最有趣的中學生英語閱讀
⑴ 適合初中看的英語讀物
這是我們我們學校經常抄讓看的
《企鵝》系列
《典範英語》系列
《企鵝》系列是屬於故事或小說名著的壓縮版，能增多詞彙量，對培養語感也很有好處，分初中，高中（如果沒記錯的話！）
《典範英語》系列是英國小孩學習母語用的教材，也很貼切生活，而且它後面有生詞注釋，要買就買6，7，8或以上等級，但要看你的水平來定，前幾個等級屬於很…………簡單的，還是依水平而定。
這兩套書都很薄，有的比較厚，看起來很快，不過不是很好定，我們都是統一學校一起定，定的話有些麻煩，不過說真的真的很好用，用它們學英語很地道，我們已經定了幾個學期了，希望對你有幫助。
就算不想拿它當學習工具，也可以當作放鬆來讀，很有趣，許多名著之類的都壓縮成了它們那樣短的故事，讀這些總比拿一本好多生詞的原版外國名著好多了，希望你看的愉快！
學習英語確實需要多看看原版書籍。
中學生的話可以推薦兩套書籍，都是挺不錯的。
第一種是新概念。
英語專業的學生應該都知道新概念，畢竟實力在哪兒是吧。新概念適合聽、模仿和誦讀。英語和中文一樣總是需要多讀多聽多背，所以選擇一套好的教材也是非常必要的。新概念一共有四冊，可以從第一冊學起，跟著錄音的語音語調進行模仿，一般錄音是英式英語的，還有美式英語的，所以可以進行選擇一下。書裡面有錄音，有課文有練習題，裡面的表達很地道，在進行模仿的時候注意句子的語音語調，要學會按照外國人說英語的調子，在重復的一遍又一遍的模仿中，希望能把課文背下來，開了個頭就能夠自己接下去，要能學到書中的經典表達。這套書非常經典，上大學的時候，我們英語專業的學生一直在用在進行模仿。所以，新概念是必須推薦的。
第二套是書蟲系列的英語書籍。
可以用來當做課外書看，增長知識，感受原版英語的魅力，其中還有很多國外的名著，進行刪減了的，也是有分初級中級高級，很不錯的，而且還有中英對照，是英文在左邊頁中文在右邊頁的，不懂的地方沒有必要停下來查字典會影響看書，直接在右邊找到相應的中文意思就可以了，讀完一本書下來感覺還是很不錯的。英語學習過程中閱讀量很重要和學習中文是一個道理，多看書多揣摩語言，多接觸英語的文化才能深切的感受這門語言的魅力，而且，最後會發現自己在不知不覺中進步。
如果能把這兩套書認真堅持的學習下來，相信英語也會進步許多。
⑶ 有什麼有趣的英語書籍，適合中學生閱讀
火燒圓明園，北京小屠殺
⑷ 優秀初中英語背誦短文閱讀
近年來,英語閱讀的份量和重要性在英語學習中愈來愈突出,教師和學生對閱讀能力的培養投入了很大的精力,然而收獲的實際情況並不像他們所期望的理想。我整理了優秀初中英語背誦短文，歡迎閱讀!
優秀初中英語背誦短文篇一
This summer, I had some special days. I joined Dongzhou International Ecational Exchange Summer Camp.
First, I will tell you about our foreign teachers, they are Shrina and Rebecca. They are friendly and beautiful. They are students at Oxford University.
We talked about many things: famous people, subjects in England, different jobs, our deal days, western star signs, what can we say in a restaurant and so on.
We know lots of things, like what the difference is between "chef" and "cook", all the parts of the body…
We tried to write a letter to Principal Zhang. We made a play and we drew our own comics and tried to sell it. We gave some other students English lessons, we taught them about Chinese Dragon, Chinese Martial Arts and the Olympics.
Every afternoon, we played exciting games: Chinese Whispers, Tongue Twisters, Wheelbarrow, egg and spoon, three legs…
On the last day, we had a good time. We made black tea. We put tea bags, some milk and lots of water in to a big bowl, and then we stirred the tea until it became red and dark. Oh, it tasted good! Later, we used eggs, flour and milk to make many pancakes. To cook them is very interesting. When we finished it, the pancakes looked round and nice. We put some jam on it. How delicious! I won't ever forget it.
