晨读英语美文60篇六级49

自然：大道至简

Stray Birds

1. Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.

2. Troupe¹ of little vagrants² of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

3. The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

4. It is the tears of the earth that keep here smiles in bloom.

5. The mighty³ desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

6. If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

7. The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness⁴?

8. Her wishful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

9. Once we dreamt that we were strangers.We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

10. Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

11. Some unseen fingers, like an idle breeze, are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples⁵.

12. What language is thine, O sea? The language of eternal question. What language is thy answer, O sky? The language of eternal silence.

13. Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes love to you.

14. The mystery of creation is like the darkness of night—it is great. Delusions⁶ of knowledge are like the fog of the morning.

15. Do not seat your love upon a precipice⁷ because it is high.

16. I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

17. There little thoughts are the rustle⁸ of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.

18. What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

19. My wishes are fools, they shout across thy song, my Master. Let me but listen.

20. I cannot choose the best. The best chooses me.

1 troupe   

n.剧团，戏班；杂技团；马戏团

参考例句：

• The art troupe is always on the move in frontier guards.文工团常年在边防部队流动。
• The troupe produced a new play last night.剧团昨晚上演了一部新剧。

2 vagrants   

流浪者( vagrant的名词复数 )； 无业游民； 乞丐； 无赖

参考例句：

• Police kept a close watch on the vagrants. 警察严密监视那些流浪者。
• O Troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words. 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。

3 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

4 lameness   

n. 跛, 瘸, 残废

参考例句：

• Having been laughed at for his lameness,the boy became shy and inhibited. 那男孩因跛脚被人讥笑，变得羞怯而压抑。
• By reason of his lameness the boy could not play games. 这男孩因脚跛不能做游戏。

5 ripples   

逐渐扩散的感觉( ripple的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The moon danced on the ripples. 月亮在涟漪上舞动。
• The sea leaves ripples on the sand. 海水在沙滩上留下了波痕。

6 delusions   

n.欺骗( delusion的名词复数 )；谬见；错觉；妄想

参考例句：

• the delusions of the mentally ill 精神病患者的妄想
• She wants to travel first-class: she must have delusions of grandeur. 她想坐头等舱旅行，她一定自以为很了不起。 来自辞典例句

7 precipice   

n.悬崖，危急的处境

参考例句：

• The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.那间小屋有一半悬在峭壁边上。
• A slight carelessness on this precipice could cost a man his life.在这悬崖上稍一疏忽就会使人丧生。

8 rustle   

v.沙沙作响；偷盗(牛、马等)；n.沙沙声声

参考例句：

• She heard a rustle in the bushes.她听到灌木丛中一阵沙沙声。
• He heard a rustle of leaves in the breeze.他听到树叶在微风中发出的沙沙声。