20篇经典英文美文摘抄欣赏，提升你的阅读与写作能力

引言：美文摘抄的重要性

美文摘抄是一种提升英文阅读和写作能力的有效方法。通过摘抄优秀的英文美文，我们不仅能够欣赏到美丽的文字，还可以学习到优秀的表达方式和写作技巧。本文搜集了20篇经典的英文美文摘抄，希望能够激发你的写作灵感，提高你的英文表达能力。

1. 《理性与感性》

摘抄内容：Life is made up of little things, and it is these little things that make our lives worthwhile.

2. 《悲惨世界》

摘抄内容：To love another person is to see the face of God.

3. 《白鲸记》

摘抄内容：Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

4. 《呼啸山庄》

摘抄内容：I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

5. 《傲慢与偏见》

摘抄内容：It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

6. 《格列佛游记》

摘抄内容：I have always found that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

7. 《西游记》

摘抄内容：Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

8. 《麦田里的守望者》

摘抄内容：What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

9. 《小王子》

摘抄内容：It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

10. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》

摘抄内容：I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

11. 《简·爱》

摘抄内容：I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

12. 《人类简史》

摘抄内容：You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

13. 《老人与海》

摘抄内容：But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

14. 《骆驼祥子》

摘抄内容：The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

15. 《福尔摩斯探案集》

摘抄内容：When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

16. 《美国陷阱》

摘抄内容：There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

17. 《1984》

摘抄内容：If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

18. 《围城》

摘抄内容：If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

19. 《哈利·波特》系列

摘抄内容：Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

20. 《人生》

摘抄内容：Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.