗的春景平添了几分盎然的情趣。
公园里，一群老人在晨练。有的在耍太极，有的在跳健身舞。所谓“一日之计在于晨”，还有几个小朋友倚着大树在早读，那清脆的声音真令人回肠荡气。还有一些小朋友在尽情玩耍，他们一会儿玩捉迷藏，一会儿玩老鹰捉小鸡，你追我赶，好不热闹。那些在工作之余来这里休憩的大人，有的在闲聊，有的在放风筝，有的在钓鱼，还有几个人围在一张桌子边切磋棋艺，边品着极品好茶。整个公园都洋溢在欢乐的气氛中。
这时，一滴雨露落入了我的衣领里，凉悠悠的。噢，这不正是春铭刻我在心中的记忆吗？
篇五：一叶落，天下秋
一叶落，心已秋。
不知何时，秋意已进驻我心，清爽中泛着森森的寒意。
走在清晨的路上，凉凉的秋风，驱散了久违心中的燥热与彷徨，这无声的凉意，将我所有的精神与意念纠结于一起，一起对抗。
秋，本是收获的时光，不甘于命运，是否太过迟藏，但是谁又说得准呢？生命本就是对抗。对抗自然，有了活下的希望；对抗野兽，有了饱餐的希望；对抗同类，有了拔高的希望；对抗自己，有了完美的希望。在本不该出现的地方出现，除了自不量力，还有奇迹；在本不该遇到的时候遇到，除了偶然不意，还有机遇；在本不该回顾的时候回顾，除了无聊至极，还有留意；在本不该流泪的时候流泪，除了莫名其妙，还有真味。一切偶然，本不该是偶然，一切必然，也终将不是必然。谨守如一的本心，破除障路的迷环，哪怕是砖瓦铺就或是水泥固坚，不就是一往无前！
没有退路，又何尝不是最大的出路；没有牵挂，又何尝不是最大的留恋；无时无刻的乞盼，又何尝不是最坚定的信念。正是秋这个季节，正是叶这种落魂，惊醒了沉浸于美梦中的我，不坚持，何以正心，不妥协，才是真人！
一丝振奋伴着淡淡凄凉，一丝期待和着缕缕忧伤，振奋、期待着有那么一次微妙的辉煌，细细的保存着沁入心灵的凄凉与忧伤。平和，平淡，平心；正人，正气，正形。清扫积垢，打点行装，赶赴战场。这和美的世界，是最险恶的战场，润物无声，瓦解着人的脊梁。惜钱，惜命，惜这梦幻俗世；沉浸，沉沦，沉没缓缓余生。情欲，物欲，美好回忆，无不暗示着人们，止住止住不再前追，已知意。溯前历，多少铁骨碎灭，非是为己，非是为那温柔之乡，非是为那富贵之梦，非是为那权势之高。天行健，君子以自强不息；地势坤，君子以厚德载物。抬头望望天，低头看看地，生于这天地之间，孕于这宽广之境，心胸不该如此吗？一悟百味清，一执天下白！
秋，依凉，叶，渐枯，热血，却被渐渐点燃。如滚滚不息、被冷气刺激的冒着白烟的发动机，越是天冷，越是轰隆隆的叫个不停。你凄清，我前行；你疏狂，我认真；你观望枯井，我振翅长空。你有靡靡之音，我有一片清明；你有观音相佑，我自天地神明。我的天空，该是深层次的天空，不是一片蓝，而是一朵鱼群，不是静态的枯寂，而是生命的气息。活波，自由，不离不弃。
一叶落，心已秋。不摘硕果，不陷凄迷。铮铮傲骨，自前行！
第五篇：朱自清散文名篇精选30则
朱自清散文名篇精选30则
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我们常常读到朱自清先生那些脍炙人口的名篇，在一个阳光正好的午后。难以矢口否认的是朱自清先生的散文清隽沉郁,总是能轻易地把我们引进他唯美的世界中去，对时光的感慨也好，对亲情的触动也罢，都写到了我们内心的那根弦上。而恰恰也正是因为散文,朱自清先生才在星辉璀璨的中国现代文学史上，夺目光彩。而这些散文中，那些妙不可言的文段许许多多都已成为经典，让我们每次读起来都爱不释手......——写在前面
1、沿着荷塘，是一条曲折的小煤屑路。这是一条幽僻的路；白天也少人走，夜晚更加寂寞。荷塘四面，长着许多树，蓊蓊郁郁的。路的一旁，是些杨柳，和一些不知道名字的树。没有月光的晚上，这路上阴森森的，有些怕人。今晚却很好，虽然月光也还是淡淡的。路上只我一个人，背着手踱着。这一片天地好像是我的；我也像超出了平常的自己，到了另一世界里。我爱热闹，也爱冷静；爱群居，也爱独处。像今晚上，一个人在这苍茫的月下，什么都可以想，什么都可以不想，便觉是个自由的人。白天里一定要做的事，一定要说的话，现在都可不理。这是独处的妙处，我且受用这无边的荷香月色好了。
