晨读英文美文篇一：激情晨读英语美文
第一章人生如诗Human Life Like a Poem
I think that, from a biological standpoint,human life almost reads like a poem.It has its own rhythm and beat,its internal cycles of growth and decay.No one can say that a life with childhood,manhood and old age is not a beautiful arrangement;the day has its morning, noon and sunset,and the year has its seasons, and it is goodthat it is so. There is no good or bad in life,except what is good according to its own season.
And if we take this biological view of lifeand try to live according to the seasons,no one but a conceited fool or an impossible idealistcan deny that human life can be lived like a poem.——Lin Yutang
我以为，从生物学角度看，人的一生恰如诗歌。人生自有其韵律和节奏，自有内在的成长与衰亡。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。一天要有清晨、正午和日落，一年要有四季之分，如此才好！人生本无好坏之分，只是各个季节有各自的好处。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？ ---林语堂
人在旅途We Are on a Journey
Wherever you are, and whoever you may be,there is one thing in which you and I arejust alike,at this moment, and in all the momentsof our existence.We are not at rest;we are on a journey. Our life is not a mere fact;it is a movement, a tendency, a steady,ceaseless progress towards an unseen goal.We are gaining something, or losing something, every day. Even when our position and our character seem toremain 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 fieldin January and in July. The season makes the difference.The limitations that are childlike in the child are childishin the man.
Everything that we do is a stepin one direction or another. Even the failure to do somethingis in itself a deed. It sets us forward or backward.
The action of the negative pole of a magnetic needle isjust as real as the action of the positive pole.To decline is to accept — the other alternative.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 launched uponthe 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.
人在旅途亨利.凡.戴克
无论你身在何处，也无论你是何人，此时此刻，有一件事于你我而言都是相同的，而且只要我们活着，这个共同点就存在。那就是，我们并非停留不前，而是人在旅途。我们的生命是一种运动，一种趋势，是向一个看不见的目标无休止地奋进。
每天，我们都有所得，也有所失。即便我们的位置和角色看似与原来无异，但实际上也是时时变化的。因为时间的推移本身就是一种变化。对于同一片荒地来说，在一月和七月是截然不同的，季节造成了这种差异。能力的局限在孩子身上被视为天真烂漫，而在大人身上则是幼稚的的表现。我们所做的每件事情都是
朝着某个方向迈进了一步。即使是失败本身，也是有所得的，失败可以催人奋进，也可以让人一蹶不振。磁针负极的作用与正极的作用都是一样真实的。拒绝也是一种接受，只不过是另一种选择罢了。
你今天比昨天更接近你的港口了么？是的，你肯定离某个港口更近了。因为自从你的航船从生命的海洋上启航的那一刻开始，你没有哪一刻是静止的。大海如此深邃，即便你想停泊，也找不到地方；只有当你驶入自己的港口，你才能停止下来。
人生如诗:真正的高贵The True NobilityBy Ernest Hemingway
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.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 itselfmakes life more loving. Men come closest totheir true selves in the sober moments of life,under the shadows of sorry and loss.
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 muchas self-control, patience, and discipline,regulated by judgment.I have always believed thatthe man who has begun to live more seriouslywithin begins to live more simply without.In an age of extravagance and waste, I wishI could show to the world how fewthe real wants of humanity are.To regret
one‘s errors to the point of not repeating themis true repentance. There is nothing noble in beingsuperior to some other man. The true nobility isin being superior to your previous self. 在风平浪静的大海上,每个人都是领航员。
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。
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。
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。
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已。
我的世界观The World as I See ItBy 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 hesometimes thinks he senses it. But withoutdeeper reflection one knows from daily lifethat one exists for other people —first of all for those upon whose smilesand well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent,and then for the many, unknown to us,to whose destinies we are bound bythe ties of sympathy.
