主要內容
本書是大學英語補充閱讀教材，可供非英語專業學生課堂選講，也適合學生課後自行閱讀、背誦。本書選錄了英語精品文章81篇，分為23章，每章圍繞一個主題（譬如學習、美、父愛、友誼、人生、愛情、青春、夢想、時光等），有短小精悍、餘音繞樑的詩歌，有飽含哲理的精品散文，有慈愛滿溢的家書，有鏗鏘有力的演講稿，還有循循善誘的歌詞及名著選摘等。為使學生盡享文字的魅力和閱讀的快樂，本書沒有附任何習題。每篇文章配有作者簡介和生詞，難句的註解，詩歌配有漢語譯文，方便學生理解原文。
作者簡介
徐艷萍, 西安電子科技大學外國語學院副教授, 碩士生導師,劍橋大學英語系訪問學者（2012,10——2013,10）。研究方向：英語文學、詩歌，發表英語詩歌方面的論文20餘篇， 其中《談E·E·卡明斯詩歌中的“變異”和“突出”》被引用40餘次，論文《瑪麗·錫德尼——一切詩章之源》 《瑪麗·錫德尼的謎樣人生》 《托馬斯·胡德詩歌風格的多樣性》等首次將瑪麗·錫德尼和托馬斯·胡德等的文學成就及文學貢獻介紹到國內。
目錄
Contents
Chapter 1 Vision
The Blind Boy
Three Days to See
Helen Keller
Chapter 2 Dreams
Longing Is Like the Seed
Dreams
Hope Springs Eternal
Why Dreams?
Chapter 3 On Beauty
On Beauty
She Walks in Beauty
To Helen
Beauty
Chapter 4 Nobody
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
How Happy Is the Little Stone
A Memorial to Boatswain
Chapter 5 Creatures
The Death of the Moth
The Robin
Tarka the Otter
Chapter 6 On Friendship
Of Friendship
Friends in Infirmity
The Eulogy to a Dog
Chapter 7 On Study
Of Studies
On Reading
The Pleasure of Books
The Joys of Writing
Chapter 8 Of Seasons
Spring
Spring, the Resurrection Time
Back Yard
A Word for Autunm
January
Chapter 9 Snow
First Snow
London Snow
In the Bleak Midwinter
Chapter 10 Fog
Fog
No !
Fog Patterns
Chapter 11 On The Road Taken
The Two Roads
The Road not Taken
The Road to Success
Chapter 12 On Life
Love Your Life
A Psalm of Life
The Noble Nature
Chapter 13 Love
The Bargin
To Lady Elizabeth Raleigh
Love’s Philosophy
Annabel Lee
How Do I Love Thee?
My Love Is like Red Red Rose
Home and Love
Chapter 14 Time
On the Proper Use of Time
Letter XXI
Leisure
Chapter 15 Youth
What Is a Youth
Youth
Envy
Chapter 16 Paternal Love
A Letter from Henry Sidney to Philip Sidney
Letter XXII
A Letter from George Washington to Bushrod Washington
Chapter 17 Patriotism
My Loving People
In Flanders Fields
The Soldier
Duty, Honor, Country
Chapter 18 Who’s Who
Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton
Rupert Brooke
Eulogies – “A Lonesome Place Against the Sky”
Chapter 19 Close to Nature
The Table Turned
Nature
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Chapter 20 Classical Speeches
Gettysburg Address
General Patton's Address to the Troops June 5, 1944
Lecture to Art Students
Chapter 21 Dilemma
Work and Pessimism
Let It Be
Talking about Our Troubles
The Rainy Day
Chapter 22 Excerpts of Classics
Who Am I ?
Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
March down the Northern Slopes of Africa
Chapter 23 Meditation
Thoughts in Westminster Abbey
Self-Help –National and Individual
Men of Business
Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind
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