【正文】 uperior needs no fervent resolution, but only a little patient BEGIN is its device![注釋]thrift: 。；儉約。fortune: great deal of money or uplift v.: ；Healthful reaction: helpful faculty: victim: finances: 。private ；個人所得 thrifty: 。 program: of what is to be grandest human qualities: noblest selfreliance: on one’s own prudence: foresight: to see or realize degenerate: fervent resolution: Intense selfdenial: To A Young Man[導(dǎo)讀]羅伯特伯德特（Robert Jones Burdette）的作品邏輯嚴(yán)密，層層推進，富有感染力。（選出任意一段進行背誦）Remember, my son, you have to you handle a pick or a pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a paper, ringing anauction bell or writing funny things, you must you look around you will see the men who are the most able to live the rest of their days without work are the men who work the 39。t be afraid of killing yourself with is beyond your power to do that on the sunny side of die sometimes, but it is because they quit work at six in the evening, and do not go home until two in the ’s the interval that kills, my work gives you an appetite for your meals。it lends solidity to your slumbers, it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a are young men who do not work, but the world is not proud of does not know their names, even it simply speaks of them as “old SoandSo’s boy”.Nobody likes them。the great, busy world doesn’t know that they are find out what you want to be and do, and take off your coat and make a dust in the busier you are, the less harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you.[注釋]son: young pick n: a sharppointed iron tool used in wheelbarrow n: a small vehicle with one wheel and two handles, used for moving small a set of books: a set of ditch n: a channel dug in the paper: auction n: a public sale in which goods are sold to the highest overwork n: too much on the sunny side of thirty: below thirty years of interval n: the time between The work gives you an appetite for you meals:工作會增加你的食欲it lends solidity to your slumbers: the work makes you sleep it gives you a perfect and grateful appreciation of a holiday:工作會使你心滿意足地享受假日SoandSo: a certain take off your coat: keep up your ，意即提起你的精神 make a dust in the world: bee prominent in the the…the…: by how much….by so ….愈….apt to get into: liable to （選擇任意兩段背誦）[導(dǎo)讀]塞繆爾斯邁爾斯（Samuel Smiles）英國作家，以道德教誨的作品“自助”(SelfHelp，1859)最為有名。A man may usually be known by the books he reads, as well as by the panyfor there is a panionship of books as well as of men。and one should always live in the best pany, whether it be of books or of good book may be among the best of is the same today that it always was, and it will never is the most patient and cheerful of does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or always receives us with the same kindness。amusing and instructing us in youth, and forting and consoling us in often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book—just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite live in him together, and he in good book is often the best urn of a life, enshrining the best thoughts of which that life was capable。for the world of a man39。s life is, for the most part, but the world of his the best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, bee our abiding panions and forters.“They are never alone,” said Sir Philip Sidney, “that are acpanied by noble thoughts.” The good and true thought may in time of temptation be as an angel of mercy purifying and guarding the also enshrines the germs of action, for good words almost invariably inspire to good : 陪伴 adversity: 不幸, 逆境distress: 悲痛, 窮困console : affinity: 吸引力, 親合力bond: 結(jié)合, 粘結(jié)urn:壺。這一句的意思是：好書常如最精美的寶器，珍藏著人的一生思想的精華。enshrine: 銘記 abiding: Sir Philip Sidney: 菲利普悉尼爵士英國作家。[參考譯文] 書為友觀其友而知其人，同樣，察一個人讀些什么書就可知他的為人，只因書與人一樣，也能做人之友。無論是書還是人，我們都應(yīng)該擇其最佳者為友。一本好書可以成為人的摯友，古往今來，恒久不變。所有朋友中，書本最為耐心而又令人愉悅。我們身處逆境灰心沮喪時，書本并不變臉拋棄我們，始終如一，友愛接納。我們年輕時，書本給我們以歡娛和陶冶；我們老邁時，又予我們以慰藉和鼓勵。黑茲利特曾說：“書香輕拂沁心靈，詩行輕滑滲血液。青春時所讀之書，垂暮時依然會回想，仿佛就在身邊發(fā)生。書籍價廉物美，我們就在書香中呼吸?！币槐竞脮褪亲髡叩娜松Y(jié)晶，里面蘊藏著他窮其一生的求索成果。因為人一生的世界大多就是其思想的世界，故而最優(yōu)秀的書籍也就是至理名言和輝煌思想的富藏。這些思想若能銘記在心，就成為我們永久的朋友和永恒的慰藉。菲利普悉尼爵士說得好：“與高尚思想為伴的人永不寂寞?！痹谖覀兪苷T惑時，美好純真的思想如同仁慈的天使，凈化衛(wèi)護著我們的靈魂，并蘊含著我們行動的萌芽，因為金玉良言總能激勵我們美好的行為。 Eyre[導(dǎo)讀]夏洛蒂勃朗特(Charlotte Bronte)的《簡愛》通過簡愛的自述，描繪的是一個出身貧苦家庭，長相平凡，無依無靠的女家庭教師的曲折遭遇。簡，成為純潔、熱情、坦率、愛好真理，敢于追求幸福的女性的象征，因而形象鮮明。作品成功之處還在于作者在對人性的描述中，我們隱約看到了自己，卑劣或美麗的人性，而覺得心有戚戚焉?！甀 tell you I must go!’ I retorted, roused to something like passion.‘Do you think I can stay to bee nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?I have as much soul as you,it is my spirit that addresses your spirit。just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God39。s feet, equal,ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this have sought it, next, because it relieves lonelinessthat terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the coldunfathomable lifeless have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is whatat lastI have equal passion I have sought have wished to understand the hearts of have wished to know why the stars I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the little of this, but not much, I have and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the