英語晨讀美文篇一：晨讀英語美文60篇

Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture ................................................................................... 1

The beauty industry .............................................................................................................................. 2

Holiday Headache ................................................................................................................................... 2

Arthritis all-clear for high heels ..................................................................................................... 3

Disney World ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Secrets to a Great Life ......................................................................................................................... 5

The 50-Percent Theory of Life ......................................................................................................... 6

The Road to Happiness ........................................................................................................................ 7

Six Famous Words .................................................................................................................................. 8

Write Your Own Life .............................................................................................................................. 8

Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture

A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera.

It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French territory.

Its advertising posters on the Champs Elysee announce "Starbucks - a passion pour le cafe".

But is the company aware of the risk it is taking by challenging the very birthplace of cafe society?

"I think every time we come into a new market we do it with a great sense of respect, a great deal of interest in how that cafe society has developed over time," Bill O'Shea of Starbucks says.

"We recognise there is a huge history here of cafe society and we have every confidence we can enjoy, augment and join in that passion."

And he may be right. Despite some sniffiness in the French press, some younger French are expressing their excitement that they will finally be able to visit the kind of cafe they love to watch on the US TV series Friends.

In fact, for some, it is an exotic rarity, far more exciting than the average French cafe. Melissa, aged 18, says she can hardly wait: "I love Starbucks caramel coffee - it's very good and I like the concept that they're opening in Paris. I think Starbucks will be OK for French people."

An American tourist is equally excited when she spots the sign - this could be just the thing to help her get over the occasional twinge of homesickness.

"I love the French cafes, but Starbucks is so popular in the States and it's become part of American culture and now it's come to France, and that's OK," she said.

But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around(來自:www.91mayou.com 蒲公英文 摘:英語晨讀美文) the world - even if they are termed handcrafted beverages.

At the traditional cafes, customers worry that the big US coffee house chains could drive out small, family-owned cafes.

Others here think they could come round to the idea of Starbucks, though for them it would never replace the corner cafe or the typical Parisian petit noir coffee.

The beauty industry

The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three million pounds a week. These facts and figures are 'official', and can be accepted as being substantially true.

The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, as we have seen, they have not suffered.Women are retrenching on other things than their faces.

Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hithero reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. The fortunes are made justly by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the sellers of rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.

It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indisinguishable, at future picture shows, from the Portrai of the Artist's Daughter. The success is part due to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, and in part due to impoved health. So for some people, the campaign for more beauty is also a compaign for more health. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of heslth is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. Every middle-in-come preson can afford the cosmetic apparatus and more knowledge of the way in which real herlth can be achieved is being universally aced upon. When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features? The answer is apparent: No,for real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.

Holiday Headache

All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.

So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin rental”at altavista.com, I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.

I was wrong. The first site that I tried, cyberrentals.com, grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding, places as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings.Another site, vacationspot.com, let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter.

I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, I was ready to throw my computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a headache.I finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place.

Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I dreamed it would be.

Arthritis all-clear for high heels

Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are

unfounded,sayresearchers.

But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford Brookes Universtity found.

They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice of shoes was not a factor

The study was published in the Journal of Epidemilology and public health.

More than 2% of the population aged over 55 suffers extreme pain as a result of osteoarthrits of the knee.

The condition is twice as common in 65-year-old women as it is in men of the same age. Women's and men's knees are not biologically different, so the reserachers wanted to find out why twice as many women as men develop osteoarthritis in the joint.

Some researchers have speculated tha high-heeled shoes maybe to blame.

The women in the study were quizzed on details of their height and weight when they left school, between 36 and 40 and between 51 and 55.

They were asked about injuries, their jobs, smoking and use of contraceptive hormones. Howere, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years was not.

The researchers wrote:"Most of the women had been exposed to high heeled shoes over the years-nevertheless, a consistent finding was a reduced risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.

There was an even more pronounced link between regular dancing in three-inch heels and a reduced risk of knee problems.

The researchers described this finding as "surprising", but said that they would not expect a larger-scale study to overturn their findings.

Disney World

Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4 thousand acres, and is twice the size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles.

Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

There is very little that could be called vulgar in Disney World. It attracts people of most tastes and most income groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, forest trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the MagicKingdom.

Between the huge parking lots and the MagicKingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers of Cinderella’s Castle. Even getting to the MagicKingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippipaddlewheeler, or you can glide around the shore in a streamlined monorail train.

