适合学习英语的美文文章

适合学习英语的美文文章

英语阅读技能既是重要的语言技能,也是重要的学习技能,是发展其

他语言技能的基础和前提。下面是店铺带来的适合学习英语的美文，

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适合学习英语的美文篇一

Listening is powerful medicine倾听是良药

I believe listening is powerful Medicine.

Studies have shown it takes a physician about 18 conds to

interrupt a patient after he begins talking.

It was Sunday. I had one last patient to e. I approached her

room in a hurry and stood at the doorway. She was an older

woman, sitting at the edge of the bed, struggling to put socks on

her swollen feet. I crosd the threshold, spoke quickly to the

nur, scanned her chart noting she was in stable condition. I was

almost in the clear.

I leaned on the bedrail looking down at her. She asked if I

could help put on her socks. Instead, I launched into a

monologue that went something like this: "How are you feeling?

Your sugars and blood pressure were high but they're better

today. The nur mentioned you're anxious to e your son who's

visiting you today. It's nice to have family visit from far away. I bet

you really look forward to eing him."

She stopped me with a stern, authoritative voice. "Sit down,

doctor. This is my story, not your story."

I was surprid and embarrasd. I sat down. I helped her

with the socks. She began to tell me that her only son lived

around the corner from her, but she had not en him in five

years. She believed that the stress of this contributed greatly to

her health problems. After hearing her story and putting on her

socks, I asked if there was anything el I could do for her. She

shook her head no and smiled. All she wanted me to do was to

listen.

Each story is different. Some are detailed; others are vague.

Some have a beginning, middle and end. Others wander without

a clear conclusion. Some are true; others not. Yet all tho things

do not really matter. What matters to the storyteller is that the

story is heard — without interruption, assumption or judgment.

Listening to someone's story costs less than expensive

diagnostic testing but is key to healing and diagnosis.

I often thought of what that woman taught me, and I

reminded mylf of the importance of stopping, sitting down and

truly listening. And, not long after, in an unexpected twist, I

became the patient, with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age

31. Now, 20 years later, I sit all the time — in a wheelchair.

For as long as I could, I continued to e patients from my

chair, but I had to resign when my hands were affected. I still

teach med students and other health care professionals, but now

from the perspective of physician and patient.

I tell them I believe in the power of listening. I tell them I

know firsthand that immeasurable healing takes place within me

when someone stops, sits down and listens to my story.

适合学习英语的美文篇二

For girls only女孩箴言

Love yourlf. Love the things that make you values

and talents and clothes, your no, your woes. If

you love yourlf, you can jump into your life from a springboard

of lf-confidence. If you love yourlf, you can say what you want

to say, go where you want to go. The world can be a tough place,

and some of the billions of people out there will try to knock you

down. Don’t join them. Do things that make you proud, then

take pride in what you do. And in who you are.

Who are you anyway? What makes you you? How are you

like your siblings and neighbors and friends? How are you

different? If you were your own cret admirer, what would you

most admire?

“My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive

mylf,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “is that one day I cead my

obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.” Keep pursuing your

individuality. Keep being yourlf. Becoming yourlf. It can be

comforting to dress and act like everyone el. But it is grander

to be different, to be unique, to be you. I’m the only me in the

whole wide world.

There is always one true inner voice. Trust it. —Gloria Steinem

Sometimes it’s hard to know who you are and what you

want and whom you like and why you like that

answers change becau you’re changing. Growing. But deep

inside, you are were you as a baby, you were you as a kid,

and you are you right now. “Let me listen to me and not to them,”

wrote Gertrude Stein. It makes n to consider the advice and

opinions of other people. But don’t let their noi drown out

your inner voice. And don’t let the way you sometimes talk or

behave in front of others make you lo sight of who you are

when you are alone, when you are most you.

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more

about other people than you know about yourlf,” aviator Beryl

Markham cautioned. Get acquainted with yourlf. Tune in to the

dreams you have by day and by night. Blend in when you choo

to, but appreciate what ts you apart. “The more I like me, the

less I want to pretend to be other people,” said Jamie Lee Curtis.

Anybody can be one of the crowd.

适合学习英语的美文篇三

What I want for you奥巴马给女儿的信

Dear Malia and Sasha,

I know that you've both had a lot of fun the last two years

on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state

fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably

shouldn't have let you have. But I also know that it hasn't always

been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you both are

about that new puppy, it doesn't make up for all the time we've

been apart. I know how much I've misd the past two years,

and today I want to tell you a little more about why I decided to

take our family on this journey.

When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me-

about how I'd make my way in the world, become successful, and

get the things I want. But then the two of you came into my world

with all your curiosity and mischief and tho smiles that never

fail to fill my heart and light up my day. And suddenly, all my big

plans for mylf didn't em so important anymore. I soon found

that the greatest joy in my life was the joy I saw in yours. And I

realized that my own life wouldn't count for much unless I was

able to ensure that you had every opportunity for happiness and

fulfillment in yours. In the end, girls, that's why I ran for President:

becau of what I want for you and for every child in this nation.

I want all our children to go to schools worthy of their

potential-schools that challenge them, inspire them, and instill in

them a n of wonder about the world around them. I want

them to have the chance to go to college-even if their parents

aren't rich. And I want them to get good jobs: jobs that pay well

and give them benefits like health care, jobs that let them spend

time with their own kids and retire with dignity.

I want us to push the boundaries of discovery so that you'll

live to e new technologies and inventions that improve our

lives and make our planet cleaner and safer. And I want us to push

our own human boundaries to reach beyond the divides of race

and region, gender and religion that keep us from eing the best

in each other.

Sometimes we have to nd our young men and women into

war and other dangerous situations to protect our country-but

when we do, I want to make sure that it is only for a very good

reason, that we try our best to ttle our differences with others

peacefully, and that we do everything possible to keep our

rvicemen and women safe. And I want every child to

understand that the blessings the brave Americans fight for are

not free-that with the great privilege of being a citizen of this

nation comes great responsibility.

That was the lesson your grandmother tried to teach me

when I was your age, reading me the opening lines of the

Declaration of Independence and telling me about the men and

women who marched for equality becau they believed tho

words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something.

She helped me understand that America is great not becau

it is perfect but becau it can always be made better-and that

the unfinished work of perfecting our union falls to each of us.

It's a charge we pass on to our children, coming clor with each

new generation to what we know America should be.

I hope both of you will take up that work, righting the wrongs

that you e and working to give others the chances you've had.

Not just becau you have an obligation to give something back

to this country that has given our family so much-although you

do have that obligation. But becau you have an obligation to

yourlf. Becau it is only when you hitch your wagon to

something larger than yourlf that you will realize your true

potential.

The are the things I want for you-to grow up in a world

with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyond your

reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who

will help build that world. And I want every child to have the same

chances to learn and dream and grow and thrive that you girls

have. That's why I've taken our family on this great adventure.

I am so proud of both of you. I love you more than you can

ever know. And I am grateful every day for your patience, poi,

grace, and humor as we prepare to start our new life together in

the White Hou.

Love, Dad