英语经典美文集锦（15篇）
在日常生活或是工作学习中，大家都不可避免的会接触到美文吧?在各种竞争日益激烈的今天，在网络中，很多人都会喜欢一些比较伤感的美文，人们通过阅览这种文章来对自己的心情进行调解，以此为一种精神上的寄托。相信很多人都觉得美文很难写吧？以下是小编收集整理的英语经典美文，仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。
英语经典美文1
Although we have learned English for several years, and we have some knowledge about the English-speaking countries, there are still many people can not distinguish the relationships between England, Britain and United Kingdom. UK is the short form of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or commonly known as Britain. UK is composed of four parts. They are: England, Scotland, Welsh and Northern Ireland. London is the capital of UK. UK is a constitutional monarchy, and the head of state is a king or a queen. The United Kingdom is governed, in the name of the Sovereign by His or Her Majesty's Government.
英语经典美文2
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
When I was a little girl, my father had a time-honored tradition of tucking me into bed. Following my bedtime story, he would give me a nose kiss, tickle my stomach and whisper the most wonderful words into my ear. “Michelle, of all the little girls in the whole wide world . .” he would pause.
“ Yes, Daddy?”
“ How did your mommy and I get so lucky to get the best one?”
Before he had time to finish, I would say, “You got me!” And then he would continue, “The best little girl in the whole wide world, and we got you.”
“ You got me!” I would scream and clap.
“ Yes, you, Michelle, and we’re so lucky.” He would end with a bear hug and another kiss to my forehead.
Years passed and my father never missed a night, even when I thought he should have. After my basketball team was defeated, he came into my room.
“ Michelle, of all the basketball players in the whole wide world,” he paused.
“ Yes, Daddy?” I stared at the floor.
“ How did your mom and I get so lucky to get the best one?”
“ You didn’t.”
“ Of course we did, Michelle. We have you.”
“ But, Dad . . .”
“ Yes, you, Michelle, and we’re so lucky,” he cheered, as he gave me a high five followed by a bear hug and a kiss to my forehead. I thought becoming a teenager would end the ritual, but it didn’t.
“ Michelle, of all the teenagers in the whole wide world . . .” he would pause.
“ Dad, I’m too old for this,” I would sigh.
英语经典美文3
I like the subtle fresh green budding from the branches of the tree -- the herald of spring, ushering in the dawn…
I like the subtle flow of cloud that makes the sky seem even more vast, azure and immense…
I like the subtle wind. In spring, it steals a kiss on my cheek; in autumn, it caresses my face; in summer, it brings in cool sweet smell; in winter, it carries a crisp chilliness…
I like the subtle taste of tea that last long after a sip. The subtle bitter is what it is meant to be…
I like the subtle friendship that does not hold people together. In stead, an occasional greeting spreads our longings far beyond…
I like the subtle longing for a friend, when I sink deeply in a couch, mind wandering in memories of the past…
Love should also be subtle, without enslaving the ones fallen into her arms. Not a bit less nor a bit more…
Subtle friendship is true; subtle greetings are enough; subtle love is tender; subtle longing is deep; subtle wishes come from the bottom of your heart…
我喜欢这种淡淡的感觉
我喜欢看树枝上那淡淡的嫩绿，它是春天的使者，它是一天清晨的开始……
我喜欢天空中那淡淡的.云，它将天空衬的更高更蓝更宽……
我喜欢淡淡的风。春风轻吻脸颊，秋风抚面温柔，夏天的风送来凉爽，冬天的风带来清凉……
我喜欢喝淡淡的茶，淡淡之中才品出它余味的清香，淡淡的苦才是它原来的味道……
我喜欢追求淡淡的友谊。彼此之间不需要天天在一起，偶尔一句：你好吗？思念就像发芽一样蔓延开来……
我喜欢淡淡地思念一个人，静静地将自己包围在沙发之中，任思绪在回忆里飘荡……
爱也要淡淡的。爱，不要成为囚，少是愁多也是忧……
淡淡的一点友谊很真，淡淡的一点问候很醇，淡淡的一点依恋很清，淡淡的一点孤独很美，淡淡的一点思念很深，淡淡的一点祝福最真……
英语经典美文4
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?
And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?
The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us."
And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
The tired and the weary say, "beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.
Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow."
