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1、第 PAGE9 页 共 NUMPAGES9 页2023年最新的英语文章优秀文章英语学习在中国存在已久,许多中国学生学习英语的时间占了很大比重,下面就是小编给大家整理的英语文章优秀文章,希望大家喜欢。 英语文章优秀文章:Butterfly Kisses 蝶吻 My newlywed husband said the same thing every morning. You re beautiful today. One glance in the mirror revealed that it was far from the truth. A skinny girl with mashed(
2、捣烂的) hair on one side of her head and no makeup smiled back at me. I could feel my sticky morning breath. Liar, I shot back with a grin. It was my usual response. My mother s first husband was not a kind man and his verbal and physical abuse forced her and her two children to find a safe place. He s
3、howed up on her doorstep one day with roses. She let him in and he beat her with those roses and took advantage of her. Nine months later she gave birth to a 9 lb. 13 oz. baby girl - me. The harsh words we heard growing up took root. I had trouble seeing myself as someone of value. I had been marrie
4、d two years when I surprised myself. My husband wrapped(包裹,覆盖) his arms around me and told me I was beautiful. Thank you, I said. The same thin girl with the mousy(灰褐色的) brown hair still stared back at me in the mirror, but somehow the words had finally blossomed in my heart. A lot of years have pas
5、sed. My husband has grey in his hair. I m no longer skinny. Last week I woke up and my husband s face was inches from mine. What are you doing I asked. I covered my mouth, trying to hide my morning breath. He reached down and kissed my face. What I do every morning, he said. He leaves in the early h
6、ours of the morning while I sleep. I miss our morning conversations, but I had not realized that he continued to tell me that he loved me even while I slept. When he left, I rolled over and hugged my pillow. I envisioned(预想) the picture of me lightly snoring(打鼾) with my mouth open and giggled. What
7、a man! My husband understands my past. He s been beside me as I ve grown from an unsure young girl to a confident woman, mother, speaker and author. But I m not sure that he understands the part he played in that transition. The words I heard growing up pierced(穿通,刺过) my soul, yet his words pierced
8、even deeper. This Anniversary Day I plan to wake early. I want to tell Richard how much I love him. He may look in the mirror and see an extra pound or two, or wish for the day when his hair was dark and curly, but all I ll see is the man who saw something in me when I couldn t see it myself, and wh
9、o leaves butterfly kisses, even after twenty-three years of marriage. 英语文章优秀文章:不想当王子的青蛙 Wanda, the neighborhood witch, was a good witch(女巫师) and had been one for about 221 years. Her fondest dream was to become a fairy godmother. She had been going to the Fairy Godmother Academy for 103 years, learn
10、ing fairy godmother magic: how to turn pumpkins into coaches, how to make things vanish in clouds of smoke, even how to change mice into horses and footmen. Just that very morning the principal of the Academy had said Wanda was ready for her final test. She was to change the first animal she met int
11、o something else. The animal was to be so happy at becoming whatever it became that it would say, Oh, happy day! I m a. If it did, Wanda would pass the test. She would become a fairy godmother, with a sparkling pink dress, a golden crown, and a magic wand tipped with a shining star. However, if she
12、failed, she would have to start school all over again all 103 years of it. Good luck, the principal said as Wanda left the Academy. The very first animal Wanda bumped into was Charley, a little green frog who sat in a pond by the side of the road catching bugs with his long, sticky tongue and croaki
13、ng Baroomp! Baroomp! When Charley saw Wanda he jumped onto a lily pad. Hi, he cried. Witch way are you going Ha, ha. That s a joke, Wanda. Witch way are you going Get it I get it, Charley, replied Wanda, but it s not much of a joke. Anyway, I m glad you re here. I have a surprise for you. You ll be
14、so happy. Then, without even an if you please, Wanda waved her wand, said a magic word, and poof(吹熄蜡烛的声音 )! Charley, the little green frog, turned into a prince! He was a handsome prince but a wet one. The lily pad had collapsed under his weight and dumped him into the water. Charley-turned-prince s
15、tood up and looked at his reflection in the water. Hey! he cried. You turned me into a prince! It s a surprise all right, but I don t want to be a prince. I want to be a frog! Change me back right now! Oh, dear, Wanda said. You know I don t like to be yelled at, Charley. Now you ve made me forget th
16、e reverse spell. But who wouldn t rather be a prince than a frog I wouldn t! cried Charley. I want to be a frog! He stuck out his tongue, missing a bug flying by the end of his nose. Look at that, Wanda! I was such a good fly catcher. And I had eyes on top of my head, too. I could see forward and ba
