三升四英语阅读短文
随着全球经济发展一体化以及我国经济的全面发展,英语作为国际通用语言的地位日益突出。我整理了初中英语口语小短文，欢迎阅读!
初中英语口语小短文一
Bob：
Waitress, a table for two, please.
服务员，请给我一张两人的桌子。
Waitress：
Yes, this way please.
好的，请跟我来。
Bob：
Can we see the menu, please?
能让我们看一看菜单吗?
Waitress：
Here you are.
给您。
Bob：
What’s good today?
今天有什么好吃的?
Waitress：
I recommand crispy and fried ck.
我推荐香酥鸭。
Bob：
We don’t want that. Well, perhaps we’ll begin with mushroom soup, and follow by some seafood and chips.
我们不想吃香酥鸭。或许我们可以先吃蘑菇汤，然后再要点海鲜和土豆片。
Waitress：
Do you want any dessert?
要甜品吗?
Bob：
No dessert, thanks. Just coffee.
不，谢谢。 咖啡就行了。
初中英语口语小短文二
Waitress：
What can I do for you, sir?
先生，您要来点什么?
Bob：
What have you got this morning?
今天早上你们这儿有什么?
Waitress：
Fruit juice, cakes and refreshments, and everything.
水果汁、糕点、各种茶点等等，应有尽有。
Bob：
I’d like to have a glass of tomato juice, please.
请给我来一杯西红柿汁。
Waitress：
Any cereal, sir?
要来点谷类食品吗，先生?
Bob：
Yes, a dish of cream of wheat.
好的，来一份麦片粥。
Waitress：
And eggs?
还要来点鸡蛋什么的吗?
Bob：
Year, bacon and eggs with buttered toast. I like my bacon very crisp.
要，再来一份熏猪肉和鸡蛋，我喜欢熏猪肉松脆一点。
Waitress：
How do you want your eggs?
您喜欢鸡蛋怎么做?
Bob：
Fried, please.
煎的。
Waitress：
Anything more, sir?
还要什么别的东西吗，先生?
Bob：
No, that’s enough. Thank you.
不要了，足够了。谢谢。
初中英语口语小短文三
Waitress：
Good morning. Can I help you?
早上好。有什么能效劳的吗?
Bob：
I want an American breakfast with fried eggs, sunny side up.
我想要一份美式早餐，要单面煎的鸡蛋。
Waitress：
What kind of juice do you prefer, sir?
您想要哪种果汁呢?
Bob：
Grapefruit juice and please make my coffee very strong.
西柚汁，还有，我要杯很浓的咖啡。
Waitress：
Yes, sir. American breakfast with fried eggs, sunny side up, grapefruit juice and a black coffee. Am I correct, sir?
好的，一份美式早餐，要单面煎的鸡蛋、西柚汁及一杯清咖啡，对吗?
Bob：
Yes, that’s right.
是的。
Waitress：
Is there any thing else, sir?
还有什么吗，先生?
Bob：
No, that’s all.
没有了，谢谢。
⑵ 四年级英语故事短文
故事对人们来说,有着天然的吸引力。人们创作故事时,就期待着读者能够与之产生共鸣,得到愉悦的体验、得到情绪的释放。我整理了四年级英语故事短文，欢迎阅读!
四年级英语故事短文篇一
During the Xia Dynasty, there was a crack archer named Hou Yi.
夏朝时，有一位神射手，叫后裔。
One day, the King of Xia pointed to a shooting target of one square metre in size with a bull'seye of only 1/3 decimeter in diameter,
一天，夏王指着一块一平方米大，靶心直径只有一寸的箭靶，
and said to Hou Yi: "If you can hit the bull's eye, I will award you 1，000 pieces of gold.
对后弈说:“如果你射中了靶心，我就赏你千金。
But if you miss, I will take back the 1，000 li of land granted to you."
如果射不中，我就收回给你的千里封地。”
At that Hou Yi山vew the bow to shoot, but he felt very nervous, his face turning red and palein turn.
后翼听了夏王的话，拉弓射箭，但是心里很紧张，脸上一阵红一阵白，气急难平。
Unable to calm his flustered mind, he missed the target with the first arrow, and missed againwith his second arrow.
第一箭，没有射中，第二箭，还是没有射中。
When the King of Xia saw this, he was rather surprised and asked Mi Ren: "Usually, Hou Yi hitsthe target every time. But today he failed. What's the reason?"
夏王看了，觉得很奇怪，就问弥仁: “后裔这个人，平时射箭，总是百发百中。可是今天他却射不中，这是为什么呢?”
Mi Ren replied: "Hou Yi failed to hit the target because he was in an unstable mood, whichaffected his shooting skill.
