高中英语美文100篇

引导学生走近美文,使他们成为美文的崇拜者和得益者,听取 哇 声一片,这正是我们教者的责任,也是当代教育所期待的。我整理了高中优秀英语美文，欢迎阅读!

林肯盖茨堡演讲词

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,

八十七年前，我们的祖先在这块大陆上建立了个新国家，

conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

这个国家是以自由为理念，并致力于人生而平等的主张。

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation，or any nation so conceived and so dedicated，can long endure.

现在我们投身于这场伟大的内战。这个内战在考验这个新国家或是任何一个有相同理念、致力于相同主张的国家能否长久存在。

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

我们相会于这场战争的伟大战场上。

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

我们来到这里，将这战场上的小块土地奉献给那些为国家生存而捐躯的人，以作为他们最后安息之地。

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

我们这样做是十分适当的，也是应该的。

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground.

但就广义而言，我们却无法奉献这块土地，无法把这块土地变得神圣，

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

因为在此奋战过的勇者，不论是生是死，都已经将这块土地变得如此神圣，以致我们薄弱的力量实不能再对它有所扬抑。

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

我们现在在这里所说的话，世人是不太注意的，过不久都会忘记，但这些勇者在此曾有的表现世人将水远铭记在心。

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

我们活着的人，应该在这块土地上献身于那些曾被努力推进却尚未完成的工作。

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us:

我们实在应该献身于这些勇者所遗留给我们的眼前这个伟大任务:

that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;

这些光荣过世的先烈们曾为国家大业奉献到底，而我们则应秉承他们的奉献精神，更加全力以赴;

that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;

我们决意不计这些先烈白白牺牲;

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom;

在上帝的庇佑之下，自由将在我国重生，

and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

而这个民有、民治、民享的政府将永存于世。

自制

Self-control is essential to happiness and usefulness.

自制是快乐及有为不可或缺的部分。

It is the master of all the virtues, and has its root in self-respect.

它主宰所有的美德，并扎根于自尊。

Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moralfreedom.

一个人若受到冲动、感情用事支配的话，从那一刻起他便放弃了他的道德自由。

It is the self-discipline of a man that enables him to pursue success with superior diligenceand sobriety.

自律使人能够更加勤奋、更加冷静地来追求成功。

Many of the great characters in history illustrate this trait.

历史上许多伟人都展现了这样的特质。

In ordinary life the application is the same.

自律亦可同样运用在日常生活中。

He who would lead must first command himself.

欲领导他人的人必须先统御自己。

The time of test is when everybody is excited or angry, then the well一balanced mind comes tothe front.

每个人激动生气时，便是考验的时刻，这时心平气和的人便会出头了。

There is a very special demand for the cultivation of this trait at present.

目前最需要培养这种特质了。

The young men who rush into business with no good education or drill will do poor andfeverish work.

没有受过良好的教育或磨练便匆匆投入商场的小伙子，做起事来一定是差劲而毛躁。

Endurance is a much better test of character than act of heroism.

忍耐要比逞英雄更能考验品德。

A fair amount of self-examination is good，Self-knowledge is a preface to self-control.

适度的自我检讨很不错。若有自知之明方能自制。

Too much self-inspection leads to morbidness; too little conducts to careless and hastyaction.

不过过度的自我检讨会成为病态，检讨不足则又导致行事粗心草率。

There are two things which will surely strengthen our self-control.

有两件事肯定会增强我们的自制力。

One is attention to conscience; the other is a spirit of good will.

其一是注重良知，其二是心怀善意。

The man who would succeed in any great undertaking must hold all his faculties under perfectcontrol;

若要实现任何伟大的抱负获得成功就必须妥善掌控自己的才能;

they must be disciplined and drilled until they quickly and cheerfully obey the will.

他必须要先加以约束、磨练这些才能，它们方能迅速而又愉快地服从他的心意。

青春

Youth is not just a stage of life; it is a state of mind.

青春不只是人生的一个阶段;它是一种心境。

It is not a matter of rosy cheeks，red lips and supple knees;

它不是指红润的脸颊、红色的嘴唇和柔软弯曲的膝盖;

it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination，a vigor of the emotions.

而是指意志力、丰富的想象力、充沛的感情。

It is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

它是生命深泉之清新。

Youth means the predominance over of courage over timidity, of adventure over the love ofease.

青春意味着勇气胜过胆怯，冒险犯难胜过贪图安逸。

This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty.

六十岁的人往往要比二十岁的小伙子更持有这种精神。

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.

没有人只因活了若干年而变老。

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

我们变老是因为我们抛弃了自己的理想。

Years may wrinkle the skin，but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

岁月可以使皮肤产生皱纹，但是放弃热诚则会消蚀灵魂。

Worry，doubt，self-distrust，fear and despair - these bow the head and turn the growingspirit back to dust.

忧虑、怀疑、缺乏自信、恐惧和绝望—这些都会让我们垂头丧气，而且会让成长的精神化为乌有。

Whether sixty or sixteen，there is in every numan being's heart the love of wonder,

每个人不管是六十岁或是十六岁，心中都有一股好奇心，

the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlike things, the undaunted challenge ofevents，

对星星及星状的东西会产生一种欢喜之情，不畏任何挑战，

the unfailing childlike appetite for what-next and the joy of the game of living.

对未知的事物有着一种像孩子般永不冷却的热望，以及游戏人生的喜悦之情。

You are as young as your faith，as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence,

你有信心、自信和希望时，就会年轻;

as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

而你若怀疑、恐惧和绝望时，就会衰老。