学生双语报2017-2018第12期.docVIP

I?don t ?think you should fill your life with unnecessary things.??Strip ?your Iife down to what you need and what is healthy for you, not wh at you want to acquire or do just because you re bored.?Thoreau said, ? When you simplify your life, the lawsof the universe will be simpler.Solitude ?will not be solitude, poverty (贫穷 )will not be poverty, nor weakness. ? We are led by consumerism and the need-to be entertained.?Every day we are bombarded with advertisements telling us .the next thing we need to buy in order to be cool.?Facebook, Twitter， cell phones and computers are all great things, but always with us all of the time. ? We are never truly.alone and it s usually because we don t want to be.?If you are never alone, how do you know who you are when separated from all of the materials that surround you??This isn t to say that you should go to be a hermit(隐士) and live in thewoods, but solitude is not a-bad thing.Strip yourself of distractions ? (干扰) and the expectations of the world and sit down to think and feel. ? ?My brother is seven years older than me, so a lot of my time was spent alone.?When I was seven.?my parents decided to get rid of our TV.?Instead of sitting on a couch staring at a screen all afternoon, I was playing outside.My dad and I used to go on hikes when he would get home from work, and as a result, l still love the outdoors.?I love the purity and silence of it. ? ?My parents raised us in a way that was relatively simple.?They wanted us to be aware of the world around us and to be aware of ourselves.?Life is really short, so you should fill it with meaning, not with things that are going to fade away and disappear and that are just to be replaced with something equally temporary.?There is a lot of beauty in the world, but sometimes you need to be peaceful in order to see it. 我不认为你应该用不必要的东西来填满你的生活。把你的生活带向你需要的和对你有益的东西，而不是你想要获得或仅仅因为你感到无聊而想要获得的东西。Thoreau说:“当你简化你的生活时，宇宙的法则将会更简单。”孤独不会孤独、贫困(贫穷)不会贫穷,也不是软弱。” 我们是由消费主义和被娱乐的人领导的。每天我们都被广告轰炸。下一件我们需要买的东