《老人与海》读后感英语【20篇】

Mei laney of the novel is also very deep impression to the person, she was small, velvet glove, kind, has a amazing perseverance, can say is a great woman. When scarlett fast support not go down to her spiritual strength, when scarlett is people spit on efforts to maintain her. But scarlett hasnt been realized, and even hate her. Until mei laney before he died, she realised that she is cant live away from mei laney, mei laney is really love her, she also love mei laney. She rely on mei laney, just as she rely on their own. But then, mei laney but ASHLEY her husband and son are entrusted to her. Rich because ASHLEY is a focus on moral, reputation of the gentleman, in such a show at the war his helpless. Mei laney, a weak woman, she is brave strong and elegant gentleman ASHLEY scarletts spiritual pillar, is also a charming fight, uninhibited, rhett trusted a great woman, showed her inner beauty.

Scarlett, seemingly innocent but cunning, competitive and stubborn tenacity, after love, civil war and the reconstruction, daughter died, her husband ran away, and so on a series of great difficulty and the setback, but she rarely shy, again and again to the life of the initiative back to their own hands. Whenever she is in difficulties, she thought: anyway, tomorrow is another day. Her optimism is the best expression of striving to improve life. She had loved two men, but didnt really get to know them, so we have both lost their. If she understand ASHLEY, she would never love him; If he really understand rhett, then she will not lose him.

Can let the audience and readers moved most is rhett to scarletts love, reaching the limit of men love women. But he doing illegal business, hair is wealth, so has been spurned by people, and scarlett on its guard against one of the reasons, but largely meet every time he always said in her heart, and let angry scarlett, and love for him. Until they have a daughter, love transferred to daughter, only for him to change his views, but the daughter died, his love for scarlett also disappeared that maketh all.

小说中的玫兰妮也给人非常深刻的印象，她身材娇小，外柔内刚，善良，却有着惊人的毅力，可以说是伟大的女人。在斯佳丽快支撑不下去的时候给她以精神力量，在斯佳丽被人们唾弃时以全力来维护她。但斯佳丽一直没意识到，甚至恨她。直到玫兰妮临死前，她才意识到自己离了玫兰妮是活不下去的，玫兰妮才是真正爱她的，她也爱玫兰妮。她依赖玫兰妮，正象她依赖自己一样。可这时，玫兰妮却又把丈夫阿希礼和儿子都托付给了她。因为阿希礼是一个内蕴丰富注重道德，名誉的绅士，在这样的战争年代就显出了他的无能为力。 玫兰妮，一个弱小的女子，她却是勇敢坚强的斯佳丽和儒雅绅士阿希礼的精神支柱，也是风流倜傥、豪放磊落的瑞特值得信赖的伟大的女人，显示出了她的内在美。

斯佳丽，貌似天真却富于心计，争强好胜又倔强坚韧，历经情场失意，内乱战火，家园重建，爱女夭折，丈夫出走等等一连串巨大的困难和挫折，但是她很少胆怯，一次次重新把生活的主动权夺回到自己手中。每当她在遇到难题时，她就想：不管怎么说，明天又是新的一天。便是她乐观自强人生的最好表白。她爱过两个男人，但都没有真正去了解他们，所以才双双失去了他们。如果她了解过阿希礼，她就决不会爱他了;如果他真正了解过瑞特，那么她就不会失去他了。

可最让观众和读者感动的是瑞特对斯佳丽的爱，达到了男人爱女人的极限。但他做不法的生意，发的是不义之财，所以一直被人们所唾弃，也是斯佳丽对其产生防范的一个原因，但主要还是每次相逢他总说中她的内心，而让斯佳丽恼火，从而对他的爱产生怀疑。直到有了女儿，把爱转移到女儿身上，人们才对他改变了看法，但女儿夭折，他对斯佳丽的爱也消失贻尽。

Jane eyre is a long time ago I see the book.Recently watched it again, to say the book makes me feel most is Jane sensitivity when the poor, the tenacity of her when she was young.

When I saw her in her aunt treat her vicious words as well as her aunt three childrens behavior, see Jane bullied by a few of them, my eyes was a acid, heart some pain.After ask again: "if I were Jane I can insist on? I can grow up you dont like Jane to cynical?"I dont believe me.Because I have such a good environment since childhood.Since the childhood is in mom and dad grandpas grandmother grew up under the baby.From had no bitter and tired.Later, with the help of a good maid, she went to that school.In the condition of hard school, Jane assiduous study, she also learn very quickly.No complaining, just feel a little relief, is because in the pain of her aunts house is the life of the day made her feel good instead.

I saw Jane twice in the day of school, always put down the book quietly thinking: Jane she really very fierce!After the unfair life, in such a difficult environment, she can still maintain the state of mind.Like before all misfortune is the test of god for her, after the exam, she to grow, her mind more beautiful, not become distorted.Perhaps this is Janes strong reflect ~ if her fragile then she will become unproductive, pessimistic people.

After to her silently away.She resolutely left Edward rochester.But Jane is at the time of Edward the distress went back to his side, take care of her, to accompany him.Here, Janes love for Edward let I was moved.