曲曲折折的荷塘上面，弥望的是田田的叶子。叶子出水很高，像亭亭的舞女的裙。层层的叶子中间，零星地点缀着些白花，有袅娜地开着的，有羞涩地打着朵儿的；正如一粒粒的明珠，又如碧天里的星星，又如刚出浴的美人。微风过处，送来缕缕清香，仿佛远处高楼上渺茫的歌声似的。这时候叶子与花也有一丝的颤动，像闪电一般，霎时传过荷塘的那边去了。叶子本是肩并肩密密地挨着，这便宛然有了一道凝碧的波痕。叶子底下是脉脉的流水，遮住了，不能见一些颜色；而叶子却更见风致了。
2、燕子去了，有再来的时候；杨柳枯了，有再青的时候；桃花谢了，有再开的时候。但是，聪明的，你告诉我，我们的日子为什么一去不复返呢？——是有人偷了他们罢：那是谁？又藏在何处呢？是他们自己逃走了罢：现在又到了哪里呢？
我不知道他们给了我多少日子；但我的手确乎是渐渐空虚了。在默默里算着，八千多日子已经从我手中溜去；像针尖上一滴水滴在大海里，我的日子滴在时间的流里，没有声音，也没有影子。我不禁头涔涔而泪潸潸了。
去的尽管去了，来的尽管来着；去来的中间，又怎样地匆匆呢？早上我起来的时候，小屋里射进两三方斜斜的太阳。太阳他有脚啊，轻轻悄悄地挪移了；我也茫茫然跟着旋转。于是——洗手的时候，日子从水盆里过去；吃饭的时候，日子从饭碗里过去；默默时，便从凝然的双眼前过去。我觉察他去的匆匆了，伸出手遮挽时，他又从遮挽着的手边过去，天黑时，我躺在床上，他便伶伶俐俐地从我身上跨过，从我脚边飞去了。等我睁开眼和太阳再见，这算又溜走了一日。我掩着面叹息。但是新来的日子的影儿又开始在叹息里闪过了。
3、盼望着，盼望着，东风来了，春天的脚步近了。
一切都像刚睡醒的样子，欣欣然张开了眼。山朗润起来了，水长起来了，太阳的脸红起来了。
小草偷偷地从土里钻出来，嫩嫩的，绿绿的。园子里，田野里，瞧去，一大片一大片满是的。坐着，躺着，打两个滚，踢几脚球，赛几趟跑，捉几回迷藏。风轻悄悄的，草绵软软的。
桃树、杏树、梨树，你不让我，我不让你，都开满了花赶趟儿。红的像火，粉的像霞，白的像雪。花里带着甜味，闭了眼，树上仿佛已经满是桃儿、杏儿、梨儿。花下成千成百的蜜蜂嗡嗡地闹着，大小的蝴蝶飞来飞去。野花遍地是：杂样儿，有名字的，没名字的，散在花丛里，像眼睛，像星星，还眨呀眨的。
“吹面不寒杨柳风”，不错的，像母亲的手抚摸着你。风里带来些新翻的泥土的气息，混着青草味，还有各种花的香，都在微微润湿的空气里酝酿。鸟儿将窠巢安在繁花嫩叶当中，高兴起来了，呼朋引伴地卖弄清脆的喉咙，唱出宛转的曲子，与轻风流水应和着。牛背上牧童的短笛，这时候也成天在嘹亮地响。
4、梅雨潭是一个瀑布潭。仙瀑有三个瀑布，梅雨瀑最低。走到山边，便听见花花花的声音；抬起头，镶在两条湿湿的黑边儿里的，一带白而发亮的水便呈现于眼前了。我们先到梅雨亭。梅雨亭正对着那条瀑布；坐在亭边，不必仰头，便可见它的全体了。亭下深深的便是梅雨潭。这个亭踞在突出的一角的岩石上，上下都空空儿的；仿佛一 只苍鹰展着翼翅浮在天宇中一般。三面都是山，像半个环儿拥着；人如在井底了。这 是一个秋季的薄阴的天气。微微的云在我们顶上流着；岩面与草丛都从润湿中透出几分油油的绿意。而瀑布也似乎分外的响了。那瀑布从上面冲下，仿佛已被扯成大小的 几绺；不复是一幅整齐而平滑的布。岩上有许多棱角；瀑流经过时，作急剧的撞击，便飞花碎玉般乱溅着了。那溅着的水花，晶莹而多芒；远望去，像一朵朵小小的白梅，微雨似的纷纷落着。据说，这就是梅雨潭之所以得名了。但我觉得像杨花，格外确切些。轻风起来时，点点随风飘散，那更是杨花了。－－这时偶然有几点送入我们温暖的怀里，便倏的钻了进去，再也寻它不着。
