【正文】 方二十，實(shí)已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號(hào)，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺年輕。但我們總是想要知道，注定要離世人的會(huì)選擇如何度過自己最后的時(shí)光。我們每天都應(yīng)該以優(yōu)雅的姿態(tài)，充沛的精力，抱著感恩之心來生活。我們常常注意到，那些生活在或曾經(jīng)生活在死亡陰影下的人無論做什么都會(huì)感到幸福。日子多得好像沒有盡頭。他們的眼睛和耳朵模糊地感受著周圍的景物與聲音，心不在焉，也無所感激。 生而為贏 —— 新東方英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 6 ~ amusing and instructing us in youth, and forting and consoling us in age. Men 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 third. There 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 union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them. A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that life could think out。 we see the as if they were really alive。 好書就像是你最好的朋友。在我們年輕時(shí)，好書陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識(shí)；到我們年老時(shí)，它又給我們以慰藉和勉勵(lì)。書是更為真誠而高尚的情誼紐帶。 書籍具有不朽的本質(zhì)，是為人類努力創(chuàng)造的最為持久的成果。時(shí)間惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因?yàn)橹挥姓嬲募炎鞑拍芙?jīng)世長存。他們的精神被載入書冊(cè)，傳于四海。 but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a welldirected purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. 生而為贏 —— 新東方英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 9 ~ 譯文： 如果我休息，我就會(huì)生銹 在一把舊鑰匙上發(fā)現(xiàn)了一則意義深遠(yuǎn)的銘文 ——如果我休息，我就會(huì)生銹。 勤奮使開啟成功寶庫的鑰匙保持光亮。斯通如果閑暇時(shí)無所事事，就不會(huì)出版數(shù)學(xué)詞典，也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)開啟數(shù)學(xué)之門的鑰匙。正如要想擁有自由就要時(shí)刻保持警惕一樣，要想 取得偉大的，持久的成功，就必須堅(jiān)持不懈地努力。 and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove all motives for petence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die。他們所從事的工作將不是為了他們自 身，而是為了整個(gè)集體。藝術(shù)將不再惹人費(fèi)神，其功能將純粹為了慶典。 啊，長此以往人生將變得多么乏味無聊！ 有一種盛行的觀點(diǎn)認(rèn)為，成功是一種神話，因此抱負(fù)亦屬虛幻。認(rèn)為成功不存在的觀點(diǎn)很可能造成混亂。但是在這些無法選擇之中，我 們的確可以選擇自己的生活方式：是勇敢無畏還是膽小怯懦，是光明磊落還是厚顏無恥，是目標(biāo)堅(jiān)定還是隨波逐流。我們決定，我們選擇。第六篇： What I have Lived for 我為何而生 What I Have Lived For Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasyecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves lonelinessthat terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I 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 imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is whatat lastI have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. 生而為贏 —— 新東方英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 13 ~ 譯文： 我為何而生 我的一生被三種簡單卻又無比強(qiáng)烈的激情所控制：對(duì)愛的渴望，對(duì)知識(shí)的探索和對(duì)人類苦難難以抑制的嶼。我尋求愛，因?yàn)樵谖宜?睹的結(jié)合中，我仿佛看到了圣賢與詩人們所向往的天堂之景。我試圖領(lǐng)悟畢達(dá)哥拉斯所景仰的 ―數(shù)即萬物 ‖的思想。痛苦的呼喊聲回蕩在我的內(nèi)心。我已經(jīng)找到它的價(jià)值。 And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving。當(dāng)愛的 羽翼擁抱你時(shí)，請(qǐng)順從她，盡管隱藏在其羽翼之下的劍可能會(huì)傷到你。愛會(huì)上升到枝頭，撫愛你在陽光下顫動(dòng)力的嫩枝，也會(huì)下潛至根部，撼動(dòng)力你緊抓泥土的根基。 愛除了實(shí)現(xiàn)自我別無他求。 在黎明帶著輕快的心醒來并感謝又一個(gè)有家的日子； 在黃昏懷著感恩之心回家； 然后為內(nèi)心所愛之人祈禱，吟唱贊美之歌，并帶著禱告和歌聲入眠。 do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals。 break orders always to save owners。 lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, ―no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.‖ 生而為贏 —— 新東方英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 17 ~ 譯文： 成功之道 年輕人創(chuàng)業(yè)之初，應(yīng)該從最底層干起，這是件好事。在必要時(shí)新來的員工掃掃地也無妨，不會(huì)因?yàn)槎惺裁磽p失。不論職位有多高，你的內(nèi)心都不要滿足于做一個(gè)總管，領(lǐng)班或者總經(jīng)理。他們向這方面投資，又向那方面投資；在這里投資，在那里投資，到處都投資?？垂芎蛿y帶一個(gè)籃子并不太難。 把我的話歸納一下：要志存高遠(yuǎn)；不要出入酒吧；要滴酒不沾，或要喝也只在用餐時(shí)喝少許；不要做投機(jī)買賣；不要寅吃卯糧；要把公司的利益當(dāng)作自己的利益；取消訂貨的目的永遠(yuǎn)是為了挽救貨主；要專注；要把所有的雞蛋放在一個(gè)籃子里，然后小心地看好它；要量入為出；最后，要有耐心，正如愛默生所言，―誰都無法阻止你最 終成功，除非你自己承認(rèn)自己失敗。 kings, dictators, mercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writer‘s richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material. The great man is too often all of a piece。他們給世人展現(xiàn)的是一副面具，常常是美好難忘的面具，但他們會(huì)小心翼翼地掩蓋自己的真相。但我對(duì)人感興趣一般不是因?yàn)樗麄冏陨淼木壒?，而是出于我工作需求。他們的社交圈子有限，自己的種種癖性也就越有可能得到滋長。在我們看來，國王，獨(dú)裁者和商界大亨等都是不符合條件的。就我而言，如果在孤島上度過一個(gè)月，我寧愿和一名獸醫(yī)相守，也不愿同一位