A hundred times every dayI remind myself that my inner and outer lifeare based on the labors of other men, living and dead,and that I must exert myself in order to givein the same measure as I have receivedand am still receiving. I am strongly drawnto a frugal life and am often oppressivelyaware that I am engrossing an undue amountof the labor of my fellow-men. I regardclass distinctions as unjustified and,in the last resort, based on force. I alsobelieve that a simple and unassuming lifeis 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 freedomin the philosophical sense. Everybody actsnot only under external compulsion but alsoin accordance with inner necessity.
Schopenhauer‘s saying,that ―A man can do what he wants, but not wantwhat he wants,‖ has been a very real inspirationto me since my youth; it has been a continual consolationin the face of life‘s hardships, my own and others‘,and an unfailing well-spring of tolerance.This realization mercifully mitigates the easilyparalyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us fromtaking 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 afterthe meaning or object of one‘s own existence orthat of all creatures has always seemed to meabsurd from an objective point of view. And yeteverybody has certain ideals which determinethe direction of his endeavors and his judgments.In this sense I have never looked upon easeand 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 timehave given me new courage to face life cheerfully,have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Withoutthe sense of kinship with men of like mind, withoutthe occupation with the objective world, the
eternallyunattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors,life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objectsof 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。
My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddlywith my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and humancommunities. I am truly a ―lone traveler‖ and have never belonged to my country, my home, myfriend, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I havenever lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings which increase with the years.One becomes sharply aware, but without regret, of the limits of mutual understanding andconsonance with other people. No doubt, such a person loses some of his innocence andunconcern; on the other hand, he is largely independent, of the opinions, habits, a
ndjudgments of his fellows and avoids the temptation to build his inner equilibrium upon suchinsecure foundations.
一方面，我有着强烈的社会正义感和社会责任感，另一方面，我的内心又明显没有与他人和社会直接接触的需求，二者形成了一个奇怪的对比。我确实是一个―孤独的旅者‖，我的心从未完全地属于过我的祖国、我的家庭、我的朋友，甚至我最亲近的家人。在面对所有这些羁绊时，我从来没有失去过距离感，也没有摆脱掉孤独感——这种感觉随着年岁的增长还在增加。一个人开始强烈地意识到人与人之间的相互理解与和谐一致是有限度的，但却并不为此遗憾时，此人毫无疑问已经失去了部分天真无邪、无忧无虑的童心，但另一方面，他也在很大程度上获得了独立，不再受他人观点、习惯和判断的影响，同时也能避免内心那种要将平衡建立在这种不可靠的基础之上的强烈愿望。
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotionwhich stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can nolonger wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was theexperience of mystery—even if mixed with fear—that engendered religion. A knowledge of theexistence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason andthe most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and in thisalone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes hiscreatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would Iwant to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear orabsurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of lifeand with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world,together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of theReason that manifests itself in nature.
人类所能享有的最美妙的体验就是神秘感，这是真正的科学与艺术的根源中最基础的情感。无论是谁，如果没有感受过它的魅力，如果不再感到好奇，不再发出惊叹，他就无异于行尸走肉，瞎眼盲心。正是这种神秘的体验——即使夹杂着恐惧——促进了宗教的产生。我们知道有某种事物的存在我们无法参透，我们对最深刻的理性与最绚丽的美的感知，只有在它们以最原始的形式出现时才能有所理解——正是这种认知和情感构成了真正的宗教信仰。在这种意义上，也只有在这种意义上，我是一个笃信宗教的人。我无法臆想出一个对自己创造出来的生命加以奖赏和惩罚的上帝，也无法想象他会拥有我们自身所拥有的意志。我无法也不愿想象一个人在肉体死去之后仍然可以活着。让那些脆弱的灵魂，出于恐惧或者可笑的私利，去拥抱这种想法吧。我满足于对生命的永恒保持神秘感，满足于对现存世界神奇结构的粗浅感知和匆匆一瞥，也满足于通过不懈的努力，对自然本身显露出的一部分―道‖进行理解，哪怕只是极其微小的一部分。 热爱生活Love Your LifeBy Hey David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorestwhen you are richest. The fault-finder willfind faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling,glorious hours, even in a poor house. The setting sunis reflected from the windows of the
