激情晨读英语美文.docx

第一章人生如诗Human Life Like a PoemI think that, from a biological standpoint,human life almost reads like a poem.It has its own rhythm and beat,its internal cycles of growth and decay.No one can say that a life with childhood,manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;the day has its morning, noon and sunset,and the year has its seasons, and it is goodthat it is so. There is no good or bad in life,except what is good according to its own season.And if we take this biological view of lifeand try to live according to the seasons,no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealistcan deny that human life can be lived like a poem.　　——Lin Yutang我以为，从生物学角度看，人的一生恰如诗歌。人生自有其韵律和节奏，自有内在的成长与衰亡。人生有童年、少年和老年，谁也不能否认这是一种美好的安排。一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好！人生本无好坏之分，只是各个季节有各自的好处。如若我们持此种生物学的观点，并循着季节去生活，除了狂妄自大的傻瓜和无可救药的理想主义者，谁能说人生不能像诗一般度过呢？林语堂人在旅途We Are on a JourneyWherever you are, and whoever you may be,there is one thing in which you and I arejust alike,at this moment, and in all the momentsof our existence.We are not at rest;we are on a journey. Our life is not a mere fact;it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.We are gaining something, or losing something, every day.Even when our position and our character seem toremain precisely the same, they are changing.For the mere advance of time is a change.It is not the same thing to have a bare fieldin January and in July. The season makes the difference.The limitations that are childlike in the child are childishin the man.Everything that we do is a stepin one direction or another. Even the failure to do somethingis in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward.The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle isjust as real as the action of the positive pole.To decline is to accept — the other alternative.Are you nearer to your port today than you were yesterday?Yes, — you must be a little nearer to some port or other;for since your ship was first launched uponthe sea of life you have neve