弥仁回答道: “后裔射不中，因为情绪不稳定，影响了他的射技。
The award of 1, 000 gold pieces was the cause of his fault.
千金厚赏造成了他的失误。
If people could take no account of their gains and losses, and put aside either generousawards or severe punishment, then anyone could become a crack archer."
如果人们能够不计较得失，把厚赏重罚抛在一边，那么谁都可能成为神射手了。”
四年级英语故事短文篇二
In the vast East China Sea, there was a huge turtle.
浩瀚的东海里，有一只大鳌。
It carried the Penglai Fairy Mountain on its head, floated and swam in the great sea, sometimessoaring into the sky and sometimes diving to the bottom of the sea.
它头顶着蓬莱仙山，在大海中浮游，有时飞腾跃上云霄，有时下潜沉人海底。
A red ant on land heard of the huge turtle's magnificent feat and was pleasantly surprised.
陆地上，一只红蚂蚁听说大鳌有如此壮举，非常惊喜。
Thereupon, it called together a big swarm of ants to come to the seashore to have a good lookto broaden their minds.
于是约了一大群蚂蚁来到海岸边，想好好看看，开开眼界。
They waited for over a month, but the huge turtle did not appear on the sea.
可是，它们等了一个多月，大鳌还没浮出海面。
When they were about to return, the sea wind suddenly sprang up and great waves surged up,shaking the land like thunder.
群蚁将要回去的时候，突然海风激荡，波涛万丈，雷鸣般地震撼着大地。
The swarm of ants exclaimed: "Ah, now the huge turtle is about to come out."
这群蚂蚁喊道: “啊，这回大鳌就要出来了。”
A few days afterwards, the wind abated, the waves calmed down, and the sea was tranquilagain.
几天以后，风平浪静，大海平静了下来。
A mountain as high as the sky could be faintly seen rising from the surface of the water andsometimes moving westward.
隐隐约约看到水平面上升起一座齐天的高山，时而还向西游动。
The swarm of ants stretched their heads to watch it for a while, and then expressed theiropinions:
这群蚂蚁伸头探脑看了一阵，大发议论道:
"Why, what's the difference between its carrying a high mountain on its head and our carryinggrains of rice on ours?
“嘿嘿，它头顶高山与我们头顶米粒有什么两样呢?
We crawl along the ants' hill leisurely and freely, and return to our hole to rest.
我们逍遥自在地在蚁山上爬行，回到洞里歇息。
That is: Each has a role to play.
这叫各得其所。
Why should we waste our energy and cover several hundred li to watch it?"
何必白费力气奔波数百里来看它呢?”
四年级英语故事短文篇三
Once upon a time, there was a bird-catcher who liked to cast a net to catch birds.
古时候，有个捕鸟的人，喜欢张网捕鸟。
One day, seeing that birds would fly past, he immediately cast his net and waited patiently.
一天，他看见鸟儿将要从这里飞过，于是立刻布下了罗网，耐心地等待。
After a while, a bird came as expected, and was caught by him at once.
一会儿，鸟儿果然飞来了，一下子就被他捕获了。
The bird-catcher drew in the net and found that the bird had been caught in one mesh.
捕鸟人收网一看，发现鸟被缚在一只网眼里。
He thought that, such being the case, one mesh would be enough.
他想，原来只要一个网眼就行了。
Therefore, he especially made a net with only one mesh, cast it in the same place and waited inhigh spirits.
于是，他就专门制作了一张只有一个眼孔的网，再拿到原处张起网来，兴致勃勃地等待着。
However, he never caught another bird thereafter.
然而，从此以后，他再也没有捕到过一只鸟。
⑶ 适合四年级学生阅读的英语小短文
Too Polite(礼貌过头了)
There are many people in the bus. Some have seats, but some have to(不得不) stand. At a bus stop, a woman gets on the bus. An old man hears the door and tries (试着) to stand up.
“, no, thank you,” the woman forces (强迫) him back to the seat. “Please don't do that. I can stand.”
“But, madam(夫人), let me…,”says the man.
“I ask you to keep your seat(坐在你的座位上)，” the woman says. She puts(放) her hands on the old man's shoulder(肩膀).
But the man still(仍然) tries to stand up,“Madam, will you please let me…?”“Oh, no,”says the woman. She again(又) forces the man back.
At last(最后) the old man shouts(大声喊), “I wants to get off(下车) the bus!”
( )1.All the people have seats in the bus.
( )2.An old man gets on the bus at a bus stop.
( )3.The old man wants to give his seat to he woman.
( )4.The woman sits the old man's seat.
( )5.The old man wants to get off the bus.