But the restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions."
At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say, "we have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."
In winter say the snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."
And in the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
All these things have you said of beauty.
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
英语经典美文5
In recent years, natural disasters happened frequently around the world and have caused enormous losses of life and property to human society. They pose a common challenge to all the countries in the world.
China suffers the most natural disasters of all countries. Along with global climate changes and its own economic takeoff and progress in urbanization, China suffers increasing pressure on resources, environment and ecology. The situation in the prevention of and response to natural disasters has become more serious and complicated.
Always placing people first, the Chinese government has all along put the security of people's lives and property on the top of its work, and has listed the disaster prevention and reduction in its economic and social development plan as an important guarantee of sustainable development. In recent years, China has been comprehensively implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, further strengthened legislation as well as the building of systems and mechanisms on dis-aster prevention and reduction, committed to building on disaster-prevention capacities, encouraged public contribution, and actively participated in international cooperation in this respect.
英语经典美文6
音乐之声 The Sound of Music
The hills are alive with the sound of music,
With songs they have sung for a thousand years.
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every thing every song it hears.
My heart wants to beat
Like the wings of the birds that rise
From the lake to the trees.
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
From a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips
And falls over stones on its way.
To sing through the night
Like a lake who is learning to pray.
I go to the hills when my heat is lonely.
I know I will hear what I"ve heard before.
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music,
And I"ll sing once more.
音乐声回荡在群山之间，
传唱千年的歌声在飘扬。
山峦唤起我心中的音乐，
我的心想唱出听到的`每首歌每件事。
我的心想和着
鸟儿振翅的节拍
飞过湖面飞过树林。
我的心想与钟声齐轻叹
乘风飞出教堂。
如淙淙溪流般欢笑!
一路在石子上轻盈跳跃。
如彻夜高歌，
学习祈祷的云雀。
心灵孤寂的时候我就来到群山中。
我知道会听到从前听过的声音。
音乐声洗涤我的心灵，
我将会再一次地歌唱。
英语经典美文7
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged,
“Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”
How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure,
extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.
An enthusiastic attitude enables us to hang in there when the going gets tough.
It's the inner drive that whispers, “I can do it!” when others believe it can't be done.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder
—as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant’s delight at the jingle of keys
or the scurrying of a beetle.
It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.
As poet and author Samuel Ullman once wrote,
“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses
—finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden,
the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow.
It is such an enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes.
英语经典美文8
The Price of a Dream
I grew up poor - living in the projects with six brothers, three sisters, a varying assortment of foster kids, my father, and a wonderful mother, Scarlette Hunley. We had little money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was happy and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, they could still afford a dream.
My dream was athletics. By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field. I was also lucky: My high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me how to believe in myself. He taught me the difference between having a dream and showing conviction. One particular incident with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket - cash for dates with girls, certainly, money for a new bike and new clothes, and the start of savings for a house for my mother. The prospect of a summer job was enticing, and I wanted to jump at the opportunity.
Then I realized I would have to give up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn"t be playing. I was dreading this, spurring myself with the advice my mother preached to us: "If you make your bed, you have to lie in it."
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as mad as I expected him to be. "You have your whole life to work," he said. "Your playing days are limited. You can"t afford to waste them."
I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his disappointment in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job, son?" he demanded.
"Three twenty-five an hour," I replied.
"Well," he asked, "is $3.25 an hour the price of a dream?"
That question, the plainness of it, laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I dedicated myself to sports that summer, and within the year I was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play rookie-league ball, and offered a $20,000 contract. I already had a football scholarship to the University of Arizona, which led me to an education, two consensus selections as All-American linebacker and being chosen seventh overall in the first round of the NFL draft. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1984 for $1.7 million, and bought my mother the house of my dreams.
英语经典美文9
Failure is not good.
挫败没什么好的。
There is absolutely nothing good about failure. And there's nothing you can pretend to learn from failure.
挫败绝对不是什么好事。你也不能假装能从挫败当中学到什么东西。
You can't learn anything from failure because don't forget that every single moment in your past has added up to that one moment in your present - where you are lying on the floor moaning your painful and abysmal failure.
