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Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture ................................................................................... 1

The beauty industry .............................................................................................................................. 2

Holiday Headache ................................................................................................................................... 2

Arthritis all-clear for high heels ..................................................................................................... 3

Disney World ............................................................................................................................................. 4

Secrets to a Great Life ......................................................................................................................... 5

The 50-Percent Theory of Life ......................................................................................................... 6

The Road to Happiness ........................................................................................................................ 7

Six Famous Words .................................................................................................................................. 8

Write Your Own Life .............................................................................................................................. 8

Starbucks invades Parisian cafe culture

A form of alien civilisation has finally landed in Paris - unfamiliar green and black signs have appeared on the Avenue de L'Opera.

It is the first Starbucks cafe to boldly go where no Starbucks has gone before, onto potentially hostile French territory.

Its advertising posters on the Champs Elysee announce "Starbucks - a passion pour le cafe".

But is the company aware of the risk it is taking by challenging the very birthplace of cafe society?

"I think every time we come into a new market we do it with a great sense of respect, a great deal of interest in how that cafe society has developed over time," Bill O'Shea of Starbucks says.

"We recognise there is a huge history here of cafe society and we have every confidence we can enjoy, augment and join in that passion."

And he may be right. Despite some sniffiness in the French press, some younger French are expressing their excitement that they will finally be able to visit the kind of cafe they love to watch on the US TV series Friends.

In fact, for some, it is an exotic rarity, far more exciting than the average French cafe. Melissa, aged 18, says she can hardly wait: "I love Starbucks caramel coffee - it's very good and I like the concept that they're opening in Paris. I think Starbucks will be OK for French people."

An American tourist is equally excited when she spots the sign - this could be just the thing to help her get over the occasional twinge of homesickness.

"I love the French cafes, but Starbucks is so popular in the States and it's become part of American culture and now it's come to France, and that's OK," she said.

But that is the problem for many French, who do not want France to be just like the rest of the world: with standardised disposal cups of coffee - identical in 7,000 branches around(来自:WwW.ZHaOqt.nEt 蒲公英文 摘:英语晨读美文) the world - even if they are termed handcrafted beverages.

At the traditional cafes, customers worry that the big US coffee house chains could drive out small, family-owned cafes.

Others here think they could come round to the idea of Starbucks, though for them it would never replace the corner cafe or the typical Parisian petit noir coffee.

The beauty industry

The one American industry unaffeted by the general depression of trade is the beauty industry. American women continue to spend on their faces and bodies as much as they spent before the coming of the slump--about three million pounds a week. These facts and figures are 'official', and can be accepted as being substantially true.

The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth. If it were, then the personal appearance industries would have been as hit by the trade depression as any other business. But, as we have seen, they have not suffered.Women are retrenching on other things than their faces.

Women, it is obvious, are freer than in the past. Freer not only to perform the generally unenviable social functions hithero reserved to the male, but also freer to exercise the more pleasing, feminine privilege of being attractive. The fortunes are made justly by face-cream manufacturers and beauty-specialists, by the sellers of rubber reducing-belts and massage machines, by the patentees of hair-lotions and the authors of books on the culture of the abdomen.

It is a success in so far as more women retain their youthful appearance to a greater age than in the past. The Portrait of the Artist's Mother will come to be almost indisinguishable, at future picture shows, from the Portrai of the Artist's Daughter. The success is part due to skin foods and injections of paraffin-wax, facial surgery, mud baths, and paint, and in part due to impoved health. So for some people, the campaign for more beauty is also a compaign for more health. Beauty that is merely the artificial shadow of these symptoms of heslth is intrinsically of poorer quality than the genuine article. Still, it is a sufficiently good imitation to be sometimes mistakable for the real thing. Every middle-in-come preson can afford the cosmetic apparatus and more knowledge of the way in which real herlth can be achieved is being universally aced upon. When that happy moment comes, will every woman be beautiful-as beautiful, at any rate, as the natural shape of her features? The answer is apparent: No,for real beauty is as much an affair of the inner as of the outer self.

Holiday Headache

All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in the state of Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to hang out under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect.

