那些给我勇气的双语美文 (27)享受独处

It scares us more than anything except death being alone. 享受独处除了了死亡,我们最害怕的就是孤独。 Our fear of aloneness is so ingrained that given the choice of being by ourselves or being with others we opt for safety in numbers, even at the expense of lingering in painful, boring, or totaling unredeeming company. And yet more of us than ever are alone. 以至于...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 第11期:处事方法A—B—C

As an airport skycap checked through a customer at curbside, he accidentally knocked over the man’s luggage. 一个机场行李搬运员在航站楼边帮一个旅客搬行李时无意 中撞翻了这个人的箱包。 He quickly collected the fallen bags and apologized for the mishap. Unappeased, the traveler burst into an angry tirade, raging and swearing at the skycap for his clumsiness. 他...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (7)矛盾幸福感

What is the definition of”happiness?¨Is it material wealth filled with fancy cars,a dream house,exteravagant furs and jewelry? Or is happiness simply having a roof over your head? “幸福”是什么?幸福是拥有豪华的汽车、梦想的居室、名贵的裘皮和珠宝等物质上的富足嘛?或者,幸福其实很简单一一有遮风避雨的住所 Food inthefridge?Having a child? A pet?A swimming pooI?A designer G...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (15)一只让我悟道的乌角

Life is good, really good. Sometimes I feel like the good karma train picked me up, and simply refuses to let me off. 生活不错,很不错。有时我觉得仿佛坐上了一列善有善报 的列车,想下车都不行。 I have an amazing wife, a teenage son that makes me glow with pride, good health, a wonderful family and the best friends a guy could ask for. I have a lot to be grateful for. ...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (29)灰色晨曦中那通往彩虹的路

J.K.Rowling,author of Harry Potter Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling’s life has the luster of a fairy tale. J.K.罗琳的生活展现出童话般的光芒,如同她所创造的魔法小巫师—哈利·波特。 Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at a table in...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (33)逆风飞扬

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most exciting, highest paid,andbest-loved celebrities in American . She is also the country’stoptelevision a talk show host. 欧普拉·温芙芮是美国最令人激动的、薪水最高的和最受人喜爱的知名人士之一,她还是全国顶级脱口秀节目主持人、非常优秀的女演员和成功的制片人。 Oprah Winfrey is a very fineactressand a successful producer. She is a living example of...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (14)生活就像一盒巧克力

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. 好几次了,我女儿打电话来说:“妈妈,你务必得在那些水 仙花凋谢之前来看看它们。”我是想去,可从拉古娜到箭头湖要开两个小时的车。 “I will come next Tuesday,” I promised, a little reluctantly, on h...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (8)热情成就未来

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, “Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.” 乡年前, 当我第一次找工作时,不少明智之士强烈向我建议:“巴巴拉,要有热情!热情比任何经验都更有益。” How right they were. Enthusiastic people can tum a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into op...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (19)生命就是小甜饼

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was “having the cookie.” If you had the cookie, things were good. 我有一位病人,他是一个成功的商人,告诉我,在他患癌症之前,凡事如果没有确定下来他就忧心忡忡。对他而言,幸福是“拥有小甜饼”。 If you didn’t have the...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (28)生活是一个自己动手的项目

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. 一位年迈的木匠准备退休了。他告诉他的老板他准备离开建筑业的打算,他说他想和他的妻子过一种更休闲的生活,享受天伦之乐。 He would miss the paycheck,but he needed to retire. Th...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (6)生命中的五个球

In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one’s other commitments: 几年前,在一所大学的开幕典礼中,可口可乐的首席执行官布赖恩?戴森讲到工作与其他义务的关系: Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, frien...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (12)镜中的女人

When I was 11, I found out I had a brain tumor. I had surgery to remove it, but the size and location of the tumor caused my optic nerve to atrophy. For three years afterward, I had partial sight, but my ophthalmologist told me that eventually I would go blind. 11岁那年,我被诊断患有脑瘤。手术切除了脑疱.但肿瘤 的大小和位置却导致了我的视觉神经萎缩。3年后,我还能看见 一点...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (34)心中有目标 风雨不折腰

I used to watch her from my kitchen window, she seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. 我以前常常从厨房的窗户看到她穿梭于操场上的一群男孩子中间,她显得那么矮小。 The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during recess. 学校在我家的街对面,我可以经常看到孩子们在下课时间...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (18)给年轻人的忠告

Being told I would be expected to talk here, I inquired what sort of talk I ought to make. They said it should be something suitable to youth-something didactic, instructive, or something in the nature of good advice. 获悉人们希望我在这里讲几句时,我就问他们我该讲些什 么。他们希望我讲些适合年轻人的东西——一些教诲性、有教 育意义的东西,或是一些好的建议这太好了! Very we...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (37)钢琴诗人—肖邦

Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish-born composer and renowned pianist, was the creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, 27 etudes, 19 nocturnes, 4 ballads, and 4 scherzos. 肖邦是近代浪漫派的抒情音乐家,他在音乐史中,是一位神秘、爱国而最富于诗意生命的钢琴家。他一生创作了 55 部马祖卡舞曲,13 部波罗涅滋,24 首序曲,27 首练习曲,19 首夜曲,4 首叙事曲以及 4 部诙谐曲...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (22)生命中的砖头

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. 一位年轻的总裁,以有点快的车速,开着他的新 Jaguar 经过住宅区的巷道。他必须小心游戏中的孩子突然跑到路中央,所以当他觉得小孩子快跑出来时,就要减慢...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (36)假如我又回到了童年

If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel and pitiless as cowardice,” says a wise author. 假如我又回到了童年,我就要培养勇气。一位明智的作家曾说过:“世上没有东西比勇气更温文尔雅,也没有东西比懦怯更残酷无情。” We too often borrow trouble, and anticipate that may never appear.” The fear of ill exceeds t...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (40)金融大鳄乔治•索罗斯

George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. 乔治·索罗斯想成为金融界的博诺(U2乐队主唱)。 The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European exchange rate mechanism that September of 10 years ago has a mission--to use his esti-mated £5 bn fortune and his fame to help tackle what he sees as the failures of globalisation. 洲...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (3)何为重要

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes. 无论是否准备好,总有一天它都会走到尽头。那里没有日出,没有白天,没有小时和分钟。 All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. 你收集的所有东西,不管你珍惜或忘记与否,它们都将流入他人手中。 Your wealth, fame a...

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那些给我勇气的双语美文 (5)我们对幸福的追求

We chase after it,when it is waiting all about us 我们苦苦追寻的,其实就在我们身边。 “Are you happy?”I asked my brother, Lan, one day. 一天,我问哥哥伊恩:“你感到幸福吗?” “Yes. No. It depends what you mean,” hesaid. 他回答说:“可以说幸福,也可以说不幸福,这要看你指什么了。” ” Then tell me,” I said, “when was the last tim...

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