最新四级晨读主题美文

2023-03-22 经典美文

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　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇1

　　Idleness , Bad Habit

　　There are some that profess Idleness in its full dignity, who call themselves the Idle, who boast2 that they do nothing, and thank their stars that they have nothing to do; who sleep every night till they can sleep no longer, and rise only that exercise may enable them to sleep again; who prolong the reign of darkness by double curtains, and never see the sun but to "tell him how they hate his beams"; whose whole labor is to vary the postures of indulgence3 , and whose day differs from their night but as a couch or chair differs from a bed.

　　These are the true and open votaries of Idleness, for whom she weaves4 the garlands of poppies, and into whose cup she pours the water of oblivion; who exist in a state of unruffled stupidity, forgetting and forgotten; who have long ceased to live, and at whose death the survivors can only say that they have ceased5 to breathe.

　　But Idleness predominates6 in many lives where it is not suspected; for being a vice which terminates in itself, it may be enjoyed without injury to others; and is therefore not watched like Fraud, which endangers property, or like Pride,which naturally seeks its gratifications in another's inferiority. Idleness is a silent and peaceful quality, that neither raises envy by ostentation, nor hatred by opposition; and therefore nobody is busy to censure or detest it.

　　There are others to whom Idleness dictates7 another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitable away without the tediousness of many vacant hours. The art is, to fill the day with petty business, to have always something in hand which may raise curiosity, but not solicitude, and keep the mind in a state of action, but not of labor.

　　No man is so much open to conviction as the idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little. What will be the effect of this paper I know not: perhaps he will read it and laugh, and light the fire in his furnace; but my hope is that he will quit his trifles, and betake himself to rational and useful diligence.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇2

　　Competition

　　It is a plain fact that we are in a world where competition is going on in all areas and at all levels.This is exciting.Yet, on the other hand, competition breeze a pragmatic attitude.People choose to learn things that are useful,and do things that are profitable.Todays' college education is also affected by this general sense of utilitarianism.

　　Many college students choose business nor computing programming as their majors convinced that this professions are where the big money is. It is not unusual to see the college students taking a part time jobs as a warming up for the real battle.I often see my friends taking GRE tests, working on English or computer certificates and taking the driving licence to get a licence. Well, I have nothing against being practical. As the competition in the job market gets more and more intense, students do have reasons to be practical. However, we should never forget that college education is much more than skill training. Just imagine, if your utilitarianism is prevails on campus, living no space for the cultivation of students' minds,or nurturing of their soul. We will see university is training out well trained spiritless working machines.If utilitarianism prevails society, we will see people bond by mind-forged medicals lost in the money-making ventures;we will see humality lossing their grace and dignity, and that would be disastrous.I'd like to think society as a courage and people persumed for profit or fame as a horese that pulls the courage.Yet without the driver picking direction the courage would go straight and may even end out in a precarious situation .

　　A certificate may give you some advantage, but broad horizons, positive attitudes and personal integrities ,these are assets you cannot acquire through any quick fixed way.In today's world, whether highest level of competition is not of skills or expertise , but vision and strategy. Your intellectual quality largely determinds how far you can go in your career.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇3

　　Chinese Undergraduates in the US

　　Each year, elite American universities and liberal arts colleges, such as Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Amherst and Wellesley, offer a number of scholarships to Chinese high school graduates to study in their undergraduate programs. Four years ago, I received such a scholarship from Yale.

　　What are these Chinese undergrads like? Most come from middle-class families in the big urban centers of China. The geographical distribution is highly skewed, with Shanghai and Beijing heavily over-represented. Outside the main pool, a number of Yale students come from Changsha and Ningbo,swhereseach year American Yale graduates are sent to teach English.

　　The overwhelming majority of Chinese undergraduates in the US major in science, engineering or economics. Many were academic superstars in their high schools - gold medallists in international academic Olympiads or prize winners in national academic contests. Once on US campuses, many of them decide to make research a lifelong commitment.