So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it appeared on the shelves of my local bookstore, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words “Maine log cabin rental”at altavista.com, I was stepping into 48 hours of Internet hell. Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued to my computer for hours clicking from one listing to another to find the perfect hideaway.

I was wrong. The first site that I tried, cyberrentals.com, grouped rentals by region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding, places as Seal Cove or Owl’s Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings.Another site, vacationspot.com, let me find 50 cabins and cottages right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter.

I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. One day and hundreds of listings later, I was ready to throw my computer out the window. For every 10 vacation spots I looked into, I found maybe one that sounded good and more often than not, it was booked, too far away, or outrageously priced. Searching on line was really giving me a headache.I finally decided to put our log-cabin Web dreams on hold and search the old-fashioned way at a bookstore. I bought a paperback book called America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs, and Small Hotels. I was relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place.

Then I found it: an old inn on the southern coast of Maine that rented us one of its best rooms for $100 a night. Guess what? It didn’t have a Website. I took my chances based on a good review, a great location and a bargain price. It wasn’t a log cabin, and it was far from the woods, but there were lace curtains, a hardwood floor and a quilt on the bed. With the ocean outside our window and a fireplace in the room, my holiday was just as cozy as I dreamed it would be.

Arthritis all-clear for high heels

Fears that wearing high-heeled shoes could lead to knee arthritis are

unfounded,sayresearchers.

But being overweight,smoking,and having a previous knee injury does increase the risk,the team from Oxford Brookes Universtity found.

They looked at more than 100 women aged between 50 and 70 waiting for knee surgery, and found that choice of shoes was not a factor

The study was published in the Journal of Epidemilology and public health.

More than 2% of the population aged over 55 suffers extreme pain as a result of osteoarthrits of the knee.

The condition is twice as common in 65-year-old women as it is in men of the same age. Women's and men's knees are not biologically different, so the reserachers wanted to find out why twice as many women as men develop osteoarthritis in the joint.

Some researchers have speculated tha high-heeled shoes maybe to blame.

The women in the study were quizzed on details of their height and weight when they left school, between 36 and 40 and between 51 and 55.

They were asked about injuries, their jobs, smoking and use of contraceptive hormones. Howere, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years was not.

The researchers wrote:"Most of the women had been exposed to high heeled shoes over the years-nevertheless, a consistent finding was a reduced risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.

There was an even more pronounced link between regular dancing in three-inch heels and a reduced risk of knee problems.

The researchers described this finding as "surprising", but said that they would not expect a larger-scale study to overturn their findings.

Disney World

Disney World, Florida, is the biggest amusement resort in the world. It covers 24.4 thousand acres, and is twice the size of Manhattan. It was opened on October 1 1971, five years after Walt Disney’s death, and it is a larger, slightly more ambitious version of Disneyland near Los Angeles.

Foreigners tend to associate Walt Disney with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and with his other famous cartoon characters, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

There is very little that could be called vulgar in Disney World. It attracts people of most tastes and most income groups, and people of all ages, from toddlers to grandpas. There are two expensive hotels, a golf course, forest trails for horseback riding and rivers for canoeing. But the central attraction of the resort is the MagicKingdom.

Between the huge parking lots and the MagicKingdom lies a broad artificial lake. In the distance rise the towers of Cinderella’s Castle. Even getting to the MagicKingdom is quite an adventure. You have a choice of transportation. You can either cross the lake on a replica of a Mississippipaddlewheeler, or you can glide around the shore in a streamlined monorail train.

When you reach the terminal, you walk straight into a little square which faces Main Street. Main Street is late 19th century. There are modern shops inside the buildings, but all the facades are of the period. There are hanging baskets full of red and white flowers, and

there is no traffic except a horse-drawn streetcar and an ancient double-decker bus. Yet as you walk through the MagicKingdom, you are actually walking on top of a network of underground roads. This is how the shops, restaurants and all other material needs of the MagicKingdom are invisibly supplied.

Secrets to a Great Life

A great life doesn’t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be.Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease.

A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these “secrets” to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. S—Simplify.

A great life is the result of simplifying your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E—Effort.

