英文经典阅读教材发挥潜力,创造无限.ppt

英文经典阅读教材：发挥潜力，创造无限 My skills, my mind, my heart, and my body will stagnate, rot, and die lest I put them to good use. I have unlimited potential. Only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry amount of my muscles do I flex. A hundredfold or more can I increase my accomplishments of yesterday and this I will do, beginning today. 我的技艺，我的头脑，我的心灵，我的身体，若不善加利用，都将随着时间的流逝而迟钝，腐朽，甚至死亡。我的潜力无穷无尽，脑力、体能稍加开发，就能超过以往的任何成就。从今天开始。我就要开发潜力。 I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I werent there for the day. 生病的时候我就卧床休息，不会假装自己一天不工作，地球就会停止转动。 I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. 我要将雕成玫瑰花状的粉红蜡烛点上，而不让它在闲置中溶化。 I would have eaten the popcorn in the “good” living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. 我要在“讲究”的客厅里吃爆玉米花。倘若有人在壁炉生火带出了炉灰，我不会操那么多闲心。 Nevermore will I be satisfied with yesterdays accomplishments nor will I indulge, anymore, in self-praise for deeds which in reality are too small to even acknowledge. I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why should the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today? 我不再因昨日的成绩沾沾自喜，不再为微不足道的成绩目吹自擂。我能做的比已经完成的更好。我的出生并非最后一样奇迹，为什么自己不能再创奇迹呢？ I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed. 我决不会因为夏天头发刚刚梳理过、喷过发胶，就一定要把车窗玻璃摇起来。 I would have cried and laughed less while watching television—and more while watching life. 看电视我要少哭一点，少笑一点，看生活我要多哭一点，多笑一点。 I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldnt show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. 我买东西不会只看它很实用，不显脏，或能保证用一辈子。 And I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my