　　Life outside the classroom constitutes an important part of college life. At American universities the average student spends less than thirteen hours a week in class. Many Chinese students use their spare time to pick up some extra pocket money. At Yale, one of the most common campus jobs is washing dishes in the dining halls. Virtually all Chinese undergraduates at Yale work part-time in the dining halls at some point in their college years. As they grow in age and sophistication, they upgrade to better-paying and less stressful positions. The more popular and interesting jobs include working as a computer assistant, math homework grader, investment office assistant and lab or research assistant. The latter three often lead to stimulating summer jobs.

　　Student activities are another prominent feature of American college life. Each week there are countless student-organized events of all sorts - athletic, artistic, cultural, political or social (i.e. just for fun). New student organizations are constantly being created, and Chinese undergrads contribute to this ferment. Sport looms much larger on US campuses than in China. At Yale, intramural sports from soccer to water polo take place all year long; hence athletic talent is a real social asset. One of the Chinese students at Yale several years ago was a versatile sportsman. His athletic talents and enthusiastic participation in sporting events, combined with his other fine qualities, made him a popular figure in his residential college.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇4

　　I Want to Know

　　It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

　　It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

　　It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

　　It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

　　It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

　　It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

　　It doesn’t interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

　　I want to know if you can sit with pain, without moving to hide it.

　　I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

　　I want to know if you can see beauty , if you can source your life from god’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇5

　　Beauty

　　there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that have nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart.

　　I have thought about her often over the years and how she struggled in a society that places an incredible premium on looks, class, wealth and all the other fineries of life. She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look attractive. I know that her condition hurt her deeply.

　　Would her life have been different had she been pretty? Chances are it would have. And yet there were a sensitivity and a beauty to her that had nothing to do with looks. She was one to be listened to, whose words were so easy to take to heart. Her words came from a wounded but loving heart, very much like all hearts, but she had more of a need to be aware of it, to live with it and learn from it. She possessed a fine-tuned sense of beauty. Her only fear in life was the loss of a friend.

　　It is said that the true nature of being is veiled. The labor of words, the expression of art, the seemingly ceaseless buzz that is human thought all have in common the need to get at what really is so. The hope to draw close to and possess the truth of being can be a feverish one. In some cases it can even be fatal, if pleasure is one's truth and its attainment more important than life itself. In other lives, though, the search for what is truthful gives life.

　　The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the surface for a glimpse of what it is that matters. She found beauty and grace and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇6

　　Work and Pleasure

　　To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week’s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.

　　It may also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune’s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

　　工作和娱乐

　　要想获得真正的快乐与安宁，一个人应该有至少两三种爱好，而且必须是真正的爱好。到晚年才说“我对什么什么有兴趣”是没用的，这只会徒然增添精神负担。一个人可以在自己工作之外的领域获得渊博的知识，不过他可能几乎得不到什么好处或是消遣。做你喜欢的事是没用的，你必须喜欢你所做的事。总的来说，人可以分为三种：劳累而死的.、忧虑而死的、和烦恼而死的。对于那些体力劳动者来说，经历了一周精疲力竭的体力劳作，周六下午让他们去踢足球或者打棒球是没有意义的。而对那些政治家、专业人士或者商人来说，他们已经为严肃的事情操劳或烦恼六天了，周末再让他们为琐事劳神也是没有意义的。

　　也可以说，那些理性的、勤勉的、有价值的人们可分为两类，一类，他们的工作就是工作，娱乐就是娱乐；而另一类，他们的工作即娱乐。大多数人属于前者，他们得到了相应的补偿。长时间在办公室或工厂里的工作，回报给他们的不仅是维持了生计，还有一种强烈的对娱乐的需求，哪怕是最简单的、最朴实的娱乐。不过，命运的宠儿则属于后者。他们的生活很自然和谐。对他们来说，工作时间永远不嫌长。每天都是假日，而当正常的假日来临时，他们总是埋怨自己所全身心投入的休假被强行中断了。不过，有些事情对两类人是同样至关重要的，那就是转换一下视角、改变一下氛围、将精力转移到别的事情上。确实，对那些工作即是娱乐的人来说，最需要隔一段时间就用某种方式把工作从脑子里面赶出去。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇7

　　Staying at a certain place long enough . Everybody needs to know where the toilet is. I tried to find one when I first visited the Divinity School Library， the oldest school in Yale University： I tried to find the signs with words such as WC， Ladies， Bathroom， and Washroom. I used all the knowledge I had about toilet， but I could not find one. My common sense told me that it was impossible not to find one in the library， so I kept trying. Eventually I found a door on which was a single word： WOMEN.

