佛语美文
篇一：英语美文诗意
英语美文欣赏
1. Life isn’t fair.
人生是不公平的
Life will hand you lemons, often when you least expect it. The sooner you embrace this harsh truth, the better prepared you’ll be to handle tough situations that are sure to arise.
往往在你最意想不到的时候，人生会让你尝到柠檬的酸味。你越早明白这个残酷的事实，在处理这些必将出现的麻烦事时，你就会准备得越好。
2. The first step is always the hardest.
万事开头难
Let’s face it: changing bad habits is tough. Research proves it. Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” So if you want to change something, start with baby steps. Take a small action–any action–and grow from there.
让我们面对这个事实：改掉坏习惯非常困难。研究证实了这一点。中国的哲学家老子说过，“千里之行，始于足下。”如果你想要做出改变，就从第一步开始。做出一点小的行动，任何一种行动都行，然后就从这里开始。
3. Good things usually don’t come quickly.
好事情不会来得很快
Great accomplishments in our lives normally don’t come easy. And if you think about it, would you have it any other way? There’s a basic psychological principle called instant gratification, which means that we expect to get rewards instantly. But sometimes you need to fight the impulses your brain throws at you and trust that the journey you’re on is the right one.
我们认识中的伟大成就都来之不易。想想看，你还有别的办法吗？有一个基本的心理学原理，叫做即时满足，意思是我们期待立刻获得回报。但有时候你要和大脑中的这种冲动作斗争，要相信你正在走一条正确的路。
4. Not everyone will support you along the way.
人生路上不是每个人都会支持你
In life, there’s no shortage of doubters, haters, and pessimists. Overcoming this harsh truth is simple: don’t listen. Choose to stick with your guns, trust your instincts, and forget about people who don’t support your goals and passions.
你的人生中从来不缺乏怀疑者、嫉妒者和悲观主义者。克服这个残酷的现实很简单：别听他们的。坚守自己，相信你的直觉，忘掉那些不支持你的目标和激情的人。
5. You can’t always be in control of everything.
你无法永远掌控每件事
Listen, letting go is hard, especially if you’re a go-getter. But if you want to continue to grow, there are times when you need to relinquish your control on everything and let things unfold how they’re meant to be. This doesn’t mean your mentality for everything should be “wait and hope.” You can still strive for
greatness, but put the work in and then let go with complete faith that the universe will make things right for you. You’ll be amazed at how well it works.
听着，放手不是件容易的事，尤其如果你还是一个能干的人。但如果你想继续成长，有时候你需要放弃对某些事的掌控，让一切顺其自然。这并不意味着你对待事情的态度是“静观其变”。你依然可以为了成就伟大而奋斗，只不过在努力之后，就可以放手，要相信上天会为你安排妥当。你会惊讶地发现一切都很顺利。
6. You can’t accomplish great things without taking great risks.
不入虎穴焉得虎子
Here’s another harsh truth many people have trouble grasping: if you don’t take risks you will have a lot harder time accomplishing what you want in life. People who truly change the world are the biggest risk takers. They’re the ones who are willing to put everything on the line and fail for something they believe in. And they treat each failure as an opportunity to grow and get better.
这又是一个很多人不能领会的残酷现实：如果你不能冒险，想实现你所追求的就会更加困难。那些真正改变世界的人都是最大的冒险家。他们情愿让一切出于危险之中，也肯为了他们所信仰的事而失败。他们认为每一次失败都是一次成长、变得更好的机会。
7. You may be better off without some of the people you currently care about.
没有了你眼下在乎的某些人，你的生活也许更美好
This one is tough to hear, I know. But chances are, there’s someone in your life you care about deeply who is holding you back. That’s not to say you should give up on the people you love. However, there comes a time when you need to make the tough decision to say no to people who aren’t helping you grow.
我知道这一点听起来很难以接受。但有可能你生命中某个你特别在乎的人阻碍了你
前进。这不是说你要放弃那些你爱的人。可是有时候你需要作出艰难的决定，对那些不能帮助你成长的人说不。
8. Death is a part of life.
死亡是人生的一部分
Nothing can prepare us for the earth-shattering pain of losing a loved one. The harsh truth of life is that it’s a viscous cycle. However, there’s something you can do to make losing someone you love a lot less painful: make them a part of your life right now. Don’t put off making that phone call or paying a random visit to a friend or family member you haven’t seen in a while. Treat every moment with your loved ones as if it’s your last, and you won’t have any regrets.
