雙語故事·熱愛生活 Love Your Life

讀雙語故事，看百味人生。閱讀是一生的功課，無論順境逆境，我們總能在文字里找到共鳴。以下是小編整理的熱愛生活/Love Your Life的內(nèi)容，讀一下吧，也許恰好是你喜歡的那一篇。

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 poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find 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 sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as 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 live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to 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.

【助讀詞匯】

◇paradise n. 天堂

◇thrilling adj. 毛骨悚然的，顫動(dòng)的，發(fā)抖的

【參考譯文】

不論你的生活如何卑微，你要面對(duì)它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時(shí)候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點(diǎn)的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺點(diǎn)。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個(gè)濟(jì)貧院里，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時(shí)候。夕陽反射在濟(jì)貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個(gè)從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。城鎮(zhèn)中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過著最獨(dú)立不羈的生活。也許因?yàn)樗麄兒軅ゴ螅允苤疅o愧。大多數(shù)人以為他們是超然的，不靠城鎮(zhèn)來支援他們；可是事實(shí)上他們是往往利用了不正當(dāng)?shù)氖侄蝸韺?duì)付生活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那里去。萬物不變，是我們?cè)谧?。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。

【人生啟迪】

居里夫人說過：“我們每天都愉快地過著生活，不要等到日子過去了才找出它們的可愛之點(diǎn)，也不要把所有特別合意的希望都放在未來?！笔堑?，生活就是一面鏡子，你對(duì)它露出笑臉，它回報(bào)你的就是一臉燦爛，你對(duì)它展現(xiàn)的是滿面愁容，它回報(bào)你的就是愁眉不展。

生活，就是在感恩與熱愛的人生中幸福的活著。