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The life I desired 我所追求的生活 威廉.萨姆塞特.毛姆/William Somerset Maugham That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by a vague uneasiness. Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous, shoals it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen. 这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦 之美。它使人想起一条平静的溪流，蜿蜒畅游过绿茵的草场，浓荫遮 蔽，最后注入烟波浩渺的汪洋大海；但是大海太过平静，太过沉默，太 过不动声色，你会突然感到莫名的不安。也许这只是我自己的一种怪 诞想法，在那样的时代，这想法对我影响很深：我觉得这像大多数人一 样的生活，似乎欠缺了一点儿什么。我承认这种生活有社会价值，我 也看到了它那井然有序的幸福，但我血液里的冲动却渴望一种更桀 骜不驯的旅程．这样的安逸中好像有一种叫我惊惧不安的东西．我的 心渴望一种更加惊险的生活。只要生活中还能有变迁——— 以及不 可知的刺激，我愿意踏上怪石嶙峋的山崖，奔赴暗礁满布的海滩 Just a Little Bit More(再努力一点点) Lots of people lose hope at the so-called 11th hour1. In sports terms, we say that they lose hope just before the finishing line. They don’t think that they can be winners in life, but the truth is they can. 很多人在最后关头 失了希望。在体育领域这个词是指人们在 靠近终点线的前一刻放弃了希望。他们认为自己无法赢得生活的精彩, 但事实上,他们可以。 The 11th hour is the point when most people feel the pain. It is an important moment that decides whether you succeed or not. Champions always put in extra effort to become winners and succeed. Those who don’t put in extra effort leave the race with nothing. All they need to win the race is a little extra effort at that last point. This is the differenc