1.?Life?Struggle---- 生活的拼搏?
对强者而言，磨难犹如刀剑，使他愈见锋芒，诚如孟子所言：“天将降大任于斯人也，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨”不经过磨难的生活，日子未免过得乏味；不经过磨难的命运，人生便显得苍白。就 生活而言，总是从平坦中获得的效益少，从磨难中获得的教益深。
Once?upon?a?time?in?a?land?far?far?away,?there?was?a?wonderful?old? n?who?loved?everything.?Ani ls,?spiders,?insects...
One?day?while?walking?through?the?woods?the?nice?old? n?found?a?cocoon?of?a?butterfly.?He?took?it?home.
A?few?days?later,?a? all?opening?eared;?he?sat?and?watched?the?butterfly?for?several?hours?as?it?struggled?to?force?its?body?through?that?little?hole.?Then?it?seemed?to?stop? king?any?progress.?It?eared?as?if?it?had?gotten?as?far?as?it?could?and?it?could?go?no?farther.
Then?the? n?decided?to?help?the?butterfly,?so?he?took?a?pair?of?scissors?and?snipped?off?the?re ining?bit?of?the?cocoon.
The?butterfly?then?emerged?easily.But?it?had?a?swollen?body?and? all,?shriveled?wings.?The? n?continued?to?watch?the?butterfly?because?he?expected?that,?at?any?moment,?the?wings?would?enlarge?and?expand?to?be?able?to?support?the?body,?which?would?contract?in?time.?Neither?hened!?In?fact,?the?butterfly?spent?the?rest?of?its?life?crawling?around?with?a?swollen?body?and?shriveled?wings.?It?never?was?able?to?fly.
What?the? n?in?his?kindness?and?haste?did?not?understand?was?that?the?restricting?cocoon?and?the?struggle?required?for?the?butterfly?to?get?through?the?tiny?opening?were?Nature's?way?of?forcing?fluid?from?the?body?of?the?butterfly?into?its?wings?so?that?it?would?be?ready?for?flight?once?it?achieved?its? ?from?the?cocoon.
Sometimes?struggles?are?exactly?what?we?need?in?our?life.?If?we?were?allowed?to?go?through?our?life?without?any?obstacles,?it?would?cripple?us.?We?would?not?be?as?strong?as?what?we?could?he?been.
And?we?could?never?fly.从前，在一个非常非常遥远的国度，有一位心地 善良的老人。他喜爱一切 物品，动物啦、蜘蛛啦、昆虫啦。
一天，这位 善良的老人在树林里散步的时候，发现了一个蝴蝶的茧。他把茧带回了家。?几天后，茧裂开了一道小缝。老人几小时地坐在那里，看着蝴蝶挣扎着让自己的身体从小缝中挤出来。后来，蝴蝶破茧好象停了下来，没有 何进展了。看来蝴蝶好象是撑到了 最后，再也不可能前进了。
看到这里，老人决定帮助蝴蝶。于是他找出一把剪刀，把茧剩余的部分剪破了。这样，蝴蝶就轻易地从茧中脱出来了。
然而，蝴蝶的身子肿胀着，翅膀又小又皱。老人继续观察着蝴蝶， 由于他期望着这样一个时刻的到来：蝴蝶的翅膀会变大，大到能支持它的身体，而蝴蝶的身体届时也会缩小。可是 何也没有发生。事实上，这只蝴蝶的余生中就只能拖着臃肿的身体和萎缩的翅膀爬来爬去了。 它永远也不能飞起来了。在好心和匆忙间，老人并不 领悟，蝴蝶破茧而出时需要的那种束缚和挣扎其实是大 天然用来将蝴蝶的体液挤到翅膀中的 技巧，这样，蝴蝶一旦能从茧中脱出，就能准备好飞翔了。?有时候，挣扎正是我们生活中所需要的。如果我们能得以毫无障碍地走过一生，这会使我们软弱。我们就不可能变得强壮。重要的是，我们就不可能腾飞。
2．坚持你的 梦想?I?he?a?friend?named?Monty?Roberts?who?owns?a?horse?ranch?in?San?Sedro.?He?has?let?me?use?his?house?to?put?on?fund-raising?events?to?raise?money?for?youth?at?risk?programs.?I?he?a?friend?named?Monty?Roberts?who?owns?a?horse?ranch?in?San?Sedro.?He?has?let?me?use?his?house?to?put?on?fund-raising?events?to?raise?money?for?youth?at?risk?programs.?
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young n who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from farm and ranch-to-ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.
"That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on the 200-acre dream ranch.
"He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, 'See me after class.'
"The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, 'Why did I receive an F?'
"The teacher said, 'this is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You he no money. You come from an itinerant family. You he no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You he to buy the land. You he to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll he to pay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.' Then the teacher added, 'If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.'