　　任何人在一个地方停留一段时间，就需要知道厕所在哪里。当我第一次到耶鲁大学神学院图书馆时——神学院是耶鲁大学最老的学院，我就想找厕所。我首先找“WC”，“Ladies”，“Bathroom”和“Washroom”等字样，我几乎用了我学过有关厕所的所有词汇，但还是没有找到。生活常识告诉我，在这么大的图书馆没有厕所是不可能的，我又继续寻找，最后找到标有“WOMEN”字样的门。

　　Although it did not look at all like a toilet， I assumed it must be one. And because I couldn't wait any longer， I had to try it. As I opened the door， I was sure I made a mistake， so I came out immediately. For what I had entered was a room much larger than my living room in Beijing， with a standing lamp by an antique-like table on a beautiful green carpet. On one side of the room， there was a very decent brown sofa， above which there was a wall mirrored up to the ceiling. There were two other sofas， by the side of the table. In one corner was a clothes hanger and in another corner was a big pot of green plants. It looked like a sitting room or lobby in a hotel. There was no sign of a toilet. But it was the only possible place a toilet could be. Then I remembered that there was another door in the room， so I went back in and opened the door. And there it was！ What relief！ I found it at last！ The toilet room was only half the size of the outer room. It had only two seats with two sinks. What luxury“！ It was like a two-room flat.

　　尽管从外表上看一点也不像厕所，但是直觉告诉我，这就是厕所。我确实也憋不住了，不得不去试一下。当我推开门时，我认定我弄错了，立即退了出来。因为我看到的房间比我在北京的客厅还要大。房间里铺着漂亮的绿色地毯，古色古香的`桌子旁有一个落地台灯。房间的一侧放着一个相当漂亮的棕色长沙发，沙发上方有一个覆盖了一面墙的大镜子顶着天花板。房间的另一侧在桌子旁是一对单人沙发。房间的一角放着衣架，另一角放着一个种有绿色植物的大花盆，看上去像个豪华宾馆的休息室，一点不像厕所，但是这又是惟一可能是厕所的地方。纳闷时我记起这个房间里还有一个门，我决然走进去，把门打开。如释重负！我终于找到了厕所。它只有外面休息室一半大小的面积，有两个便座和两个洗手池、这太奢侈了！像是个两居室住所。

　　After I relieved myself， another question occurred to me： since it was impossible for such a big library to have only one toilet， I had to ask someone about toilets. A “Rest Room” is also a toilet. The “rest” had only one seat and it was unisex. Both women and men could use it by locking the door from the inside.

　　完恭后，我又想，这么大的一个图书馆不可能只有这么一个厕所，我不得不去请教别人。“休息室”，是厕所的另一代词。它只有一个便座，而且是不分性别的，谁进去只要把门反锁上就可专用。

　　To refer to a toilet as a “rest room” is miles apart from the Chinese idea of a toilet. I never related the “rest room” with a “toilet”。 Here at Yale， when I use a toilet designated “women”， I feel myself a queen and enjoy looking at myself in a large mirror to see if I am properly attired. And when using a “rest room”， I do have a feeling of rest， because it is clean and has a window with a beautiful view.

　　“休息室”与中文厕所的概念相距十万八千里。我从没把“休息室”与“厕所”联系在一起。而在耶鲁，当我使用标？quot；women“的厕所时，真有点像当上了皇后的感觉，在休息室大镜子前面自我欣赏一番，整理二下自己的衣着。当我使用”休息室“时，确实领会到休息的实在含意，因为休息室窗明几净，窗外景色迷人。

　　My experience with the toilet at Yale has enlightened me as to why American visitors often asked for the toilet when they arrived at our university： they may have needed to relieve themselves but they may have needed more to make sure that they were presentable before meeting our president. It is a kind of moment of privacy that they need. I can imagine how disappointed they must have been when they found no mirrors in our toilets！ Their toilets have more functions than ours.

