【正文】 having a child and doing those Dad things like coaching my son‘s baseball team, paddling around the creek in the boat while he‘s swimming with the dogs, discovering his passion so deep it manifests even in his kindness to snails, his imagination so vivid he builds a spaceship from a scattered pile of Legos. But there is a vast meadow of life in the middle, where the bad and the good flipflop acrobatically. This is what convinces me to believe in the 50percent theory. One spring I planted corn too early in a bottomland so floodprone that neighbors laughed. I felt chagrined at the wasted effort. Summer turned brutalthe worst heat wave and drought in my lifetime. The airconditioned died。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。但我對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?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?？垂芎蛿y帶一個(gè)籃子并不太難。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。 lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, ―no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.‖ 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。 do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals。 愛除了實(shí)現(xiàn)自我別無他求。當(dāng)愛的羽翼擁抱你時(shí)，請順從她，盡管隱藏在其羽翼之下的劍可能會(huì)傷到你。我已經(jīng)找到它的價(jià)值。我試圖領(lǐng)悟畢達(dá)哥拉斯所景仰的 ―數(shù)即萬物 ‖的思想。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. 譯文： 我為何而生 生而為贏 —— 慧普教育 英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 8 ~ 我的一生被三種簡單卻又無比強(qiáng)烈的激情所控制：對愛的渴望，對知識的探索和對人類苦難難以抑制的嶼。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。 啊，長此以往人生將變得多么乏味無聊！ 生而為贏 —— 慧普教育 英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 7 ~ 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。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。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。 勤奮使開啟成功寶庫的鑰匙保持 光亮。他們的精神被載入書冊，傳于四海。 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。在我們年輕時(shí)，好書陶冶我們的性情，增長我們的知識；到我們年老時(shí)，它又給我們以慰藉和勉勵(lì)。 we see the as if they were really alive。 日子多得好像沒有盡頭。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。 、 一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實(shí)已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺年輕。 but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there‘s hope you may die young at 80. 譯文： 青春 青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。第二十九篇： Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演說 第二十一篇： The Love of Beauty 愛美 第十三篇： Be Happy 快樂 第五篇： Ambition 抱負(fù) 第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如給我三天光明（節(jié)選） 第十篇： The 50Percent Theory of Life 生活理論半對半 第十八篇： Solitude 獨(dú)處 第二十六篇： On Motes and Beams 微塵與棟梁 it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。當(dāng)然，我說的是那些有選擇權(quán)利的自由人，而不是那些活動(dòng)范圍受到嚴(yán)格限定的死 囚。 然而，我們中的大多數(shù)人都把生命看成是理所當(dāng)然的。這正好我們只有在失去后才懂得珍惜一樣，我們只有在生病后才意識到健康的可貴。 for the world of a man‘s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, bee our constant panions and forters. Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author‘s minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time have been to sift out the bad products。它始終不渝，過去如此，現(xiàn)在如此，將來也永遠(yuǎn)不變。人們可以通過共同喜愛的作家溝通思想，交流感情，彼此息息相通，并與自己喜歡的作家思想相通，情感相融。 書籍介紹我們與最優(yōu)秀的人為伍，使我們置身于歷代偉人巨匠之間，如聞其聲，如觀其行，如見其人，同他們情感交融，悲喜與共，感同身受。對于那些懶散而煩惱的人來說，這將是至理名言。如果蘇格蘭青年弗格森在山坡上放羊時(shí)，讓他那思維活躍的大腦處于休息狀態(tài)，而不是借助一串珠子計(jì)算星星的位置，他就不會(huì)成為著名的天文學(xué)家。 nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in co