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《老人与海》英文读后感(经典20篇)

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《老人与海》读后感800字

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“人不是为失败而生的,一个人可以被毁灭,但不能被打败。”这是文学巨匠海明威的文学巨著《老人与海》中的一句至理名言,这条格言陪着人类走过了漫长的岁月,伴着人类度过了无数艰难的时刻,毫不夸张的说,这句话一直是鼓舞着人们勇往直前的不懈动力。

《老人与海》讲述的是一位经验丰富的老渔夫圣地亚哥的故事。圣地亚哥和一位名叫马洛林的小男孩成为了忘年之交,在历经八十四天还没有捕到鱼之后,两人毅然决然的相约出海。出海那天天气很不错,而苍天也很眷顾他们,两人很容易就钓到了一条巨大的大马林鱼。两人原以为他们能就此返航龙龙,可不幸的是,他们捕获的大鱼引来了鲨鱼的围击,凶狠庞大的鲨鱼一直在猛烈进攻,似乎在逼迫着,威胁着圣地亚哥放弃这条大鱼。不过圣地亚哥也不是一个懦夫,身处危险之中,面对巨大威胁,面临死亡气息,这位老渔夫一直在顽强抵抗着。尽管最后那条肥大鲜美的大鱼被鲨鱼啃食破坏得只剩下了一副骨架,圣地亚哥也没有放弃轻易放弃这条来之不易的大鱼。

读完这篇小说后,我的感触颇深,尤其是那一句“一个人可以被毁灭,但不可以被打败。”紧紧牵动着我的心,而圣地亚哥那临危不惧,无谓抗争,永不言败,永不言弃的精神更是深深震撼着我,感动着我,启迪着我,教育着我,指导着我,鼓励着我。

人类很伟大,很坚强,很有潜力,很有毅力;但是人类又好渺小,好脆弱,好容易言败,好容易妥协。当我们遇到困难时,身处困境时,觉得害怕并不丢人,感觉恐惧也并不失常,但是我们一旦有了放弃的念头,有了逃避的想法,有了妥协的行为,那就是胆小鬼的表现了,那样只会让人寒心,让人小看,让人唾弃,让人远离。

人生在世,还是需要一点傲气,需要一些傲骨的,无论何时何地都能做到自强自信,无惧无畏,那才是真英雄,真本色!但要是自暴自弃,贪生怕死,畏手畏脚,胆小怕事,那就只会招致失败,只会深陷深渊,得不到尊敬,得不到尊重,得不到成功,得不到救赎。

希望每个人都能在遇到鲨鱼时,勇敢捍卫自己的马林鱼;但愿每个人都能在陷入困境时,大胆对抗黑暗的爪牙;也愿我们在人生征途中,能够一直勇敢坚强,不屈不挠的奋斗着,坚持着!

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篇1:《老人与海》个人读后感

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在五年级的时候,我读了一本书,名叫《老人与海》。对于这本书,我真的是爱不释手,百读不厌。

《老人与海》主要讲一个名为桑提亚哥的老渔夫,独自一个人出海打鱼,在一无所获的8天后钓到一条硕大无比的马林鱼。这是老人从没有见过也没有听过的大鱼,这条鱼长约8英尺,体重约一千五百磅。鱼大劲儿也大,拖着小船游荡了两天两夜,但最终还是被老人刺死了,大马林鱼的血腥味引来了四条大鲨鱼。老人与它们展开了搏斗,最终四条鲨鱼被杀死。谁知,老人还没喘回了气,一大群鲨鱼出现了。老渔夫与鲨鱼殊死拼搏,但最终大马林还是被鲨鱼吃掉了肉,带回家的只剩下一架光秃秃的鱼骨。

也许书中的老渔夫并不是最后的胜利者,因为虽然先前老人战胜了大马林鱼,但最后大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃掉了,他只带着鱼骨上岸,可是他并没有向大海,向大马林鱼,向鲨鱼妥协。他其实是一个敢于向自信和勇气挑战的胜利者。

读了《老人与海》我若有所思。主人公为自己的理想,拼搏过,奋斗过,努力过,难道他不算胜利者吗?老人那种坚持不懈、永不放弃的精神令我惭愧,因为我是一个知难而退、轻易放弃的人。只要遇到我不会做的题目我总是空在那儿,不去管了。当我读完这本书,我被震撼了,立志要改掉半途而废的缺点。

人生的道路非常漫长、艰难,而且充满坎坷,但只要自己永不言弃地以一颗自信的心去面对挑战,那么你就是胜者。我坚信自己将来,只要坚持不懈,永不言弃的去面对挑战,我也是一定是生活的强者。

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篇2:《老人与海》读后感

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“一个人并不是生来就要给打败的,你尽可以消灭他,却不能打败他。”这句话出自文学巨匠海明威先生的《老人与海》中,正是因为有这种不败的意志,才造就了老人两天两夜捕到一条长十八尺,重一千五百磅的马林鱼的成功之路。因为不败,所以永恒。

当这本书买到手的时候,我便迫不及待地开始阅读起来,尽情的感受着海明威先生所带给我们的人生真谛。文中的主人公桑迪亚哥不仅是一个渔夫,更是一个两鬓斑白的老人。在与恶劣环境和凶猛的鲨鱼的斗争中,老人一次次的告诉自己,鼓励自己,坚定自己的意志,不向困难妥协,向我们展示着那股不畏困难的硬汉气魄。在现实中,他虽然失败了,但在精神上,他却是胜利者,他那顽强搏击的精神,展示了人的高贵和尊严。书很快就读完了,但老人桑迪亚哥的精神却一直感染着我,为我前进的道路上点上了一盏明灯。

