第一篇 我们正在起跑点Were Just BeginningCharles F Kettering“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite”I do not know who wrote these 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 mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor 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 dont want it contaminated 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 remainder of out lives.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. Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor .“我们正在阅读一本页数无限的书的第一章的第一节。”我不懂得这段文字是谁写的，我始终很喜欢这段文字并用它们来提示自己，那就是将来操之在我。我们可以掌握神秘而不可知的将来，从中创出我们所能想象的任何东西，一如雕刻家可以将未成型的石头刻出雕像同样。我们每个人都是农夫。我们若种下好种子，就会有丰收。倘若种子长的不良且长满杂草，我们就会徒劳无获。如果我们什么也不种，就主线不会有什么收获。我但愿将来会比过去更好。我不但愿将来会被那些充斥在历史中的错误所污染。我们应关怀将来，由于往后的余生都要在将来中度过。往昔已一去不复返并且是静止的。任凭我们怎么努力都不能变化过去。将来就在我们眼前并且是动态的。我们的所作所为都会影响将来。只要我们体会的出来，每天都可以发现新的知识领域随着而生，也许是在家里，也也许是在我们的事业中。我们正处在人类所努力钻研的每个领域中进步的起点。mysterious mistiris adj. 神秘的；难解的 adj. 神秘的；不可思议的；难解的magic , fantastic carve k:v vt. 雕刻；切开sculptor sklpt n. 雕刻家statue sttju: n. 雕像，塑像contaminate kntmi,neit vt. 污染，弄脏error er n. 误差；错误remainder rimeind n.残存,剩余物static sttik adj. 静态的；静电的dynamic dainmik adj. 动态的；有活力的frontier frntj n. 前沿；边界；国境endeavor indev n. 努力；竭力第二篇 快乐的钥匙A Key to HappinessTo help others, you dont have to be an efficient expert in the art; the main thing is the intention. You may be crude and clumsy, wasteful and ineffective, but if you sincerely try to help, your attempt produces nothing but good. The one you are trying to help knows your intention and is strengthened and encouraged by the magic of your sharing. In nearly every case, your simple desire to help, converted into action, produce the good sought. But perhaps the greatest good is the good that you yourself get out of the attempt. Service to others delivers more joy to you than the joy you deliver to them. In doing good, you free yourself from the terrible burden of self; you escape from yourself into a clean world of joy and light. The good you simply try to do, regardless of the outcome, is always a success inside yourself.Unselfish giving is your most efficient formula for happiness, for you have embraced eternity instead of self; you have felt life, and you are now the world bigger than you were before you began the project.想去协助旁人，你不必是这值种艺术的能干的专家，重要的是你有无一颗助人的心。你也许是粗陋而笨拙的，徒劳又没有成就，但是如果你真诚地想协助旁人，你的尝试必然产生善果。你所打算协助的人晓得了你的意向，会因你公担困苦的魔力而坚强振作起来。差不多每一次，你的单纯的助人愿望，在化为行动之后，都会产生所寻的善果。但是最大的善果，也许还是你自己从这项尝试中所获得的益处。在协助旁人的时候，你自身所获得的快乐要比你带给那些人的快乐为多。在行善之中，你便挣脱了以自我为本位的可怕重任，而进入一种快乐和光明的清新世界。只要你去试行为善，不管其成果如何，再你的心中都永远会是一项成功。无私的给与是获得快乐的最有效率的措施。由于如果可以做到这一点，你所拥抱的已经不是自我，而是永恒；你已经感觉到生命的存在，而目前的妳的世界也比你开始行善之前还要开阔。efficient ifint adj. 有效率的；有能力的intention intenn n. 意向；目的；打算crude kru:d adj. 粗糙的；天然的，未加工的；粗鲁的clumsy klmzi adj. 笨拙的ineffective ,inifektiv adj. 无效的，不起作用的sincere sinsi adj. 真诚的；诚挚的attempt tempt n/ vt. 企图，试图strengthen stren, strekn vt. 加强；巩固desire dizai n. 欲望；规定/ vt. 想要convert knv:t vt/vi. 使转变；转换sought s:t v. 寻找（seek的过去式和过去分词）formula f:mjul n. 数 公式，准则；配方embrace imbreis vt. 拥抱；信奉，皈依；涉及eternity it:nti n. 来世；不朽第三篇 劳动之乐The Joy of LaborWise men of ancient times and successful men of today have told us that labor is sweet. Its reward is not material gain but what one becomes by it. Work does much more for us than just giving us a living; it gives us our life and the reason for living. The real joys of life come from doing something and doing it well.All of us hope for success, but it is illusive and hard to keep. It nearly always slips away from one like sand through the fingers, like water through a leaky pail, unless it is held tight by hard work, day by day, night by night, year in year out. Everyone who fears failure should work harder and harder with a faithful heart as long as he lasts.古时的贤达和今天的成功者都告诉我们劳动是甜美的。劳动的报酬不是物质的获得而是人们籍由劳动所达到的成就。工作所给与我们的岂止是混口饭吃；它赋予我们生命以及活下去的理由。人生真正的乐趣就是把所做的事做好。我们都但愿成功，但成功却是虚幻且难以维持的。除非你能日日夜夜、年复一年地努力紧守成功，否则它几乎总会从你身边溜走，就如沙粒从指尖滑落，或像水从漏桶流失同样。凡事胆怯失败的人应当在有生之年，一心一意地更加努力奋发才是。labor leib n. 劳动；工作 the Labours Day/ Labor Day/ May Day 劳动节illusive ilju:siv adj. 错觉的；幻影的；困惑人的 slip slip vi. 滑动；滑倒; 闪开leaky li:k