5、她松松的皱缬着，像少妇拖着的裙幅；她轻轻的摆弄着，像跳动的初恋的处女的心；她滑滑的明亮着，像涂了“明油”一般，有鸡蛋清那样软，那样嫩，令人想着所曾触过的最嫩的皮肤；她又不杂些儿法滓，宛然一块温润的碧玉，只清清的一色－－但你却看不透她！我曾见过北京什刹海指地的绿杨，脱不了鹅黄的底子，似乎太淡了。我又曾见过杭州虎跑寺旁高峻而深密的“绿壁”，重叠着无穷的碧草与绿叶的，那又似乎太浓了。其余呢，西湖的波太明了，秦淮河的又太暗了。可爱的，我将什么来比拟你呢？我怎么比拟得出呢？大约潭是很深的、故能蕴蓄着这样奇异的绿；仿佛蔚蓝的天融了一块在里面似的，这才这般的鲜润呀。－－那醉人的绿呀！我若能裁你以为带，我将赠给那轻盈的舞女；她必能临风飘举了。我若能挹你以为眼，我将赠给那善歌的盲妹；她必明眸善睐了。我舍不得你；我怎舍得你呢？我用手拍着你，抚摩着你，如同一个十二三岁的小姑娘。我又掬你入口，便是吻着她了。我送你一个名字，我从此叫你“女儿绿”，好么？
6、我结婚那一年，才十九岁。二十一岁，有了阿九；二十三岁，又有了阿菜。那时我正像一匹野马，那能容忍这些累赘的鞍鞯，辔头，和缰绳？摆脱也知是不行的，但不自觉地时时在摆脱着。现在回想起来，那些日子，真苦了这两个孩子；真是难以宽宥的种种暴行呢！阿九才两岁半的样子，我们住在杭州的学校里。不知怎地，这孩子特别爱哭，又特别怕生人。一不见了母亲，或来了客，就哇哇地哭起来了。学校里住着许多人，我不能让他扰着他们，而客人也总是常有的；我懊恼极了，有一回，特地骗出了妻，关了门，将他按在地下打了一顿。这件事，妻到现在说起来，还觉得有些不忍；她说我的手太辣了，到底还是两岁半的孩子！我近年常想着那时的光景，也觉黯然。阿菜在台州，那是更小了；才过了周岁，还不大会走路。也是为了缠着母亲的缘故吧，我将她紧紧地按在墙角里，直哭喊了三四分钟；因此生了好几天病。妻说，那时真寒心呢！但我的苦痛也是真的。我曾给圣陶写信，说孩子们折磨，实在无法奈何；有时竟觉着还是自杀的好。这虽是气愤的话，但这样的心情，确也有过的。后来孩子是多起来了，磨折也磨折得久了，少年的锋棱渐渐地钝起来了；加以增长的年岁增长了理性的裁制力，我能够忍耐了——觉得从前真是一个“不成材的父亲”，如我给另一个朋友信里所说。但我的孩子们在幼小时，确比别人的特别不安静，我至今还觉如此。我想这大约还是由于我们抚育不得法；从前只一味地责备孩子，让他们代我们负起责任，却未免是可耻的残酷了！
7、茶房在轮船里，总是盘踞在所谓“大菜间”的吃饭间里。他们常常围着桌子闲谈，客人也可插进一两个去。但客人若是坐满了，使他们无处可坐，他们便恨恨了；若在晚上，他们老实不客气将电灯灭了，让你们暗中摸索去吧。所以这吃饭间里的桌子竟像他们专利的。当他们围桌而坐，有几个固然有话可谈；有几个却连话也没有，只默默坐着，或者在打牌。我似乎为他们觉着无聊，但他们也就这样过去了。他们的脸上充满了倦怠，嘲讽，麻木的气分，仿佛下工夫练就了似的。最可怕的就是这满脸：所谓“施施然拒人于千里之外”者，便是这种脸了。晚上映着电灯光，多少遮过了那灰滞的颜色；他们也开始有了些生气。他们搭了铺抽大烟，或者拖开桌子打牌。他们抽了大烟，渐有笑语；他们打牌，往往通宵达旦——牌声，争论声充满那小小的“大菜间”里。客人们，尤其是抱了病，可睡不着了；但于他们有甚么相干呢？活该你们洗耳恭听呀！他们也有不抽大烟，不打牌的，便搬出香烟画片来一张张细细赏玩：这却是“雅人深致”了。
8、秦淮河的水是碧阴阴的；看起来厚而不腻，或者是六朝金粉所凝么？我们初上船的时候，天色还未断黑，那漾漾的柔波是这样的恬静，委婉，使我们一面有水阔天空之想，一面又憧憬着纸醉金迷之境了。等到灯火明时，阴阴的变为沉沉了：黯淡的水光，像梦一般；那偶然闪烁着的光芒，就是梦的眼睛了。我们坐在舱前，因了那隆起的顶棚，仿佛总是昂着首向前走着似的；于是飘飘然如御风而行的我们，看着那些自在的湾泊着的船，船里走马灯般的人物，便像是下界一般，迢迢的远了，又像在雾里看花，尽朦朦胧胧的。这时我们已过了