困难并不可怕,但要有信心和坚强的意志,在困难面前不妥协,一切都会迎刃而解。塞内加曾说过:“只要持续地努力,不懈地奋斗,就没有征服不了的东西。”老人在与困难斗争的过程中,大马林鱼一点点的被鲨鱼吃掉,但老人却没有放弃斗争,就算最后已经筋疲力尽了,却一直坚持,直至最后成功回到岸边。当我们遇到困难时,为什么不能像老人桑迪亚哥一样,勇敢的去面对呢?所以当我们遇到困难和不幸时,与其独自唉声叹气,不如鼓起勇气,像老人一样,用智慧和意志征服那看似坚不可摧的“鲨鱼”。

1999年的阿里巴巴创办者马云,对梦想从不放弃。他曾经想考重点小学,但却失败了;考重点中学也失败了;考大学更是考了三年才考上;想念哈佛大学也没有成功。但他有坚持不懈,勇往直前的精神,俗话说:“宝剑锋从磨砺出,梅花香自苦寒来。”他通过自已的努力,最终成功了。他说:梦想,要脚踏实地,和眼泪是息息相关的。马云在困难面前,没有放弃,尽管失败了很多次,最终却取得了意想不到的成功,可谓“许多次失败总会造就一次成功”。他如同老人桑迪亚哥一般,以常人所没有的刚毅的意志和胜利的信心,迎来了属于自己的辉煌。

遇到困难,总是一味地退缩,终将会被社会所淘汰。失败并不可怕,可怕的是没有斗争到底的决心。当你将一切困难踩在脚下时,站在人生的山顶上,回望脚下的困难,都将变得渺小。

老人最后虽然只得到了一副鱼的骨架,但是他却坚定了自己不败的决心;他那硬汉般的气魄,必将得到永恒!

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篇3:《星际动物园》英文读后感

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As the only living things on a bare planet called “Just Like Home”, humans felt lonely and sad. In order to live, they must get married as often as possible and have children. Unwilling to get married, our 16-year-old protagonist named Humming Bird ran away from her planet and found a plastic space ship. There she met various kinds of animals, which frightened her even drove her crazy. She had never seen such things before. Only through ‘The Book Of Remembering’ did she get some rough idea of animals. After she took a small-copied cat home and showed it to the officials on her planet, the cat was shot to death and all the officials went crazy. Humming Brid didn’t give up her attempt to let people accept the animals. She decided to set about the job from children…

That’s the brief plot of Harry Gilbert’s science fiction—。 Based on the reality of increasing environmental problems, the writer uses his full imagination and creativity to produce this vivid imaginative and thought-provoking story.

As far as we know, animal numbers are now diminishing all over the world every years, and the living conditions we depend on a getting worse. We dirty the air with gases and smoke, poison the water with chemicals and other substances and damage the soil with too many fertilizers and pesticides. We also pollute our surroundings in many other ways. Air, water and soil are all very important and necessary to the survival of all living things all over the world. If we human don’t pay more attention to that, there will come a day when we have to live the kind of life described in this novel. As we know, the world is made up not only of human beings but also a lot of other living things. If we don’t want to leave this perfect planet, we have to protect the environment; otherwise, without the company of other living things, people would only be half-alive, men only half-men.

Nowadays, I should say, people have realized the importance of environmental protection and ecological balance. Slogans that remind us to save water and electricity are stuck everywhere, but how many are treated as requirements or duties and not just a piece of paper. If we pay a little attention to our working and study places, we always find some taps half opened with running water, and large numbers of people get used to leave lights on during the day. Dustbins for both recycled and unredeemable rubbish are placed in high density but no one bothers to throw the rubbish into the right dustbins. Nor do they even know what kind of rubbish could be recycled and what kind could not.

Conservation centers for protecting animals are built in many countries. Our government also passed some acts to protect animals; however, there do exist some law-breakers who are driven by money. We plant trees very year, but no one bothers to water and care for them after planting them. For money, some farmers drive their sheep and cattle to grasslands and charge it into desert.

All in all, to every one, I want to say, “Living on this wonderful planet earth, we are lucky and happy. In order to enjoy this kind of wonderful life, we must care for mother earth and put this kind of care into practice.”

Facing the world, to be or not to be, it’s up to you. We must make a choice without any hesitation!

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篇4:《老人与海》读后感450字

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前几天,我们学习了一篇题目叫《老人与海鸥》的课文,这篇课文通过描写老人生前喂海鸥、呼唤海鸥的名字、与海鸥亲切地说话等事例;以及老人死后,海鸥在老人遗像前翻飞、盘旋、肃立、鸣叫等悲壮画面,表示了老人对海鸥那份无私的爱,展示了海鸥对老人的那份令人震撼的情。

人与动物都是大自然家族里的一员,这篇美丽的文章,让我们看到了老人美好的人性和海鸥美好的品行。但更让人激动不已的是,在这美好人性与美好品行之间相通着的东西——人与自然的和谐,原来是那样美好,如此动人。

不仅人有感情,动物也有丰富的感情。正如文中写的,老人死后,海鸥在他的遗像前翻飞、盘旋、肃立、鸣叫,这些举动不是海鸥在给老人守灵吗?

正因为老人爱海鸥,所以海鸥才会去爱戴老人,去敬佩老人。

人类啊,醒醒吧!只有我们去爱戴动物,动物才会来爱戴你的。但是说与做是两码事,光说不做假把势。所以我呼吁大家保护动物,保护大自然,保护我们生活的家园——地球!

