篇一：英语美文赏析
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英语美文赏析
作者：王晓宁
来源：《英语学习·教师版》2014年第05期
英语美文，即使用地道、优美的英语语言写的文章；英语美文赏析，则是在接触地道英语语言的基础之上，了解和理解英语语言文化背景，欣赏语言确切应用所表达的真实情景，甚至对其传达的情绪情感感同身受，以致对更深层的思想传达了解并分享。
我的美文赏析始于2003年，源于几百篇美国中学生优秀作文的翻译。3个月的翻译工作，对于已经有20年专业英语学习和近十年英语教学的我都受益良多。地道的英语语言，真实的生活场景，生动自然的生活、情感和思绪，一些我们熟识却总能让你眼前一亮的小词、小句给了我最初开设美文赏析课的想法。浸润在地道的英语语言文化中，欣赏貌似简单却画面感极强（simple but powerful）的小词小句，感受简单平易的意思之下表达的或栩栩如生的画面，或真实动人的情感，或本该讳莫如深却清晰可触的思想；而在这不断的学习中慢慢积累起来的东西，正是包括我和我的学生们这些英语学习者最终使用所迫切需要的。
浸润
语言的学习，首先要保证一定的语言输入（take in），由每天的接触和积累慢慢养成语言的感觉和习惯；而美文的阅读和欣赏，又给予学生高质量的语言。一样的语言输入，不一样品质的语言输入自然效果会有不同。比如“Home Sweet Home”，描述了要搬离居住12年的家，字里行间流露出的依恋和不舍；“The Beauty of the Beast”，小作者在回家路上偶遇一只不愿离弃被车撞身亡的同伴的小松鼠，真切体会到这只小动物身上的兽性之美，从而引发的对于人性的思考，而导致学生们对自己身上人性的剖析，并给了学生们“有心观世界，点滴皆故事”的启迪；“I Call Myself”， 通过一个妈妈在给孩子描述白种人，黄种人和黑人时表现出的细微的态度差别，包括使用的不同词汇，描述了在美国真实存在的种族歧视。这在美国黑人总统Obama当政的今天，给了学生们不小的震撼，也加强了他们对于美国种族差异的了解和认识。典型生动的细节，简单温暖的文字，真实动人的情感，总让学生们在读完以后感动沉思。我想，这就是语言的力量，这就是语言值得我们用心欣赏的原因——了解生活，感受美丽，触动心灵。每天浸润其中，怎会没有收益？
欣赏
出于语言学习的目的，在美文阅读中我指导学生欣赏的，首先是用于表达的字、词、句。对于词，我有一句名言“simple but powerful”，所有的词汇，都要在合适的情境中才能表现出触动人心的力量 （situational words）。学生渐渐领悟——词汇的使用，并不是越难越大越好，而是要针对情景；无论多小多简单的词汇，只要使用恰当，就都会具有打动人心的力量——比如，在读到The young squirrel once more stands erect and with piercing emptiness in his coal black eyes， faces me时，正是 “此时无声胜有声”的感受——痛到深处无言表。
篇二：英语美文赏析
The Ugly Truth about Beauty
By Dave Barry If you're a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks. "How do I look?" she'll ask.