面对失去所爱之人的巨大痛苦，我们总是无所适从。残酷的现实在于，这是一个黏性的循环。但是你可以做一些事情，让这种痛苦减轻一些：从现在起就让他们成为你人生中的一部分。别推迟给那些好久没见的朋友或家人打电话或者上门拜访。每次和你爱的人们相处时都把它当做是最后一次，这样你就不会有任何遗憾了。
9. You are the only thing holding yourself back from greatness.
你是自己通向伟大的唯一阻碍
Often we get so caught up hoping for the next great thing that we don’t realize what’s unfolding right in front of our faces. Don’t hold yourself back with negative thoughts. Instead, focus on the positive things you have going in your life. Choose to be happy right now.
我们总是期待着下一件好事情，却没有意识到它正在我们面前发生。别被消极的念头所阻碍。相反，要关注那些发生在你生活中的积极的事情。选择快乐，就是现在。
10. Sometimes bad things happen to good people
有时候好人也会遇到坏事
Suffering is part of life. But here’s the cool thing: it makes us stronger. There’s a randomness to how the world works that’s really hard to understand. We see evidence of this every day, and it can really make you question the future of
mankind. How you choose to view the world is up to you. Just remember, the truth, however harsh, will set you free.
磨难是人生的一部分。但好处在于，它会让我们更强大。世界的运转总有随机性，这确实难以理解。我们每天都会看到这种证据，这的确会让你质疑人类的未来。你如何看待这个世界由你自己决定。只需要记住，现实不论多么残酷，都会让你自由。
篇二：英语美文
School Life
? Cheryl Theseira
School is a daily routine for us In the morning, we're sure to make a fuss Even when the sun is still not up, Here we are, awake at 6 am sharp We feel that school is such a bore We feel that school is such a chore Parents say, “School’s great! Now, go!” We say, “Well, what do you know?” Late a minute and we have to run Eyes half open, shoelaces undone We reach school and we see our friends, Immediately, the torture ends We have a chat and go with the flow Then the bell rings, it is time to go We may at times find school stressful To have some fun, we have to bend some rules Talk back to teachers, and detention we serve No doubt, it is sometimes what we deserve Sometimes they are as cold as ice And other times they're actually really nice They teach us and give us a helping hand They’re forever ready to listen and be a friend They have built much confidence in us Just not when they are being really harsh Over the years of education, Never have we had so much learning with action Such as camps, experiments, concerts and activities We’ve learnt so much and even saved the trees A wise teacher once said aloud - Success is failure turned inside out So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit Rest if you must, but don’t you quit Some may see school as a torture chamber Some cannot wait for the holidays in December But it depends on how we look at school Honestly, positively, school is cool!
I can still remember the first day when I met my best friend. She had just moved into the neighborhood and her grandmother who also lived in the neighborhood brought her down to meet me. I hid behind my mother and she hid behind her grandmother, scared to look at each other. Soon, we lost the shyness and started playing with each other, bike riding to each other's house and having sleepovers. In 7th grade, I first
lost touch with her. She was going through family problems and I deserted her to be with the "cooler people". None of my new friends liked her as much as I did because they knew she had "problems". However every summer we would always sit at each other's house and watch soap operas, eat Doritos (or whatever junk food her mom had bought) and talk about all the boys we liked. It was last year when I noticed the problem. I guess I was just to catch up in high school to realize she needed someone there for her. Well, she made a new "best friend" and so did I. Then I didn't know why, but she started cutting herself! She was diagnosed with clinical depression, and had to go to a hospital during the day. I was very upset at first but with the late night calls, and meeting each other halfway up the street at midnight. We still stayed in touch. I wanted to be there for her since her new best friend basically deserted her since people were calling her crazy, and I knew I still cared about her like a sister. Yesterday she came to me and said this: "I never knew what a best friend was until you were the only person that would stop me from cutting; the only person that ever made me feel better about myself and my problems. You don't know this but I was trying to kill myself this one nite you called me and I was crying. I owe you so much, and you didn't even know you were helping me." We both cried. And I guess a kind of lesson from my life so far is to never give up on your friends. Even if they aren't as cool as others, or people think they are crazy, they need someone there. If you desert them, you will only be miserable yourself. So if a friend needs you, and you care for them, you can never desert them. My Best Friend and I
Don't Let the Candle Off
A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived for her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.