⑷ 简单英语小短文阅读十篇
【 #能力训练# 导语】阅读是人们获取信息的重要手段,更是学习英语的主要途径之一。下面是 分享的简单英语小短文阅读十篇。欢迎阅读参考！
1.简单英语小短文阅读 篇一
Sports help everyone to keep healthy, happy, and efficient. So I pay special attention to games, especially table-tennis. Table tennis is my favorite game. I play it almost every day.
Table-tennis is an ideal game for us because it brings the whole body into action. It strengthens our muscles, expands our lungs, promotes the circulation of the blood, and causes a healthy action of the skin. Besides, it is very amusing and does not cost us much money. Table-tennis is very moderate; it is not so rough as football. It is an indoor game and can be played even on rainy days. Thus, it is my favorite kind of exercise.
运动能帮助每一个人保持健康、快乐和有效率。所以我特别重视运动，特别是桌球，桌球是我最喜欢的运动。我几乎每天玩槐谈。
桌球对我们而言，是一项理想的运动，因为它可以使我们全身运动，它可以增强我们的肌肉，扩张我们的肺部，促进血液循环，并且使肌肤产生健康作用，此外，它很有趣而且所费不多。桌球是相当温和适中的，它不像足球那么粗野。它是一种室内运动，甚至在下雨天也能玩。因型明伏此，桌球是我最喜爱的一种运动。
2.简单英语小短文阅读 篇二
One morning a fox sees a cock.He think,"This is my breakfast.
He comes up to the cock and says,"I know you can sing very well.Can you sing for me?The cock is glad.He closes his eyes and begins to sing.The fox sees that and catches him in his mouth and carries him away.
The people in the field see the fox.They cry,"Look,look!The fox is carrying the cock away.
The cock says to the fox,"Mr Fox,do you understand?The people say you are carrying their cock away.Tell them it is yours.Not theirs.
The fox opens his mouth and says,"The cock is mine,not yours.Just then the cock runs away from the fox and flies into the tree.
一天早上，一只狐狸看到了一只公鸡。他想：这是我的早餐。
他朝公鸡走来，对他说："我知道，你能唱得非常好听，你能唱给我听么？"公鸡很高兴。他闭上眼睛开始唱歌。狐狸看到这些抓住它放到自己的嘴里走了。
在田地里的人们看到了狐狸。大喊大叫："看，看！狐狸抓住公鸡逃走了。"公鸡对狐狸说："狐狸先生，卜携你能理解么？人们认为你叼走了公鸡。告诉他们这是你的，不是他们的。"
狐狸张开她的嘴说："公鸡是我的，不是你们的。"就在那时，公鸡逃离了狐狸的嘴巴，跑到了树底下。
3.简单英语小短文阅读 篇三
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn.Bereavements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
在生活与事业的种种事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，心灵比头脑更能指引我们，而由判断获得的克制、耐心与教养比天分更能让我们受益。
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
我一向认为，内心生活开始更为严谨的人，他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。在物欲横流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。
To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance.There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高贵是优于过去的自已。
4.简单英语小短文阅读 篇四
There are many students in middle school wear the glasses, and many of them were wearing the glasses since little. We have to protect our eyes, prevent them from the short-sightedness. We should keep a good sitting posture, never read the books too closely. We’d better have a short break every hour of reading, close eyes or look at the distance. We should do the eye exercises every day. In the evening, we also shouldn’t read while we are lying. And more important, we shouldn’t spend hour and hour starring at our cellphone. We all should protect our eyes.
有很多中学生都带着眼镜，其中很多人从很小就开始戴了。我们必须要保护我们的眼睛，预防眼睛近视。我们应该保持良好的坐姿，看书的时候不要离太近。我们每看一个小时的书能短暂休息一下，闭上眼睛或者看向远方。我们应该每天都做眼保健操。晚上的时候，我们也不要边躺着边看书。更重要的是，我们不要连续花几个小时盯着手机看。我们都应该保护我们的眼睛。
5.简单英语小短文阅读 篇五
Jack is a little goose. He has a lovely hat. He likes wearing it very much. But when he sits, his hat can’t stay on his head.
杰克是一只小鹅。它有一顶可爱的帽子，他非常喜欢戴它。当它坐着时，他的帽子总是戴着头上。
He puts his hat down and begins to play game with the hat. When he gets tired of the game, things are not the same.
它脱下它的帽子并开始用帽子玩游戏。当它玩累时，事情就不是那样了。
He can’t find his hat. Where is it? Jack thinks hard. He looks up and down, and walks here and there. He can’t find his hat yet.
它没有找到他的帽子。它在哪里?杰克仔细想。它上下看了看，到处找了找，还是没有找到它的帽子。
At this time, his mother comes in. As soon as she sees Jack, she cries, “Oh, my dear! Don’t be foolish. Your hat is on your head.”
