「今日美文」和自己的六次对话

VOA英语听力 · 公众号 · 英语 · 2017-06-21 21:27

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What you love.

你喜欢什么。

When it comes to lifelong labors and dreams, lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only way to work and live.

提起终生职业与梦想，保持中庸并不见得明智，当然过于激进也不行。但热情在工作和生活中确实必不可少。

The most important decision you will ever make is what you do with the limited time that has been given to you. Before you know it you’ll be asking, “How did it get so late so soon?” So put your thoughts and time to good use, and let yourself be drawn to the strange pull of what you love – doing so will not lead you astray. Live your life so that when you’re old, you never have to let the person you became fantasize about the person you were capable of being.

最重要的决定就是如何分配有限的时间。你可能常常疑惑“时间怎么过得这么快？”，既然如此，更应该把精力和时间花在热爱的事情上——别担心，你不会因此走火入魔。尽情生活，到老你会欣然发现：你已长成自己渴望的那个人。

Your own inner truth.

你的真实自我。

Why worry about what others think of you? Should you have more confidence in their opinions than you do your own?

干嘛担心别人怎么看你？与其相信别人的眼光，不如相信自己的判定！

When you choose to stay true to YOU, some people might refuse to accept you for who you are. Forget them. Rather than being fake and incurring the pain and confusion of trying to be someone you’re not, choose to stand strong, even at the risk of incurring ridicule. When you are comfortable in your skin, not everyone in this world will like you, and that’s perfectly OK. You could be the ripest, juiciest apple in the world, and there’s going to be at least a few people out there who hate apples.

有时当你做真实的自己时，会遭到别人的冷眼。去他们的吧！与其困惑而痛苦地假装他人，倒不如坚强活出自我，哪怕受人挖苦讽刺。不是所有人都喜欢真实的你，但那又怎样！或许你是世上最红最甜的苹果，但要是有人本来就讨厌苹果呢？

What you are willing to sacrifice for your goals.

为了目标，你愿意牺牲什么？

When it comes to goal setting, you must be specific. If you find yourself talking to yourself about wanting everything, it means you are treacherously close to achieving nothing. It means you are avoiding the effort required to get anywhere at all.

目标制定必须详细。如果你这也想要那也想要，很可能会一无所获。因为你只想成果而不愿为特定目标付诸切实努力。

This takes serious commitment, and it requires transient discomfort. When you decide to aim for something higher, you must be willing to suffer a bit of vertigo – the fear of falling. And you must be willing to fight against that voice of emptiness below you which tempts and lures you to believe that you don’t have enough strength to ascend any higher.

你需要全力以赴，还得忍受暂时的苦痛。目标越高，担心失败的困扰也越多。而你则必须战胜内心那个不断引诱你的消极思维，说什么你根本没有足够的能力更上一层楼。

The little victories of each day.

每天胜利一点点。

Sometimes the human mind operates in mysterious ways when it comes to achievements and happiness. We dream of something and we wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to arrive. Then it does and it’s over, and all we really want is to curl back up in that moment before things change again.

有时成功和幸福来得太突然，唬得人们猝手不及：我们是那么渴望，等了又等，总以为成功还遥遥无期，然而它却瞬间昙花般出现了，于是我们惊愕，满心期望一切能再演绎一次。

Ultimately you will realize that your highest aspirations should just be a target – a point on the horizon to step towards. You may not ever reach it, but you can always look up after every small step and see beauty of where that step has taken you.

最后或许你会发现，你最渴求的目标只有一个——它远远发着光，等着你去追寻。或许它总是可望而不可及，但你总能仰望着它，一点一点靠近，享受沿途的风景。

How to help others.

如何帮助他人。

Talk yourself into helping someone today.

试着帮助他人吧。

No exercise is better for your heart and mind than reaching down and helping others up. Happiness and success in life doesn’t come through selfishness, but through selflessness. Everything you do comes back around to you.

再没什么比帮助他人更能愉悦身心了。幸福圆满的生活不是来自自私，而是得益于无私。更何况，好心总会有好报。

The best way to feel alive is to get up and do something positive for someone else. Don’t wait around for good things to happen in this world. If you go out and make good things happen, you will fill the world with happiness and you will make yourself smile in the process.

想要尽情生活？那就热情帮助他人！不要总等着幸运降临，而应自己创造幸运，这样你会发现生活充满欢乐。

The immediate reality of your own happiness.

「今日美文」和自己的六次对话

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