时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


英语课

[00:01.49]I Want! I Do! I Get!

[00:04.34]There's a great song out there by Jimmy Cliff,

[00:08.16]one of reggae's top artists,

[00:10.25]that in six words summarizes just how you succeed in life:

[00:14.29]I want! I do! I get!

[00:17.90] These six words are a very powerful way

[00:20.86]of connecting what you want with what you will achieve.

[00:24.24]First comes wanting something—a better life for yourself,

[00:28.18]your family, more money, a better job,

[00:31.35]whatever it is you dream about and long for.

[00:34.53]You desire it, you dream about it,

[00:37.09] you daydream 1 about it, you yearn 2 for it.

[00:40.81]But that's not enough.

[00:42.88]Next and this the part too many people forget about—comes the doing.

[00:48.13]All of the wanting in the world

[00:49.99]is not going to move you one inch closer to what you want: you have to do.

[00:55.24]You have to find a better job, change jobs, take risks, write software,

[01:01.25] try new things, stop doing old things, go to college, work, act, do.

[01:08.69] The doing is the absolutely indispensable connection

[01:12.41]between what you want and what you get.

[01:15.04]Finally, if you keep doing what needs to be done,

[01:18.43]if you keep adjusting what you do to move you closer to what you want, you get.

[01:23.79] Maybe not easily, maybe not as quickly as movies and television portray 3,

[01:29.37]but it will come.

[01:31.33]One final philosophical 4 note about these six words:

[01:35.05]notice that "I" is three of them?

[01:38.00]Not what others want, not what others say you are "supposed" or "should" do.

[01:43.91]What's more, no one is going to do it for you.

[01:47.66] You are the key to making these six words work.



1 daydream
v.做白日梦,幻想
  • Boys and girls daydream about what they want to be.孩子们遐想着他们将来要干什么。
  • He drifted off into another daydream.他飘飘然又做了一个白日梦。
2 yearn
v.想念;怀念;渴望
  • We yearn to surrender our entire being.我们渴望着放纵我们整个的生命。
  • Many people living in big cities yearn for an idyllic country life.现在的很多都市人向往那种田园化的生活。
3 portray
v.描写,描述;画(人物、景象等)
  • It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
  • Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗?
4 philosophical
adj.哲学家的,哲学上的,达观的
  • The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
  • She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。
学英语单词
absence of collector
absolute temperature scale of gas
acexamic acid
air brake control valve
all silica fiber
amn't
Amphalius runatus
Andean Reserve Fund
aqua pluvialis
asva
augmented-lead
autocat
Berner Alpen
bi-directional bus driver
Bibra alloy
bifaces
bogsides
bring to grips with
caitlin
charitable fund
chupe
counterrecoil mechanism
current derating
curtain plate
delegation
Devwent R.
dilatan-kore
doablest
drupose
dump bins
enamel furnace
explicit occurrence
filipino-american
fixed radix numeration
flame proof glass
forethoughtful
forgery of money note
fossa intercondylica posterior
from the outside to the inside
fusibilities
galante
gas and steam combined cycle
genus Ceratozamia
giga-farads
grass prawn
heat transfers
Hufschmidt therapy
intercoiling
interinement
internal ester
kojve
Ledian
leukoplania
make a basket
managerial level
massive osteolysis
microseepages
military recruits
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
monochromatic point source
moral minimum theory
mosrites
MUCTC
multicyclone
multilocation microcirculation microscope
natural equation of a curve
negihama
night-dresses
non-competitions
off your nut
olcott
open groove
page descriptive register
Pars cartilaginosa
patresses
Peggau
phagocytic vacuole
protocol-independent
quotient
radio components
radiosensitizes
reggae-ish
remonstrants
Schongastia pseudoschuffmeri
Sind American cotton
sonal mansingh dance group
start of terminal input message
Startup folder
steadiness number
stone-masons' disease
storage and transport
sunburns
the devil a bit
Tidsi
toilet tissues
triazolopyridine
VCR-style mechanism
voice-operated gain adjusting device
wake temperature
Waugh, Evelyn Arthur St.John
well-governed
Zarp