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1、:美的英文30篇目录： 第一篇：Youth青春第二篇：Three Days to See（Excerpts）假如给我三天光明（节选） 第三篇：Companionship of Books以书为伴（节选）第四篇：If I RestRust如果我休息，我就会生锈 第五篇：Ambition抱负第六篇：What I have Lived for我为何而生 第七篇：When Love Beckons You爱的召唤第八篇：The Road to Success成功之道 第九篇:On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人第十篇：The 50-Percent Theory of Life生

2、活理论半对半 第H篇：What is Your Recovery Rate?你的恢复速率是多少？ 第十二篇：Clear Your Mental Space清理心灵的空间第十三篇：BeH叩py快乐 第十四篇：The Goodness of life生命的美好第十五篇：Facing the Enemies Within直面内在的敌人 第十六篇：Abundance is a Life Style富足的生活方式第十七篇：Human Life a Poem人生如诗 第十八篇:Solitude独处第十九篇：Giving Life Meaning给生命以意义 第二十篇：Relish the Moment品位

3、现在第五篇:Ambition抱负AmbitionIt 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. Comp

4、etition would never enter in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become 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 cau

5、sed 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 r

6、eally 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 lear

7、ns on ones own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; 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 implicatio

8、ns, to remove all motives for competence, 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 di

9、e; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes

10、us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny i

11、s what ambition is about.抱负一个缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样，这不难想象。或许，这将是一个更为友善 的世界：没有渴求，没有磨擦，没有失望。人们将有时间进行反思。他们所从事 的工作将不是为了他们自身，而是为了整个集体。竞争永远不会介入；冲突将被 消除。人们的紧张关系将成为过往云烟。创造的重压将得以终结。艺术将不再惹 人费神，其功能将纯粹为了庆典。人的寿命将会更长，因为由激烈拼争引起的心 脏病和中风所导致的死亡将越来越少。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝，抱负却早已远 离人心。啊，长此以往人生将变得多么乏味无聊！有一种盛行的观点认为，成功是一种神话，因此抱负亦属虚幻。这是不是 说实际上并

12、不丰在成功？成就本身就是一场空？与诸多运动和事件的力量相比， 男男女女的努力显得微不足？显然，并非所有的成功都值得景仰，也并非所有的 抱负都值得追求。对值得和不值得的选择，一个人自然而然很快就能学会。但即 使是最为愤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就的意义举足轻重，而 把世上男男女女的所作所为说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽之谈。认为成功不存 在的观点很可能造成混乱。这种观点的本意是一笔勾销所有提高能力的动机，求 取业绩的兴趣和对子孙后代的关注。我们无法选择出生，无法选择父母，无法选择出生的历史时期与国家， 或是成长的周遭环境。我们大多数人都无法选择死亡，无法选择死亡的时间或条 件。但是在

13、这些无法选择之中，我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式：是勇敢无畏 还是胆小怯懦，是光明磊落还是厚颜无耻，是目标坚定还是随波逐流。我们决定 生活中哪些至关重要，哪些微不足道。我们决定，用以显示我们自身重要性的， 不是我们做了什么，就是我们拒绝做些什么。但是不论世界对我们所做的选择和 决定有多么漠不关心，这些选择和决定终究是我们自己做出的。我们决定，我们 选择。而当我们决定和选择时，我们的生活便得以形成。最终构筑我们命运的就 是抱负之所在。第六篇：What I have Lived for我为何而生What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but over

14、whelmingly 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 h

15、ave sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy-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 consciousness looks over the rim of the w

16、orld 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 whata

17、t 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. 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.Lov

18、e 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 loneline

19、ss, 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.我为何而生我的一生被三种简单却又无比强烈的激情所控制：对爱的渴望，对知识的 探索和对人类苦难难以抑制的屿。这些激情像

20、狂风，把我恣情吹向四方.，掠过苦 痛的大海，迫使我濒临绝望的边缘。我寻求爱，首先因为它使我心为之着迷，这种难以名状的美妙迷醉使我愿 意用所有的余生去换取哪怕几个小时这样的幸福。我寻求爱，还因为它能缓解我 心理上的孤独中，我感觉心灵的战栗，仿如站在世界的边缘而面前是冰冷，无底 的死亡深渊。我寻求爱，因为在我所目睹的结合中，我仿佛看到了圣贤与诗人们 所向往的天堂之景。这就是我所寻找的，虽然对人的一生而言似乎有些遥不可及, 但至少是我用尽一生所领悟到的。我用同样的激情去寻求知识。我希望能理解人类的心灵，希望能够知道群 星闪烁的缘由。我试图领悟毕达哥拉斯所景仰的“数即万物”的思想。我已经悟 出了其中的

