英文经典名著的优美段落
经典名著反映一个国家在一定阶段的发展状况和民族性格且代表国家发展的精华部分。下面是小编带来的英文经典名著的优美段落，欢迎阅读!
英文经典名著的优美段落欣赏
Stray Birds
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.
And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing.
But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
The mist, like love, plays upon the heart of the hills and brings out surprises of beauty.
Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound of the sea among theselistening pines.
What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars?
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
The touch of the nameless days clings to my heart like mosses round the old tree.
英文经典名著的优美段落鉴赏
The Mysterious Recluse
Garbo—divine, mysterious, reclusive. One of the most famous faces of the 20th century. On screen she was raw sexuality, off screen her affairs with men and women captivated the press. And her silence made her a legend. But it was a legend she tried to escape for fifty years. What was the secret of Greta Garbo? The truth lies in the face, the voice and our own appetite for mystery.
Greta Lovisa Gustafson was born on September 18, 1905 in the working class soda mall merrier of Stockholm.
The 19-year-old Garbo said goodbye to her family in Stockholm, she was given visa number 396 and arrived in New York City on July 5, 1925. At the time MGM publicity chief Howard Dietz said of Garbo, “I hate that name, It reminds me of garbage.” America was unimpressed with Greta -- but a series of amateur photos was about to launch Garbo’s career.
After three months, production chief Irving Thalberg assigned Garbo to The Torrent. Garbo’s natural manner distinguished her from more histrionic silent actors. MGM had found Garbo’s identity. Off screen, Garbo barely spoke English. When she tried to joke that she was an “imported star”, but accidentally said “important star” the crew laughed at her vanity. On screen, MGM enhanced the mystique of its new star by teaming her with the best photographers and designers. Clarence Sinclair Bull was assigned to do all her official photography. He would become known as “the man who shot Garbo.” He referred to her as the Mona Lisa of the 20th century.
Garbo created a new kind of 1glamour. A combination of sexuality, fashion and mystery. Audiences wanted to know more about the woman behind the face, but Garbo refused to talk. The studio played along since her 1reticence seemed to create more interest in the Swedish 1sphinx. The 1subtext of one of her next films was thinly 1veiled. Queen Christina was the story of the legendary 17th century Swedish leader who 1abdicated her throne rather than 1subjugate herself to a man.
Greta Garbo (Lines from Queen Christina): I thought you would understand when you saw me again what had happened. Could it have been so enchanting to be a woman? Mother queen -- just a woman in a man’s arms.
Garbo inspired and yet 1defied interpretation, on screen and off. For the final shot of Queen Christina, Mamoulian gave his 1inscrutable leading lady her most brilliant direction. He asked her to think of nothing.
Garbo’s era had passed. She had outlived most of her lovers and costars. Greta Garbo’s screen legend had become Greta Garbo urban legend. In 1970’s New York, a Garbo sighting as she marched through the streets of Manhattan stopping only to browse through 1junk shops and 2antique stores was recorded the same status as a UFO. She became a 2cult figure and showed up in unlikely places. On Friday April 28, 1990, she went for her regular 2dialysis treatment but did not return. She died on Easter Sunday.
They say the only thing an actor owes the public is a performance. That much Garbo gave. Whether she had nothing to say or simply said nothing doesn’t matter. Hers was a perfect face. A blank screen on to which the world projected what it needed to see. Her silence told us what we wanted to hear.
英文经典名著的优美段落赏析
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few asthere are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the mediumis the human mind and spirit.
I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she broughtdiscovery.
She aroused us to shouting, bookwaving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school andshe didn’t even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. She breathedcuriosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like capturedfireflies.
She was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such thingsmust be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she1inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. I could not do simple 1arithmetic butthrough her I sensed that 1abstract 1mathematics was very much like music.
When she was relieved, a sadness came over us but the light did not go out. She left her1signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds. I suppose that to alarge extent I am the unsigned 1manuscript of the high school teacher. What deathlesspower lies in the hands of such a person.
I can tell my son who looks forward with horror to fifteen years of 1drudgery thatsomewhere in the 1dusty dark a magic may happen that will 1light up the years... if he isvery lucky.