The summer Camp is a really good chance for me. I know the local things in England. I learned a lot and like English more. I also know better ways to learn English well.
I hope one day I can see you in England.
今年夏天，我有一些特殊的日子。我加入了東洲國際教育交流夏令營。
首先，我會告訴你我們的外籍教師，他們是Shrina和麗貝卡。他們是友好和美麗。他們在牛津大學的學生。
我們談了許多事情：著名的人，受試者在英格蘭，不同的工作，我們的交易日，西方的星座，我們可以說，在餐館等。
我們知道很多東西，像什麼區別“廚師”和“廚師”，所有的身體部位…
我們試圖寫張校長的一封信。我們做了一個游戲，我們把我們自己的漫畫，並試圖將其出售。我們提出了一些其他學生的英語課，我們教他們中國龍，中國武術和奧運會。
每天下午，我們玩刺激的游戲：中國私語，繞口令，手推車，雞蛋和勺子，三條腿…
在最後一天，我們有一個很好的時間。我們做了紅茶。我們把茶葉袋，一些牛奶和大量的水在一個大碗里，然後我們攪拌茶，直到它變成紅色和黑色。哦，味道很好!後來，我們用雞蛋，麵粉和牛奶使許多薄煎餅。做飯很有趣。當我們完成它，煎餅環顧四周，很好。我們把它的一些果醬。多麼美味!我永遠不會忘記它。
夏令營對我來說是一個非常好的機會。我知道在英格蘭本土的東西。我學到了很多，更喜歡英語。我也知道更好的方法來學習英語。
我希望有一天我能看見你在英格蘭。
優秀初中英語背誦短文篇二
Everyone loves to do something when he has free time, and I do, too. What's my favorite activity? It's shopping. Shopping is so exciting and fun. When you walk along the street, you can see many different kinds and styles of clothes. They're really beautiful and new to me, so I find it hard to control myself. I want to buy everything. Of course, after shopping I have less money and I become sane because it will be a long time until I have enough money for my next shopping spree.
每個人都喜歡在他們空閑的時間里做點事情，我也一樣。我最喜歡的活動是什麼呢?是購物。購物是很刺激和有趣的。當你沿著大街走的時候，你可以看到不同類型和風格的衣服。對我來說，它們都是又漂亮又新的。所以我總是無法控制我自己。所有的東西我都想買。當然，購物之後，我的錢變少了，我也變得理智了。因為將會是很長一段時間直到我有足夠的錢來供我下一次狂歡。
優秀初中英語背誦短文篇三
A new term began. Students all returned to school met again. They were talking about what they had done in the holidays. I was happier. I couldn't wait to tell my story. Now it's my turn. I told them I got a job in a restaurant. I worked as a waitress.
They didn't believe at first.
"Yes, it's true. "I said," I really had a hard time at the beginning. But several days later, I could do a good job. I earned six hundred yuan this holiday. "They all looked at me with their mouths open.
新學期開始了，同學們都返回學校重新見面。他們正在談論自己的暑假生活。我更高興，迫不及待地想告訴他們我是怎麼過的。終於輪到我，了，我告訴他們我暑假期間在一家餐館當服務員。他們起初並不相信。“是真的。”我說，“剛開始時可慘了，但幾天我就做得很好了。暑假我掙了600元錢呢。”他們都目瞪口呆地看著我。
⑸ 初中英語閱讀文章帶翻譯
提升英語閱讀能力是我們學習初中英語的重中之重，下面我為大家帶來，歡迎大家閱讀!
篇一：
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a *** all village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is corneredadj.被困得走投無路的. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and *** all animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people plained of 'cat-like noises' at night and a busines *** an on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it e from ? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.
