【正文】 —then silence again. [01:]And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night. [02:]The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one to wele her. [02:]The moonlight is broken. [02:]It lies here and there in the squares and the opening of the streets[02:]—angular like blocks of white marble. [00:]Passage 13. Peace and Development: the Themes of Our Times[00:]Peace and development are the themes of the times. [00:]People across the world should join hands in advancing the lofty cause of peace and development of mankind.[00:]A peaceful environment is indispensable for national, [00:]regional and even global development. [00:]Without peace or political stability there would be no economic progress to speak of. [00:]This has been fully proved by both the past and the present.[00:]In today’s world, the international situation is, on the whole, moving towards relaxation. [00:]However, conflicts and even local wars triggered by various factors have kept cropping up, [00:]and tension still remains in some areas. [00:]All this has impeded the economic development of the countries and regions concerned, [01:]and has also adversely affected the world economy. [01:]All responsible statesmen and governments must abide by the purposes of the UN Charter [01:]and the universally acknowledged norms governing international relations, [01:]and work for a universal, lasting and prehensive peace. [01:]Nobody should be allowed to cause tension or armed conflicts against the interests of the people.[01:]There are still in this world a few interest groups, [01:]which always want to seek gains by creating tension here and there. [01:]This is against the will of the majority of the people and against the trend of the times. [01:]An enormous market demand can be created and economic prosperity promoted [01:]only when continued efforts are made to advance the cause of peace and development, [02:]to ensure that people around the world live and work in peace and contentment [02:]and focus on economic development and on scientific and technological innovation.[02:]I hope that all of us here today will join hands with all other peaceloving people [02:]and work for lasting world peace and the mon development and prosperity [02:]of all nations and regions.[00:]Passage 14. SelfEsteem[00:]Selfesteem is the bination of selfconfidence and selfrespect[00:]—the conviction that you are petent to cope with life’s challenges[00:]and are worthy of happiness.[00:]Selfesteem is the way you talk to yourself about yourself.[00:]Selfesteem has two interrelated aspects。 —a drunken brawl。 and I feel that I am not alone.[01:]How different it is in the city! [01:]It is late, and the crowd is gone. [01:]You step out upon the balcony, and lie in the very bosom of the cool, [01:]dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. [01:]Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf. [01:]The lamps are still burning up and down the long street. [01:]People go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened, [01:]and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, [01:]while a new one springs up behind the walker, [01:]and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. [01:]The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang. [01:]There are footsteps and loud voices。 and hear only the voice of the summer wind. [00:]Like black hulks, the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. [00:]I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. [00:]Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. [00:]The tramp of horses39。 [01:]so did the exhausted laborers in the fields. [01:]Everything that lived or grew was oppressed by the glare。 [03:]am I to go back, in a blink, in the same stark nakedness? [03:]It is not fair though: [03:]why should I have made such a trip for nothing![03:]You the wise, tell me, [03:]why should our days leave us, never to return?[00:]Passage 11. A Summer Day[00:]One day thirty years ago Marseilles lay in the burning sun. [00:]A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France [00:]than at any other time before or since. [00:]Everything in Marseilles and about Marseilles had stared at the fervid sun, [00:]and had been stared at in return, until a staring habit had bee universal there. [00:]Strangers were stared out of countenance by staring white houses, [00:]staring white streets, staring tracts of arid road, staring hills from which verdure was burnt away. [00:]The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring [00:]were the vines drooping under their loads of grapes. [00:]These did occasionally wink a little, as the hot air barely moved their faint leaves.[01:]The universal stare made the eyes ache. [01:]Towards the distant blue of the Italian coast, indeed, [01:]it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist [01:]slowly rising from the evaporation of the sea, [01:]but it softened nowhere else. [01:]Far away the dusty vines overhanging wayside cottages, [01:]and the monotonous wayside avenues of parched trees without shade, [01:]dropped beneath the stare of earth and sky. [01:]So did the horses with drowsy bells, in long files of carts, [01:]creeping slowly towards the interior。 [01:]yet in between, how fast is the shift, in such a rush? [01:]When I get up in the morning, [01:]the slanting sun marks its presence in my small room in two or three oblongs. [01:]The sun has feet, look, he is treading on, lightly and furtively。 [00:]willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening。s bodies while, close at hand,[02:]surgeons use