【篇一:形容人微笑的英语美文】
英语散文:微笑the smile i was sure that i was to be killed. i became terribly nervous. i fumbled [1]in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had escaped [2]their search. i found one and because of my shaking hands, i could barely get it to my lips. but i had no matches, they had taken those.i looked through the bars at my jailer. he did not make eye contact with me. i called out to him:have you got a light? he looked at me, shrugged [3]and came over to light my cigarette. as he came close and lit the match, his eyes inadvertently locked with mine. at that moment, i smiled. i dont know why i did that. perhaps it was nervousness, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very hard not to smile. in any case, i smiled. in that instant, it was as though a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. i know he didnt want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated a smile on his lips, too. he lit my cigarette but stayed near, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile. i kept smiling at him, now aware of him as a person and not just a jailer. and his looking at me seemed to have a new dimension[4] too. do you have kids? he asked. yes, here, here. i took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the pictures of my family. he, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. my eyes filled with tears. i said that i feared that id never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. tears came to his eyes, too. suddenly,
without another word, he unlocked my cell and silently led me out. out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. there, at the edge of town, he released me. and without another word, he turned back toward the town. my life was saved by a smile. yes, the smile--the unaffected, unplanned, natural
connection between people.. i really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could recognize each other, we
wouldnt be enemies. we couldnt have hate or envy or fear. 微 笑 一想到自己明天就没命了,不禁陷入极端的惶恐。我翻遍了口袋,
终于找到一支没被他 们搜走的香烟,但我的手紧张得不停发抖,连将烟送进嘴里都成问题,而我的火柴也在搜身 时被拿走了。“我透过铁栏望着外面的警卫,他并没有注意到我在看他,我叫了他一声:“能 跟你借个火吗?”他转头望着我,耸了耸肩,然后走了过来,点燃我的香烟。当他帮我点火 时, 他的眼光无意中与我的相接触, 这时我突然冲着他微笑。
我不知道自己为何有这般反应, 也许是过于紧张,或者是当你如此靠近另一个人,你很难不对他微笑。不管是何理由,我对 他笑了。 就在这一刹那, 这抹微笑如同火花般, 打破了我们心灵间的隔阂。 受到了我的感染, 他的嘴角不自觉地也现出了笑容,虽然我知道他原无此意。他点完火后并没立刻离开,两眼 盯着我瞧,脸上仍带着微笑。
我也以笑容回应,仿佛他是个朋友,而不是个守着我的警卫。他看着我的眼神也少了当 初的那股凶气,“你有小孩吗?”他开口问道。“有,你看。”我拿出了皮夹,手忙脚乱地翻出 了我的全家福照片。他也掏出了照片,并且开始讲述他对家人的期望与计划。这时我眼中充 满了泪水,我说我害怕再也见不到家人。我害怕没机会看着孩子长大。他听了也流下两行眼 泪。突然间,他二话不说地打开了牢门,悄悄地带我从后面的小路逃离了监狱,出了小镇, 就在小镇的边上,他放了我,之后便转身往回走,不曾留下一句话。
他根据这次经验写了一 篇精彩的故事――《微笑》 。他的代表作《小王子》是美国人都很熟悉的童话故事。
注释: 1. fumble: 我们总是能看到爱抽烟的男人在自己的身上到处摸烟的镜头, 用动词 fumble (乱摸、摸索)来形容他们的动作是再恰当不过了;下文中提到的 nervously fumbled for the pictures 也是借用 fumble 来形容“主人公非常紧张地在钱包搜索照片”的情景;现在如果你看 到某人在“哗啦啦”地翻书寻找他想要的内容,你就可以大胆地用 fumle 来描述他的动作,可 以说 he fumbled the