利涉桥，望见东关头了。沿路听见断续的歌声：有从沿河的妓楼飘来的，有从河上船里度来的。我们明知那些歌声，只是些因袭的言词，从生涩的歌喉里机械的发出来的；但它们经了夏夜的微风的吹漾和水波的摇拂，袅娜着到我们耳边的时候，已经不单是她们的歌声，而混着微风和河水的密语了。于是我们不得不被牵惹着，震撼着，相与浮沉于这歌声里了。从东关头转湾，不久就到大中桥。大中桥共有三个桥拱，都很阔大，俨然是三座门儿；使我们觉得我们的船和船里的我们，在桥下过去时，真是太无颜色了。桥砖是深褐色，表明它的历史 的长久；但都完好无缺，令人太息于古昔工程的坚美。桥上两旁都是木壁的房子，中间应该有街路？这些房子都破旧了，多年烟熏的迹，遮没了当年的美丽。我想象秦淮河的极盛时，在这样宏阔的桥上，特地盖了房子，必然是髹漆得富富丽丽的；晚间必然是灯火通明的。现在却只剩下一片黑沉沉！但是桥上造着房子，毕竟使我们多少可以想见往日的繁华；这也慰情聊胜无了。过了大中桥，便到了灯月交辉，笙歌彻夜的秦淮河；这才是秦淮河的真面目哩。大中桥外，顿然空阔，和桥内两岸排着密密的人家的大异了。一眼望去，疏疏的林，淡淡的月，衬着蓝蔚的天，颇像荒江野渡光景；那边呢，郁丛丛的，阴森森的，又似乎藏着无边的黑暗：令人几乎不信那是繁华的秦淮河了。
9、这是在花园里。群花都还做她们的清梦。那微雨偷偷洗去她们的尘垢，她们的甜软的光泽便自焕发了。在那被洗去的浮艳下，我能看到她们在有日光时所深藏着的恬静的红，冷落的紫，和苦笑的白与绿。以前锦绣般在我眼前的，现有都带了黯淡的颜色。——是愁着芳春的销歇么？是感着芳春的困倦么？大约也因那濛濛的雨，园里没了秾郁的香气。涓涓的东风只吹来一缕缕饿了似的花香；夹带着些潮湿的草丛的气息和泥土的滋味。园外田亩和沼泽里，又时时送过些新插的秧，少壮的麦，和成荫的柳树的清新的蒸气。这些虽非甜美，却能强烈地刺激我的鼻观，使我有愉快的倦怠之感。看啊，那都是歌中所有的：我用耳，也用眼，鼻，舌，身，听着；也用心唱着。我终于被一种健康的麻痹袭取了。于是为歌所有。此后只由歌独自唱着，听着；世界上便只有歌声了。
10、在台州过了一个冬天，一家四口子。台州是个山城，可以说在一个大谷里。只有一条二里长的大街。别的路上白天简直不大见人；晚上一片漆黑。偶尔人家窗户里透出一点灯光，还有走路的拿着的火把；但那是少极了。我们住在山脚下。有的是山上松林里的风声，跟天上一只两只的鸟影。夏末到那里，春初便走，却好像老在过着冬天似的；可是即便真冬天也并不冷。我们住在楼上，书房临着大路；路上有人说话，可以清清楚楚地听见。但因为走路的人太少了，间或有点说话的声音，听起来还只当远风送来的，想不到就在窗外。我们是外路人，除上学校去之外，常只在家里坐着。妻也惯了那寂寞，只和我们爷儿们守着。外边虽老是冬天，家里却老是春天。有一回我上街去，回来的时候，楼下厨房的大方窗开着，并排地挨着她们母子三个；三张脸都带着天真微笑地向着我。似乎台州空空的，只有我们四人；天地空空的，也只有我们四人。那时是民国十年，妻刚从家里出来，满自在。现在她死了快四年了，我却还老记着她那微笑的影子。
11、柏林的街道宽大，干净，伦敦巴黎都赶不上的；又因为不景气，来往的车辆也显得稀些。在这儿走路，尽可以从容自在地呼吸空气，不用张张望望躲躲闪闪。找路也顶容易，因为街道大概是纵横交切，少有“旁逸斜出”的。最大最阔的一条叫菩提树下，柏林大学，国家图书馆，新国家画院，国家歌剧院都在这条街上。东头接着博物院洲，大教堂，故宫；西边到著名的勃朗登堡门为止，长不到二里。过了那座门便是梯尔园，街道还是直伸下去——这一下可长了，三十七八里。勃朗登堡门和巴黎凯旋门一样，也是纪功的。建筑在十八世纪末年，有点仿雅典奈昔克里司门的式样。高六十六英尺，宽六十八码半；两边各有六根多力克式石柱子。顶上是站在驷马车里的胜利神像，雄伟庄严，表现出德意志国都的神采。那神像在一八零七年被拿破仑当作胜利品带走，但七年后便又让德国的队伍带回来了。