《简爱》这本书是我很久以前看的了。最近又看了一遍，要说这本书里面让我感触最深的莫过于简·爱小时候的可怜遭遇，她少年时的坚韧。

我在看见她舅母对待她时恶毒的言语以及她舅母三个儿女的行为，看到简被他们几人欺负，我的眼睛不由得一酸，心也有些疼痛。之后又再次扪心自问：“如果我是简我能坚持么?我能像简那样长大后你不去愤世嫉俗么?”我相信我不会。因为从小我的环境太好了。从小便是在爸爸妈妈爷爷奶奶的宝贝下长大。从没有受过苦，受过累。之后，在一位善意的女仆的帮助下，她去了那所学校。在那所条件艰苦的学校里，简刻苦的学习，她也学得很快。没有抱怨过，只有感觉有些许的宽慰，不知是不是因为在她舅母家的痛苦日子让她感觉现在的生活反而很好。

我两次看到简在学校的日子，总是会放下书静静地想着：简她真的好厉害!在经历了那么不公平的生活后，在那么艰苦的环境下，她仍能保持着心态。就好像之前一切的不幸都是上天对她的考验，考过之后，她从中成长，她的心灵越发的美丽，而不是变的扭曲。这也许就是简的坚强体现吧~若她脆弱那么她就会变成不思进取，厌世的人。

再到之后她的默默离去。她毅然离开了爱德华·罗杰斯特。但是简却在爱德华最窘迫的时候回到他的身边，照顾她，陪伴他。这里，简对爱德华的爱让我感动。

Its simple plot relates the misfortunes of the loyal Christian slave, Tom, who, deprived of familial love and affection and destined for the harsh life of plantation slavery, doesn’t rebel or curse God, but philosophically accepts his cruel fate. He could leap overboard Cold River to save the drowning daughter of a wealthy white passenger who gratefully rewards the brave Negro by buying him.

Tom seems destined, now, to live out his life in a pleasant New Orleans mansion, spending his days reading Bible aloud and singing religious hymns with the angelic little Eva. But the child dies of tuberculosis, having first elicited a promise from her father to free the loyal Tom. The father is killed , however, in a brawl before he can fulfill his pledge and his widow is forced to sell Tom, who becomes the property of the heartless Simon Legree. He soon learns how really harsh the life of plantation can be, but he remains true to his religious training, elated by his pious acceptance of God’s will. Harassed by the evil Legree ,Tom displays his Christian charity by refusing to flog another slave .Simon Legree may not own Tom’s soul ,but he can do as he chooses with the body, and he orders two of his slaves, Sambo and Quimba, to whip the unresisting Tom, whose only responses to the merciless beating is a plea to stop in order that Legree might save his own soul.

On his deathbed, Tom charitably forgives the harsh Legree. Ironically, he lives long enough to witness the arrival of his former master’s son, come to redeem the family pledge by buying him back and granting his freedom.

The theme of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, for its all apparent simplicity, is representative of much of 19th century American fiction of the good man opposed by evil personified under the circumstance of slavery.

What strikes me is Tom’s loyalty to his religious belief. All of us has our own belief , it plays a most important part in our life, it supports us whenever we are caught in rough conditions ,it helps us get out of the dark to see the sunrise, it teach us how to adapt ourselves to different circumstances.

Life is full of ups and downs; we should hold our belief to fight against them to realize our goals!

[英语作文_《汤姆叔叔小屋》的读后感

是一部历时一个世纪的巨作，它告诉了我们人生哲学中的诸多道理，同时就我看来，其中也不乏蕴涵着一些程序方面的重大道理。

海明威的《老人与海》讲述了一个极为简单的故事，这是一篇让看过它的人都感动其中、感悟其中的故事：一个名叫桑提亚哥的老渔夫，独自一个人出海打鱼。在一无所获的84天后钓到了一条奇大无比的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还大两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼大劲也大，拖着小船漂流了整整两天两夜。老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验，终于把大鱼刺死，拴在船头。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗，结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。

也许，书中的老渔夫不是最后的胜利者，因为尽管开始他战胜了大马林鱼，但最终还是让鲨鱼吃了，他只带着鱼骨上岸，可是他始终没有向大海、向大马林鱼、向鲨鱼妥协，他其实是一个敢于挑战自身缺陷及自己勇气和信心的胜利者。

在茫茫黑夜的巨浪中，弱小的人类与强大的自然在奋勇抗争，如同面对命运莫测的人生，可以消灭的是肉体，不可以征服的是意志和精神。清晨归来，老人并非一无所有，战胜自然，战胜自我而获得的生命自由就是他胜利的象征。

无可否认，只要是人就都会有缺陷。当一个人承认了这个缺陷并努力去战胜它而不是去屈从它的时候，无论他能否最终战胜自身的这个缺陷，他都是一个胜利者，因为他已经战胜了自己对缺陷的妥协，他是自己勇气和信心的胜利者。老渔夫就是敢于挑战自身缺陷及自己勇气和信心的胜利者。从世俗胜利观的角度看，老渔夫不是最后的胜利者，因为尽管开始他战胜了大马林鱼，但是最终大马林鱼还是让鲨鱼吃了，他只是带着大马林鱼的白骨架子回到了岸上，也就是说，鲨鱼才是胜利者。可是，在理想主义者眼里，老渔夫就是胜利者，因为他始终没有向大海没有向大马林鱼，更没有向鲨鱼妥协和投降。

