英语美文背诵文选15篇

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om Logic By William Stanley Jevons 陈冠商《英语背诵文选》（第一册 10） 8. A Little Girl Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly bee very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So pletely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her plexion, that she unmonly lovely. (159 words) 陈冠商《英语背诵文选》（第一册 17） 9. Choosing an Occupation Hodeslea, Eastbourne, November 5, 1892 Dear Sir, I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier reply to your letter. In my opinion a man39。 s first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to so work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very important education the effects of which make themselves felt in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dare about when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth. 4 Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily mercial work is over, to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick to merce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in 39。 trying to make a spoon spoils a horn, and bees a mere hangeron in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations. I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words) Yours faithfully . Huxley From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley By Leonard Huxley 陈冠商《英语背诵文选》（第一册 19） 10. An Important Aspect of College Life It is perfectly possible to anize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it。 in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them。 and it is only by such an anization that they can be given real vitality as places of serious training, be made munities in which youngsters will e fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievementonly by such an anization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things。 recitations generally proved very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of every thing that is interesting and important, h。