　　在耶鲁大学使用厕所的经历，使我明白了为什么以前美国来宾到我们学校时，总会问“厕所在哪里？”，现在回想起来，她们有可能是要使用厕所，但更需要的是在去见校长前，梳理化妆一番。她们需要一点“隐私”的时间。我可以想象，当她们发现我们的厕所里没有镜子时，会多么沮丧。她们的厕所功能远比我们的多。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇8

　　Gump, gifted with a low IQ which lets him be adorably childlike even as he grows up, leads a very charmed life: a mother who loves him immensely and who sleeps with the school principal in order to make sure her child has the best education, a miraculous incident that eliminates the need for him to have braces for his legs, a childhood girlfriend who remains faithful to him till the end, surviving Vietnam with a medal, and, in general, a propensity for turning everything that happens to him into good.

　　I wonder what the movie is trying to say. From one perspective, it implies that intelligence (as measured by IQs and the general idea of what "smart" is) is a very unnecessary trait. But I think one can look beyond that and say that childlike innocence, which can be considered stupid, has its rewards. Throughout the movie, Gump is in situations where he is harassed by other people but he never takes offense (except, of course, when his girl Jenny is being abused) at any of the insults thrown at him. He is indeed not completely stupid, even though he is portrayed as such, since he can re-assemble guns at high speed, run like crazy, play ping-pong like a maniac, and so on.

　　The fact that Gump doesn't take offense, I think, is what keeps him content. He becomes a millionaire, but gives most of the money away. He is honest and open and this, along with his Alabama accent, endears him to the audience. But this gets tiresome after a while (especially after 2 hours). I thought the movie was overly long, but that's the only negative thing I have to say.

　　The traditional male heroes that we have had are all dysfunctional in some respect or another and we are lost without heroes, as Bloom points out. Gump is a new kind of a role-model; he's A Nice Boy and everyone knows they're hard to find. As one reviewer said: "Today the last American hero is a Tom Hanks character with a small IQ".

　　Forest Gump is the runaway hit movie of this summer.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇9

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇10

　　Net Aroma: E-mail tries out a sense of smell

　　You could soon be able to spice up your e-mails with your favourite perfume.

　　UK net provider Telewest Broadband is testing a system to let people to send aromatic e-mails over the internet.

　　It has developed a kind of hi-tech air freshener that plugs into a PC and sprays a smell linked to the message.

　　Telewest say it could be used by supermarkets to tempt people with the smell of fresh bread or by holiday companies seeking to stir up images of sun-kissed beaches.

　　"This could bring an extra whiff of realism to the internet," said Chad Raube, director of internet services at Telewest Broadband.

　　"We are always looking at ways to enhance the broadband internet experience of the future and this time we are sure consumers will come up smelling of roses."

　　Emotional response

　　The technology behind the idea was originally developed by US company Trisenx. Scientists at Telewest's labs in Woking, Surrey, have built on that research to come up with the idea of a "scent dome".

　　The dome comes with a cartridge containing 20 basic aromas, which can be combined to produce up to 60 different smells.

　　A "scented e-mail" would contain electronic signals that would tell the dome to release the smell of flowers, perfume or coffee.

　　"Our sense of smell is directly connected to our emotions," said anthropologist Kate Fox, director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford.

　　"Smells trigger very powerful and deep-seated emotional responses, and this additional element to the internet will enhance users' online experience by adding that crucial third dimension."

　　But the chance to sniff your e-mails not may come cheap. Telewest says its "scent dome" could cost around 250 and would only work with a high-speed, broadband connection.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇11

　　Valentine's Day is a special time for love. Millions of people will receive flowers, chocolate or some other gift. Others might get just a phone call or an electronic message from someone they care about.

　　Still others would be happy just to have someone special in their life on Valentine's Day.

　　Tradition tells us that Saint Valentine was a third-century Roman who performed marriages and died for his Christian beliefs on February fourteenth. That was a day celebrated in ancient Rome in connection with love.

　　Traditionally, young people in America lived with their parents until marriage. Some still do. But, in general, young people have grown more independent. They wait longer to get married.

　　Even then, they still have to find the right person.

　　There are many ways for people to meet. Some meet at work. Others meet by chance. Still others look for help from services that bring people together.