12、开铺子少不了生意经，福也尔的却颇高雅。他们在旧大楼的四层上留出一间美术馆，不时地展览一些画。去看不花钱，还送展览目录；目录后面印着几行字，告诉你要买美术书可到馆旁艺术部去。展览的画也并不坏，有卖的，有不卖的。他们又常在馆里举行演讲会，讲的人和主席的人当中，不缺少知名的。听讲也不用花钱；只每季的演讲程序表下，“恭请你注意组织演讲会的福也尔书店”。还有所谓文学午餐会，记得也在馆里。他们请一两个小名人做主角，随便谁，纳了餐费便可加入；英国的午餐很简单，费不会多。假使有闲工夫，去领略领略那名隽的谈吐，倒也值得的，不过去的却并不怎样多。
13、北门这里一片空旷的沙地，最宜于露天演说家，来的最多。也许就在共产党队伍走后吧，这里有人说到中日的事；那时刚过“一二八”不久，他颇为我们抱不平。他又赞美甘地；却与贾波林相提并论，说贾波林也是为平民打抱不平的。这一比将听众引得笑起来了；不止一个人和他辩论，一位老太太甚至嘀咕着掉头而去。这个演说的即使不是共产党，大约也不是“高等”英人吧。公园里也闹过一回大事：一八六六年国会改革的暴动（劳工争选举权），周围铁栏干毁了半里多路长，警察受伤了二百五十名。公园周围满是铁栏干，车门九个，游人出入的门无数，占地二千二百多亩，绕园九里，是伦敦公园中最大的，来的人也最多。园南北都是闹市，园中心却静静的。灌木丛里各色各样野鸟，清脆的繁碎的语声，夏天绿草地上，洁白的绵羊的身影，教人像下了乡，忘记在世界大城里。那草地一片迷蒙的绿，一片芊绵的绿，像水，像烟，像梦；难得的，冬天也这样。西南角上蜿蜒着一条蛇水，算来也占地三百亩，养着好些水鸟，如苍鹭之类。
14、鱼房鸟房也特别值得看。鱼房分淡水房海水房热带房（也是淡水）。屋内黑洞洞的，壁上嵌着一排镜框似的玻璃，横长方。每框里一种鱼，在水里游来游去，都用电灯光照着，像画。鸟房有两处，热带房里颜色声音最丰富，最新鲜；有种上截脆蓝下截褐红的小鸟，不住地飞上飞下，不住地咭咭呱呱，怪可怜见的。这个动物园各部分空气光线都不错，又有冷室温室，给动物很周到的设计。只是才二百亩地，实在旋展不开，小东西还罢了，像狮子老虎老是关在屋里，未免委屈英雄，就是白熊等物虽有特备的台子，还是局蹐得很；这与鸟笼子也就差得有限了。固然，让这些动物完全自由，那就无所谓动物园；可是若能给它们较大的自由，让它们活得比较自然些，看的人岂不更得看些。所以一九二七年上，动物学会又在伦敦西北惠勃司奈得地方成立了一所动物园，有三千多亩；据说，那些庞然大物自如多了，游人看起来也痛快多了。
15、不靠婆婆妈妈气去乞怜青年人，不靠甜言蜜语去买好青年人，也不靠刀子手枪去示威青年人。只言行一致后先一致的按着应该做的放胆放手做去。不过基础得打在学校里；学校不妨尽量社会化，青年训练却还是得在学校里。学校好像实验室，可以严格的计划着进行一切；可不是温室，除非让它堕落到那地步。训练该注重集体的，集体训练好，个体也会改样子。人说教师只消传授知识就好，学生做人，该自己磨练去。但是得先有集体训练，教青年有胆量帮助人，制裁人，然后才可以让他们自己磨练去。这种集体训练的大任，得教师担当起来。现行的导师制注重个别指导，琐碎而难实践，不如缓办，让大家集中力量到集体训练上。学校以外倒是先有了集中训练，从集中军训起头，跟着来了各种训练班。前者似乎太单纯了，效果和预期差得多，后者好像还差不多。不过训练班至多只是百尺竿头更进一步，培植根基还得在学校里。在青年时代，学校的使命更重大了，中年教师的责任也更重大了，他们得任劳任怨的领导一群群青年人走上那成德达材的大路。
16、在笔者看来，诗文主要是靠了声调，小说主要是靠了情节。过去一般读者大概都会吟诵，他们吟诵诗文，从那吟诵的声调或吟诵的音乐得到趣味或快感，意义的关系很少；只要懂得字面儿，全篇的意义弄不清楚也不要紧的。梁启超先生说过李义山的一些诗，虽然不懂得究竟是什么意思，可是读起来还是很有趣味（大意）。这种趣味大概一部分在那些字面儿的影象上，一部分就在那七言律诗的音乐上。字面儿的影象引起人们奇丽的感觉；这种影象所表示的往往是珍奇，华丽的景物，平常人不容易接触到的，所谓“七宝楼台”之类。民间文艺里常常见到的“牙床”等等，也正是这种作用。民间流行的小调以音乐为主，而不注重词句，欣赏也偏重在音乐上，跟吟诵诗文也正相同。感觉的享受似乎是直接的，本能的，即使是字面儿的影象所引起的感觉，也还多少有这种情形，至于小调和吟诵，更显然直接诉诸听觉，难怪容易唤起普遍的趣味和快感。
