英语名篇名段诵精华(第1-20篇).txt.docVIP

英语名篇背诵精华01 Life is a chess-board 人生是一盘棋 说人生是一出戏也好，是一盘棋也罢，只不过是对人生的一种理解，因人而异。 The chess-board is the world: the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. By Thomas Henry Huxley 注释 overlook[??uv??luk]: to fail to see or notice 忽视 make allowance for: 考虑到……（而原谅） 作者简介 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), English biologist and educator. Huxley gave up his own biological research to become an influential scientific publicist and was the principal exponent of Darwinism in England. An agnostic, he doubted all things not immediately open to logical analysis and scientific verification. He held up truth as an ideal and spoke and wrote frequently on its tool, the scientific method, and its yield, the evolutionary theory. He placed human ethic outside the scope of the materialistic processes of evolution; he believed that civilization is man’s protest against nature and that progress is achieved by the human control of evolution. 托马斯.亨利.赫胥黎，英国著名博物学家，达尔文进化论学说最杰出的代表。 棋盘宛如世界：一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象：游戏规则就是我们所称的自然法则。竞争对手藏于暗处，不为我们所见。我们知晓，这位对手向来处事公平，正义凛然，极富耐心。然而，我们也明白，这位对手从不忽视任何错误，或者因为我们的无知而做出一丝让步，所以我们也必须为此付出代价。 英语名段背诵精华 02 Best of times 最好的时代 狄更斯在《双城记》一书开头就说，“这是一个最好的时代，也是一个最坏的时代”。妙哉斯言！这段文字因含有多个平行句（句子结构相同）而打动读者。文中句型上的反复、形式上的对偶、内容上的对比、总体结构上的平行，都值得仔细体会。 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 注释 wisdom[?wizd