1.精選簡單英語文章聽力 篇一
Courage
勇氣
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less amagnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must in spite ofpersonal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures and thatis the basis of all human morality．
生活之中的勇氣，通常不會(huì)像千鈞一發(fā)時(shí)的勇氣那樣充滿戲劇性；但他人不失為是一個(gè)勝利與悲劇的壯觀組合。一個(gè)人將個(gè)人得失，障礙、危險(xiǎn)還有壓力拋在腦后，只是做他必須做的，而這便是人類一切道德的基礎(chǔ)。
To be courageous…requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place andcircumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.Politics merely furnishes one arena which imposes special tests of courage. In whatever arena of life, one may meet the challenge of courage, whatever may bethe sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience, the loss of his friends,his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men, each man must decidefor himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can definethat ingredient, they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provideinspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must lookinto his own soul．
勇敢，不需要突出的品質(zhì)，不需要秘訣，不需要天時(shí)地利，每個(gè)人或早或晚都有機(jī)會(huì)。政治不過是對(duì)勇氣進(jìn)行特別考驗(yàn)的一個(gè)競技場而已，在人生的每一個(gè)競技場上勇氣都會(huì)前來挑戰(zhàn)。如果你跟隨你的良心，那么任何東西都可能被犧牲：朋友，財(cái)產(chǎn)，滿足，甚至是別人對(duì)你的尊重。走哪條路只能由自己來決定。前人的故事可以告訴你什么叫勇敢。他們能夠教你，能夠給你希望和靈感，但不能給你真正的勇氣，要得到它你必須要發(fā)掘自己的靈魂。
2.精選簡單英語文章聽力 篇二
有能力幫助別人是一種幸福
The hummingbird was lost in the supermarket, exhausted, starving, and near death as it spiraled towards the ground on helpless wings.
一只蜂鳥在超市里迷路了，它疲憊不堪且饑餓難耐，由于無力揮動(dòng)雙翼，小蜂鳥飛得越來越低，眼看就要奄奄一息。
I snatched her away from the crushing carts, cupped her in my hands, and rushed for the exit.
我一把將它抓住，讓它免于遭受被推車碾壓的命運(yùn)。我小心翼翼地托著蜂鳥，向出口跑去，感到它小而柔軟的身體躺在我的掌心。
She was tiny and soft against my palms. I ran out towards the flowers. She was too weak to perch; I cupped her in my palm and held her up to each flower to drink.
我跑向花叢，然而這只蜂鳥太虛弱了，站都站不起來。于是我舉著它，讓它挨個(gè)吸食每朵花的花蜜。
Slowly, she perked up and her claws tightened on my finger. Then she spread her wings and flew on her own: a tiny, sweet miracle.
漸漸地蜂鳥有了精神，它的爪子抓緊了我的手指，之后它揮動(dòng)著翅膀飛了起來——這小小的，甜蜜的奇跡。
3.精選簡單英語文章聽力 篇三
點(diǎn)不亮的蠟燭
A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived for her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.
His best efforts, however, proved unavailing and the child died. The father became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream.
He was in heaven, witnessing a grand pageant of all the little child angels. They were marching in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child carried a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing to her, he seized her in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked, “How is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?” “Daddy, they often relight it, but your tears always put it out.”
Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear, and its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates. No longer would his darling’s candle be extinguished by his useless tears.
一個(gè)男人有一個(gè)小女兒，那是的孩子，他深深地愛著她，為她而活，她就是他的生命。所以，當(dāng)女兒生病時(shí)，他像瘋了一般竭盡全力想讓她恢復(fù)健康。
然而，他所有的努力都無濟(jì)于事，女兒還是死了。父親變得痛苦遁世，避開了許多朋友，拒絕參加一切能使他恢復(fù)平靜，回到自我的活動(dòng)。但有一天夜里，他做了一個(gè)夢。
他到了天堂，看到所有的小天使都身穿白色天使衣，手里拿著一根蠟燭。他注意到有一個(gè)小天使的蠟燭沒有點(diǎn)亮。隨后，他看到那個(gè)拿著沒有點(diǎn)亮的蠟燭的小天使是自己的女兒。他奔過去，一把將女兒抱在懷里，親切地愛撫著她，然后問道：“寶貝兒，為什么只有你的蠟燭沒有點(diǎn)亮呢?”“爸爸，他們經(jīng)常重新點(diǎn)亮蠟燭，可是你的眼淚總是把它熄滅�！�
就在這時(shí)，他從夢中醒來。夢給他上的一課像水晶般透明，而且立竿見影。從那個(gè)時(shí)刻起，他不再消極遁世，而是自由自在，興高采烈的回到從前的朋友和同事們中間。寶貝女兒的蠟燭再也沒有被他無用的眼淚熄滅過。
4.精選簡單英語文章聽力 篇四
An Identity of One's Own
In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live---his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards.
Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your personality.
It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in the world who can be identified as anything ---either his job, his status or his social role---that shows no trace about his individuality. It does do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn't know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or done on others' suggestions; if his life, always occupied by external things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't be able to find anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He is, indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine capable of doing business.
