读经典小故事，学英语——伊顿教育学习英语 第7篇　

　　英语是我们与国际接轨的一把钥匙，在这个全球化的时代，我们需要要学好的一门外语，就是英语。学好英语同样不是一件简单的事情，要懂得使用正确的方法去学习，才能的获得知识，达到可观的结果，进而会产生学习的动力，下面跟小编一起通过经典幽默的小故事来增强你的英语吧!

　　An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.

　　人的生命应当像河流，开始是涓涓细流，受两岸的限制而十分狭窄，尔后奔腾咆哮，翻过危岩，飞越瀑布，河面渐渐开阔，河岸也随之向两边隐去，较后水流平缓，森森无际，汇入大海之中，个人就这样毫无痛苦地消失了。

　　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 sixty more than a boy of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.

　　青春意味着懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅是岁月流逝所致，更主要的是不思进取的结果。