人的记忆力会随着岁月的流逝而衰退，写作可以弥补记忆的不足，将曾经的人生经历和感悟记录下来，也便于保存一份美好的回忆。范文怎么写才能发挥它最大的作用呢？以下是小编为大家收集的优秀范文，欢迎大家分享阅读。

经典晨读美文3分钟篇一

the power of knowledge

at age 89, mary fasano graduated with a bachelor s degree from the extension school last week and entered the history books as the oldest person to earn an undergraduate degree at ing is the speech she delivered--“the power of knowledge”--at the extension school diploma awarding ceremony:

i remember one night a few years ago when my daughter was frantic with my harvard extension school classes, i usually arrived at the bus station near my home by 11 p.m., but on that night i was nowhere to be daughter was wasn t safe for a single woman to walk alone on the streets at night, especially one as defenseless as i am: i can slay a mugger with my sharp wit, but i m just too short to do any real physical night my daughter checked the bus station, drove around the streets, and contacted some she couldn t find me--until she called my astronomy professor who told her that i was on top of the science center using the telescope to gaze at the e of the time, i had gotten lost in the heavens and was only thinking about the new things i had learned that night in story illustrates a habit i have developed over the years: i lose track of the time when it comes to else do you explain a woman who began high school at age 71 and who is graduating with a bachelor s degree at 89? i may have started late, but i will continue to learn as long as i am able because there is no greater feeling, in my opinion, than traveling to a faraway country as i have and being able to identify by sight the painting of a famous artist, the statue of an obscure sculptor, the cathedral of an ancient architect.i have found that the world is a final exam that you can never be prepared enough i will continue to take classes and tell my it seems that everyone is asking me, “mary, what advice do you have for other students?” so while i have you all here, i m going to ease my burden of answering you each individually:

if the saying is true that wisdom comes with age, you may safely assume that i am one of the wisest people in this hall and possibly at this university listen to me when i tell you this: knowledge is studies were interrupted when i was in the 7th grade, back sometime around world war i.i loved school but i was forced to leave it to care for my family.i was consigned to work in a rhode island cotton mill, where i labored for many years.i eventually married and raised 5 children, 20 grandchildren, and 18 all the while i felt inferior to those around me.i knew i was as smart as a college graduate.i knew i was capable of doing a job well--i had proved it by running a successful family business for decades that still i wanted more.i wanted to feel confident when i spoke and i wanted people to respect my it surprise you to discover how much you have in common with an 89-year-old woman? i know that many of you graduates today, whether you were born in 1907 or 1967, have faced similar barriers to completing your studies and have sometimes felt inferior around those you work or socialize with just because you didn t have a i am here today--like you are--to prove that it can be done;that the power gained by understanding and appreciating the world around us can be obtained by anyone regardless of social status, personal challenges, or belief is what has motivated me for the last 75 years to get this is also the mission of the harvard extension t the support i received from this school, i might not have graduated until i was 100--a phrase that many of you have probably used in are many students here who do not have the opportunity that i do to speak their minds and have everybody listen, whether they want to or be assured, fellow graduates, that we are more similar than you might you have treated education as your main goal, and not as a means to an end, then you, too, have probably been claimed as a missing person once in your academic career, whether you were lost in the stars or the stacks of widener you, too, know that the journey was worth it, and that the power of knowledge makes me the most formidable 89-year-old woman at the bus onship that lasts

if somebody tells you, “ i'll love you for ever,” will you believe it?

i don't think there's any reason not are ready to believe such commitment at the moment, whatever change may happen for the belief in an everlasting love, that's another you may be asked whether there is such a thing as an everlasting love.i'd answer i believe in an everlasting love is not may unswervingly love or be loved by a love will change its composition with the passage of will not remain the the course of your growth and as a result of your increased experience, love will become something different to the beginning you believed a fervent love for a person could last and by, however,“ fervent” gave way to “ prosaic”.precisely because of this change it became possible for love to what was meant by an everlasting love would eventually end up in a sort of used to insist on the difference between love and former seemed much more beautiful than the day, however, it turns out there's really no need to make such is actually a sort of the same token, the everlasting interdependence is actually an everlasting love.i wish i could believe there was somebody who would love me 's, as we all know, too romantic to be d, it will more often than not be a case of lasting s by engels