When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and

there is no traffic except a horse-drawn streetcar and an ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the MagicKingdom, you are actually walking on top of a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all other material needs of the MagicKingdom are invisibly supplied.

Secrets to a Great Life

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be.Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease.

A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. S—Simplify.

A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E—Effort.

A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It means looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

3. C—Create Priorities.

A great life is the result of creating priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you. Make sure you are honoring your priorities.

4. R—Reserves.

A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E—Eliminate distractions.

A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

6. T—Thoughts.

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美文一 這9件事，不要期待別人去做！ Life is full of experiences and trials that you never saw coming. Sometimes what we expect to happen and the reality of the situation are 2 very different things. Expectations are nice to have. They give you goals, purpose, joy and even something to look forward to, but you have to understand that life happens: you’re not always in control.

生活充滿不期而遇的經(jīng)歷。有時現(xiàn)實跟我們的期待完全是兩碼事。期待很美好，給人以目標(biāo)和快樂，使人有所憧憬，但你得明白：生活并不盡在你的掌控之中。

Some expectations are good to have and some are unhealthy. Here’s a list of expectations that if you have, you need to change. By changing certain expectations in your life, you are opening yourself up to new experiences, new ways of thinking and even a greater sense of accomplishment that you otherwise could not have received.

有些期待很美好，而有些則無益。下面列出應(yīng)該改變的期待。調(diào)整對生活的某些期待，你會迎來新體驗和新思維，甚至還能獲得前所未有的成就感。

1. Stop Expecting People to be Perfect:

停止期待別人盡善盡美

If you have this mindset, you will always be disappointed. People will never live up to your expectations. There’s nothing wrong with having high expectations for people, but understand that when they fail, and they will, they still tried. Be understanding and don’t expect perfection. 如果你總要求別人做到完美，那你必然一直失望，因為人們永遠(yuǎn)也不可能達(dá)到你的期望。對人有很高的期望其實也無可厚非，但請記�。壕退銓Ψ�?jīng)]能做到，他們也盡力了。所以請多加體諒，不要苛求完美。

2. Stop Expecting the Worst from People:

停止預(yù)料別人糟糕透頂

On the flip side, if you’re always expecting people to fail, you’re not giving them the chance to succeed. Encourage those around you. Help them, teach them. That’s how they will grow and be able to accomplish hard things.

反之，如果你總覺得別人會栽跟頭，那等于是在扼殺他們成功的機(jī)會。你應(yīng)該多鼓勵他們、幫助他們、指導(dǎo)他們。這樣他們才能成長并征服困難。 3. Stop Expecting People to Pay for You: 停止期望別人為你買單 Your finances are your responsibility. You shouldn’t expect people to pay for your entertainment, your bills or even your groceries. Get in control of your money. Once you have a budget, stick to it. Just because all your friends go out to lunch doesn’t mean you have to. There are differences between needs and wants—if you want something, save up for it; don’t expect your friends or family to pitch in and get it for you.

你應(yīng)該為自己的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況負(fù)責(zé)，不要期望別人請你出去玩、給你買單或付菜錢。管好自己的錢袋，制定預(yù)算并堅持執(zhí)行。朋友全都在外吃飯并不表示你必須跟著去�！靶枰�”和“渴望”是有區(qū)別的：如果你渴望什么，那就自己存錢，不要妄想親友買了送給你。

4. Stop Expecting Things to Always Go Wrong:

停止擔(dān)憂萬事不順

Whatever streak of bad luck you may think you’ve been having, you shouldn’t come to expect that out of everything. Learn to stay positive. If you look for the good in things you will find them, and it’s the same with bad things. If your whole focus is on situations never turning out how you want them to, they never will.

不管你覺得自己現(xiàn)在有多倒霉，也不要因此意象出無數(shù)噩運。學(xué)會保持積極樂觀。如果你心懷美好，就會發(fā)現(xiàn)美好；反之亦然。要是你一心以為一切都不會變成期望的那樣，結(jié)果還真會事與愿違。

5. Stop Expecting Fairness in Everything:

停止期望一切公平

生活并非一直公平。有時你辛勤工作卻得不到認(rèn)可或獎勵，事實就是如此。所以要放寬心胸：付出所有，但不要期待任何回報。

6. Stop Expecting Things to be Easy:

停止期望凡事簡單容易

If you only ever do the simplest things, you’ll never do anything great. Life is hard. Trials will come your way that you don’t feel prepared for. But know that you can stay strong and do hard things. Anything worth achieving in life requires hard work, diligence and self-discipline. If you only strive for mediocrity, that’s all you’ll ever be.