这时，它的母亲走进来，当她看到杰克就喊道：“啊!亲爱的，你真笨，帽子在你的头上。”
Jack feels very foolish. He doesn’t want to wear his hat on his head.
杰克感到自己很愚蠢。它不想戴那顶帽子了。
6.简单英语小短文阅读 篇六
A self-important lion in the jungle tried to make his mastery clear to all.
He was so confident that he paid no attention to the smaller animals and went right up to a bear. He asked the bear, "Who is the king of the jungle?" The bear replied, "Of course you are."
Then the lion asked a tiger the same question. The tiger replied with some reluctance1, "Of course you are." And then he went to ask an elephant. But the elephant would not allow the lion to do so. He suddenly took hold of the lion with his long nose and bounced2 the lion against a tree, leaving him bleeding3 and badly shaken up.
When the lion finally got up, he blamed the elephant and said: "Even if you couldn't answer my question, it's not necessary for you to act so rough4."
热带丛林里的一个妄自菲薄的狮子试图使所有的动物都明白它的统治地位。
它非常自信，对较小的动物不屑一顾，而是直接去问一只黑熊：“谁是丛林里的大王呀?” 黑熊回答说：“当然是你呀。”
于是它又去问一个老虎同样的问题。老虎有点勉强地回答说：“当然是你呀!”然后他又去问一头大象。可是大象不买它的账，突然用它的长鼻子把狮子抓起来向一棵树扔过去，让它鲜血淋漓和浑身发抖。
狮子终于爬起来时，它责怪大象说：“即使你回答不了我的问题，也用不着这么粗鲁嘛。”
7.简单英语小短文阅读 篇七
It’s very hot.. An old man is asleep on the chair.
A fly comes and sits on the end of the man’s nose.
The old man has a naughty monkey.
He chases the fly. The fly comes back again and sits on the old man’s nose again.
The monkey chases it away again and again. This happens five or six times. The monkey is very angry.
He jumps up, runs to the garden and picks up a large stone.
When the fly sits on the old man’s nose again, the monkey hits it hard with the stone. He kills the fly and breaks the old man’s nose.
天气很热。一位老人在椅子上睡着了。
一只苍蝇飞来落在老人的鼻子上。
老人有一只顽皮的猴子。
猴子在追打苍蝇。 苍蝇再次飞落在老人的鼻子上，猴子一再追打苍蝇。 这样往返了五六次，猴子很生气。
他跳着跑到花园，捡起一块大石头。
当苍蝇再次落在老人的鼻子上时，猴子用石头击中老人的鼻子上的苍蝇。 他砸死了苍蝇也打破了老人的鼻子。
8.简单英语小短文阅读 篇八
instry (diligence)
it is a matter of course that instry will bring us success, wealth and good luck. i am sure that a hard-working person can always succeed in the work which he wants to do. this is unchangeable truth. idleness is the opposite of instry. it is the source of all evil. an idle man only enjoys playing and making pleasures. that he is doomed to failure is of no doubt. we should not follow his example.
勤勉会带给我们成功，财富和好运乃是当然之事。我确信一个苦干的人终是能够做成功他所要做的工作。这是不易之定理。 懒惰是勤勉的反面。它是万恶之源泉。一个懒惰的人只享受玩耍和寻乐。他命运注定失败是毫无疑问的。我们不应学他的榜样。
9.简单英语小短文阅读 篇九
A boy found an eagle's egg and he put it in the nest of a prairie chicken. The eagle hatched and thought he was a chicken. He grew up doing what prairie chicken do-scratching at the dirt for food and flying short distances with a noisy fluttering of wings. It was a dreary life. Graally the eagle grew older and bitter. One day he and his prairie chicken friend saw a beautiful bird soaring on the currents of air, high above the mountains. "Oh, I wish I could fly like that!" said the eagle. The chicken replied, "Don't give it another thought. That's the mighty eagle, the king of all birds-you could never be like him!" And the eagle didn't give it another thought. He went on cackling and complaining about life. He died thinking he was a prairie chicken. My friends, you too were born an eagle. The Creator intended you to be an eagle, so don’t listen to the prairie chickens!
