1.英语文章听力合集 篇一
我们需要梦想
We all want to believe that we are capable of great feats, of reaching our fullest potential. We need dreams. They give us a vision of a better future. They nourish our spirit。
我们都相信自己有成就伟业的能力,能发挥出自己的最 大潜能,我们需要梦想,它会给我们展现一番更好的前景,它能滋养我们的灵魂。
They represent possibility even then we are dragged down by reality. They keep us going. Most successful people are dreamers Dreamers are not content with being merely mediocre, because no one ever dreams of going halfway.
梦想代表一种可能性,尽管它会受现实的羁绊。梦想让我们勇往直前。多数成功人士都是梦想家。梦想家不满足于平庸,因为谁也不希望半途而废。
When we were little kids, we didn’t dream of a life of struggle and frustration. We dreamed of doing something big and splashy, something significant. We dreamed big.
孩提时,我们不曾梦想过自立而充满挫折的生活,却梦想做一些轰轰烈烈而又意义的大事。我们梦想成为伟人。
We know now that we have to put in the effort to reach our dreams, but the tough part is that most of us don’t know where to start working. duanwenw.com We might have every intention of becoming Vice President in five years or running across the finish line in a marathon or completing the novel we started years ago. But often we have no idea how to translate these dreams into actions.
如今,我们知道,要实现梦想必须全力以赴,可多数人却不知从何入手。我们可以有5年后成为副总统,或者马拉松赛中冲过终点,或完成多年前就已经开始创作的小说的梦想。可我们往往不知怎么将梦想转为行动。
In order to make real steps toward fulfilling our ultimate, big, splashy dreams, we have to start with concrete objective. These are our goals.
为了真正付诸实施,实现我们终极、伟大而恢弘的梦想。我们一定要从具体的目标着手,这些就是我们的目标。
2.英语文章听力合集 篇二
自信是成功的决定因素
Nothing succeeds like confidence. When you are truly confident, it radiates1 from you like sunlight, and attracts success to you like a magnet.
信心成就一切。当你真正自信时,它就像灿烂的阳光一样从你身上散发出来,就像磁铁一样将成功吸引到你身上。
It’s very important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it under any circumstances, because if you believe you can, then you really will. The belief keeps you searching for answers, which means that pretty soon you will get them.
相信自己非常重要。要相信自己在任何情况下都会成功,因为如果你相信你能做到,那么你就真的会做到。这种信念促使你不断地去寻找答案,而不断地探索就意味着你很快就会找到答案。
Confidence is more than an attitude. It comes from knowing exactly where you are going and exactly how you are going to get there. It comes from acting with integrity3 and confidence. It comes from a strong sense of purpose. It comes from a strong commitment to take responsibility, rather than just letting life happen.
信心不只是一种态度。它来源于你确切地知道自己要去干什么并且确切地知道怎么去干。它来源于正直和自信地去行动。它来源于坚强的决心。它来源于强烈地勇于承担责任的许诺,而不是放任生命的流逝。
One way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and to get a record of successful experiences behind you.
培养自信的一种方法是去做你害怕做的事情,并将它做成功。
Confidence is compassionate4 and understanding. It is not arrogant. Arrogance is born out of fear and insecurity, while confidence comes from strength and integrity.
信心是富有同情心和善解人意的。它一点都不傲慢自大。傲慢是由于害怕和缺乏安全感才产生,而信心则出于坚强决心和诚实正直。
Confidence is not just believing you can do it. Confidence is knowing you can do it. Know that you are capable of accomplishing anything you want, and live your life with confidence.
信心并不是仅仅认为你可能会成功,信心是确信你一定能成功。确信你有能力实现你的愿望,并充满信心地生活着。
Anything can be achieved through focused, determined effort and self-confidence. If your life is not what you want it to be, you have the power to change it, and you must make the changes on a moment by moment basis. Live your priorities. Live with your goals and your plan of action. Live each moment with your priorities in mind. Act with your own purpose, and you will have the life you want.
如果你足够专心、坚决和自信,任何事都能做成。如果生活不像你预想的那样,你有力量去改变它,并且你必须一步一步地实现这些改变。铭记你生命中最重要的事。有目标并且有计划地去生活。时刻铭记你生命中最重要的事。为你的目标而奋斗,你就会拥有自己想要的生活。
3.英语文章听力合集 篇三
People give all kinds of reasons for why they started smoking, but none of them are good — not even supposedly altruistic ones.
While some claim that you’re actually saving our overburdened healthcare system money in the long run by smoking because it reduces life expectancy, it’s nowhere near a watertight argument.
First of all, you’re certainly not doing your family and friends a favor by deliberately lowering your life expectancy. In fact, your family will have to absorb the losses incurred when you miss work due to smoking-related illnesses. Second, there is a lot of debate over the best way to measure the economic costs of smoking.
Every study is based on different assumptions, and uses different data and methods. For example, should you measure the cost of smoking by looking at the cost of treating major illnesses like lung cancer and heart disease, or should you also measure the cost of less serious illnesses? Should you take into account the fact that people who live longer also pay more taxes and insurance premiums? Should you look at the overall cost to the healthcare system, or at the cost per individual?
