英語文章閱讀欣賞：平常喜歡看書的朋友都知道，閱讀可以給我們帶來無窮無盡的樂趣，特別是散文和美文，感覺看起來就非常的舒服，讓人有一種清新脫俗的感覺。那么英文也是一樣的，英文文章中也有很多的美文，不知道大家平時有沒有看過這方面的書籍，今天小編在這里就給大家分享兩篇經典的英語美文。

經典語美文欣賞(一)

The Rivals in the Life生活中的對手

Jaguar is an endangered animal. It is said that there are less than 20 jaguars in the world currently, one of which is now living in the national zoo of Peru. In order to protect this jaguar, Peruvians singled out a pitch of land in the zoo for it, where there are herds of cattle, sheep and deer for the jaguar to eat. Anyone who has visited the zoo praised it to be the "Heaven of Tiger". However, strange enough, no one has ever seen the jaguar prey on the cattle and sheep. What we could see is its lying in its house eating and sleeping.

美洲虎是一種瀕臨滅絕的動物，據說，目前世界上僅存不足20只，其中有一只現在就生活在秘魯的國家動物園里。為了保護這只美洲虎，秘魯人在動物園里單獨為它圈出一塊地來，且圈地中有成群的牛、羊、鹿供老虎事用。參觀過虎園的人都驚嘆地稱這里是"虎的天堂"。然而，令人感到非常奇怪的是，沒有人看見這只老虎去捕捉牛羊，能見到的就是它躺在它的虎房里重復著吃與睡的情景。

Some people thought that the jaguar felt toolonely， so they collected money and rented a female tiger to accompany it. Nonetheless, it did not make too much sense. The jaguar just sometimes went out of its house with its "girlfriend" and stayed in the sun for a while before it came back to its house again.

一些人認為肯定是美洲虎太孤獨了，于是就集資從國外租來一只雌虎陪它生活。然而此舉并未帶來多大改觀，那只老虎只是偶爾陪伴外來的"女友"走出虎房，到陽光下站一會兒，不久就又回到它的"臥室"。

"It is normal for the jaguar to be lazy in this environment. Tiger is the king of forest but you simply put some small animals around him. That is why the jaguar shows no interest in going out. Why don 't you put two wolves or at least a jackal around him?" A visitor proposed.

"在這種環境下，美洲虎不懶散才怪呢!虎是林中，你們在它周圍放這么一群小動物，它怎么可能有興趣走出來?為什么你們不放上兩只狼呢，即使不放狼，至少也得放一只翁狗吧?"一位來此參觀的市民建議道。

Others all agreed with him and put five panthers into the jaguar's territory. Since then, the jaguar did not go back to its house any more. It either stands on top of the hill roaring or goes down from the hill strolling without sleeping all day long. It did not eat the meat provided by the zoo staff and has totally got back to its nature.

其他人都覺得他說得很有道理，就把5只美洲豹技進了虎園。結果就是，自那以后，美洲虎就再沒回過虎房。它不是站在山頂長嘯，就是從山上下來，在草地上游蕩;它不再整日睡覺，也不再吃動物園的管理員送來的肉，它恢復了虎的本性。