你从挫败里根本学不到东西，因为你别忘了，你躺在地上为你痛苦和糟糕的挫败而抱怨，而正是过去的每个瞬间加和所造成的。
Here are better things to learn from. Failure has many cousins. Learn from one of the cousins:
这有更好的东西值得去学习。很多东西都与挫败有关联，你只要从其中一个那里学习：
Curiosity: When something happens and you don't understand why, then ask, "Why?"Keep asking questions. Clearly, something confusing happened. Ask and ask and ask.Guess what will happen: you will get answers.
好奇心：当某些事发生了但你却不知道缘由时，你就要问：“为什么？”保持问问题的习惯。很明显，总会有让你困惑的事情发生，问、问、问就好。
Persistence: I get asked: how do I market my book? Or my app? Answer: write another book. Write another app.
持之以恒：别人问：“我怎么推销我的书呢？还有我的应用怎么办？”回答是：“再写本书，再做个应用。”
The best way to get better, to get more known, to learn the subtleties of your art or your field or your sport, is to simply do it again.
想要变得更好、知道得更多、学习培养艺术的敏感度或者开发属于你自己的领域或运动，最简单的就是重复做。
Forgiveness: I used to live in regret. One time I sold a business for $15 million. Within two years I had lost almost all of the money.
宽容：我生活中老爱后悔。有一次我做了一笔1500万美元的生意。两年之内，我几乎失去了我所有的钱。
And it wasn't money on paper. It was money in "real life". If I tell you how I lost it you would hate me forever. That's ok. But it's not important for this answer.
并且那不是理论上的钱，而是真真实实的钱。如果我告诉你我是怎么弄丢的.，你会恨我一辈子的。那没关系的，但是对这个回答并不重要。
"Failure" is a word used to label a past event. That's 100% up to you how you label a past event.
“挫败”这个词是用来标记过去的。那100%是在于你怎么去定义过去的事情。
When you label a past event "failure" it prevents you from moving beyond the past. You get stuck there. You keep time traveling to the moment of failure under the excuse that there is something to learn there.
如果你把过去的事情标记为“挫败”的话，你就不能从自己的过去中走出来了。你会一直停留在那里。你以“可以从中学到东西”为由不停地回到过去，回到挫败的那一刻。
The thing you learn first is forgiveness. Then you move back to the present. Get healthy. Be around people you love. Start being creative again.
你要学会的第一件事就是宽容。然后你才能回到当下，变得健康，回到你爱的人身边，重新开始去创造一切。
英语经典美文10
It’s official — after announcing their engagement in June 20xx, and becoming parents in April this year, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will be getting married on November 18. The ‘Mission Impossible’ star’s spokesperson, Arnold Robinson, confirmed rumours that the couple was tying the knot soon and that they would be doing so in Italy. Robinson also told Associated Press that the former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress would be wearing a dress designed by Giorgio Armani.
官方消息 – 汤姆.克鲁斯和凯蒂?赫尔姆斯将于11月18日举行婚礼，这是既20xx年6月两人订婚并于今年4月喜得千金以后的又一重大宣布。阿诺德.罗宾逊是这位《谍中谍》巨星的发言人。他证实了有关两人将喜结连里并在意大利办事的传言是真的。罗宾逊还告诉美联社曾出演电视剧《恋爱时代》的准新娘当天将身着由乔治.阿玛尼亲手设计的礼服。
Reports surfaced last week that the celebrity couple would be getting married at George Clooney’s villa(3) on Lake Como, although the ‘Ocean’s 11’ star laughed off the rumours at the time. At this date the venue of the Cruise-Holmes wedding is still unknown. Guests were notified of the location and date last week.
上周一些报道透露说这对明星夫妇的婚礼将在乔治?克鲁尼在意大利科摩湖畔的豪宅中举行，尽管曾出演《十一罗汉》的克鲁尼只是笑对传言。至今为止克鲁斯和赫尔姆斯将举行婚礼的地点还是个秘密。 但参加婚礼的.嘉宾已经于上周接到了婚礼日期和地点的通知。
At the beginning of October, Holmes was spotted in Italy after a quick shopping trip in Paris where she reportedly chose her wedding dress.
