急需优美的英文句子,片段
夏天的飞鸟，飞到我的窗前唱歌，又飞去了。
秋天的黄叶，它们没有什么可唱，只叹息一声，飞落在那里。
stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.and yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fallthere with a sign.世界上的一队小小的漂泊者呀，请留下你们的足印在我的文字里。
o troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.世界对着它的爱人，把它浩翰的面具揭下了。
它变小了，小如一首歌，小如一回永恒的接吻。
the world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.it becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.是大地的泪点，使她的微笑保持着青春不谢。
it is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.无垠的沙漠热烈追求一叶绿草的爱，她摇摇头笑着飞开了。
the mighty desert is burning for the love of a bladeof grass whoshakes her head and laughs and flies away.如果你因失去了太阳而流泪，那么你也将失去群星了。
if you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.跳舞着的流水呀，在你途中的泥沙，要求你的歌声，你的流动呢。
你肯挟瘸足的泥沙而俱下么
the sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancingwater. will you carry the burden of their lameness?她的热切的脸，如夜雨似的，搅扰着我的梦魂。
her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.有一次，我们梦见大家都是不相识的。
我们醒了，却知道我们原是相亲相爱的。
once we dreamt that we were strangers.we wake up to find that we were dear to each other.忧思在我的心里平静下去，正如暮色降临在寂静的山林中。
sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening amongthe silent trees.I miss you so much already and I haven't even left yet! 尽管还不曾离开，我已对你朝思暮想
I'll think of you every step of the way. 我会想你，在漫漫长路的每一步。
Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. 无论你身在何处，无论你为何忙碌，我都会在此守候。
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.That word is love. 有一个词可以让我们摆脱生活中所有的负担和痛苦，那就是爱情。
Every day without you is like a book without pages. 没有你的日子就像一本没有书页的书。
Love is hard to get into, but harder to get out of. 爱很难投入，但一旦投入，便更难走出。
Love is a light that never dims. 爱是一盏永不昏暗的明灯。
May your love soar on the wings of a dove in flight. 愿你的爱乘着飞翔的白鸽，展翅高飞。
She who has never loved, has never lived. 人活着总要爱一回。
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. 生命如花，爱情是蜜。
No words are necessary between two loving hearts. 两颗相爱的心之间不需要言语。
Precious things are very few in this world. That is the reason there is just one you. 在这世上珍贵的东西总是罕有，所以这世上只有一个你。
You make my heart smile. 我的心因你而笑。
The road to a lover's house is never long. 通往爱人家里的路总不会漫长。
Why do the good girls, always want the bad boys? 为何好女孩总喜欢坏男孩
Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning. 和你在一起就像在一个清爽的早晨漫步。
It is never too late to fall in love. 爱永远不会嫌晚。
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. 假如每次想起你我都会得到一朵鲜花，那么我将永远在花丛中徜徉。
To the world you may be just one person. To the person you may be the world. 对于世界，你可能只是一个人，但对于某个人，你却是整个世界。
Where there is love, there are always wishes. 哪里有爱，哪里就有希望。
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. 爱是永恒的，外表可能改变，但本质永远不变。
Love is not a matter of counting the days. It's making the days count. 爱情不是数着日子过去，它让每个日子都变得有意义。
With the wonder of your love, the sun above always shines. 拥有你美丽的爱情，太阳就永远明媚。
Love is a fabric that nature wove and fantasy embroidered. 爱情是一方织巾，用自然编织，用幻想点缀。
First love is unforgettable all one's life. 初恋是永生难忘的。
In the very smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair. 哪怕是最小的茅舍，对一对恋人来说都有足够的空间。