在小学的英语教案的阅读中，教师有时往往为了培养学生对英语学习的兴趣，经常会利用游戏，因为游戏受到学生的喜爱。课堂上唱唱跳跳，说说演演，形式花哨，十分热闹，使学生在快乐中接受教师预设的价值取向。但时间一久，我们不难发现：很多学生原有的最初的学习热情急剧下降，原始的兴趣正逐渐地不复存在，他们会因为有些游戏的重复，而显得无精打采。在课堂教学中经常会遇到这样的情况：课前教师不遗余力的精心设计游戏组织来吸引学生兴趣；课上学生走来走去，又是叫又是跑，甚是热闹，这样的教学次序直接影响教师的教学流程，教学环节流于形式；往往一堂课后，学生懵懵懂懂，一知半解；长此以往，学生捧着课本迷惑地望着你，不知道自己到底要学习和掌握书上的哪些内容。究其原因不难发现，课堂环节安排不合理，所学的知识没及时巩固，知识没能螺旋上升，直接导致教学的畸形，学生的学习成绩往往大家都不满意。面对如此频频告急的教学危机，这不能不引发我们的反思。

我个人认为，激发学生对学科兴趣的过程中，不能只停留在课堂表面的“活”，“乐”，“玩”中。我们更要注重学科本身，从学得后产生的成功体验来不断滋长兴趣，挖掘学生学习的内驱力。在教学中我们应该做到如下几点：

一、面向全体，分层教学

在游戏教学过程中，不可回避的如何对待优中差生。我们设计的游戏要注重面向全体学生，难度适中，让大家都参与。可以根据学生的个人素质，性格特点，记忆力反应速度等，因材施教，分层要求，以求最有效的激励机制促学生不断上进。

二、组织得法，严谨有序

做好游戏的组织工作，做到有条不紊，活而不乱。小学生天性爱游戏，争强好胜，有些学生做起来容易忘乎所以，甚至在课堂上，有时会情不自禁地高声喊，因此，首先，有开始游戏之前讲清规则。纪律要求，评分标准，防患未然。在游戏过程中即使还出现一些混乱，要能理解学生的心理，不一味批评，而是积极讲清楚，在集体活动中，大家应该遵守规则。

三、适时适度

我认为不能力求面面俱到，游戏过多，而忽略了主要教学内容的讲授和训练，喧宾夺主，把英语课上成游戏娱乐课，那就适得其反了。课堂游戏应该为课堂教学服务，当他成为一种摆设，或者是为游戏而游戏的时候，课堂游戏就失去了他的魅力了。

"Love education" this book let me know a lot of human reason, make my benefit bandit shallow.

I think amway is a filial child, is also a kind of children. He is innocent, lively, active, there are a lot of care in his life his good friend, always encourage him, comfort him, so he can grow up smoothly, also can obtain experience.

Give me the deepest memory is second grades student Betty, he in order to protect a giulio was struck by the carriage is not a grader, is too late to dodge, crushed the foot bone by carriages, after the walk on crutches only. Students to help others in our life, there is, but like his sacrifice themselves to protect others students, we would not have met. See this story, I thought about the newspaper report: a ninety - year - old woman fell to the sidewalk. 20 minutes, not a passer-by to raise her up. Until 120 the ambulance arrived, the old lady had died for about 20 minutes. Also is two people to help, but the results are completely different, a received rescue, lay down his life for his people died a long time to be discovered. The pedestrian to give save ROM. Betty is good as a mile.

It is because the amway division side there are so many good partners, he can understand the world is full of love. It makes me feel this book is very meaningful, let me realize what is unable to destroy the friendship between classmates, what is a meticulous care between teachers and students, what is parents endless love! I believe that if you have these qualities, know what is true, the good and the beautiful people, must be the most beautiful and good life in the world!

《爱的教育》这本书让我知道了许多做人的道理，令我收益匪浅。

我觉得安利科是个孝顺的孩子，也是个善良的孩子。他天真、活泼、好动，在他生活中有许多关怀他的好朋友，时常鼓励他，安慰他，所以他才可以顺利成长，也可以从中获取经验。

给我记忆最深的是二年级的学生罗贝蒂，他为了保护一个一年级的小学生朱利奥不被马车撞到，自己却来不及躲开，被马车把脚骨压碎了，经后只能靠拐杖行走了。在我们的生活中，帮助别人的同学是有的，但像他这样了为保护别人而牺牲自己的同学，我们就不一定有幸遇到了。看到这一个故事，令我想到了报纸上的一则报道：一位九十多岁的老太太倒在人行道上。20分钟里，竟没有一个路人上前搀扶。等到120急救车赶到时，老太太已经去世约20分钟了。同样是两个值得帮助的人，但是遇到的结果却完全不同，一个得到了别人舍命相救，一个去世了很久才被人发现。这些行人跟舍身救人的罗贝蒂简直是差之千里。

正是因为安利科身边有这么多善良的伙伴，他才可以明白这个世界处处充满爱。这让我觉得这本书很有意义，让我体会到什么是同学之间无法摧毁的友谊，什么是师生之间无微不至的关怀，什么是父母永无止境的爱!我相信如果有了这些品质，知道了什么是真、善、美的人，一定是世界上生活的最美好的人!

Saw the Wolf dream king "this book, I cant help with emotion, it is not the same as the previous novels, because the animal novels the most easy to Pierce the shell of human culture and civilization of false appearance, can cover the direct expression of ugliness and beauty into one of the original expression of life.Human culture and social civilization will be continuously updated with the changes of The Times, but competition, tenacious survival in life and the pursuit of glory is the kernel spirit will never change.So, I just prefer animal novels.

The Wolfs Latin name is Canis lupus.Wolves belong to medium-sized beast of prey, although the physical medium, but many big animals saw are heading for the hills, so the Wolf in nature with the upper end of the food chain.

