英文经典名篇背诵英文版

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n. Some very vital people belong to this bloodsucking type. They extract the vitality from one victim after another, but while they prosper and grow interesting, those upon whom they live grow pale and dim and dull. Such people use others as means to their own ends, and never consider them as ends in themselves. Fundamentally they are not interested in those whom for the moment they think they love。 they are interested only in the stimulus to their owe activities, perhaps of a quite impersonal sort. Evidently this springs from some defect in their nature, but it is one not altogether easy either to diagnose of to cure. It is a characteristic frequently associated with great ambition, and is rooted, I should say, in an unduly onesided view of what makes human happiness. Affection in the sense of a genuine reciprocal interest of two persons in each other, not solely as means to each other‟s good, but rather as a bination having a mon good, is one of the most important elements of real happiness, and the man whose ego is so enclosed within steel walls that this enlargement of it is impossible misses the best that life has to offer, however successful he may be in his career. A too powerful ego is a prison from which a man must escape if he is to enjoy the world to the full. A capacity for genuine affection is one of the marks of the man who has escaped form this prison of self. To receive affection is by no means enough。 affection which is received should liberate the affection which is to be given, and only where both exist in equal measure does affection achieve its best possibilities. 6 第九周 第一篇 To Be, or Not to Be By William Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is the question, Whether39。 tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep。 No more。 and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 39。 tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there39。 s the rub。 For in that sleep of death what dreams may e When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There39。 s the respect That makes calamity of so long life。 For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th39。 oppressor39。 s wrong, the proud man39。 s contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law39。 s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th39。 unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o39。 er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. 第九周 第二篇 Of Studies (1) By Francis Bacon Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring。 for ornament, is in discourse。 and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one。 but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, e best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth。 to use them too much for ornament, is affectation。 to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants, that need proyning by study。 and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them。 for they teach not their own use。 but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. 7 第十周 第一篇 All the World39。 s a Stage By William Shakespeare All the world39。 s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances。 And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse39。 s arms. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress39。 eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon39。 s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances。 And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper39。 d pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank。 and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything 第十周 第二篇 Of Studies (2) Read not to contradict and confute。 nor to believe and take for granted。 nor to find talk and discourse。 but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted。 others to swallowed。