英語美文有助于我們培養(yǎng)對英語學(xué)習(xí)的興趣，也能提高我們的寫作能力。以下是小編整理的3篇英語精美短文，供大家學(xué)習(xí)和參閱。

　　一：為什么你存不下錢

　　Don’t save what is left after spending. But spend what is left after savings.

　　不要把花剩下的錢拿來存，而是把存剩下的錢拿來花。

　　Wanting to save money is not enough. Anyway, there are a lot of things which didn’t come true although you wanted them to.

　　想存錢是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的，畢竟你希望發(fā)生的事情并不一定就能發(fā)生。

　　Saving is a technique . It’s simple. It’s just not easy.

　　存錢是一門技術(shù)，這門技術(shù)很簡單，只是不容易實現(xiàn)。

　　If you only come to think about saving after you spend, there is no chance for you to accumulate a considerable fortune, because spending is always irrational.

　　如果你總是在消費之后才想著應(yīng)該存錢，那你肯定存不下錢，因為任何消費都是非理性的。

　　The way that works is to make plans in advance.

　　真正可行的方法，是事先計劃好自己的消費方式。

　　Would it be too much to use 40% of my income to rent an apartment?

　　每個月用收入的40%租房子會不會太多?

　　Is it really enough to save just 20% every month?

　　每個月只存收入的20%會不會太少?

　　Only by making it clear how much you want to save can you come to know how much you can actually spend.

　　你只有先計劃好要存多少錢，才能知道自己實際上可以花多少錢。

　　二：真正有意義的生活

　　What will matter?

　　什么才重要?

　　Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

　　無論是否準(zhǔn)備好，總有一天它都會走到盡頭。 那里沒有日出，沒有白天，沒有小時和分鐘。 你收集的所有東西，不管你珍惜或忘記與否，它們都將流入他人手中。

　　Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

　　不管是你得到的或是你欠別人的，可你的財產(chǎn)、名譽和權(quán)勢也都會變成和你毫不相干的東西。

　　Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

　　你的怨恨、憤慨、挫折和妒忌最終也將消失。

　　So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

　　因此，你的希望、抱負(fù)、計劃以及行動日程表也將全部結(jié)束。 當(dāng)初看得比較重的成功得失也會消失。

　　It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

　　你來自何方，住在窮人區(qū)還是富人區(qū)也都不重要了。

　　It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

　　你昔日的漂亮與輝煌也都不重要了，你的性別、膚色、種族地位也將消失。

　　So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?

　　因此，什么重要呢? 怎么衡量你有生之年的價值呢?

　　What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.

　　重要的不是你買了什么，而是你創(chuàng)造了什么; 不是你得到了什么，而是你給予了什么。

　　What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

　　重要的不是你成功了，而是你生命的意義。

　　What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

　　重要的不是你學(xué)到了什么，而是你傳授了什么。

　　What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

　　重要的是每個行動之中都有正直和勇氣的氣概，偉大的同情心和犧牲精神，并且鼓勵他人遵從榜樣。

　　What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

　　重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

　　What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

　　重要的不是你認(rèn)識多少人，而是在你離開后，多少人會悵然若失。

　　What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you.

　　重要的不是你的回憶，而是愛你的人對你的追思。

　　What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

　　重要的是別人會記你多長時間，誰記著你，為什么記著你。

　　Living a life that matters doesn’ t happen by accident.

　　過有意義的生活不是一樁偶然。

　　It s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

　　是因為你選擇了它。

　　Choose to live a life that matters.

　　選擇有意義的人生吧!

　　三：難道真要工作一輩子嗎?

　　Warren Buffet once said: "If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die."

　　沃倫·巴菲特曾經(jīng)說過：“如果你不想個辦法在你睡覺的時候賺錢，那你就得一直工作到死。”

　　Sounds ridiculous in the first place, right? Isn’t that obvious?

　　這句話初聽下來有點荒.唐，這不是明擺著的嗎?

　　And how on earth can it be possible to make money while you sleep?

　　而且，怎么可能在睡覺的時候賺錢?

　　If you want to have an income, you have to work, right?

　　如果需要有收入，當(dāng)然就得一直工作，對不對?

　　But no, what he said is not wrong.

　　不，其實他說的并沒有錯。

　　That way which he described as to make money while you sleep is called investing.

　　他所說的那種“在睡覺時賺錢”的方法，就是投資。

　　Normal middle-class use their skills and time to make money. But the rich use their money to make money. They invest the money that they own now to make ROI, which means return on investment.

　　普通的中產(chǎn)階級靠技能和時間換錢，而有錢人是靠錢賺錢的，他們用自己現(xiàn)有的錢去賺取投資回報。

　　It’s not a hard thing to do, because there are a lot of ways to manage your personal finance.

　　這個方法并不難，因為理財?shù)姆绞接泻芏唷?/p>

　　In the past, I usually spent as much as I could earn in a month.

　　從前，我是一個大手大腳的月光族，每個月賺多少就花多少。

　　But when I saw this quote of Buffett, I suddenly realized: Isn’t that making all my efforts in vain? Because I have nothing left. I didn’t make anything for my future.

　　但自從看到了巴菲特的這句話，我才恍然大悟：這樣一來，我每個月不就白工作了嗎?因為什么都沒有剩下，我并沒有為自己的未來創(chuàng)造什么。

　　That’s why I started to face the truth of how I was living. And I made some bold changes and began to save money.

　　這也就是為什么我開始正視自己的生活方式，并進(jìn)行了大刀闊斧的改變，開始存錢。

　　I wish that there is a day when I no longer need to work and can use money to make money.

　　我希望有一天能不再工作，而是用錢來賺錢。