pages looking for the place. 2. escape 是个很调皮的词汇,总是“逃离这儿,逃离那儿”, 此处的 escaped their search 字面上就表示出“(烟)逃离了他们的搜查” ,也就是“没有被他们搜走(的
烟) ”; 再看看 im afraid your name escapes me. 看起来是“你的名字逃离了我”,也就是“我恐怕想不起你的 名字了”。如果你是位老师,在课堂可能就会很严肃地对那些捣蛋的学生说上一句:nothing
escaped my attention. (什么都逃不过我的注意) ,这下,那些学生该乖乖地听课了吧。
3. shrug 表示的动作是“耸耸肩”,比如你把一个消息告诉给自己的好友时,“她听到消息 后只是耸耸肩”,你就可以描绘成 she
shrugged her shoulders at the news. 因为我们也经常用 “耸肩”的动作来表示“不感兴趣“或“无所谓”等心态,所以 shrug 可以引申地表示“冷漠、无所 谓、不屑一顾”等意思。比如说在法庭上,法官已经对某个贪污犯进行了判决,但是此人仍 然暴跳如雷地表示抗议,那么 people only shruggled at his protests. 看来“人们对他的抗议只是 轻蔑地耸耸肩而已了”。
4. dimension:如果你已经知道 dimens ion 是用来表示“尺寸、面积、大小 ”的,那么你就 会很疑惑此处的 a new dimension 是什么意思。
不过你要是联想一下, 既然 dimension 表示事 物的“长、 宽、 高”等各因素, 这也就相当于事物的“各个方面”了, 所以此处的 a new dimension 也就相当于“一个新的方面”,联系上下文,可推断出这个“新的方面”就是 jailer 对“主人公” 态度的转变,从最初的“凶”到现在的“友好”;如果你发现了男朋友身上的一个新特点,就可 以对他说到 i found a new dimension of your personality. 我保证他一定要求你把 his new dimension 说出来的。
【篇二:形容人微笑的英语美文】
2.behind the clouds are still brilliant sunshine.-- ron flo 乌云后面依然是灿烂的晴天。 朗弗罗
3.a smile is the language has multiple meanings. -- spitler微笑乃是具有多重意义的语言。施皮特勒
4.if have person it is without rhyme or reason. smile at you, it must be for some reason. -- ma changshan如果有个人无缘无故地对你微笑,那一定是为了某种缘故。马长山
5.when you smile, the world loved him; when he laughed, the world became afraid of him. -- tagore当你微笑时,世界爱了他;当他大笑时,世界便怕了他。泰戈尔
6.life is like a song like that fluent, easy smile chang kainai; but in everything it can still not smile, only worth living. --
willcocks当生活像一首歌那样轻快流畅时,笑颜常开乃易事;而在一切事都不妙时仍能微笑的人,才活得有价值。威尔科克斯
7.humor is the soul of a smile. the most profound sense of humor is a mortally wounded heart smile. -- zhou guoping 幽默
是心灵的微笑。最深刻的幽默是一颗受了致命伤的心灵发出的微笑。周国平
8.always have faith, old thinking. if you do one thing, to worry about if i cant, then you will have no courage.-- gai jiaotian凡事总要有信心,老想着行。要是做一件事,先就担心着怕咱不行吧,那你就没有勇气了。 盖叫天
【篇三:形容人微笑的英语美文】
第三部分 美丽的微笑与爱心the poor are very wonderful people. one evening we went out and we picked up four people from the street. and one of them was in a most terrible condition-and i told the sisters: you take care of the other three. i take care of this one who looked worse. so i did for her all that my love can do. i put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. she took hold of my hand as she said just the words thank you. and she died.穷人是非常了不起的人。一天晚上,我们外出,从街上带回了四个人,其中一个生命岌岌可危。于是我告诉修女们说: 你们照料其他三个,这个生命濒危的人就由我来照顾了。
就这样,我为她做了我的爱心所能做的一切。我将她放在床上,看到她的脸上绽放出如此美丽的微笑。她握着我的手,只说了句 谢谢您 就死了。i could not help but examine my conscience before her and i asked what would i say if i was in her place. and my answer was very simple. i would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. i would have said i am hungry, that i am dying, i am cold, i am in pain, or something, but she gave me much more--she gave me her grateful love. and she died with a smile on her face. so did that man whom we picked up from the drain, half eaten with worms, and we brought him to the home. i have lived like an animal in the street, but i am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for. and it was so wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that, who could die like that without blaming anybody, without cursing anybody, without comparing anything. like an angel-this is the greatness of our people. and that is why we believe what jesus had said: i was hungry-i was naked-i was