You must be careful how you answer this question. The best
technique is to form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure.* Trust me, this is the easiest way out. Because you will never come up with the right answer. collapse [k??l?ps] vi.／ n.倒坍，塌下；崩溃，突然失败 fatal [?feitl] a.致命的，灾难性的；重大的，决定性的 seizure [?si:??] n.没收；占有；抵押
The problem is that women generally do not think of their looks in the same way that men do. Most men form an opinion of how they look in seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives. Some men form the opinion that are irresistibly handsome and they do not change this opinion even when their noses bloat to the size of eggplants and their eyebrows grow together to form what appears to be a giant forehead-dwelling tropical caterpillar.*
stick to 粘贴在…上；紧跟；坚持，忠于，信守
irresistiblyadv. 不可抵抗地(压制不住地, 无可反驳地) bloat vt. 使肿胀 adj. 肿胀的 n. 膨胀，自傲, (家畜)肠道炎
eggplant
n. 茄子
eyebrown.眉毛
dwelling n.住处
caterpillarn.毛虫，蝴蝶的幼虫
Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking. Men will think this even if their faces cause heart failure in cattle at a range of 300 yards.* Being average does not bother them; average is fine, for men. This is why men never ask anybody how they look. Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which is essentially the same form
of beauty care that they give to their lawns. If,
at the end of his four-minute daily beauty
regimen, a man has managed to wipe most of
the shaving cream out of his hair and is not
bleeding too badly, he feels that he has done
all he can, so he stops thinking about his
appearance and devotes his mind to more
critical issues, such as the Super Bowl.*
regimen n.养生法，生活规则
Women do not look at themselves this way. If I had to express, in three words, what I believe most women think about their appearance, those words would be: "not good enough." No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, when she looks at herself in the
mirror, she thinks: woof. She thinks that at any moment a municipal animal-control officer is going to throw a net over her and haul her off to the shelter.*
woof [wu:f] n. 纬线，织物 n. （狗的）低吠声 vi. 狗吠 municipal [mju:'nisipl] adj. 市的,市政的n. 政府证券
haul vt./ n.(用力)拖，拉；(用车等)拖运，运送
Why do women have such low self-esteem? There are many complex psychological and societal reasons, by which I mean Barbie. Girls grow up playing with a doll proportioned such that, if it were a human, it would be seven feet tall and weigh 81 pounds, of which 53 pounds would be bosoms. This is a difficult appearance standard to live up to,* especially when you contrast it with the standard set for little boys by their dolls … excuse me, by their action figures. Most of the action figures that my son played with when he was little were hideous -looking. For example, he was very fond of an action figure (part of the He-Man series) called "Buzz-Off," who was part human, part flying insect. Buzz-Off was not a looker. But he was extremely self-confident. You could not imagine Buzz-Off saying to the other action figures: Do you think these wings make my hips look big?"
esteem [is'ti:m] n. 尊敬vt. 认为,尊敬
proportioned adj. 成比例的(相称的)
bosom n.胸部，乳房；胸怀，内心
hideous a.极其丑陋的，难看的
hip [hip] n.臀部，髋部
But women grow up thinking they need to look like Barbie, which for most women is impossible, although there is a multibillion-dollar beauty industry devoted to convincing women that they must try. Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm). I once saw an Oprah show
wherein supermodel Cindy Crawford dispensed make up tips to the studio audience. Cindy had all these middle-aged women applying beauty
products to their faces;* she stressed how important it was to apply them in a certain way, using the tips of their fingers. All the women dutifully did this, even though it was obvious to any sane observer that, no matter how carefully they applied these products, they would never look remotely like Cindy Crawford, who is some kind of genetic mutation. browser n. 吃嫩叶的动物, 浏览书本的人
dispensevt.分配，分发；配(药)，发(药)；实施
dutifully ['dju:tifuli]adv. 忠实地, 忠贞地
sane [sein] a.神志正常的；清醒的，明智的
mutationn.突变，变异
I'm not saying that men are superior. I'm just saying that you're not going to get a group of middle-aged men to sit in a room and apply cosmetics to themselves under the instruction of Brad Pitt, in hopes of looking more like him. Men would realize that this task was pointless and
demeaning. They would find some way to bolster their self-esteem that did not require looking like Brad Pitt. They would say to Brad: "Oh YEAH? Well what do you know about LAWN CARE, pretty boy?" cosmetic a.美容的；装饰性的 n.[ pl.]化妆品
demean v.贬抑，降低
bolster vt.支撑
lawn n.草地，草坪
Of course many women will argue that the reason they become obsessed with trying to look like Cindy Crawford is that men, being as shallow as a drop of spit, want women to look that way. To which I have two responses:
obsess vt.着迷
1. Hey, just because we’re idiots, that does not mean you have to be; and
idiot n.白痴，傻子，笨蛋
2. Men don't even notice 97 percent of the beauty efforts you make anyway. Take fingernails.* The average woman spends 5,000 hours per year worrying about her fingernails; I have never once, in more than 40 years of listening to men talk about women, heard a man say, "She has a nice set of fingernails!" Many men would not notice if a woman had upward of four hands.
