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经典美文英语短篇:《5个垂暮之年才明白的道理》

2020-04-06 19:31

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  3.We don’t care about the things we get easily.

  我们不在乎容易得到的东西

  This is true in all the areas of life. Take health for example. Very few people take their health seriously. They know that if their health is lost, they won’t be happy, still they eat junk food and never exercise, keep accumulating fat and keep spending on weight loss programs. Still nothing works. Why? Because they don’t take their health seriously and the real reason behind that is they have got it for free. We spend thousands on cars and take care of them nicely. Imagine what would have been the price of human body if we had to pay for it? And then imagine how well we would take care of it if we had paid a huge amount of money to get our body.

  这一点放之四海而皆准。就拿健康为例吧。很少有人把健康当回事儿。他们知道当他们不健康时,会不开心,但是他们还是会吃垃圾食品,不去锻炼,不断积攒脂 肪,又不断去减肥。但仍是毫无效果。为什么?因为他们不拿自己的身体当回事,因为他们没有付出任何代价就拥有了身体。我们在车上花了成千上万元,所以会好 好保管车。假如人的身体是有价的,那我们得付出多少钱呢?然后再想一下,如果我们得付出很大一笔钱才能得到自己的身体,我们会怎样对待自己的身体呢?

  4.In a world where everyone is trying to be like someone else, it takes great amount of courage to take the road less traveled.

  在一个大家都想成为别人的世界中,需要很大勇气才能走少有人走的路。

  In our whole life, we are always asking ten people before taking any step. We always want to validate that we are sure and do not make any mistake. We are too scared to fail hence, we follow the same path that everyone suggests, do the same thing everyone does, take the same career path everyone takes, wear the same clothes everyone wears, and hang out with the same people we work with. Why? Because we are scared. But when you get bored of life, you realize that you are not meant to do what everyone does and that your destiny is different than anyone else’s out there in the world. But the price we pay to realize this is high because it takes a tremendous amount of guts to follow your own trail by listening to your heart.

  在我们的生活中,我们总是在行动前问10个人的看法。我们总是想确保这样做是可以的,这样做是不会犯任何错误的。我们太害怕失败了,所以我们按着别人建议 的道路去走,做别人做的事情,走别人走的职业路线,穿和别人一样的衣服,和同事一起出去玩。为什么?因为我们太害怕了。但是,当你觉得生活无聊时,你会意 识到,你不该去做别人做的事情,你的命运和世界上其他人的命运都不同。但是我们意识到这一点所需要花费的代价太高了,因为这需要大量的勇气去倾听自己的内 心来走自己的道路。

  5.You have to break the rules sometimes.

  有时你需要打破规则。

  We follow rules so that things are in order and no one is disturbed unnecessarily. This is true in case of traffic and other company rules but when it comes to your life, there are rules made by people who are scared to do something apart from their routine and therefore they made rules to prevent others doing so. But when time passes by and you think you are not being directed towards your goal and these so called rules are your biggest obstacles, BREAK THEM. Sometimes, we need to be bold and act courageously.

  我们遵守规则,这样事情就会有序,没人会受到不必要的干扰。这适用于交通规则和公司的一些规则。但是在你的生活中,有些规则是由一些除了日常活动外什么也 不敢做的人设定的,他们设定规则来阻止其他人这样做。但是随着时间的流逝,你认为自己没有朝着目标前进,那些所谓的规则是你最大的障碍。那就打破它们吧。 有时,我们需要大胆一点,需要勇敢地行动起来。

  After all, life lessons are always learned the hard way. However, if you are smart enough to learn early and wish not to waste your precious time learning them the hard way, learn them now and apply it to your life as soon as possible.

  毕竟,生活中的教训总是需费一番苦功才能学到。然而,如果你足够聪明想早点儿学到它们,不想把宝贵的时间浪费在费劲去学这些教训上,那么你现在就可以学习它们,并可以尽早把它们用到你的生活中。

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