2024年4月16日发(作者：)

英语美文摘抄带翻译

1、As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind.

Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate

nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day

to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual

capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible

fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis,

and judgment. Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep

pace with the times in the information age, and reliable warrant

of success in times of uncertainty.

学习之于心灵，就像食物之于身体一样。摄取了适量的养分食

物，我们的身体得以生长而肌肉得以发达。 同样地，我们应当日复

一日不断地学习以保持我们心智的敏锐，并扩充我们的智力容量。不

断的学习供应我们用之不尽的燃料，来驱使我们磨砺我们的推理、分

析和推断的力量。持续的学习是在信息时代中跟时代井驾齐驱的最稳

当的方法，也是在变动的时代中胜利的牢靠保证。

2、Once learning stops, vegetation sets in. It is a common

fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the

acquisition of knowledge. On the contrary, learning should be

a neyerending process, from the cradle to the grave. With the

world changing so fast, to cease learning for just a few days

will make a person lag behind. What's worse, the animal instinct

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dormant deep in our subconscious will come to life. Weakening

our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our

determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and

strangling our desire for the refinement of our character. Lack

of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind,

or even worse, its fossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally

young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.

一旦学习停止，单调贫乏的生活就开头了。视学校为吸取学问

的惟一场所是种常见的谬误。相反地，从生到死，学习应当是一种无

终止的历程。 由于世界改变得如此快速，只要学习停顿数日就能使

人落后。更糟的是，蛰伏在我们潜意识深处的兽性本能就会复活，减

弱我们追求高尚抱负的意志，弱化我们扫除胜利障碍的决心，而且扼

杀我们净化我们人格的欲望。缺少学习将不行避开地导致心灵的停滞，

甚至更糟，使其僵化。因此，为了保持心态年轻，我们必需将学习当

作一生的事业。

3、A good book may be among the best of friends. It is

the same today that it always was, and it will never change.

It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not

turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It

always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and

instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

一本好书就像是一个最好的伴侣。它始终不渝，过去如此，如

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