2022年中考英语作文写作素材积累：英语晨读美文14
美文阅读1 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 sunris, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone el.
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, rentments, 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 loss that once emed 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 tho 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 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。
Choo to live a life that matters.
选择有意义的人生吧！
美文阅读2 爱自己，是一个女生应有的姿态
Not everyone reciprocates the gesture.
并不是每个人都会回应你的付出。
This is a hard truth but it’s true.
这是个残酷的事实，但现实的确如此。
If other people poured the same amount of effort into me as I pour into them, things would probably be different, but things aren’t always equal in friendships and relationships.
如果别人对我的付出，跟我对别人的付出一样多，现实可能会有所不同。然而，友情和爱情中的付出总是不对等。
I honestly think that we should help other people and take care of them becau it’s a good thing to do, not becau we want something back.
老实说，我觉得我们应该帮助和关心别人，仅仅因为这是一种善举，而不是想要有所回报。
But by the same token, if we’re not getting anything back to sustain us when we need it, we shouldn’t help people to the point where we drain our own resources.
可是，由此类推，当我们需要帮助，却什么都得不到的时候，我们就不应该耗尽所有精力去帮助别人了。
I’m not being lfish.
我并不是自私。
Putting yourlf first feels so wrong when you first start doing it.
刚开始去把自己放在第一位的时候，你会觉得很不好意思。
If you’re ud to erasing your own needs to look after others, it ems too lf-indulgent.
如果你习惯压抑自己的需求去帮助别人，以自己为优先的话，就会显得很任性。
But actually,the only way to consistently and effectively help other people in the long-termis to make sure you’re in a good place yourlf.
但是实际上，持续且高效地帮助别人的唯一方法，就是先让自己保持良好的状态。
I’m important too.
我也很重要。
It actually took me a while to get to the point where I can say this, but there’s no reason why my own wants and needs shouldn’t matter as much as the other people in my life.
我也是在经历了很多之后，才意识到这一点。然而，日常生活中，我的需求并没有理由比别人的需求低一等。
I derve to have the same level of support and I certainly derve to get where I want in life.
我应该得到同样程度的支持，我应该得到我想要的、那种平等的地位。
I derve to be happy.
我应该得到幸福。
Helping people has always made me happy and it still does, but I’ve come to understand I want another kind of happiness too – pride in my own achievements, emotional resilience, stuff that’s really to do with me and not anyone el.
帮助他人总是使我快乐，现在也是如此，可是我开始明白，我也需要其他种类的幸福——为自己的成就、情绪恢复能力、以及真正与自己有关的事情而感到自豪。
It’s time to make that happen.
是时候这样做了。
美文阅读3 你怎样过早晨，就怎样过一生