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篇5:《老人与海》读后感500字

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今日我们学了《老人与海鸥》这篇课文,讲的是一个老人每一天都步行二十里来到翠湖给海鸥送餐,还给海鸥起了名字,每一天都和海鸥亲切地说话,每当太阳落山时老人的所料袋空了,老人就离开,他第二天还会来。可是没想到老人去世了,他们把老人照片遗容放大,摆到了翠湖边,海鸥们竟然极速煽动翅膀在天上盘旋高飞,过了一会儿,海鸥竟然在老人的遗像前站成两行,他们站在那肃立不动,像是为老人守灵的白衣天使,当他们不得不收起遗像的时候,海鸥们像是炸了营似的朝遗像飞来,他们好不容易从飞动着的白色漩涡中脱身。在为老人举行的葬礼上,老人背着那个蓝布包,撅着嘴,好像在呼唤着海鸥们。

善良的老人,纯洁的海鸥。我十分佩服老人来回二十里路给海鸥喂食,也佩服他们的深情友谊,海鸥竟然能听懂老人说话。同时,老人对海鸥那无私的爱感动着我,海鸥对老人的那份情震撼着我。

这不仅仅是我想起了我家的旺旺,旺旺在我姥姥家寄存着,我有什么好吃的我都给他送过去,他十分听话,见人就跑过上去抱住表示友好,旺旺和我感情很深,我对旺旺很好,不管它犯了什么错我不打它也不吵他,只是摸着它的脑袋和它说说悄悄话,说完话之后,它会摇摇尾巴,点点头,舔舔我的手,表示明白,这让我感觉到了人和动物的亲密感情,只要你对他好善待它,他就会用忠诚回报你。有一次旺旺来我们家,别人用好吃的来诱惑它,让它跟他走,可是旺旺没有这样做,它只是很快跑了回来,没有理会那个陌生人,来到我面前,叫了两声,扑到了我身上抱住了我。

其实世间的万物都是有灵性的,遍及天地的爱心是我们这个世界的期望,动物是我们的亲密朋友,他们和我们一齐组成了丰富、美丽、和谐的世界,我们要与他和谐相处。

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篇6:《老人与海》读后感800字

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老人与海》是美国作家海明威于1951年在古巴写的的一篇中篇小说,文章讲述了一位老人圣地亚哥,在捕获一只大马林鱼时,与其搏斗,战胜了许多常人难以想象的困难后,终于将其捕杀。但在归来的路途中,老人经历了更大的阻挠:闻着血腥味而来的一群群鲨鱼。鲨鱼贪婪的夺取着老人的劳动成果,圣地亚哥为捍卫自己的猎物,与其进行了更为残酷的斗争。一路上杀死了众多的掠夺者,但大马林鱼也只剩下了一副骨架,但老人却虽败犹荣——获得了精神上的最终胜利。

老人圣地亚哥是一个崇高的人物。他在捕猎的过程中,遇到了许多的困难和阻挠,有疲倦的折磨,有海风深入骨髓的寒冷,也有海面上不见人烟的孤寂……但他不屈服于命运,无论在多么艰苦卓绝的环境里,他保持着自己的信念。这种信念如在黑暗中的火炬,散发着坚定的意志——不屈服于自然,与天抗争的一股勇气,这种勇气烙印在字里行间,让每一个读者都能感受到。正因如此圣地亚哥凭着自己的勇气、毅力和智慧与大马林鱼和抢食的鲨鱼进行了奋勇的抗争。每战胜一条鲨鱼老人都付出了沉重的代价,大马林鱼的肉愈来愈少,最后遭到无可挽救的失败——大马林鱼虽然没有保住。但是,从另外一种意义上来说,那副骨架象征着老人的不屈,坚强,勇敢,毅力和智慧这些都是极为难得的人格品质。老人不但是一个胜利的失败者,也是一个失败的英雄。这种矛盾集合在他的身上,在文学上他正是典型的海明威式的小说人物。

文章总与历史相关联。在文中老人看来,大马林鱼是四十八天里钓到的第一条鱼,是一切美好事物的象征,是坏运气的结束,是新的开始。所以他搏斗,所以他不放弃。但是鲨鱼的存在象征着一切阻挠和破坏的力量,是阻止人们实现理想和目标的拦路虎,是各种邪恶势力的代表。这部小说正是写于上世纪50年代,也就是1951年。那时,海明威居住古巴,亲眼目睹了古巴人民争取民族独立、民族解放的运动。所以说,主人公圣地亚哥不再是一个简单的打鱼人,而是古巴社会阶级的典型代表。这也是人类“硬汉精神”的真正来源。

《老人与海》赞扬了具有顽强意志力,不屈服于失败的人类。同样也提示我:人可以失败,但不可以被击败,外在的肉体可以接受折磨,但是内在的意志却是神圣不可侵犯的!

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篇7:狄更斯小说《雾都孤儿》英文读后感

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雾都孤儿》是狄更斯第一部社会小说,小说中“奥利弗要求添粥”一节已被编入多种英语教科书中。以下是小编带来的雾都孤儿英文读后感,希望对你有帮助。

Here I am sitting on a couch alone thinking about what I have just finished reading with tears of sadness filling my eyes and fire of indignation filling my heart which revived my exhausted soul that has already been covered by the cruelty and the selfishness of the secular world for a long time. It is truly what I felt after reading Oliver Twist written by the prominent British author Charles Dickens.

The resonance between me and the book makes me feel not only the kindness and the wickedness of all the characters in the novel but what this aloof society lacks and what I lack deep inside. These supreme resources I’m talking about right now are somewhat different from minerals oil that we usually mention. They’re abstract like feelings and some kinds of spiritual stimulation that all of us desire anxiously from one another —— love and care.

