火山红虎
中国古典诗词讲究平仄,极富音韵美,因而理解古典诗词情思的最有效手段是朗诵。而今的高中古诗词教学课堂,忽略了朗诵的环节。下面是我带来的短篇英文诗歌朗诵，欢迎阅读!
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal安眠封闭了我的灵魂
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal1;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
安眠封闭了我的灵魂
威廉•华兹华斯
安眠封闭了我的灵魂，
人世的恐惧忘却磬尽，
她已回归自然，
对岁月的感觉荡然无存。
纹丝不动，了无声息，
闭目不视，充耳不闻，
她陪着山脉，拌着木石，
追随大地昼夜飞驰的转轮。
AMORETTI XXXIIII Edmund Spenser我生命中的北斗
MORETTI XXXIIII Edmund Spenser
LYKE as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde,
by conduct of some star doth make her way,
whenas a storme hath dimd her trusty guyde,
out of her course doth wander far astray.
So I whose star, that wont with her bright ray,
me to direct, with cloudes is ouer-cast,
doe wander now, in darknesse and dismay,
through hidden perils round about me plast.
Yet hope I well, that when this storme is past,
My Helice the lodestar of my lyfe
will shine again, and looke on me at last,
with louely light to cleare my cloudy grief.
Till then I wander carefull comfortlesse,
in secret sorrow and sad pensiuenesse.
我生命中的北斗
埃德蒙•斯宾塞
航船驶入辽阔的海洋，
仰赖星星指引方向，
每当风暴遮盖这可靠的向导，
它便迷徒之中四处飘荡;
我是航船靠她指引，
她是星星闪闪发亮，
一旦乌云密布危机四伏，
我也会徘徊满心恐慌;
海丽丝，我生命中的北斗，
但愿你重新闪烁对我凝望，
在暴风雨过去之后，
用美丽的光辉驱散我的忧伤：
否则，心事重重，寝食难安，
我将暗自悲哀，痛苦彷徨。
Pet Shopping
While shopping at the pet store
I got my fondest wish.
I bought myself a fish bowl
and then a pair of fish.
And since I was already
out shopping at the store
I thought I ought to purchase
another smidgen more.
And so I got a rabbit,
a hamster and a frog,
a gerbil and a turtle,
a parrot and a dog.
I purchased an iguana,
a tortoise and a rat,
an eight-foot anaconda,
a monkey and a cat.
A guinea pig, a gecko,
a ferret and a mouse,
and had them all delivered,
directly to my house.
My sister went berzerko!
She's now installing locks,
because I said her bedroom
would be their litter box!
The Seaside Is My Home我住在大海边
The Seaside Is My Home
I live near the sea for years.
The billow sound every night,
Enlightens me how to be great,
And how to look on greatness.
Without seeing great mountains,
I form no habit of looking up.
I live near the sea for years.
Too much water, saltier than tears,
Floats some directional boats,
Or other drifting boats
To travel far across the sea.
So the shore is always in my heart.
I live near the sea for years.
With more floaters on the sea,
The limpidity of sea vanishes.
Just like the dust of years,
Thicker and thicker on our body,
The beauty of bareness disappears!
我住在大海边
我住在大海边很多年了
夜夜气势宏博的涛声,让我知道
怎样是伟大
怎样看待伟大
我没有见过大山,没有养成
仰望的习惯
我住在大海边很多年了
见过太多的水,比眼泪更咸的水
承受着有方向的船,或者
随波逐流的船
漂洋过海
在生命的尽头都摆脱不了岸
我住在大海边很多年了
海面上越来越多的漂浮物
覆盖了大海的清澈
就像越来越多岁月的灰尘
堆积在我们身上
让身体逃离赤裸
I Think My Dad is Dracula
I think my dad is Dracula.
I know that sounds insane,
but listen for a moment and
allow me to explain.
We don't live in a castle,
and we never sleep in caves.
But, still, there's something weird
about the way my dad behaves.
I never see him go out
in the daytime when it's light.
He sleeps all day till evening,
then he leaves the house at night.
He comes home in the morning
saying, "Man, I'm really dead!"
He kisses us goodnight, and then
by sunrise he's in bed.
My mom heard my suspicion
and she said, "You're not too swift.
Your father's not a vampire.
He just works the graveyard shift."
娜娜nancy
朗诵是朗诵者运用恰当的语言表达技巧,并借助于体态语言及音乐等艺术手段把书面文字语言作品转化为有声语言的一种艺术表演形式。我精心收集了优秀的英语朗诵短文，供大家欣赏学习!
Acountry maid was walking along with a can of milk uponher head, when she fell into the following train ofreflections.The money for which I shall sell this milk willenable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred.一个村姑头上顶着一罐牛奶在路上行走。走着走着，她的脑子里浮现出一连串的幻想：我卖了这罐牛奶后，用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300个
These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and whatmay be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least twohundred and fifty chickens用这300个鸡蛋孵小鸡，就算有坏的、生虫的，至少也能孵出250只小鸡。
The chickens will be fit to carry to market just at the timewhen poultry is always dear;so that by the new year Icannot fail of having money enough to purchase a newgown.等小鸡长大后，正好能赶上卖个好市价;那么到了新年，我就能有钱买一件新晚装。
Green - let me consider - yes, green becomes mycomplexion best, and green it shall be.买一件绿色的------让我好好想想------对，绿色与我的肤色最相衬。
In this dress I will go to the fair, where all young fellows willstrive to have me for a partner;我穿上这件衣服去赶集，所有的年轻小伙子都会抢着邀请我做舞伴;
but no - I shall refuse every one of them, and with adisdainful toss turn from them."
