英语口语练习资料成就篇（15篇口语模仿范文）.doc

成就篇
The Six Section
脱口成“章”
汇集世界美文
帮助记忆名人语录
成就深层次表达
别无他求，只求烂熟于心

一般的口语学习者都经历过这样一个苦恼的阶段：词汇、语法都掌握得不错了，表达的时候，却总是免不了要先想想中文要说什么，再临时地套用单词和语法翻译过来。很明显，这是一个语言思维方式和记忆方式的问题。许多“经典”的“中国式英语”往往就是在这些时候产生的。中文和英文在这个方面有很大的区别。例如，在中文中，我们可以把很长的修饰语放在被修饰的名词或代词前面。如果修饰语过长的话，我们一般都会重开一个句子对它进行描述。而在英语中，复杂冗长的形容性文字都可以在名词、代词后面的定语从句中添加进去。是否能够自如地转换这种最基本的语言习惯，就要看说话者对语言的驾驭能力了。

人的母语思维和记忆方式的形成是自然的事，但要形成第二种语言思维和记忆方式却不是一朝一夕的事情，因为母语始终会影响着它的形成。

在有一定英语程度的基础上复述、背诵一些短小精悍、文字地道的短文、经典名篇、演讲等，对于培养语感、形成英文思维和记忆方式，是一种很有效的传统方法。

练习方法：
第一步、不要借助文字，先听录音。根据自身英语水平程度和短文难度的不同，用尽量少的次数理解短文内容。记下短文中的能提供内容线索的短语、单词（尤其是表示内容转折、渐进的单词）和一些不常用的单词。
第二步、根据记下的思路和单词，试着串出完整的内容。
第三步、整理完思路之后，开始尝试大声复述短文的内容。
第四步、第一次的复述可能不尽完美，这时要继续听录音，记下更多的细节和第一次复述时漏掉的内容。
第五步、按上述方法继续你的复述，直到你感觉你已经把英文水平都发挥出来了。这时候再翻开文字，对照录音，把错漏的地方更正过来。
第六步、当你可以一字不差地把短文复述出来的时候，学习任务并没有结束，因为另一个同样很重要的任务是培养语感。在文字中标出单词的重读和它们的升降调，模仿录音，反复练习。

Part One A World With Love
第一部分 人间有爱
1 The True Meaning of Love
By Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband; to a next-door neighbor... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

参考译文 爱的真谛
泰瑞莎修女

随处散播你的爱心，就从对你的家人开始，多一分关爱给你的孩子，你的另一半，然后你的邻居……让每个接近你的人都有如沐春风的感觉。给别人一张慈祥的面容、一个关怀的眼神、一个灿烂的微笑、一句温暖的问候，为上帝的仁慈做见证。

2 A Brother Like That

　　A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it.
　　“Is this your car, Mister?” he said.
　　Paul nodded. “My brother gave it to me for Christmas.” The boy was [1]astounded. “You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you anything? Boy, I wish . . .” He hesitated.
　　Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his heels.
　　 “I wish,” the boy went on, “That I could be a brother like that.”
　　Paul looked at the boy [2]in astonishment, then impulsively he added,“Would you like to take a ride in my car?”
　　 “Oh yes, I’d love that.”
　　After a short ride, the boy turned with his eyes aglow, said, “Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?”
　　Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again. “Will you stop where those two steps are?” the boy asked.
　　He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little [3] crippled brother. He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of [4] squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.
　　 “There she is, [5]buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m gonna give you one just like it . . . then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Christmas windows that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”
Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride. 　
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he said: [6]“It is more blessed to give . . .”

automobile /5C:tEmEbi:l/ n. (美) 汽车
urchin /5E:tFin/ n. 顽童 小孩
jar /dVB:/ (n.) 震动v. 震动，刺激
impulsively /im5pQlsivli/ adv. 冲动地
aglow /E5glEu/ adj. (脸) 通红的 adv. 发红地
memorable /5memErEbl/ (adj.) 值得纪念的