Those charitable figures whom Dickens created in the novel are really what we need in life. They showed love and care to others just as the gentle rain from the sky fell upon the earth which was carved into my heart deeply.

Mr. Brownlow is one such person.

The other day he had one of his elaborate watches stolen by two skilled teenage thieves Artful Dodger and Charley Bates and thought naturally it was Oliver who was an orphan and forced to live with a gang of thieves that had done it because he was the only one near by after the theft had taken place. Being wrathful he caught Oliver and sent him to the police station where the ill-tempered unfair magistrates worked. Fortunately for him Oliver was proved innocent by one onlooker afterwards. With sympathy Mr. Brownlow took the injured poor Oliver to his own home. There Oliver lived freely and gleefully for some months as if he were Mr. Brownlow’s own son. One day however Mr. Brownlow asked Oliver to return some books to the bookseller and to send some money for the new books that he had already collected. The thief Oliver once stayed with kidnapped him. After that he disappeared in Mr. Brownlow’s life. Searching for a while Mr. Brownlow had to believe the fact that he had run away with his money. But dramatically they came across each other again a few years later. Without hesitation Mr. Brownlow took Oliver home for the second time not caring if he had done something evil.

Perhaps most of us would feel confused about Mr. Brownlow’s reaction. But as a matter of fact this is just the lesson we should learn from him. Jesus said in the Bible. “Forgive not seven times but seventy-times seven.” Why is that? Because forgiveness is our ability to remove negative thoughts and neutralize them so our energy may be spent on doing what we came here for. We cannot move forward in our future if past issues cloud our thinking. Stop put Mr. Brownlow into the list of your models. Always give people a second chance no matter what they might have done. That’s also a substantial part of loving and caring others.

Then there are Mrs. Maylie and Rose Oliver’s other benefactors. Maybe the reason they loved and cared Oliver was not because of forgiveness. In my point of view it was trust. They had faith in Oliver when he was considered to be a filthy burglar who tried to break the front door of Maylie’s at midnight. But this wasn’t how these two ladies saw the whole thing. They denied Oliver’s crime immediately and listened attentively to Oliver’s own description of his miserable life. They were deeply touched by Oliver’s strong perseverance and astonishing vitality. Accordingly they remedied Oliver’s body and heart and turned him into a different boy. He began to wear appropriate and clean suits which were tailor-made for him and receive education.

As far as we can see it is trust that helps us all live together without precaution. Sometimes trust can even lead us to miracles which we often expect to come about so why not trust? Trust yourself trust others and you’ll salute miracles every single day.

In the novel though the young Oliver again and again fell for conspiracies of those hideous thieves who tried to torture Oliver’s body and poisoned Oliver’s heart intensely he always lived on and tried hard to seek for his own life. Then I realized what supported him all through were actually beliefs. In most cases what you believe is what you’ll become. Believe that you are unlimited that you can do anything you commit to doing and when you do your accomplishments will know no bounds. You control your beliefs and that is how you ultimately control your life. It’s all dictated by your attitude.

In the final analysis love and care contain numerous forms there are love of forgiveness love of trust etc. but they all come from your beliefs in life. When someone tells you he’s deceived you forgive him anyway when someone tells you what he’s done trust him anyway and when you face adversities while chasing your dreams think about your beliefs then what hinders you will become a piece of cake in no time.

So find out “Olivers” in your life and do as Mr. Brownlow and Mrs. Maylie do: love them and care them which cost nothing but save much. They enrich those who receive without impoverishing those who give. They can be certain smallest words or actions but the memory of them sometimes last forever.

Charles Dickens said:“Love makes the world go around.” These immortal words have inspired and will keep on inspiring us to chant the melody of love and to say the prayer of care forevermore. Let us therefore enjoy life and treat other people lovingly. These principles are the roots and foundations of beliefs supporting this article and our mission together.

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篇8:《德伯家的苔丝》英文读后感

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德伯家的苔丝》是哈代的代表作,是“威塞克斯系列”中的一部。它描写了一位农村姑娘的悲惨命运。看过这部小说后你有什么感触呢?下面是小编为大家整理的英文读后感范文,希望对你有帮助。

She was seduced by a so-called gentleman—Alec, and from then on her life totally changed from this loss of innocence. People looked down on her and respected her no more. Actually she did nothing wrong because before she was seduced she knew nothing of men. She was just a girl when she first met that terrible man.

She was forced by the gossips and the church to blame herself for this accident, so she thought she deserved nothing good. In order to get rid of the past she decided to go to a distant dairy farm but was still saying to herself that she was wrong. Maybe God didn’t agree with that, because the Lord gave her someone she loved with her whole heart and life—Angel Chare. Angel popped the question to her but she refused him without saying why. She said she loved him deeply and perhaps no one in the world could love him more than she did but she could not marry him for some unspoken reason. Angel wasn’t satisfied with this vague answer and did his best to win Tess. Somehow she agreed and they soon fixed the wedding day. Soon after their wedding Angel confessed the crime he committed to a woman long time ago and asked for Tess’s forgiveness. Tess was not at all angry and forgave Angel at once; in fact she was rather happy and excited for she also had things to confess.

She sat and told everything to Angel, hoping he would forgive her as he was forgiven but she was wrong. She was not forgiven, not as she thought she was. The woman pays.

Without Angel’s love, nothing meant anything to her. The result wasn’t important now. Tess was arrested for her murder of that so-called gentleman. Why? She still loved Angel and when he finally went back to her and asked for HER forgiveness, after he regretted what he had done unfair to Tess, she was desperate. That was too late—Alec had always told Tess that Angel would never come back so he won Tess’s trust. Unluckily Angel did come back and found Tess.! Everything was too late!