A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It means looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

3. C—Create Priorities.

A great life is the result of creating priorities. It’s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that’s important to you. Make sure you are honoring your priorities.

4. R—Reserves.

A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E—Eliminate distractions.

A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Look around at someone’s life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

6. T—Thoughts.

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美文一 这9件事，不要期待别人去做！ Life is full of experiences and trials that you never saw coming. Sometimes what we expect to happen and the reality of the situation are 2 very different things. Expectations are nice to have. They give you goals, purpose, joy and even something to look forward to, but you have to understand that life happens: you’re not always in control.

生活充满不期而遇的经历。有时现实跟我们的期待完全是两码事。期待很美好，给人以目标和快乐，使人有所憧憬，但你得明白：生活并不尽在你的掌控之中。

Some expectations are good to have and some are unhealthy. Here’s a list of expectations that if you have, you need to change. By changing certain expectations in your life, you are opening yourself up to new experiences, new ways of thinking and even a greater sense of accomplishment that you otherwise could not have received.

有些期待很美好，而有些则无益。下面列出应该改变的期待。调整对生活的某些期待，你会迎来新体验和新思维，甚至还能获得前所未有的成就感。

1. Stop Expecting People to be Perfect:

停止期待别人尽善尽美

If you have this mindset, you will always be disappointed. People will never live up to your expectations. There’s nothing wrong with having high expectations for people, but understand that when they fail, and they will, they still tried. Be understanding and don’t expect perfection. 如果你总要求别人做到完美，那你必然一直失望，因为人们永远也不可能达到你的期望。对人有很高的期望其实也无可厚非，但请记住：就算对方没能做到，他们也尽力了。所以请多加体谅，不要苛求完美。

2. Stop Expecting the Worst from People:

停止预料别人糟糕透顶

On the flip side, if you’re always expecting people to fail, you’re not giving them the chance to succeed. Encourage those around you. Help them, teach them. That’s how they will grow and be able to accomplish hard things.

反之，如果你总觉得别人会栽跟头，那等于是在扼杀他们成功的机会。你应该多鼓励他们、帮助他们、指导他们。这样他们才能成长并征服困难。 3. Stop Expecting People to Pay for You: 停止期望别人为你买单 Your finances are your responsibility. You shouldn’t expect people to pay for your entertainment, your bills or even your groceries. Get in control of your money. Once you have a budget, stick to it. Just because all your friends go out to lunch doesn’t mean you have to. There are differences between needs and wants—if you want something, save up for it; don’t expect your friends or family to pitch in and get it for you.

你应该为自己的经济状况负责，不要期望别人请你出去玩、给你买单或付菜钱。管好自己的钱袋，制定预算并坚持执行。朋友全都在外吃饭并不表示你必须跟着去。“需要”和“渴望”是有区别的：如果你渴望什么，那就自己存钱，不要妄想亲友买了送给你。

4. Stop Expecting Things to Always Go Wrong:

停止担忧万事不顺

Whatever streak of bad luck you may think you’ve been having, you shouldn’t come to expect that out of everything. Learn to stay positive. If you look for the good in things you will find them, and it’s the same with bad things. If your whole focus is on situations never turning out how you want them to, they never will.

不管你觉得自己现在有多倒霉，也不要因此意象出无数噩运。学会保持积极乐观。如果你心怀美好，就会发现美好；反之亦然。要是你一心以为一切都不会变成期望的那样，结果还真会事与愿违。

5. Stop Expecting Fairness in Everything:

停止期望一切公平

生活并非一直公平。有时你辛勤工作却得不到认可或奖励，事实就是如此。所以要放宽心胸：付出所有，但不要期待任何回报。

6. Stop Expecting Things to be Easy:

停止期望凡事简单容易

If you only ever do the simplest things, you’ll never do anything great. Life is hard. Trials will come your way that you don’t feel prepared for. But know that you can stay strong and do hard things. Anything worth achieving in life requires hard work, diligence and self-discipline. If you only strive for mediocrity, that’s all you’ll ever be.

