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一年级儿童英语故事精选 Anonymous When the moon is fullest it begins to wane, When it is darkest it begins to grow. —Chinese Proverb There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first from a monkof a Buddhist monastery in China. It has often, helped me to retain a good measure ofequanimity under stress and hardship as well as when some unexpected success or goodluck might have made me too exuberant. There is hope and consolation in the sureknowledge that even the darkest hours of pains and troubles wont last: but also a warningagainst overrating the passing glories of wealth, power and great good fortune. A warning anda hope, not only for the individual, but also for governments,nations and their leaders, a briefsumming up of all that history and human experience can tell us. And beyond all that we mighthear in it an echo of the law and order that holds our universe in safe balance. 月亮的启示 佚名 “月盈则亏，晦则明。” 中国古谚 这句中国的古语里有种平静的智慧，它最初是由佛教寺院中的一位和尚告诉我的，当时我在中国，这句话给我的印象很深。从那时起，每当我遭遇困难阻碍，或者遇到可能使我过于兴奋的成功或好运的时候，这句话对我的帮助很大，它使我保持镇定，泰然处之。这句话启示我们，不论痛苦或困难的时刻有多么黑暗，它们不会长久持续下去，我们因此会感到希望和宽慰;这句话同时也警示我们，财富、权力或鸿运当头的荣耀，都不过是过眼烟云，我们不必太放在心上。这个道理对个人如此，对于国家和政治领袖也是如此。这句谚语所提供的希望和警示，是整个人类历史经验的结晶。除此之外，我们从这句话里面还可以聆听到使宇宙保持平衡状态的法则与秩序的回声。 The old monk often took the young monk to the hill outside the temple to recite the lection. One day the young monk said to the old monk,How slowly the time goes! The old monk said,You can have a try like this---in the morning sit to the west to read; and inthe afternoon sit to the east to read. At the masters advice, the young monk recited the lection against the sun. By and by heneglected the passage of time. The next day he told the old monk ,Master, youre so masterly that I forget time with a switchof direction and absorb myself in the lection. The old monk said,Whatever you do, only you leave time behind you can you focus on itselflessly. 老和尚经常带着小和尚到寺院外面的山坡上诵读经文。 有一天，小和尚对老和尚说：