Tess was deceived and she lost Angel for the second time! The strengh of her love was so strong that she had forgotten the difference between right and wrong. Before that she had done nothing wrong but when she killed Alec, everything really changed! She became a criminal! How could it be? She was as pure and innocent as the good wife in the Bible. Her whole character was honest and faithful. Angel figured out at last that a person should be judged not only on what he has done but also on what he wanted to do!

Tess didn’t want to be seduced by man and she had no power to defend herself so she lost her innocence and that’s all! Angel also did the wrong thing and it was even more serious than Tess’s crime but HE was not blamed for it. Why it is always the woman who pays? Why they are always hurt? Why was Tess’s girlish purity lost? Why does the wrong man take the wrong woman? Why do the bad often ruin the good? Why is beauty damaged by ugliness? Women are too weak! Thousands of years of history have shown us that women have always been treated unfairly!

In old China there was a culture, which didn’t think of women as human beings. If you asked one if he was the oldest in his family, he would probably answer “the oldest one” even if he had some elder sisters. If you asked why then he would say, “Ha, they are not included!”

People gave birth to many girls in order to have only one boy to keep the family name going. They thought girls had no use for the family. They would be married and go to live with their husbands’ home and be their wives some day sooner or later. So they were extremely hard on girls.

Girls should be hard working, faithful, loyal, intelligent, and virtuous and the most important thing was she must be a maiden! If her husband was the first man who touched her then she was a good girl, a good wife no matter how she thought. If she wasn’t, then she would gain a very bad reputation and nobody would dare to go near her. What about men? People did not care whether he was an experienced man or not, nor did they care about his character. They thought man equals power and power equals rights…

Now let’s not be so bitter. Nowadays women’s situations have become much better. Some are because of the change of society and some are because of civilization. Just let those poor painful women like TESS be just a memory.

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篇9:《老人与海》读后感500字

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老人与海》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。

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。"一艘船越过世界的尽头,驶向未知的大海,船头上悬挂着一面虽然饱经风雨剥蚀却依旧艳丽无比的旗帜,旗帜上,舞动着云龙一般的四个字闪闪发光--超越极限!"作者海明威是这样评价他的作品《老人与海》的。

当我们读到在大海中苦苦鏖战的老人和拼死也要活口的鱼类的时候,我们愿意相信这就是活着之所以应该活着的价值,证明自身存在的价值,对于年轻人以及中年人来说更应该多从这个角度来理会本书的内涵,奋斗可能没有结果,可能一切都会是一场空空的"骨架",但是,有一点我们必须承认,奋斗的过程是何其令人赞赏?正像某书评作家解读《西游记》中的孙悟空一样,读者最喜欢的还是西行中的孙行者,而不是已经修成正果的斗战胜佛

人生就如一片汪 洋,很宽,也很危险。它可以把你推向一个高度,也会瞬间让你失去自己所有的幸福。我们为了保留这一丝幸福,会努力地向浪尖奔去,用我们的满腔热血化解有时愤怒的海洋。要知道,一个好渔人,是拥有桑提亚哥的意志和精神的。

我想:人生即是海洋,时而波涛汹涌,时而风平浪静。在风里你可以感受坚毅,在浪里你可以感受激昂!这些都是过程带给我们的快乐和痛苦!

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篇10:《老人与海》读后感_议论文作文

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一艘船越过世界的尽头,驶向未知的大海,船头上悬挂着一面虽然饱经风雨剥蚀却依旧艳丽无比的旗帜,旗帜上,舞动着云龙一般的四个字闪闪发光——超越极限!”作者海明威是这样评价他的作品《老人与海》的。 《老人与海》塑造了一个经典的硬汉形象。古巴的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天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。

这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。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。

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》想揭示的哲理。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。就如音乐大师贝多芬所说“我可以被摧毁,但我不能被征服”。

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!

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篇11:《老人与海》读后感

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我读了美国著名作家海明威的小说《老人与海》,十分佩服小说中老渔夫的意志,他让我懂得了一个人一定要有坚持不懈的精神,才能获得成功。 小说描写的是一个年近六旬的老渔夫,在一次单身出海打鱼时,钓到了一条大鱼,却拉不上来。老渔夫同鱼周旋了几天后,才发现这是一条超过自己渔船数倍的大马林鱼,虽然明知很难取胜,但仍不放弃。后来又因大马林鱼伤口上的鱼腥味引来了几群鲨鱼抢食,但老人仍不愿就这样放弃,最终突出重围,将大鱼带回了渔港,让其他渔夫佩服不已。

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篇12:简爱的英文读后感

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lls us that the best people to increase the dignity of life is love. Novels by the end of the row that this is such a life. Although I think this kind of outcome is too perfect, so perfect a little superficial, but I still respect this author The ideal of a better kind of life. ------- Is to increase the dignity of love / In modern society, few people will like Jane Eyre, for the love for the character and abandon all, and without looking back.s Whole-hearted pursuit of pay, and pure like a glass of ice water ……

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篇13:《老人与海》读后感

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今年暑假,我读了美国著名作家海明威的小说《老人与海》。我十分佩服小说中老渔夫的意志,他让我懂得了一个人定要有坚持不懈的精神才有可能成功。

“一艘船越过世界的尽头,驶向未知的大海,船头上悬挂着一面虽然饱经风雨侵蚀却依旧艳丽无比的旗帜,旗帜上舞动的云龙一般的四个字闪闪发光——超越极限。”作者海明威是这样评价他的作品《老人与海》的。