almshouseas brightly as from the rich man‘s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
The town‘s poor seem to me often to livethe most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simplygreat enough to receive without misgiving. Most think thatthey are above being
supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not abovesupporting themselves by dishonest means,which should be more disreputable. Cultivate povertylike a garden herb,
like sage. Do not trouble yourself muchto get new things, whether clothes or friends.Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。
我的家庭信条The Road to HappinessBy Bertrand Russell
It is a commonplace among moralists that youcannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only trueif you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carloare pursuing money, and most of them lose itinstead, but there are other ways of pursuingmoney, which often succeed. So it is with happiness.If you pursue it by means of drink, you areforgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it byliving only in congenial society and eating only drybread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people wouldneed something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unlesssupplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personalrule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, excepting rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.幸福之道
道德家们常说：幸福靠追求是得不到的。只有用不明智的方式去追求才是这样。蒙特卡洛城的赌徒们追求金钱，但多数人却把钱输掉了，而另外一些追求金钱的办法却常常成功。追求幸福也是一样。如果你通过畅饮来追求幸福，那你就忘记了酒醉后的不适。埃毕丘鲁斯追求幸福的办法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不涂黄油的面包，节日才加一点奶酪。他的办法对他来说是成功的，但他是个体弱多病的人，而多数人需要的是精力充沛。就多数人来说，除非你有别的补充办法，这样追求快乐就过于抽象和脱离实际，不宜作为个人的生活准则。不过，我觉得无论你选择什么样的生活准则，除了那些罕见的和英雄人物的例子外，都应该是和幸福相容的。
There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. healthand a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases itwould seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we maysay that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from theanimals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions arefavorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for anoccasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but theystill have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, thisis too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective,and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to growrich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has becomerich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate hisnoble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneouspleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought culture
晨读英文美文篇二：晨读英语美文60篇
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 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, (转 载于:wWw.zhAoQT.neT 蒲公 英文摘:晨读英文美文)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.
晨读英文美文篇三：美文赏读(疯狂英语晨读)
by Michael Josephson
Choose to live a life that matters.
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more suises, no days, no hours or minutes. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived. It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value or your days be measured?
What is matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassions, courage and sacrifice that eiched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories of those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
Choose to live a life that matters.
New Words and Expressions
① temporal: [ 'temp?r?l ] a. 当时的,暂时的,现世的
② shrivel: [ '?rivl ] v. 枯萎,皱缩vi. 枯萎,干枯
③ irrelevance: [ i'rel?v?ns ] n. 不切题(不相干,不中肯,没关系,枝节问题)
④ grudge: [ gr?d? ] n. 怨恨,恶意v. 怀恨,嫉妒,吝惜
⑤ resentment: [ ri'zentm?nt ] n. 怨恨,愤恨
⑥ frustration: [ fr?s'trei??n ] n. 打破,挫折,顿挫
⑦ jealousy: [ 'd?el?si ] n. 妒忌
⑧ expire: [ iks'pai?, eks- ] v. 期满,失效,终止,断气
⑨ ethnicity: [ eθ'nisiti ] n. 种族划分, 种族性
⑩ irrelevant: [ i'reliv?nt ] a. 不恰当的,无关系的,不相干的
11 integrity: [ in'tegriti ] n. 诚实,正直,完整,完善
12 emulate: [ 'emjuleit ] v. 效法,尽力赶上 [计算机] 仿真
13 competence: [ 'k?mp?t?ns ] n. 能力
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何谓重要？
无论你是否准备好，有一天一切都会结束。不再有旭日东升，不再有灿烂白昼，也不再有一分一时的光阴。你收藏的一切，无论是弥足珍贵的还是被你遗忘的，都将留给别人。
你的财富、名望和世俗的权力都将变成无关紧要的东西。不管你拥有的还是别人亏欠你的，都不再重要。
你的嫉恨、冤仇，挫败和嫉妒终将消失。同样，你的希望、抱负、计划和未竟之事都将终止。曾经无比重要的成败得失也将变得无足轻重。你来自哪里，用什么方式生活都不再重要。你是貌美如花还是才华横溢也不再重要。你的性别、肤色、种族都将变得无关紧要。
那何为重要呢?又将如何衡量你生命的价值呢?