十月初，有人在意大利看到赫尔姆斯，之前她在巴黎短暂停留购物，据说是选购结婚当日的行头。
Last week the 27-year-old actress flew back to Milan for a fitting at Armani’s headquarters. Cruise and Holmes have a long relationship with Armani who designed their outfits for their international promotional tours for ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘Mission Impossible III’. Italy itself also played an important role in the relationship between Holmes and the 44-year-old superstar. Their first public outing, where Cruise told reporters: "She is an extraordinary woman", was on April 29 at the David di Donatello Awards in Milan.
上周这位27岁的女演员飞抵米兰，到阿玛尼的总店试衣。克鲁斯和赫尔姆斯与阿玛尼的交情由来已久。阿玛尼为两人设计了参加《蝙蝠侠诞生》和《谍中谍III》海外推介活动所穿的服装。
The pair announced their engagement two months later after Cruise proposed on top of Paris’s Eiffel Tower.They welcomed their first child, Suri, into the world on April 18 of this year. The first pictures of the baby girl were published in last month’s edition of Vanity Fair.
意大利本身也在赫尔姆斯与其44岁的超级明星男友的关系中起过重要作用。他们首次公开拍拖是在(20xx年)4月29日，当时两人在米兰出席意大利电影金像奖，克鲁斯告诉记者：“她是个特别的女人” 。两个月后，在克鲁斯在法国的埃菲尔铁塔塔顶向赫尔姆斯求婚之后，这对恋人宣布订婚。他们在今年4月18日迎来了第一个孩子苏瑞的降生。上月出版的《名利场》杂志刊登了小姑娘的第一张玉照。
英语经典美文11
英文原文
I recently lost my best friend Arnold in an automobile accident while moving my family to our new home in Arizona. Arnold was an 8-month-old pot belly who taught me so much about love, devotion and companionship. I am devastated by his loss, but thank God daily for blessing me with the joy of having Arnold for his short life.
Anyone contemplating a pot belly as a pet should know that if you are a true pet lover and devote yourself to them, a pot belly will make the most wonderful friend. You will be assured of endless hours of fascination and entertainment as you both grow together in understanding the human/pot belly relationship. Words cannot describe this relationship and it can only be fully understood by experiencing it.
Arnold didn’t know he was a pig -- he thought he was just another member of our family -- modeling his behavior through observing me, my wife, my two daughters and our beagles. He was convinced he was loved by all; and he was, even when he was ornery trying to just get our attention. He learned his name, how to sit and how to use the litter box all in the first week we had him (at 7 weeks old!).
He loved to sleep on your lap as you sat on the couch watching TV. He didn’t care if he grew to weigh 45lbs, he still expected you to hoist him onto your lap at precisely 8:00 pm every evening where he would fall fast asleep within seconds after snuggling his wet nose between your neck and shoulder. If you didn’t respond to his initial "honks" letting you know it was his nap time, he would bump your legs with his nose until you picked him up. With his weight as it was, you couldn’t hold him all evening as he preferred, so you had to slide him off onto the couch next to you where he would sleep for hours with all four legs and his nose sticking straight up in the air. He would snore as long as he could feel you next to him but would immediately wake up if you tried to leave the couch. We had hours of fun balancing objects like a salt shaker on his flat nose while he slept soundly.
Arnold helped me in all my chores around our five acres in the country. Just being there at my feet, interested in what I was doing made even the most mundane tasks enjoyable. When he was out roaming and foraging and you would call out his name, he would come running at top speed, honking the whole way until he got close to you where he would dodge you, zigzagging around with a few victory roles turning in circles before settling down and calmly walking up to you with his tail wagging as if to say (winking) "hah, got-cha."
He even helped me build a kit aircraft and a customized trailer to haul it around in. I was planning on taking him flying with me some day. He loved to play with my sockets and rolled them around on the shop floor. Just as I would struggle and get frustrated with some difficult task, Arnold would show up underneath the trailer, with his wet nose in my ear and honking -- seeming to say, "take a break and laugh with me for a while, that should make it all better." And it did, every time. God’s marvelous creations minister to us in the most special ways if we can just stop for a few moments and observe them. God used Arnold to teach us this very important lesson in life which we will never forget.
My wife and two daughters began to say that Arnold and I were so close that he had become the son that I never had in our family. It seemed that we could no longer have any kind of conversation in our family or with our friends without Arnold being a main topic. The neighborhood kids would make appointments to come visit Arnold and couldn’t wait to come over and play with him.