　　Friends and family members might offer to help. They might plan a blind date. This is a meeting between two people who have never seen each other before. And, unless things go well, may never seen each other again.

　　In movies, two people often fall in love after what Hollywood calls a "cute meet." They might be lawyers on opposite sides in a court case. Or one person gets a letter meant for the other. Or their dogs get into a fight on the street. Who knows how many people really do meet this way.

　　In real life, finding a person and establishing a relationship is usually hard work.

　　A lot of people try to improve their chances by looking in places where people with similar interests go. This might be a place of religion. Or a bookstore. Many bookstores in America offer special programs and social activities for single people.

　　Singles may join health clubs or sports teams where men and women play together. If nothing else, at least they get some exercise.

　　But sometimes none of these efforts succeed. So people might try to meet someone over the Internet. Here too there are no guarantees.

　　Internet dating services had been growing sharply through the end of two thousand three. But the industry growth rate has slowed.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇12

　　It is universally true that all parents in the world love their children .However , as parents' views of life vary ,they show their love in different ways .Generally speaking ,parents can be classified into three types,the monarch type , the servant type, and the friend type according to their different ways of showing their love for their children .

　　The monarch type of parents are intolerant , antocratic, and selfcentered .They lay down regulations in the family for their children to observe .Furthermore, they insist that their children should act upon them without question . When their authority is challenged ,they become infuriated. With a firm belief in their own philosophy of life ,they hvave litter respect for others' opinions, least of all, their children's. The sentence they say most frequently to their children is, "You should do this."

　　Contrary to the monarch-type parents, the servant-type parents revolve around their children all the time . they are soft ,good-nature ,and easy-going. They never deny their children any wish ,and cheerful run to buy anything their children ask for .They are happy so long as their children are content .With the sincere belief that love means sacrifice, they are ready to give up anything for their children's sake .With their children at the center of their lives , they always ask" what else can we do for you?"

　　The friends-type parents ,as the term implies, treat their children as friends .They are generous and wise.Like good friends ,they disscuss with their children the lastest news,share their children's interests,and listen attentively to their children's expression of emotion ,whether it is anger ,fear ,joy or sorrow.They have an intimate relationship with their children while adhering to their prinicipled stand. They discuss problems with their children rather than provide ready solutions.They respect their children as their equals. They often say ,"Let's put our heads toghter and see wihat we can do"

　　There is no doubt that children welcome the third type of parents, for a free, friendly ,and sympathetic atomosphere at home is most favorable to the development of youngsters both in body and in mind .All parents should re-examine and change some of their ways of showing their love if they want their children to grow up happily and healthily.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇13

　　一杯香醇的文化美酒集生活与艺术于一身经典美文，听写——让心情舒畅！今日名言：Time and tide wait for no man.岁月不等人

　　Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, talk low, act courteously, criticize not one bit, and try not to improve or regulate anybody but myself.Just for today I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life.Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.

　　就为了今天，我会过得很惬意。看起来我达到了最佳状态，穿着得体、讲话谦虚、行为礼貌、一点不吹毛求疵，尽量改进和调节自己而不是别人。就为了今天，我会制定一个计划，我也许不会严格地遵守它，但我一定要有计划。我会避免两种错误：仓促行事和优柔寡断。就为了今天，我将会独自静静地呆上半小时放松。在这半小时里，某个时刻，我会日后对我的'生活有个更好的看法。就为了今天，我将不再害怕。尤其我不会再害怕享受美丽的事物，并且相信我给予世界的，世界也会给予我。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇14

　　When I come across a good essay in reading newspapers, I am often inclined to cut and keep it. But just as I am about to do so I find the article on the opposite side is as much interesting. It may be a discussion of the way to keep in good health, or advice about how to behave and conduct oneself in society. If I cut the front essay, the opposite one is bound to suffer damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text without the subject. As a result, the scissors would stay before they start, or halfway done when I find out the regretful consequence that inevitably causes my repentance.

　　Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both deserving your attention. You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be given up. But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left behind. Thus you are caught in a fix and feel sad. How come that nice opportunities and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once. It may happen that your life changes dramatically on your preference of one alternative to the other.

