讀雙語(yǔ)故事,看百味人生。閱讀是一生的功課,無(wú)論順境逆境,我們總能在文字里找到共鳴。以下是小編整理的我們正站在起跑點(diǎn)上/We are at the beginning的內(nèi)容,讀一下吧,也許恰好是你喜歡的那一篇。
“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite…”
I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.
We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the reminder of our lives.
The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will effect it. Each day we will bring with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only make our efforts. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.
【助讀詞匯】
◇infinite adj. 無(wú)窮的,無(wú)限的
◇hazy adj. 模糊的,迷惑的,不明確的
◇statue n. 雕像,塑像,鑄像
◇contaminate vt. 弄臟,污染
◇static adj. 靜止的,靜態(tài)的
◇dynamic adj. 動(dòng)態(tài)的
◇endeavor vi. 努力,試圖
【參考譯文】
“我們正在閱讀一本無(wú)盡書的第一章的第一節(jié)……”
我不知道這些文字是誰(shuí)寫的,但是我一直很喜歡它們并用它們來(lái)提醒自己,未來(lái)的好壞完全取決于我自己。我們可以掌握神秘而不可知的未來(lái),并且從中創(chuàng)出我們所能想象的任何東西,正如雕刻家可以將未成型的石頭雕刻出雕像一樣。
我們每個(gè)人都像農(nóng)夫。如果我們種下一顆好的種子,我們就會(huì)獲得豐收;如果我們的種子長(zhǎng)得不好,并且播種后雜草叢生,我們就會(huì)徒勞無(wú)獲;如果我們什么也不種,就根本不會(huì)有任何收獲。
我希望未來(lái)會(huì)比過(guò)去更好。我不希望未來(lái)被那些充斥在歷史中的錯(cuò)誤所污染。我們應(yīng)關(guān)心未來(lái),因?yàn)槲覀兊挠嗌家谖磥?lái)中度過(guò)。
過(guò)去已經(jīng)一去不復(fù)返并且成為了靜止的,我們無(wú)法做任何事情來(lái)改變它。未來(lái)就在我們眼前并且是動(dòng)態(tài)的,我們所做的任何一件事情都會(huì)影響未來(lái)。每天都可能發(fā)現(xiàn)新的領(lǐng)域,在家中或是在我們的事業(yè)中,只要我們?cè)敢飧冻雠ΑN覀冋幵谌祟愃︺@研的每個(gè)領(lǐng)域中進(jìn)步的起點(diǎn)。
【人生啟迪】
人生總是不斷向前發(fā)展的,很多時(shí)候,我們總是因?yàn)檫^(guò)去的一些錯(cuò)誤而耿耿于懷,以至于未來(lái)的日子里都充滿著不開(kāi)心。其實(shí)過(guò)去的已經(jīng)無(wú)法挽回,但是生活依然在繼續(xù),為什么不放開(kāi)懷抱努力向前呢,因?yàn)槊恳惶於际且粋€(gè)新的起點(diǎn),從現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始,好好學(xué)習(xí),好好工作,珍惜好每一天,這樣我們的未來(lái)才會(huì)變得更加美好!