"The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, 'Look, son, you he to ke up your own mind on this However, I think it is a very important decision for you.'
"Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, king no changes at all. He stated, 'You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream.'"
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still he that school paper framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same school-teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week." When the teacher was leing, he said, 'Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids' dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.'"
Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no tter what. Questions:
1.Who told Monty to keep his dream? 2.What's Monty's dream? Does it come true? 3．人生絮语：爱在心里成长
Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
When the door of hiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who kes you ile because it takes only a ile to ke a dark day seem bright. Find the one that kes your heart ile. 中文：
或许是上帝的安排，在最终找到知音之前，我们总要遇到一些不尽如意的人，只有这样，我们才能对知音这份礼物充满 感激之情。
一道 高兴之门关闭时，另一扇就会打开。我们经常太多太多地只看见关闭的门，而对开
心灵鸡汤—做人的十条 制度（英语翻译）
自改革开放以来,我国对外交流逐渐密切,因此社会各界对于英语的重视程度也与日俱增,在大学阶段的英语教学 经过中对于基础 聪明和语法使用的内容比例大范围下降,而增加了 实用英语 的内容。下面是我带来的心灵鸡汤英语小 故事 阅读，欢迎阅读!
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇一
Flotsam, Jetsam, and Liberty
By James Carey
Perhaps more than anything else in the world, I believe in liberty: liberty for myself, liberty for my fellow men. I cannot forget the legend engred on the base of the Statue of Liberty on Bedlows Island in New York Harbor: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled sses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. That is the voice of America.
As one all part of it, one tiny decibel in its sound, I, as a free individual of America, believe in it. It kes no boast of noble ancestry. On the contrary, it admits honestly that each of us in this country, with a possible and qualified exception of our native Indians, is a displaced person. In a particular kind of way, the Indian was our first displaced person. If you and I did not come from abroad ourselves, our forefathers did. The scores that drove them was economic, political, or religious oppression.
Oppression has always strewn the shores of life with wretched hu n refuse. We who today are the proud people of a proud country are what might be called the reclaimed refuse of other lands. The fact that the flotsam and the jetsam, the persecuted and the pursued of all these other lands, the fact that they came here and, for the most part, successfully started life anew, this renews my faith in the resilience of a hu n individual and the dignity of n.
There are those who say we should be content with the terial benefits we he accrued among ourselves. I cannot accept that for myself. A laboring n needs bread and butter, and cash to pay the rent. But he would be a poor individual, indeed, if he were not able to furnish the vestibule of his mind and his soul with spiritual embellishments beyond the price of a union contract.
I mean by this that I believe it is important for a n to discover, whether he is an electrical worker or an executive, that he is an individual with his own resources and a sense of the dignity of his own person and that of other men. We are separate. We are collective. Man can be strong alone but not indomitable, in isolation. He has to belong to something, to realize he is not created separately or apart from the rest of nkind, whether he is an American or a Mohammedan.
I am stirred by the abundance of the fields, the forest, the streams, and the natural resources they hold. But do these things ke me important? He we wrought the miracle of America because of these riches we hold? I say, no. Our strength?and I can say my strength, too, because I am a part of this whole?lies in a fundamental belief in the validity of hu n rights. And I believe that a n who holds these rights in proper esteem is greater, whether he is recognized or not.
As an individual, I must face the future with honesty and faith, in the goods things that he de us mighty. I must he confidence in myself, in others, and all men of goodwill everywhere, for is the child of truth and confidence.
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇二
Dreams Are the Stuff Life Is Made Of
By Carroll Carroll
I believe I am a very lucky n.
My entire life has been lived in the healthy area between too little and too much. I?ve never experienced financial or emotional insecurity, but everything I he, I?ve attained by my own work, not through indulgence, inheritance, or privilege.
Never hing lived by the abuses of any extreme, I?ve always felt that a work n is worthy of his hire, a merchant entitled to his profit, an artist to his reward.
As a result of all this, my bargaining bump y be a little underdeveloped, so I?ve never tried to oversell myself. And though I y work for less than I know I can get, I find that because of this, I?m never so afraid of losing a job that I?m forced to compromise with my principles.
Naturally in a life as mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially fortunate as mine has been, a great ny people he helped me. A few meant to, most did so by accident. I still feel I must reciprocate. This doesn?t mean that I?ve dedicated my life to my fellow n. I?m not the type. But I do feel I should help those I?m qualified to help, just as I?ve been helped by others.
What I?m saying now is, I feel, part of that pattern. I think everyone should, for his own sake, try to reduce to six hundred words the beliefs by which he lives?it?s not easy?and then compare those beliefs with what he enjoys?not in real estate and money and goods, but in love, health, hiness, and laughter.