“on the 14th of march, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever.”an immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of europe and america, and by historical science, in the death of this gap that has been left by the departure of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt.“just as darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.;that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attained by a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case.”but that is not also discovered the special law of motion governing the present-day capitalist mode of production and the bourgeois society that this mode of production has discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem, in trying to solve which all previous investigations, of both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had been groping in the dark."two such discoveries would be enough for one the man to whom it is granted to make even one such in every single field which marx investigated--and he investigated very many fields, none of them superficially--in every field, even in that of mathematics, he made independent discoveries.结语：早上晨读英语是一个学习英语的好方法，一定要坚持。以上就是小编整理收集的晨读英语美文短篇，谢谢阅读！

经典晨读美文3分钟篇二

高三复旦班美文推荐阅读材料

（八）书名 《常识》作者：梁文道

出 版 社： 广西师范大学出版社

定价：￥38.00 当当价：￥22.80

内容简介

只有一种情况能使时事评论不朽，那就是你说的那些事老是重复出现。几年前发生过矿难，评论家费煞苦心地分析它的成因，推介善后的处置，指出杜绝它再度发生的方法。结果它不只没有消失，反而更加频密地发生。如果时事评论的目的是为了改变现实，那么现实的屹立不变就是对它最大的嘲讽了。任何有良心的评论家都该期盼自己的文章失效，他的文章若是总有现实意义，那是种悲哀。除非他那作者的自我要大于一个知识分子的志趣；江山不幸诗家幸。

作者简介

梁文道，1970年生于香港。1988年开始撰写艺评、文化及时事评论，并曾参与各种类型的文化及社会活动。现职凤凰卫视评论员，为《南方周末》及《南方都市报》等中国内地、香港及马亚西十余份报刊杂志专栏作家。

书名《雅舍小品》作者：梁实秋

出 版 社： 当代世界出版社

定价：￥23.80 当当价：￥15.80

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在转瞬即变的时空里，在人生无能反复的过程中，经典是打败了时间的文字、声音和表情。那些坦诚的语句，那些无畏的呐喊，那些对人类精神的思考，唤醒了我们曾经的期望，鼓起现在的勇气，不再虚空浮华、怀疑未来。这些智者的身影和流传已久的词句，净化了我们的心灵，震撼了我们的灵魂，使我们懂得了什么是可以错过但不会被磨灭的，什么是瞬间即逝却又是最宝贵的。

作者简介

梁实秋，原名梁治华，字实秋，北京人，原籍浙江杭县，他早期写诗和杂文，也做评论。1923年留学美国，1926年回国后任大学教授、报刊主编等，1949年6月迁居台湾。著评甚丰，主要有文学评论集《浪漫的与古典的》、《偏见集》、《秋室杂文》等，并翻译《莎士比亚全集》等。

书名《把栏杆拍遍》作者：梁衡

出 版 社： 东方出版中心

定价：￥24.00 当当价：￥17.60

内容简介

本书收集著名散文作家梁衡近年苦心创作的散文精品五十余篇，集中展示作家的精神境界与文化品位。

收入本书的作品多以写人为主。有铁甲烈马、威风凛凛，以武起事又以文为业的大词人辛弃疾；有被皇家发配边荒的中国古代最后一位罪臣，同时也是中国近代史的第一位功臣林则徐；有以文为政，又因政事之败而返观人生、直面人生的瞿秋白；有胸怀博大、因一生的“大无” 而铸成人生的“大有”的周恩来；有一生颠沛流离、但始终追求着那遥远的美丽的西部歌王王洛宾；也有挺立在智慧高地，用全部的青春、信念和生命换来镭的发现的伟大女性居里夫人……收入本书的《把栏杆拍遍》、《觅渡、觅渡，渡何处》、《大无大有周恩来》、《晋祠》、《读柳永》等篇，一经问世，即广为传诵，成为名篇佳作，并为多种课本及教材选用。此外，作者的一批极具个性与人文内涵的山水散文，也在本书的收集之列。

作者写人突出文学与政治纠葛的背景，善用理性分析和形象表现，因此，作品大多视野宏阔，充满磅礴气势。作品融“大事、大情、大理”于一体，具有强烈的现实感和时代气息，同时也赋予作品以极高的艺术审美价值。

