180222 英语学习高级阅读材料.docx

1、180222 英语学习高级阅读材料双语美文：只有在乎你的人，才会对你啰嗦Everyone has that period in which they find those who are close to them start to seemannoying.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 theyve 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 ang

2、ry 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 dont.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。Its just that maybe they dont 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

3、 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 dont 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

4、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。双语美文：静静地活，不埋怨也不嘲笑Almost everybody thinks they are really the masters of their own lives.几乎每个人都以为自己真的拥有自己的人生。I used to think that way, too.我以前也这么想。But, that was the past.但是，那是以前了。T

5、hrough the uphills and downhills of my life, Ive come to realise that I didnt really ever own my own life. And neither did most of the others.在生活的坎坷中，我慢慢看清了，原来曾经的我并没有拥有自己的生活，就和很多人一样。I used to be so restless and shallow. I was always satisfied with what things seem to be at first sight. And I was sel

6、dom able to calm down and reflect on the present moment.从前的我，浮躁又肤浅，总是只满足于生活最表面的东西，并且很少能冷静下来认清此时此刻。But what it really means to own your own life is that you put your heart into the present moment.然而，真正的拥有，是需要你把心安在当下的。Otherwise youre nothing but just a passenger who are forced to drive through this hi

7、ghway that we call life. You dont own it. And you cant enjoy it.否则，你只是在生活这条快车道上被迫前行的一个匆匆旅者，你并不拥有它，也没法享受它。Now, I choose to live my life calmly without restlessness, mockery or complaints.现在，我选择静静地生活，不浮躁、不嘲笑，也不埋怨。Being like this, I suddently discovered that my vission had become clearer.在这种状态里，我突然发现自己

8、的视线变清晰了。Many problems that troubled me before are now solved.从前困扰我的很多难题，现在都有了答案。Im grateful that I made such a decision. In the past I can only dream what kind of a life that I can live. But now I can live this life as I wanted.我感谢自己做出了这样的决定，因为，从前我只能做自己的梦，而现在我能够走自己的路。=有声双语美文：人生，是条逆流的大河For most peopl

9、e, graduation is an exciting day - the culmination of years of hard work. My graduation day. was not.对于大多数人而言，毕业那天让人兴奋，多年的苦读结束了。而我的毕业日却不是。I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else i

10、n my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse my senior year.我记得两周前的周末，家人和朋友们从各地飞来，观看班级列队走过毕业舞台，但是我们毕业班的每个人都清楚，在大四那年，经济环境每况愈下。We graduates had degrees, but very limited prospects. Numerous applications had not panned out and I knew that the next day, when my lease ended, I

11、would no longer have a place to call home.我们虽然都有学位，但是就业前途渺茫。许多应届毕业生都没有找到工作，隔天我的租的房子就到期了，我要无家可归了。The weeks ahead werent easy. I gathered up everything I couldnt carry and put it into storage. Then, because I knew my small university town couldnt offer me any opportunities, I packed up my car and drov

12、e to Southern California to find work.之前的几周也并不顺利。我把带不走的东西都打包起来放在仓库。大学所在的这座小镇也不能提供我什么就业机会。我整理行装驱车驶向南卡罗来纳州找工作。But what I thought would take a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as I was before. And the due date to begin paying ba

13、ck my student loans was creeping ever closer.我想我可能要花上一周时间，但是2周、4周过去了，投了100份简历，我发现自己又回到了原点。而且我还要面临逐渐临近的学生贷款还款日。You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed withdread? Dread about something you cant control - that sense of impending failure that lingers over you as you hope that ev

14、erything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life.你了解那种一醒来就陷入恐惧的感觉么？恐惧到让你不能自已，要面对一次又一次的失败，而不仅仅是一个噩梦，这种感觉在你的生命中开始持续。Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like an unendingeternityofdestitution. And the most frustrating

15、part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldnt seem to make any progress.一天好像漫长到一周，一周漫长到一个月，那些日子让人饱受贫困，而且不知道何时才是尽头。最让人沮丧的是，不管我多么的努力，都没有一点改善。I channeled my frustration into a childrens book. Beyond the River was the story of an unlikely hero featuring a little fish who simply refused to give up

16、on his dream.我把这些情绪写进了一本儿童书。大河的彼端不是讲英雄的书，而是将一条小鱼在梦想之路上坚持不懈的故事。And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world - just a lot of hard work and perseverance - I was offered a publishing contract for my first book!一天，不是写作科班出生的我联系了出版社，靠着我的努力和韧劲，我最终出版了我的第一本书！After that

17、, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.从那以后，一切开始步入正规。我又签约了第二本书。几个月以后，我收到了来自迪士尼公司的面试，不久后就开始受雇工作。The moral of this story is. dont give up. Even if things look blea

18、k now, dont give up. Two years ago I was huddled in my car drinking cold soup right out of the can. Things change.这个故事告诉我们，不要放弃，即使未来渺茫，也不要放弃。2年前我蜷在车子里喝着罐头里的冷汤。事情会有转机。If you work hard, give it time, and dont give up, things will always get better. Often times our dreams lie in wait just a little furt

19、her upstream. all we need is thecourageto push beyond the river.只要你努力工作，不要放弃，假以时日，事情就会改变。很多时候我们的梦想只需要一些逆流而上的勇气就能到达大河的彼端。=有声双语美文：你努力变好，并不是为了配得上谁Your life is your own.你的人生是你自己的。You put all those effort to make yourself a better person, not to make yourself qualified for someone else.所有的努力，都应该是为了使自己变得更