Arnold went most everywhere with us--Pet’s Mart, Wal-Mart, birthday parties, Christmas vacation to Grandma’s. He loved riding in the car/shopping basket and was a big hit everywhere he went. Arnold had become such an important part of our life that when we found out that our family would have to move to another state, we insisted that the contract on our new house be contingent on the homeowners’ association approval of Arnold in writing before we would agree to purchasing in our prestigious neighborhood.
On the day we left our old home town, we had a going away lunch with our friends from church. Everyone there just had to go out to the truck where Arnold and all our other pet were and say goodbye. Arnold trusted me to take care of him and get him to his new home. Tragically, along the way, the wind blast from a semi knocked our trailers out of control and pushed our truck off a 40’ bridge. We lost a big part of our family that day when our pets Arnold, Sweeti and Leanna were killed. I feel terrible for not being able to protect Arnold the way he trusted me to. However, I will be forever grateful for the fond memories of him which I will cherish forever.
Thank you for reading this and allowing me to share some of Arnold’s life with you. If you decide that a pot belly is the right choice for you both, I pray that you will be rewarded in the same way my family was with Arnold.
英语经典美文12
We must begin with your personal definition of TRUE LOVE. Without that, your search is pointless as the roundabout with no feasible exit for your journey. Don’t race to the dictionary, as the definition lies within your own life philosophy and experience.
我们必须从你们个人对真爱的定义开始。没了它，你的寻求便毫无意义，如同环形绕道的旅途没有出口可走。不要去查字典，因为这定义就在你的人生哲学和经历之中。
Our adult happiness lies rooted in the soil of our childhood. Instinctively, we bonded to our mothers for survival and eventually understood the protective potential of our fathers. All can agree that our basis of love stems from these early interactions. Rather than bandy about the countless theories concerning “mommy” and “daddy” issues, let’s begin with the idea that you have come to terms with your past and are eager to move forward into your own loving relationship.
我们作为成人的幸福，植根于孩提时的土壤。为求生存，我们本能地和妈妈亲近，而后终于懂得了父亲对我们的保护。大家都知道，我们的爱，来源于这些早期的互动。与其散播关于“妈咪”和“爸比”问题的无数理论，不如让我们以这样的想法开始：你已经能够和自己的过去共处，并且渴望前进步入你自己爱的关系。
The best predictor of one’s future behavior is to look at past behavior. By looking at your actions, can you say that you’ve fallen in love with the most important person…yourself? Without arrogance and hubris, do you LOVE the person you have become?
预测一个人未来行为的最好方法，就是去看其过去的`行为。回顾你的行动，你可以说自己已经爱上了最重要的人…你自己么？抛去自大狂妄，你爱现在的自己么？
英语经典美文13
Radio and television are very popular in the world today. Millions of people watch TV. Perhaps more people listen to the radio. The TV is more useful than the radio. On TV we can see and hear what is happening in the world. However, radio isn’t lost. It is still with us. And listeners are becoming more. That’sbecause a transistor radio isn’t lost. It is still with us. It is very easy to carry. You can put one in your pocket and listen to it on the bus or your bike when you go to work.
英语经典美文14
Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way, and these matched in hue her eyebrows, and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat and were quivering in the sunlight. All this I did not take in at once; for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. Here seemed tome a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. (129 words) (302 words)
From Aylwin
by Theodore Watts-Dunton
英语经典美文15
As a saying goes, the wheel of fortune is constantly spinning in turns, to be in honor for thirty years will turn to be in disgrace for forty years, and prosperity swings to poverty, and then poor turns to wealthy, it keeps rotating beyond your control. Nevertheless, a lot of people don’t believe it and regard it as a kind of superstition. At any rate, I strongly believe it and my gut feeling tells me that our life is controlled by our designated destine. As Confucius says “life and death have destined times; wealth and honors rest with heaven”. When I was only little, I heard the older generation in my family boast my forebears were super rich for many generations. Though later on when it came down to my great grandpa’s generation, the overall circumstances were declining, he still managed to make some fortune out of speculating in trade of gold bullions. Nevertheless, unfortunately my great grandpa at last still lost all his fortune in his greedy speculation; therefore, it was the end of a good fortune and a beginning of a bad cycle.