作者简介

梁衡：1946年出生，1968年毕业于中国人民大学。历任内蒙古日报记者、光明日报记者、国家新闻出版署副署长。现任人民日报副总编辑、中国人民大学新闻学院博士生导师、中国作家协会全委会委员。作品有《梁衡文集》等多种。《晋祠》、《夏感》、《觅渡，觅渡，渡何处》、《跨越百年的美丽》等四篇作品入选中学课本和师范教材。曾获青年文学奖、赵树理文学奖、全国优秀科普作品奖。

书名《烟愁 桂花雨》 《词人之舟》作者：琦君

出 版 社： 知识出版社

定价：￥18.00 当当价：￥14.40

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如果说往事，伴随我们度过成长的时光，带来了生命中的种种感伤，琦君的小说和散文，则像是我们脑海中的一段段的回忆，唤起了我们儿少时期的梦想与纯真。从琦君细腻的文笔中，我们发现原来平凡的生活里，积累了许多情感和思念，这些从来都不曾遗忘过，只是尘封在心底的最深处，台湾知名插车家黄淑英，以水彩画的表现方式，将琦君的思念一笔笔画上轻柔的线条，也将她的情感追忆填上柔美的色彩，这样的感动永远在我们的心上，久久不能忘怀。

作者简介

琦君，知名女作家，1917年出生在浙江省永嘉县。小时候由家庭教师教授诗经、唐诗等古文，十四岁考进弘道女中，中文成绩名列前茅。中学毕业后，经过会考直升杭州江大学中文系。先后于台湾中国文化大学等校教书，现旅居美国。

琦君的作品繁多，有《琦君小品》、《水是故乡甜》、《琦君寄小读者》、《桂花雨》、《烟愁》等，其中《橘子红了》还拍摄成电视连续剧，轰动一时。她的作品受到了广大读者的喜爱，更获得了中山学术基金会文艺创作散文奖，以及金鼎奖等诸多项奖的肯定。

书名 《你还没有爱过》作者张晓风

出 版 社： 当代世界出版社

定价：￥21.80 当当价：￥14.50

内容简介

经典是时间淘洗后留存的精品，它们是人性的画像，是人性的注解。经典的意义在于常读常新，无论时光如何流转，它们依然是读书人书架上不变的风景。

作者简介

张晓风，一九四一年出生于浙江省金华县，台湾东吴大学中文系毕业，张晓风文采亦秀亦豪，创作腹地广阔。除散文外，兼长戏剧，又以“可叵”、“桑科”笔名撰写杂文评论经年。重要作品包括散文十二卷（《地毯的那一端》、《愁乡石》、《你还没有爱过》、《我在》、《从你美丽的流域》等）、戏剧十一卷（《武陵人》、《自烹》、《和氏璧》《血笛》等）、杂文三卷（《非非集》、《幽默五十三》、《通菜与通婚》）以及儿童文学、评论小品等，作品在台湾多次获奖。

书名 《左手的掌纹》 作者 余光中

出 版 社： 江苏文艺出版社

定价：￥20.00 当当价：￥16.00

内容简介

本书是从余光中全部散文创作中“精选”出来的。它囊括了作者五十年间散文创作各个时期的主要代表作，从最早发表的《猛虎与蔷薇》、《石城之行》，到近期问世的《萤火山庄》、《金陵子弟江湖客》。论入选作品写作时间的跨度之长，近作与新作的数量之多，本书恐怕当属迄今为止大陆所出“余选”之最。

“右手写诗，左手写散文”，这是文坛对台湾著名学者余光中公认的形容。而今，余老又用他的左手为读者奉献上一道精神大餐，散文集《左手的掌纹》选其作品五十多篇，有短到数百言的小品，也有长逾万言的巨制；有纯粹的抒情文，有夹叙夹议的杂文，还有不折不扣的论文。无论篇幅与文体都不拘一格。这些散文或记海外见闻，或写读书杂感，或写域外游踪，或写人情世故，或抒思乡怀人之情，内容广泛，不拘一格，编选者从余光中散文创作的整体性和多样性出发，整体勾勒出这位活跃在当代世界华文之林中的文学巨擘，从浪迹天涯到誉满中外的人生轨迹与心路历程，集中展示了余光中散文创作的多方面的艺术才华。这些散文随笔，叙事抒情议论自成一家，激情奔放，叙事精当，思路开阔，人情练达，知识渊博，读来美不胜收，在当代作家中，像余光中这样“右手写诗，左手写散文”又卓有成就的作家并不多见，无怪连散文巨擘梁实秋先生对此都十分推崇，称之为“一时无两”。