I don?t believe we live our lives and then receive our reward or punishment in some afterlife. The life and the reward?the life and the punishment?these to me are one. This is my religion, coupled with a firm belief that there is a Supreme Being who planned this world and runs it so thatno n is an island, entire of himself? The dishonesty of any one n subverts all honesty. The lack of ethics anywhere erates the whole world?s ethical content. In these?honesty and ethics?are, I think, the true spiritual values.
I believe the hope for a thoroughly honest and ethical society should never be laughed at. The most idealistic dreams he repeatedly forecast the future. Most of the things we think of today as hard, practical, and even indispensable were once merely dreams.
So I like to hope that the world need not be a dog-eat-dog jungle. I don?t think I?m my brother?s keeper. But I do think I?m obligated to be his helper. And that he has the same obligation to me.
In the last ysis, the entire pattern of my life and belief can be found in the wordsdo NOT do unto others that which you would NOT he others do unto you.? To sayDo unto others as you would he others DO unto you? somehow implies bargaining, an offer of for for for. But to restrain from acts which you, yourself, would abhor is an exercise in will power that must raise the level of hu n relationship.
?What is unpleasant to thyself,? says Hillel,THAT do NOT unto thy neighbor. This is the whole law,? and he concluded,All else is exposition.?
心灵鸡汤英语小故事阅读篇三
A Ball to Roll Around
By Robert All n
I lost my sight when I was 4 years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and landing on my head. Now, I am 32. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again. But a calamity can do strange things to people.
It occurred to me the other day that I might not he come to love life so, as I do, if I hadn?t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would he believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don?t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them de me more reciate what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to ke these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was bewildered and afraid, but I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me?oh, a potential to live you might call it?which I didn?t see. And they de me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn?t been able to do that, I would he collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say believe in myself, I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it, but I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate, pattern of people, there is a special place where I can ke myself fit. It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things.
When I was a youngster, once a n ge me an indoor baseball. I thought he was mocking me, and I was hurt.
?I can?t use this,? I said.
?Take it with you, he urged me,and roll it around.?
The words stuck in my head:Roll it around, roll it around.? By rolling the ball, I could listen where it went. This ge me an idea?how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia?s Overbrook School for the Blind, I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it groundball.
All my life, I he set ahead of me a series of goals, and then tried to reach them one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach, because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway, but on the erage, I de progress.
I believe I de progress more readily because of a pattern of life shaped by certain values. I find it easier to live with myself if I try to be honest. I find strength in the friendship and interdependence of people. I would be blind, indeed, without my sighted friends. And very humbly, I say that I he found purpose and comfort in a mortal?s ambition toward godliness.
Perhaps a n without sight is blinded less by the importance of terial things than other men are. All I know is that a belief in the higher existence of a nobility for men to strive for has been an inspiration that has helped me more than anything else to hold my life together.
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我不是英语专业学生， 然而我很用心人工翻译
1. You will receive a body.
你将会得到一个躯体。
You y like it or hate it, but is will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
无论你喜欢它还是讨厌它，在你整个人生里面它都是属于你的
2. You will learn lessons.
你将会吸取教训
You are enrolled in a full-time infor l school called Life. Each day in this school you will he the opportunity to learn lessons. You y like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.
你会被一个名为生活的全日制非正式学校招为学生。每一天在这个学校里面，你都有机会去吸取教训。也许你喜欢这些教训或者觉得它们很愚蠢很无聊
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
没有错误，只有教训
Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ulti tely "works".
成长是接受考验和犯错误的 经过。失败也是实验的其中一个步骤直至实验基本上可行
Noteirrelevant: adj. 不相关的 trial: n. 考验 ulti tely: adv. 基本上
4. A lesson is repeated until learned.
教训不断，直至我们吸取教训
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you he learned it. When you he learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.
一个教训会以不同形式出现在你面前直到你学会。等你学会了战胜它，你将会遇到下一个教训
4. Learning lessons does not end.
吸取教训是不会结束的
There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
生活中充满着教训。只要你活下去，就有无数的教训等着你去吸取
5. "There" is no better than "here".
那里得不一定比这里的好
When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply oain another "there" that will again look better than "here".
当你口中的那里变成了这里以后，你就轻易地有了另一个那里比这里更好
6. Others are merely mirrors of you.
他人不过是你在镜子中的影子
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
你不会喜欢其他人的某些 物品，除非他的一些 物品反映出你身上的一些特点
7. What you ke of your life is up to you.
生活由 何组成是由你自己来选择的
You hare all the tools and resources you need.
What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
你拥有着所有你需要的工具和。需要 怎样做由你决定，决定权在你手中
8. Your answers lie inside you.
你的答案在于你自己
The answers to Life's questions lie inside you.
生活中 难题的答案都在于你自己
All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
你需要做的是去发现、去聆听和去 信任
9. You will forget all this.
你会忘记以上所有的 物品