17、陶渊明有“奇文共欣赏，疑义相与析”的诗句，那是一些“素心人”的乐事，“素心人”当然是雅人，也就是士大夫。这两句诗后来凝结成“赏奇析疑”一个成语，“赏奇析疑”是一种雅事，俗人的小市民和农家子弟是没有份儿的。然而又出现了“雅俗共赏”这一个成语，“共赏”显然是“共欣赏”的简化，可是这是雅人和俗人或俗人跟雅人一同在欣赏，那欣赏的大概会还是“奇文”罢。这句成语不知道起于什么时代，从语气看来，似乎雅人多少得理会到甚至迁就着俗人的样子，这大概是在宋朝或者更后罢。
18、连带着想到了国画和平剧的改良，这两种工作现在都有人在努力。日前一位青年同事和我谈到这两个问题，他觉得国画和平剧都已经有了充分的发展，成了定型，用不着改良，也无从改良；勉强去改良，恐怕只会出现一些不今不古不新不旧的东西，结果未必良好。他觉得民间艺术本来幼稚，没有得着发展，我们倒也许可以促进它们的发展；像国画和平剧已经到了最高峰，是该下降，该过去的时候了，拉着它们恐怕是终于吃力不讨好的。照笔者的意见，我们的新文化新艺术的创造，得批判的采取旧文化旧艺术，士大夫的和民间的都用得着，外国的也用得着，但是得以这个时代和这个国家为主。改良恐怕不免让旧时代拉着，走不远，也许压根儿走不动也未可知。还是另起炉灶的好，旧料却可以选择了用。应该过去的总是要过去的。
19、大丈夫也罢，小丈夫也罢，自己其实是渺乎其小的，整个儿人类只是一个小圆球上一些碳水化合物，像现代一位哲学家说的，别提一个人的自己了。庄子所谓马体一毛，其实还是放大了看的。英国有一家报纸登过一幅漫画，画着一个人，仿佛在一间铺子里，周遭陈列着从他身体里分析出来的各种原素，每种标明分量和价目，总数是五先令——那时合七元钱。现在物价涨了，怕要合国币一千元了罢？然而，个人的自己也就值区区这一千元儿！自己这般渺小，不自爱自怜着点又怎么着！然而，“顶天立地”的是自己，“天地与我并生，万物与我为一”的也是自己；有你说这些大处只是好听的话语，好看的文句？你能愣说这样的自己没有！有这么的自己，岂不更值得自爱自怜的？再说自己的扩大，在一个寻常人的生活里也可见出。且先从小处看。小孩子就爱搜集各国的邮票，正是在扩大自己的世界。从前有人劝学世界语，说是可以和各国人通信。你觉得这话幼稚可笑？可是这未尝不是扩大自己的一个方向。
20、可惜我们来的还不是时候，晚饭后在廊下黑暗里等月亮，月亮老不上，我们什么都谈，又赌背诗词，有时也沉默一会儿。黑暗也有黑暗的好处，松树的长影子阴森森的有点像鬼物拿土。但是这么看的话，松堂的院子还差得远，白皮松也太秀气，我想起郭沫若君《夜步十里松原》那首诗，那才够阴森森的味儿——而且得独自一个人。好了，月亮上来了，却又让云遮去了一半，老远的躲在树缝里，像个乡下姑娘，羞答答的。从前人说：“千呼万唤始出来，犹抱琵琶半遮面。”真有点儿！云越来越厚，由他罢，懒得去管了。可是想，若是一个秋夜，刮点西风也好。虽不是真松树，但那奔腾澎湃的“涛”声也该得听吧。西风自然是不会来的。临睡时，我们在堂中点上了两三支洋蜡。怯怯的焰子让大屋顶压着，喘不出气来。我们隔着烛光彼此相看，也像蒙着一层烟雾。外面是连天漫地一片黑，海似的。只有远近几声犬吠，教我们知道还在人间世里。
21、在最近的将来里，我希望社会对于生育的事有两种自觉的制裁：一，道德的制裁，二，法律的制裁。身心有缺陷者，如前举花柳病者等，该用法律去禁止他们生育的权利，便是法律的制裁。这在美国已有八州实行了。但施行这种制裁，必需具备几个条件，才能有效。一要医术发达，并且能得社会的信赖；二要户籍登记的详确（如遗传性等，都该载入）；三要举行公众卫生的检查；四要有公正有力的政府；五要社会的宽容。这五种在现在的中国，一时都还不能做到，所以法律的制裁便暂难实现；我们只好从各方面努力罢了。但禁止“做父母”的事，虽然还不可能，劝止“做父母”的事，却是随时，随地可以作的。教人知道父母的责任，教人知道现在的做父母应该是自由选择的结果，——就是人们于生育的事，可以自由去取——教人知道不负责及不能负责的父母是怎样不合理，怎样损害社会，怎样可耻！这都是爱作就可以作的。这样给人一种新道德的标准去自己制裁，便是社会的道德的制裁的出发点了。