书名 《百年思索》 作者 龙应台

出版社: 南海出版公司

图书简介

该书是台湾作家龙应台的一本散文集，作者用她的眼光看世界，看中国，抒写了她对历史的反思，对中西文化的思索，对未来的展望。

作者简介

龙应台，一九五二年出生于高雄，一九七四年毕业于成功大学外文系，后获美国堪萨斯州立大学英美文学博士。曾任教于纽约市立大学、梅西学院及国立中央大学英文系，现任教于德国海德堡大学。着有《野火集》、《人在欧洲》、《写给台湾的信》、《美丽的权利》、《孩子你慢慢来》、《看世纪末向你走来》、《干杯吧，托玛斯曼》、《我的不安》、《百年思索》《目送》《亲爱的安德烈》《大江大河一九四九》。

书名《人生不过如此》 作者 林语堂

作者： 林语堂 著

出 版 社： 陕西师范大学出版社

定价：￥25.00 当当价：￥12.50

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国学大师、文化巨匠林语堂先生经典人生散文首次结集出版，林语堂以人生优游者的独特视角展现出诗样人生、才情人生、幽默人生、智慧人生的别样风情。

林语堂的人生哲学可和一句话来概括：悲剧的喜剧人生观。

要林语堂的笔下，沉重的肉身转为了轻灵的舞者，悲剧与沉重都被舞蹈所化解。他的人生就是风行水上，下面纵有旋涡急流，风仍逍遥自在。

人世是唯一的天堂，宇宙是无知，人生是笑话，是无意的，但是要靠自己的选择，“造出”人生的意义。

图书简介

在不违背天地之道的情况下，成为一个自由而快乐的人。这就好比一台戏，优秀的演员明知其假，但却能够比在现实生活中更真实、更自然、更快乐地表达自己，表现自己。人生亦复如此，我们最重要的不是去计较真与伪，得与失，名与利，贵与贱，富与贫，而是如何好好地快乐地度日，并从中发现生活的诗意。从某种程度上说，人生不完满是常态，而圆满则是非常态，就如同“月圆为少月缺为多”道理是一样的。如此理解世界和人生，那么我们就会很快变的通达起来，也逍遥自适多了，苦恼与晦暗也会随风而去了。

本书是一种私人的供状，供认作者自己的思想和生活所得的经验。作者不想发表客观意见，也不想创立不朽真理。作者实在瞧不起自许的客观哲学；作者只想表现作者个人的观点。作者本想题这书的名字为“抒情哲学”，用抒情一词说明这里面所讲的是一些私人的观念。但是这个书名似乎太美，作者不敢用，作者恐怕目标定得太高，即难于满足读者的期望，况且作者的主旨是实事求是的散文，所以用现在的书名较易维持水准，且较自然。让作者和草木为友，和土壤相亲，作者便已觉得心意满足。作者的灵魂很舒服地在泥土里蠕动，觉得很快乐。当一个人悠闲陶醉于土地上时，他的心灵似乎那么轻松，好像是在天堂一般。事实上，他那六尺之躯，何尝离开土壤一寸一分呢？

作者简介

林语堂（1895-1976），福建龙溪人。原名和乐，后改玉堂，又改语堂。1912年入上海圣约翰大学，毕业后在清华大学任教。1919年秋赴美哈佛大学文学系。1922年获文学硕士学位。同年转赴德国入莱比锡大学，专攻语言学。1923年获博士学位后回国，任北京大学教授、北京女子师范大学教务长和英文系主任。1924年后为《语丝》主要撰稿人之一。1926年到厦门大学任文学院长。1927年任外交部秘书。1932年主编《论语》半月刊。1934年创办《人间世》，1935年创办《宇宙风》，提倡“以自我为中心，以闲适为格调”的小品文。1935年后，在美国用英文写《吾国与吾民》、《京华烟云》、《风声鹤唳》等文化著作和长篇小说。1944年曾一度回国到重庆讲学。1945年赴新加坡筹建南洋大学，任校长。1952年在美国与他人一起创办《天风》杂志。1965年定居台湾。1967年受聘为香港中文大学研究教授。1975年被推举为国际笔会副会长。1976年在香港逝世。