美洲獅是一種體形似貓的大動物，產於美洲。當倫敦動物園接到報告說，在倫敦以南45英里處發現一隻美洲獅時，這些報告並沒有受到重視。可是，隨著證據越來越多，動物園的專家們感到有必要進行一番調查，因為凡是聲稱見到過美洲獅的人們所描述的情況竟是出奇地相似。
搜尋美洲獅的工作是從一座小村莊開始的。那裡的一位婦女在採摘黑莓時的看見"一隻大貓"，離她僅5碼遠，她剛看見它，它就立刻逃走了。專家證實，美洲獅非被逼得走投無路，是決不會傷人的。事實上搜尋工作很困難，因為常常是早晨在甲地發現那隻美洲獅，晚上卻在20英里外的乙地發現它的蹤跡。無論它走哪兒，一路上總會留下一串死鹿及死兔子之類的小動物，在許多地方看見爪印，灌木叢中發現了粘在上面的美洲獅毛。有人抱怨說夜裡聽見"像貓一樣的叫聲";一位商人去釣魚，看見那隻美洲獅在樹上。專家們如今已經完全肯定那隻動物就是美洲獅，但它是從哪兒來的呢?由於全國動物園沒有一家報告丟了美洲獅，因此那隻美洲獅一定是某位私人收藏豢養的，不知怎麼設法逃出來了。搜尋工作進行了好幾個星期，但始終未能逮住那隻美洲獅。想到在寧靜的鄉村裡有一頭危險的野獸繼續逍遙流竄，真令人擔心。
篇二：
Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
' One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. 'Whatever are you doing up here Bill ?' asked the vicar in surprise.
' I'm trying to repair the bell,' answered Bill.' I've been ing up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.'
'You certainly did give me a surprise!' said the vicar. 'You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.'
'That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it.'
'We'll get used to that Bill,' said the vicar. 'Thirteen is not as good as one but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.'
我們教區的牧師總是為各種各樣的事籌集資金。但始終未能籌足資金把教堂的鍾修好。教堂的鍾很大，以前不分晝夜打點報時，但很多年前遭到毀壞，從此便無聲無息了。
一天夜裡，我們的牧師突然被驚醒了，大鍾又在"打點"報時了!他一看錶，才1點鍾，可是那鍾一邊敲了13下才停。牧師拿著一支電筒走上鍾樓想去看看究竟發生了什麼事情。藉著電筒光。他看見一個人，馬上認出那是本地雜貨店主經比爾.威爾金斯。
"你究竟在這上面干什麼，比爾?"牧師驚訝地問。
"我想把這口鍾修好，"比爾回答說。"好幾個星期了，我天天夜裡到鍾樓上來。嗯，我是想讓你大吃一驚。"
"你確實使我大吃了一驚!"牧師說，"也許同時你把村裡所有的人都吵醒了。不過，鍾又能報時了，我還是很高興的。"
"問題就在這里，牧師，"比爾回答說。"不錯，鍾能報時了，但是，恐怕每到1點鍾，它總要敲13下，對此我已無能為力了。"
"大家慢慢就習慣了，比爾，"牧師說。"13下是不如1下好，但總比1下也不敲強。來，咱們下樓去喝杯茶吧。"
篇三：
Some time ago，an interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegeanadj.愛琴海的;n.island of Kea.An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory海角 of Ayia Irini.The city at one time must have been prosperous繁榮的，for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.Houses--often three storeys樓層 high--were built of stone.They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls.The city was even equipped with a drainage system，for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets.
The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship禮拜 from the fifteenth century B.C. until Roman times. In the most sacred room of the temple, clay fragments碎片 of fifteen statues were found. Each of these represented a goddess and had, at one time, been painted. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth century B.C. Its missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century B.C. This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then即使在那時. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman. She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hip. She was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.
