英语摘抄素材

1. Never say die.永不言败。 2.No cross, no crown.不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。 3.New wine in old bottles.旧瓶装新酒。 4.Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.亡羊补牢，为时未晚。 5.No garden without its weeds.没有不长草的园子。 6.No living man all things can.世上没有万事通。 7.No man can do two things at once.一心不可二用。 8.No man is born wise or learned.没有生而知之者。 9.No man is content.人心不足蛇吞象。 10.No man is wise at all times.聪明一世，糊涂一时。 11.None are so blind as those who won't see.视而不见。 12.None are so deaf as those who won't hear.充耳不闻。 13.No news is good news.没有消息就是好消息。 14.No one can call back yesterday.昨日不会重现。 15.No pains, no gains.没有付出就没有收获。 16.No pleasure without pain.没有苦就没有乐。 17.No rose without a thorn.没有不带刺的玫瑰。 18.No sweet without sweat.先苦后甜。 19.No smoke without fire.无风不起浪。 20.Nothing brave, nothing have.不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 21.Nothing dries sooner than a tear.眼泪干得最快。 22.Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.世上无难事，只怕有心人。 23.Nothing is difficult to the man who will try.世上无难事，只要肯登攀。24.Nothing seek, nothing find.没有追求就没有收获。 25.Nothing is so necessary for travelers as languages.外出旅行，语言最要紧。 26.Nothing is to be got without pains but poverty.世上唯有贫穷可以不劳而获。 27.Not to advance is to go back.不进则退。 28.Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.不懂世故，幼稚可笑。 29.No way is impossible to courage.勇者无惧。 30.Obedience is the first duty of a soldier.军人以服从命令为天职。 31.Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。 32.Offense is the best defense.进攻是最好的防御。 33.Old friends and old wines are best.陈酒味醇，老友情深。 34.Old sin makes new shame.一失足成千古恨。 35.Once a man and twice a child.一次老，两次小。 36.Once a thief, always a thief.偷盗一次，做贼一世。 37.Once bitten, twice shy.一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳。 38.One boy is a boy, two boys half a boy, three boys no boy.一个和尚挑水喝，两个和尚抬水喝，三个和尚没水喝。 39.One cannot put back the clock.时钟不能倒转。 40.One eyewitness is better than ten hearsays.百闻不如一见。 41.One false move may lose the game.一着不慎，满盘皆输。 42.One good turn deserves another.行善积德。 43.One hour today is worth two tomorrow.争分夺秒效率高。 44.One man's fault is other man's lesson.前车之鉴。 45.One never loses anything by politeness.讲礼貌不吃亏。 46.One swallow does not make a summer.一燕不成夏。 47.One's words reflect one's thinking.言为心声。 48.Out of debt, out of danger.无债一身轻。 49.Out of office, out of danger.无官一身轻。 50.Out of sight, out of mind.眼不见，心为静。 51.Patience is the best remedy.忍耐是良药。 52.Penny wise, pound foolish.贪小便宜吃大亏。 53.Plain dealing is praised more than practiced.正大光明者，说到的多，做到的少。 54.Please the eye and plague the heart.贪图一时快活，必然留下隐祸。 55.Pleasure comes through toil.苦尽甘来。 56.Pour water into a sieve.竹篮子打水一场空。 57.Practice makes perfect.熟能生巧。 58.Praise is not pudding.恭维话不能当饭吃。 59.Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.好人越夸越好，坏人越夸越糟。 60.Prefer loss to unjust gain.宁可吃亏，不贪便宜。 61.Prevention is better than cure.预防胜于治疗。 62.Pride goes before, and shame comes after.骄傲使人落后。 63.Promise is debt.一诺千金。 64.Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.谚语是日常经验的结晶。 65.Pull the chestnut out of fire.火中取栗。 66.Put the cart before the horse.本末倒置。 67.Put your shoulder to the wheel.鼎力相助。 68.Reading enriches the mind.开卷有益。 69.Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.读书健脑，运动强身。 70.Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.要人尊敬，必须自重。 71.Rome is not built in a day.冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。 72.Saying is one thing and doing another.言行不一。 73.Seeing is believing.眼见为实。 74.Seek the truth from facts.实事求是。 75.Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.智者当差，不用交代。 76.Set a thief to catch a thief.以贼捉贼。 77.Short accounts make long friends.好朋友勤算账。 78.Something is better than nothing.聊胜于无。 79.Soon learn, soon forgotten.学得快，忘得快。 80.Soon ripe, soon rotten.熟得快，烂得快。 81.Speech is silver, silence is gold.能言是银，沉默是金。 82.Still water run deep.静水常深。83.Strike the iron while it is hot.趁热打铁。 84.Success belongs to the persevering.坚持就是胜利。 85.Take things as they come.既来之，则安之。 86.Talking mends no holes.空谈无补。 87.Talk of the devil and he will appear.说曹操，曹操就到。 88.Hasty love, soon cold.一见钟情难维久。 89.Health is better than wealth.健康胜过财富。 90.Health is happiness.健康就是幸福。 91.Hear all parties.兼听则明。 92.Heaven never helps the man who will not act.自己不动，叫天何用。 93.He is a fool that forgets himself.愚者忘乎所以。 94.He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs.背后说好话，才是真朋友。 95.He is a wise man who speaks little.聪明不是挂在嘴上。 96.He is lifeless that is faultless.只有死人才不犯错误。 97.He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.正人先正己。 98.He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first.自嘲者不会让人见笑。 99.He is wise that is honest.诚实者最明智。 100.He knows most who speaks least.大智若愚