参考译文 哥哥的心愿

　　我的朋友保罗的哥哥送他一辆新车作为圣诞礼物。圣诞节之夜，保罗离开办公室时，一个男孩绕着那辆闪闪发亮的新车，赞叹着。
　　“先生，这是你的车？”
　　保罗点点头：“这是我哥哥送给我的圣诞节礼物。”男孩满脸惊讶，支支吾吾地说：“你是说这是你哥送的礼物，没花你一分钱？天哪，我真希望……”
　　保罗当然知道男孩希望什么。他希望能有一个那样的哥哥。但是小男孩接下来说的话却完全出乎保罗的意料。
　　“我希望自己就是那样的哥哥，”男孩继续说。
　　保罗惊愕地看着那男孩，冲口而出：“你要不要坐我的车去兜风？”
　　“哦，当然好了，我太想坐了！”
　　车开了一小段路后，那孩子转过头来，眼睛闪闪发亮，对我说：“先生，你能不能把车子开到我家门前？”
　　保罗微笑，他知道孩子想干什么。那男孩必定是要向邻居炫耀，让大家知道他坐了一辆大轿车回家。但是这次保罗又猜错了。“你能不能把车子停在那两个台阶前？”男孩要求道。
　　男孩跑上台阶，过了一会儿保罗听到他回来了，但动作似乎有些缓慢。原来他把他跛脚的弟弟背出来了，将他安置在第一个台阶上，紧紧地抱着他，指着那辆新车。
“你看，这就是我刚才在楼上对你说的那辆新车。这是他哥哥送给他的圣诞礼物哦！他一分钱也没花。将来我也会送你一辆像这样的车，到那时候你就能自己去看那些在圣诞节时挂在窗口上的漂亮饰品，就象我告诉过你的那样。”
　　保罗走下车子，把跛脚男孩抱到车子的前座。兴奋得满眼放光的哥哥也爬上车子，坐在弟弟的身旁。就这样他们三人开始了一次难忘的假日兜风。
那个圣诞夜，保罗才真正体会耶稣所说的“施比受更有福”的道理。

增值英语
1.astounded：astound，使（人）大吃一惊，但它一般多用于被动语态。“He was astounded at the news”那消息让他大吃一惊。

2.in astonishment：和in surprise意思差不多，表示很惊讶。但吃惊的程度要深一些。

3.crippled：cripple即可作名词，也可作动词，意为跛子，或使跛足。在这里用crippled，是用分词做形容词，跛足的。

4.squeezed up against him：squeeze是挤压的意思，在这里，很形象地说明小男孩紧紧抱着跛脚的弟弟，怕他摔倒了。

5.buddy：老兄，老弟。这是美国俚语中常见的说法，一般只用于打招呼。

6.It is more blessed to give：施比受更有福。给予是一种幸福，因为你是富有的，这种富有通常跟财富无关，更主要的是精神上的富有。

Part Two Close to Nature
第二部分 走进自然
3 Waiting for the Breeze

Lie in bed, by an open window, and listen...
“No air conditioning? How can you sleep?” a friend asks, horrified. I’ve just revealed that my family has decided to shut the air conditioner off and [1] trim our electric bill.
On this first night of our cost-cutting adventure, it’s only 85 degrees. We’re not going to suffer, but the three kids grumble anyway.
“It’s too hot to sleep,” my 13-year-old daughter moans. “I’m about to die from this heat,” her brother hollers down the hall. “Just try it tonight,” I tell them. In truth I’m too tired to argue for long. My face is sweaty, but I lie quietly listening to the cricket choirs outside that remind me of childhood.
I think about Grandma, who lived to 92 and still supervised my mom’s gardening until just a few weeks before she died. And then, I’m back there at her house in the summer heat of my childhood. I move my pillow to the foot of Grandma’s bed and angle my face toward the open window. I [2] flip the pillow, hunting for the cooler side.
Grandma sees me [3] thrashing. “If you’ll just watch for the breeze,” she says, “you’ll cool off and fall asleep.” She cranks up the Venetian blinds. I stare at the filmy white curtain, willing it to flutter. Lying still, waiting, I suddenly notice the life outside the window. The bug choruses . Neighbors, porch-sitting late, speak in hazy words with sanded edges that soothe me.
“Mom, did you hear that?” my seven-year-old blurts. “I think it was an owl family.”
　　“Probably,” I tell him. “Just keep listening...”
Without the [4] droning air conditioner, the house is oddly peaceful, and the unfiltered night noises seem close enough to touch. I hope I’m awake tonight when the first breeze sneaks in.

