【正文】 ower. Cheer is strength. Nothing is so well done as that which is done heartily, and nothing is so heartily done as that which is done happily. Be happy, is an injunction not impossible of fulfillment. Pleasure may be an accident。s delicate mechanism。 it is hard work being cheerful at a funeral, and it is a good deal harder to keep the frown from your face when you are in the throng of the worry worn ones. Yet, we have no right to be dispensers of gloom。 worry cuts the deep, downglancing lines on the face。t yet thought of,which will enable you to feel good about your choice, and then search for what it are not always the victim in life。m letting down a bunch of I do the other, I39。m trying to resolve, a weekend in the near future where I have conflicting demands and values, and need to be in two places at the same have agonized over this decision because my intuition is not giving me a clear answer and I haven39。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。it costs more than any other thing, for it is worth more than all other it never is inherited,but always acquired by processes often slow and toilsome勞累的 and at great you would be perfect you must pay the price of the passion of life is this perfection it never will be your of ideal goodness only waste the hours in which it might have been man ever finds character in his education of the heart is a thing even more definite than the education of the school of character has an infinite【 ?infinit 無(wú)限的 variety of courses and an unending does not mean that this prize of eternity無(wú)窮無(wú)盡 fallsonly to those who devote themselves wholly to selfculture,to the salvation超度、得救 of their own souls. The best lives have thought little of themselves,but they have lived for the ends of the soul, to help men to better living,to save them from the things that blight 雜亂、植物害蟲 and damn the soul. Like the Leader of men they have found the life unending by laying down their lives,paying the full price, selling all in order that right and truth and honour and purity,love and kindness and justice might remain to man. 4 Three Passions 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吹刮 me hither到此處 and thither向那里 , in a wayward course over a deep ocean of anguish極度痛苦、苦惱 , reaching to the very verge路邊 of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy 【 e】狂喜 —ecstasy 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 loneliness —that terrible loneliness in which one shivering 顫抖的 consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss【 i】深淵、無(wú)底洞 . I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature 微型的 , 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 what—at last—I 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 ... 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 pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate 【 ri?verbreit】回響 in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured 嚴(yán)刑、酷刑 by oppressors【 0‘ pres0】壓迫者 , helpless old people —a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery 愚弄、嘲笑 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. 5 The Blue Days Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy[‘ laozi]很糟的 , grumpy暴躁的 , lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You can?t rise to the occasion. Just getting started seems impossible. On blue days you can bee paranoid 偏執(zhí)狂的、多疑的 that everyone is out to get you. This is not always such a bad thing. You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nailbiting frenzy 狂亂 that can escalate[?esk0leit]逐步上升 into a triplechocolatemudcakeeating frenzy in a blink of an eye! On blue days you feel like you?re floating in an ocean of sadness. You?re about to burst into tears at any moment and you don?t even know why. Ultimately, you feel like you?re wandering through life without purpose. You?re not sure how much longer you can hang on, and you feel like shouting, “Will someone please shoot me!” It doesn?t take much to bring on a blue day. You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best, find some new wrinkles訣竅 , put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple粉刺、 丘疹 on your nose. You could fet your date?s name or have an embarrassing photograph published. You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname, or just have a plain old badhair day. Maybe work is a pain in the butt. You?re under major pressure to fill someone else?s shoes,your boss is picking on you, and everyone in the office is driving you crazy. You might have a splitting headache, or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips, or a nasty ingrown toenail. Whatever the reason, you?re convinced that someone up there doesn?t like you. Oh what to do, what to dooo? 6 The 50Percent Theory of Life I believe in the 50percent the time things are better