英语六级晨读美文100篇.docx

Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue 知识和美德Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another知识是一件事,美德是另一回事;good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,正确的判断力并非意识,文雅并非谦逊,nor is largeness and justness of view faith.广博与正义的观点也并非信仰Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound,哲学,无论多么富有启迪,然而深刻gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.都无法驾驭情感,不具备有影响力的动机,不具有灵活的原则。Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman.自由教育并不造就基督徒,天主教徒,而是绅士。It is well to be a gentleman,好的造就一个绅士,it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, 最好有一个有教养的思维,具有敏锐的鉴赏力,a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, 公正、平等、冷静的头脑,a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life 一种高尚的行为礼貌的轴承的生活—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; 这些都是在大固有的品质知识they are the objects of a University. 他们的对象的大学I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; 我提倡,我将解释和坚持他们but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, 然而,我重复一遍,他们是不会保证没有责任感,或者甚至是婚姻的神圣性 and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, 他们可能会在世界的人,对挥霍无度to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. 因为在他们那里显示是无情的,舒适,悲伤,和有吸引力的。Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; 被自己,他们只是似乎是他们没有做； they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and in the long run; 他们看起来像美德在远处的,但是他们是通过近距离的观察发现,在长期内看来；and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, 是不可能的,因此,他们被指控虚伪是普遍和虚伪，not, I repeat, from their own fault, 再说一次,我,从自己的错，but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, 因为他们的教授和他们的仰慕者坚持采取他们不去做，and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. 给他们冒称爱管闲事的在赞美,他们没有权利要求这样。Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk,采石场用剃刀就可以开采出花岗岩,或摩尔人血管丝绸的一根线 then may you hope with such keen and delicate instrume