一位小男孩发现了一只老鹰下的蛋，把它放进了一只山鸡的窝里。鹰被孵出来了，但他以为自己是一只山鸡。渐渐的他长大了，却做着山鸡所做的事---从泥土里寻找食物，做短距离的飞翔，翅膀还啪啪作响。生活非常沉闷，渐渐地鹰长大了，也越来越苦恼。有一天，他和他的山鸡朋友看见一只美丽的鸟在天空翱翔，飞的比山还高。 “哦，我要能飞的那么高该多好啊！”鹰说。山鸡回答说，“不要想了，那是凶猛无比的鹰，鸟中---你不可能像他一样！”于是鹰放弃了那个念头。他继续咯咯地叫，不停的抱怨生活。最后他死了，依然认为自己是一只山鸡。朋友们，你们天生就是雄鹰。造物主有意把你造就成一只雄鹰，所以不要听信山鸡的话！
10.简单英语小短文阅读 篇十
A Woodman came into a forest to ask the Trees to give him a handle for Ax. It seemed so modest a request that the principal tree at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that the plain, homely Ash should furnish what was wanted.
No sooner had the Woodman fitted the staff to his purpose ,then he began laying about him on all side.Felling the whole matter too late, whispered to the Cedar: "the first concession has lost all ;if we has not a sacrificed our humble neighbor, we might have yet stood for ages ourselves."
有一个樵夫来到森林里，要求树给他一根斧柄，看来他的请求非常谦虚，立刻得到了树的首领的同意。他们决定由平凡而朴素的白杨树来提供所需要的东西。
樵夫刚按好斧柄，就开始到处乱砍，森林里的树都砍倒了，树林现在察觉大势已去，就小声对衫树说："第一次的让步已失去了一切，如果我们不牺牲我们的小小的邻居，我们自己还可以活无数年呢。"
⑸ 小学四年级英语短文阅读
阅读教学和写作教学是英语教学的重要组成部分。如何有效地进行阅读和写作教学,己引起英语教师的普遍关注。我整理了小学四年级英语短文，欢迎阅读!
小学四年级英语短文篇一
When I grow up, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to move somewhere interesting. Paris sounds like a city that I could that enjoy. There are lots of art exhibitions there. I want to be an artist . So how am I going to do it? First, I'mgoing to find a part-time job for a year or tow and save some money. Then I'm going to be a student at an art school in Paris.
当我长大后，我要做我想做的事。我要搬到某个有趣的地方。巴黎听起来像一个城市，我可以尽情得享受。有很多的艺术展览，我想成为一名艺术家。所以我要怎么做?首先，我要进去找一份兼职来赚钱。然后我想成为巴黎艺术学校的学生。
小学四年级英语短文篇二
Today is September 10th. Teachers’ Day. A teacher was invited to our school to give us a talk. He had taught for fifty years, and had won the gold medals by the Department of Ecation. He worked hard all his life, and gave all his love to the students. We were deeply moved by his talk. Today many students he had taught before come back to him, and some others from all over the country visit wrote him letters to express their love and thanks.
The old man said that it was the happiest moment in his life.
今天是9月10日教师节。老师被邀请到我们学校给我们做报告。他已经教了五十年，赢得了教育金牌。他一生努力工作，给学生满满的爱。我们被深深地被他的演讲感动了。今天又很多他以前教过的学生都回来了，还有一些来自全国各地的访问写信以表达他们的爱和感谢。老人说,这是他一生中最幸福的时刻。
小学四年级英语短文篇三
My new teacher is science teacher. He’s very strong. He has a big mouth, two big ears, two big eyes and a not too big and not too small nose. He often wears a black new shirt and brown pants, with two big shoes。
My science teacher is very kind. And he is very smart, isn’t he? Today, we have science class. We are very happy. Because he is so funny. Who is he? He’s a Mr. Zhou 。
我的新老师是科学老师，他非常强壮。他有一个大嘴巴，两个大耳朵，两个大眼睛和一个不小不大的鼻子。他经常穿着黑色新衬衫和棕色的裤子，有两个大的鞋子。
我的科学老师很和蔼。他很聪明不是吗?今天，我们有科学课。我们非常高兴，因为他是如此的有趣。他是谁?他是周老师 。
小学四年级英语短文篇四
My father is very busy, he seldom has time to stay with me, so when we have time and stay together, I will be very excited. My father likes to watch basketball match and I will watch the game with him, we shout and share the comments about the teams. The time with my father is so rare and I feel so happy.
我的爸爸很忙，他很少有时间和我在一起，因此当我们有时间呆在一起的时候，我会感到很兴奋。我的爸爸喜欢看篮球比赛，我会和他一起看，我们大声叫喊，彼此分享对球队的评论。和爸爸在一起的时间总是那么的少，但是我觉得很开心。
⑹ 小学升初中英语阅读短文1道（急） 第一个回答正确将评为最佳
36. No, he is from Canada.
37. He has big bule eyes and blond hair. He is tall.
38. Paul is strong.
39. Paul is in Green.
40. Yes, he has.
⑺ 初中英语阅读短文
初中英语阅读短文
适合初中学生阅读的短文有哪些呢?下面我为大家准备了初中的英语阅读短文，希望大家喜欢!