Shim suk hee formerly known as David shen, born in 1952 in Shanghai, originally from zhejiang cixi.His creation is given priority to with animal novels, has published more than five hundred words.

The book said purple haze for round black mulberry as the Wolf kings dream and trying to put the Wolf pups born into the next generation of the Wolf king, lost three children, at the end of the mei mei also betray purple haze, landed a often I want to end up with golden eagles: if the purple haze so not to exercise the black seed of courage, black son would not die;If violet haze so not want blue soul so brave, blue soul would not be dead;If purple haze less love too much black and blue soul, double would not die;If......Of course, this ability hatred purple haze?Cant, this is to blame, her mother long to herself.

In our real life might it not so?A lot of parents for their children can get in key middle school, senior high school, a key university, give the child to how many classes?Is child robot?Is everything?Dont only adult entertainment, children cant?Does the boy was not a bad place?Is adults expected is just report card on the threshold of 5, good, or out?Is in the childs childhood can "learn" the word, not in terms of happiness?Is a gold medal, a certificate?

Adults and children is not easy, why cant respect each other, understand each other?

Previously,in a certain town,a very lovely girl,she is not only beautiful but also intelligent kindhearted and spoke up for the girl.The girl without a mother,because her mother,when she was still small,on the death.The girls father,his mother married a new,new mothers also have two new sister."Wow,this could be the next home noisy."Girls very pleased."Sudden change in the family dynamic,lively,girls very happy.Because her father is not only a new mother.there were also two sisters.However,the excitement was short girls.

《灰姑娘》》英语读后感二：

A long ago,rich man wife was ill, she feel die , so she was say with she daughter: “my lovely daughter,you don’t afraid , the supreme being was a blessing.”The mother was die,forever die. The daughter was sad cry. Read these, I’m very sad. I’m cry, too.You thick,a daughter without mother, that afraid!“Then,the father request a stepmother . A stepmother have two daughter. Two daughter very beautiful, but heart very ugly. They say lovely daughter was ‘cinderella’ . Cinderella? That’s very disagreeable to hear!Oh,that’s hatefully!

Mr。 A Gan is a man who is short in intelligence but rich in mind! It is impossible for us to make the wildest guess at what achievements he could fulfill。 History does not recount whether a man regarded as ‘stupid’ can do so many amazing things， but the fact is that he does gains a great deal of unexpected fame and success。

The deep impression that the movie give me is that he just keep running all the time。 Mr。 A Gan， it seems， has run into the university， the White House and even the whole continent。 Sometimes I wonder if we all misunderstand the true meaning of smart and clever， for Mr。 A Gan has taught us a very different lesson。 From my point of view， kindness and simplicity is the cleverest wealth that God has given us。

But of the human beings， unpredictable Nature selected only Mr。 A Gan， one wonders also why Nature， with Mr。 A Gan， made it possible that people who was treated as a fool can surely make a difference。 Mr。 A Gan’s success is no accident。 There is no doubt that ordinary people like you and me can live a rich life by perseverance!

[阿甘正传英语读后感

这个寒假，我读了一本书叫《老人与海》这本书塑造了一个经典的硬汉形象。古巴的一个名叫圣地亚哥的老渔夫，独自一个人出海打鱼，在一无所获的84天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗，结果大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。老人虽然失败了，但他在与鱼斗争的过程中表现出了超常的毅力和勇气，表现了一种不可被征服的精神上的胜利，他可以说是一个顶天立地的大丈夫。

书中通过对老人与鲨鱼斗智斗勇的场面，描写细腻，引人入胜。作者从多个角度描绘了鲨鱼的凶狠狡猾。老人拼尽全力为了保住自己好不容易捕到的一条大马林鱼。充分体现出老人无畏精神。

I don’t remember the exact year I first read The Little Prince . Though the golden snake in the book plays a cameo role , I never forget the scene that he flashed kissed gently on the little prince’s ankle. It made me be afraid to reread this book.

Later, I listened a Michael Wong’s song named Fairy-tale Story, the prince in his song is different from the prince in The Little Prince, the prince in the song is the same as Andersen’s tales’ princes, they all have happy endings.

However, I think The Little Prince is a sad story. There is a saying: There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes. Now, let me talk about my reading feeling. This simple story flies over every corner of the world: a pilot (the narrator) who had an accident with his plane and crashed in the Desert of Sahara then he met the little prince from the planet B-612, and the narrator listened little prince’s travel experience of seven planets. On the seven planets, he met a variety of persons. They are the king, the conceited man, the businessman, the tippler, the lamplighter, the geographer and so on.

The Little Prince is a story belongs to adults who have childlike innocence.because children don’t understand the little prince’s deep sadness.This is not so much a fairy tale, as it is a tragedy. This story tells the grow-ups’ world is full of empty，lost and loneliness with kids’ perspective. Among the story, the alcoholic is impressive. He was surrounded by a pile of beer bottles when the little prince saw him, and prince asked him why he is drinking, but he answered he want to forget his shame of drinking. This short planet visit plunged little prince into deep puzzled. He think the grow-ups are certainly very, very odd. In kids eyes, beautiful things must look with heart. But the adults pay more attention on things’ appearance that is just a shell and they don’t believe the eyes are blind and the heart is true.

Through this story, it also made me understand what’s the love---loves more mineral, more dense, more bitter and more weighty than the earths profoundest matter.

