Chapter Two 快乐的人生不自负(28)(1/2)
Chapter Two 快乐的人生不自负(28)
reckon on 指望;依赖
reckon in 把……计算在内
reckon up 计算;合计
例:I reckon that he is old enough.
我认为他的年龄已经够大了。
2. stray
作形容词:迷路的;离群的
例:Perhaps, I thought, a stray ambulance would pick her up.
我心里想,也许一辆过路的救护车会把她带走。
Practicing for Better Learning
Do the following statements agree with the information in the reading text?
Write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the information
_______ (1) The banker, appreciating his simplicity, said, “In the future I shall place you above want. Take this hundred crowns, preserve them carefully, and make use of them in time of need.”
_______ (2) His neighbor, on the contrary, who was rolling in wealth, sung but little, and sleepless. He was a banker.
_______ (3) At length the poor man ran to the house of his rich neighbor; “Give me back,” said he, “sleep and my voice, and take your hundred crowns.”
优于过去的自己
Being Superior to Your Previous Self
欧内斯特 ? 海明威 / Ernest Hemingway
First listen and then answer the questions.
1. Is it true that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without?
2. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. What’s your opinion?
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest—it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much a