　　In fact that is what life is like: we are often faced with the two opposite aspects of a thing which are both desirable like newspaper cutting. It often occurs that our attention is drawn to one thing only after we are engaged in another. The former may be more important than the latter and give rise to a divided mind. I still remember a philosopher’s remarks: “When one door shuts, another opens in life.” So a casual or passive choice may not be a bad one.

　　Whatever we do in our lifetime, wherever life’s storm tosses us, there must be something we can achieve, some shore we can land, that opens up new vistas to us. Don’t forget God always keeps an alternative door open for every one. While the front door is closed, there must be another open for you.

　　平日读报,看到一篇好文章时,总有把它剪下来的欲望。然而有时拿起剪子的时候，才发现背面的文章也很有意思，或是教你如何养生，或是关照你如何做人处事。只要你剪下了正面的文章，这背面的文章就要受到损伤，或是只剩下半块，或是缺了文章的题目。常常因舍不得反而弄得无法再下剪子。后悔和遗憾更是在所难免。

　　有时你在一个时间段里，想到两件事情可做，两件事都是好事。然而时间和精力只能使你割舍一件，或留在今后再做。但你知道，那今后的'条件和未知的变化，不一定还能使你完成后一件事。于是，你往往处在十分忧郁的状况中。甚至奇怪，怎么这么好的机会和想法都赶在了一个点上。有时你真是因为选择了这一样而放弃了那一样，因此彻底改变了你的人生。

　　其实生活就是这样，就像剪报一样，有时一件事的正反两面都是比较完美的，而我们又总是在关注一件事时才发现了另一件事。于是我们常常被绊住，闹得举棋不定。记得一位哲学家说过：“当一扇门关闭的时候，生活会为你开启另一扇门。”有时无意与被动的选择并不一定就是太坏的。

　　人生在世无论做什么，无论生活的浪涛把我们抛向哪一方，其实都有我们的风景与可为之处。别忘了，上苍随时都在为我们准备着另一扇门。当你的大门关闭时，另一扇大门就一定会为你敞开。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇15

　　April Fool's Day

　　While popular in the U.S., the April Fool's Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries, such as France and Great Britain. Although the roots of the traditional trickings are unclear, the French and the British both have claims on the origin of the celebration.

　　One theory holds that the first April Fool's Day was on April 1 of the year when King of France instituted the new calendar. This new system placed the day that had formerly been the first day of a new year on April 1. Many people were reluctant to adjust to the new calendar and continued to celebrate New Year's Day on what had become the first day of April. Thus, they become the first April fools. Others began to give gag gifts on the day to mock the foolishness of those who continued to celebrate the new year on April 1.

　　An English story about the day, however, holds that it began sometime during the 1200s. At the time, King John of England was in the habit of making a road out of nearly every path he walked regularly. The citizens of one particular farm village were aware of this. To avoid having their green meadows and pastures disturbed with one of the king's roads, they built a fence that prevented the king from walking through their countryside. The king sent a group of messengers to inform the villagers that they must remove the barrier. Upon hearing that the king was planning to do this, however, the villagers developed a plan of their own. When community of lunatics, with people behaving in a bizarre manner, throwing things and running around wildly. The messengers, alarmed at what they had found, reported to King John that these people were so mad as to be beyond punishment. So, the villagers saved their farmland by tricking the King.In Great Britain, tradition only allows April Fool's tricks from midnight to noon on April 1. Those who try to play tricks in the afternoon become the fools themselves.

　　愚人节

　　愚人节的习俗在美国是很流行的,在欧洲国家如法国和英国就更是如此了. 虽然这种愚弄人习俗的起源不甚清楚,但法国人和英国人却都声称这种庆祝活动是由他们开始的.

　　有一种说法是,第一个愚人节始于法国新历法实行那年的4月1日,在这一天法国国王宣布实行新历法.这种新历法将过去的新的一年第一天定在4月1日.很多人却不愿意按新的历法行事,还继续在根据新的历法已经是4月的第一天庆祝新年,于是他们就成了第一批愚人.另一些人开始在这一天送恶作剧的礼物来取笑那些继续在4月1日庆祝新年的人.