20、好，而不是为了配得上谁。Life is so hard, dont make your strugglea commodity for others to pick.生活如此不易，不要让自己的努力变成人人评价的商品。Its yours.它们是你的。Its all yours.是你一个人的。It is your life itself.它们就是你的生活。It is you.它们就是你。Laugh. Cry. Every step you take forward is a song sung for you.笑也好，哭也罢，每一次进步都是一曲为你自己吹奏的凯歌。Pain.Toil. Every

21、failure, you dealt with them all by yourself.苦也好，累也好，每次的失败与痛苦也都是你自己在承担。All the fights you fought for a better life are the scars that you wearon your own heart.为生活的每一点奋斗，都是你自己心上的伤痕。All the progress you made towards your dream are not given by someone else.为理想的每一次进步，都不是谁给你的恩惠。Its not easy to walk on

22、this road called life. No step is. So love yourself when you walk.在人生这条大道上，每一步都不易，且行，且自爱。蜜月不愉快会不会导致出轨At the beginning of the 2004 film Along Came Polly, Ben Stillers character Reuben catches his new wife cheating on him with a French scuba instructor-while theyre on their honeymoon. Not only has he

23、just lost what he thought was the love of his life, but now he has to go back home to New York alone to pick up the pieces of his life. And, well, along comes Polly (Jennifer Anistons character) to do just that.在2004年初的一场电影遇见波莉中，本斯蒂勒饰演的鲁本发现新婚妻子出轨了一位法国潜水教练-当时他们正在度蜜月。他不仅失去了他所认为的一生挚爱，而且还不得不独自一人回到纽约、收拾烂

24、摊子。而这个时候，波莉（珍妮弗安妮斯顿 饰）也遇到了同样的事情。While the general message of that less than memorable romantic comedy is about the wonderful things that can happen if you learn to take risks, I could never quite get past that honeymoon scene. Imagine going away with the person you just vowed to be with forever, and

25、 then discovering the two of you have vastly different standards of what commitment looks like-while youre standing in a tropical paradise. Talk about the ultimate mind-f*k.虽然这个令人印象不深的浪漫喜剧想要传达这样一个信息：如果你试着冒险，那么意想不到的美事可能会发生，但我却永远忘不了那个蜜月场景。试着想想看，你和你刚刚发誓要永远在一起的人出去旅行，然后发现你们俩对于承诺的标准竟有着天壤之别-而当时的你们正处于热带天堂。还

26、有什么比这更令人蛋疼的呢？Arguably, your honeymoon is probably one of the most important trips youll take with your spouse. Maybe one of the more expensive as well: The average couple spends upwards of $4,000 for this getaway. Not only is it the light at the end of a very long tunnel of wedding planning, but its

27、 your first adventure together as partners for life. Regardless of how long youve been dating, this trip could potentially set the tone for your entire marriage. No pressure, right?毫无疑问，蜜月旅行可能是你和另一半一起度过的最重要的旅行之一。也许也是花费较高的旅行之一：蜜月旅行时，平均每对夫妇花费4000美元以上。这不仅是费心费力的婚礼策划的一大亮点，而且也是你们共同生活后的第一次冒险。不管你们谈了多久，这段旅行都

28、有可能为你们的婚姻定下基调。一点压力都没有，对不对？But according to a recent survey from hookup website Ashley Madison, a happy honeymoon does not necessarily mean youll end up with a happily-ever-after. In a (totally non-scientific) survey of 1,890 members on Ashley Madison, which caters to married people looking for some

29、action on the side, 95 percent said they enjoyed their honeymoon-and yet they still found themselves looking for something more.但交友网站Ashley Madison最近的一项调查显示，幸福的蜜月并不一定意味着你们从此以后过上了幸福生活。Ashley Madison是一个迎合已婚人士寻找自己第二春的网站，在对该网站1890名会员的一项调查中（完全不是科学研究），95%的人说他们很享受自己的蜜月之旅-但他们依然会找小三。In an effort to find out

30、if there was any correlation between a bad honeymoon and a persons decision to cheat on their spouse, Ashley Madison asked survey takers who didnt enjoy their honeymoon to share what went wrong.为了找出蜜月之旅不愉快与一个人做出出轨的决定之间是否存在关联，Ashley Madison让那些不享受蜜月之旅的调查接受者分享他们的观点，看看哪里出了问题单身人士给已婚人士的建议:如何升华你们的感情KNOW TH

31、YSELF认识你自己Know thyself is one of the oldest, wisest maxims in the book. It helps in every area of life, but it also helps in relationships.认识你自己是书本上最古老、最智慧的格言之一。它有助于生活的方方面面，但它也能帮助你的感情。In this arena specifically, longtime singles may have something to teach longtime-coupled folks. In getting to know

32、yourself intimately as full-fledged adults, singletons may inadvertently set themselves up to have better long-term relationships later in life. They know who they are, where they are going, and how to care for themselves emotionally and physically.在感情方面，常年单身的人或能给恋人们提出一些建议。为了熟悉自己是什么样的成年人，单身人士可能会在不经意间为他们以后的生活建立更好的长久恋情。他们了解真实的自己、知道自己要去哪儿、知道如何照顾自己（身心照顾）Coupled partners can hone these s