literary english essays - ,متون ادبی انگلیسی,

**behnam5555** · #1 11-13-2009

مصاحبه با خدا

I dreamed I had an interview with God.
در رويا ديدم که با خدا حرف ميزنم
So you would like to interview me? God asked.
او از من پرسيد :آيا مايلي از من چيزي بپرسي؟
If you have the time? I said.
گفتم ....اگر وقت داشته باشيد....
God smiled. ?My time is eternity.
لبخندي زد و گفت: زمان براي من تا بي نهايت ادامه دارد
What questions do you have in mind for me?
چه پرسشي در ذهن تو براي من هست؟
What surprises you most about humankind?
پرسيدم: چه چيزي در رفتار انسان ها هست که شما را شگفت زده مي کند؟
God answered...
پاسخ داد:
That they get bored with childhood,
آدم ها از بچه بودن خسته مي شوند ...
they rush to grow up, and then
عجله دارند بزرگ شوند و سپس.....
long to be children again.
آرزو دارند دوباره به دوران کودکي باز گردند
That they lose their health to make money...

سلامتي خود را در راه کسب ثروت از دست مي دهند
and then lose their money to restore their health.
و سپس ثروت خود را در راه کسب سلامتي دوباره از صرف مي کنند....
That by thinking anxiously about the future,
چنان با هيجان به آينده فکر مي کنند.
they forget the present,
که از حال غافل مي شوند
such that they live in neither the present nor the future.
به طوري که نه در حال زندگي مي کنند نه در آينده
That they live as if they will never die,
آن ها طوري زندگي مي کنند.،انگار هيچ وقت نمي ميرند
and die as though they had never lived.
و جوري مي ميرند ....انگار هيچ وقت زنده نبودند
we were silent for a while.
ما براي لحظاتي سکوت کرديم
And then I asked.
سپس من پرسيدم..
As a parent, what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn
مانند يک پدر کدام درس زندگي را مايل هستي که فرزندانت بياموزند؟
To learn they cannot make anyone love them.
پاسخ داد:ياد بگيرند که نميتوانند ديگران را مجبور کنند که دوستشان داشته باشند
All they can do
ولي مي توانند
is let themselves be loved.
طوري رفتار کنند که مورد عشق و علاقه ديگران باشند
To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.
ياد بگيرند که خود را با ديگران مقايسه نکنند
To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
ياد بگيرند ...ديگران را ببخشند با عادت کردن به بخشندگي
To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love,
یاد بگيرند تنها چند ثانيه طول مي کشد تا زخمي در قلب کسي که دوستش داريد ايجاد کنيد
and it can take many years to heal them.
ولي سال ها طول مي کشد تا آن جراحت را التيام بخشيد
To learn that a rich person
ياد بگيرند يک انسان ثروتمند کسي نيست که دارايي زيادي دارد
is not one who has the most,but is one who needs the least
بلکه کسي هست که کمترين نيازوخواسته را دارد
To learn that there are people who love them dearly,
ياد بگيرند کساني هستند که آن ها را از صميم قلب دوست دارند
but simply have not yet learned how to express or show theirfeelings.
ولي نميدانند چگونه احساس خود را بروز دهند
To learn that two people can
ياد بگيرند وبدانند ..دونفر مي توانند به يک چيز نگاه کنند
look at the same thing and see it differently?
ولي برداشت آن ها متفاوت باشد
To learn that it is not enough that they
ياد بگيرند کافي نيست که تنها ديگران را ببخشند
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.
بلکه انسان ها بايد قادر به بخشش و عفو خود نيز باشند
Thank you for your time," I said
سپس من از خدا تشکر کردم و گفتم
"Is there anything else you would like your children to know"
آيا چيز ديگري هم وجود دارد که مايل باشي فرزندانت بدانند؟
God smiled and said,Just know that I am here... always.
خداوند لبخندي زد و پاسخ داد: فقط اين که بدانند من اين جا و با آن ها هستم..........براي هميشه
..............................
به این قسمت منتقل شد
با تشکر رزیتا2

**behnam5555** · #2 04-24-2010

اندیشه های زندگی

The best cosmetic for lips is truth
زیباترین آرایش برای لبان شما راستگویی
for voice is pray
برای صدای شما دعا به درگاه خداوند
for eyes is pity
برای چشمان شما رحم و شفقت
for hands is charity
برای دستان شما بخشش
for heart is love
برای قلب شما عشق
and for life is friendship
و برای زندگی شما دوستی هاست

No one can go back and make a new start
هیچ کس نمیتونه به عقب برگرده و همه چیز را از نو شروع کنه
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending
ولی هر کسی میتونه از همین حالا عاقبت خوب و جدیدی را برای خودش رقم بزنه

God didn't promise days without pain
خداوند هیچ تضمین و قولی مبنی بر این که حتما روزهای ما بدون غم بگذره
laughter without sorrow , sun without rain,
خنده باشه بدون هیچ غصه ای، یا خورشید باشه بدون هیچ بارونی، نداده
but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears
ولی یه قول رو به ما داده که اگه استقامت داشته باشیم در مقابل مشکلات،
تحمل سختی ها رو برامون آسون میکنه
and light for the way
و چراغ راهمون میشه