如果總是挑簡單的事做，那你永遠(yuǎn)成不了大器。生活會在始料不及時考驗?zāi)悖�所以你必須挑�?zhàn)困難、保持堅強(qiáng)。世上任何值得擁有的東西都需要付諸努力、勤奮和自律。倘若自甘平庸，那你就會變得庸碌無為。

7. Stop Expecting Something for Nothing:

停止期望不勞而獲

If you don’t put any effort into accomplishing something you want, you’re not going to get the results you desire. If you want to lose weight, you have to make changes by eating healthy and exercising. You can’t eat what you want, when you want and still expect to look amazing. If you want something, then work your hardest to achieve it.

若是渴望得到卻又不付諸努力，那你絕不會取得期望的成就。想要減肥?那就開始健康飲食、規(guī)律運動吧。若還是任著性子亂吃，你永遠(yuǎn)也不可能變得苗條美麗！若有所渴望，那就全力以赴去爭��！

8. Stop Expecting People to Change:

停止期望別人有所改變

People are habitual. We like things to be constant. It’s comfortable. We can change, but it takes time. If you desire someone else to change, you need to start with yourself. You don’t have the power to change anyone other than yourself, and once you realize that, your life will be a lot happier.

人都依戀習(xí)慣，喜歡萬事固定不變、舒服穩(wěn)妥。雖然改變也行，但卻耗費時間。要是你期望別人有所改變，那就先從改變自己開始吧。你的力量只在于改變自己，而非其他任何人;一旦意識到這點，生活會變得舒心很多。

9. Stop Expecting People to Drop Everything for You:

停止期望別人為你放棄一切

You’re not the only one who has bad days. Friends and family members should be someone you can count on to help you when life gets hard, but don’t abuse these relationships. Learn to take care of yourself. Being independent is healthy. You shouldn’t have to insist that you do everything on your own, but you don’t want to keep putting your friends and family members in a position that causes them to miss out on important events in their lives because they are helping you.

世上不幸的人何止你一個。遭遇坎坷時，固然可以向親朋好友尋求撫慰，但請不要濫求無度。學(xué)會照顧好自己，能夠獨立才是健康。你當(dāng)然可以自力更生，而且不要使你的親友因為幫助你而錯失他們自己生活中的重要事情。

Having expectations is about finding balance in life. You have to know when you’re asking too much and when you can ask for more. It can be hard but we all need to let go of ouruealistic expectations and learn to live a healthier, happier life.

有所期待是為了找到生活平衡。你必須清楚自己何時索求太多、何時又可再多點期盼。當(dāng)然，這點做起來不容易，但我們總得拋開不切實際的期望，努力過上健康快樂的生活吧？

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Do you think that you have no time to catch up on your favorite TV series, go out with your friends on the weekend, or just sit around relaxing around doing nothing? You might have a boatload of time at your disposal, but don’t even know it!

你是不是覺得自己沒有時間追看喜歡的電視劇，跟朋友在周末外出，甚至連無所事事放松一下的時間也沒有？其實你也許有許多可以支配的時間，只是你沒有意識到。

Here are 15 reasons as to why you might be crunched for some R&R:、

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1. Your workplace is full of distractions

你辦公的地方太容易分心

Chatty coworkers, silly desk toys and emails of cute cats can put a damper on your ability to get things done. Eliminate distractions in your workspace by using noise-cancelling headphones or purchasing a white noise machine, work in a different area of the office or ask for a workspace reassignment, or log off of email or the internet completely when working.

聊天的同事、傻傻的桌面玩具、關(guān)于喵星人的電子郵件都可以成為你完成工作的阻礙。想要消除辦公地點這些讓人分心的事物，你可以戴上消除噪音的耳機(jī)，買一臺白噪聲機(jī)器，在辦公室里另找一片地方工作或者要求重新分配一個工作區(qū)，也可以在工作時退出郵箱登陸或者完全斷開網(wǎng)絡(luò)。

2. You say "Yes" to everything that comes your way

你對所有落在你頭上的事情都應(yīng)承下來

You don’t have to always say yes to everything that comes your way, be it an invite to a party or function, a question or even a chance to do something completely out of the blue. Think twice before saying yes to something – you have the power to control your schedule and your time.