初中英语阅读短文一：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.
道德家们常说：幸福靠追求是得不到的。只有用不明智的方式去追求才是这样。蒙特卡洛城的赌徒们追求金钱，但多数人却把钱输掉了，而另外一些追求金钱的办法却常常成功。追求幸福也是一样。如果你通过畅饮来追求幸福，那你就忘记了酒醉后的不适。埃毕丘鲁斯追求幸福的办法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不涂黄油的面包，节日才加一点奶酪。他的办法对他来说是成功的，但他是个体弱多病的人，而多数人需要的是精力充沛。就多数人来说，除非你有别的补充办法，这样追求快乐就过于抽象和脱离实际，不宜作为个人的生活准则。不过，我觉得无论你选择什么样的生活准则，除了那些罕见的和英雄人物的例子外，都应该是和幸福相容的。
很多人拥有获得幸福的全部物质条件，即健康的身体和丰足的收入，可是他们非常不快乐。就这种情况来说，似乎问题处在生活理论的错误上。从某种意义上讲，我们可以说任何关于生活的理论都是不正确的。我们和动物的区别并没有我们想象的那么大。动物是凭冲动生活的，只要客观条件有利，它们就会快乐。如果你有一只猫，它只要有东西吃，感到暖和，偶尔晚上得到机会去寻欢，它就会很快活。你的需要比你的猫要复杂一些，但还是以本能为基础的。在文明社会中，特别是在讲英语的社会中，这一点很容易被忘却。人们给自己定下一个最高的目标，对一切不利于实现这一目标的冲动都加以克制。生意人可能因为切望发财以致不惜牺牲健康和爱情。等他终于发了财，他除了苦苦劝人效法他的好榜样而搅得别人心烦外，并没有得到快乐。很多有钱的贵妇人，尽管自然并未赋予她们任何欣赏文学或艺术的兴趣，却决意要使别人认为她们是有教养的，于是他们花费很多烦人的时间学习怎样谈论那些流行的新书。这些书写出来是要给人以乐趣的，而不是要给人以附庸风雅的机会的。
只要你观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的男男女女，就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。在这些共同之处中有一点是最重要的：那就是活动本身，它在大多数情况下本身就很有趣，而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女，能够从抚养子女中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意，也能以同样的方式得到快乐。不过，还有很多是较低层次的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做无偿的劳动，春天来时，他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。
在我看来，整个关于快乐的话题一向都被太严肃的对待过了。过去一直有这样的看法：如果没有一种生活的理论或者宗教信仰，人是不可能幸福的。也许那些由于理论不好才导致不快乐的人需要一种较好的理论帮助他们重新快活起来，就像你生过病需要吃补药一样。但是，正常情况下，一个人不吃补药也应当是健康的;没有理论也应当是幸福的。真正有关系的是一些简单的事情。如果一个男人喜爱他的妻子儿女，事业有成，而且无论白天黑夜，春去秋来，总是感到高兴，那么不管他的理论如何，都会是快乐的。反之，如果他讨厌自己的妻子，受不了孩子们的吵闹，而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚，而到了晚上又巴望着天明，那么，他所需要的就不是一种新的理论，而是一种新的生活——改变饮食习惯，多锻炼身体等等。
人是动物，他的幸福更多的时候取决于其生理状况而非思想状况。这是一个很庸俗的结论，然而我无法使自己怀疑它。我确信，不幸福的商人与其找到新的理论来使自己幸福，还不如每天步行六英里更见效。
初中英语阅读短文二：If the Dream is Big Enough如果梦想足够大
I used to watch her from mykitchenwindow, she seemed so small as she muscled her way throughthecrowd of boys on the playground. The school was across thestreetfrom our home and I would often watch the kids as theyplayedring recess. A sea of children, and yet to me, she stoodout fromthem all.I remr the first day I saw her playing basketball.
I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids.Shemanaged to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into thenet.The boys always tried to stop her but no one could.I begantonotice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.Shewould practice dribbling and shooting over and overagain,sometimes until dark.
One day I asked her why she practicedsomuch. She looked directly in my eyes and without a momentofhesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way Icango is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I decided thatifI were good enough, I would get a scholarship.
I am going toplaycollege basketball.
I want to be the best. My Daddy told me ifthedream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” Then she smiledandran towards the court to recap the routine I had seen overandover again.
Well, I had to give it to her—she was determined.Iwatched her through those junior high years and into highschool.Every week, she led her varsity team to victory.One day inhersenior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled inherarms.
I walked across the street and sat down in the coolgrassbeside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,”came asoft reply. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at5’5”she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team—muchless offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreamingaboutcollege.She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tightenas Isensed her disappointment.