书名 《人间草木》 作者 汪曾祺

作者： 汪曾祺 著

出 版 社： 江苏文艺出版社

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图书简介

本书从汪曾褀创作的大量散文中精选而成，最早的写于四十年代，大部分写于后半生，风格从华丽归于朴实，技巧臻于至境。这本散文分“人间草木”、“四方食事”、“脚底烟云”、“联大岁月”、“师友相册”、“平淡人生”、“文章杂事”等七辑，“人间草木”，主要描写花草景致，各地风物，文辞华丽，美不胜收；“四方食事”从故乡食物到各地美食，在素有美食家之称的汪老笔下，洋溢着深厚的文化气息，成为文化的一部分。这些美食一经汪老点晴之笔无不令人垂涎叫绝；“脚底烟云”是一组游记散文。不同于一般的纪游文字，汪老的散文富有深厚了文化历史与人文气息，可以称为文化散文，读者从中看到的绝不只风景本身；“联大岁月”描写作者当年在西南大读书求学的难忘岁月，可谓历史的见证；“师友相册”记录沈从文等几位师友的音容笑貌，故人已去，但在作者的文字里却栩栩如生；“平淡人生”是一组写父母家人的文字，情真意切，可以看出汪曾褀人生的不为人知的另一面；“文章杂事”收录作者一组谈小说与散文创作的得意之作，既是汪曾褀先生的夫子自道，又是经验之谈，无论对一般读者写作者，还是研究者都很有参考价值。

汪氏散文晚年已臻化境，其文字技巧用炉火纯青来形容并不为过。这本散文集，更是汪曾褀先生一生创作的各类散文精品的分类集成，可以说是一般读者和散文爱好者阅读的经典范本。

作者简介

汪曾祺（1920-1997），江苏高邮人，著名作家。1939年考入西南联合大学中国文学系，师从杨振声、闻一多、朱自清等诸位先生，是沈从文先生的入室弟子。曾任中学国文教员、历史博物馆职员。解放后，曾在中国民间文学研究会工作，编过《北京文艺》《说说唱唱》《民间文学》。1962年初，调到北京京剧团当编辑。曾任北京剧协理事、中国作协理事、中国作协顾问等。曾在海内外出版过小说集、散文集30余部。

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关爱梦想

my dream ended when i was gh i never knew it then, i just held on to something that would never come to really do in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a is what happened to me.我一出生，梦想就结束了，然而当时我却毫不知晓，仍执著于一些永无实现之日的事情。我的确怀有许多梦想。不过，当早晨醒来之时，所记起的却只是一场梦境而已。我的经历就是如此。

i always had the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud for i was young,i would twirl around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard.我一直梦想着像一个美丽的芭蕾演员一样跳舞，轻盈地旋来转去，耳边是人们的掌声喝彩。小时候，我常常在自家后院长满野花的草地上练习芭蕾舞的旋转动作。

i thought that if i twirled faster everything would disappear and i would wake up in a new y woke me up when i heard a voice saying, “i don't know why you bother trying to inas are pretty , slender little s, you don't have the talent to even be a ballerina.” i remember how those words paralyzed every feeling in my body.i fell to the ground and wept for hours.我想要是我转得再快一点，眼前的一切都会消失，我将会获得一方新的天地。然而现实唤醒了我，我听到一个声音说：“我不明白你为什么不厌其烦地尝试跳舞。跳芭蕾舞的人都长得漂亮、苗条、娇小可爱。还有，你也没有跳芭蕾舞的天分。”记得当时那些话让我的全身都失去了知觉。我瘫倒在地上，哭了好几个小时。

we lived in the country by a nearby lake.i did not like to be at my parents were home, my mother just yelled and criticized because nothing was ever perfect in her dreamed of a different life but she ended up living in the country far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true.我们家住在乡下，附近有一个湖。我不喜欢待在家里，妈妈总是在家里大喊大叫着抱怨生活处处不如意。她曾经梦想着能够住在城市里，只有在那里她的理想才能实现，而后来却住在这远离城市的乡下，这与她的理想大相径庭。