22、天上偶见几只归鸟，我们看着它们越飞越远，直到不见为止。这个时候便是我们喝酒的时候。我们说话很少；上了灯话才多些，但大家都已微有醉意。是该回家的时候了。若有月光也许还得徘徊一会；若是黑夜，便在暗里摸索醉着回去。白马湖的春日自然最好。山是青得要滴下来，水是满满的、软软的。小马路的两边，一株间一株地种着小桃与杨柳。小桃上各缀着几朵重瓣的红花，像夜空的疏星。杨柳在暖风里不住地摇曳。在这路上走着，时而听见锐而长的火车的笛声是别有风味的。在春天，不论是晴是雨，是月夜是黑夜，白马湖都好。——雨中田里菜花的颜色最早鲜艳；黑夜虽什么不见，但可静静地受用春天的力量。夏夜也有好处，有月时可以在湖里划小船，四面满是青霭。船上望别的村庄，像是蜃楼海市，浮在水上，迷离徜恍的；有时听见人声或犬吠，大有世外之感。若没有月呢，便在田野里看萤火。那萤火不是一星半点的，如你们在城中所见；那是成千成百的萤火。一片儿飞出来，像金线网似的，又像耍着许多火绳似的。只有一层使我愤恨。那里水田多，蚊子太多，而且几乎全闪闪烁烁是疟蚊子。我们一家都染了疟疾，至今三四年了，还有未断根的。蚊子多足以减少露坐夜谈或划船夜游的兴致，这未免是美中不足了。
23、春晖是在极幽静的乡村地方，往往终日看不见一个外人！寂寞是小事；在学生的修养上却有了问题。现在的生活中心，是城市而非乡村。乡村生活的修养能否适应城市的生活，这是一个问题。此地所说适应，只指两种意思：一是抵抗诱惑，二是应付环境——明白些说，就是应付人，应付物。乡村诱惑少，不能养成定力；在乡村是好人的，将来一入城市做事，或者竟抵挡不住。从前某禅师在山中修道，道行甚高；一旦入闹市，“看见粉白黛绿，心便动了”。这话看来有理，但我以为其实无妨。就一般人而论，抵抗诱惑的力量大抵和性格、年龄、学识、经济力等有“相当”的关系。除经济力与年龄外，性格、学识，都可用教育的力量提高它，这样增加抵抗诱惑的力量。提高的意思，说得明白些，便是以高等的趣味替代低等的趣味；养成优良的习惯，使不良的动机不容易有效。用了这种方法，学生达到高中毕业的年龄，也总该有相当的抵抗力了；入城市生活又何妨？
24、说到我自己，却甚喜欢乡村的生活，更喜欢这里的乡村的生活。我是在狭的笼的城市里生长的人，我要补救这个单调的生活，我现在住在繁嚣的都市里，我要以闲适的境界调和它。我爱春晖的闲适！闲适的生活可说是春晖给我的第三件礼物！我已说了我的“春晖的一月”；我说的都是我要说的话。或者有人说，赞美多而劝勉少，近乎“戏台里喝彩”！假使这句话是真的，我要切实声明：我的多赞美，必是情不自禁之故，我的少劝勉，或是观察时期太短之故。
25、从前只知道我们是文化的古国，我们自己只能有意无意的夸耀我们的老，世界也只有意无意的夸奖我们的老。同时我们不能不自伤老大，自伤老弱；世界也无视我们这老大的老弱的中国。中国几乎成了一个历史上的或地理上的名词。从两年前这一天起，我们惊奇我们也能和东亚的强敌抗战我们也能迅速的现代化，迎头赶上去。世界也刮目相看，东亚病夫居然奋起了，睡狮果然醒了。从前只是一大块沃土，一大盘散沙的死中国，现在是有血有肉的活中国了。从前中国在若有若无之间，现在确乎是有了。
26、朋友和生人不同，就在他们能听也肯听你的说话——宣传。这不用说是交换的，但是就是交换的也好。他们在不同的程度下了解你，谅解你；他们对于你有了相当的趣味和礼貌。你的话满足他们的好奇心，他们就趣味地听着；你的话严重或悲哀，他们因为礼貌的缘故，也能暂时跟着你严重或悲哀。在后一种情形里，满足的是你；他们所真感到的怕倒是矜持的气氛。他们知道“应该”怎样做；这其实是一种牺牲，“应该”也“值得”感谢的。但是即使在知己的朋友面前，你的话也还不应该说得太多；同样的故事，情感，和警句，隽语，也不宜重复的说。《祝福》就是一个好榜样。你应该相当的节制自己，不可妄想你的话占领朋友们整个的心——你自己的心，也不会让别人完全占领呀。你更应该知道怎样藏匿你自己。只有不可知，不可得的，才有人去追求；你若将所有的尽给了别人，你对于别人，对于世界，将没有丝毫意义，正和医学生实习解剖时用过的尸体一样。