Disappointments are like road bumps, they slow you down a bit
نا امیدی ها مثل دست اندازهای یک جاده میمونن
ممکنه باعث کم شدن سرعتت در زندگی بشن
but you enjoy the smooth road afterwards
ولی در عوض بعدش از یه جاده صاف و بدون دست انداز بیشتر لذت خواهی برد
Don't stay on the bumps too long
بنابر این روی دست اندازها و ناهمواریها خیلی توقف نکن
Move on
به راهت ادامه بده

When you feel down because you didn't get what you want just sit tight
and be happy
وقتی احساس شکست میکنی که نتونستی به اون چیزی که می خواستی برسی
ناراحت نشو
because God has thought of something better to give you
حتما خداوند صلاح تو رو در این دونسته و برات آینده بهتری رو رقم زده

When something happens to you ,good or bad,
وقتی یه اتفاق خوب یا بد برات میافته همیشه
consider what it means
دنبال این باش که این چه معنی و حکمتی درش نهفته هست

There's a purpose to life's events
برای هر اتفاق زندگی دلیلی وجود دارد
to teach you how to laugh more or not to cry too hard
که به تو میآموزد که چگونه بیشتر شاد زندگی کنی و کمتر غصه بخوری

You can't make someone love you
تو نمیتونی کسی رو مجبور کنی که تو رو دوست داشته باشه
all you can do is be someone who can be loved
تمام اون کاری که میتونی انجام بدی
اینه که تبدیل به آدمی بشی که لایق دوست داشتن هست
the rest is up to the person to realize your worth
و عاقبت کسی پیدا خواهد شد که قدر تو رو بدونه

It's better to lose your pride to the one you love
بهتره که غرورت رو به خاطر کسی که دوست داری از دست بدی تا این که
than to lose the one you love because of pride
کسی رو که دوست داری به خاطر غرورت از دست بدی

We spend too much time looking for the right person to love
ما معمولا زمان زیادی رو صرف پیدا کردن آدم مناسبی برای دوست داشتن
or finding fault with those we already love
یا پیدا کردن عیب و ایراد کسی که قبلا دوستش داشتیم میکنیم
when instead
باید به جای این کار
we should be perfecting the love we give
در عشقی که داریم ابراز میکنیم کامل باشیم

Never abandon an old friend
هیچوقت یه دوست قدیمیت رو ترک نکن
You will never find one who can take their place
چون هیچ زمانی کسی جای اون رو نخواهد گرفت
Friendship is like wine
دوستی مثل شراب میمونه
older it gets better as it grows
که هر چی کهنه تر بشه ارزشش بیشتر میشه

When people talk behind your back, what does it mean?
وقتی مردم پشت سرت حرف میزنن چه مفهومی داره ؟
Simple ! It means that you are two steps ahead of them
خیلی ساده ! یعنی این که تو دو قدم از اون ها جلوتری
So, keep moving ahead in Life
پس، در زندگی راهت رو ادامه بده

**مهرگان** · #3 01-25-2011

سلام به همگي
اين تايپك رو ايجاد كردم كه توش متون زيباي ادبي به زبان انگليسي قرار بدم در مورد موضوعات مختلف.
دعوت ميكنم از علاقمندان كه با هم اين تايپيك رو رونق ببخشيم.

In case you have any nice essay even written by yourself, it is wellcomed

**مهرگان** · #4 01-25-2011

About Life

The winds carry scatter across the planet the seeds of life to bring forth the grass and the flowers and woods. The eternal winds of the universe are rushing along. What do they do? No one knows. But I am sure that nature has created us, endowed us with intelligence, so that we, like her servant, the winds, can carry life into the vast and limitless emptiness and to its innumerable worlds. Reason should win out on earth and then in the whole universe.
Glazkov, Yuri

My own view is that although we do not yet know fundamental physical laws, when and if we find them the possibility of life in a universe, governed by those laws will be written into them. The existence of life in the universe is not a selective principle acting upon the laws of nature; rather it is a consequence of them.
Pagels, Heinz

We are not alone in the universe, and do not bear alone the whole burden of life and what comes of it. Life is a cosmic event- so far as we know the most complex state of organization that matter has achieved in our cosmos. It has come many times, in many places- places closed off from us by impenetrable distances, probably never to be crossed even with a signal. As men we can attempt to understand it, and even somewhat to control and guide its local manifestation. On this planet that is our home, we have very reason to visit it well. Yet should we fail, all is not lost. Our kind will try again elsewhere.
Wald, George

**مهرگان** · #5 01-26-2011

About Mind

Our minds soar with instant connection, but our feet are stuck in temporal boots.
Blaise, Clarke

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that something must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books- a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Einstein, Albert

A mind accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations [of astrology] resists along, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Kepler, Johannes

**مهرگان** · #6 01-26-2011

About the Moon

The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
Blake, William

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done-
Carroll, Lewis

The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

…the moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth –rate.
Fry, Christopher

As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellower verdue shed,
And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Homer

They died on mince, and slice of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon, the moon,
They danced by the light of the moon
Lear, Edward

The moon is the Rosetta stone of the solar system, and to the student of the origin of the earth and planets, this lifeless body is even more important than Mars and Venus.
Jastrow, Robert & Newell, Homer E.