小说塑造了一个经典硬汉形象,古巴的一个名叫桑地亚哥的年近六旬的老渔夫,这是一次单身出海打鱼时,在一无所获的84天之后,钓到了第一条大鱼,老渔夫同鱼周旋了两天后才发现这是一条超过自己渔船数倍的大马林鱼,虽然明知很难取胜,但绝不放弃,与拖着小船游了整整两天两夜,老人经历了前所未有的艰难考验,终于把大马林鱼刺死在船头,而大马林鱼伤口上的鱼腥味却引来了好多群鲨鱼抢食,老人又与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗,在遇到鲨鱼的第五次袭击后,大马林鱼还是被鲨鱼吃光了,让他驾驶小船回到港口时,只剩下了一副大白骨架。

刚开始我不明白为什么如此坚强的人却会面临失败的结局,当我再阅读时,我恍然大悟,用小说中的话来说:一个人并不是生来就要被打败的,人可以被毁灭,但绝不能被打败,这表明了海明威的人生观和价值观。人生在世,每个人都会有缺点,每个人都可能面临失败,让一个认真尝试着去做好一件事情去战胜对手,重要的并不在于结果,也不在于成功和失败。只要他曾经奋斗过,努力过,那么它就是一个强者,就是一个胜利者 。

从表面看,老渔夫他是可悲的,并且不是最后的胜利者,因为尽管他捕获了大马林鱼,但是最终大马林鱼还是让鲨鱼吃了,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,可是老渔夫并不可怜,并不可悲。在海明威的世界里,只有这拥有真正向艰难困境挑战的人,才配拥有胜利的荣誉称号,而老渔夫正拥有了这些。

同时我也很喜欢那里面的那个孩子,在老人困难时给予帮助,在受伤时给予医药,在伤心时给予安慰……他是一个真正善良的人。

掩卷沉思,《老人与海》给的启示真的太多了!

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篇14:《老人与海》小学生读后感

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“一个人可以被毁灭,不能被打败。”这句振聋发聩地名言,既是对《老人与海》主人公圣地亚哥最简明扼要的概括,也成为了数十年来“硬汉”的座右铭。

已经84天没有捕到鱼的老渔夫圣地亚哥,在第85天出海时,历经三天三夜的搏斗,终于捕到了一条大马林鱼。但返航的路上,又遭遇鲨鱼的袭击,已经精疲力竭的老人,仍顽强的用鱼叉、用绑在桨上的刀,甚至短棍和舵把与鲨鱼搏斗,最终带回岸上的却只有大马林鱼的白骨架。唯结果论,圣地亚哥老人显然是失败者,一番拼搏一无所获;唯精神论,圣地亚哥老人却凸显着“硬汉”的人格光辉,坚毅好胜,绝不服输。

每个人都有所谓的“命运”,“命运”即指对个人而言,所谓的“天花板”。圣地亚哥老人虽不是无能之辈,但面对“命运”,有着诸多无奈:作为富有经验的渔夫,用了84天,却不能让一条鱼上钩;历经三天三夜钓到一条大马林鱼,却发现在鲨鱼面前,无力捍卫自己的辛苦收获。也许这条大马林鱼本就超出了圣地亚哥老人的“命运”,就算勉强捕到,也无法在一群鲨鱼面前将它完整带回。所以,失败仿佛是老人的“宿命”,无论他多英勇,多坚韧,都逃不出这种宿命,但对于“失败”,也可以有两种界定:历经数番搏斗,带回的只有大马林鱼的骨架,老人没有达到预期的目的,这是结果上的失败;老人面对“命运”,从未放下手中的武器,也从未丧失继续斗争的信心,老人勇于向人生的“天花板”挑战,历尽磨砺而不曾丧失信心,从这一层面看,老人从不是失败者,也许更适合老人的称谓是:落寞的英雄。

每个人在生活中的某一刻,无论能力高下,资源多寡,都会面对类似的“大海”与“鲨鱼群”,正如老人每天走向大海一样,很多人每天也走向与他们的“命运”斗争的战场,也许他们也难逃失败的宿命,但只要不放下手中的武器,不丧失对生活的信心,终有人将冲破“命运”的掣肘,书写新的篇章。正因如此,伴随历史车轮的前进,人类看到了越来越广阔的“大海”,猎获了越来越多的“大马林鱼”。而从另一层面,那些“不能被打败“的强者,就算始终无法冲破失败的命运,凭借他们的顽强与不屈,也终会收获他们内心的坦然。

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篇15:《老人与海》读后感

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读了《老人与海》,我十分佩服老渔夫坚持不懈的意志。一个年近六旬的老渔夫,在一次出海打鱼时,钓到了一条大鱼,却怎么也拉不上来。老人与大鱼几经周旋,才发现这是一条超过渔船数倍的大马林,但他没有放弃坚持与大鱼搏斗,最终获得了胜利。但引来一群鲨鱼把大马林鱼吃了个精光,老人只带着鱼骨回了家 。

虽然大马林鱼被鲨鱼吃光,但老人那顽强的精神永存,老人明知道渔船装不下大马林鱼,但是他坚持要抓住它,只要你想就一定能做到,就像老人一样他坚持不懈。他没有被任何困难压服,那他就是胜利者。