crank /krANk/ v. 转动（曲柄）
Venetian blind 软百叶窗
filmy /5filmi/ adj. 朦胧的
flutter /5flQtE/ v. 飘动
chorus /5kR:rEs/ n. 合唱
hazy /5heizi/ adj. 模糊的
soothe /su:T/ v. （使）平静
owl /aul/ n. 猫头鹰
unfiltered /7Qn5filtEd/ adj. 未过滤的
sneak /sni:k/ v. 偷偷摸摸地做（事）

参考译文 祈盼清风　　
窗边静躺，细心聆听……
　　“不开空调？能睡得着吗？” 听说家人要为了节电而把家里的空调关掉时，我的朋友一脸惊愕。
　　在大胆尝试节电的第一天晚上，气温不过华氏85度而已。我们不觉得难受，但三个孩子却抱怨连天。
　　“太热了！怎么睡啊！”我那十三岁的女儿不停地嘀咕。“我快被熟死了，”她弟弟的牢骚也从客厅的另一头传了过来。我只好说：“今晚就试着忍一忍好吗？”其实我根本没有力气再向他们多作解释。脸上出汗了。我静静地躺着，聆听着窗外蟋蟀的合奏曲，思绪被牵回到了童年的时光。
　　这时禁不住想起了外婆，她活到92岁，直到去世前的几个星期，她一直都帮助妈妈护理着花园。回到了童年炎热的夏季，回到了外婆的小屋。我把枕头移到奶奶的床尾，脸对着窗。于是我把枕头翻过来，让比较凉的一面朝上。
　　看到我翻来覆去地睡不着，外婆说：“只要用心去感受和祈盼，风会来的，这样你就可以一身清凉地进入梦乡了。”她把百叶窗拉了起来，于是我便一直注视着朦胧的白窗帘，等待它的飘动。静静地躺着，期盼着，这时我忽然感到了窗外世界的生命。小虫的轻唱，门廊外坐着闲聊的邻居，他们模糊不清的喋喋细语开始催我入眠。
　　“妈妈，你听到了吗？”我那七岁的孩子嚷嚷了起来，“我觉得那是猫头鹰一家子在叫！”
　　“很有可能，再仔细听……”
没有了空调机的嗡嗡响，房间里飘溢着一种奇异的祥和气氛，还有未经过滤的，亲近得伸手就可以触摸到的夜声。真的希望，当第一缕清风悄然而至时，我还能够醒着迎接她的到来。

增值英语

1.trim的本意是“修剪、整理”，如果你种了一棵小树，就要经常地 “trim dead branches off a tree”，“修剪树上的枯枝”；此处的trim当然是和“修剪”无关，而是表示“减少、压缩”，比如说“I’ve trimmed my composition from 1000 words to 500”, 这就是说“我把作文从1000字压缩到500字”。

2. 此处的flip向我们描述了“翻转” 的动作，如果你看见弟弟在煎鱼，一面已经要“糊”了，而另一面还没熟，就要赶紧吩咐他：“Flip the fish on its back!”（把鱼翻个身）；另外我们经常会用投掷硬币的方式，来决定什么事情，flip就可以表达“投掷、轻抛”的概念，比如说“Let’s flip a coin to see who goes first” (用投硬币的方式决定谁先去)。

3.thrash：辗转反侧、睡不着觉的滋味很让人难受，thrash就是用来形容这种滋味的，如果你心里惦记着心爱的姑娘是否会在第二天答应你的求婚，就可能 “spent most of the night just thrashing around” (大半夜躺在床上辗转反侧)，不过这种滋味是人人都有过啊！

4.此处的drone表示“（空调）嗡翁声”，当然“嗡嗡声”不仅来自“空调”，我们还经常可以听到“Bees are droning among the flowers”(蜜蜂在花丛中嗡嗡叫)，“A plane droned overhead”(飞机在头顶上嗡嗡飞过)。