By death the moon was gathered in
Long ago, ah long ago;
Yet still the silver corpse must spin
And with another's light must glow.
Her frozen mountains must forget
Their primal hot volcanic breath,
Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
Void amphitheatres of death.
Huxley, Julian(i love this one!)

Queen of heaven, fair of face,
Undefiled by alien feet;
Where the Sun's untrammeled heat
Meets the cold of outer space;
Soon no more the Queen of Night,
For your conquest is in sight.
Lightner, Alice

Saw the moon rise from the water,
Rippling, rounding from the water,
Saw the flecks and shadows on it,
Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?"
And the good Nokomis answered,
"Once a warrior very angry,
Seized his grandmother and threw her
Up into the sky at midnight;
Right against the moon he threw her;
"Tis her body that you see there".
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To behold the wandering moon,
Riding near her highest noon,
Like one that had bin led astray
Through the heaven's wise pathless way;
And oft, as if her head show bowed,
Stooping through a fleecy cloud
Milton, John

There is no one among you, my brave colleagues, who has not seen the moon, or at least heard speak of it.
Verne, Jules

**مهرگان** · #7 01-28-2011

About The Sun

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the night of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun
Bourdillon, Francis William

The face of the sun is now without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.
Deutsch, Armin J.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, is Nature's eye;…
Dryden, John

Truly the light is sweet,
And it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun…
Ecclesiastes 11:7

High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
Falconer, William

The sun, whose rays
Are all ablaze
With ever-living glory,
Does not deny
His Majesty-
He scorns to tell a story!
Gilbert, William
Sullivan, Arthur

The sun…is new each day.
Heraclitus

Now if the sun is not created a miraculous body, to shine on and give out heat, we must suppose it to be a body subject to the laws of matter (I do not say there may not be laws which we have not discovered) but, at all events, not violating any laws we have discovered or believe we have discovered. We should deal with the sun as we should any large mass of molten iron, or silicon, or sodium.
Kelvin, Lord

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden glimmering vapours veiled the light of his face, like the prophet descending from Sinai.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Whence are the beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comes forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou myself movest alone.
Macpherson, James

The sun, looking down on the tranquil landscape, seems conscious of the presence of every living thing on which he is pouring his blessing, while they in turn, with perhaps the exception of man, seem conscious of the presence of the sun as a benevolent father and stand hushed and waiting.
Muir, John

…the moon's love affair has come to an end!
Just look! There is stands; pale and dejected---before the dawn!
For already it is coming, the glowing sun---its love of the earth is coming!
All sun-love is innocence and creative desire!
Just look how it comes impatiently over the sea! Do you not feel the thirst and hot breath of its love?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

**مهرگان** · #8 01-28-2011

About Sky

It is impossible for any sensitive person to look at a star filled sky without being stirred by thoughts of creation and eternity. The mystery of the origin and destiny of the universe haunts us throughout our lives.
Friedman, Herbert

Sky---what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud
Splendid, a star!
Browning, Robert

Nature offers no greater splendor than the starry sky on a clear, dark night. Silent, timeless, jeweled with the constellations of ancient myth and legend, the night sky has inspired wonder throughout the ages.
Astronomy Survey Committee

…each step forward in unraveling the mystery of comets (or any other natural phenomenon ) brings great pleasure to all who look to the sky as a source of beauty and intellectual challenge.
Brandt, John C.
Chapman, Robert D.

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
De Saint-Exupery, Antoine

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

**آناهیتا الهه آبها** · #9 01-28-2011

Where do I begin
To tell the story
Of how greatful love can be
The sweet love story
That is older than the sea

That sings the truth about the love he brings to me
Where do I start

With the first hello
he gave the meaning
To this empty world of mine
That never did

Another love another time
he came into my life
And made a living fine
he fills my heart

he fills my heart
With very special things
With angel songs
With wild imaginings
he fills my soul
With soo much love

That anywhere I go
I’m never lonely
With his along who could be lonely
I reach for her hand
Its always there

How long does it last
Can love be measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers no
But this much I can say

I know I’ll need his till this love song burn away
And he’ll be there...
How long does it last

Can love b measured by the hours in a day
I have no answers no
But this much i can say
I know ill need his till this love song burn away
And he'll be there

**مهبا** · #10 01-29-2011

Mahdi the untraceable Fatima s child

Im son of the untraceable Fatima s grave

Im Mahdi

Heir ofImamat

The last chosen

I have lived in the hardship of absence

I have lived sad in all of the years

Ilive errantly the worled and traveled

From alley to alley

From breeze to breeze

From garden to garden