逍遥学能 2015-09-04 20:45
除了课堂上的学习外，平时的积累与练习也是学生提高成绩的重要途径，本文为大家提供了英语课外阅读：On Motes and Beams，祝大家阅读愉快。
It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much lessheinous（可憎的）than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others. We turn our attention away from our own defects, and when we are forced by untoward（不幸的，麻烦的） events to consider them, find it easy tocondone（宽恕，赦免） them. For all I know we are right to do this; they are part of us and we must accept the good and bad in ourselves together.
But when we come to judge others, it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves fro which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. To take a trivial instance: how scornful we are when we catch someone out telling a lie; but who can say that he has never told not one, but a hundred?
There is not much to choose between men. They are all a hotchpotch（杂烩） of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness. Some have more strength of character, or more opportunity, and so in one direction or another give their instincts freer play, but potentially they are the same. For my part, I do not think I am any better or any worse than most people, but I know that if I set down every action in my life and every thought that has crossed my mind, the world would consider me a monster of depravity. The knowledge that these reveries are common to all men should inspire one with tolerance to oneself as well as to others. It is well also if they enable us to look upon our fellows, even the most eminent and respectable, with humor, and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously.
以上就是为大家整理的英语课外阅读：On Motes and Beams，希望同学们阅读后会对自己有所帮助，祝大家阅读愉快。