His best efforts, however, proved unavailing and the child died. The father became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream.
He was in heaven, witnessing a grand pageant of all the little child angels. They were marching in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child carried a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing to her, he seized her in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked,
“How is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?”
“Daddy, they ofteelight it, but your tears always put it out.”
Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear, and its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates. No longer would his darling’s candle be extinguished by his useless tears.
The Child's Guardian Angel
Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?”
God replied, “Among the many angels, I chose one for you. She will be waiting for you and will take care of you.”
But the child wasn't sure he really wanted to go. “But tell me, here in Heaven, I don't do anything else but sing and smile, that's enough for me to be happy.”
“Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you every day. And you will feel your angel's love and be happy.”
“And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me,” the child continued, “if I don't know the language that men talk?”
God patted him on the head and said, “Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak.” “And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?”
But God had an answer for that question too. “Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray.”
“I've heard that on earth there are bad men, who will protect me?”
“Your angel will defend you even if it means risking her life!”
“But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore,” the child continued warily.
God smiled on the young one. “Your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you the way for you to come back to me, even though I will always be next to you.”
At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from earth could already be heard. The child knew he had to start on his journey very soon. He asked God one more question, softly, “Oh God, if I am about to leave now, please tell me my angel's name.”
God touched the child on the shoulder and answered, “Your angel's name is not hard to remember. You will simply call her Mommy.”
Train Your Temper
Everybody gets angry sometimes. Being angry doesn't really solve much — but what people do when they feel angry is important. The goal is to calm yourself down and try to solve whatever problem is bothering you. This is hard for some kids (and adults, too). Instead of calming down, some kids might keep getting more and more upset until they explode like a volcano!
Some kids get angry more often or more easily than some other kids. Their anger might be so strong that the feeling gets out of control and causes them to act in ways that are
unacceptable and hurtful. People might say kids like this have a temper, which is a term for acting all angry and out of control. When people say that someone has trouble controlling their temper, they usually mean that a kid behaves badly when feeling angry or frustrated. Some kids might get so angry that they scream at their mom or dad, punch the wall, slam doors, break something, or — worse yet — hit a brother or sister. Kids are allowed to express their feelings, even angry ones, but it's not OK for a kid to do any of those things. Kids don't want to (or mean to) act this way — but sometimes angry feelings can be hard to manage. So what do you do if you're a volcano kind of a kid and your temper is getting you into trouble? Arf! Try This!
Well, the good news is that kids don't just have to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. You can train your temper the same way you might train a puppy. Huh? That's right, we said a puppy.
If you've ever played with puppies, you know they are sweet but a little out of control. Their tails wag furiously and they might tear apart your sneakers or nip at the mailman's behind. Oh dear, what can you do with your puppy? Training is the answer.
In the same way, you can train your temper. Imagine your temper as a puppy inside you that needs some training. The puppy is not bad — it will probably turn out to be a great dog. It just needs to learn some rules because, right now, that puppy is causing some problems for you. You don't want to keep getting in trouble for the way you act when you're angry. You probably even feel bad afterward if you've hurt someone's feelings or broken a toy you liked. So let's get that puppy trained.
Here are steps to take anytime, even when you're not angry:
Get lots of physical activity. Play outside. Do sports you like. Karate or wrestling can be good for kids who are trying to get their tempers under control.But any activity that gets your heart pumping can be good because it's a way of burning off energy and stress. It feels good to boot that soccer ball or smackthat baseball!
Talk to your mom or dad. If you're having trouble with your temper, the time to talk about it is before you have another angry outburst. Tell your parents that you're trying to do a better job of
controlling yourself. Ask for their help and ideas for how you could do this better. Maybe if you go a whole week without a meltdown, they can take you out for a treat. Let them know that if you do get really angry, you're going to ask for their help.