4 The Feeling of Snow

As soon as I walked outside, I was greeted with the [1] shimmering white blanket of cold. Despite the chill [2] overwhelming my skin, inside I was warm. I felt as though I could be [3] giving off heat; I had the desire to stay out in this freeze for hours. It was the type of day that speaks to you through its elements; I took a deep breath to hear more snow was coming.
　　As I walked, I looked up, trying to realize what made this day so beautiful, so serene. It was as if time had been put temporarily on hold and I along with it. Or maybe I was the only one unpaused...
　　Either way, the [4] solitude was comforting, and I sensed myself floating away. I sat down on the edge of a curb and listened. All there was to hear was the wind rushing over the top of my head and circling some old, cracking leaves some yards away. To me it was the reassuring sound of nature, trying not to be forgotten.
　　It did start to snow. None of those little flurries, but big, fat flakes which [5] clung immediately to their surface.
　　Then it was time to go and my [6] reverie had to end. As I began walking again, I drifted back into this time frame, calm and cleared.
Now if only I could remember where I was going.

chill /tFil/ n. 寒意
serene /si5ri:n/ adj. 平静的
temporarily /5tempErErili/ adv. 临时
curb /kE:b/ n. 路边
crack /krAk/ v. （使）破裂
reassuring /7ri:E5FuEriN/ adj. 可靠的
flurry /5flQri/ n. 小雪
flake /fleik/ n. 薄片（雪花）

参考译文 雪天随想

　　刚出门，扑面而来的是一大片晶莹雪白的冰凉。冷气袭来，肌肤阵阵战栗，而内心却温暖如初。觉得自己似乎能发热，因而渴望在这寒冷中长时间伫足。这是一个大自然与你交流的日子。我深深地吸了一口气，静听雪花飘落，源源不绝……
　　漫步雪中，举目四顾，我努力思索是什么竟然能够把这一天变得如此美丽和宁静。那一刻，时间仿佛停止了，而我也定在其中。或者，只有我一个人在前行……
　　无论如何，这种孤寂令人欣慰。我仿佛脱离了尘世。坐在路边，仔细聆听。只有风从头顶掠过，卷走几码远的干枯树叶。在我心中，这是大自然给人安慰、令人难忘的声音。
　　真的下雪了！不是零星小雪，而是鹅毛大雪，一落地就凝结在一起了。
　　该结束沉思离开了！我举步前行时，思绪又转回到现实中来，而此时感觉如此平静，如此清新。
我实在记不得我要往何处去了！

增值英语

1.shimmering：shimmering是一个动名词，它的动词形式是shimmer，表示“闪光”、“闪亮”等意思。“Moonlight is shimmering on the lake” (湖上月光闪烁)。shimmer也可做名词，如： “the shimmer of pearls” (珍珠的闪光)。在这里shimmering翻译成“晶莹的”，用来形容雪花。

2.overwhelm：“征服”、“使受不了”。想想看，当寒冷袭来的时候，你皮肤的反应会是什么呢？那可以用“战栗”来形容。

3.give off：“发出”的意思，“give off a bad smell” (发出恶臭)。“give thick smoke off” (冒出浓烟)。

4.solitude：有“孤单”、“寂寞”、“独居”、“隐居”等意思。我们都知道lonely是“孤独的”的意思，它表示一种令人难受的孤独。而solitude有时是一种美好的感觉，要不怎么会有那么多人隐居呢？

5.cling ：cling (to)的意思是“粘着”、“缠着”， “The mud clung to her shoes” (泥浆粘在她的鞋上)。

6.reverie：“幻想”、“沉思”，如：“have a reverie about the delicious nuts” (幻想着美味果仁)。“be lost in reverie”，（陷入沉思）。