但是不行------我要轻蔑地把头一扬，转身过去不理他们，让他们人人都碰个钉子。
Transported with this idea, she could not forbear actingwith her head the thought that passed in her mind, whendown came the can of milk!她想得得意忘形，情不自禁地把头一扬，刹那间，牛奶罐跌了下来!
And all her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment她幻想的一切幸福瞬间破灭了。
A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a largecelebration.一个男人和他的女朋友结婚，举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。
All of their friends and family came to see the lovelyceremony and to partake of the festivities andcelebrations. All had a wonderful time.所有的朋友和家人都来到结婚典礼上参加欢宴和庆祝活动。大家都过得很开心。
The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown andthe groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo.Everyone could tell that the love they had for each otherwas true.穿着白色婚纱的新娘漂亮迷人，穿着黑色礼服的新郎英俊潇洒。每个人都能看出他们彼此的爱是真诚的。
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with aproposal, "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about howwe can strengthen our marriage," she offered. "Each ofus will write a list of the things that we find a bitannoying with the other person. Then, we can talkabout how we can fix them together and make our liveshappier together."几个月后，妻子走近丈夫提议说：“我刚才在杂志上看到一篇文章，说的是怎样巩固婚姻。”她说：“我们两个人都各自把对方的小毛病列在一张纸上，然后我们商量一下怎样解决，以便使我们的生活更幸福。”
The husband agreed. So each of them went to aseparate room in the house and thought of the thingsthat annoyed them about the other. They thoughtabout this question for the rest of the day and wrotedown what they came up with.丈夫同意了。于是他们各自走向不同的房间去想对方的缺点。那一天余下的时间里，他们都在思考这个问题，并且把他们想到的都写下来。
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decidedthat they would go over their lists.第二天早上，吃早饭的时候，他们决定谈谈彼此的缺点。
"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It hadmany items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. In fact, as shestarted reading the list of the little annoyances, shenoticed that tears were starting to appear in herhusband's eyes.“我先开始吧。”妻子说。她拿出她的单子，上面列举了很多条，事实上，足足写满了三页。当她开始念的时候，她注意到丈夫眼里含着泪花。
"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husbandreplied, "keep reading your list."“怎么啦?”她问。“没什么，”丈夫答道，“继续念吧。”
The wife continued to read until she had read all threepages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on thetable and folded her hands over the top of it.妻子又接着念。整整三页都念完之后她把单子整齐地放在桌上，两手交叉放在上面。
"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about thethings on both of our lists," she said happily.
“现在该你念了，然后我们谈谈所列举的缺点。”她高兴地说。
Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything onmy list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are.I don't want you to change anything for me. You arelovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try andchange anything about you."丈夫平静地说：“我什么也没写，我觉得像你这样就很完美了，我不想让你为我改变什么。你很可爱迷人，我不想让你改变。”
The story goes that two friends were walking throughthe desert. During some point of the journey they hadan argument, and one friend slapped the other one inthe face.话说两个好朋友正在穿越一个沙漠。途中他们忽然争吵了起来，其中一个一巴掌扇在另外一个人的脸上。
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without sayinganything, he wrote in the sand: "Today my best friendslapped me in the face."被扇的那个人受了伤害，但他一句话也没有说，只是在沙子上写道：“今天我最要好的朋友打了我一个耳光。”
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, wherethey decided to take a bath. The one who had beenslapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, butthe friend saved him.他们继续走下去，后来发现了一片绿洲，他们于是决定洗个澡。先前被打的那个人这时不小心陷入了一个泥潭里面，差点被淹死了，幸运的是他的朋友把他给救了出来。
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote ona stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."他苏醒过来后，立刻在一块石头上写道：“今天我最要好的朋友救了我一命。”
The friend who had slapped and saved his best friendasked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand andnow you write on a stone. Why?"扇过他耳光又救过他性命的朋友于是问他说：“我打了你之后你在沙子上写字，而现在你却在石头上写，为什么呢?”
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us weshould write it down in the sand where winds offorgiveness can erase it away. But when someone doessomething good for us, we must engrave it in a stonewhere no wind can ever erase it."写字的那个人回答说：“当我们被别人伤害了之后，我们应该把它写在沙子上，那样，宽容的风就很快就会将其抹去，但当我们受到别人的帮助之后，我们必须将它刻在石头上，那样，风就不会轻易把它磨灭。”
LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TOCARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN THE STONE.学会将你所受到的伤害写在沙子上，把别人给你的帮助记在石头上。
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, anhour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but anentire life to forget them.人们常说发掘一个特别的人需要一分钟，欣赏一个人需要一个小时，爱上一个人需要一整天，但忘记一个人却需要你一生的时间。
Send this phrase to the people you'll never forget. It's ashort message to let them know that you'll never forgetthem.将这句话发给你永远不会忘怀的人吧，让他们知道你将永远把他们放在心上。