不久之前，在愛琴海的基亞島上，考古工作者有一項有趣的發現。一個美國考古隊在阿伊亞.依里尼海角的一座古城裡考察了一座廟宇。這座古城肯定一度很繁榮，因為它曾享有高度的文明，房子一般有3層樓高，用石塊修建。裡面房間很大，牆壁裝飾華麗。城裡甚至還敷設了排水系統，因為在狹窄的街道底下發現了許許多多陶土製作的排水管道。
考古工作者考察的這座廟宇從公元前15世紀直到羅馬時代一直是祭祀祈禱的場所。在廟中最神聖的一間殿堂里發現了15尊陶雕像的碎片。每一尊雕像代表一位女神，而且一度上過色。其中有一尊雕像，她的軀體是在公元前15世紀的歷史文物中發現的，而她那身異處的腦袋卻碰巧是在公元前5世紀的文物中找到的。她的腦袋一定是在古希臘羅馬時代就為人所發現，並受到精心的保護。卻使在當時，它也屬歷史悠久的珍奇之物。考古工作者把這些碎片重新拼裝起來後，驚奇地發現那位女神原來是一位相貌十分摩登的女郎。她身高3英尺，雙手叉腰。身穿一條拖地長裙，盡管上了年紀，但體態確實優美。不過，考古工作者至今未能確定這位女神的身份。
⑹ 六年級英語課外讀物有什麼推薦
六年級英語課外讀物有什麼推薦?比如原版書籍，閱讀英文書是英語學習的重要內容，因為閱讀英文原版書，不僅能提升孩子的詞彙量，還能增加孩子的語言文學素養。一起了解下六年級英語課外讀物吧。
六年級英語課外讀物有什麼推薦?
1、六年級英語課外讀物：《晚安，月亮》Goodnight Moon
作者：瑪格麗特·懷斯·布朗(MargaretWise Brown)
本書被紐約圖書館評為“世紀之書”，是經典繪本中的經典。小兔子夜晚睡不著，他看遍了房間里的每樣東西，又一一和它們說晚安：除了視線里的梳子、玩具和椅子，還有孩子心裡那些細膩的東西：Good night nobody…good night air…goodnight noises everywhere……
2、六年級英語課外讀物：《勇敢的小火車頭》The Little Engine That Could
作者：華提·派普爾(Watty Piper)
這是一本教孩子說“YES ，ICAN!”的書，其中經典語句“我想我能做到!已經成為美國流行語中屹立不倒的一部分，是美國經典兒童讀物。故事中傳達了自信、樂觀、善良與勇敢等美好的精神特質，感動了全世界千千萬萬的孩子和大人。這是一本絕對不容錯過的好書。
3、六年級英語課外讀物：《小熊可可》Corroy
作者：唐·弗里曼(Don Freeman)
穿著綠色燈芯絨背帶褲、掉了一顆紐扣的小熊可可形象，自誕生以來，已成為最經典繪本形象之一。《小熊可可》入選了紐約公共圖書館”每個人都應該知道的100種繪本“、美國《出版者周刊》評為”所有時代最暢銷童書“(精裝本)、美國全國教育協會推薦100本最佳童書、美國全國教育協會”教師們推薦的100本書“等幾十個榜單。
⑺ 初中英語小短文加翻譯精選
英語閱讀是學習語言知識、提高英語語言能力的有效途徑，也是人們獲取外部信息、了解世界的主要手段。我整理了初中英語小短文加翻譯，歡迎閱讀!
初中英語小短文加翻譯篇一
This year's spring seems to come earlier than ever before.
I feel lazy lying in my room, a swallow suddenly stopped on the railing. His companions, perhaps it is served and then two swallows came. They turn light body, sing a song. I know that spring is coming.
So, how to see outside?
A few years ago a plant trees, has been full of the whole garden. Is not my words not accurate, the approximate to a flower trees, peripheral has taken on a rose red, very neatly arranged beside the young trees. As if all the garden was bathed in the romantic in the red. But my eyes there are many bees busy flying saw, also listen to hum to them. These careless little guys long time no see, even you spend these trees as a wrong? Leaned over to see a collective punishment with a strain, bursting with thriving vitality. But there are very few colors, especially prominent is yellow and white.
In the red sea, in a few slightly higher banyan tree. Rain and sunshine as one of the big banyan tree branches, prolapse, into the ground to take root. So many branches in the straw, the absorption of the earth mother to grant them the continuation of life, it is the spring rain elves, render the dedication of his own. "The wind into night, moistens everything silently". And the shining yellow goes.
As for white, is really a flower, but the flowers are not like out from which the lush foliage, and fall like the lotus flower petals fibrillation. Bunch of bunch of laying down. Leaf like drops of water. The stars of small white flowers and beating up and down in the leaf, the pentium.