读到这里,我不禁想到了自己。每当我遇到困难时,总是觉得麻烦,又不会回避,去逃避,而不是去战胜困难,只是使它所压跨。

就像在我练钢琴时,一见到一串串音符,就头大看了就烦,随便乱弹几个音就说完成了,弹好了。这只会让我对音符更不熟悉。

在《老人与海》里,老人没有被任何困难压服,他尽自己最大的努力与生活中的磨难做不屈不挠的斗争。

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篇16:寒假作文《老人与海》读后感

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这个寒假,我读了一本书叫《老人与海》这本书主要讲述了一位老人常年独安闲海上打鱼。有一次他掉到了一条大鱼,但是在返回的路上碰到了成群的鲨鱼。老人使出浑身解数和鲨鱼搏斗,鲨鱼把能吃的肉都吃完了,结果老人拖回去的只是一副大鱼骨架。

在生活中,我们碰到了困难,也许会迎难而上;但也会畏难止步。比如说张海迪阿姨,她小时候双脚就已经残废,但是她并没有向挫折屈服,而是以积极、乐观、自信的态度去挑战挫折。她天天把词语贴在床头、墙壁上、厨房……经过张海迪阿姨的不懈努力,她终于战胜了挫折,而且还获得了荣誉,为祖国做出了自己的贡献。鲁迅先生曾经说过:“伟大的胸怀,应该表现出这样的气概—用笑脸迎接悲惨的命运,用自信的勇气来应付自己的不幸。”是啊!当我们碰到厄运和不幸时,与其埋怨命运的不公,还不如鼓起勇气,振作精神,以刚毅的态度与厄运抗争。老人不也是这样的吗?老人没有被任何困难压倒,他尽自己最大的努力与生活中的磨难做不屈不挠的斗争。老人也说过医生令我最难忘的话:“一个人并不是生来就要给打败的,你可以消灭他,却不能打败他。”当你碰到困难时,你一定不要被挫折压倒啊!一个人的一生中不可能没有失败,但我们假如能够从失败中获取有益的经验,发现成功的曙光,把失败看成是同乡成功的必经之路。那才是从失败中获取的最大的收获。毛泽东主席曾经说过:“失败是成功之母。”曾任美国总统的林肯一生遭碰到无数次失败和打击。然而,他英勇卓绝。他从1832年失业后,他经过了13次竞选,然而有12次的竞选是失败的。他在最后一次,也就是1860年的时候林肯终于当选为美国总统,他终于成功了,这是一件多么令人兴奋的事情,他的努力终于得到了回报。

我们碰到挫折时,应该要勇敢面对,在困难面前迎难而上。我们有了这种奋不顾身、不怕困难的勇气,就有了征服困难的精神力量。正如歌德所说的:“你若失去了金钱—你只失去了一点儿;你若失去了荣誉—你就失掉了许多;你若失去了勇气—你就把一切都失去了。”

现在我们努力起来,他们永不言弃的精神感动并激励着我们每个人吧!

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篇17:2024巴黎圣母院英文读后感最新

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Notre Dame DE Paris is the French Victor Hugo wrote. First of all, he is bell ringers Quasimodo ugly, hes ugly, let a person feel afraid: horseshoe mouth, in the right eye is covered with a large tumor, big buck teeth... . Quasimodo is deaf, kyphosis, and the lame, and cruel and unreasonable, who saw all hate him.

Gypsy girl esmeralda has fairy beauty, love as long as she appeared, would have caused a sensation. All the men in the book saw she will fall in love with her. She was very kind, in order to save the poor poet and his false get married, she gave her money to busk income homeless children.

This book mainly to write only listen Quasimodo raised by his vice bishop Notre Dame DE Paris, but vice bishop assassinated, esmeralda royal captain of love, also forced love, esmeralda to marry her, or she was hanged. When love the esmeralda condemnation of that day of, Quasimodo brave love, esmeralda to Notre Dame tower. But the king sent against the cathedral of Notre Dame, and the girl hanged. Quasimodo grieving, and finally find love, esmeralda bones, committed suicide in beside her.

巴黎圣母院是法国维克多.雨果写的。首先他讲的是敲钟人卡西莫多的丑陋,他的丑陋让人感到 害怕:马蹄形的嘴巴、右眼被一个大瘤遮盖,大龅牙……。卡西莫多也是个聋子、驼背和瘸子,而且凶暴、蛮横,谁见了都讨厌他。

吉普赛少女爱森梅拉达有仙女般的美貌,只要她一出现,就会引起轰动。这本书中所有男人一见到她就会爱上她。她非常善良,为了救穷诗人和他假结婚,她把自己卖艺所得的钱都分给流浪孩子。

这本书主要写卡西莫多只听抚养他长大的巴黎圣母院副主教的话,但副主教刺杀了爱森梅拉达爱的皇家卫队长,还逼爱森梅拉达嫁给她,否则将她绞死。当爱森梅拉达受刑的那天,卡西莫多勇敢的把爱森梅拉达举到圣母院的钟楼上。可国王派人攻打圣母院,并将姑娘绞死。卡西莫多悲痛欲绝,最后找到爱森梅拉达的尸骨,在她旁边自杀了。

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篇18:《老人与海》读后感

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老人与海》塑造了一个硬汉形象——一位叫做桑地亚哥的老渔夫。

书中概括了桑地亚哥独自一个人出海打鱼,经过了漫长的等待后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。鱼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考验,终于把大鱼击败。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼!老人与鲨鱼展开殊死搏斗,结果马林鱼被鲨鱼吃了,最后拖回家的只剩下一副光秃秃的鱼骨架。从中告诉我们一个哲理:“一个人并不是生来要给打败的,你尽可以消灭他,可就是打不败他。”

人生的道路上难免有坎坷,只要拥有了勇敢和自信,你就会成为胜利者。

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篇19:《老人与海》暑假英语读后感

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This year summer vacation, I read the American well-known writer Hemingways novel " old person and sea ". I extremely admire in the novel the senior fishermans will, he let me understand one person certainly must have relentless spirit, only then could obtain successfully.