如果总是挑简单的事做，那你永远成不了大器。生活会在始料不及时考验你，所以你必须挑战困难、保持坚强。世上任何值得拥有的东西都需要付诸努力、勤奋和自律。倘若自甘平庸，那你就会变得庸碌无为。

7. Stop Expecting Something for Nothing:

停止期望不劳而获

If you don’t put any effort into accomplishing something you want, you’re not going to get the results you desire. If you want to lose weight, you have to make changes by eating healthy and exercising. You can’t eat what you want, when you want and still expect to look amazing. If you want something, then work your hardest to achieve it.

若是渴望得到却又不付诸努力，那你绝不会取得期望的成就。想要减肥?那就开始健康饮食、规律运动吧。若还是任着性子乱吃，你永远也不可能变得苗条美丽！若有所渴望，那就全力以赴去争取！

8. Stop Expecting People to Change:

停止期望别人有所改变

People are habitual. We like things to be constant. It’s comfortable. We can change, but it takes time. If you desire someone else to change, you need to start with yourself. You don’t have the power to change anyone other than yourself, and once you realize that, your life will be a lot happier.

人都依恋习惯，喜欢万事固定不变、舒服稳妥。虽然改变也行，但却耗费时间。要是你期望别人有所改变，那就先从改变自己开始吧。你的力量只在于改变自己，而非其他任何人;一旦意识到这点，生活会变得舒心很多。

9. Stop Expecting People to Drop Everything for You:

停止期望别人为你放弃一切

You’re not the only one who has bad days. Friends and family members should be someone you can count on to help you when life gets hard, but don’t abuse these relationships. Learn to take care of yourself. Being independent is healthy. You shouldn’t have to insist that you do everything on your own, but you don’t want to keep putting your friends and family members in a position that causes them to miss out on important events in their lives because they are helping you.

世上不幸的人何止你一个。遭遇坎坷时，固然可以向亲朋好友寻求抚慰，但请不要滥求无度。学会照顾好自己，能够独立才是健康。你当然可以自力更生，而且不要使你的亲友因为帮助你而错失他们自己生活中的重要事情。

Having expectations is about finding balance in life. You have to know when you’re asking too much and when you can ask for more. It can be hard but we all need to let go of ouruealistic expectations and learn to live a healthier, happier life.

有所期待是为了找到生活平衡。你必须清楚自己何时索求太多、何时又可再多点期盼。当然，这点做起来不容易，但我们总得抛开不切实际的期望，努力过上健康快乐的生活吧？

美文二穷忙族，为啥你没空休息放松？

Do you think that you have no time to catch up on your favorite TV series, go out with your friends on the weekend, or just sit around relaxing around doing nothing? You might have a boatload of time at your disposal, but don’t even know it!

你是不是觉得自己没有时间追看喜欢的电视剧，跟朋友在周末外出，甚至连无所事事放松一下的时间也没有？其实你也许有许多可以支配的时间，只是你没有意识到。

Here are 15 reasons as to why you might be crunched for some R&R:、

下面就是你没有办法休息放松的15个原因：

1. Your workplace is full of distractions

你办公的地方太容易分心

Chatty coworkers, silly desk toys and emails of cute cats can put a damper on your ability to get things done. Eliminate distractions in your workspace by using noise-cancelling headphones or purchasing a white noise machine, work in a different area of the office or ask for a workspace reassignment, or log off of email or the internet completely when working.

聊天的同事、傻傻的桌面玩具、关于喵星人的电子邮件都可以成为你完成工作的阻碍。想要消除办公地点这些让人分心的事物，你可以戴上消除噪音的耳机，买一台白噪声机器，在办公室里另找一片地方工作或者要求重新分配一个工作区，也可以在工作时退出邮箱登陆或者完全断开网络。

2. You say "Yes" to everything that comes your way

你对所有落在你头上的事情都应承下来

You don’t have to always say yes to everything that comes your way, be it an invite to a party or function, a question or even a chance to do something completely out of the blue. Think twice before saying yes to something – you have the power to control your schedule and your time.