I asked her if she had talked to herdadabout it yet.She lifted her head from her hands and told methather father said those coaches were wrong. They just didnotunderstand the power of a dream. He told her that if shereallywanted to play for a good college, if she truly wantedascholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing — herownattitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, thefactsdon’t count.”The next year, as she and her team went totheNorthern California Championship game, she was seen by acollege recruiter.
She was indeed offered a scholarship, a fullride, toa Division I, NCAA women’s basketball team. She was goingto getthe college ecation that she had dreamed of and workedtoward forall those years.It’s true: If the dream is big enough,the factsdon’t count.
我以前常常从厨房的窗户看到她穿梭于操场上的一群男孩子中间，她显得那么矮小。
学校在我家的街对面，我可以经常看到孩子们在下课时间打球。尽管有一大群的孩子，但我觉得她跟其他的孩子截然不同。
我记得第一天看到她打篮球的情景。看着她在其他孩子旁边兜来转去，我感到十分惊奇。她总是尽力地跳起投篮，球恰好越过那些孩子的头顶飞入篮筐。那些男孩总是拼命地阻止她，但没有人可以做得到。
我开始注意到她有时候一个人打球。她一遍遍地练习运球和投篮，有时直到天黑。有一天我问她为什么这么刻苦地练习。她直视着我的'眼睛，不加思索地说:“我想上大学。只有获得奖学金我才能上大学。我喜欢打篮球，我想只要我打得好，我就能获得奖学金。我要到大学去打篮球。我想成为最棒的球员。我爸爸告诉我说，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”说完她笑了笑，跑向篮球场，又开始我之前见过的一遍又一遍的练习。
嘿，我服了她了——她是下定了决心了。我看着她这些年从初中升到高中。每个星期，她带领的学校篮球代表队都能够获胜。
高中那会儿的某一天，我看见她坐在草地上，头埋在臂弯里。我穿过街道，坐到她旁边的清凉的草地上。我轻轻地问出什么事了。“哦，没什么，”她轻声回答，“只是我太矮了。”原来篮球教练告诉她，以五英尺五英寸的身材，她几乎是没有机会到一流的球队去打球的——更不用说会获得奖学金了——所以她应该放弃想上大学的梦想。
她很伤心，我也觉得自己的喉咙发紧，因为我感觉到了她的失望。我问她是否与她的爸爸谈过这件事。
她从臂弯里抬起头，告诉我，她爸爸说那些教练错了。他们根本不懂得梦想的力量。他告诉她，如果真的想到一个好的大学去打篮球，如果她真的想获得奖学金，任何东西也不能阻止她，除非她自己不愿意。他又一次跟她说：“心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”
第二年，当她和她的球队去参加北加利福尼亚州冠军赛时，她被一位大学的招生人员看中了。她真的获得了奖学金，一个全面资助的奖学金，并且进入美国全国大学体育协会其中一队女子甲组篮球队。她将接受她曾梦想并为之奋斗多年的大学教育。
是的，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。
;⑻ 小学四年级英语小短文（五篇）
【 #小学英雀扒春语# 导语】语言是人类文化的载体和重要组成部分，每种语言都能表达出使用者所在民族的世界观、思维方式、社会特性以及文化、历史等，都是人类珍贵的无形遗产。而且英语的魅力不仅限此锋于培养孩子的阅读能力和听读的能力，更能够让孩子通过新的语言和多元的思维，打开视野，沟通世界。以下是 整理的《小学四年级英顷耐语小短文（五篇）》相关资料，希望帮助到您。【篇一】小学四年级英语小短文
One day, my mother bought two little rabbits for me. I’m very happy.From that on, the two little rabbits became my good friends. They have two little ears, red eyes, with white and fat boby. They’re marvellous.
Everyday, they play with each other happily. One day, I couldn’t find them. I asked my mother: ”Where are they? ” My mother told me that She didn’t know. At last, I found them in the grass. They were very dirty. I was angry, but when I looked at their lovely faces, I was happy again.
I love my little rabbits, and they love me. They are my good friends forever.
【篇二】小学四年级英语小短文
Our school is in the center city .there are six grades and thirty classes in it .the number of students is more than two thousand .we have two thousand . we have two teaching buildings ,a big library ,and a large playground there many trees and nice flowers in the school .we often keep it clean and it looks neautiful .we love our school .【篇三】小学四年级英语小短文
I have a little dog. Its name is Googlo. He is three years old. He has two big eyes. They're black. He has one blue ear and one black ear. He is clever.I like my Googlo. He likes playing with me. He can bark, jump and run. He can play football, basketball and volleyball. He likes playing football very much. He likes some fruit, such as apples, bananas, oranges, pears and watermelons. He enjoys his snacks.
