每天讀一點暖心英文：你是最好的自己

沒有想到會這麼快看完，很不錯，很好看，裏面也有很多經典的字句。恰如美文如歌

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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; 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 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 is what ambition is about.

While some people are born into loving and caring families, others are born into seemingly impossible environments, but no matter how hard a person' s life, I believe there will always be at least one person who will positively influence and encourage them. For me, that person has been my grandmother.

2022年1月9日 星期日 祝福早安 主日平安 天氣大霧 氣溫零下一度 每天讀一點暖心英文——你是最好的自己（漢英對照） 振作起來，開始幹吧 Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative [加]D． 邁克爾·雷諾/ D.Michael Reynolds 有些人出生在充滿愛和同情心的家庭，而有些人出生在令人難以忍受的環境中。無論一個人的生活多麼艱辛，我都相信至少會有一個人積極地影響和鼓勵他。對我來說，那個人就是我的祖母。 我能夠寫出許多人生準則，因爲我的祖母（稱爲“奶奶”會更好一些）逐字逐句地、有目的地把許多準則教給我。然而，她常常在最後說：“孩子，我能把我所知道的和經歷過的所有東西都告訴你，但是最終你要對你的選擇負責。”在我們的生活中，最終還是要自己做出選擇，無論好壞。不做選擇，本身就是一種選擇。選擇的規則會控制一個人，但也會將責任賦予作出選擇的人。 我推測一定有這樣一種規則：“總是跟一個人在一起，你就會越來越像他。”因爲當我和我的祖母在一起時，我就發現我們的想法非常相似（至少我這樣認爲）。在我14歲那年，我去探望祖母，我在家裏惹了麻煩（我認爲不是我的錯），祖母聽我訴說。過了一會兒，她開始勸導我，我就聽着。令我驚奇的是，我說出了她想要對我說的話：“您知道的，祖母，無論怎樣管教孩子，只要他不明白其中的道理，一切都是徒勞。”她非常高興在我們討論之後，我能有自己的見解。我任由祖母對我誇獎了一番。我想她是運用了一個準則：“強調積極，排除消極。”還有《聖經》中的話：“所見即所想。”我認爲這是一條真理，因爲我的祖母確實當面誇我。 當我感到絕望或是希望落空時，祖母的話就會在我的耳邊縈繞：“孩子，內心垮了纔是真的垮了。”“心中要永存希望——總會找到答案……如果你去尋找，你就會發現，其實答案就在你心裏。”這些準則總結起來就是：“振作起來，開始幹吧！” 現在，我們中的許多年輕人，更傾向於以一位有錢人的身份來解決人生中的許多問題。我們總是不想動腦筋來解決自己的問題，但我們一旦這樣做了，就會發現一個非常重要而有趣的規則：“年輕人的使命就是好好生活和學習，讓明天的世界更美好。” While some people are born into loving and caring families, others are born into seemingly impossible environments, but no matter how hard a person' s life, I believe there will always be at least one person who will positively influence and encourage them. For me, that person has been my grandmother. There are many laws of life that I could write about because my grandmother (better known as “Mamma”) literally and purposefully teaches these laws to me. However, she always ends with, “Son, I can tell you all I know and all I' ve experienced, but ultimately you are responsible for your choices.” Ultimately, we all make our own choices in life—good or bad. Not making a choice is a choice in itself. The law of choice puts one in control, but it also places responsibility on the one making the choice. I guess there must be a law that says you become like those you hang around because when I' m with my mamma, I can see how much we think alike (at least I' d like to think so). We were “visiting” one day when I was about fourteen years old. I had gotten into trouble for something at home (which I' m sure wasn' t my fault), and Mamma listened to me talk and talk. After a while, she began to share with me, and I listened. Then to my surprise, I heard myself say something to her that