读书有益英文作文【一】
The Little Prince is a tale for both children and adults. The Little Prince is the story of a man who crashes his airplane into the desert only to meet a traveling boy from a small planet. The boy inquires about trees and sheep, shares his journeys and various encounters, and then leaves. Yet, reading between the lines, the story offers a much more
complex, eiching, satisfying and eye-opening moral: what matters in life is love - and caring about someone or something and maintaining that relationship. The prince loves his rose enough to care for it every night by protecting it with a glass globe and requesting a muzzle for his sheep. He knows that the rose is naive with only four purposeless thorns and, out of his loyalty to her, it is his duty to protect her. Likewise, the narrator loves the prince and feels an obligation to secure his safe journey home.
I read this book as a child and was infected with a sense of awe and a newfound respect for the written word and its power to touch, heal and change perception. For myself, it accomplished two things; it instilled in me a desire to one day become a writer and touch others with my words and like the narrator of the story, and Antoine De Saint-Exupery (whose own plane crash is said to have been the basis for the tale it instilled within me a hope that one day the Little Prince will return and someone will let me know.
What is the meaning of this tale? Easily saying is that the tale talk about many normal things like morals and principles and values from two different but successive way as children and adults. As the narrator said you can only catch adults’ attention by describing the price of something or saying the number of something. It’s hard to make adults feel lovely by the children’s beautiful describing. That is the reason why many adults believe this tale is a tale for adults.
Being insincere and utilitarian, adults consider useful and kids think sinful. Free spirit and free heart, adults consider absurd and children believe necessary. The amazing point is that these two different beliefs are held by one species--Human. When we were young, we could see anything God want us to see. But after decades, what we could see was only something we need to see.
There are so many good things for children and their imagination. And there are not so many things for adults and their reality.
读书有益英文作文【二】
《简爱》是一部激励女性，振奋人心的作品。这是十九世纪英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作。
故事中的简爱从小就失去了父母，被舅舅家领养。舅舅里德很照顾简爱，却不幸过早离世了。这就使得简爱在舅舅家的地位是无足轻重的了。简爱在那受尽了歧视和瘧待，表哥常常欺凌她，舅母对她甚至是像对仆人一样，并且千方百计地要赶走她。尽管如此，但小小年纪的简爱离开的时候并没有表现出一丝的留恋和依赖，因为她知道她心里坦荡荡的，光明正大，所以才无所畏惧。送去罗沃德孤儿院之后，她遇到了最好的朋友海伦。两颗幼小纯洁的心灵从此联系在了一起。简爱体现出了一种敢于反抗封建思想的精神。怎么可以因为上课时分神了一下就得遭受严厉的鞭打呢？这是冷漠人心的表现，是不符合人权的行为。期间，简爱掌握了不少知识，并且还做了老师。
之后，简爱来到桑恩费尔德庄园应聘，也就是在这里，她遇到了生命中的真命天子——罗切斯特。他们在庄园里的第一次对话便有些针锋相对的意味。罗切斯特是个富有的有社会地位的庄园主，也许是对贫苦人的抱怨和希望博得他人同情的行为司空见惯了，他以为简爱也会如此，会大肆宣泻自己的不幸与不满。可是令他意外的是，简爱竟然说她自己没有不幸。而且是在父母早亡，在舅舅家受瘧待和歧视，被舅母赶出家门，在孤儿院受压迫过活的情况下。其实光是这一点，就足够令罗切斯特对简爱感到另眼相看了。
在点点滴滴的相处中，罗切斯特深深地感受到，简是个坚强，内心深处有着自己独特想法，有有肉的女子，是个能与他的灵魂平等交流的女子。他被简彻底地打动了。一次Party使得简爱的期待落空，也使得屈辱不堪的'她终于爆发了，道出了自己的心声：不要以为我长得矮小平凡就以为我不会思考，就没有爱的能力；如果我也有上帝所赋予的天资，那么我也同样会很出色。我认为，这也是本书最精彩的地方。的确，其实人生来就是不平等的。有的人出于富贵之家，有的人生来就拥有一幅好的容貌。可是，何必要执着于这些呢？要知道，我们还是能够满怀友爱，自信而平等地对待他人。
一念天堂，一念地狱，如何取舍就在于自己的一念一想。误会解除之后，罗切斯特向简求婚，简高兴地答应了，然而没想到的是，这背后却有个惊天秘密。罗有个患有精神病的结婚十五年的妻子！这个事实令简大受打击，她忍受不了她最信任的人一直欺骗着她，忍受不了他们之间有道法律的鸿沟，而这条鸿沟却是跨不过去的。简带着她仅剩的一点尊严离开了罗，之后被牧师圣。约翰收留。圣。约翰请求简做他的妻子，一并带她去印度。当问及娶简的原因时，他的回答却仅仅是简适合做传教士的妻子，而不是出于爱。不，这不是简想要的爱情。她想拥有的爱情是纯洁的，是两个心灵激情碰撞之后产生的火花，是因情感交流而衍生出来的惺惺相惜，绝不是存在利益关系的交易。于是，简又回到了庄园课那里却变成了一片狼藉，简急切地想要找到罗切斯特，看他是否安好。因为那场大火，罗切斯特变成了一个残废。可尽管如此，简还是一如既往地爱着他，并没有因为他变成了残疾而鄙视、抛弃他，也并不会因为他变得一无所有而离开他。这就是简对爱情的态度：你可以贫穷，你可以变丑，但你不能欺骗我，伤害我的自尊。这才是真正的“因为爱情”。
我想，简的这种精神是独立的，是难能可贵的。我们是活生生的有思想，有感情的人，带着尊严和爱生活在这个世界。别人可以瞧不起我们，但我们不能看不起自己，我们要“自命不凡”，坚强、自信、努力地面对一切困难，迎难而上。如何做的关键就在于自己如何想。选择积极的心态那么阳光、快乐、满足将会伴你一生；选择消极的心态，那么阴郁、抱怨、不幸将会长相随。所以，对自己好一点的话，全世界都会为你让路。
读书有益英文作文【三】
俗话说：书是人类进步的阶梯，书是人类智慧的结晶，书是历史的总结，书是社会生活的反映。读书，能够彻悟人生的好处；读书，能够洞晓世事沧桑；读书，能够广济天下民众；读书，能够深入科技殿堂。人欲成才，士欲济世，务必开卷读书。马克思开卷，获益甚多，他先后在波恩大学、柏林大学研究法学、历史和哲学，因而在以后的革命活动中能有两个空前的伟大发现，他写资本论就读了自藏书一千余本，还到大英博物馆里看了三间房子的书。马翁的开卷之益，说也说不荆华罗庚开卷，从小就打下了很好的数学和语文基础，曾写过几百首诗词，还写过许多散文和通俗生动的科普读物。初中毕业时，就写出数学论文。论文层次清楚、语言简练，精辟地指出了苏家驹教授《代数的五次方程式之解法》的错误。
可有人说：“开卷未必有益”。我却觉得“开卷必定有益”。
读书不仅仅能增长很多知识，还能开阔我们的视野，丰富我们的想象力……
让我们一齐读书吧，书是我们成长中不可缺少的营养品！
读书有益英文作文【四】
Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. The characters have their own personalities. Mrs. Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters. Mr. Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr. Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior. Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different. Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others. Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. Mary likes reading classic books. (Actually she is a pedant. Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia. Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate. When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now. That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.
The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic. But this little topic can reflect big problems. It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century. You can find these from the very beginning of this book.
The first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in poss ession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.
People always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories. In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.
I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughte rs. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.
In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.
In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our
society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?
Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.