homeless-i was unwanted, unloved, uncared for-and you did it
to me.我情不自禁地在她面前审视起自己的良知来。我问自己,如果我是她的话,会说些什么呢?答案很简单,我会尽量引起旁人对我的关注,我会说我饥饿难忍,冷得发抖,奄奄一息,痛苦不堪,诸如此类的话。但是她给我的却更多-她给了我她的感激之情。她死时脸上却带着微笑。我们从排水道带回的那个男子也是如此。当时,他几乎全身都快被虫子吃掉了,我们把他带回了家。
在街上,我一直像个动物一样地活着,但我将像个天使一样地死去,有人爱,有人关心。
真是太好了,我看到了他的伟大之处,他竟能说出那样的话。他那样死去,不责怪任何人,不诅咒任何人,无欲无求。像天使一样-这便是我们的人民的伟大之所在。因此我们相信耶稣所说的--我饥肠辘辘-我衣不蔽体-我无家可归-我不为人所要,不为人所爱,也不为人所关心-然而,你却为我做了这一切。i believe that we are not real social workers. we may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives, in the heart of the
world. for we are touching the body of christ twenty-four hours. and i think that in our family we don t need bombs and guns. to destroy, to bring peace-just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. and we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.我想,我们算不上真正的社会工作者。在人们的眼中,或许我们是在做社会工作,但实际上,我们真的只是世界中心的修行者。因为,一天24小时,我们都在触摸基督的圣体。我想,在我们的大家庭里,我们不需要枪支和炮弹来破坏和平,或带来和平-我们只需要团结起来,彼此相爱,将和平、欢乐以及每一个家庭成员灵魂的活力都带回世界。这样,我们就能战胜世界上现存的一切邪恶。and with this prize that i received as a prize of peace, i am going to try to make the home for many people
who have no home. because i believe that love begins at home, and if we can create a home for the poor. i think that more and more love will spread. and we will be able through this understanding love to bring peace, be the good new to the poor. the poor in our own family first, in our country and in the world. to be able to do this, our sisters, our lives have to be woven with prayer. they have to he woven with christ to be able to understand, to be able to share. because to be woven with christ is to be able to understand, to be able to share.
because today there is so much suffering. when i pick up a person from the street, hungry, i give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, i have satisfied. i have removed that hunger. but a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out from society-that poverty is so full of hurt and so unbearable. and so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other
naturally we want to do something.我准备以我所获得的诺贝尔和平奖奖金为那些无家可归的人们建立自己的家园。因为我相信,爱源自家庭,如果我们能为穷人建立家园,我相信爱便会传播得更广。而且,我们将通过这种宽容博大的爱而带来和平,成为穷人的福音。首先为我们自己家里的穷人,其次为我们国家,为全世界的穷人。为了做到这一点,姐妹们,我们的生活就必须与祷告紧紧相连,必须同基督结为一体才能互相体谅,共同分享,因为同基督结为一体就意味着互相体谅,共同分享。
因为,今天世界上仍有如此多的苦难存在。当我从街上带回一个饥肠辘辘的人时 ,给他一盘饭,一片面包,我就能使他心满意足了,我就能驱除他的饥饿。但是,如果一个人露宿街头,感到不为人所需要,不为人所爱,惶恐不安,被社会抛弃-这样的贫困让人心痛,如此令人无法忍受。因此,让我们总是微笑相见,因为微笑就是爱的开端,一旦我们开始彼此自然地相爱,我们就会想着为对方做点什么了。
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