A Chinese phrase reads --- Duo Shi Zhi Qiu – it is an eventful time, I was borne in autumn, as if it has destined my life to have a lot more pitfalls than anybody else does. Truly in my memory, it has never been a plain sailing in my life since I was borne in this big family, which had already downgraded to an only better-off status in the old Shanghai times. Anyhow, when I finally came to this world, the old Shanghai was already gone by, so was my better-off family. No wonder my mother was saying that I didn’t even feel bothered to utter a sound when I finally pushed out of her body, as if I already knew there was nothing there for me to cheer for.
The old Shanghai, once upon a time, was a magnificent place, a bright pearl of East; a worldwide recognized the paradise for Adventurers for all walks of life. The old Shanghai was a grotesque shining mosaic and a powerful melting pot nurturing and culturing generations upon generations of good and bad men and women. If Hong Kong is regarded being hatched out from a sordid fishing village to today’s thriving and prosperous international Metropolitan City, whereas Shanghai certainly has had a great leap forward from a squalid coastal enclave to a gorgeously brilliant gem of Cosmopolis in the world.
My grandpa told me the old Shanghai was a famous “sink of iniquity”, for it had more than 600 brothels spreading across every corner of this dazzling human world with its myriad temptations. The old British Club was an eyewitness account of the decadent Shanghai. It was over there the great Taipans, once upon a time, sipped their “stengahs” with a big cigar between their fingers after sunset. It was over there the white Russian girls were twisting their curvy body on the toe-point and lustfully showing their sexy long legs on the stage. The racecourse, the numerous gambling houses, and the gaudy western-style abodes and skyscrapers with ever-lasting flashing neon-signs on the top of building made a life a sharp and striking contrast with the sweating, scrawny coolies pulling the heaviest load of carts crossing the garden bridge and the haggard-looking, flea-ridden beggars howling along the street in the blizzards. Grandpa once teased me saying that I was coming too late to enjoy the old good times they used to have, but at that time I didn’t quite understand what he really meant, as all I knew was the old Shanghai was the glorious birthplace of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. From the day of founding its organization to the day of becoming the founder of the People’s Republic of China, Shanghai was always playing an important role in milking the Chinese Communist Party and mothering the birth of a brand New China, despite the old Shanghai was also the old homes of Jiang, Kong, Song, Chen Dynasty and the hotbed of the “Green Gang” and “Red Gang”.
It is said that the “Green Gang” and “Red Gang” were the backbone of Jiang Jie Shi Nationalist Party and once they even assisted Generalissimo Jiang Jie Shi and his Nationalist Army in 4.12 massacre killing hundreds and thousands of revolutionary people, but in my eyes, the notorious “Gang of four” and their historically unprecedented Cultural Revolution was multiple folds worse than these Green and Red gangs, as they have completely ruined the life of more than three generations and tarnished millions upon millions innocent souls of people.
When I was old enough to go to kindergarten, on the first day, I was told we were the luckiest generation ever in China, as we were borne in the New China and were growing up under the Red flag. However, were we the luckiest generation? No! What had actually happened to us was nothing but political campaigns after campaigns, turmoil upon turmoil.
I was told we must listen to Chairman Mao and follow the Communist Party and become Chairman Mao’s good children, so my first song that I learnt to sing as soon as I was able to talk was
“The Red is the East and rises the Sun”.
I was told to study hard for the course of the Chinese revolution, so my first nursery rhyme I learnt by heart was
“Sparkling is the star in the sky,
Looking towards the direction of Beijing by standing on the bridge,
Keep looking until you see the TaiAnMen Square,
Our greatest Savior is Chairman Mao.”
When I went to primary school, I was told the foreign language was a must tool in a struggle against the Imperialism, the Revisionism, and the Reactionary, so my first English lesson was nothing but
“Long live Chairman Mao and long long life to Chairman Mao”,
And again I was told there were about two-third of people in the world still living in the deep water and scorching fire – an abyss of suffering and extreme miseries, so my first lecture for the revolutionary politics was
“Never forget the class struggle”.
The wheel of fortune has never stopped spinning, good to bad and bad to good, and no one is able to reverse the course of a life journey. Whatever my life is going to be like at the end of my day, despite it has been relentlessly destined to have a lot of pitfalls, I would always give it my best shot, as I firmly believe the wheel of fortune will turn.
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