重要的不是你所买到的，而是你所建造的；不是你所得到的，而是你所付出的。重要的不是你的成功，而是你的价值。重要的不是你所学到的，而是你传授的。重要的是你每一次正直、怜悯、勇敢和牺牲的行为都能使人充实、给人以力量或是激励他人，让他们以你为榜样。重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。重要的不是你认识多少人，而是在你离开时有多少人会感到这是永久的损失。重要的不是你的记忆，而是那些爱你的人的记忆。重要的是人们会怀念你多久，谁会怀念你，为什么怀念你。
过有意义的人生并非偶然，也非环境所能决定，而是你自己的选择。
要选择过有意义的生活。
"He is a fool who cannot be angry, but he is really a wise man who will not."
The habit of keeping pleasant is indeed better than an income of a thousand dollars a year. The life without cheerfulness is like the severe winter without sun.
We all love cheerful company, but we are apt to forget that cheerfulness is a habit that can be cultivated by all.
We find it very difficult to be gay when we are in distress. It requires great courage. We should never forget that to be cheerful when it is not easy to be cheerful shows greatness. Thorny may be our way, but how happy is the conqueror's song!
The perfection of cheerfulness consists in the happy frame of mind. It is displayed in good temper and kind behaviour. It arises partly from personal goodness and partly from the belief in the goodness of others. It sees the glory in the grass and the sunshine of the flower. It encourages happy thoughts, and lives in an atmosphere of peace. It costs nothing, and yet it is invaluable. It blesses its possessor, and affords a large measure of enjoyment to others.
New Words and Expressions
be apt to 易于；倾向于
frame of mind 心情，心境
consist in 在于
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保持快乐的心情
“不会生气的人是愚者，不生气的人乃是真正的智者。”
保持快乐的心情胜于年薪上千美元的收入。生活中若没有快乐，就如同严寒的冬季没有阳光。 快乐的伙伴受人喜爱，而我们却忘了快乐是每个人都可以培养的习惯。悲伤之时，让我们快乐起来很难，那需要有很大的勇气。谨记，转悲为欢是一件很了不起的事。也许，前方的道路荆棘满布，然而，胜利者之歌却洋溢着快乐！
快乐的心态可以成就完美的快乐。它表现在好的性情和得体的举止上。它一部份缘于个人的善良，另一部分源于对他人善良的信赖。它能使人看到撒在草地上的光辉和折射在花朵上的光芒。快乐的思想跳跃在和平静谧的氛围中。它能带给你无限的价值，却不要你付出任何代价。它会保佑其所有者，并带给别人无穷无尽的快乐。
Don't worry about what lies dimly at a distance, but do what lies clearly ahead.
To solve any problem or to reach your goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. Don't procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem, break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
If you can get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. It's the job you never start that takes the longest to finish. Don't worry about what lies dimly at a distance, but do what lies clearly ahead.
Your biggest opportunity is where you are right now. Once you begin you're half done.
词汇引擎
① of one’s own accord 自愿地
② procrastinate [ pr?u'kr?stineit ] v. 延迟,迁延,耽搁
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你随时都可以迈向成功 要解决任何问题或实现自己的目标，你无须提前知道所有的答案。但你必须清楚地了解你所面临的问题或你希望达到的目标。 你唯一要做的就是知道自己欲往何方。自然而然，你就会得出答案。遇到大难题时不要拖延，应该把问题分成几个部分，然后逐一解决。 如果你能鼓起勇气去开始，那么你就有勇气去获取成功。需要花最多时间完成的正是那些你从未着手去做的工作。不要担心远处暗淡模糊的事物，而是要做清楚摆在眼前的那些事。
你现在所处的位置就是你最大的机遇。一旦开始，你就成功了一半。
Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a