Put feelings into words. Get in the habit of saying what you're feeling and why. Tell your parents, "I feel angry when you tell me it's time to stop playing and take out the trash. I don't like taking out the trash." And your parent will probably say (kindly), "I know — no one likes doing it. But it's your job and you need to do it anyway." So using words won't get you out of taking out the trash(sorry!), but it might stop you from slamming the garage door, having a fit about the trash, or doing something else that could get you in trouble. Using words helps people manage their strong feelings and behaviors.
Take control. Who's in charge here — you or that wild little puppy? Decide that you're going to be in charge. Don't let those angry feelings make you do stuff you don't want to do.
The real test comes the next time you get so mad you could just explode. But don't explode. Put a leash on that puppy with these four steps:
篇三：英语美文
Have you ever held a question in mind for so long that it becomes part of how you think?
你是否曾经把一个问题留在心中很久，结果它已经成为你的一种思路？ Maybe even part of who you are as a person?
甚至可能已经成为你自己的一部分？
Well I've had a question in my mind for many, many years and that is: how can you speed up learning?
我思考了一个问题很多很多年，就是：你怎样才能加快自己学习的速度？
Now, this is an interesting question because if you speed up learning you can spend less time at school.
那么，这是一个很有趣的问题，因为如果你可以加快自己的学习的速度，你就可以花更少时间在学校里。
And if you learn really fast, you probably wouldn't have to go to school at all.
如果你真的可以学习得特别快，你可能根本就不用去上学。
Now, when I was young, school was sort of okay but I found quite often that school got in the way of learning so I had this question in mind: how do you learn faster?
在我小时候，上学还凑合，但我常常发现上学会阻碍学习，因此在心里面我有了这样一个问题：怎样才能学得更快呢？
And this began when I was very, very young. When I was about eleven years old I wrote a letter to researchers in the Soviet Union, asking about hypnopaedia, this is sleep learning, where you get a tape recorder, you put it beside your bed and it turns on in the middle of the night when you're sleeping, and you're supposed to be learning from this.
(这个想法)在我很小时候已经开始了，大约我11岁的时候，我给前苏联的研究者写了一封关于睡眠学习的信， 所谓“睡觉学习”，就是拿一个磁带录音机放在你床边， 等你入眠后机器开始播放磁带，(然后)目的是通过这种方式来学习。
A good idea, unfortunately it doesn't work.
一个好主意，不幸的是它行不通。
But, hypnopaedia did open the doors to research in other areas and we've had incredible discoveries about learning that began with that first question.
但睡眠学习确实打开了研究其他领域的大门，并且我们从研究这个问题开始已经有了一些惊人的发现。
I went on from there to become passionate about psychology and I have been involved in psychology in many ways for the rest of my life up until this point.
从那开始我对心理学充满热情，直到现在我已经投入了几十年的时间从事心理学相关的不同研究和工作。
In 1981 I took myself to China and I decided that I was going to be native level in Chinese inside two years.
1981年，我来到了中国，并且我决定在两年内我的汉语要达到像中文母语者一样的水平。
Now, you need to understand that in 1981, everybody thought Chinese was really, really difficult and that a westerner could study for ten years or more and never really get very good at it.
呐，你需要明白的是在20世纪80年代初，所有人都认为汉语是真的很难学，一个西方人可能学习10年或以上也未必能学好。
And I also went in with a different idea which was: taking all of the conclusions from psychological research up to that point and applying them to the learning process.
还有，我带着一种不同的想法，就是把心理学对这个问题研究所得的全部结论运用到我学习的过程当中。
What was really cool was that in six months I was fluent in Mandarin Chinese and took a little bit longer to get up to native.
特别棒的是我在六个月内能说流利的中文，不久后，我达到了中文母语者的水平。
But I looked around and I saw all of these people from different countries struggling terribly with Chinese, I saw Chinese people struggling terribly to learn English and other languages, and so my question got refined down to: how can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively?
但我看到周围那些来自不同国家的人在为学习中文苦苦挣扎，中国人在为学习英文或其他语言苦苦挣扎，因此我的问题便细化到：怎样帮助一位正常的成年人更快、更容易和有效地学会第二门语言。
Now this is a really, really important question in today's world. 要强调的是，在今天的世界里这是一个非常非常重要的问题。
We have massive challenges with environment. We have massive challenges with social dislocation, with wars, all sorts of things going on and if we can't communicate we're really going to have difficulty solving these problems.
