大学英语四六级经典阅读：人生不是一次彩排

 

Get a life, a real life, not a manic pursuit of the promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. 

 

要过有意义的生活，真正的生活，并不是狂热地追求晋升、加薪和更大的房子。 

 

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are generous. 

 

不要孤零零地活着，追寻到你爱的人和爱你的人。并记住:爱不是休闲，而是工作。打个电话，发个邮件，写封信要活得慷慨、活得大度。 

 

Realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. 

 

生活是最美好的，我们要加倍珍惜，没有理由忽视它。 

 

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days,our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again… 

 

我们很容易虚度我们的生命，我们的日子，我们的分分秒秒。我们轻易地把孩子眼睛的颜色。交响乐旋律的升降起落变化认为是理所当然的…… 

 

It is so easy to exist instead of living. 

 

我们十分轻易地为了活着而活着，而非真正的生活。 

 

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my option, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, sees to be the hardest lesson of all. 

 

多年以前，我就知道了生命的意义。那时。不幸降临到了我身上，改变了我的生活。要是当时我做出明智的选择，完全可以避免这种不幸的发生。现在看来，那是我此生中一个最大的教训，我从中学会了很多。 

 

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. 

 

我学会了享受过程，而非结果。 

 

I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. 

 

我懂得了生活没有彩排，我们能把握的只有现在。 

 

I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to get some of it back because I believe in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part by telling others what I had learned, by telling them this: consider the lilies of the field, look at the fuzz on a baby's ear, read in the backyard with the sun on your face, learn to be happy, and think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived. 

 

我学会了发现世界上所有事物的真善美，然后奉献出一部分。因为我对真善美深信不疑。并且也在努力去践行，其中一种方式便是告诉他人我所学到的。我告诉他们:想想田野里的百合花;看看婴儿耳朵上的绒毛;在后院的阳光下读书;开心地活着，把生命当成不治之症的晚期。这样，你就会活得快乐且富有激情，而人就应该这样生活。 

 

词汇注释 

 

manic adj. 狂燥的 

 

promotion n. 提升、晋升 

 

leisure n. 空闲 

 

symphony n. 交响乐 

 

rehearsal n. 排练、彩排 

 

guarantee n. 保证、担保 

 

utterly adv. 全然地，绝对地 

 

fuzz n. 细毛、绒毛 

 

passion n. 激情、热情