你沒有必要把所有落在你頭上的事情都應(yīng)承下來，比如說邀請你參加的一個聚會或者活動，向你提出的一個問題，甚至是突然讓你做某件事。在答應(yīng)做這些事之前要三思，你有權(quán)掌控自己的日程和時間。

3. You mistake work time for playtime

你把工作時間用來玩了

You say you’re working, but you’re playing yet another level of Candy Crush Saga…which one is it? Work or play? Playing during work time adds more time to your day and messes up your schedule. If you just sat down and worked, you’d be done so much sooner than if you stopped to play.

你說自己在工作，可是你又玩了一關(guān)《糖果粉碎傳奇》游戲??你到底在做什么，是工作還是玩？在工作時間玩耍會讓你的工作時間延長，打亂你的日程。如果你坐下來好好工作，那么你結(jié)束工作的時間會比你停下來玩游戲要早得多。

4. You don’t commit to scheduling meetings and appointments

你沒有出席計劃好的會議和約見

Not committing to meetings or appointments creates more work, effort and wasted time. Stop being wishy-washy when you receive an invite: you’ll either attend or not.

沒有應(yīng)約出席會議或約見會增加你的工作量，還會浪費時間。當(dāng)你接受一項邀請的時候不要漫不經(jīng)心，你要么出席，要么不要答應(yīng)。

5. You don’t book your vacation well enough in advance

你沒有提前足夠多的時間預(yù)約休假

Your vacation days are racking up at work, you’re feeling drained and the year’s almost finished. Why didn’t you put in that vacation request months ago? Take action and be sure to book your vacations in advance, you’ll be happy you did in six months’ time!

你的假期時間被工作吞噬了，你感覺筋疲力盡，這一年好像都要結(jié)束了。你為什么不提前幾個月提出休假的要求呢？行動起來，確保自己提前預(yù)約了假期，如果你提前半年預(yù)約會很開心的。

6. You watch the clock too much

你總是在看時間

Counting all the minutes and seconds in your day isn’t healthy time management. If you’re constantly looking at or managing your schedule, you’re using up all your time: work and play time included.

工作時總是讀分?jǐn)?shù)秒并不是健康的時間管理方式。如果你總是在看時間或者管理你的日程，你就把時間都花完了，包括工作時間和娛樂時間。

7. You get caught up in other people’s business and drama

你陷入了別人的事務(wù)和生活

"I heard Joey had this terrible truck accident last weekend, broke both arms, and has to settle things in court… plus his wife’s threatening to leave him and take the kids with her…" Blah, blah, blah. The gossip mills will always be turning with information that really isn’t useful to your life. Step away from the gossip and instead spend your time on yourself and creating a life you love.

“我聽說Joey上周末出了嚴(yán)重的卡車事故，兩條胳膊都折了，還要上法庭。而且他老婆還威脅要離開他，還要把孩子都帶走??”諸如此類的八卦總是源源不斷，而它們對于你的生活毫無意義。遠(yuǎn)離八卦，把你的時間都花在自己身上，用來創(chuàng)造你愛的生活。

8. You make mountains out of molehills

你小題大做

You just broke the heel on your favorite pair of shoes! Your day is ruined…or is it? There’s no reason to waste time getting caught up on little things that can be fixed. Get the item fixed and move on with your life.

你最愛的那雙鞋的鞋跟壞了！你的一天都被毀了??是這樣嗎？沒有理由把時間浪費在那些可以處理好的小事上。解決了問題就繼續(xù)你的生活吧。

9. You check your smart phone every three minutes

你每三分鐘就看一下你的智能手機(jī)

Constantly checking email, text messages, social media all adds up over time, especially if you are trying to relax. Put down the phone—or better yet, shut it off completely to prevent yourself from checking in every few minutes.

過于頻繁地查看郵件、短信和社交媒體都會占用你的時間，尤其是如果你還想有時間放松的話。把手機(jī)放下，最好是關(guān)機(jī)，這樣你就不會每隔幾分鐘就看一次。

10. You volunteer too much of your personal time.

你自愿犧牲了太多私人時間

Do you go out of your way to volunteer your time even when it isn’t asked for? Sure, helping people out is good, but being burned out and bitter is not. Strike a balance as to how much of your free time you’ll volunteer or donate to your favorite causes per month.

你是否自愿付出了太多時間，去做一些甚至沒有要求你做的事？當(dāng)然，幫助別人是好的，但是忙到筋疲力盡就不好了。要平衡掌握你自愿付出多少私人時間，或者每個月愿意花多少時間上你最愛的課程。

11. You participate in too many hobbies, clubs or extracurricular activities

你參加了太多的興趣活動、俱樂部或者業(yè)余活動

You signed up for yoga, Spanish lessons, pastry making, juggling lessons and antiquecabinetry classes… every week! Stretching yourself thin is never good, especially when you were trying to relax in the first place. Narrow down your activities to one or two to keep things in check.