活出個(gè)性
在茫茫宇宙間，每個(gè)人都只有生存的機(jī)會(huì)，都是一個(gè)獨(dú)一無二、不可重復(fù)的存在。正像盧梭所說的，上帝把你造出來后，就把那個(gè)屬于你的特定的模子打碎了。
名聲、財(cái)產(chǎn)、知識(shí)等等是身外之物，人人都可求而得之，但沒有人能夠代替你感受人生。你死之后，沒有人能夠代替你再活。如果你真正意識(shí)到了這一點(diǎn)，你就會(huì)明白，活在世上，重要的事就是活出你自己的特色和滋味來。你的人生是否有意義，衡量的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)不是外在的成功，而是你對(duì)人生意義的獨(dú)特領(lǐng)悟和堅(jiān)守，從而使你的自我閃放出個(gè)性的光華。
真正成為自己不是一件容易的事。世上有許多人，你說他是什么都行，例如是一種職業(yè)，一個(gè)身份，一個(gè)角色，惟獨(dú)不是他自己。如果一個(gè)人總是按別人的意見生活，沒有自己的獨(dú)立思索，總是為外在事務(wù)忙碌，沒有自己的內(nèi)心生活，那么，說他不是他自己就一點(diǎn)兒也沒有冤枉他。因?yàn)榇_確實(shí)實(shí)，從他的頭腦到他的心靈，你在其中已經(jīng)找不到絲毫真正屬于他自己的東西了，他只是別人的一個(gè)影子和事務(wù)的一架機(jī)器罷了。
5.精選簡單英語文章聽力 篇五
老員工更受歡迎
英語聽力原文：
Older staff are more productive than their younger colleagues, say researchers. More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong. The researchers say: While older workers make more errors, perhaps due to declining physical attributes, they hardly make any severe errors, perhaps due to more experience. It is experience that prevents severe errors.
有專家經(jīng)過研究發(fā)現(xiàn)：公司的老員工比年輕一輩，特別是新一代的大學(xué)生更有競爭力。雖然他們相對(duì)年輕的同業(yè)者來說，可能身體不夠強(qiáng)健，思維不夠敏捷，但是他們經(jīng)驗(yàn)更豐富，團(tuán)隊(duì)合作能力更強(qiáng)，處理危機(jī)的能力也更強(qiáng)。專家總結(jié)：因?yàn)槟挲g的原因，年紀(jì)越大，生理功能下降，老員工有可能會(huì)犯很多小錯(cuò)誤;但是另一方面，由于老員工擁有更多的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，他們不會(huì)犯許多大的、嚴(yán)重的錯(cuò)誤。
The scientists who studied production lines at a Mercedes-Benz truck factory in southern Germany also found that younger, more highly educated workers were less productive than those who had fewer qualifications — perhaps because the educated workers got bored more easily. The researchers, from the University of Mannheim, said their findings debunked the idea that older workers should be made redundant to boost productivity.
在德國 南部梅賽德斯·奔馳工廠生產(chǎn)線的科學(xué)家發(fā)現(xiàn)，年輕、教育水平更高的工作比那些證書拿得少的員工(老員工)生產(chǎn)效率要低很多�？茖W(xué)家分析，教育程度高的年輕人在工作中容易感覺無聊，不懂得沉下心去研究工作。來自Mannheim大學(xué)的研究員稱，這項(xiàng)研究徹底*了——老員工才對(duì)工作產(chǎn)生懈怠感覺的理論。
英語單詞詞匯整理:
1. productive adj. 有成效的
eg: Science and technology are part of the productive forces.
科學(xué)技術(shù)是生產(chǎn)力。
短語：
productive investment 生產(chǎn)性投資;生產(chǎn)投資
productive time 生產(chǎn)時(shí)間
productive capacity 生產(chǎn)率;處理能力
2. agile adj. 敏捷的，靈活的
eg: An acrobat has to be agile.
雜技演員必須身手敏捷。
短語：
agile missile 靈巧導(dǎo)彈
Agile Buddy 跳板游戲;地獄三百層
3. cope vi. 應(yīng)付，對(duì)抗，妥善處理
eg: He had a lot of work, but he was able to cope.
他的活雖多,但還能應(yīng)付得來。
短語：
cope with 處理;應(yīng)付
coping style 應(yīng)對(duì)方式
coping strategy 應(yīng)對(duì)策略
coping stone 墩臺(tái)石
4. debunk vt. 揭穿真相，暴露
eg: Don't let me debunk you.
不要讓我揭穿你。
短語：
debunk it 揭穿它
debunk myths 破除誤區(qū)
the truth by debunk 真相被揭穿
5. redundant adj. 多余的，累贅的，解雇的
eg: There are too many redundant words in this book.
這本書里多余的詞太多。
短語：
redundancy payment 失業(yè)金
redundant code 冗余碼
redundant information 冗余信息
佳句采摘：
More mature members of staff may be weaker and less agile than their junior counterparts, but they more than compensate with their greater experience, ability to work in teams, and success at coping when things go wrong.
雖然他們相對(duì)年輕的同業(yè)者來說，可能身體不夠強(qiáng)健，思維不夠敏捷，但是他們經(jīng)驗(yàn)更豐富，團(tuán)隊(duì)合作能力更強(qiáng)，處理危機(jī)的能力也更強(qiáng)。
