初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄
初中英語(yǔ)是學(xué)生從小學(xué)英語(yǔ)到高中英語(yǔ)的過(guò)渡時(shí)期。所以,初中英語(yǔ)是學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)知識(shí)的關(guān)鍵時(shí)期,對(duì)學(xué)生今后的英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)有著極其重要的影響。下面是學(xué)習(xí)啦小編帶來(lái)的初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄，歡迎閱讀!
初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄篇一
The Magical Coat
My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously(同時(shí)地) . It was hanging on a rack(齒條，行李架) at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed in with shoddy(假冒的，劣質(zhì)的) trench coats and anassortment(分類，混合物) of sad, woolen overcoats -- a rose among thorns.
While the other coats drooped(下垂，消沉) , this one looked as if it were holding itself up. The thick, black wool of the double-breasted chesterfield(長(zhǎng)大衣)was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs(衛(wèi)生球) for years in dead old Uncle Henry's steamer trunk. The coat had a black velvet collar, beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and an unbelievable price of . We looked at each other, saying nothing, but John's eyes gleamed. Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with teenage boys, but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing that touch of classic elegance from a bygone(過(guò)去的)era.
John slid his arms down into the heavy satin(緞子) lining of the sleeves and buttoned the coat. He turned from side to side, eyeing himself in the mirror with a serious, studied expression that soon changed into a smile. The fit was perfect.
John wore the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big grin(露齒笑) . "Ho. did the kids like your coat?" I asked. "They loved it," he said, carefully folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. I started calling him "Lord Chesterfield" and "The Great Gatsby."
Over the next few weeks, a change came over John. Agreement replacedcontrariness(反對(duì)，矛盾) , quiet, reasoned discussion replaced argument. He became more judicious, more mannerly, more thoughtful, eager to please. “Good dinner, Mom," he would say every evening.
He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him on theniceties(精密，美好) of behaviour; without a word of objection, he would carry in wood for the stove. One day when I suggested that he might start on homework before dinner, John -- a veteran procrastinator(拖拉者) – said, “You’re right. I guess I will.”
When I mentioned this incident to one of his teachers and remarked that I didn't know what caused the changes, she said laughing. "It must be his coat!" Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned it but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend who had not seen our children in a long time, “Could this be John?" he asked, looking up to John's new height, assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never mistake a person's clothes for the real person within them. But there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see, for practising standards of excellence in though, speech, and behaviour, and for matching what is on the inside to what is on the outside.
Sometimes, watching John leave for(動(dòng)身去) school, I've remembered with a keen sting what it felt like to be in the eighth grade -- a time when it was as easy to try on different approaches to life as it was to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast panorama(全景，全貌) where all the doors are open. And if I were there right now, I would picture myself walking through those doors wearing my wonderful, magical coat.
初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄篇二
Freedom自由
Of all the wonderful gifts that we've been given, one of the greatest is freedom.
As much as we may deny it we are free in this life. We are free in what we think, free in what we feel, free in what we say, and free in what we do. Yes, life may give us some very difficult circumstances(情況，環(huán)境) at times, but we are still free in how we choose to react to them.
Many people in this life deny their freedom. They sit back in their misery and blame it on their parents, or their childhood, their health, or their financial problems. They never once stand up and take responsibility for their own lives and their own happiness.
The truth is that we've been given the power to choose love and joy in our lives no matter what happens to us. No one has ever been or will ever be strong enough to take our freedom away from us.
You're listening to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, I'm Faith. Don't deny your freedom, rejoice(高興) in it, cherish it, and use it every day of your life! Remember, you are free to create the type of life you have always wanted, the choice is up to you…
初中經(jīng)典英語(yǔ)美文摘抄篇三
Spring Thaw春天的融化
Every April I am beset by(困擾) the same concern-that spring might not occur this year. The landscape looks forsaken(被拋棄的) , with hills, sky and forest forming a single gray meld, like the wash an artist paints on a canvas(帆布) before the masterwork. My spirits ebb, as they did during an April snowfall when I first came to Maine 15 years ago. "Just wait," a neithbor counseled. "You'll wake up one morning and spring will just be here."
Andlo, on May 3 that year I awoke to a green so startling as to be almost electric, as if spring were simply a matter of flipping a switch. Hills, sky and forest revealed their purples, blues and green. Leaves had unfurled(展開(kāi)) , goldfinches had arrived at the feeder and daffodils(水仙花) were fighting their way heavenward.
Then there was the old apple tree. It sits on an undeveloped lot in my neighborhood. It belongs to no one and therefore to everyone. The tree's dark twisted branches sprawl in unpruned abandon. Each spring it blossoms so profusely that the air becomes saturated with the aroma of apple. When I drive by with my windows rolled down, it gives me the feeling of moving in another element, like a kid on a water slide.
Until last year, I thought I was the only one aware of this tree. And then one day, in a fit of spring madness, I set out with pruner and lopper to remove a few errant branches. No sooner had I arrived under its boughs than neighbors opened their windows and stepped onto their porches. These were people I barely knew and seldom spoke to, but it was as if I had come unbidden(未受邀請(qǐng)的) into their personal gardens.
My mobile-home neighbor was the first to speak."You're not cutting it down, are you?" Another neighbor winced as I lopped off(砍掉) a branch. "Don't kill it, now," he cautioned. Soon half the neighborhood had joined me under the apple arbor. It struck me that I had lived there for five years and only now was learning these people's names, what they did for a living and how they passed the winter. It was as if the old apple tree gathering us under its boughs for the dual purpose of acquaintanceship and shared wonder. I couldn't help recalling Robert Frost's words:
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods
One thaw led to another. Just the other day I saw one of my neighbors at the local store. He remarked how this recent winter had been especially long and lamented(哀悼) not having seen or spoken at length to anyone in our neighborhood. And then, recouping his thoughts, he looked at me and said, "We need to prune(修剪) that apple tree again."
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