21、一点点道理，尽管并不是很多。爱和知识，用它们的力量把人引向天堂。但是同情却总把人又拽回到尘世 中来。痛苦的呼喊声回荡在我的内心。饥饿的孩子，受压迫的难民，贫穷利痛苦 的世界，都是对人类所憧憬的美好生活的无情嘲弄。我渴望能够减少邪恶，但是 我无能为力，我也难逃其折磨。这就是我的一生。我已经找到它的价值。而且如果有机会，我很愿意能再 活它一次。第七篇：When Love Beckons You爱的召唤When Love Beckons YouWhen love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And w

22、hen his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your gro

23、wth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to our roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.But if, in your fear, you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasure, then it is better for

24、 you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of loves threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but it self and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possessed,

25、 for love is sufficient unto love.Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of

26、 love;And to bleed willingly and joyfully.To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;To rest at the noon hour and meditate loves ecstasy;To return home at eventide with gratitude;And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon

27、 your lips.爱的召唤当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险峻。当爱的羽翼拥抱你时, 请顺从她，尽管隐臧在其羽翼之下的剑可能会伤到你。当爱向你诉说时，请相信 她，尽管她的声音可能打破你的梦想，就如同北风吹落花园里所有的花瓣。爱会给你戴上桂冠，也会折磨你。爱会助你成长，也会给你修枝。爱会上 升到枝头，抚爱你在阳光下颤动力的嫩枝，也会下潜至根部，撼动力你紧抓泥土 的根基。但是，如果你在恐惧之中只想寻求爱的平和与快乐，那你就最好掩盖真实 的自我，避开爱的考验，进入不分季节的世界，在那里你将欢笑，但并非开怀大 笑，你将哭泣，但并非尽情地哭。爱只将自己付出，也只得到自己。爱一无所有, 也不会

28、为谁所有，因为爱本身就己自足。爱除了实现自我别无他求。但是如果你爱而又不得不有所求，那就请期望:将自己融化并像奔流的溪水一般向夜晚吟唱自己优美的曲调。明了过多的温柔所带来的苦痛。被自己对爱的理解所伤害；并情愿快乐地悲伤。在黎明带着轻快的心醒来并感谢又一个有家的日子；在黄昏怀着感恩之心回家；然后为内心所爱之人祈祷，吟唱赞美之歌，并带着祷告和歌声入眠。第八篇：The Road to Success成功之道The Road to SuccessIt is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most sub

29、ordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitress

30、es now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest com

31、er to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who docs not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. D

32、o not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, uMy place is at the top. Be king in your dreams.And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and

33、 capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which me

34、ans that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. Dont put all your eggs in one basket. is all wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket. Look round you and take notice, men who do

35、 that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentrat

36、ion.To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm,s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one bas

37、ket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, wno one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”成功之道年轻人创业之初，应该从最底层干起，这是件好事。匹兹保有很多商业巨 头，在他们创业之初，都肩负过“重任”：他们以扫帚相伴，以打扫办公室的方 式度过了他们商业生涯中最初的时光。我注意到我们现在办公室里都有工友，于 是年轻人就不幸错过了商业教育中这个有益

38、的环节。如果碰巧哪天上午专职扫地 的工友没有来，某个具有未来合伙人气质的年轻人会毫不犹豫地试着拿起扫帚。 在必要时新来的员工扫扫地也无妨，不会因为而有什么损失。我自己就曾经扫过 地。假如你已经被录用，并且有了一个良好的开端，我对你的建议是：要志存 高远。一个年轻人，如果不把自己想象成一家大公司未来的老板或者是合伙人， 那我会对他不屑一顾。不论职位有多高，你的内心都不要满足于做一个总管，领 班或者总经理。要对自己说：我要迈向顶尖！要做就做你梦想中的国王！成功的首要条件和最大秘诀就是：把你的精力，思想和资本全都集中在你 正从事的事业上。一旦开始从事某种职业，就要下定决心在那一领域闯出一片天 地来；