I love my dog--Googlo. He is very interesting.
【篇四】小学四年级英语小短文
I want to be a model student. What shall I do?I should be polite. I should study hard. I should capful and helpful. I should walk in the corridors. I should throw rubbish in the bin. I should be quiet in the library. I shouldn’t walk and run on the grass. I shouldn’t throw rubbish on the floor. I shouldn’t run in the corridors. I shouldn’t fight. I shouldn’t be noisy in the library.
【篇五】小学四年级英语小短文
I like listening to music best.Because listening to music makes me relaxed.When I am tired,I will listening some quiet music,that makes me fall asleep very quickly.My favorite music is the music that has good lyrics.Good lyrics can also make me learn Chinese or English well.I love listening to music.I will keep this hobby forever.
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⑽ 关于儿童英文小短文阅读
儿童 时期是学习语言的黄金时期,在这一时期进行儿童英语 教育 ,会极大地调动儿童 学习英语 的积极性,也可培养他们终身学习英汪毁语的习惯。下面是我整理的关于儿童英文小短文，欢迎阅读!
关于儿童英文小短文篇一
Little Tom down the street calls our dog "The keep dog".Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say"橘亏 Seep", it comes out "keep". And in a way Tom is right. Zip is always bringing things hoem for us to keep! I'll tell you about some of them.
Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk.
We didn't know how Zip found the shoe. But after a moment Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange smell. I nodded(点头)and held my nose. "What do you think it is?"
"It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot (污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the door to dry."
"Along came Zip. And good-bye shoe!" I said."We should take it back."
"We can't ".said my sistter.
"Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!"
关于儿童英文小短文篇二
The World's Greatest Swordsman At an exhibition of the world's best swordsman, the third-place fencer took the stage. A fly was released, and with an arc of his sword he cut the fly in half. The crowd cheered. Then the second-place man sliced a fly into quarters. A hush fell in anticipation of the world's greatest swordsman. His blade came down in a mighty arc - but the insect continued on its way! The crowd was aghast. The greatest swordsman had missed his target completely, yet he continued to smile. "Why are you so happy?" someone yelled. "You missed!" "Ah," replied the swordsman, "you weren't watching very carefully. They fly lives, yes - but he will never be a father." 世界上最伟大的击剑手 在一场世界最佳击剑手表演中，排名第三的击剑手上场了。一只苍蝇放了出来，剑划了一个弧，他将苍蝇劈成了两半。观众欢呼圆陵神起来。紧接着排名第二的人将一只苍蝇切成了四半。现场一阵沉默，人们期盼着世界上最伟大的击剑手出场。 他的剑锋以一个巨大的弧线划了下来--然而那只昆虫还在继续飞行!观众被惊呆了。最伟大的击剑手完全错过了他的目标，然而他还在微笑着。 “你为什么这么高兴?”有人嚷道，“你没击中!” “啊，”剑手答道，“你刚才没有很仔细地看。苍蝇还活着，是的--但他永远也做不成爸爸了。”
关于儿童英文小短文篇三
HOW TO SPEND SUNDAYS 如何消度星期日
Some of us always spend Sundays aimlessly. We can seldom derive profits from the valuable hours/time of Sundays. This is indeed a great pity. Though Sundays are set aside as a day for rest, we must make good use of them. We know that our school lessons are usually not sufficient. We should often utilize Sundays to read reference books. In this way we will increase our knowledge. Besides, we must be engaged in sports or outing so as to strengthen our bodies.
我们许多人总是把星期日毫无目的地消度掉。这确实是十分可惜。我们很少能从星期日的宝贵时光中获得益处。虽然星期日是被指定为一个休息的日子，但是我们却应好好利用它。我们知道我们学校的功课通常是不够的。我们应时常利用星期日来阅读参考书。如此我们的知识就会增加了。此外，我们必须从事运动或郊游以便强壮我们的身体。
关于儿童英文小短文篇四
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY 诚为上策
There is an English proverb which says/saying)“Honesty is the best policy.” It signifies the importance of honesty.
What are the benefits of honesty? If you are honest to others, they will be honest to you in return. When you are sad, they will comfort you. When you are in trouble, they will help you.
There is no enumerating the evils of dishonesty here. In a word, a dishonest man will be looked down upon by others and (be) regarded as a public enemy.
英国有一句 谚语 说“诚为上策”。它说明了诚的重要性。
诚的益处是什么?如果你对他人诚实，他们也会对你诚实作为报答。当你忧伤的时候，他们会安慰你。当你是处在困难中的时候，他们会帮助你。
无法在这里数述不诚实的害处。一言以蔽之，一个不诚实的人会被人看轻的而且被看作一个公敌。