she might have said to me. I said, “You know, Mamma, no matter how a child is disciplined, it will do no good unless the child receives the correction that is in the discipline.” She was so pleased to hear the insight that after discussing the aspects of what I had discovered on my own. I allowed her to “brag” on me a while. I think she uses the law of “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative” or as the Bible says in Numbers 14, “what you see is what you get.” I hope that that' s a true law because my mamma sure says wonderful things about me—to me. When I' m feeling hopeless or feelingcompletely frustrated, I hear Mamma' s words “Son, you' re not whipped until you' re whipped inside, ” and “nothing is hopeless—there' s always an answer... If you look for it, you' ll find it inside yourself.” These laws simply say, “Get up and get going! ” Now, most of us teenagers prefer answers to life' s problems in the form of a financially generous person. We don' t always want to use our minds to solve our problems, but when we do, we find a very important and wonderful law that says,“Youth is for living and learning to make tomorrow' s world a better place.” 雙色生活 Work and Pleasure [英]溫斯頓·倫納德·斯賓塞·丘吉爾 /Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 想要獲得真正的幸福與平安，一個人至少應該有兩三種業餘愛好，而且必須是真正的愛好。到了晚年纔開始說“我對什麼什麼感興趣”是毫無益處的，這樣的嘗試只會增加精神上的負擔。在與自己日常工作無關的某些領域中，一個人可以獲得淵博的知識，但他幾乎得不到實在的益處或放鬆。喜歡幹什麼就幹什麼是無益的，你得幹一行愛一行。廣義而言，人類可以分成三個階層：勞累而死的人、憂慮而死的人和煩惱而死的人。對於那些體力勞動者來說，在經過一週精疲力竭的工作之後，週六下午給他們提供踢足球或打棒球的機會是沒有意義的。對於政界人士、專業人士或商人來說，他們已爲棘手的事務操勞或煩惱了六天，在週末再請他們爲瑣事勞神，同樣是毫無意義的。 或者可以這麼說，理智的、勤奮的、有用的人可以分爲兩類：第一類，他們的工作就是工作，娛樂就是娛樂；第二類，他們的工作和娛樂是合二爲一的。當然，很大一部分人都屬於第一類人。他們可以得到相應的補償。在辦公室或工廠里長時間地工作，帶給他們的不僅是維持生計的金錢，還帶給他們一種渴求娛樂的強烈慾望，哪怕是最簡單、最樸實的娛樂方式。命運的寵兒則屬於第二類人。他們的生活自然而和諧。在他們看來，工作時間永遠不夠多，每一天在他們看來都是假期；而當正常的假期到來時，他們總會抱怨他們正在傾心投入的休假被強行中斷了。然而，有一些東西對於這兩類人來說是十分必要的，那就是變換一下視角，改變一下氛圍，努力做一件別的事情。事實上，每隔一段時間，那些把工作看成娛樂的人很可能最需要以某種方式把工作驅趕出他們的大腦。 To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “ I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard week' s sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortune' s favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds. 短暫是時間的真諦 Life Grows in the Soil of Time [德]托馬斯·曼/Thomas Mann 短暫是我的信仰，也是我認爲最重要的東西。 然而短暫，如生命的消逝，不是非常哀傷的事情嗎？不！它正是生命存在的精髓。它賦予了生命價值、尊嚴和情趣。短暫創造了時間——而“時間正是其本質”。至少，時間是至高的，是最有用的禮物。 時間與所有富有創造力和活力的事物，及每一個達到更高目標的進步息息相關——是的，它甚至等同於這一切。 沒有短暫，沒有開始與結束、生與死，時間也就不復存在。永恆是毫無意義的停滯，它意味着時間永遠沒有結束，也永遠沒有開始，絕對令人乏味。 生命頑強無比。即便如此，它的存在也依賴於一定的條件，正如它有始亦有終。也因如此，我堅信，生命的價值與魅力將會不斷地增長。 人同自然界其他事物之間最重要的區別之一就是，人懂得短暫、始與終，所以也瞭解時間是一種恩賜。

你是怎樣的人，你的人生會是怎樣，關鍵在於你如何認識自己，如何規劃自己，如何堅持自己。我們每一個人都是獨一無二的。加油，做最好的自己！

暖心的小短片，每次都在碎片時間閱讀，總有海邊散步的感覺，溫馨又舒適的小故事時候讀起來讓人暫且把紛擾的世俗生活隔離開來[可愛]

內心垮了纔是真的垮了。心中要永存希望——總會找到答案……如果你去尋找，你就會發現，其實答案就在你心裏。振作起來，開始幹吧！（用一句話告訴你我看過這本書）

what's life?

品讀一篇美文，聆聽一番教誨，感受一種態度，收穫一種成長。努力學習，好好生活！