When I first read The Little Prince, I can’t understand the mean of love and never to think why should the little prince leave alone since he love his rose so deeply. For years, I reread the story and think about it. The simple true was first love. The little prince didn’t know how to love and It was difficult to make him understand the rose’s heart, so it may lead to misunderstanding and hurts from time to time. He leaved his planet because he can not accept the rose and himself.

This is why the little prince don’t know he have to leave : at that time, he had no idea he was in it. The little prince don’t understand the meaning of tame until he met the fox later. Then he produced the endless yearning for the roses and realized his responsibility.

"Do you want to be domesticated?" For me, this is a profound question. In the book, the little prince met a fox and invited the fox to play with him, but he was refused. The fox told him that he was not tamed. “what does that mean--tame?” little prince asked. The fox answered:” it means to establish ties: to me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me , you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

Gradually the little prince was beginning to understand, because he remembered his rose and he thought his rose had tamed him. So he chose to go back to his planet in the end. But to the fox, the little prince’s farewell will make her sad, but the hurts because of love, she should learn to accept it gradually. I believe there are full of hurts within serious and true love.

As long as the little prince flied to different planets and met a variety of persons can he understand himself and his rose. So I think traveling is a good way to experience life.

今年暑假，妈妈给我买了一本书，名叫《老人与海》，这是美国著名作家海明威写的。

文中的主人公是一名叫做桑提亚哥的老人，他是一位渔夫，可是他连续84天没有钓到大鱼了。直到第85天时，这位渔夫再一次去打鱼是他这次他把船开到远一点的海边。这一回他钓到一只大鱼，老人想把船开回岸上，可是马林鱼太重了，他只能任由鱼游去，又过了三天两夜，鱼受伤了，浓浓的血腥味引来了凶残的鲨鱼来争夺鱼肉，可老人也不甘示弱，与鲨鱼做斗争，可鲨鱼不但没有游开，还继续吃鱼，最后只剩下了一具光秃秃的骨头，回到家里。

我觉得印象中另我最深刻的是老人与鲨鱼做激烈的斗争，老人虽然什么都没有收获，但他还是与鲨鱼作斗争时，他没有放弃，一直坚持到底，记得以前，我遇到一个很小的难题，可却不肯去解决，总是去逃避，去推卸责任。桑提亚哥老人曾说过“一个人可以输，却不可以被打败。”失败是成功之母，不可能总是会输，也总会成功的。

是啊，我们应该向桑提亚哥老人一样，做一个坚持到底，永不放弃的人，他在面对困难时冷静，勇敢的与大鲨鱼作斗争，即使最后只剩下了一具鱼骨，我们在生活上也应该像桑提亚哥老渔夫一样。

轻舟一片，在一望无际的大海边缘，一位白发苍苍的老人孤独的身影置身于小轻舟中。这个平凡的老人，就是世界名著《老人与海》的主角。圣地亚哥老人给我的第一眼印象就是“他消瘦憔悴，在勃颈上有很深的皱纹。在腮帮上还有许多的黑斑。”但是，在我读完《老人与海》之后，我不觉得他在是一个平凡的老人了。

圣地亚哥老人，以捕鱼为生，却有一次84天没有捕到任何一条鱼，但是，饥肠辘辘的老人并没有放弃。他凭着自己坚定的信念与高超的技术，在一无所获的84天后，终于钓到了一只巨大无比的马林鱼。老人的船拖着马林鱼，走了很远很远，漂泊了两天两夜，经历了前所未有的奇妙经历。他奋力一搏，刺死了马林鱼，拴在船上，却不料遇到了一头饥饿的鲨鱼，鲨鱼把马林鱼给吃了，留给老人的只有鱼骨……

作者为什么要让老人失败，按书中老人曾经说过的一句话“一个人并不是生来就被打败的，人尽可以被毁灭，却不能被打败。”我想这就是作者想要告诉我们的吧。其实在读书的同时，我更是感受到了什么叫做幸福。一个人在做什么事情的时候，并非到了最后成功的时刻才是幸福。其实有些幸福就藏于追求之中。在老人身上我们发现了一种敢于追求梦想，敢于面对挫折的勇气。这是我们值得学习的。

《英语教学方法与策略》读后感

为了提高自身的英语教学质量和效率,我从学校图书馆借来《英语教学方法与策略》一书,利用业余时间认真地进行了研读,获得了不少教益。

这本书由鲁子问和康淑敏两位专家编写,由华东师范大学出版社出版,可以作为英语教学设计方向研究生教材,也可以作为中小学英语教师设计培训教材使用。我认为在英语学科骨干教师研修班接受培训期间读读这样一本书是再合适不过的。这本书介绍了教学方法与教学策略的相同与差异,提出了教学方法与策略的选择与整合的方法,介绍了英语教学方法的实践操作方法,包括情景教学法、交际教学法、任务教学法和自主学习教学,然后分析了英语教学过程的策略及实践操作方法,并从英语知识教学的策略及实践操作方法、英语技能教学的策略及时间操作方法两方面对英语教学方法与策略的行动研究提供了系统的指导。

编者用六章分别讲了教学方法与教学策略、英语教学方法的实践操作、英语教学过程的策略及实践操作、英语知识教学的策略及实践操作、英语技能教学的策略及实践操作和英语教学方法与策略的行动研究。

