书城外语当英语成为时尚:生活全由你创造
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第70章 We"re Just Beginning一切才刚刚开始

心灵寄语

不要为过去的往事而悲伤难过,人生中的每一秒都是一个崭新的开始,一次全新的旅程。决定未来的不是过去而是现在实实在在的行动!

“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite……”

I do not know who wrote those words, but I have always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it. We can take the mysterious1,hazy2 future and carve3 out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor4 carves a statue from a shapeless stone.

We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

I want the future to be better than the past. I don"t want it contaminated5 by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder6 of our lives.

The past is gone and static7. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic8. Everything we do will affect it. Each day brings with it new frontiers9,in our homes and in our business, if we only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor10.

佚名

“我们正在读一本书第一章的第一行,而这本书有无限页……”

谁写的这句话,我无从考证,但我非常喜欢它,它不断地提醒着我们未来由我们自己去创造。我们可以把那神秘的、不可预知的未来塑造成任何我们所想象的样子,就像一位雕刻家可以把一块没有形状的石头雕刻成一座雕像。

我们都像农民一样,如果洒下良种,则将会有好收成;而播下劣种,或杂草丛生,我们将会收获甚微;而假若什么也不种,注定是一无所获。

我期望未来比过去更加美好。我不想让以前的过错去影响我的未来。我们都应该向瞻望未来,因为毕竟未来才是我们以后度过余生的时候。

往昔已逝,静如止水。我们无法改变事实。但未来就生机勃勃地在前方。我们做的任何事都会影响着自己的未来。每天我们无法再作改变。而前方的未来正生机勃勃;我们所做的每一件事都将会影响着它。如果我们仔细观察,会发现每一个新的一天都会呈现新的气象,无论是在家里,还是在工作中。在人类开拓的每一块土地上,我们都仅仅站在进步的起点。

词汇空间 ocabulary

1.mysterious adj. 神秘的

2.hazy adj. 朦胧的,烟雾弥漫的

3.carve v. 雕刻

4.sculptor n. 雕刻家

5.contaminate v. 污染,弄脏

6.remainder n. 其余的,剩余的部分

7.static adj. 静止的

8.dynamic adv. 动态的

9.frontier n. 前沿,新领域

10.endeavor n. 努力,尽力

文化链接 Culture Background

雕塑(sculpture)

雕塑是指以立体视觉艺术为载体的造型艺术。雕塑是造型艺术的一种。又称雕刻,是雕、刻、塑三种创制方法的总称。指用各种可塑材料(如石膏、树脂、粘土等)或可雕、可刻的硬质材料(如木材、石头、金属、玉块、玛瑙、铝、玻璃钢、砂岩、铜等),创造出具有一定空间的可视、可触的艺术形象,借以反映社会生活、表达艺术家的审美感受、审美情感、审美理想的艺术。

妙语拾珠

1.We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

我们都像农民一样,如果洒下良种,则将会有好收成;而播下劣种,或杂草丛生,我们将会收获甚微;而假若什么也不种,注定是一无所获。

2.The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it.

往昔已逝,静如止水。我们无法改变事实。但未来就生机勃勃地在前方。我们做的任何事都会影响着自己的未来。