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored, and sorrows end. 只要我一想起你，亲爱的人，所有的失落和遗憾烟消云散。
Love without end hath no end. 情绵绵，爱无边。
Love's tongue is in the eyes. 爱情的话语全在双眼之中。
There is no hiding from lover's eyes. 什么也瞒不过恋人的眼睛。
The only present love demands is love. 爱所祈求的唯一礼物就是爱。
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 真挚恋爱过的心永不忘却。
Love warms more than a thousand fires. 爱情的炽热胜过千万团的火。
Your smiling at me is my daily dose of magic. 你嫣然的微笑是我每日享受到的魅力。
Your kiss still burns on my lips, everyday of mine is so beautiful. 你的吻还在我的唇上发烫，从此我的日子变得如此美丽。
Love understands love; it needs no talk. 相爱的心息息相通，无需用言语倾诉。
Love me little and love me long. 不求情意绵绵，但求天长地久。
When the words I love you were said by you for the first time, my world blossoms. 第一次听到你对我说我爱你，我的世界一瞬间鲜花绽开。
Tell me you are mine. I'll be yours through all the years, till the end of time. 请告诉我你是我的。
岁岁年年，我都属于你，永远永远。
Love is a fire which burns unseen. 爱情是无形燃烧的火焰。
I feel happy at times we have had angry words but these have been kissed away. 我们生气争执时，爱的双唇把它们吻得无影无踪，我的心也顿觉甜蜜。
You cannot appreciate happiness unless you have known sadness too. 不知道什么是忧伤，就不会真正感激幸福。
First impression of you is most lasting. 对你最初的印象，久久难以忘怀。
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马背上的骑手威风，驴背上的骑手惬意。
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我不喜欢壮烈，我是喜欢悲壮，更喜欢苍凉壮烈只是力，没有美，似乎缺少人性。
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（林徽因）
英文人物，环境，动作描写片段摘抄
人物动作描写片段摘抄 1、我向前冲了几步，有力地一跳，那矫健而倒立的身影在空中迅速旋转着，又迅速落入了水中。
2、分好了队，我自然是两支队伍中最高的人，而且，我在投篮命中方面也是一个响当当的人物，和我一队的“同胞们”，自然都欢天喜地，喜不自胜。
3、我把鱼骨头一根一根地用牙齿咬，用手拨，总算啃掉了半个鱼头，一点鱼肉都没吃到。
4、我把游泳圈一甩，“扑通”一声跳进了奔腾的湘江，像小泥鳅似的游了起来。
5、我把拖把在水池里涮了又涮，再拧干，然后弯下腰，前腿弓起，后退绷着，“哼哧哼哧”拖起地来。
英语高级优美句子摘抄 m.201980.com
1.One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone. 一个人总要走陌生的路，看陌生的风景，听陌生的歌，然后在某个不经意的瞬间，你会发现，原本是费尽心机想要忘记的事情真的就那么忘记了。
2.Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in one's hand. It’s about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someone's love when you need love. 幸福，不是长生不老，不是大鱼大肉，不是权倾朝野。
幸福是每一个微小的生活愿望达成。
当你想吃的时候有得吃，想被爱的时候有人来爱你。
3.Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow. When the lamp is off,you will find the shadow everywhere. Friend is who can give you strength at last. 爱情是灯，友情是影子，当灯灭了，你会发现你的周围都是影子。
朋友，是在最后可以给你力量的人。
4.I love you not for who you are, but for who I am before you. 我爱你不是因为你是谁，而是我在你面前可以是谁。
5.Love makes man grow up or sink down. 爱情，要么让人成熟，要么让人堕落。
6.If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love. 举得起放得下的叫举重，举得起放不下的叫负重。
可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。
请给我一些优美段落摘抄，，最好400字急急急
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!还要关于生活的
1、生活是爱的海洋，人人都呼吸着爱，感受着爱。
生活就像一片夜空，在流星的精彩瞬间，令人感受到壮丽的美；生活就像一涓细流，在穿石的精彩瞬间，令人感受到坚持的美……但人间最美的，是爱。
——（无锡市《精彩瞬间》） 赏析：运用了比喻形象的写出了“爱”的重要。
2、抛不完相思血泪抛红豆，开不完春柳春花满画楼，睡不稳纱窗风雨黄昏后，忘不了新愁与旧愁，展不开的眉头，捱不明的更漏，恰便似遮不住的青山隐隐，流不断的绿水幽幽……——（富阳市《心弦上痴情的景致》） 赏析：运用了排比，营造出静谧的淡淡的忧伤的气氛。
3、我爱“急湍甚箭，猛浪若奔”那种舞动的劲，带动我青春向上的心灵； 我思“小桥流水人家”那游子的乡愁，牵动我年少的思绪，拨动我心灵的思乡琴弦；, 我悟“日出江花红似火，春来江水绿如蓝”那寂静，那和祥，抚着我年轻狂妄的想法，赋予我冷静的思想。
——（厦门市《岸•流水•奔放》） 赏析：运用了排比的手法，将诗词串联起来，表现出对诗词的喜爱。
4、夜，好静谧，柔和的月光洒了一地银白；夜，好深沉，父亲那时起时落的鼾声犹如一首动人的月光曲，回荡在夜色上空。
望着熟睡中父亲的脸，我的思绪也飘向那片圣洁的夜空……——（金华市《想起了父亲苍老的脸》） 赏析：运用了比喻，有夜空这一景象引出对父亲的思念。