　　关于这一天,英国的一个故事则说它是始于13世纪的某一天.那时,英格兰的约翰国王习惯于将他经常走的几乎每一条小道都修成一条路.有一个乡村的居民知道了这个情况.为了保护他们绿色的草地和牧场免受国王修路所造成的破坏,他们修了一道篱笆来阻挡国王在他们的乡间穿行.国王派了一队使者去通报村民们必须拆除障碍.在听到国王打算这么做时,村民们也想出了自己的.办法.当使者到达时,他们看到这儿的人像一群疯子似的,样子怪诞,乱扔东西,四下疯跑.使者们惊讶于他们看到的情景,向约翰国王报告说, 这些人疯得厉害根本没法处罚.村民们就这样骗过了国王,保护了自己的农田.在英国,按习俗在4月1日只允许从半夜到中午的这段时间可以搞愚人的恶作剧,到下午还这么做的人就成了愚人了.

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇16

　　美国耶鲁大学，哈佛大学，哥伦比亚大学，阿默斯特大学和威尔斯利大学等美国精英大学和文科院校每年都会向中国高中毕业生提供一些奖学金，用于学习本科课程。四年前，我从耶鲁获得了这样的奖学金。

　　这些中国本科生是什么样子的？大部分来自中国大城市的中产阶级家庭。上海和北京的地理分布偏高，上海和北京的人数过多。在主池外，有一批耶鲁学生来自长沙和宁波，每年都有美国耶鲁大学的毕业生被派去教英语。

　　绝大多数中国本科生在美国的科学，工程或经济学专业。许多人是高中的学术巨星 - 国际学术奥林匹克运动会金牌得主或全国学术竞赛的获奖者。一旦在美国校园，他们中的许多人决定做研究终身的承诺。

　　课外生活是大学生活的重要组成部分。在美国的大学里，平均每个学生每周的课时少于13小时。许多中国学生利用业余时间拿起一些额外的.零用钱。在耶鲁大学，最常见的校园工作之一是在餐厅洗碗。耶鲁大学的所有中国大学生几乎都在大学时间的某个时间在食堂兼职。随着年龄和成熟度的提高，他们升级到薪水更高，压力更小的职位。更受欢迎和有趣的工作包括作为电脑助理，数学作业分级，投资办公室助理和实验室或研究助理。后三者经常导致刺激暑期工作。

　　学生活动是美国大学生活的另一个突出特点。每个星期都有无数的学生组织的各种活动 - 运动，艺术，文化，政治或社会（即只是为了好玩）。新的学生组织不断被创造出来，中国本科生也为这一发展做出了贡献。美国校园的体育比中国的体育要大得多。在耶鲁，从足球到水球的校内体育运动一年四季都在进行; 因此体育人才是一种真正的社会资产。几年前耶鲁大学的一名中国学生是一位多才多艺的运动员。他的运动天赋和对体育赛事的热情参与，再加上他的其他优良品质，使他成为了他的住宿学院里的一位受欢迎的人物。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇17

　　2000年后，世人会记得迪斯尼还是柏拉图？

　　(In 2,000 years, will the world remember Disney or Plato?)

　　LONDON - Down in the mall, between the fast-food joint and the bagel shop, a group of young people huddles in a flurry of baggy combat pants, skateboards, and slang. They size up a woman teetering past wearing DKNY, carrying Time magazine in one hand and a latte in the other. She brushes past a guy in a Yankees' baseball cap who is talking on his Motorola cell phone about the Martin Scorsese film he saw last night.

　　伦敦——沿着购物街向下，一群年轻人，穿着松松垮垮的短裤，脚踩溜冰板，满嘴粗话，拥挤在一块，慌张地穿行在连锁快餐店之间。他们会评价一位路过的妇女，她身穿DKNY的衣服，一手拿着时代杂志，一手挎一个小包，蹒跚地走着。一个家伙与她擦身而过，他头戴美国篮球队的帽子，边走边在他的MOTO手机上与朋友狂侃昨夜刚看的Martin Scorsese导演的电影。

　　It's a standard American scene - only this isn't America, it's Britain. US culture is so pervasive, the scene could be played out in any one of dozens of cities. Budapest or Berlin, if not Bogota or Bordeaux. Even Manila or Moscow.

