英語勵志美文：人像一棵果樹(1)
Once, while taking my boat down the inland waterway to Florida, I decided to tie up at Georgetown, South Carolina, for the night and visit with an old friend. As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my binoculars standing there awaiting us. Tall and straight as an arrow he stood, facing a cold, penetrating wind - truly a picture of a sturdy man, even though in his eighties. Yes, the man was our elder statesman, Bernard Baruch.
有一次，我沿著內(nèi)河獨自駕船前往佛羅里達州。到達南卡洛來納的喬治敦時，我決定靠岸過夜，順便去拜訪一位老朋友。船一進埃松港，我就從望遠鏡中看到他站在那
里等我們。朋友高而挺拔的身影像一支箭一樣，站立在刺骨的寒風(fēng)中，簡直一幅健壯男子漢的畫面，雖然畫面中人已年過八旬。沒錯，他就是我們的老一輩政治家，伯納德.巴魯克。
He loaded us into his station wagon and we were off to his famous Hobcaw Barony for dinner. We sat and talked in the great living room where many notables and statesmen, including Roosevelt and Churchill, have sat and taken their cues. In his eighty-second year, still a human dynamo, Mr. Baruch talked not of the past but of present problems and the future, deploring our ignorance of history, economics and psychology. His only reference to the past was to tell me, with the wonderful sparkle in his eyes, that he was only able to get eight quail out of the ten shots the day before. What is the secret of this great man's value to the world? The answer is his insatiable desire to keep being productive.
伯納德.巴魯克的旅行轎車載著我們，徑直駛向他那著名的霍布考大莊園用餐。我們就座談話的大客廳，曾有包括羅斯福和丘吉爾在內(nèi)的許多貴客與政治家光臨，與他交談，傾聽他的意見。如今，巴魯克先生雖已82歲，卻依然活力充沛。他對過去緘口不提，只談?wù)摤F(xiàn)在與將來的問題，并為我們對歷史學(xué)、經(jīng)濟學(xué)和心理學(xué)知識的匱乏而深表遺憾。他告訴我，昨天他只用10發(fā)子彈就射中了8只鵪鶉，這也是他提到的唯一一件“往事”。說話時，他的雙眼閃爍著令人愉快的光芒。這位偉大的人物對世界充滿價值的奧秘何在?答案就是他對成就一如既往的追求。
Another friend of mine, the head of one of our largest corporations, a great steel company, is approaching his middle seventies, and he is still a great leader. He, too, never talks of the past. Instead, he tackles the problems of each day in his stride, brims with plans for the future and, incidentally, shoots in the low seventies on any golf course. He is a happy man because he is productive.
我的另一位朋友領(lǐng)導(dǎo)著一家最大的公司——一個大鋼鐵公司。年近75歲的他，依然是位優(yōu)秀的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。他也從不談及往昔，而是游刃有余地處理著每天的問題，頭腦中想的滿是對未來的計劃。并且值得一提的是，70多歲的他，還會不時打打高爾夫球。他是個幸福的人，因為他有所成就。
英語勵志美文：我的命運自己掌握(2)
Consider… YOU!In all time before now and in all time to come,there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. Youare unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow!Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, ora billion, or a gazillion…
試想一下……你!一個空前絕后的你，不論是以往還是將來都不會有一個跟你一模一樣的人。你在歷史上和宇宙中都是獨一無二的。哇!想想吧，你是萬里挑一、億里挑一、兆里挑一的。
You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!!!
在無窮無盡的宇宙中，你是舉世無雙的!!!
You're amazing! You're awesome! And by the way, TAG, you'reit. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even moreso. Beautiful young people are the whimsy of nature, but beautifulold people are true works of art. But you don't become “beautiful”just by virtue of the aging process.
你是了不起的!你是卓越的!沒錯，就是你。你已經(jīng)是了不起的，是卓越的，你還可以更卓越更了不起。美麗的年輕人是大自然的奇想，而美麗的老人卻是藝術(shù)的杰作。但你不會因為年齡的漸長就自然而然地變得“美麗”。
Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in theways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, andsometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Oryou can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devourlife and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your futurewith the brush of today.
真正的美麗源于生命里的學(xué)習(xí)、成長和熱愛。這就是生命的藝術(shù)。你可以只聽天由命,慢慢地學(xué)，有時候或許會很痛苦。又或許你可以選擇加速自己的成長，故意地揮霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描繪自己未來的藝術(shù)家。
Paint a Masterpiece.
畫出一幅杰作吧!
God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it intoits nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it'struly up to you.
上帝給了鳥兒食物，但他沒有將食物扔到它們的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做決定的還是你自己。