你報名了瑜伽課、西班牙語課、點心制作、慢跑課程、古董家具課??而且每周都如此!過分壓榨自己的時間本來就不好，尤其是你首先想要放松一下�？刂埔幌拢�把你的活動壓縮到一兩項。

12. You wake up late

你起床晚

Trying to squeeze more time in your day after a late start? Unfortunately relaxation and fun time are the first two things to get cut when you have a late start. Give yourself time to relax by getting a good night’s rest and waking up at the time you’re supposed to wake up.

英語晨讀美文篇三：激情晨讀英語美文50篇 雙語1-6

Chapter One Human Life Like a Poem 人生如詩

I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem.

我以為，從生物學(xué)角度看，人的一生恰如詩歌。

It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay.

人生自有其韻律和節(jié)奏，自有內(nèi)在的生成與衰亡。

No one can say that a life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; 人生有童年、少年和老年，誰也不能否認(rèn)這是一種美好的安排，

the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good

一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好。

that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. 人生本無好壞之分，只是各個季節(jié)有各自的好處。

And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.

如若我們持此種生物學(xué)的觀點，并循著季節(jié)去生活，除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和無可救藥的理想主義者，誰能說人生不能像詩一般度過呢。

——Lin Yutang

1.We Are on a Journey人在旅途

By Hey Van Dyke

Wherever you are, and whoever you maybe, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on a journey, our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain precisely the same, they are changing. For the mere advance of time is a change. It is not the same thing to have a bare field in January and in July, the season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.

無論你在何處，無論你是何人，此刻，而且在我們生命的每時每刻，你與我有一點是類似的。我們不是在休息，我們在旅途中。生命是一種運動，一種趨勢，一個穩(wěn)步、持續(xù)的通往一個未知目標(biāo)的過程。每天，我們都在獲得，或失去。盡管我們的地位和性格看起來好像一點都沒變，但是它們在變化。因為時光的流逝本身是一種變化。在一月和七月?lián)碛幸黄�貧瘠的土地是不同的，是季�?jié)本身帶來了變化。孩童時可愛的缺點到了成人時便成了幼稚。

Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another, even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept – the other alternative. 我們做的每件事都是邁向一個或另外一個方向，甚至“什么都沒做”本身也是一種行為，它讓我們前進(jìn)或倒退。一棵磁針的陰極的作用與陽極是一樣的。拒絕即接受??接受反面。

Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday? Yes, -- you must be a little nearer to some port or other; for since your ship was first lunched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment; the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would. There can be no pause until you come into port.

你今天比昨天更加接近你的目標(biāo)了嗎？是的，你肯定是離一個或另一個碼頭或更近一些了。因為自從你的小船從生命的海洋上啟航時，你沒有哪一刻是停止的。大海是這樣深，你想拋錨時找不到地方。在你駛?cè)氪a頭之前，你不可能停留。

2. The True Nobility真正的高貴

By Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

在風(fēng)平浪靜的大海上,每個人都是領(lǐng)航員。

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

但只有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來說,他的生活也是一團(tuán)纏結(jié)在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現(xiàn),使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近。

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

在生活和事業(yè)的種種事務(wù)之中，性格比才智更能指導(dǎo)我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導(dǎo)我們，而由判斷獲得的克制、耐心和教養(yǎng)比天分更能讓我們受益。

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

我一向認(rèn)為，內(nèi)心生活開始更為嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)?shù)娜�，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物欲橫流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多么可憐。

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

反思自己的過錯不至于重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并沒有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高貴是優(yōu)于過去的自己。

3. The World as I See It我的世界觀

By Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people—first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellowmen. I regard class distinctions as unjustified and, in the last resort, based on force. I also believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

我們這些肉體凡胎是多么奇怪啊！每個人來到這個世上都只作短暫停留，究竟為了什么目的卻無從知曉，雖然有時覺得自己好像有所感悟。但是，無需深入思考，僅從日常生活就可明白，人是為他人而存在的——首先是為這樣一些人：他們的歡笑、健康和福祉與我們的幸福息息相關(guān)；其次是為那些為數(shù)眾多的陌生人，因為同情他們，使得我們與他們的命運聯(lián)系在了一起。每一天，我都上百次地提醒自己，我的精神和物質(zhì)生活都是建立在他人(包括生者和死者)的勞動基礎(chǔ)上，對于我已經(jīng)得到和正在得到的一切，我必須盡力給以相同程度的回報。我深深向往一種儉樸的生活，由于經(jīng)常意識到自己占用了同胞太多的勞動而心有不安。我認(rèn)為階級區(qū)分是不正當(dāng)?shù)�，其最終的達(dá)成方式常常訴諸暴力。我還認(rèn)為，無論是在身體上還是心理上，過一種簡單而不鋪張浪費的生活對每個人都有好處。

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying, “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants,” has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.