i enjoyed hanging out by the water.i would sit there for hours and stare at my i was, looking nothing like a pretty ballerina tions don't the waves would come, my reflection was away just like my dream to dance.我喜欢到水边待着，在那儿，我常常一坐就是几个小时，静静地望着水中我的倒影。水中的我哪也不像一个漂亮的芭蕾舞演员，倒影从不撒谎。微波荡过，倒影消失了'就像我跳舞的梦想一样消失了。

as i grew older, i began to realize that the reason my dream was even born, was because it was something that of dream i had was never nurtured and cared for, so it slowly 's not that i wanted it to die, but i allowed it to die the day i started listening to the words, “you can't do it.” when i finally woke up from many years of dreaming, i realized that you can't settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform。

随着我的成长我开始明白之所以我的梦想会产生，是因为它就在我心里。而我从未培育和呵护过它，因此它慢慢地死去了。我并不想让它死去，但是从我听到“你办不到”这种话的那一天，我就放任了它的离去。最后，当我从多年来的梦想中醒来时，我才明白过来 你不能满足于在野花丛中跳舞，你必须设法到舞台上去跳。

另一种爱

inside the russian embassy in london a kgb colonel pufted a cigarette as he read the handwritten note for the third tire was no need for the writer to express regret, he ting this problem would be would do that in a thought of it caused a grim smile to appear and joy to his he pushed away those thoughts and tumed his attention to a framed photograph on his wife was beautiful, he told himself as he remembered the day they were

was forty-three years ago, and it had been the proudest and happiest day ofhis life,在伦敦的俄国使馆，一位克格勃上校一边抽着烟，一边读着一张手写的字条，这已是他第3次在读这张字条了口便条的作者不必表示遗憾了，上校这样想着。纠正这个错误其实很容易。他只要一会儿工夫便会做到。想到这里，他的脸上不禁浮现出一种可怕 的笑容，内心深处充满了快乐之情。上校从沉思中游离出来，将注意力集中到桌子上的一个像框上，他的妻子是位美丽的女人，当想起他们成婚的那一天时他不禁自语道。那已是43年前的事情了'可却是他一生中最自豪最幸福的日子。

what had happened to all that time? why had it passed so quickly, and why hadn't he spent more ofit with her? why hadn't he held her close and told her more often that he loved her?he cursed himself as a tear came from the comer ofhis eye, ran down his cheek, and then dropped onto the stittened and wiped his face with the back of his was no need for remorse or regret, he told a few moments he would join her and at that time would express his undying love and

devotion.那些时候都发生了什么?为什么时光流逝得如此之快?为什么他没能将更多的时光用来陪伴她?为什么他没能将她搂紧，更多次地告诉她他爱她? 他于是开始诅咒起自己，泪水也忍不住夺眶而出，流过面颊，最后滴落在字条上。这时，他板起了面孔，用手背揩去了眼泪。已经没有必要来自责与悔恨了他对自己说道。很快他不就会与她团聚了吗?到那时，他将再向她表达他永恒的爱与忠心。

after setting the note ablaze he dropped it into an ashtray and watched it a time the blaze cast moving shadows on the walls of the darkened room, then they nickered and died colonel dropped the cigarette to the floor and ground it out with his heel, then clutched the photograph to his breast, removed a pistol from his pocket, placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the the ashtray a small portion of the note it had been wetted by his tear it had failed to bum, and on that scrap of paper were the words “died yesterday”.他点燃了字条，将它扔进了烟灰缸中，看着它慢慢地燃烧起来。在火苗的映衬下，这间漆黑的屋子里的四壁一时变得影影绰绰。不一会儿，火苗成了星星点点，渐渐地熄灭了。上校把香烟扔在了地板上，用后脚跟将其碾灭，随后抓起照片放在自己的胸前。他从衣兜中掏出一把手 枪，将枪筒放进自己的嘴中，接着扣动了扳机。在烟灰缸中还残留着—小片字条，由于被上校的泪水浸湿而未能燃尽。在这块残片上有这样几个字“昨天去世”。