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编者按： 一个朋友说过：“我若是灯，我就要用我的光明来照彻黑暗。” 我不配做一盏明灯。那么就让我做一块木柴罢。我愿意把我从太阳那里受到的热放散出来，我愿意把自己烧得粉身碎骨给人间添一点点温暖。 Friends On my recent travels, I came to realize still more fully the significance of the word “friend”. Seven or eight days ago, I said to a friend whom I had just come to know, “I can’t h...
How To Tell When She Flirt With You Flirting is an art form –it takes much practice to do it with perfect timing. It’s often hard though, to recognize when a woman’s flirting with you. Women are masters of subtlety, so it’s your job to remain aware of every gesture, every word, and every move they throw your way. The women might simply be nice and fri...
编者按： 怀特先生的信念也成为我私生活的信条，以它为行动准则，我为人类的奉献更多。做奉献让自己心满意足，心态平和，虽然它们本不是我的天性。这就是我得到的回报，我的福祉。 的确，我相信，美国的物质主义非常需要精神力量的调剂。这种精神力量必须表现在帮助同胞、为同胞服务上。 How to Give Your Money Away Many years ago I met a man whose unique psychology helped me to shed a life of str...
编者按： 如果所有人——也包括我自己——都更新或重铸自己的人格，这应该是有益于人类的。这也许仅仅是抹去粗糙的边缘或丢弃固有的模式，从而显露出不平整，有时则需要拿走支撑物，完全靠自己站立。不论何种情况，只要我们有人树立榜样，其他人就会效仿，结果就应该是好的。对此我深信不疑。 A Straight Wall Is Hard to Build by Lou R. Crandall As I try to outline my thoughts, the subject becomes more...
编者按： 把所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里，然后小心地看好它；要量入为出；最后一点，要有耐心，就像艾默生所言：“除了你自己没人能真正阻止你成功。” The Road to Success It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of the...
编者按： 比尔的同代人，即使是在那个年龄，都能看出他的与众不同。每年，他和朋友们都要去夏令营。比尔特别喜爱游泳运动等。他的一位在夏令营的朋友回忆道，“他绝不会是个不足挂齿或无足轻重之人。我们都晓得比尔比我们聪颖。甚至在更早的时候，当他九、十岁时，言谈就如同成人一般他说的话有时我们感到高深莫测。 BILL GATES IN HIS BOYHOOD As a child—and as an adult as well—Bill was untidy. It has...
编者按： 洗手的时候，日子从水盆里过去；吃饭的时候，日子从饭碗里过去；默默时，便从凝然的双眼前过去。我觉察他去的匆匆了，伸出手遮挽时，他又从遮挽着的手边过去，天黑时，我躺在床上，他便伶伶俐俐地从我身上跨过，从我脚边飞去了。等我睁开眼和太阳再见，这算又溜走了一日。我掩着面叹息。但是新来的日子的影儿又开始在叹息里闪过了。 To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has fai...
编者按： 就在那一霎那间，她的身体缺陷消失了，我看到的只是一个美丽的女孩儿，她的笑容使我融化，并几乎立刻使我对人生有了一种新的认识。她把我这个贫穷而不幸的大学生带进了她的世界，一个充满微笑、爱和温暖的世界。 World of Smiles About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while wo...
编者按： 最后一点，也是对我而言最重要的一点，我深深信仰上帝。我确信有一位非常睿智和神奇的神灵设计、建造并统治这个世界，就像我们凡人所认识的样子：这个宇宙有星群、螺旋型的星云、星星、月亮、行星、美女、树木、珍珠和深绿的苔藓，还有希望和对和平的祈祷。 A Lesson Learned at Midnight By James Q. DuPont Ever since one midnight, in nineteen hundred and nine, when I first heard my moth...
编者按： 当人们都把某个著名的运动员、演员或者歌星视作自己崇拜的偶像时，我却视母亲为我的偶像。她是我的灵感之源，而且至今依然如此。她教导我说，勤奋工作从来不会累死人。她是我心目中的英雄。母亲、我的家人以及朋友所给予我的快乐是生活中其他任何事物所不能及的。 Put the Effort in Every Day As a young boy, I grew up with eight siblings in a tin-roofed shack in Summerfield, Louisiana. ...
编者按： “命运让我们成为兄弟，没有人可以各自独立。 我们送入别人生命里的，转而又回报给我们自己。” You Cannot Fix a Real Faith When I learned that members of my team, boys whom I had trusted and to whom I had devoted intense training and guidance—when I learned that these boys had been fixed by professional gamblers, my faith and belief in the basic integrity of youth re...
编者按： 假如我又回到了童年，我就要事事乐观。生活犹如一面镜子：你朝它笑，它也朝你笑；如果你双眉紧锁，向它投以怀疑的目光，它也将还以你同样的目光。内心的欢乐不仅温暖了欢乐者自己的心，也温暖了所有与之接触者的心。“谁拒爱于门外，也必将被爱拒诸门外。” If I were a Boy Again If I were a boy again, I would cultivate courage. “Nothing is so mild and gentle as courage, nothing so cruel...
The process of dying imbues fewer and fewer choices available to us. Even in dying, however, we still have choices concerning how we handle what is happening to us. The following account deals with the dying of Jim Molock, a student and close friend of mine. Jim is 25 years old. He is full of life, witty, bright, honest, and actively questioning. He had just graduated from c...
编者按： 要友善，你一定要给人友好的感觉：快乐是友善的基础。一个快乐的人总会面带微笑。微笑好似有吸引力的磁铁，你对别人微笑，你也会得到他微笑的回报。无论在哪里，友善之人都会让陌生人有居家般自在舒适的感觉，设身处地为陌生人考虑，让他有备受欢迎的感觉。 Friends and valuative–On Making Friends Everyone needs friends,and if you fail to make friends,you should examine yourself ...
How the Americans View Friendship Steve and Yaser first met in their chemistry class at an American university．Yaser was an international student from Jordon．He wanted to learn more about American culture and hoped that he and Steve would become good friends．At first，Steve seemed very friendly．He always greeted Yaser warmly before class．Sometimes he offered to study wi...
Greek New Year’s Day The people of Greece hail1) September １as their New Year’s Day because it marks the start of the Greek sowing2) season，a time of hope and promise． To start things off right，farmers’ families take plates of seeds to church for the priest to bless．On the island of Kos，people fashion first－of－the－year wreaths3) of pomegranates4)，...
June 26 Pied Piper1) Day One summer day in the Middle Ages，a strange man in multicolored2)（that is，pied）clothing strode into the German town of Hamelin．Learning that the town was infested3) with rats，the stranger offered to dispose of the rodents4) －－for a fee．When the burg hers5) gratefully agreed，the stranger whipped out a flute and played a mysterious tune that ...
编者按: 想得到的多就永远不要奢望太多。 智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。 On Achieving Success We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate1). I hate a thing done by halves2). If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone. The men of history were not perpet...
England in the 1500s Here are some facts about the 1500s： Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May，and，still smelled pretty good by June．However，they were starting to smell，so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor1)． Baths consisted of a big tub2) filled with hot water．The man of the house had the privilege of the...
My Mother’s Gift I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age , not so long ago , when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. At the time, I did not consider this a luxury, although today it certainly would be. I took it for granted that mothers were the sandwich-makers, the finger-pai...