我完全不相信哲學(xué)意義上的人的自由。每個人的行為不僅受外在力量的約束，還要與內(nèi)在需求協(xié)調(diào)一致。叔本華說：“人可以任意而為，卻不能心想事成�！边@句話從我年輕時起就一直深深地啟發(fā)著我。在面對生活的艱辛?xí)r——無論是我自己還是他人的艱辛，這句話總能不斷地給我安慰，成為永不枯竭的忍耐的源泉。這一認(rèn)識能夠仁慈地緩和那份令人幾欲崩潰的責(zé)任感，并防止我們太把自己或者他人當(dāng)回事，還有助于形成一種尤其幽默的人生觀。

To inquire after the meaning or object of one’s own existence or that of all creatures has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view. And yet everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with

men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects of human efforts—possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible. 客觀地說，探求自己或者其他所有生命存在的意義或者目標(biāo)，我一直都認(rèn)為是荒唐之舉。然而，每個人多少都有自己的理想，決定著他的奮斗目標(biāo)和他對事情的看法。從這個意義上說，我從來都不會把安逸和幸福看作終極目標(biāo)——我將這種倫理道德的基礎(chǔ)稱之為“豬圈理想”。一直以來，是對真、善、美的追求照亮了我的道路，一次又一次給我以新的勇氣，讓我愉快地面對生活。如果沒有對志同道合者的那種親近感，如果沒有對客觀世界——那個藝術(shù)和科學(xué)研究永遠(yuǎn)也無法窮極的世界——的孜孜以求，生命對我來說就是一場空。那些向來為世人競相追求的目標(biāo)——財產(chǎn)、奢華和外在的成功——我對此不屑一顧。

4. Love Your Life熱愛生活

By Hey David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it

不論你的生活如何卑微，你都得面對與度過

do not shun it and call it hard names

不要逃避，更不要抱怨

it is not so bad as you are

生活不像你認(rèn)為的那般壞

It looks poorest when you are richest

當(dāng)你富甲天下之時，生活卻顯得貧瘠乏味

The fault finder will find faults in paradise

即使在天堂，愛找缺點的人也能找到缺點。

Love your life, poor as it is

即使生活貧窮，你也該熱愛生活

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house因為就是在貧濟(jì)院，你也有自己快樂激動與光榮的歲月

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode

夕陽照在貧濟(jì)院窗上的反光與照在富人家的一樣耀目

The snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

其門前的積雪也同樣在早春融化

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there

我只是看到，一個心緒寧靜的人就算居住在貧濟(jì)院，生活起來也會心滿意足。

And have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

思想愉悅，如同生活在皇宮中一樣。

The town`s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

在我看來，城鎮(zhèn)中的貧民大凡過著最為無拘無束的生活。

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

或許他們只是超乎尋常，不然豈會毫無疑懼地接受這一切。

Most think that they are above being supported by the town.

大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為自己超凡脫俗而無須依賴城鎮(zhèn)的資助

5.The Road to Happiness通往幸福的道路

By Bertrand Russell

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and uemunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

只要你觀察一下周圍那些你可稱之為幸福的男男女女，就會看出他們都有某些共同之處。在這些共同之處中有一點是最重要的：那就是活動本身，它在大多數(shù)情況下本身就很有趣，而且可逐漸的使你的愿望得以實現(xiàn)。生性喜愛孩子的婦女，能夠從撫養(yǎng)子女中得到這種滿足。藝術(shù)家、作家和科學(xué)家如果對自己的工作感到滿意，也能以同樣的方式得到快樂。不過，還有很多是較低層次的快樂。許多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做無償?shù)膭趧�，春天來時，他們就可盡情享受自己創(chuàng)造的美景帶來的快樂。

The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.

在我看來，整個關(guān)于快樂的話題一向都被太嚴(yán)肅的對待過了。過去一直有這樣的看法：如果

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