17、ckward and sideways all at once, but look at me now. With my eyes in front of my face, I can only see one direction at a time. I don t even have a castle, Wanda. What kind of prince is that I d really rather be a frog. Please change me back! I can t, Charley. But you ll learn to be happy as a prince
18、. As for a castle, I can take care of that. She waved her wand, and suddenly a castle appeared by the banks of the pond. It had stone walls, oaken doors, and pennants waving from its turrets. Your very own palace, Charley! You ll have servants, eat fancy foods and ice cream. Bah! Charley interrupted
19、. Who wants servants, or ice cream and fancy foods I want bugs! He stuck out his tongue and looked down his nose at it, cross-eyed. This tongue is no good it s too short! he cried. I can t even see it. Again Wanda waved her wand. Look, Charley, musicians, she said. Out of the castle marched dozens o
20、f musicians blowing trumpets, tootling flutes, and banging drums. See Your own band. They ll play music, and you can sing and dance and snap your fingers to your heart s content. I don t want to sing and dance! Charley cried. And why would I do something as silly as snapping my fingers Snapping fing
21、ers! exclaimed Wanda. That s it, Charley. That s what I forgot! She snapped her fingers, cried Upsi-doodle! and poof! the castle and musicians disappeared and the prince became a little green frog. Charley hopped onto a lily pad. He looked at himself in the water. You did it, Wanda. Oh, happy day! I
22、 m a frog. Wanda smiled and thought to herself, So I have to go back to school for another 103 years. Who cares Charley s happy, and that s what really counts. Well, it wasn t exactly Oh, happy day! I m a prince, but the principal of the Fairy Godmother Academy decided that Oh, happy day! I m a frog
23、 was close enough. Wanda hadn t thought about herself. She had only wanted to make Charley happy. Thinking about others was the most important thing fairy godmothers had to do. The principal waved her magic wand. Lo and behold, Wanda the Witch became Wanda the Fairy Godmother.sparkling pink dress, m
24、agic wand with a star, and all. 英语文章优秀文章:父亲最后的拥抱 In praise of hugs I grew up bereft(被剥夺的,缺少的) of hugs. Neither of my parents was the cuddly type. Greetings involving kissing caused me to wince, and hugging generally just made me feel awkward. Then one hug changed all that. One month before my 40th b
25、irthday my dad had heart surgery. As he came round, days later, he grabbed me and hugged me so hard I had to push with all my might to keep my head from pressing down on his newly stitched torso(身体躯干). It was a hug to make up for all those we had never had. Days later as he slowly started to gain st
26、rength he told me for the first time ever that he loved me, and through my tears I told him I loved him too. I began planning how to bake him better with carrot cakes, victoria sponges, jelly and ice cream. My maternal streak kicked in and I fantasised(幻想) about wheeling him through the park and fee
27、ding him home-made goodies. Then he died. I felt cheated. All my life I had wondered whether my dad cared for me and loved me I doubted it. Just as I got proof that he did, he passed away. My parents split up when I was two years old and, while I had monthly contact with my dad, my bitter stepmother
28、 and my father s old-fashioned stiff upper lip meant we never became close. In fact, I used to dread the visits to see him and count the hours until I could go home again. When I was very little the weekends at my father s house felt cold and unfriendly. During my teens the trips to a hostile house
29、became a dread on the horizon for weeks beforehand. Each stay culminated in an uncomfortable peck on the cheek from Dad as he said goodbye a moment I cringed about for hours in advance. And yet standing beside the hospital bed watching the life ebb from my sleeping father was painful. I felt like a
30、little girl at his bedside, unable to talk to him yet again. I became fixated with his fingers fat and soft, lying gently curled beside him. Slowly they transformed from plump sausages to stone white and immovable. It was his fingers that told me he had gone from this life, not the bleeping of monit
31、ors or the bustling of nursing staff. Losing a father whom you have no recollection of ever living with is difficult. Grieving is tricky; I didn t have any obvious close father-daughter memories to cling to and mull and cry over. Most of my memories were of stilted meetings and uncomfortable times t
32、ogether. But I desperately missed him being alive. As time moved on my grief and anger at his untimely death began to recede. I realised that his affirmation of me from his deathbed had filled a gaping hole of insecurity I had constantly carried around. To a child a hug says so many things. It tells you that the person hugging you loves you, cares for you. A hug also confirms that you are a lovable being. Months after Dad s death I realised with a jolt that his lack of hugs said more about him than me. My father was not a demons
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