英语短篇美文

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Every morning, you are defining how your life would be like.

每一天早上，你都在定义你未来人生的模样。

No, I'm not saying the cliche that every morning you have the chance to make a different decision.

不，我并不是在说“你每天早上都可以做出不同的抉择”这种陈词滥调。

What I'm suggesting is that how you choose to live your morning speaks a lot about how you choose to live your life.

我的意思是，你过每一个早上的态度，在很大程度上都说明了你过这一生的态度。

There are people who choose to get out of the bed in the last minute and grab whatever they can get to eat or even give up breakfast all together.

有的人选择早上在最后一刻才起床，随便抓点什么当早餐，或者干脆不吃早餐了。

These people are choosing to make their lives failures, because apparently they have no idea how to make solid plans and make life organized.

这些人是在选择让自己的生活变得失败，因为他们显然不知道如何制定有效的计划并让生活仅仅有条。

There are another kind of people who choose to make every morning in order.

还有一种人，他们选择让每个早晨都过得有规律。

They get up relatively early and can finish a lot of things before they go to work.

他们会在一个比较早的时间起床，并且能在上班前搞定很多事情。

That makes the whole day way easier for them and make them more productive in the office.

这会让他们的一天都轻松得多，也会让他们在上班的时候更有创造力。

Yes, how you live your morning does speak a lot about how you live your life.

是的，你如何过你的早上，你就如何过你的一生。

Don't underestimate it.

千万别小看了这一点。

A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.一个男人和他的女朋友结婚，举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。

All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake ofthe festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

所有的朋友和家人都来到结婚典礼上参加欢宴和庆祝活动。大家都过得很开心。穿着白色婚纱的新娘漂亮迷人，穿着黑色礼服的新郎英俊潇洒。每个人都能看出他们彼此的爱是真诚的。

A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage," she offered. "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."

几个月后，妻子走近丈夫提议说：“我刚才在杂志上看到一篇文章，说的是怎样巩固婚姻。”她说：“我们两个人都各自把对方的.小毛病列在一张纸上，然后我们商量一下怎样解决，以使我们的生活更幸福。”

The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with. The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.

丈夫同意了。于是他们各自走向不同的房间去想对方的缺点。那一天余下的时间里，他们都在思考这个问题，并且把他们想到的都写下来。第二天早上，吃早饭的时候，他们决定谈谈彼此的缺点。

"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill three pages. In fact, as she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.

“我先开始吧。”妻子说。她拿出她的单子，上面列举了很多条，事实上，足足写满了三页。当她开始念的时候，她注意到丈夫眼里含着泪花。

"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husband replied, "keep reading your list."

“怎么啦?”她问。“没什么，”丈夫答道，“继续念吧。”

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.

妻子又接着念。整整三页都念完之后她把单子整齐地放在桌上，两手交叉放在上面。

"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists," she said happily.

“现在该你念了，然后我们谈谈所列举的缺点。”她高兴地说。

Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you." The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

丈夫平静地说：“我什么也没写，我觉得像你这样就很完美了，我不想让你为我改变什么。你很可爱迷人，我不想让你改变。”妻子被丈夫的诚实和对她深深的爱和接纳感动了，她转过头去哭起来。

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?

生命中我们有很多的失望、沮丧和烦恼，我们根本不需要寻找。我们美妙的世界充满了美丽、光明、希望。但是，当我们放眼四周时，为什么浪费时间寻找不快、失望和烦恼，而看不到我们面前的美好事物呢？

If life treats you unfairly.

如果生活对你不公。

Don't cry. Don't shout. Don't complain to anyone.

不要哭泣。不要叫嚷。也不要向任何人抱怨。

Because that's just how life is.

因为这就是生活。

It's never fair.

它从来就不是公平的。

Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there were two boys.

让我来给你讲一个故事吧。从前，有两个男孩。

One of them was short and the other was tall.

他们其中一个很矮，而另一个很高。

They stood in front of a low wall and both wanted to see what was beyond that wall.

他们同时站在了一堵矮墙面前，都想看看墙那边是什么。

The taller one could easily do that but the shorter one needed to stand on a chair to reach the height.

个子高的那个很轻易就能做到，但个子矮的那个却需要站在椅子上才能达到同样的高度。

To the taller one the chair was only a chair.

对于个子高的那个，这个椅子只不过是个椅子。

But the shorter one called the chair Justice, because it made the situation "fair".

可矮的那个却把它称为“正义”，因为它带来了“公平”。

Well, real life is just like this. It's not fair.

其实真实的生活不就像是这样吗？它并不公平。

Most people complain about it and stop at just complaining about it, while a few others choose to bear this unfairness and try to discover their own strength.

大部分人会为此而抱怨，而且仅仅止步于抱怨；而还有一小部分人，他们选择承受这种不公，并试着发掘自己的力量。

And this second kind are the ones who have a chance to truly run the world.

只有这第二种人才有可能成为世界真正的主人。

Only by bearing unfairness can you bear responsibility.

你得承受得起委屈，才能承受得了责任。

That's how life works.

生活就是这么运作的。

Everyone has that period in which they find those who are close to them start to seem annoying .

每个人都会经历这样的时期：发现身边那些亲近的人开始变得有点烦了。

You suddenly realized that they've always been talking and talking.

你会突然意识到，长久以来他们就一直不停地在说啊说。

They never stopped.

他们从来就没有停过。

Some of us get angry with them, thinking they are trying too hard to intervene in our lives.

我们中的有些人，会开始变得愤怒，觉得他们对我们的生活介入太多。

But don't.

但是，请不要愤怒。

Only those who really care about you will bother saying so much to you.

只有那些真正关心我们的人才会费劲对我们说这么多。

It's just that maybe they don't know the right way to put it.

只是，他们可能并不知道正确的相处办法。

Some of them push too hard because they care too much.

他们中有些人逼得太紧，那是因为他们太在乎。

Some of them speak too much because they worry about you too much.

他们中的有些人说得太多，那是因为他们太担心你。

They do this because they love you.

他们这么做，都是因为爱你。

So don't push them away.

所以，不要将他们拒于千里之外。

Just find a way to let them know what you truly want.

去找一个办法告诉他们你真的想要的是什么吧。

And let them grow with you.

并且去让他们和你一起成长。

That will make both of you happy.

那会让你们双方都过得幸福。

Believe me.

相信我。