Sixteen years ago I learned an important life lesson, in the back of a New York City taxi cab. 16年前我学到了人生中重要一课，那是在纽约市的出租车后座上。 I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were dri
As a child—and as an adult as well—Bill was untidy. It has been said that in order to counteract this. Mary drew up weekly clothing plans for him. 童年时期——即使成了了大人——比尔也不修边幅。据说为了改此习惯，玛丽为他制定了一周着装计划。 On Mon
Two friends and I moved into a house off campus when I was a junior at Iowa State University. 在爱荷华州大学读大三时，我和两个朋友从宿舍搬出来，租了一间房子。 We were all a bit afraid of our landlord, a gruff middle aged man who was
For someone who is such an extraordinarily successful investor, Warren Buffett comes off as a pretty ordinary guy. 作为一个如此卓越的成功投资家，沃伦·巴菲特却又是一个非常平凡、普通的人。 Born and bred in Omaha, Nebraska, for more than
A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. 一个男人和他的女朋友结婚，举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。 All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and cele
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
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 f
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
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 m
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 a
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
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
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
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, thin
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
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
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
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 stre
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 natur