你没有必要把所有落在你头上的事情都应承下来，比如说邀请你参加的一个聚会或者活动，向你提出的一个问题，甚至是突然让你做某件事。在答应做这些事之前要三思，你有权掌控自己的日程和时间。

3. You mistake work time for playtime

你把工作时间用来玩了

You say you’re working, but you’re playing yet another level of Candy Crush Saga…which one is it? Work or play? Playing during work time adds more time to your day and messes up your schedule. If you just sat down and worked, you’d be done so much sooner than if you stopped to play.

你说自己在工作，可是你又玩了一关《糖果粉碎传奇》游戏??你到底在做什么，是工作还是玩？在工作时间玩耍会让你的工作时间延长，打乱你的日程。如果你坐下来好好工作，那么你结束工作的时间会比你停下来玩游戏要早得多。

4. You don’t commit to scheduling meetings and appointments

你没有出席计划好的会议和约见

Not committing to meetings or appointments creates more work, effort and wasted time. Stop being wishy-washy when you receive an invite: you’ll either attend or not.

没有应约出席会议或约见会增加你的工作量，还会浪费时间。当你接受一项邀请的时候不要漫不经心，你要么出席，要么不要答应。

5. You don’t book your vacation well enough in advance

你没有提前足够多的时间预约休假

Your vacation days are racking up at work, you’re feeling drained and the year’s almost finished. Why didn’t you put in that vacation request months ago? Take action and be sure to book your vacations in advance, you’ll be happy you did in six months’ time!

你的假期时间被工作吞噬了，你感觉筋疲力尽，这一年好像都要结束了。你为什么不提前几个月提出休假的要求呢？行动起来，确保自己提前预约了假期，如果你提前半年预约会很开心的。

6. You watch the clock too much

你总是在看时间

Counting all the minutes and seconds in your day isn’t healthy time management. If you’re constantly looking at or managing your schedule, you’re using up all your time: work and play time included.

工作时总是读分数秒并不是健康的时间管理方式。如果你总是在看时间或者管理你的日程，你就把时间都花完了，包括工作时间和娱乐时间。

7. You get caught up in other people’s business and drama

你陷入了别人的事务和生活

"I heard Joey had this terrible truck accident last weekend, broke both arms, and has to settle things in court… plus his wife’s threatening to leave him and take the kids with her…" Blah, blah, blah. The gossip mills will always be turning with information that really isn’t useful to your life. Step away from the gossip and instead spend your time on yourself and creating a life you love.

“我听说Joey上周末出了严重的卡车事故，两条胳膊都折了，还要上法庭。而且他老婆还威胁要离开他，还要把孩子都带走??”诸如此类的八卦总是源源不断，而它们对于你的生活毫无意义。远离八卦，把你的时间都花在自己身上，用来创造你爱的生活。

8. You make mountains out of molehills

你小题大做

You just broke the heel on your favorite pair of shoes! Your day is ruined…or is it? There’s no reason to waste time getting caught up on little things that can be fixed. Get the item fixed and move on with your life.

你最爱的那双鞋的鞋跟坏了！你的一天都被毁了??是这样吗？没有理由把时间浪费在那些可以处理好的小事上。解决了问题就继续你的生活吧。

9. You check your smart phone every three minutes

你每三分钟就看一下你的智能手机

Constantly checking email, text messages, social media all adds up over time, especially if you are trying to relax. Put down the phone—or better yet, shut it off completely to prevent yourself from checking in every few minutes.

过于频繁地查看邮件、短信和社交媒体都会占用你的时间，尤其是如果你还想有时间放松的话。把手机放下，最好是关机，这样你就不会每隔几分钟就看一次。

10. You volunteer too much of your personal time.

你自愿牺牲了太多私人时间

Do you go out of your way to volunteer your time even when it isn’t asked for? Sure, helping people out is good, but being burned out and bitter is not. Strike a balance as to how much of your free time you’ll volunteer or donate to your favorite causes per month.

你是否自愿付出了太多时间，去做一些甚至没有要求你做的事？当然，帮助别人是好的，但是忙到筋疲力尽就不好了。要平衡掌握你自愿付出多少私人时间，或者每个月愿意花多少时间上你最爱的课程。

11. You participate in too many hobbies, clubs or extracurricular activities

你参加了太多的兴趣活动、俱乐部或者业余活动

You signed up for yoga, Spanish lessons, pastry making, juggling lessons and antiquecabinetry classes… every week! Stretching yourself thin is never good, especially when you were trying to relax in the first place. Narrow down your activities to one or two to keep things in check.

