第2章

            And  angel  voices  say  to  thee---你将听到天使的声音在说-----

            These  things  shall  never  die.  这些美好不会消逝。

        第四篇：

            Think  it  over……好好想想……

            Today  we  have  higher  buildings  and  wider  highways,but  shorter  temperaments  and  narrower  points  of  view;

            今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

            We  spend  more,but  enjoy  less;

            我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

            We  have  bigger  houses,but  smaller  famillies;

            我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

            We  have  more  compromises,but  less  time;

            我们妥协更多，时间更少；

            We  have  more  knowledge,but  less  judgment;

            我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

            We  have  more  medicines,but  less  health;

            我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

            We  have  multiplied  out  possessions,but  reduced  out  values;

            我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

            We  talk  much,we  love  only  a  little,and  we  hate  too  much;

            我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

            We  reached  the  Moon  and  came  back,but  we  find  it  troublesome  to  cross  our  own  street  and  meet  our  neighbors;

            我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；

            We  have  conquered  the  uter  space,but  not  our  inner  space;

            我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

            We  have  highter  income,but  less  morals;

            我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；

            These  are  times  with  more  liberty,but  less  joy;

            我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；

            We  have  much  more  food,but  less  nutrition;

            我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；

            These  are  the  days  in  which  it  takes  two  salaries  for  each  home,but  divorces  increase;

            现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；

            These  are  times  of  finer  houses,but  more  broken  homes;

            现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；

            That's  why  I  propose,that  as  of  today;

            这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；

            You  do  not  keep  anything  for  a  special  occasion.because  every  day  that  you  live  is  a  SPECIAL  OCCASION.

            不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；

            Search  for  knowledge,read  more  ,sit  on  your  porch  and  admire  the  view  without  paying  attention  to  your  needs;

            寻找更多的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；

            Spend  more  time  with  your  family  and  friends,eat  your  favorite  foods,visit  the  places  you  love;

            花多点时间和朋友与家人在一起，吃你爱吃的食物，去你想去的地方；

            Life  is  a  chain  of  moments  of  enjoyment;not  only  about  survival;

            生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；

            Use  your  crystal  goblets.Do  not  save  your  best  perfume,and  use  it  every  time  you  feel  you  want  it.

            举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！

            Remove  from  your  vocabulary  phrases  like"one  of  these  days"or  "someday";

            从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；

            Let's  write  that  letter  we  thought  of  writing  "one  of  these  days"!

            曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！

            Let's  tell  our  families  and  friends  how  much  we  love  them;

            告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；

            Do  not  delay  anything  that  adds  laughter  and  joy  to  your  life;

            不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；

            Every  day,every  hour,and  every  minute  is  special;

            每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；

            And  you  don't  know  if  it  will  be  your  last.

            你无从知道这是否最后时刻。

        第五篇：

            The  life  I  desired

            我所追求的生活

            威廉.萨姆塞特.毛姆/William  Somerset  Maugham

            That  must  be  the  story  of  innumerable  couples,and  the  pattern  of  lifeof  life  it  offers  has  a  homely  grace.It  reminds  you  of  a  placid  rivulet,meandering  smoohtly  through  green  pastures  and  shaded  by  pleasant  trees,till  at  last  it  falls  into  the  vasty  sea;but  the  sea  is  so  calm,so  silent,so  infifferent,that  you  are  troubled  suddently  by  a  vague  uneasiness.Perhaps  it  is  only  by  a  kink  in  my  nature,strong  in  me  even  in  those  days,that  i  felt  in  such  an  existence,the  share  of  the  great  majority,something  amiss.I  recognized  its  social  value.I  saw  its  ordered  happiness,but  a  fever  in  my  blood  asked  for  a  wilder  course.There  seemed  to  me  something  alarming  in  such  easy  delights.In  my  heart  was  desire  to  live  more  dangerously.I  was  not  unprepared  for  jagged  rocks  and  treacherous,shoals  it  I  could  only  have  change-change  and  the  exicitement  of  unforeseen.

            这一定是世间无数对夫妻的生活写照，这种生活模式给人一种天伦之美。