upward of 超过、多于
篇三：英语美文赏析 带翻译
(Reports on Britain Under the Bombs)
Night after night, in the hot summer and early fall of 1940, a deep,
under the waves of German
an American voice with a slight steady voice came over the Atlantic Ocean
from England to America, telling of England's battle for survival
bombers
. This strong and steady voice,
accent of North Carolina, belonged to Edward R. Murrow, head of the European staff of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
"This is London," said Murrow, while the bombs fell and flames spread
His voice had a tone of sorrow for the
no matter what it had to endure. It
Nazi bombs on the streets of the city. suffering of that ancient city, and a tone of confidence, too -- a feeling of
belief that London would be there, could not be destroyed.
The heavy raids
began in the middle of August, and
started to fall along England's Channel
Coast. The German bombers cast dark shadows over the white cliffs of Dover, and England's Home Guard prepared to fight on the beaches, on the cliffs, and in the hills, until the last Englishman died or the invaders were driven off
. Air Marshal Goering's bomber pilots were sure of their ultimate triumph over England. Hitler and Goering believed that when London became a burned city like Warsaw and Rotterdam
, England would surrender.
They had the English Channel as a barrier against But the English were more fortunate than the Poles in Warsaw and the Dutch
in Rotterdam.
Nazis in the sky.
The hardships of London really started in the first week of September,
German bombers
Marshal Goering when Hitler was at last convinced that the English did not intend to give in.
On September 7, 1940, nearly four hundred
boasted, hammered the city with bombs in broad daylight
.
delivered its bombs right into the enemy's heart."
Fires burned, houses fell, gas pipes burst, and dark smoke rose from
the streets. Men, women, and children felt the effect of the bombs. Radar sirens wailed
,
another, ambulances rushed from one place of agony to
and fire fighters faced the flames hour after hour. the Nazi ground forces, and they had the Royal Air Force(RAF) to battle the "This is the historic hour when our air force for the first time
It seemed impossible for any city to take so much punishment and continue to endure. It seemed impossible for people of the city to do their daily jobs, to work and eat and sleep and carry on the business of life, with the crash
of bombs all around them
above.
But the city endured. Trains brought commuters in from the
The fires were brought suburbs
. Buses bumped
along the streets. and planes spitting fire in the skies
under control. Bottles of dairy milk arrived in door ways, and women took them in, as though the war were a thousand miles away. Newspapers
appeared and people bought them, hurrying to work and
reports of the battle raging over London.
And Edward R. Murrow went on the air, saying in his deep, steady
He did not speak them with any attempt to voice, "This is London." He spoke as though nothing could ever keep him from saying
those words.
sound heroic. He simply voiced the quiet truth of the city's existence. Murrow knew that Britain's fate depended upon the resolution of the people in the shops and streets, the men in the pubs
, the housewives, those watching for fire on the roofs, the people who had a thousand difficult and painful things to do.
Much depended upon the handful of pilots who rose day after day and
to meet the flocks
of Nazi bombers. The pilots in the night after night
still fighting.
But the people of London were also in the front lines, and they did not
They couldn't reach up
to They had to dig quickly in cellars
have the satisfaction of being able to fight back. and smash
the enemy planes. reading RAF reached the limits of exhaustion and then went beyond those limits,
rescue their friends who had been buried underneath the wreckage
. They had to put out endless fires. They had to stand firm and take whatever the enemy threw at them.
In a broadcast on October 1, 1940, Murrow declared:
bomb,
"Mark it down that these people are both brave and patient, that all are equal under the
that this is a war of speed and organization, and that
provides for the defense and decency whichever
political system best
of the little man will win."
Murrow's projection of eventual victory for the ordinary people
The Nazi powers were finally defeated by the proved to be accurate.
Allied nations.
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