5、站着（闻俊）你一生只选择一种姿势——站立。
狂风袭来的时候，你不肯倒下；大雪压顶的日子，你不肯屈服；洪水肆虐的瞬间，你不肯俯首；刀斧临头的黄昏，你不肯折腰。
一棵树，在岁月的长河中，书写一段英雄的人生。
茫茫大漠，一棵树站起来，是一座丰碑；巍巍青山，千万棵树站起来，是一座长城；悠悠河岸，所有的树站起来，是一条蛟龙；青春的树，在时代的浪潮里，歌唱着永恒的真诚。
站着，给大地一片绿荫；站着，给江河一滴清纯；站着，给生命一声问候；站着，给城市一缕温馨。
不计荣辱，不计得失，一生的站立，只为报答泥土的养育之恩，只为证明生命坚如磐石的精神。
人，与树站在一起，就是一种不可抗拒的力量，更是一种撼天动地的奇迹
赏析：本文以充满诗蕴却不失刚毅的笔触书写一种风貌，一种让人感慨万端，让人心魂震颤的精神状态。
说它写树，还不如说是写人；说它是写人，还不如说是写一种生存姿势。
置身滚滚红尘，人有时需要坚守，需要不屈，否则，在广袤无垠的时空中我们将迷失自我。
6、翻开早已发黄的页张，试着寻找过去所留下的点点滴滴的足迹。
多年前的好友似乎现在看来已变得陌生，匆忙之间，让这维持了多年的友谊变淡，找不出什么亲切感，只是偶尔遇上，淡淡地微笑，如今也只能在这发黄的页张中找寻过去的那些让人难忘的，至少我可以握住这仅剩下一段的“丝线头”…… 赏析：本段没有华丽的词藻，但是语言质朴有情，显出一份淡淡的无奈和怀念，让人有丝丝感伤之情。
表达的情感真实无虚。
7、任何一个人从睁眼看世界，到开始哭、笑，到牙牙学语、迈步走路，一直到上学，整个过程都离不开模仿，模仿父母、模仿与之接触的人、模仿老师。
由此可见，模仿并不是对人有害，正确的模仿还有助于人的成长。
赏析：模仿不是一种落后，不是一种耻辱。
模仿是为了超越，如果在模仿中没有超越和创新，它就会给人带来负面的影响。
模仿固然重要，但创新更为关键。
模仿是前提，是基础，而创新则是一种提高，脱离 仿的创新无异于是缘木求鱼 8、一天，我发现，一只黑蜘蛛在后院的两檐之间结了一张很大的网。
难道蜘蛛会飞
要不，从这个檐头到那个檐头，中间有一丈余宽，第一根线是怎么拉过去的
后来，我发现蜘蛛走了许多弯路--从一个檐头起，打结，顺墙而下，一步一步向前爬，小心翼翼，翘起尾部，不让丝沾到地面的沙石或别的物体上，走过空地，再爬上对面的檐头，高度差不多了，再把丝收紧，以后也是如此。
赏析：蜘蛛不会飞翔，但它能够把网凌结在半空中。
它是勤奋、敏感、沉默而坚韧的昆虫，它的网制得精巧而规矩，八卦形地张开，仿佛得到神助。
这样的成绩，使人不由想起那些沉默寡言的人和一些深藏不露的智者。
于是，我记住了蜘蛛不会飞翔，但它照样把网结在空中。
9、沙原隐泉 茫茫沙漠，滔滔流水，于世无奇。
惟有大漠中如此一湾，风沙中如此一静，荒凉中如此一景，高坡后如此一跌，才深得天地之韵律，造化之机巧，让人神醉情驰。
以此推衍，人生、世界、历史，莫不如此。
给浮嚣以宁静，给躁急清冽，给高蹈以平实，给粗犷以明丽。
惟其这样，人生才见灵动，世界才显精致，历史才有风韵。
赏析: 人生并不是总是阳光明媚，并不总是春意盎然，并不总是鸟语花香，并不总是富有诗情画意，有时也有暴风骤雨，有时也有阴霾，有时更有种山雨欲来风满楼之势，让人不能承受，人生有时更像无边无际的沙漠，还有的看似平坦的一片，刚刚踩实一脚，稍一用力，脚下就松松的下滑，用力由大，陷得由深，下滑也就由厉害，不由感叹人生如此之复杂，让你茫然、让你在无所适从。
10、我们用友谊写一本书，一本厚厚的书。
在书里：友谊如珍珠，我们共同穿缀，联成一串串璀璨的项链；友谊如彩绸，我们共同剪裁缝制成一件件绚丽的衣衫；友谊如花种，我们共同播撒，培育出一个个五彩的花坛；友谊如油彩，我们共同调色，描绘出一幅幅美丽的图画。
友谊要用真诚去播种，要用理解去护理，要用热情去浇灌。
友谊之火温暖了朋友受伤的心，照亮了迷途者前进的方向，驱散了孤独者心中的阴云，点燃了失败者新的希望。
赏析：运用了比喻排比等修辞手法写出了友谊的珍贵。
求英语简短优美句子摘抄。
A great many people, when they speak of home, tend to associate it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings, and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not.许多人在谈到家的时候往往将它和某种气氛,某种环境及内心的某些情感态度联系在一起.这种对家的依恋情感古已有之,代代相传.许多现代人不再有了,我认为这是件好事.In the old days life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could summon the police instantly. How did this influence the way people felt about home? Small family groups clung tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Only the bravest went beyond the small family area. Even in the Middle Ages only the most daring went to lands beyond sea. The human pursuit of security conditioned men to love their homes. I am sure that this feeling must have been very strong among the early settlers of the United States who were obliged, by famine and oppression, to take the plunge and go to the new land where they knew no one and where they were subject to Indian attack. We can see this even today in the attitudes of minority groups who, because of a feeling of insecurity, still preserve cohesive family ties.在遥远的过去，人们生活十分艰难．敌人可能会攻击你，杀害你或抢动你的财富，而你却毫无还手之力．人们并不住在可以锁门闭户的构造坚固的房子里．他们没有一支有组织的警察队伍的保护，也不能随时打电话报警．这些怎样影响人们对于家的感情呢