摘抄包括日常意义上的摘抄与教学意义上的摘抄。根据是否满足基本要求,摘抄的价值有正面与负面之分。摘抄与习作的关系主要体现在摘抄提供的知识、素材、语言材料积累以及篇章写法熟识等方面对习作的价值。我精心收集了超经典英语美文，供大家欣赏学习!

Watch the world go by

I was sitting outside my new home yesterday (we just moved last week, and we love the new place), watching the world go by.

There were people in cars, in a hurry to get to their next appointment. There were birds flying by, insects just as busy as the people in cars, plants and weeds thriving in the humid(潮湿的) Guam climate.

Inside the house, my children were also busy, as ever, making a mess of the house (which my wife and I would soon clean up), getting into things, their natural curiosity overpowering our previous pleas for them not to play with lotion(洗液，洗涤剂) or take things apart.

The sky was slightly overcast and there was a cool breeze, quite strong and pleasant actually.

It's not often that most of us just sit quietly, and allow the world to pass us by.

Why not?

What is so important that it can't wait until later? What email must be answered right this moment? Do we really need to read all those articles online, all those messages from others, all those newspapers and magazines? Do we need to have the television and radio and Internet on all the time?

Is life passing us by as we keep our minds super-busy? Are we missing out on the beautiful world around us as we constantly think about the future - what we need to do, our anxieties about what might happen - and the past - what we did wrong, what someone else did to us, what we said, what should have happened?

When was the last time you just sat, and observed? Why not do it today?

生命中的片段

When he told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which has just smashed. There were pieces of me all over the tidy, tan(棕褐色) tiles. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving, explaining it was for the best, I could do better, it was his fault and not mine. I had heard it before many times and yet somehow was still not immune; perhaps one did not become immune to such felony(重罪).

He left and I tried to get on with my life. I filled the kettle and put it on to boil, I took out my old red mug and filled it with coffee watching as each coffee granule(颗粒) slipped in to the bone china. That was what my life had been like, endless omissions of coffee granules, somehow never managing to make that cup of coffee.

Somehow when the kettle piped its finishing warning I pretended not to hear it. That's what Mike's leaving had been like, sudden and with an awful finality. I would rather just wallow in uncertainty than have things finished. I laughed at myself. Imagine getting all philosophical and sentimental about a mug of coffee. I must be getting old.

And yet it was a young woman who stared back at me from the mirror. A young woman full of promise and hope, a young woman with bright eyes and full lips just waiting to take on the world. I never loved Mike anyway. Besides there are more important things. More important than love, I insist to myself firmly. The lid goes back on the coffee just like closure on the whole Mike experience.

He doesn't haunt my dreams as I feared that night. Instead I am flying far across fields and woods, looking down on those below me. Suddenly I fall to the ground and it is only when I wake up that I realize I was shot by a hunter, brought down by the burden of not the bullet but the soul of the man who shot it. I realize later, with some degree of understanding, that Mike was the hunter holding me down and I am the bird that longs to fly. The next night my dream is similar to the previous nights, but without the hunter. I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me in perfect harmony. I realize with some relief that there is a bird out there for me, there is another person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a friend, but there is someone out there who is my soul mate. I think about being a broken vase again and realize that I have glued myself back together, what Mike has is merely a little part of my time in earth, a little understanding of my physical being. He has only, a little piece of me.

谁能拒绝12次微笑呢?

A passenger told an air hostess that he needed a cup of water to take his medicine when the plane just took off. She told him that she would bring him the water in ten minutes.

Thirty minutes later, when the passenger's ring for service sounded, the air hostess flew in a flurry. She was kept so busy that she forgot to deliver him the water. As a result, the passenger was held up to take his medicine. She hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he refused it.

In the following hours on the flight, each time the stewardess passed be the passenger she would ask him with a smile whether he needed help or not. But the passenger never paid heed to(注意) her.

When he was going to get off the plane, the passenger asked the stewardess to hand him the passengers' booklet. She was very sad. She knew that he would write down sharp words, but with a smile she handed it to him.

Off the plane, she opened the booklet, and cracked a smile(展颜微笑), for the passenger put it, "On the flight, you asked me whether I need help or not for twelve times in all. How can I refuse your twelve sincere smiles?"

That's right! Who can refuse your twelve sincere smiles from a person?