27、十字堂是“佛罗伦司的西寺”，“塔斯干的国葬院”；前面是但丁的造像。密凯安杰罗与科学家格里雷的墓都在这里，但丁也有一座纪念碑；此外名人的墓还很多。佛罗伦司与但丁有系的遗迹，除这所教堂外，在送子堂附近是他的住宅；是一所老老实实的小砖房，带一座方楼，据说那时阔人家都有这种方楼的。他与他的情人佩特拉齐相遇，传说是在一座桥旁；这个情景常见于图画中。这座有趣的桥，照画看便是阿奴河上的三一桥；桥两头各有雕像两座，风光确是不坏。佩特拉齐的住宅离但丁的也不远；她葬在一个小教堂里，就在住宅对面小胡同内。这个堂双扉紧闭，破旧得可以，据说是终年不常开的。但丁与佩特拉齐的屋子，现在都已作别用，不能进去，只墙上钉些纪念的木牌而已。佩特拉齐住宅墙上有一块木牌，专钞但丁的诗两行，说他遇见了一个美人，却有些意思。还有一所教堂，据说原是但丁写《神曲》的地方；但书上没有，也许是“齐东野人”之语罢。密凯安杰罗住过的屋子在十字堂近旁，是他侄儿的住宅。现在是一所小博物院，其中两间屋子陈列着密凯安杰罗塑的小品，有些是名作的雏形，都奕奕有神采。在这一层上，他似乎比但丁还有幸些。
28、十字堂邻近，许多做嵌石的铺子。黑地嵌石的图案或带图案味的花卉人物等都好；好在颜色与光泽彼此衬托，恰到佳处。有几块小丑像，趣极了。但临摹风景或图画的却没有什么好。无论怎么逼真，总还隔着一层；嵌石决不能如作画那么灵便的。再说就使做得和画一般，也只是因难见巧，没有一点新东西在内。威尼斯嵌玻璃却不一样。他们用玻璃小方块嵌成风景图；这些玻璃块相似而不尽相同，它们所构成的不是一个简单的平面，而是许多颜色的点儿。你看时会觉得每一点都触着你，它们间的光影也极容易跟着你的角度变化；至少这“触着你”一层，画是办不到的。不过佛罗伦司所用大理石，色泽胜于玻璃多多；威尼斯人虽会着色，究竟还赶不上。
29、一个在欧洲没住过夏天的中国人，在初夏的时候，上北国的荷兰去，他简直觉得是新秋的样子。淡淡的天色，寂寂的田野，火车走着，像没人理会一般。天尽头处偶尔看见一架半架风车，动也不动的，像向天揸开的铁手。在瑞士走，有时也是这样一劲儿的静；可是这儿的肃静，瑞士却没有。瑞士大半是山道，窄狭的，弯曲的，这儿是一片广原，气象自然不同。火车渐渐走近城市，一溜房子看见了。红的黄的颜色，在那灰灰的背景上，越显得鲜明照眼。那尖屋顶原是三角形的底子，但左右两边近底处各折了一折，便多出两个角来；机伶里透着老实，像个小胖子，又像个小老头儿。
30、海牙和平宫左近，也有不少新式房子，以铺面为多，与工厂又不同。颜色要鲜明些，装饰风也要重些，大致是清秀玲珑的调子。最精致的要数那一座“大厦”，是分租给人家住的。是不规则的几何形。约莫居中是高耸的通明的楼梯间，界划着黑钢的小方格子。一边是长条子，像伸着的一只胳膊；一边是方方的。每层楼都有栏干，长的那边用蓝色，方的那边用白色，衬着淡黄的窗子。人家说荷兰的新房子就像一只轮船，真不错。这些栏干正是轮船上的玩意儿。那梯子间就是烟囱了。大厦前还有一个狭长的池子，浅浅的，尽头处一座雕像。池旁种了些花草，散放着一两张椅子。屋子后面没有栏干，可是水泥墙上简单的几何形的界划，看了也非常爽目。那一带地方很宽阔，又清静，过午时大厦满在太阳光里，左近一些碧绿的树掩映着，教人舍不得走。亚姆斯特丹的新式房子更多。皇宫附近的电报局，样子打得巧，斜对面那家电气公司却一味地简朴；两两相形起来，倒有点意思。别的似乎都赶不上这两所好看。但“新开区”还有整大片的新式建筑，没有得去看，不知如何。
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