Then is with green, spring-like seasons of pine, color lighter osmanthus, and refute the bamboo leaves, and complex, the distance is rare with green, along the arc is growing. The green is different, next to them, regardless of you and me, scrambling to show their youth. Quite some shake day of shock. But team large enough, a few clusters of deep bamboo blocking their way. The odd thing is that almost all the trees is toward the bottom, like to come out of the thick fog is their spray.
Spring is the most don't worry about the color of the season, and was probably created by the flowers. Carry hundreds of little flower in the grass, like red, each flower were burning like a flame. Her honey haired yellow flower seems to be more beautiful, whether a lazy autumn forget away it this dress? The lawn also give the green. How beautiful! Purplish red, white, sky blue, not well-known, well-known land full of, like the stars in the sky, in the breeze blinks to me. Even in the vegetable rape also ushered in the spring. On elm launched a raid new pleated folds. Willows drew up a little bit of buds. I walk path, and in the spring, you left a string of singing in my head.
The rain has stopped, the fragrance of the soil in flying apart in the field. Rivers flow shallowly, the voice of joy filled the air.
Let's make a grateful heart spring, string into a bud, dedicated to the spring.
初中英語小短文加翻譯篇二
A new term began. Students all returned to school met again. They were talking about what they had done in the holidays. I was happier. I couldn't wait to tell my story. Now it's my turn. I told them I got a job in a restaurant. I worked as a waitress.
They didn't believe at first.
"Yes, it's true. "I said," I really had a hard time at the beginning. But several days later, I could do a good job. I earned six hundred yuan this holiday. "They all looked at me with their mouths open.
新學期開始了，同學們都返回學校重新見面。他們正在談論自己的暑假生活。我更高興，迫不及待地想告訴他們我是怎麼過的。終於輪到我，了，我告訴他們我暑假期間在一家餐館當服務員。他們起初並不相信。“是真的。”我說，“剛開始時可慘了，但幾天我就做得很好了。暑假我掙了600元錢呢。”他們都目瞪口呆地看著我。
初中英語小短文加翻譯篇三
I have a lot of little handiwork, but the favorite one is my collecting-tin.
It is a little man made of china. He wears a red hat and a pair of big glasses. His blue clothes are very nice.He has a red noseband no big eyes like stars on his face. His big and round body is very funny.
Because of this collecting-fin, I have learned how to savemoney, When I was a little boy, I always put coins away, then I dropped them into his round bOdy.
Sometimes he can "eat" plenty of coins at a time, He becomes heavier and heavier day after day.
我有很多小手工,但最喜歡的是我的儲錢罐。
這儲錢罐是一個中國製造的小男人。他穿著一件紅色的帽子和一副大眼鏡。他的藍色衣服很好。他有一個紅鼻子，羈臉上沒有像星星一樣大眼睛。他又大又圓的身體是非常有趣的。
由於這種儲錢罐,我學會了如何省錢,當我還是個小男孩的時候,我總是把硬幣,丟進他的身體里。
有時他可以一次“吃”大量的硬幣,他一天天的變得越來越重。
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第一篇：The Road To Happiness幸福之道
It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.
There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for sty snobbism.
If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most graally builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.
The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unenrable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen----a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.
Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.