The novel description is one year near sixty years of age senior fisherman, when alone goes to sea in one fishing, fished one big fish, actually did not pull. The senior fisherman socialized several days after the fish, only then discovered this was the big marlin which one surpassed the oneself fishing boat several fold, although knew perfectly well very difficult to win, but still did not give up. Afterwards and further because in the big marlin wound fish fishy smell brought in several crowds of shark fish snatches the food, but the old person still did not hope like this to give up, finally highlighted encircles tightly, returned to the big fish belt the fishing port, lets other fishermen not admire already.

When I read " the senior fisherman think: Here to the seacoast really was too near, perhaps could have a bigger fish in a farther place... " When, I extremely admire this senior fisherman, because he by now already projected on some fish, but he had not settled to the present situation, but was approaches the bigger goal advance. Again has a look us, usually meets one slightly is difficult, we all complain incessantly. We will be the motherland future, will be supposed to like this old person same mind lofty aspiration, will even better pursue even better, the bigger goal.

When I read " the big marlin start fast to gather round the young fishing boat hover, twined the cable on the mast, the old person right hand lifted up high the steel fork, leapt the water surface in it the flash, did utmost throws to its heart, one wail ended the big fishs life, it was static static floats on the water surface... " When, my heart also liked together the big stone falls. I extremely admire old person that kind do not dread, the relentless spirit, although knows the match strength is very strong, but he not slightly flinches, but is welcomes difficultly above. Just because had this kind of spirit, the senior fisherman only then achieved this life and death contest success. We also must study senior fishermans spirit in life, handles the matter does not fear the difficulty, only then can obtain successfully.

Was reading the big fishs smell of blood is smelled by one crowd of shark fish, struggled swims snatches the food, old persons left hand happen to in the convulsions, he only could use the right hand, with wooden stick, the mouth and so on all was allowed to use for the weapon self-defense which attacked, and finally expelled this crowd of shark fish. But the big fishs meat was already eaten one most, but the old person also charmingly criticized oneself the left hand " this work time actually was resting " time, I also was subdued by the old person optimistic spirit. In the life, some losses are inevitable, we should treat by the optimistic manner, cannot be calculating.

Finally, the novel sees by one youth the senior fisherman fully has 18 foot long big marlin in the measure, once more described this fishs hugeness, explained senior fisherman overcomes the difficulty was big, non- was more common than.

The novel eulogized the spirit which the senior fisherman fear hard and dangerous diligently did not struggle, we also should like his such, could not satisfy the present situation, should positively to above, do any matter all is relentless, meets difficultly must welcome difficultly above, could give up halfway in no way. Only has this, we only then can obtain a bigger success and the victory.

今年暑假,我读了美国著名作家海明威的小说“老人与海”。我非常佩服小说中高级的渔夫的意志,他让我明白一个人一定要有不屈不挠的精神,才可能获得成功。

这部小说描述一年近六十岁的高级渔夫,当独自一人去海上钓鱼,钓一条大鱼,其实没有拉。高级的渔夫社会化几天后鱼,才发现这是超过了自己的大马林鱼渔船几折,虽然知道很难取胜,但仍不放弃。后来又因大马林鱼伤口在几个成群的鲨鱼鱼鱼鱼腥味带来一阵食物,但老人还是不希望这样放弃,最终突出环绕,返回到大鱼带渔港,让其他渔夫不钦佩了。

当我读到“高级的渔夫想:这里的海岸真的是太近,可能会有更大的鱼在更远的地方……“时,我非常佩服这个高级渔夫,因为他现在已经预计在一些鱼,但他没有解决现状,但方法更大的目标前进。再看看我们,通常遇到一个略是困难的,我们都不停地抱怨。我们将是祖国的未来,应该像这样老人相同心灵崇高的愿望,将更好的追求更好,更大的目标。

当我读到“大马林鱼开始快速聚集年轻的渔船盘旋缠绕电缆在桅杆上,老人右手高举高的钢叉,跳跃水面flash,并最大限度抛出其心,哀号一结束了大鱼的生命,它是静态的静态漂浮在水面……“当,我的心也喜欢一起大的石瀑布。我非常钦佩老人那种不恐惧,无情的精神,虽然知道比赛实力很强,但他没有略就会闪躲,但欢迎上述困难。只是因为有了这种精神,高级的渔夫才取得了这生死比赛成功。我们还必须学习高级渔夫的精神生活,做事情不怕困难,才能取得成功。

阅读大鱼的血的气味是由一群鲨鱼闻到了鱼,挣扎着游一阵食物,老人的左手正好在抽搐,他只能使用右手,用木棒、嘴等一切可以用来攻击的武器自卫,并最终被这群鲨鱼的鱼。但大鱼的肉已经吃了一大部分,但是老人也快乐地批评自己的左手“该工作时间实际上是休息”,我也被老人的乐观精神迟滞。在生活中,有些损失是不可避免的,我们应该以乐观的态度对待,不能计算。

小说最后,看到一个青年高级的渔夫充分衡量有十八英尺长的大马林鱼,再次描述这条鱼的巨大,说明老渔夫克服了困难很大,非是更常见。

小说歌颂高级的渔夫的精神恐惧艰难和危险的努力没有斗争,我们也应该像他这样,不能满足于现状,应该积极,做任何事都是无情的,遇到困难必须欢迎以上困难,绝不中途放弃。只有这样,我们才可以获得更大的成功和胜利。

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篇20:《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感

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Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughters. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.

In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.

In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?

Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.

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