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普特英语听力网 免费学习英语 没有谁世界都依旧运转 What do I believe? What laws do I live by? There are so many answers - work, be auty, truth, love - and I hope I do live by them. 什么是我所信仰的？什么是我生活的准则？答案很多，比如工作、美丽、真理、 爱心，但愿我能以它们为准则。 But in everyday things I live by the light of a supplementary set of laws. Id better call them rules of thumb. Rules of thumb arent very grand, but they do make the wheels go round. 然而，生活中的我还履行着另外一套附加的法则，即经验法则。这一法则虽然简 单，但却能使事情顺利地进行下去。 My father and mother sent me to good schools, but the finest thing they did for m y education was to have seven children. I was the oldest, and my brothers and sist ers were my best teachers. 父母把我送到一所很好的学校学习，但养育了7个孩子，才是他们为我的教育做 的最好的事。我是家中长女，而弟弟妹妹就是我最好的老师。 I learned first to pull my own weight in the boat. Kids making a bob-sled have no use for the loafer who wants a free ride. Neither has the world. I learned to make the bed I slept in, and wash the glass I used, and mend what I broke, and mop up where I spilled. And if I was too lazy or too dainty or too busy, and left it for someone else, somebody else soon taught me different. 我最先学会了身为长女的责任。对一个想搭顺风车的流浪者来说，会做雪橇的孩 子毫无用处。对这些孩子而言，世界也是如此。我学会了睡觉前自己铺床，洗自 己用过的杯子，修补自己弄坏的东西，用拖布拖干自己溅到地上的水。如果我过 于懒惰、挑剔或忙碌，而让别人来做这些事，马上就会有人教我不能这么做。 Then, the same way, I learned that anger is a waste. It hurts nobody but me. A fi t of the sullen got short shrift in our house. It wasnt pulling my weight in the boa t. It was spoiling sport. And among seven children it got me nowhere. It might red uce four ocat to three ocat, but the game went on just the same, and where was I? Out of it, better go in and join the group around the piano and forget my grie vance. Better still, next time dont fling do