39、做这一行的领导人物，采纳每一点改进之心，采用最优良的设备，对专业 知识熟稔于心。一些公司的失败就在于他们分散了资金，因为这就意味着分散了他们的精 力。他们向这方面投资，乂向那方面投资；在这里投资，在那里投资，到处都投 资。“不要把所有的鸡蛋放在一个篮子里”的说法大错特错。我要对你说：“把所 有的鸡蛋都放在一个篮子里，然后小心地看好那个篮子J看看你周围，你会注 意到：这么做的人其实很少失败。看管和携带一个篮子并不太难。人们总是试图 提很多篮子，所以才打破这个国家的大部分鸡蛋。提三个篮子的人，必须把一个 顶在头上，而这个篮子很可能倒下来，把他自己绊倒。美国商人的一个缺点就是 不够专注。把我的话归纳

40、一下：要志存高远；不要出入酒吧；要滴酒不沾，或要喝也 只在用餐时喝少许；不要做投机买卖；不要寅吃卯粮；要把公司的利益当作自己 的利益；取消订货的目的永远是为了挽救货主；要专注；要把所有的鸡蛋放在一 个篮子里，然后小心地看好它；要量入为出；最后，要有耐心，正如爱默生所言， “谁都无法阻止你最终成功，除非你自己承认自己失败第九篇：On Meeting the Celebrated 论见名人On Meeting the CelebratedI have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. Th

41、e prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. The celebrated develop a technique to deal with the persons they come across. They show the world a mask, often an impressive on, but take care to conceal their real

42、 selves. They play the part that is expected from them, and with practice learn to play it very well, but you are stupid if you think that this public performance of theirs corresponds with the man within.I have been attached, deeply attached, to a few people; but I have been interested in men in ge

43、neral not for their own sakes, but for the sake of my work. I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer. I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. They have had no

44、 need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it. Their idiosyncrasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity, and since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they have anything to conceal. They displa

45、y their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd. And after all it is with the common run of men that we writers have to deal; kings, dictators, commercial magnates are from our point of view very unsatisfactory. To write about them is a venture that has often tempted writers, but

46、 the failure that has attended their efforts shows that such beings are too exceptional to form a proper ground for a work of art. They cannot be made real. The ordinary is the writers richer field. Its unexpectedness, its singularity, its infinite variety afford unending material. The great man is

47、too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you. For my part I would much sooner spend a month on a desert island with a veterinary surgeon than with a prime minister.论见

48、名人许多人热衷于见名人，我始终不得其解。在朋友面前吹嘘自己认识某某名人, 同此而来的声望只能证明自己的微不足道。名人个个练就了一套处世高招，无论 遇上谁，都能应付自如。他们给世人展现的是一副面具，常常是美好难忘的面具, 但他们会小心翼翼地掩盖自己的真相。他们扮演的是大家期待的角色，演得多了， 最后都能演得惟妙惟肖。如果你还以为他们在公众面前的表演就是他们的真实自 我，那就你傻了。我自己就喜欢一些人，非常喜欢他们。但我对人感兴趣一般不是因为他们自 身的缘故，而是出于我工作需求。正如康德劝告的那样，我从来没有把认识某人 作为目的，而是将其当作对一个作家有用的创作素材。比之名流显士，我更加关 注无名

49、小卒。他们常常显得较为自然真实，他们无须再创造另一个人物形象，用 他来保护自己不受世人干扰，或者用他来感动世人。他们的社交圈子有限，自己 的种种癖性也就越有可能得到滋长。因为他们从来没有引起公众的关注，也就从 来没有想到过要隐瞒什么。他们会表露他们古怪的一面，因为他们从来就没有觉 得有何古怪。总之，作家要写的是普通人。在我们看来，国王，独裁者和商界大 亨等都是不符合条件的。去撰写这些人物经常是作家们难以抗拒的冒险之举，可 为此付出的努力不免以失败告终，这说明这些人物都过于特殊，无法成为一件艺 术作品的创作根基，作家也不可能把他们写得真真切切。老百姓才是作家的创作 沃土，他们或变幻无常，或难觅其二，各式人物应有尽有，这些都给作家提供了 无限的创作素材。大人物经常是千人一面，小人物身上才有一组组矛盾元素，是 取之不尽的创作源泉，让你惊喜不断。就我而言，如果在孤岛上度过一个月，我 宁愿和一名兽医相守，也不愿同一位首相做伴。第二H篇：Th