4分钟以内的英语美文

1、4 分钟以内的英语美文 【篇一： 4 分钟以内的英语美文】1.你是卓越的 you are awesomeconsider.you. in all time before now and in all time to come,there has never been and will never be anyone just like you.you are unique in the entire history and future of the universe.wow! stop and think about that. youre better than one in amilli

2、on, or a billion, or a gazillion.试想一下 你！一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。哇！想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。you are the only one like you in a sea of infinity! 在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的！youre amazing! youre awesome! and by the way, tag, youre it.as amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be ev

3、enmore so. beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature,but beautiful old people are true works of art. but you dontbecome beautiful just by virtue of the aging process.你是了不起的！你是卓越的！没错，就是你。你已经是了不起的，是卓越的，你还可以更卓越更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自然而然地变得 “美丽”。real beauty comes from learn

4、ing, growing, and loving in theways of life. that is the art of life. you can learn slowly, andsometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you.or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionallydevour life and all it offers. you are the artist that paints yourfuture with the

5、 brush of today.真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。你可以只听天由命 , 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以选择加速自己的成长，故意地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描绘自己未来的艺术家。paint a masterpiece. 画出一幅杰作吧！god gives every bird its food, but he doesnt throw it into itsnest. wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, itstruly up to you. 上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他

6、没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。unique 独一无二的awesome 了不起的 , 精彩的intentionally 有意地 ; 故意地be up to sb 由某人决定2. a chip on your shoulder肩上的碎屑every week at this time we tell the story of words andexpressions used in american english. some of them are old.some are new. together, they form the livin

7、g speech of theamerican people.some popular expressions are a mystery. no one is sure howthey developed. one of these is the expression, carry a chip onyour shoulder. a person with a chip on his shoulder is aproblem for anybody who must deal with him. he seems to beexpecting trouble. sometimes he se

8、ems to be saying, im nothappy about anything, but what are you going to do about it?a chip is a small piece of something, like a chip of wood. howdid this chip get on a persons shoulder? well, experts say theexpression appears to have been first used in the united statesmore than one hundred years a

9、go.one writer believes that the expression might have come froman old saying. the saying warns against striking too high, or achip might fall into your eye. that could be good advice. if youstrike high up on a tree with an axe, the chip of wood that iscut off will fall into your eye. the saying beco

10、mes a warningabout the dangers of attacking people who are in moreimportant positions than you are.later, in the united states, some people would put a real chipon their shoulder as a test. they wanted to start a fight. theywould wait for someone to be brave enough to try to hit it off.the word chip

11、 appears in a number of special americanexpressions. another is chip off the old block. this means thata child is exactly like a parent.this expression goes back at least to the early sixteenhundreds. the british writer of plays, george colman, wrotethese lines in seventeen sixty-two. youll find him

12、 his fathersown son, i believe. a chip off the old block, i promise you!the word chip can also be used in a threatening way tosomeone who is suspected of wrongdoing. an investigatormay say, were going to let the chips fall where they may. thismeans the investigation is going to be complete and hones

13、t. itis also a warning that no one will be protected from beingfound guilty.chips are often used in card games. they represent money. apoker player may, at any time, decide to leave the game. he willturn in his chips in exchange for money or cash.this lead to another meaning. a person who finished o

14、r diedwas said to have cashed in his chips. which is a way of sayingit is time for me to finish this program.3.what will matter?什么才重要？ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. there will beno more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. all the thingsyou collected, whether treasured or forg

15、otten, will pass tosomeone else. 无论是否准备好，总有一天它都会走到尽头。那里没有日出，没有白天，没有小时和分钟。你收集的所有东西，不管你珍惜或忘记与否，它们都将流入他人手中。your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel toirrelevance. it will not matter what you owned or what you wereowed.不管是你得到的或是你欠别人的，可你的财产、名誉和权势也都会变成和你毫不相干的东西。your grudges, resentments, frustrat

16、ions, and jealousies willfinally disappear. 你的怨恨、愤慨、挫折和妒忌最终也将消失。so, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will allexpire.the wins and losses that once seemed so important will fadeaway. 因此，你的希望、抱负、计划以及行动日程表也将全部结束。当初看得比较重的成功得失也会消失。it wont matter where you came from, or on what side of th

17、etracks you lived. 你来自何方，住在穷人区还是富人区也都不重要了。it wont matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. yourgender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant. 你昔日的漂亮与辉煌也都不重要了，你的性别、肤色、种族地位也将消失。so what will matter? how will the value of your days bemeasured?因此，什么重要呢？ 怎么衡量你有生之年的价值呢？what will matter is not wha

18、t you bought, but what you built; notwhat you got, but what you gave.重要的不是你买了什么，而是你创造了什么； 不是你得到了什么，而是你给予了什么。what will matter is not your success, but your significance.重要的不是你成功了，而是你。what will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.重要的不是你学到了什么，而是你传授了什么。what will matter is every act of in

19、tegrity, compassion, courageand sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged othersto emulate your example. 重要的是每个行动之中都有正直和勇气的气概，伟大的同情心和牺牲精神，并且鼓励他人遵从榜样。what will matter is not your competence, but your character.重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。what will matter is not how many people you knew, but howmany will feel a lasting loss when you re gone. 重要的不是你认识多少人，而是在你离开后，别人会认为是个永远的损失。what will matter is not your memories, but the memories ofthose who loved you. 重要的不是你想念谁，而是爱