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Every second, we have the opportunity to make the next second greater than now. 每一秒，我们都有机会让下一秒变得比现在更好。 Because destiny isn't a matter of chance. It's a matter of choice. 因为真正决定命运的不是运气，而是选择。 So let go of what others want you to be. 所以，放下世俗中别人对你的期望。 Change is in all of us. 改变在于我们的内心。 And the only person...
Unit2 The Joy of Labor 第二课 劳动之乐 Wise men of ancient times and successful men of today have told us that labor is sweet. 古时的贤达和今天的成功者都告诉我们劳动是甜美的。 Its reward is not material gain but what one becomes by it. 劳动的报酬不是物质的获得而是人们藉由劳动所达到的成就。 Work does much more for us than just giving us a living; 工作所给予我们的岂止是混口饭...
Unit6 Companionship of Books 第六课 以书为伴 A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as the company he keeps; 通常可由一个人所阅读的书以及所结交的朋友而知其为人; for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; 因为书可作伴就和人可作伴一样; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. 而且人们应该永远与最好的为伴...
Unit15 Life Is Too Short to Be Little 第十五课 人生苦短休斤斤计较 We men are imperfect beings, so conflicts among us are unavoidable. 我们人类皆是不完美的造物，所以彼此之间必然会起争执。 Inevitably, we sometimes feel injured, insulted, or slighted. 无可避免地，我们有时会觉得受到伤害、侮辱或轻视。 Perhaps we put our faith in another, and were disappointed; perhaps we felt we ...
Unit5 The Happy Door 第五课 开启快乐之门 Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circles of ripples. 快乐好似扔入池子里的一颗石头，会激起不断扩散的阵阵涟漪。 As Stevenson has said，being happy is a duty. 正如史蒂文森所言:“快乐是一种责任。” There is no exact definition of the word happiness. 快乐这个字眼并没有精确的定义。 Happy people ...
Unit19 Self-control 第十九课 自制 Self-control is essential to happiness and usefulness. 自制是快乐及有为不可或缺的部分。 It is the master of all the virtues, and has its root in self-respect. 它主宰所有的美德，并扎根于自尊。 Let a man yield to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom. 一个人若受到冲动、感情用事支配的话，从那一刻起他便放...
Unit14 True Nobility 第十四课 真正的高贵 In a calm sea every man is a pilot. 在平静的海面上每个人都可以是领航员。 But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain，is not life at all. 但若只有阳光而无阴影，只有快乐没有痛苦，那就不算是人生。 Take the lot of the happiest-it is a tangled yarn. 就拿最快乐的人的命运来说吧——他们的命运就像是一团纠结的纱线。 Bereavements an...
Unit21 An Excerpt of John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address 第二十一课 肯尼迪总统就职演说摘录 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price，bear any burden, 告知诸国，不论是希望我们好或不好的国家，我们都会不惜任何代价， meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. 承担任何重任，不辞艰...
Unit11 You Are What You Do 第十一课 行为决定命运 If the past has taught us anything, it is that every cause brings effect, every action has a consequence. 过去的日子若曾经教过我们些什么的话，那便是有因必有果，每一个行为都有一种结果。 This thought, in my opinion, is the moral foundation of the universe; 依我之见，这种想法是宇宙的道德基础: it applies equally in this world and ...
Unit9 The Love of Beauty 第九课 爱美 The love of beauty is an essential part of all healthy human nature. 爱美乃是所有正常的人性中不可或缺的一部分。 It is a moral quality. 它是心灵的特质。 The absences of it is not an assured ground of condemnation, but the presence of it is an invariable sign of goodness of heart. 不爱美并不一定是坏事，但爱美则象征了不变的善心。 In proporti...
Unit16 We Are on a Journey 第十六课 人生之旅 Wherever you are，and whoever you may be, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. 不论你身在何处，不论你是何等人物，在此刻，以及人生中的每一刻，你我之间有一点正好是相同的，那就是: We are not at rest; We are on a journey. 我们并非静止着，而是在旅程中。 Our life i...
Unit8 A Key to Happiness 第八课 快乐之钥 To help others，you don't have to be an efficient expert in the art; the main thing is the intention. 你若想助人，并不一定要在助人的艺术方面猛下工夫，重要的是你有没有一颗助人的心。 You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful and ineffective, but if you sincerely try to help, your attempt produces nothing but good. 你或许粗里粗气，笨手笨...
Unit7 Friendship 第七课 友谊 No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty of friends. 年轻人人生起步最好的资本莫过于拥有众多的朋友。 They will strengthen his credit support him in every great effort, and make him what，unaided, he could never be. 朋友可以增加他的声望，尽最大的努力支持他，并使他达到无朋友帮助时绝不可能达到的成就。 Friends of the right sort...
Unit1 A Great Friend 第一课 一个伟大的朋友 As I am now a senior high school student, I have a great many friends, but there is one whom I prize over all the rest. 由于我现在是高中生，因此有许多朋友，但我最看重其中一位。 I first made his acquaintance when I began to go to school. 我一开始求学就认识他了。 He has been my constant companion ever since. 从此以后他便是我永远不变的...
Unit3 We're Just Beginning 第三课 我们正在起跑点 "We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…" “我们正在阅读一本页数无限的书的第一章第一节……” I do not know who wrote these words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. 我不知道这段文字是谁写的，但我一直很喜...
Unit10 For the Sake of Other Men 第十课 为别人而活 Strange is our situation here upon earth. 我们在地球上的处境真是奇妙。 Each of us comes for a short visit，not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. 我们每一个人都是为了一趟短暂的旅程而来，也不知道是为了什么，但有时候似乎又猜想是有其目的。 From the standpoint of daily life，however, there is one thing we do...
Unit20 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 第二十课 林肯盖茨堡演讲词 Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, 八十七年前，我们的祖先在这块大陆上建立了个新国家， conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 这个国家是以自由为理念，并致力于人生而平等的主张。 Now we are engaged in a great civi...
Unit17 The Joy of Living 第十七课 生活的乐趣 Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them，giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. 生活的乐趣来自于快乐的情绪，信赖并放任这些情绪，就像鸟儿在野外自由飞翔一般。 Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. 生活的乐趣是无法靠摆姿态或罩上面具来伪装的。 People who have t...
Unit4 Adcice to a Young Man 第四课 给年轻人的建议 Remember, my son，you have to work. 小伙子，请你牢记，你必须工作。 Whether you handle a pick or a pen, a wheel一barrow or a set of books, you must work. 不管你握着的是一把十字镐或一支笔，一辆手推车或一套书,你都必须工作。 If you look around，you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work...
I had a black dog. His name was Depression. 我有一条黑狗，它名叫抑郁。 Whenever the black dog made an appearance, I felt empty and life just seemed to slow down. 每当这条黑狗出现时，我就感到空虚，生活似乎也慢了下来。 He could surprise me with the visit for no reason or occasion. 它总会不分时间、场合的突然出现在我的面前。 The black dog made me look and feel older than my year...