该书对相关理论进行了系统、简要的讲解,主要的内容是对英语教学实践的指导与分析。每一节都采用“准备-学习-实践”三部式结构,不仅讲解理论,而且注重教学实践。在每一节的理论讲解之后,都设计了“实践分析”专栏,以强化理论与实践的直接联系。在看每一节的时候,我都是跟着该书的编排形式在不断地调整自己的思维。在准备环节,编者会给出一个案例,让读者思考,遇到此类教学问题该如何解决,此时,我的大脑就会回忆我在教学中有没有遇到过,我又是如何解决的,然后思考怎样才能解决得更好;在学习环节,编者给我们提供了最系统的理论知识,此时我就很认真地研读每一条理论,认真理解每一个概念,为今后的教学活动积累必要的理论知识;在实践部分,我仔细地看了每个实践活动,对于一些比较有价值的活动自己在教学中也尝试着使用。

本书的优点是:1)语言浅显易懂。不像平常的教育着作,带着很多专业术语。2)内容很实用。书中不但简要地介绍教育理论,还举出大量的课堂活动例子,很适合各个层次的外语教师参考。3)描述很细致。书中谈到英语教学中很多细节的东西。4)编排符合读者习惯,发人深思。书中每一章节都会在适当的位置上安排一个文本框,给出一些名词解释或让读者讨论或思考一个问题。如:请讨论,您如何看待Practice makes perfect.它与数量原则有什么关系?训练中如何把握训练的量?

这本书让我羞愧于自己在教学理论和策略方面知识的匮乏,更让我明白英语教学的成功应体现在“培养学习者在真实的情景中有效使用英语的能力”我是一个率性而为的人,很多时候只是随心而教学,不会严格遵循某一教学模式。所以一直以来,教学成绩都没有取得重大突破,而我本人也一直为此烦恼,这本书教会我许多有理论支持的教学方法。如:语法翻译法、直接教学法、认知法、自然法、社团教学法、沉默教学法、全身反应法、暗示教学法。从书中我悟到了想成为一名优秀的教师必须充分认识到“教必有法”的原则性和“教务定法”的灵活性特点之间的统一关系。教师不应拘于一法一策,囿于一方一圆,而是要因地制宜,因材施教,将各类方法加以组合和调配,在吸收、借鉴已有教学方法的基础上,创造性地发挥,逐步形成富有教师个人特色的教学风格。在教学实践中,我根据教学环境、教学目标、教学内容、学生的需求和自身的教学风格适丰富了一下教学方法和策略,收到了一定的效果。

我最受启发的是书中的如下观点:呈现学习任务时,应当向学习者描述任务中的问题发生的物理背景、组织和社会文化背景。并且,问题的呈现必然是有趣的或吸引人的,目的是引导学习者的积极参与。让学习者体现到伸手可及的成功;教学活动的设置应考虑学习者的兴趣,需要和情感;老师可以和学习者商量课堂活动的内容并建议学习者把他们感兴趣的学习材料带回班上。让我陷入长久的沉思的是这个观点:“personalities and relationships are important for motivation”即:教师的性格及其与学习者之间的良好关系在调动学习者学习方面很重要。文中提到“即使我们不能完全改变自己去满足不同学习者的需要,但我们可以主动了解学习者感兴趣的话题,如:流行音乐,年轻人喜欢的电影,新车,科技的发展等。看到这里,对于学生为什么没有积极参与我自以为精心准备的课堂活动,我似乎找到了答案:设计活动时,我只是从教材内容和个人兴趣出发。当学生冷淡对待活动时,我只会埋怨大的学习环境不好,埋怨学生不配合,极少去思考是否学生对内容感兴趣,是否活动的难度适合学生,课堂指令是否清晰等因素。文中还指出:即使学生会使用老师准备好的语言结构,也明确活动的目的,但如果他们缺乏信心,也不会积极参与…所以,对学生及时得体的鼓励相当重要,借用李阳老师的话就是鼓励学生 “Enjoy losing face. Enjoy making mistakes ”总之,要踏上英语教学的成功之路,进行方方面面的准备工作是必要的,

对于以后的教学,我将努力改变陈旧的教学理念,尝试新的教学模式,自始至终把学生放在中心位置:把激发学生的学习热情放在首位,发挥交际教学的优势。是时候改变沉闷的课堂气氛,还学生一个愉快的学习环境了!是时候彻底解放学生,还学生一个可以自主学习的空间了!

其实,单纯阅读只是一个浅层理解词句的过程,我们可能在阅读中很感动,很受启发,但是,几个星期或几个月后,可能我们的思维又回复原状;若把我们的所思所想写下来,联系我们的教学或生活实际加以变通,可能会更长久地影响我们;而如果把我们学到的经验及时应用在教学中或生活中,我们的学生或我们自己则会终身受益,这才是阅读的目的。“热爱阅读、高效阅读、创新阅读”让我们互勉!

[英语教学方法与策略的读后感

My favorite book is wrote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I still remember the first time I read the book, I was like in a fantastic world. The little prince is a boy who has an angelical heart, his life is also very simple-a small planet which is full of flowers and monkey bread tree seedlings. The little prince is always depressed, and when he was sad, he would sit on a chair and see the sunset. He even see forty-three times sunset in a day to make himself feel better.

His life turned to a new appearance when a beautiful rose came out. She is a flower with proud, when her lie was exposed by the little prince, she felt embarrassed. The small misunderstanding between them made the little prince determined to leave the planet he lived on.

On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.

Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before. At that time a fox

appears. The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word “tame”, becomes his new friend. At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him. From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose. Then he chooses the venom of snake to end his life.painful but happy, he thinks he could lay aside the bulky body and go back.

I cried about the prince’s death. But I’m not sad. His life is so childish ,pure, and also sincere. And he must get his happy ending being with his rose finally. The plot is easy, but the deep meaning of the story is worth thinking . we have grown up as an adult, then we are gradually surrounded by meaningless figures and money. We live in a complex society , every day we must be faced with all kinds of person ,which made our heart more and more cold and detached. For me, society is a monster which could kill the pureness inside of my mind. I’m so grateful for reading this story. And from then on, I have a little prince live in my heart, and when I felt tired to face the society, he appeared and took me back to the clean and honest world that I’ve ever stayed in childhood. Then, I found out everything seemed so simple and life was so beautiful.

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从他身上看到了各种不同的、让人深思的境界：自信、勇敢、乐观、单纯、孤寂及睿智。而且从他身上可以品味到一种艺术，这种艺术在当今的人群中也是罕有的。

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小说描写了一位老渔夫在海上捕鱼，经过了8天，他还没有捕到一条鱼，大家都说他运气不好，不吉利，等到第8天，他决定去渔夫们从未去过的深海去打鱼，以证明自己的能力和勇气。在海上，老人发现了一条很大的马林鱼，它克服了重重困难，经过艰难的搏斗，终于在第三天早晨，把鱼叉刺进了马林鱼的心脏。在返回的途中，老人与到了鲨鱼的五次袭击，他用鱼叉、船桨和刀子勇敢反击。当他驾驶小船回到港口时，马林鱼只剩下一幅巨大的白骨架。也就是说，鲨鱼才是胜利者。可是，在理想主义者眼里，老渔夫就是胜利者，因为他始终没有向大海没有向大马林鱼更没有向鲨鱼妥协和投降。就如音乐大师贝多芬所说“我可以被摧毁，但我不能被征服”。

海明威为什么没有让老人最终胜利呢？用小说中老人的话来说：“一个人并不是生来就要被打败的”，“人尽可以被毁灭，但却不能被打败。”这就是《老人与海》想揭示的道理。

书中的老人曾说：“人不是为失败而生的，一个人可以被毁灭，但不能给打败。人性是强悍的，人类本身有自己的限度，但正是因为有了老渔夫这样的人一次又一次地向限度挑战，超越它们，这个限度才一次次扩大，一次次把更大的挑战摆在了人类面前。在这个意义上，老渔夫桑地亚哥这样的英雄，不管他们挑战限度是成功还是失败，都是值得我们永远敬重的。因为，他带给我们的是人类最为高贵的自信！

人生本来就是一种无止境的追求。它的道路漫长、艰难，而且充满坎坷，但只要自己勇敢顽强地以一颗自信的心去迎接挑战，他将永远是一个真正的胜利者。

最近我看了一部名叫《老人与海》的书，虽然里面的语句并不是那么华丽，但却拥有朴素真实的美，那么下面我们就一起走进书的王国，体会文字的奥秘。

一位老人常年独自在海上打鱼，有一次他钓到了一条大鱼，但是在返回的路上遇到了成群的鲨鱼。老人使出混身解数和鲨鱼博斗，最后鲨鱼把能吃的肉全吃完了，结果老人拖回去的只是一副大鱼的骨架。

以上我介绍的正是这本书的主要内容，是不是很有意思呢？读完这本书，我被老人坚毅、永不放弃的品格所打动，老人见到鲨鱼后不是想着怎样逃跑，而是想办想和鲨鱼顽强的做斗争，这不禁让我想起了语文书里的一位小主人公，那就是勇于和病魔作斗争的艾滋病小斗士——恩科西。他知道自已患有艾滋病后，并没有悲观消沉，而是学习怎样面对生活，面对可怕的艾滋病。俗话说的好，人就如弹簧，你强他就弱，你弱他就强。这本书告诉我们一道理，就算遇到再难的事情，只要坚持到底，就一定会有好的结果！

在人生的道路上难免会有崎岖和坎坷，但只要有厄运打不垮的信念，希望之光就会驱散绝望之云！

导语：《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家勃朗特姐妹之一艾米莉·勃朗特的作品，是19世纪英国文学的代表作之一。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的英语读后感，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emilys sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.

Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again

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《呼啸山庄》于1847出版，受到了公众的好评，许多人谴责它是肮脏的，粗俗的，不自然的。作者艾米莉·简·勃朗特于1848年去了坟墓，认为她的唯一小说是失败的。直到1850，当呼啸山庄收到了艾米丽的妹妹夏洛特介绍的第二次印刷，吸引了广大读者。从那一刻起，这本书的名声就再也没有回来了。今天，它被公认为是英国文学的伟大小说之一。

即便如此，呼啸山庄仍在划分读者。这不是一个美丽的爱情故事;相反，它是旋转的基本上使人陷入痴迷的爱转向黑暗的疯狂故事。这是残酷，暴力，黑暗和沉思，许多人觉得非常不愉快。然而，它拥有一个伟大的语言和设计，一种巨大的同情和巨大的损失，使它除了几乎所有其他小说写。

