时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:王强英语美文


英语课

The Love of Beauty

The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. It is a moral quality. The absence of it is not an assured ground of condemnation 1, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. In proportion to the degree in which it is felt will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained 2.


Natural beauty is an all-pervading presence. The universe is its temple. It unfolds into the numberless flowers of spring. It waves in the branches of trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea. It gleams from the hues 3 of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects but the oceans, the mountains, the clouds, the stars, the rising and the setting sun—all overflow 4 with beauty. This beauty is so precious, and so congenial to our tenderest and noblest feelings, that it is painful to think of the multitude of people living in the midst of it and yet remaining almost blind to it.


All persons should seek to become acquainted with the beauty in nature. There is not a worm we tread upon, nor a leaf that dances merrily as it falls before the autumn winds, but calls for our study and admiration 5.


The power to appreciate beauty not merely increases our sources of happiness - it enlarges our moral nature, too. Beauty calms our restlessness and dispels 6 our cares. Go into the fields or the woods, spend a summer day by the sea or the mountains, and all your little perplexities and anxieties will vanish. Listen to sweet music, and your foolish fears and petty jealousies 7 will pass away. The beauty of the world helps us to seek and find the beauty of goodness.



1 condemnation
n.谴责; 定罪
  • There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
  • The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。
2 attained
(通常经过努力)实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 ); 达到; 获得; 达到(某年龄、水平、状况)
  • She has attained the degree of Master of Arts. 她已获得文学硕士学位。
  • Lu Hsun attained a high position in the republic of letters. 鲁迅在文坛上获得崇高的地位。
3 hues
色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点
  • When the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it. 太阳一出,更把它映得千变万化、异彩缤纷。
  • Where maple trees grow, the leaves are often several brilliant hues of red. 在枫树生长的地方,枫叶常常呈现出数种光彩夺目的红色。
4 overflow
v.(使)外溢,(使)溢出;溢出,流出,漫出
  • The overflow from the bath ran on to the floor.浴缸里的水溢到了地板上。
  • After a long period of rain,the river may overflow its banks.长时间的下雨天后,河水可能溢出岸来。
5 admiration
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
6 dispels
v.驱散,赶跑( dispel的第三人称单数 )
  • This landmark case dispels the absolute finality of this dreaded disease. 这个划时代的病例终于改观了这可怕疾病的绝对结局。 来自辞典例句
  • Charles's experience--and that of all other researchers I have met--dispels many myths about water buffaloes. 查尔斯以及我所见到的其他研究人员的经验破除了关于水牛的许多奇谈。 来自辞典例句
7 jealousies
n.妒忌( jealousy的名词复数 );妒羡
  • They were divided by mutual suspicion and jealousies. 他们因为相互猜疑嫉妒而不和。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • I am tired of all these jealousies and quarrels. 我厌恶这些妒忌和吵架的语言。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
accrual bases
Acu-Dyne
adjustment of monetary base
Allai
Annisse
apply to
As you brew,so shall you One must drink as one brews .
ask sb back
basic screw-pitch
be founded upon a rock
better safe than sorry
beveled-glass
boat-hook
Borel-Tanner distribution
bourgeoise
Bulbophyllum bomiense
business-oriented
canapina
carpometacarpal joints
cash redemption
castor-bean
continuous pressure cooking method
corbie gable
cross laminated
cruppering
cyclic convolution
daughter cells of the apical cell
dickering
dissymmetry codfficient
electron beam welting
emergency cardiac pacing
Feverall
fire protection requirement
floor it
flying ground aerodrome
for-loop structure
fore-fit
forejudges
forest upper limit
free universal algebra
friendless
gay-marriage
glucose1phosphate
gy-
half-maximum linewidth
heterochromatic stray radiation
hexaphase turbogenerator
hollow-eyed
hypernovae
infrared surveillance system
instrument cubicle
interaction balance method
interline traffic
ipo
javelwater
kilometrages
lakshman
lapsful
linear simple group
loading roller
log-roll
massive cutaneous hyalinosis
maternal cousins
mazurkiewicz
miner's dip needle
mintecs
multiple-comparison
musculus deflector pinn. caud. superfic. ventr.
mylophore
negotiating transaction
nikonos
non-edible part
palisade-like
parity duty
pear wood
pearland
peritectoidally
phone-shielding
piston-type area meter
problematisation
purgatorious
raphidian
refracting
Rhinanthus glaber
ridge runner
right hand airscrew
rough bristlegrass
rowet
screen print
sequence control system
special social science
sport of fortune
subterranean tunnel
sulfonases
supernate
untimid
urinary passage
us her
vedged
video search
well-served
xanthumin