我们需要面对大量的(有关)环保问题的挑战，我们需要面对很多社会混乱和战争的挑战，各种各类事情在发生，如果我们不能沟通那我们将难以解决这些问题。
So we need to be able to speak each other's languages. This is really, really important.
因此，我们需要能够说对方的语言。这真的非常重要。
The question then is how do you do that？ Well, it's actually really easy. 接下来的问题是，怎样做到？这实际上是很容易的。
You look around for people who can already do it, you look for situations where it's already working and then you identify the principles and apply them.
看看你周围那些已经做到的人，寻找在什么情况下，它是有效的，识别这些原则后好好利用它们。
It's called modeling and I've been looking at language learning and modeling language learning for about fifteen to twenty years now. 这是一种高科技模仿，而我已经用这种方法研究语言学习大约15到20年了。 And my conclusion, my observation from this is that any adult can learn a second language to fluency inside six months.
接着多年的观察，我得到的结论是，任何一个成年人能在6个月内把任何外语学得流利。
Now when I say this, most people think I'm crazy, this is not possible. So let me remind everybody of the history of human progress, it's all about expanding our limits.
呐，当我说成年人能在6个月内学会任何一种外语，大多数人都认为我疯了，这是不可能的。因此，先让我提醒在座各位关于人类历史的进展，所有人类历史都是在扩展我们的极限。
In 1950 everybody believed that running one mile in four minutes was impossible and then Roger Bannister did it in 1956 and from there it's got shorter and shorter.
在20世纪50年代，所有人都相信跑出4分钟1英里的成绩是不可能的，后来罗杰·班尼斯特在1965年做到了，而从那开始跑1英里的时间变得越来越短 。 100 years ago everybody believed that heavy stuff doesn't fly。 100年前，每个人都相信重的物体不能飞。
Except it does and we all know this. How does heavy stuff fly? 它不但可以飞，而且我们大家都知道这个事实。那么，重物是怎样飞的呢？ We reorganize the materials using principles that we have learned from observing nature, birds in this case.
我们观察大自然的原理，在此是鸟飞行的原理，，根据这些我们重新组织材料来使重物可以飞。
And today we've gone ever further, so you can fly a car. You can buy one of these for a couple hundred thousand US dollars.
如今，我们甚至走得更远，你可以驾驶一辆会飞的汽车。你可以花几十万美元购买一辆这样的汽车。
We now have cars in the world that can fly.
我们现在有了会飞的汽车了。
And there's a different way to fly that we've learned from squirrels. 在能飞的松鼠的身上我们学会了另一种不同的方式来飞。
So all you need to do is copy what a flying squirrel does, build a suit called a wing suit and off you go, you can fly like a squirrel.
你只要做的是去复制一只飞鼠如何飞的原理，建造一套翼服，你就可以像一只飞鼠那样可以在天空中飞翔。
Now, most people, a lot of people, I wouldn't say everybody but a lot of people think they can't draw.
那么，大多数人，很多人，我不会说所有人，但很多人认为他们不会画画。 However there are some key principles, five principles that you can apply to learning to draw and you can actually learn to draw in five days. 然而这里有一些重要的原则，5个原则你可以利用来学习画画并且实际上你可以在5天内学会。
So, if you draw like this, you learn these principles for five days and apply them and after five days you can draw something like this. 如果你平时画成这样，那么你学习5天这些原则然后应用它们，5天后，你可以画成这样。
Now I know this is true because that was my first drawing and after five days of applying these principles that was what I was able to do. 我知道这是真的，因为那是我第一次画的，5天后我应用了这些原则，我可以做到这样。
And I looked at this and I went ‘wow,' so that's how I look like when I'm concentrating so intensely that my brain is exploding.
当我看着这个，我“哇”了一声，那就是我非常强烈的，专注到我大脑快要爆炸的样子呀！
So, anybody can learn to draw in five days and in the same way, with the same logic, anybody can learn a second language in six months.
因此，任何人都能够用5天时间学会画画，同样地，用同样的方式和逻辑，任何人都可以在6个月内学会一门外语。
How: there are five principles and seven actions.
怎么做呢？ 有5个原则和7个行动可以跟随。
There may be a few more but these are absolutely core.
可能有更多，但这些绝对是核心部分。
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