道德家們常說：幸福靠追求是得不到的。只有用不明智的方式去追求才是這樣。蒙特卡洛城的賭徒們追求金錢，但多數人卻把錢輸掉了，而另外一些追求金錢的辦法卻常常成功。追求幸福也是一樣。如果你通過暢飲來追求幸福，那你就忘記了酒醉後的不適。埃畢丘魯斯追求幸福的辦法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不塗黃油的麵包，節日才加一點乳酪。他的辦法對他來說是成功的，但他是個體弱多病的人，而多數人需要的是精力充沛。就多數人來說，除非你有別的補充辦法，這樣追求快樂就過於抽象和脫離實際，不宜作為個人的生活准則。不過，我覺得無論你選擇什麼樣的生活准則，除了那些罕見的和英雄人物的例子外，都應該是和幸福相容的。
很多人擁有獲得幸福的全部物質條件，即健康的身體和豐足的收入，可是他們非常不快樂。就這種情況來說，似乎問題處在生活理論的錯誤上。從某種意義上講，我們可以說任何關於生活的理論都是不正確的。我們和動物的區別並沒有我們想像的那麼大。動物是憑沖動生活的，只要客觀條件有利，它們就會快樂。如果你有一隻貓，它只要有東西吃，感到暖和，偶爾晚上得到機會去尋歡，它就會很快活。你的需要比你的貓要復雜一些，但還是以本能為基礎的。在文明社會中，特別是在講英語的社會中，這一點很容易被忘卻。人們給自己定下一個最高的目標，對一切不利於實現這一目標的沖動都加以克制。生意人可能因為切望發財以致不惜犧牲健康和愛情。等他終於發了財，他除了苦苦勸人效法他的好榜樣而攪得別人心煩外，並沒有得到快樂。很多有錢的貴婦人，盡管自然並未賦予她們任何欣賞文學或藝術的興趣，卻決意要使別人認為她們是有教養的，於是他們花費很多煩人的時間學習怎樣談論那些流行的新書。這些書寫出來是要給人以樂趣的，而不是要給人以附庸風雅的機會的。
只要你觀察一下周圍那些你可稱之為幸福的男男女女，就會看出他們都有某些共同之處。在這些共同之處中有一點是最重要的：那就是活動本身，它在大多數情況下本身就很有趣，而且可逐漸的使你的願望得以實現。生性喜愛孩子的婦女，能夠從撫養子女中得到這種滿足。藝術家、作家和科學家如果對自己的工作感到滿意，也能以同樣的方式得到快樂。不過，還有很多是較低層次的快樂。許多在城裡工作的人到了周末自願地在自家的庭院里做無償的勞動，春天來時，他們就可盡情享受自己創造的美景帶來的快樂。
在我看來，整個關於快樂的話題一向都被太嚴肅的對待過了。過去一直有這樣的看法：如果沒有一種生活的理論或者宗教信仰，人是不可能幸福的。也許那些由於理論不好才導致不快樂的人需要一種較好的理論幫助他們重新快活起來，就像你生過病需要吃補葯一樣。但是，正常情況下，一個人不吃補葯也應當是健康的;沒有理論也應當是幸福的。真正有關系的是一些簡單的事情。如果一個男人喜愛他的妻子兒女，事業有成，而且無論白天黑夜，春去秋來，總是感到高興，那麼不管他的理論如何，都會是快樂的。反之，如果他討厭自己的妻子，受不了孩子們的吵鬧，而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚，而到了晚上又巴望著天明，那麼，他所需要的就不是一種新的理論，而是一種新的.生活——改變飲食習慣，多鍛煉身體等等。
人是動物，他的幸福更多的時候取決於其生理狀況而非思想狀況。這是一個很庸俗的結論，然而我無法使自己懷疑它。我確信，不幸福的商人與其找到新的理論來使自己幸福，還不如每天步行六英里更見效。
第二篇：Stars on a Snowy Night雨雪時候的心情
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual. In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky. Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneliness and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight. My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path. I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there. Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky. With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily passed for as many stars.
Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground. With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !
寒暑表降到冰點下十八度的時候，我們也是在廊下睡覺。每夜最熟識的就是天上的星辰了。也不過是點點閃爍的光明，而相看慣了，偶然不見，也有些想望與無聊。
連夜雨雪，一點星光都看不見。荷和我擁衾對坐，在廊子的兩角，遙遙談話。
荷指著說：“你看維納斯(Venus)升起來了!”我抬頭望時，卻是山路轉折處的路燈。我怡然一笑，也指著對山的一星燈火說：“那邊是丘比特(Jupiter)呢!”
愈指愈多。松林中射來零亂的風燈，都成了滿天星宿。真的，雪花隙里，看不出來天空和森林的界限，將繁燈當作繁星，簡直是抵得過。
一念至誠的將假作真，燈光似乎都從地上飄起。這幻成的星光，都不移動，不必半夜夢醒時，再去追尋他們的位置。
於是雨雪寂寞之夜，也有了慰安了!
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