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　　青春勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)短文(一)：A Little Bit More

　　Today is an excellent day for small improvements. Whatever is working for you, find a way to improve it just a little. There’s no need to make a huge change, just a small one, something you can do right now.

　　If you called just one additional customer each day, over the course of the next month you would talk to about 20 new people. If you learned just one more new word each day, in the next year you would increase your vocabulary by more than 300 words.

　　Small improvements can add up over time into big accomplishments. Look around you. Consider the work you do each day. Think about how you could do it just a little bit better.

　　In a marathon race, each step the winner takes is just a little bit longer and a little bit faster than each stride taken by the 100th place finisher. Yet over the course of the race, that small difference adds up in a big way.

　　Do just a little bit more today, and tomorrow too, and each day after that. Anyone can make just a small improvement, and that can make a big, big difference.

　　[參考譯文]：再多一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)

　　今天就是你可以做改進(jìn)的極好的一天。無論你在做什么,找一個(gè)方法去做一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)的改進(jìn)。不用做太大的改變,只要一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)——你現(xiàn)在可以做到的一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。

　　如果你每天多給一個(gè)顧客打電話的話,一個(gè)月下來你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)你又多認(rèn)識(shí)了差不多二十個(gè)人。如果每天多學(xué)會(huì)一個(gè)新詞,過一年,你的詞匯量將會(huì)增加300多個(gè)。

　　小小的改進(jìn)能夠逐步積累成大的成就。觀察你的周圍。思考你每天所做的工作。英語(yǔ)短文想一下你怎么能做得更好一點(diǎn)。

　　在馬拉松比賽中,冠軍的每一步都只比第一百名的選手的步伐大一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)、快一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。英語(yǔ)短文但是在比賽過程中,那些小小的不同積累成了巨大的區(qū)別。

　　今天、明天、今后的每一天盡力做更多一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)。任何人都能做一點(diǎn)小小的改進(jìn),但那小小的改進(jìn)將會(huì)起到非常大、非常大的作用。

　　青春勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)短文(二)：知識(shí)與美德

　　Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles.

　　Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life--these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate, to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when decked out in them. Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close observers, and on the long run; and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim. Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk, then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

　　[參考譯文]

　　知識(shí)是一回事，美德是另一回事。好意并非良心，優(yōu)雅并非謙讓，廣博與公正的觀點(diǎn)也并非信仰。哲學(xué)，無論多么富有啟迪和深?yuàn)W莫測(cè)，都無法駕馭情感，不具備有影響力的動(dòng)機(jī)，不具有導(dǎo)致生動(dòng)活潑的原理。

　　文科教育并不造就基督教徒抑或天主教徒，而是造就了紳士。造就一個(gè)紳士誠(chéng)為美事。有教養(yǎng)的才智，優(yōu)雅的情趣，正直、公正而冷靜的頭腦，高貴而彬彬有禮的舉止--這些是與淵博的學(xué)識(shí)生來固有的品質(zhì), 它也是大學(xué)教育的目的。對(duì)此我提倡之，并將加以闡釋和堅(jiān)持。然而我要說的是，它們?nèi)匀徊荒艽_保圣潔，或甚至不能保證誠(chéng)實(shí)。它們可以附庸于世故的俗人，附庸于玩世不恭的浪子。唉，當(dāng)他們用它偽裝起來時(shí)，就更增加了他們外表上的冷靜、快活和魅力。就其本身而言，它們似乎已遠(yuǎn)非其本來面目，它們似乎一遠(yuǎn)看的美德，經(jīng)久久細(xì)察方可探知。因此它們受到廣泛的責(zé)難，指責(zé)其虛飾與偽善。我要強(qiáng)調(diào)，這絕非是因?yàn)槠渥陨碛惺裁催^錯(cuò)，而是因?yàn)榻淌趥兒唾澝勒邆円晃兜匕阉鼈兣妹婺咳牵⑶疫€要殷勤地獻(xiàn)上其本身并不希冀的贊頌。如若用剃刀就可以開采出花崗巖，用絲線即能系泊位船只，那么，也許你才能希望用人的知識(shí)和理性這樣美妙而優(yōu)雅的東西去與人類的情感與高傲那樣的龐然大物進(jìn)行抗?fàn)帯?/p>

　　青春勵(lì)志英語(yǔ)短文(三)：What I Have Lived For

　　Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

　　I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy---ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours for this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness---that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what---at last---I have found.

　　With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

　　Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always it brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

　　This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

　　[參考譯文]：我為何而生

　　我的一生被三種簡(jiǎn)單卻又無比強(qiáng)烈的激情所控制：對(duì)愛的渴望，對(duì)知識(shí)的探索和對(duì)人類苦難難以抑制的嶼。這些激情像狂風(fēng)，把我恣情吹向四方，掠過苦痛的大海，迫使我瀕臨絕望的邊緣。

　　我尋求愛，首先因?yàn)樗刮倚臑橹裕@種難以名狀的美妙迷醉使我愿意用所有的余生去換取哪怕幾個(gè)小時(shí)這樣的幸福。我尋求愛，還因?yàn)樗芫徑馕倚睦砩系墓陋?dú)中，我感覺心靈的戰(zhàn)栗，仿如站在世界的邊緣而面前是冰冷，無底的死亡深淵。我尋求愛，因?yàn)樵谖宜慷玫慕Y(jié)合中，我仿佛看到了圣賢與詩(shī)人們所向往的天堂之景。這就是我所尋找的，雖然對(duì)人的一生而言似乎有些遙不可及，但至少是我用盡一生所領(lǐng)悟到的。

　　我用同樣的激情去尋求知識(shí)。我希望能理解人類的心靈，希望能夠知道群星閃爍的緣由。我試圖領(lǐng)悟畢達(dá)哥拉斯所景仰的“數(shù)即萬(wàn)物”的思想。我已經(jīng)悟出了其中的一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)道理，盡管并不是很多。

　　愛和知識(shí)，用它們的力量把人引向天堂。但是同情卻總把人又拽回到塵世中來。痛苦的呼喊聲回蕩在我的內(nèi)心。饑餓的孩子，受壓迫的難民，貧窮和痛苦的世界，都是對(duì)人類所憧憬的美好生活的無情嘲弄。我渴望能夠減少邪惡，但是我無能為力，我也難逃其折磨。

　　這就是我的一生。我已經(jīng)找到它的價(jià)值。而且如果有機(jī)會(huì)，我很愿意能再活它一次。