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英语美文有助于我们培养对英语学习的兴趣，也能提高我们的写作能力。以下是我整理的3篇英语精美短文，供大家学习和参阅。
一：为什么你存不下钱
Don’t save what is left after spending. But spend what is left after savings.
不要把花剩下的钱拿来存，而是把存剩下的钱拿来花。
Wanting to save money is not enough. Anyway, there are a lot of things which didn’t come true although you wanted them to.
想存钱是远远不够的，毕竟你希望发生的事情并不一定就能发生。
Saving is a technique . It’s simple. It’s just not easy.
存钱是一门技术，这门技术很简单，只是不容易实现。
If you only come to think about saving after you spend, there is no chance for you to accumulate a considerable fortune, because spending is always irrational.
如果你总是在消费之后才想着应该存钱，那你肯定存不下钱，因为任何消费都是非理性的。
The way that works is to make plans in advance.
真正可行的方法，是事先计划好自己的消费方式。
Would it be too much to use 40% of my income to rent an apartment?
每个月用收入的40%租房子会不会太多?
Is it really enough to save just 20% every month?
每个月只存收入的20%会不会太少?
Only by making it clear how much you want to save can you come to know how much you can actually spend.
你只有先计划好要存多少钱，才能知道自己实际上可以花多少钱。
二：真正有意义的生活
What will matter?
什么才重要?
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone 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 to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
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, frustrations, and jealousies will finally 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 all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
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 won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.
你来自何方，住在穷人区还是富人区也都不重要了。
It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, 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 be measured?
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 what you bought, but what you built; not what 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，而是你生命的意义。
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 integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to 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 how many 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，多少人会怅然若失。
What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.
重要的不是你的回忆，而是爱你的人对你的追思。
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
重要的是别人会记你多长时间，谁记着你，为什么记着你。
Living a life that matters doesn’ t happen by accident.
过有意义的生活不是一桩偶然。
It s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
是因为你选择了它。
Choose to live a life that matters.
选择有意义的人生吧!
三：难道真要工作一辈子吗?
Warren Buffet once said: "If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."
沃伦·巴菲特曾经说过：“如果你不想个办法在你睡觉的时候赚钱，那你就得一直工作到死。”
Sounds ridiculous in the first place, right? Isn’t that obvious?
这句话初听下来有点荒.唐，这不是明摆着的吗?
And how on earth can it be possible to make money while you sleep?
而且，怎么可能在睡觉的时候赚钱?
If you want to have an income, you have to work, right?
如果需要有收入，当然就得一直工作，对不对?
But no, what he said is not wrong.
不，其实他说的并没有错。
That way which he described as to make money while you sleep is called investing.
他所说的那种“在睡觉时赚钱”的方法，就是投资。
Normal middle-class use their skills and time to make money. But the rich use their money to make money. They invest the money that they own now to make ROI, which means return on investment.
普通的中产阶级靠技能和时间换钱，而有钱人是靠钱赚钱的，他们用自己现有的钱去赚取投资回报。
It’s not a hard thing to do, because there are a lot of ways to manage your personal finance.
这个方法并不难，因为理财的方式有很多。
In the past, I usually spent as much as I could earn in a month.
从前，我是一个大手大脚的月光族，每个月赚多少就花多少。
But when I saw this quote of Buffett, I suddenly realized: Isn’t that making all my efforts in vain? Because I have nothing left. I didn’t make anything for my future.
但自从看到了巴菲特的这句话，我才恍然大悟：这样一来，我每个月不就白工作了吗?因为什么都没有剩下，我并没有为自己的未来创造什么。
That’s why I started to face the truth of how I was living. And I made some bold changes and began to save money.
这也就是为什么我开始正视自己的生活方式，并进行了大刀阔斧的改变，开始存钱。
I wish that there is a day when I no longer need to work and can use money to make money.
我希望有一天能不再工作，而是用钱来赚钱。
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1.One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone.一个人总要走陌生的路，看陌生的风景，听陌生的歌，然后在某个不经意的瞬间，你会发现，原本是费尽心机想要忘记的事情真的就那么忘记了。2.Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in one's hand. It’s about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someone's love when you need love.幸福，不是长生不老，不是大鱼大肉，不是权倾朝野。幸福是每一个微小的生活愿望达成。当你想吃的时候有得吃，想被爱的时候有人来爱你。3.Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow. When the lamp is off,you will find the shadow everywhere. Friend is who can give you strength at last.爱情是灯，友情是影子，当灯灭了，你会发现你的周围都是影子。朋友，是在最后可以给你力量的人。4.I love you not for who you are, but for who I am before you.我爱你不是因为你是谁，而是我在你面前可以是谁。5.Love makes man grow up or sink down.爱情，要么让人成熟，要么让人堕落。6.If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.举得起放得下的叫举重，举得起放不下的叫负重。可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。7.We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone.我们每个人都生活在各自的过去中，人们会用一分钟的时间去认识一个人，用一小时的时间去喜欢一个人，再用一天的时间去爱上一个人，到最后呢，却要用一辈子的时间去忘记一个人。8.One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherishthe people you love.一个人一生可以爱上很多的人，等你获得真正属于你的幸福之后，你就会明白一起的伤痛其实是一种财富，它让你学会更好地去把握和珍惜你爱的人。9.When you are young, you may want several love experiences. But as time goes on, you will realize that if you really love someone, the whole life will not be enough. You need time to know, to forgive and to love. All this needs a very big mind.年轻的时候会想要谈很多次恋爱，但是随着年龄的增长，终于领悟到爱一个人，就算用一辈子的时间，还是会嫌不够。慢慢地去了解这个人，体谅这个人，直到爱上为止，是需要有非常宽大的胸襟才行。10.When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we are pushed forward by time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forward when another train goes by. It is the truth that we've all grown up. And we become different.当明天变成了今天成为了昨天，最后成为记忆里不再重要的某一天，我们突然发现自己在不知不觉中已被时间推着向前走，这不是静止火车里，与相邻列车交错时，仿佛自己在前进的错觉，而是我们真实的在成长，在这件事里成了另一个自己。11.If you leave me, please don't comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.离开我就别安慰我，要知道每一次缝补也会遭遇穿刺的痛。12.Don’t forget the things you once you owned. Treasure the things you can’t get. Don't give up the things that belong to you and keep those lost things in memory.曾经拥有的，不要忘记。不能得到的，更要珍惜。属于自己的，不要放弃。已经失去的'，留作回忆。13.I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed things.Only in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. Forexample, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I stepbackward and watching it silently, then I see the true feelings.我喜欢并习惯了对变化的东西保持着距离，这样才会知道什么是最不会被时间抛弃的准则。比如爱一个人，充满变数，我于是后退一步，静静的看着，直到看见真诚的感情。14.Men love from overlooking while women love from looking up. If love isa mountain, then if men go up, more women they will see while womenwill see fewer men.男人的爱是俯视而生，而女人的爱是仰视而生。如果爱情像座山，那么男人越往上走可以俯视的女人就越多，而女人越往上走可以仰视的男人就越少。
