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优秀的英语美文：生命中的五个球

In a university commencement address several years ago, Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one’s other commitments:

几年前的大学毕业典礼演讲，可口可乐的首席执行官布赖恩戴森,谈到了工作与其他事情的关系。

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back.But the other four balls family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

想象生活是一个游戏,在游戏里面你向空中抛接五只球。你把它们命名为工作，家庭，健康，朋友和精神。你把它们全都保持在天空上。你会很快就明白工作就像是一个橡皮球。如果你不幸失手弄掉它，它是会反弹回来的。但是另外四个球，家庭、健康、朋友和精神是由玻璃做成的。如果你不幸失手弄掉它们中的任何一个，它们会有不可恢复的磨损、记号、刻痕、损坏甚至会碎落一地。它们将会永远不再像以前一样。你一定要明白这个道理并且努力平衡你的生活。如何?

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

不要通过与他人对比而破坏你的价值。因为我们都是不同的，每个人都是特别的。

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

不要为自己设定别人认为很重要的目标。只有你才知道什么最适合你。

Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as they would be your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

不要理所当然的认为与你内心最贴近的东西。坚持自己就会是你的生活,因为没有它们,生活就会毫无意义。

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

不要因为生活在过去的回忆或未来的幻想中,而让你现在的时间从指缝溜走。应当活在当下,生活在生命中的每一天。Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.不要放弃当你还能给予。没有什么真正算是结束直到你停止尝试的那一刻。

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.

别害怕承认你并非完美。因为正是这根脆弱的细线将我们联结在一起。

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

别害怕遇到危险。我们正是在冒险中学会勇敢的。

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give it; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

不要因为担心寻找的困难而放弃了生命之中的爱情。获得爱情的最快方法就是付出，而失去爱情的最快方法则是紧紧束缚。对于爱情来说，最好的保护就是让它自由。

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

不要匆忙地度过你的一生,以至于那匆忙让你忘了自己从何处来,往何处去。

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

不要忘记人最大的情感需求是感激。

Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

不要害怕学习。知识没有重量,它是你可以轻松携带的珍宝。

Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved.Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

不要随意运用时间和言语。两者都不可能被收回。生活不是赛跑,而是旅行,每一步都宜细细品尝的。

Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery and Today is a gift: that’s why we call it ‘The Present’.

昨天是历史,明天是谜,今天是一份礼物:那就是我们为什么称它为“现在”。

优秀的英语美文：什么是爱

Love is no ordinary thing. It is not voluntary, but when it begins, you will know.

爱不是一件普通的事情。它不是随意的，在爱产生的时候，你会知道。

There are three types of love. Infatuation, love of family, and love of your spouse.

有三种类型的爱：糊涂的爱，家庭的爱，夫妻的爱。

Infatuation, most commonly known as “Puppy Love”, is basically love at first sight.

Infatuation can be the beginning of a future spouse love. Though most often infatuation doesn’t amount to much.

众所周知，糊涂的爱是一种不成熟的少年男女之间的爱慕，基本上属于一见钟情。这种爱可能是将来夫妻之爱的开始。不过，这种爱通常不重要。

Love of family is loving your mother and father, and any siblings you may have. You want to protect them, watch over them, and fill their lives with an unbounding joy. The parents have an innermost feeling for their children, which in my case, they express everyday.

家庭之爱是对你的父母和你的兄弟姐妹的爱。你想要保护他们，照看他们，让他们的生活充满无限的欢乐。父母内心深处对他们的孩子充满了感情，就我来说，这种感情父母每天都会表现出来。

Love of your spouse means loving someone you are married to. Whether husband or wife, you support your spouse with a deep modesty, and you treat them with great respect.

夫妻之爱意味着爱你结婚的人。无论是丈夫或妻子，你发自内心地支持你的配偶，给他们以最大的关心和尊重。

Being possibly the most trivial question of all time, this is one hard question to ask.

爱可能是有史以来最平常的一个问题，也是一个让人很难回答的问题。

Love means to care, to protect, to watch over, to pray for, to make sure the loved person is happy. But to tell you the truth, those are all parts of love. Not love itself.

爱意味着关心、爱护、照顾和祈祷，确保你爱的人快乐。但说实在话，这些都是爱的组成部分，不是爱的本身。

So, I will tell you what I think of love. Love has a meaning, but we will never know. Many philosophers have tried, but all their attempts have failed. Every single one of them!

因此，我告诉你我对爱的看法是什么。爱具有一种含意，但是，我们永远不知道这种含意。许多哲学家试图弄懂它的含意，但他们的各种尝试全都失败了，他们每一个人都失败了!

Love is not a bond, or a relationship, but more of a heart to heart conversation. When the conversation grows, the bond and relationship forms. Therefore, love creates the bond and relationship.

爱不是一种结合，或一种关系，它更多的是一种心灵和心灵的交谈。当这种交谈不断发展时，结合和爱情关系就形成了。因此，爱能导致结合和爱情关系。

Still, that leaves us with the main question, what is love?

尽管如此，还是留给了我们一个重要的问题，什么是爱?

Okay, so I told you the three types of love. But I still haven’t told you what love is. I told you a definition, a heart to heart conversation, but does that tell you much? No. So, I will put it straight.

不错，我告诉了你3种类型的爱。然而，我还没有告诉你爱是什么?我告诉过你一个定义：爱是心灵与心灵的交谈，但是，这个定义告诉你爱的全部意义了吗?没有。因此，我将坦率地谈一谈什么是爱。

优秀的英语美文：生命中的感动

只有付出的爱是痛苦的，但比这更痛苦是爱一个人却没有勇气让那人知道你的感情。

A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you，only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go.

生命中令人悲伤的是你遇到了一个对你来说很重要的人，但却最终发现你们有缘无份，因此你不得不放手。

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with，never say a word，and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

最好的朋友就是那种能和你促膝而坐，彼此不说只字片语，分别时却感到这是你有过的最好的一次交流!

It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

的确只有当我们失去时才知道曾拥有的是什么，同样，只有当我们拥有了才知道曾经失去了什么。

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone，an hour to like someone，and a day to love someone- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

对一个人产生好感只需一分钟，喜欢上一个人需要一小时，爱上一个人则要一天，然而，忘记一个人却是一辈子的事情。

Don't go for looks;they can deceive. Don't go for wealth;even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

别倾心于容貌，因为它具有欺骗性，也别倾心于财富，它也会消散，倾心于那个能带给你笑容的人吧，因为一个笑容能使漫漫长夜如白昼般明亮。

Dream what you want to dream;go where you want to go;be what you want to be，because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

做你想做的梦吧，去你想去的地方吧，成为你想成为的人吧，因为你只有一次生命，一个机会去做所有那些你想做的事。

Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it hurts you，it probably hurts the person too.

要设身处地的为别人着想, 如果一双鞋你穿着夹脚, 别人的感觉可能也一样。

A careless word may kindle strife;a cruel word may wreck a life;a timely word may level stress;a loving word may heal and bless.

无心快语可能引发争执，无情之词可能折损生命，适时温语可能消弭压力，而关爱之声可能治愈心灵。

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

幸福之人并非拥有一切，只是尽力享受生活的赐予。

Love begins with a smile，grows with a kiss，ends with a tear. When you were born，you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die，you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

爱情以笑开始，以吻转浓，以泪结束。当你哭着降临人世时，身边的每个人都在为此欢笑，好好生活吧，这样你就能含笑离开人世，而身边的每个人都在为此哭泣。