　　这是一幅标准的美国式的画面——只是发生在英国，而非美国。美国文化已经如此普遍了。现在世界上每天都有几十个城市——多伦多，波尔多，布达佩斯，德国柏林，甚至马尼拉和莫斯科，都在上演这样的场景。

　　As the unrivaled global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale. From music to media, film to fast food, language to literature and sport, the American idea is spreading inexorably, not unlike the influence of empires that preceded it.

　　作为世界上唯一的超级大国，美国将自己的文化推广到前所未有的范围。从音乐到传媒，从电影到快餐，从语言文学直到体育项目，美国价值观以不可抵挡之势传播着。与之前的帝国扩张不无相似。

　　The difference is that today's technology flings culture to every corner of the globe with blinding speed. If it took two millenniums for Plato's "Republic" to reach North America, the latest hit from Justin Timberlake can be found in Greek (and Japanese) stores within days. Sometimes, US ideals get transmitted - such as individual rights, freedom of speech, and respect for women - and local cultures are enriched. At other times, materialism or worse becomes the message and local traditions get crushed.

　　不同之处在于，今天的科学技术以令人眩目的速度将文化推向地球的各个角落。若说柏拉图的“理想国”经过了两千年才到达美洲，那么贾斯汀的新专辑在数天之内就能出现在希腊或日本的音像店里。有时，美国一些如个人权利、言论自由、尊重妇女等思潮的.传播，丰富了各地的文化；而有时，物质主义或者更糟的思潮，却给各地的传统文化带来了危害。

　　"The US has become the most powerful, significant world force in terms of cultural imperialism [and] expansion," says Ian Ralston, American studies director at Liverpool John Moores University. "The areas that particularly spring to mind are Hollywood, popular music, and even literature."

　　“在文化扩张方面，美国已成为世界上势力最强大，影响最广的国家。” Ian Ralston这样说。他是利物浦约翰墨尔大学的美国研究会理事。他还说，“提到文化扩张，人们就会想到好莱坞，流行音乐，甚至美国文学。”

　　But what some call "McDomination" has created a backlash in certain cultures. And it's not clear whether fast food, Disney, or rock 'n' roll will change the world the way Homer or Shakespeare has. To this question we haven't got any explicit on yet.

　　但是，一种"McDomination"现象对某些文化的发展造成了阻碍。快餐、迪斯尼、摇滚音乐是否能像荷马和莎士比亚那样改变这个世界呢？对于这个问题，我们尚不能得到明确的答案。

　　最新四级晨读主题美文篇18

　　I ‵will｜practise perseverance more often, and never give up a ‵thing｜because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. ‵Perseverance｜can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only ‵two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids — ‵the eagle｜and the snail.”

　　I ‵will｜school myself into a habit of attention; I ‵will not let anything come between me｜and the subject in hand. I ‵will remember｜that a good skater｜ ‵never tries to skate｜in two directions at once. The habit of attention becomes ‵part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown-up people say, “I ‵could not fix my attention｜on the lecture or book, ‵although I wished to do so,” and the reason is, the habit was ‵not formed in youth.

　　I ‵will｜pay more attention｜to the cultivation of the memory. I ‵will strengthen｜that faculty by ‵every possible means, and on ‵every possible occasion. It takes a little ‵hard work at first｜to remember things accurately; but memory ‵soon helps itself, and gives very ‵little trouble. It ‵only needs early cultivation｜to become a power.

　　I ‵will look on the cheerful side. Life is very ‵much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you; ‵but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a ‵similar look in return.

　　Inner sunshine｜warms not ‵only the heart of the owner, ‵but of all that come in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn｜shall be ‵shut from love.”

　　I ‵will｜school myself to say｜‵“No” more often. I might write pages｜on the importance of learning very ‵early in life｜to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline doing an ‵unworthy act｜because it is unworthy.

　　I ‵will｜demand of myself more courtesy｜towards my companions and friends, and ‵indeed towards strangers as well. The smallest courtesies｜along the rough roads of life｜are like the ‵little birds｜that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and snow ‵more endurable.

　　Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if｜that were the ‵sole purpose of life, I will try still ‵harder｜to make others happy.