你报名了瑜伽课、西班牙语课、点心制作、慢跑课程、古董家具课??而且每周都如此!过分压榨自己的时间本来就不好，尤其是你首先想要放松一下。控制一下，把你的活动压缩到一两项。

12. You wake up late

你起床晚

Trying to squeeze more time in your day after a late start? Unfortunately relaxation and fun time are the first two things to get cut when you have a late start. Give yourself time to relax by getting a good night’s rest and waking up at the time you’re supposed to wake up.

英语晨读美文篇三：激情晨读英语美文50篇 双语1-6

Chapter One Human Life Like a Poem 人生如诗

I think that, from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem.

我以为，从生物学角度看，人的一生恰如诗歌。

It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay.

人生自有其韵律和节奏，自有内在的生成与衰亡。

No one can say that a life with childhood, manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement; 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，

the day has its morning, noon and sunset, and the year has its seasons, and it is good

一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好。

that it is so. There is no good or bad in life, except what is good according to its own season. 人生本无好坏之分，只是各个季节有各自的好处。

And if we take this biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.

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。

——Lin Yutang

1.We Are on a Journey人在旅途

By Hey Van Dyke

Wherever you are, and whoever you maybe, there is one thing in which you and I are just alike at this moment, and in all the moments of our existence. We are not at rest; we are on a journey, our life is a movement, a tendency, a steady, ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal. We are gaining something, or losing something, everyday. Even when our position and our character seem to remain 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 field in January and in July, the season makes the difference. The limitations that are childlike in the child are childish in the man.

无论你在何处，无论你是何人，此刻，而且在我们生命的每时每刻，你与我有一点是类似的。我们不是在休息，我们在旅途中。生命是一种运动，一种趋势，一个稳步、持续的通往一个未知目标的过程。每天，我们都在获得，或失去。尽管我们的地位和性格看起来好像一点都没变，但是它们在变化。因为时光的流逝本身是一种变化。在一月和七月拥有一片贫瘠的土地是不同的，是季节本身带来了变化。孩童时可爱的缺点到了成人时便成了幼稚。

Everything that we do is a step in one direction or another, even the failure to do something is in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward. The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle is just as real as the action of the positive pole. To decline is to accept – the other alternative. 我们做的每件事都是迈向一个或另外一个方向，甚至“什么都没做”本身也是一种行为，它让我们前进或倒退。一棵磁针的阴极的作用与阳极是一样的。拒绝即接受??接受反面。

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 lunched upon the sea of life, you have never been still for a single moment; the sea is too deep, you could not find an anchorage if you would. There can be no pause until you come into port.

你今天比昨天更加接近你的目标了吗？是的，你肯定是离一个或另一个码头或更近一些了。因为自从你的小船从生命的海洋上启航时，你没有哪一刻是停止的。大海是这样深，你想抛锚时找不到地方。在你驶入码头之前，你不可能停留。

2. The True Nobility真正的高贵

By Ernest Hemingway

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest - it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

但只有阳光没有阴影,只有快乐没有痛苦,根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人来说,他的生活也是一团缠结在一起的乱麻。痛苦与幸福交替出现,使得我们一会悲伤一会高兴。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可爱。在人生清醒的时刻,在悲伤与失落的阴影之下,人们与真实的自我最为接近。

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

在生活和事业的种种事务之中，性格比才智更能指导我们，心灵比头脑更能引导我们，而由判断获得的克制、耐心和教养比天分更能让我们受益。

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

我一向认为，内心生活开始更为严谨的人，他的外在生活也会变得更为简朴。在物欲横流的年代，但愿我能向世人表明：人类的真正需求少得多么可怜。

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

反思自己的过错不至于重蹈覆辙才是真正的悔悟。高人一等并没有什么值得夸耀的。真正的高贵是优于过去的自己。

3. The World as I See It我的世界观

By Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people—first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellowmen. I regard class distinctions as unjustified and, in the last resort, based on force. I also believe that a simple and unassuming life is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

