美文賞析---充分了解时间的宝贵及合理利用时间.docVIP

本文来自网络，十分感谢作者的慷慨分享。 双语散文：时间的价值 　　To realize the value of one year:要想知道一年的价值 　　Ask a student who has failed a final exam.就去问期末考试不及格的同学 　　To realize the value of one month: 要想知道一个月的价值 　　Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. 就去问生那早产儿的母亲 　　To realize the value of one week: 要想知道一周的价值 　　Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper. 就去问问周报的编辑 　　To realize the value of one hour: 要想知道一小时的价值 　　Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. 就去问等待相会的恋人 　　To realize the value of one minute: 要想知道一分钟的价值 　　Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane. 那就去问问误了火车汽车或飞机的人 　　To realize the value of one second: 要想知道一秒的价值 　　Ask a person who has survived an accident. 就去问大难不死的人 　　To realaize the value of one millisecond: 要想知道一毫秒的价值 　　Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics. 就去问问奥运会获得银牌的人 　　Time waits for no one.时间不等人 　　Treasure every moment you have.你拥有的每一分每一秒都要珍惜 受益无穷：用好一天中最重要的40分钟 　　The Forty Most Important Minutes Each Day: Are You Using Them Well? 　　 　　人一天最重要的40分钟，你用好了吗？ 　　 　　Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it is to study English. No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese。 　　 　　最近我在北京听一位中国朋友吐槽英语难学。这并不奇怪，英语跟中文一样，都不好学。 　　 　　I made a few suggestions based on my own experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher. He was a Jesuit priest, a gifted linguist, and had an amazing ability to memorize things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc。 　　 　　根据亲身经历，我有几点建议，其中也包括我高中拉丁语和希腊语老师的真传。这位老师是名耶稣会的牧师，很有语言天分，对诗歌、论文、演讲等记忆力超群。 　　 　　His advice to us students was that for memorization purposes, there are forty minutes each day in which our memory is vastly more receptive than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes. This 40-minute “super memory” period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we sleep, and the 20 minutes after we first awake。 　　 　　他告诉我们这些学生，人在一天之中有40分钟记忆力最强，接收