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　　哲理英語美文閱讀：生活如同為自己打造的工程

　　An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.

　　一位上了年紀的木匠作好了退休的準備。他告訴老板他準備離開建筑行業(yè)，與老伴和兒孫們一起共享天倫之樂，過一種更悠閑自得的生活。雖然他因此而少了份薪水，但他想退休， 至于日子嘛，還可以湊合著過。

　　The employer was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

　　眼看這位優(yōu)秀的木工就要離去，老板很遺憾。他問木工可否幫忙再建一所房子。木工答應了，可明眼人眼就看得出來，此時他做事心不在焉，做出的活兒技藝粗糙，用的料也沒那么講究了。他就這樣為自己的建筑生涯劃上了句號，真是令人遺憾。

　　When the carpenter finished his work and the employer came to inspect the house and handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."

　　房子建好后，老板過來看新房并交給木工_把前門鑰匙，說："這房子歸你了"我送給你的禮物。”

　　What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house: he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.

　　多么讓人吃驚，多么讓人羞愧啊! 假如他知道在為自己造房，他會做得大不一樣?，F(xiàn)在他不得不住在自己建造的那所粗制濫造的房子里。

　　So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give thejob our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built.If we had realized, we would have done it differently.

　　我們又何嘗不是如此呢?我們心浮氣躁地打造生活，不是主動工作而是被動應付，能省事就省事。關鍵的時候也沒盡心盡力。驀然回首，才瞠目結(jié)舌地發(fā)現(xiàn)自己正住在自己建造的那所房子中，真是自食苦果。早知如此，何必當初。

　　Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Who could say it more clearly? Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.

　　就當你自己就是那位木工吧。就當你為自己建房，每天要釘釘、鋪板、砌墻。那么，你就該用心地去建。你的生活只能這樣建造。哪怕你只在房子里多生活一天，這一天也應該活得優(yōu)雅、有尊嚴。墻上的銘匾寫道"生活正如一項自己打造的工程。"還有什么比這更清楚的呢?明日的生活之果，孕育于你今天的態(tài)度和抉擇之樹上。

　　哲理英語美文閱讀：我們正在起跑點

　　"We are reading the firstverse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite..."

　　“我們正在閱讀一本頁數(shù)無限的書的第—章的第一節(jié)”

　　I do not know who wrote those 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 ofit anything that we can imagine,just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.

　　我不知道這段文字是誰寫的，我—直很喜歡它們并用其來提醒自己，那就是未來操之在我。我們可以掌握神秘而不可知的未來，并從中創(chuàng)造出我們所能想象得到的任何東西，一如雕刻家可以將未成形的石頭刻出雕像一樣。

　　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.

　　我們每個人都是農(nóng)夫。我們?nèi)舴N下好種子，就會有豐收。倘若種子不良且長滿雜草，我們就會徒勞無獲。如果我們什么也不種，就根本不會有什么收獲。

　　I want the future to be better than the past. I don't 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 reminder of our lives.

　　我希望未來會比過去更好。我不希望未來會被那些充斥在歷史中的錯誤所污染。 我們應關心未來，因為往后的余生都要在未來中度過。

　　The past is gone and static Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do wiU effect it. Each day will 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 ofhuman endeavor.

　　往昔已逝，靜如止水，任憑我們怎么努力都不能改變過去。而前方的未來正生機勃勃，我們的所作所為都會影響到未來。只要我們認識到這些，無論是在家中還是在工作上，每天我們的面前都會展現(xiàn)出新的天地。我們正處在人類所努力鉆研的每個領域中進步的起點。