我们这些肉体凡胎是多么奇怪啊！每个人来到这个世上都只作短暂停留，究竟为了什么目的却无从知晓，虽然有时觉得自己好像有所感悟。但是，无需深入思考，仅从日常生活就可明白，人是为他人而存在的——首先是为这样一些人：他们的欢笑、健康和福祉与我们的幸福息息相关；其次是为那些为数众多的陌生人，因为同情他们，使得我们与他们的命运联系在了一起。每一天，我都上百次地提醒自己，我的精神和物质生活都是建立在他人(包括生者和死者)的劳动基础上，对于我已经得到和正在得到的一切，我必须尽力给以相同程度的回报。我深深向往一种俭朴的生活，由于经常意识到自己占用了同胞太多的劳动而心有不安。我认为阶级区分是不正当的，其最终的达成方式常常诉诸暴力。我还认为，无论是在身体上还是心理上，过一种简单而不铺张浪费的生活对每个人都有好处。

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying, “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants,” has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.

我完全不相信哲学意义上的人的自由。每个人的行为不仅受外在力量的约束，还要与内在需求协调一致。叔本华说：“人可以任意而为，却不能心想事成。”这句话从我年轻时起就一直深深地启发着我。在面对生活的艰辛时——无论是我自己还是他人的艰辛，这句话总能不断地给我安慰，成为永不枯竭的忍耐的源泉。这一认识能够仁慈地缓和那份令人几欲崩溃的责任感，并防止我们太把自己或者他人当回事，还有助于形成一种尤其幽默的人生观。

To inquire after the meaning or object of one’s own existence or that of all creatures has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view. And yet everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with

men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects of human efforts—possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible. 客观地说，探求自己或者其他所有生命存在的意义或者目标，我一直都认为是荒唐之举。然而，每个人多少都有自己的理想，决定着他的奋斗目标和他对事情的看法。从这个意义上说，我从来都不会把安逸和幸福看作终极目标——我将这种伦理道德的基础称之为“猪圈理想”。一直以来，是对真、善、美的追求照亮了我的道路，一次又一次给我以新的勇气，让我愉快地面对生活。如果没有对志同道合者的那种亲近感，如果没有对客观世界——那个艺术和科学研究永远也无法穷极的世界——的孜孜以求，生命对我来说就是一场空。那些向来为世人竞相追求的目标——财产、奢华和外在的成功——我对此不屑一顾。

4. Love Your Life热爱生活

By Hey David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it

不论你的生活如何卑微，你都得面对与度过

do not shun it and call it hard names

不要逃避，更不要抱怨

it is not so bad as you are

生活不像你认为的那般坏

It looks poorest when you are richest

当你富甲天下之时，生活却显得贫瘠乏味

The fault finder will find faults in paradise

即使在天堂，爱找缺点的人也能找到缺点。

Love your life, poor as it is

即使生活贫穷，你也该热爱生活

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house因为就是在贫济院，你也有自己快乐激动与光荣的岁月

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode

夕阳照在贫济院窗上的反光与照在富人家的一样耀目

The snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

其门前的积雪也同样在早春融化

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there

我只是看到，一个心绪宁静的人就算居住在贫济院，生活起来也会心满意足。

And have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

思想愉悦，如同生活在皇宫中一样。

The town`s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

在我看来，城镇中的贫民大凡过着最为无拘无束的生活。

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

或许他们只是超乎寻常，不然岂会毫无疑惧地接受这一切。

Most think that they are above being supported by the town.

大多数人认为自己超凡脱俗而无须依赖城镇的资助

5.The Road to Happiness通往幸福的道路

By Bertrand Russell

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and uemunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

只要你观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的男男女女，就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。在这些共同之处中有一点是最重要的：那就是活动本身，它在大多数情况下本身就很有趣，而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女，能够从抚养子女中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意，也能以同样的方式得到快乐。不过，还有很多是较低层次的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做无偿的劳动，春天来时，他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。

The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children's noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen--a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.

在我看来，整个关于快乐的话题一向都被太严肃的对待过了。过去一直有这样的看法：如果

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