Anyway, regardless of how you calculate them, the economic costs of smoking are inconsequential when compared to smoking’s real price: the misery caused by the deaths of over 400,000 people each year and the illnesses of several million.
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人们总是为开始抽烟找各种理由,但是没有一种是好的,没有所谓的利他理由。
有这样一种声音,从长远利益来说你抽烟是在拯救我们不堪重负的医疗系统资金,减少预期寿命,但严密的论证我们尚未掌握。
首先,刻意降低你的预期寿命,并不是在帮你家人和朋友的忙。事实上,当你患上了抽烟的相关性疾病,你的家人便不得不承受造成的损失。其二,通过的方式去衡量抽烟的经济成本还存在很多争议。
各项研究都基于不同的假设,而且使用了不同的数据和方法。例如,通过观察治疗如肺癌,心脏病等重大疾病的成本,你估量到抽烟的成本了吗?你同时估量到不严重疾病的成本了吗?你考虑到活得更加长久人同时需要付更多的税费和保险的事实了吗?你考虑过医疗系统的总成本吗?或者是每个人的成本吗?
总之,不管你怎样计算,与抽烟实际代价相比,它的经济成本便微不足道了,抽烟酿成了每年40万人的死亡以及数百万人患病的悲剧。
4.英语文章听力合集 篇四
有能力帮助别人是一种幸福
The hummingbird was lost in the supermarket, exhausted, starving, and near death as it spiraled towards the ground on helpless wings.
一只蜂鸟在超市里迷路了,它疲惫不堪且饥饿难耐,由于无力挥动双翼,小蜂鸟飞得越来越低,眼看就要奄奄一息。
I snatched her away from the crushing carts, cupped her in my hands, and rushed for the exit.
我一把将它抓住,让它免于遭受被推车碾压的命运。我小心翼翼地托着蜂鸟,向出口跑去,感到它小而柔软的身体躺在我的掌心。
She was tiny and soft against my palms. I ran out towards the flowers. She was too weak to perch; I cupped her in my palm and held her up to each flower to drink.
我跑向花丛,然而这只蜂鸟太虚弱了,站都站不起来。于是我举着它,让它挨个吸食每朵花的花蜜。
Slowly, she perked up and her claws tightened on my finger. Then she spread her wings and flew on her own: a tiny, sweet miracle.
渐渐地蜂鸟有了精神,它的爪子抓紧了我的手指,之后它挥动着翅膀飞了起来——这小小的,甜蜜的奇迹。
5.英语文章听力合集 篇五
Ambition
抱负
It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: without demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter in, conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling, but purely celebratory in its functions. The family would become super fluous as social unit, with all its former power for bringing about neurosis drained away, Longevity would be increased, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart.
一个缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样,这不难想象。或许,这将是一个更为友善的世界:没有渴求,没有磨擦,没有失望。人们将有时间进行反思。他们所从事的工作将不是为了他们自身,而是为了整个集体。竞争永远不会介入;冲突将被消除。人们的紧张关系将成为过往云烟。创造的重压将得以终结。艺术将不再惹人费神,其功能将纯粹为了庆典。作为社会单位的家庭及其所带来精神伤痛也将荡然无存,人的寿命将会更长,因为由激烈拼争引起的心脏病和中风所导致的死亡将越来越少。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝,抱负却早已远离人心。
Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!
啊,长此以往人生将变得多么乏味无聊!
There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in its implications, to remove allmotives for competence, interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.
有一种盛行的观点认为,成功是一种神话,因此抱负亦属虚幻。这是不是说实际上并不丰在成功?成就本身就是一场空?与诸多运动和事件的力量相比,男女的努力显得微不足?显然,并非所有的成功都值得景仰,也并非所有的抱负都值得追求。对值得和不值得的选择,一个人自然而然很快就能学会。但即使是最为愤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承认,成功确实存在,成就的意义举足轻重,而把世上男女的所作所为说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽之谈。认为成功不存在的观点很可能造成混乱。这种观点的本意是一笔勾销所有提高能力的动机,求取业绩的兴趣和对子孙后代的关注。
We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historicalepoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what istrivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
我们无法选择出生,无法选择父母,无法选择出生的历史时期与国家,或是成长的周遭环境。我们大多数人都无法选择死亡,无法选择死亡的时间或条件。但是在这些无法选择之中,我们的确可以选择自己的生活方式:是勇敢无畏还是胆小怯懦,是光明磊落还是厚颜无耻,是目标坚定还是随波逐流。我们决定生活中哪些至关重要,哪些微不足道。我们决定,用以显示我们自身重要性的,不是我们做了什么,就是我们拒绝做些什么。但是不论世界对我们所做的选择和决定有多么漠不关心,这些选择和决定终究是我们自己做出的。我们决定,我们选择。而当我们决定和选择时,我们的生活便得以形成。最终构筑我们命运的就是抱负之所在。
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