5 The Sounds of England

　　 The sounds of England, the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy, the corncrake on a dewy morning, the sound of the scythe against the whetstone, and the sight of a plough team coming over the brow of a hill, for centuries the one eternal sight of England. The wild anemones in the woods in April, the last load at night of hay being drawn down a lane as the twilight comes on, when you can scarcely distinguish the figures of the horses as they take it home to the farm, and above all, most subtle, most penetrating and most moving, the smell of wood smoke coming up in an autumn evening, the wood smoke that our ancestors, tens of thousands of years ago, must have caught on the air when they were coming home with the results of the day’s forage, when they were still nomads, and they were still roaming the forests and the plains of the continent of Europe. These things strike down into the very depths of our nature, and touch chords that with every year of our life sound a deeper note in our innermost being.

tinkle /5tiNkl/ n. 叮叮当当的响声 v. 叮当作响
anvil /5Anvil/ n. 铁砧
smithy /5smiTi/ n. 铁铺
corncrake /5kR:nkreik/ n. 秧鸡
dewy /5dju:i/ adj. 带露水的
scythe /saiT/ n. 镰刀
whetstone /5wetstEun/ n. 磨刀石
eternal /i5tE:n(E)l/ adj. 永恒的
anemone /E5nemEni/ n. 野莲花
twilight /5twailait/ n. 黎明
scarcely /5skZEsli/ adv. 几乎不
distinguish /dis5tingwiF/ v. 辨认
subtle /5sQtl/ adj. 微妙的
penetrating /5penitreitiN/ adj. （指声音、喊声等）尖锐的
ancestor /5AnsistE/ n. 祖先
forage /5fRridV/ n. 草料
nomad /5nEumAd/ n. 游牧民
roam /rEum/ v. 徜徉
chord /kR:d/ n. 弦
innermost /5inEmEust/ adj. 内心最深处的

参考译文 英格兰之声

英格兰之声，是乡村铁匠铺里铁砧上锤子的叮当声，是露珠欲滴的清晨秧鸡的鸣啼声，是磨刀石上镰刀的霍霍声，山梁上走过一队犁地的农夫，这是许多世纪里英格兰的永恒景象。四月里森林中野生的银莲花，黎明时分最后一趟满载夜草的车行进在小路上，那时你简直辩认不出马的身影，农夫们正赶着它驶向农庄。然而最微妙莫测 、沁人肺腑，动人心弦的还是秋日黄昏时分袅袅升起的柴烟的气味。远在几万年前，当我们的祖先作为游牧民还游历在欧洲大陆的森林和原野的时候，当他们带着一天收获来的草料回家的时候，他们肯定都看到过那木柴的清烟。这些东西深深地烙进了我们的性格，拨动着我 们的心弦，并伴随着我们的生命年复一年地从我们心灵的最深处发出一个益发深沉的和声。

Part Three Philosophy of Life
第三部分 哲理人生
6 The House of 1000 Mirrors

Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself,“This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often.”
　　 In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself,“That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again.”
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kinds of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

bounce /bauns/ v. 跳跃
doorway /5dR:wei/ n. 门口
wag /wAg/ v. 摇摆
growl /graul/ v. 咆哮
horrify /5hRrifai/ v. 恐吓
reflection /ri5flekFn/ n. 反射

参考译文 千镜之屋
很久以前的一个很远的小村庄里，有一个以“千镜屋”而著名的地方。一只乐观的小狗听说了这个地方并决定去参观。当来到这个地方，他蹦蹦跳跳地上了台阶，来到房门口，高高地竖起耳朵，欢快地摇着尾巴，从门口往里张望，他惊奇地看到有1000只欢乐的小狗像他一样快地摇尾巴。他灿烂地微笑着，回报他的是1000张热情，友好的灿烂笑脸。离开时他心想：“这是一个精彩的地方，我一定要经常来参观。”
　　在这个村里还有另一只想参观“千镜屋”的小狗，他不及第一只小狗乐观，他慢吞吞地爬上台阶，然后耷拉着脑袋往屋子里看。一看到有1000只小狗不友好地盯着他，他便开始冲他们狂吠，镜中的1000只小狗也冲着他狂吠，把他给吓坏了，他在离开时心想：“这是一个恐怖的地方，我再也不会来了。”
世界上所有的脸都是镜子，在你所遇见的人的脸上你看到反射出来的是什么?

7 The Smile

　　I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I [1] fumbled in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had [2] escaped 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, [3]shrugged and cam