小小家庭的成员紧密团结，聚在一起，共同抵御野兽和敌人．只有最勇敢的人才离开小小的家族管辖区．甚至在中世纪也只有最勇敢的人才敢涉足海外．人类对安全的追求决定了人们对家的热爱．我相信，美国的早期定居者对此一定深有感触．他们被饥茺压迫得走投无路，只好毅然决定冒险来到这个举目元亲．易爱印第安人攻击的陌生的地方．甚至今天，我们从少数民族团体的态度也可以看出这一点．由于缺乏安全感，他们仍然保持着富有凝聚力的家庭纽带．Today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized societies, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less sentiment they are likely to have for those surroundings. I lived in England for three years, and I noticed that boys and girls left their parents’ homes and lived in dwellings of their own. There they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. How has the meaning of this word home been altered by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living in first one hotel and then another? I believe that for them home means a place where they can have privacy.今天，由于有了现代交通和组织良好的社会，成千上万的人们愿意并且渴望离开他们出生的环境．而且，他们离家外出越频繁，对出生的环境的情感就可能越少．我曾经在英国，他们只需拿起电话，要求一家房地产经销处提供一幢房子或一个套间，那就是他们的家了．家这个词的意义是如何被这种行为改变的呢
家对于那些经常流动，从一家旅馆到另一家旅馆居住的人们或家庭成员又意味着什么呢
我认为，家对他们来说是一个离群独外不受干扰的地方．This idea of home as being a place of privacy is emerging in my country, Saudi Arabia, where the young are abandoning their parents’ homes to live their own life. As for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where my parents live have no sentimental attachment. Home is where I can shut the door and be by myself. At the moment it is a room in Eaton Hall. When I left my parents several years ago, I was anxious to leave. You might call it unfeeling, but that was the way I felt. On the day of my departure for the United States, my grandmother sobbed and wept. My father, however, indicated that he understood how I felt. “Son,” he said, “I am not sorry that you are leaving us. I only hope that you make the most of your time.在我的国家沙特陈拉伯，年轻人放弃父母的家去过他们自己的生活．这种把家作为私人独处这地的看法正在我的国家形成．我对父母居住之地的气氛，环境没有眷恋的情感．家就是一个我能关起门来独处的地方．现在我的家就是伊登宿舍的一个房间．几年前当我离开父母时，我没有恋恋不舍，巴不得快快离开．你也许会觉得这是无情无义，然而那确实是我的感受．我离家去美国寻卫，祖母呜咽，泪流不止．但我的父亲却表时他能理解我的心情．”孩子”他说”我对于你的离去并觉得悲伤．我只希望你能充分利用时间．” Youth Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young. When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80. ·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选） Three Days to See All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose sphere of activities is strictly delimited. Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances. What events, what experiences, what associations should we crowd into those last hours as mortal beings, what regrets? Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the Epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry”. But most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill. I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. ·第三篇：Companionship of Books 以书为伴（节选） Companionship of Books A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. 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. Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, ‘Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive e but what is really good. Books introduce us into the best society; they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see the as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure actors with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and good do not die, even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which on still listens.