小说以一种扩展倒叙的形式讲述。在拜访他的奇怪的地主，新领域的欲望知道历史的家庭他接到Nelly Deans的一个仆人向我们介绍了Earnshaw家族曾经居住在房子被称为呼啸山庄。这是一次愉快的地方，但老萧采取“吉普赛”的孩子，他叫Heathcliff。凯瑟琳，房子的女儿，在他身上找到了完美的伴侣：野蛮，粗鲁，骄傲和残忍，因为她。但尽管凯瑟琳爱他，甚至承认他是她的灵魂伴侣，她不能降低自己结婚到目前为止，低于她的社会地位。她反而嫁给另一个人，在这样做设置运动的痴迷，将摧毁他们所有。

《呼啸山庄》有点难以进入;开头的章节是如此黑暗，在他们对这种痴迷的爱的结局的描绘中，他们有点偏离了现实。但他们以非凡的方式投入到作品的流动中，为所有文学中最显著的结构之一搭建舞台，这是一个在两个世代中上演的一连串重复的故事。凯瑟琳和希刺克厉夫同样了不起，既邪恶又残忍，但无论怎样残忍地伤害一个人，他们都无法摆脱不可能的爱。

作为新型线圈进一步转化为酒精中毒，诱惑，和一个最精心想象的计划报复并汇总成幽灵般的语气：希刺克厉夫，疯狂的女人是不存在的但他似乎反映在他的世界的每一个部分--从坟墓里拖着她的尸体，听见她叫他从摩尔人，升级他的残忍不残忍的缘故，但她那永不褪色的记忆里，让她永远直到死亡本身离开他的脑海。是的，这是疯狂的，疯狂的，没有和平这一边的坟墓，甚至超越。

这是一个惊人的小说，恐怖的，无情的，令人不安，充满了无尽的激情使人畏缩。即使你不喜欢它，你也应该至少读一次，而那些喜欢它的人会一次又一次地回到它

This summer holiday, I read a book called Andersen Fairy Tale. The book has many interesting stories. I cant forget one of the story of this book, ugly little duck. It is very ugly, who has been bullied. It was alone, no animals would play with it. In the cold winter , it almost froze to death in the forest. However, it finally frying by its own efforts. It turned into a beautiful swan. It is not an ugly duck anymore. This story tells us: in the face of injustice, it is only through their own efforts, as have happiness and joy.

这个暑假，我读了一本叫《安徒生童话的书》。书里有许多有趣的故事。让我无法忘记的就是《丑小鸭》这个故事。它很丑，从小就一直被欺负。它很孤独，没有人或是动物愿意陪它玩耍。在寒冷的冬天，它在森林里差点冻死。但是，它最后终于靠着自己的努力飞了起来。它变成了美丽的天鹅。它不再是一只丑陋的小鸭子。这个故事告诉我们：面对生活的种种不公平，只有通过自己的努力，一样能拥有幸福和快乐。

The success of Milton’s Paradise Lost owes much to the depiction of the main epicimage of Satan whose attributes enable him to achieve tragic status. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of paradise Lost. The critics in the world have been concerning the image of Satan in Paradise Lost, whose complexity makes the poem more controversial.The reason why the image under Milton’s pen is so complex is that the Satan attracts the poet’s inner force, which drives him to change the people’s traditional ideas and cause resonance of all the revolutionaries.

Satan in the Bible is an image of devil. But in Paradise Lost, Satan challenges the authority of God and want to be free, he is a fighter for freedom. The poet portrayed Satan as a brave hero that went to get rid of god’s domination. In Paradise Lost, the Satan was the most successful image the author shaped.The allure of free will is where the attractiveness and power of Satan"s character lies. Stanley Fish in his essay, ‘The Harassed Reader in Paradise Lost, argues that Satan possesses a form of heroism which is easy to admire because it is visible and flamboyant and that, on that basis, Satan’s attractiveness is only initial. Milton was, undoubtedly, conscious that he was in danger of portraying Satan as too much of a heroic figure and made efforts to be little him through the use of unflattering imagery, and by highlighting his less complimentary characteristics.

Nonetheless, our emotions are still fired. Our first encounter with Satan and his rebel hosts occurs in Book I, when they are recovering from the shock of having been expelled from heaven by the Son after three days of fighting the angels of God. Despite the defeat he has suffered, Satan gains our admiration by displaying resilience in quickly coming to terms with the change in his circumstances, in remustering his forces and organizing the building of his palace, Pandemonium. At the same time he demonstrates his determination not to be defeated and shows true qualities of leadership, persuasively arguing that there is still hope for battle and victory. Satan is convincing in his first speech to Beelzebub, his chief partner in crime, as he declares: What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. Although Satan may be an epic machine, he is best portrayed as the tragic anti-hero of Paradise Lost or, at the very least, a main character who possesses the stature and attributes which enable him to achieve tragic status. In the Greek tradition, the essential components of tragedy are admiration, fear and pity for the ‘hero’， who has to display a tragic weakness or flaw in his character, which will lead to his downfall. It might be argued that the flaws in Satan’s character are such that we should feel no admiration, fear or pity for him, yet he can be seen to inspire these emotions. Satan’s tragic flaws are pointed out in Book I. They are envy, pride, and ambition towards self-glorification. Satan’s pride, in particular, is stressed throughout Paradise Lost.

The poet condemned God through Satan’s words. On the surface, God had given human free will; in fact, he had suppressed the true freedom.Obviously, the poet"s criticism and condemnation of God were out from the social reality of United Kingdom. The tyrant was the embodiment of Stuart. Milton laid his own political tendencies in the great Satan. He portrayed Satan"s resistance as the justice resistance to authoritarian rule and a bold challenge to the violent regime.