时间:2018-11-29 作者:英语课 分类:四级晨读英语美文


英语课

Develop and Fulfill 1 One’s Life


I ‵will|practise perseverance 2 more often, and never give up a ‵thing|because it was hard or inconvenient 3. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. ‵Perseverance|can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only ‵two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount 4 the pyramids — ‵the eagle|and the snail 5.”


I ‵will|school myself into a habit of attention; I ‵will not let anything come between me|and the subject in hand. I ‵will remember|that a good skater| ‵never tries to skate|in two directions at once. The habit of attention becomes ‵part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown-up people say, “I ‵could not fix my attention|on the lecture or book, ‵although I wished to do so,” and the reason is, the habit was ‵not formed in youth.


I ‵will|pay more attention|to the cultivation 6 of the memory. I ‵will strengthen|that faculty 7 by ‵every possible means, and on ‵every possible occasion. It takes a little ‵hard work at first|to remember things accurately 8; but memory ‵soon helps itself, and gives very ‵little trouble. It ‵only needs early cultivation|to become a power.


I ‵will look on the cheerful side. Life is very ‵much like a mirror: if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you; ‵but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a ‵similar look in return.


Inner sunshine|warms not ‵only the heart of the owner, ‵but of all that come in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn|shall be ‵shut from love.”


I ‵will|school myself to say|‵“No” more often. I might write pages|on the importance of learning very ‵early in life|to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect 9, and decline doing an ‵unworthy act|because it is unworthy.


I ‵will|demand of myself more courtesy|towards my companions and friends, and ‵indeed towards strangers as well. The smallest courtesies|along the rough roads of life|are like the ‵little birds|that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and snow ‵more endurable.


Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if|that were the ‵sole purpose of life, I will try still ‵harder|to make others happy.

发展、完善自我


我会更多地培养自己的毅力,决不因为事情艰难或麻烦而放弃不干。如果我们要光明,我们就得征服黑暗。在产生的结果方面,毅力往往可以与天才相媲美。有句谚语说:“能登上金字塔的生物只有两种——雄鹰与蜗牛。”


我会培养自己专心致志的习惯。一旦手头有事,决不让任何事物使我分心。我会牢记:一位优秀的溜冰手从不试图同时滑向两个不同的方向。如果及早培养成专心致志的习惯,它就会成为我们生命的一部分。我常常听到成年人说:“尽管我希望能集中注意力听演讲或读书,但往往做不到。”其原因就在于年轻时没有养成这种习惯。


我会更加注意培养自己的记忆力。我要采取一切可能的办法,在一切可能的场合,增强记忆力。要精确地记住一切事物,起初的确要作出一番小小的努力:但用不了多久,记忆力本身就会起作用,使记忆成为轻而易举的事。只需及早培养,记忆自会成为一种才能。


凡事我都会看光明的一面。生活就像一面镜子:你朝它微笑,它也会朝你微笑;但如果你朝它皱眉头,它也会朝你皱眉头;如果你用怀疑的目光看待它,它也会以同样怀疑的目光看待你。


内心的阳光不仅温暖了自己的心,同时也温暖了所有跟他接触的人的心。“谁将爱拒之门外,谁就会被爱拒之门外。”


我要养成经常说“不”的习惯。一个少年要能挺直腰杆,拒绝做不值得做的事——就因为它不值得做。我可以写上好几页,谈谈早期培养这一点的重要性。


我会要求自己对待同伴和朋友更有礼貌,而且对陌生人确实也该如此。在坎坷的人生道路上,最细小的礼貌犹如在漫长的冬季为我们歌唱的小鸟,使得冰天雪地的严冬变得更加可以忍受。


我不会竭力为自己谋幸福——似乎那是人生惟一的目标;与之相反,我会更加努力,让他人幸福。



1 fulfill
vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意
  • If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
  • This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
2 perseverance
n.坚持不懈,不屈不挠
  • It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
  • Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。
3 inconvenient
adj.不方便的,令人感到麻烦的
  • You have come at a very inconvenient time.你来得最不适时。
  • Will it be inconvenient for him to attend that meeting?他参加那次会议会不方便吗?
4 surmount
vt.克服;置于…顶上
  • We have many problems to surmount before we can start the project.我们得克服许多困难才能著手做这项工作。
  • We are fully confident that we can surmount these difficulties.我们完全相信我们能够克服这些困难。
5 snail
n.蜗牛
  • Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
  • Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
6 cultivation
n.耕作,培养,栽培(法),养成
  • The cultivation in good taste is our main objective.培养高雅情趣是我们的主要目标。
  • The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.这块土地不够肥沃,不值得耕种。
7 faculty
n.才能;学院,系;(学院或系的)全体教学人员
  • He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
  • He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
8 accurately
adv.准确地,精确地
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
9 erect
n./v.树立,建立,使竖立;adj.直立的,垂直的
  • She held her head erect and her back straight.她昂着头,把背挺得笔直。
  • Soldiers are trained to stand erect.士兵们训练站得笔直。
学英语单词
acoustic lemniscus
add on sth
administrative transaction
adventure-loving
alsh
Altheim(Alb)
ampallangs
amylorrhea
at the cost of
audio-level meter
aviation forecast zone
aviation supply ship
Baud rate
bilge water
breeding garden
bridegam
Burroughs,William S(eward)
canani
CD Text
control sensor
criteria for estimation
Crockett magnetic separator
deep fryer,deep-fryer
double aunts
douchenoggle
dynamic brittle-coating test
eczema of nipple
ekstrom method
electric anemoclinograph
environmental disturbance
extended price
first-choice
gambrel roof
go away bird
gravel-blind
ground flesh
Guignol
hardware design
heating energy
high core
home and dry
husson
hyperleptoprosopic
immunotactoid
instruct me
ITTF
joint procedures analysis
leding
mains antenna
majoris
Mayuko
minarchisms
nascent fibre
National Operational Satellite
natural enclosure
neo-Catholicism
new and nonofficial remedies (n.n.r.)
noblesse de robe
non-visible property
nonmonarchy
Ohlone
ommunopolysaccharide
ordinary superphosphate
oxolation
permanent tissue
piperazine dihydrochloride
polychlorprene foam
ponder over
prerecorded signal
purple passages
queercore
rhizoliths
run book
sand cracking
sanidinite facies
Santa Cruz, Prov.de
Savudrija, Rt
scoliomete
Scorpio maurus
sediment diffusion
semi-secrecy
Sherpur
single-row pig house
staff suggestion box
steam turbine single-up test
stibo-
stichidium
sub-study
Sulcus calcarinus
Tarobi
terminal marking piece
tetanus whooping-cough prophylactic
tetraphenylfuran
theory of medical morality
thripses
Toxopneustidae
transverse electromagnetic (tem) mode
treison
upsetting device
vagarish
vital statistics
window-based