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第147章

What Is Success

Guidance for Reciting

Success should be more synonymous with happiness than with affluence.

What is success?

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty;

To find the best in others;

To give one's self;

To leave the world a bit better,whether by a healthy child,a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;

This is to have succeeded.

Notes

1.affection [E5fekFEn] n.慈爱,爱,感情,作用,影响

2.betrayal [bi5treiEl] n.背叛,暴露

3.redeem [ri5di:m] v.赎回,挽回,履行

成功的内涵

诵读导言

成功更应该是幸福,而不是富有。

成功是什么?

笑口常开;

赢得智者的尊重以及孩子们的爱戴;

容忍损友的背叛,博得真诚的青睐;

欣赏美好的东西,发现别人的可爱。

学会无私地奉献,给世界增添光彩:

培育出健康后代,或留下花园一块,

甚或改善社会条件;

尽情娱乐开怀,

笑得畅快,把欢乐的歌儿唱起来;

甚至知道一个生命活得自在,只因你一路走来……

这就是成功的内涵。

口语点津

我们似乎都对文中出现的“the betrayal of false friends”(损友的背叛)感到深恶痛绝,但正如《加勒比海盗3》中的一句台词所说,“你我对背叛都不陌生(You and I are not strangers to betrayal.)”。人们常说“忘记过去就意味着背叛(Forgetting the past means betrayal.)”,可是又有多少人做得到呢?