【正文】 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。對于偉大的生而為贏 —— 慧普教育 英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 5 ~ 思想來說，時間是無關(guān)緊要的。時間惟一的作用是淘汰不好的作品，因為只有真正的佳作才能經(jīng)世長存。我們覺得自己仿佛在作者所描繪的舞臺上和他們一起粉墨登場。他們的精神被載入書冊，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. 譯文： 如果我休息，我就會生銹 在一把舊鑰匙上發(fā)現(xiàn)了一則意義深遠的銘文 ——如果我休息，我就會生銹。甚至最為勤勉的人也以此作為警示：如果一個人有才能而不用，就像廢棄鑰匙上的鐵一樣，這些才能就會很快生銹，并最終無法完成安排給自己的工作。 勤奮使開啟成功寶庫的鑰匙保持 光亮。米勒在采石場勞作一天后，晚上的時光用來休息消遣的話，他就不會成為名垂青史的地質(zhì)學家。斯通如果閑暇時無所事事，就不會出版數(shù)學詞典，也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)開啟數(shù)學之門的鑰匙。 生而為贏 —— 慧普教育 英語背誦美文 30 篇 文本 ~ 6 ~ 勞動征服一切。正如要想擁有自由就要時刻保持警惕一樣，要想取得偉大的，持久的成功，就必須堅持不 懈地努力。第五篇： Ambition 抱負 Ambition It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension bee a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be! There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one‘s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists。 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?；蛟S，這將是一個更為友善的世界：沒有渴求，沒有磨擦，沒有失望。他們所從事的工作將不是為了他們自身，而是為了整個集體。人們的緊張關(guān)系將成為過往云煙。藝術(shù)將不再惹人費神，其功能將純粹為了慶典。焦慮將會消失。 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 ~ 有一種盛行的觀點認為，成功是一種神話，因此抱負亦屬虛幻。對 值得和不值得的選擇，一個人自然而然很快就能學會。認為成功不存在的觀點很可能造成混亂。 我們無法選擇出生，無法選擇父母，無法選擇出生的歷史時期與國家，或是成長的周遭環(huán)境。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，是目標堅定還是隨波逐流。我們決定，用以顯示我們自身重要性的，不是我們做了什么，就是我們拒絕做些什么。我們決定，我們選擇。最終構(gòu)筑我們命運的就是抱負之所在。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。 我尋求愛，首先因為它使我心為之著迷，這種難以名狀的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去換取哪怕幾個小時這樣的幸福。我尋求愛，因為在我所目睹的結(jié)合中，我仿佛看到了圣賢與詩人們所向往的 天堂之景。 我用同樣的激情去尋求知識。我試圖領(lǐng)悟畢達哥拉斯所景仰的 ―數(shù)即萬物 ‖的思想。 愛和知識，用它們的力量把人引向天堂。痛苦的呼喊聲回蕩在我的內(nèi)心。我渴望能夠減少邪惡，但是我無能為力，我也難 逃其折磨。我已經(jīng)找到它的價值。 And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving。 To return home at eventide with gratitude。當愛的羽翼擁抱你時，請順從她，盡管隱藏在其羽翼之下的劍可能會傷到你。 愛會給你戴上桂冠，也會折磨你。愛會上升到枝頭，撫愛你在陽光下顫動力的嫩枝，也會下潛至根部，撼動力你緊抓泥土的根基。愛只將自己付出，也只得到自己。 愛除了實現(xiàn)自我別無他求。 明了過多的溫柔所帶來的苦痛。 在黎明帶著輕快的心醒來并感謝又一個有家的日子； 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。第八篇： The Road to Success 成功之道 The Road to Success It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust up