英语美文摘抄带翻译

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你为什么要做手头上的事呢?

It’s a serious question and one you’re likely not askedall that often.

这是一个很严肃的问题，但也是一个你不会经常问自己的问题。

Take a look at what you do each day and ask yourself “why am I doing this?”

看一下你每天都在做些什么然后问问自己：“我做这些是为了什么?”

On a typical day I’m up with my kids, playing with them,tending to them, teaching them. Why do I do it? Because I love them, I want them to have our values, I want to teach them and I want to experience what it’s like to be a mom. I could choose to go back to a job outside of the home and earn a fairly good income, but I choose to stay home because it just feels like the right thing to do … for me.I realize that this isn’t a luxury a lot of people have despite wanting it and believe me when I say I am grateful for being able to stay at home with my kids.

有一天，我抱起我的小孩，和他们一块玩耍，照顾着他们，教育他们。我不禁想：我为什么做这些事情呢?因为我爱他们，我想他们能够拥有我们的价值观，我想教导他们并且通过这些去感受作为妈妈的经历。我可以选择回去工作，而且会有一份相当好的收入，但是我选择留在家里因为我感觉这就是我要做的。我也意识到这并不是一件奢侈的东西，很多人都有，尽管很多人口里都喊着想要这样的生活，相信我，我很感激能够呆在家里和我的小孩在一起。

I write. Why? Because it allows me to get in touch with my creative side, something I didn’t get to do too often when I was heavily embedded in the sciences. Writing helps me gather and focus my thoughts. It allows me to.

我写作。为什么?因为写作激起了我的创造灵感，这些灵感不是我坚信自然科学就能够获得的。写作让我收集灵感、专注于我的思维上，它给了我这样的契机。

I coach/consult people. Why? Because it allows me to work in a way that I’m passionate about, I am able to contribute financially to my family, and it’s helping me get closer to my goal of personally funding 2 children’s wishes for the Children’s Wish Foundation. Since one of my son’s is a wish kid this is near and dear to me and at $20K a wish I have a VERY long way to go. But I don’t doubt I’ll get there in my lifetime.

我是顾问。为什么?因为这份工作是我的激情所在。通过这份工作，我不但可以支持家庭，我也朝我的目标更近了一步：为儿童愿望基金会资助两名儿童，帮他们实现愿望。我最亲爱的儿子也是个爱许愿的孩子，所以虽然帮每个儿童实现愿望需要2万美金，我得花很久才能实现，但是我坚信在我的有生之年我肯定能实现。

These are just a few examples of what I do and why I do them. They may not sit well with everyone but I do what I do in these respects with purpose and reason.

这只是我所做的和为什么我要做这些的几个例子。它们不可能适合所有的人，但我知道做我手头上这些事情的目的和意义。

I could also mention that I watch TV from time to time. If you asked me why I do it, I wouldn’t have a very good answer – to curb boredom, to relax and just sit at the end of the day. There are a lot of better things I could be doing with my time but occasionally TV is okay.

在这里我还想提到一点，即我时常也看电视。如果你问我为什么会看电视?我可能没有一个很好的答案，或许只是无聊，只是想放松一下，或许只想在一天结束的时候坐着休息一下。我的一生还有许多许多更美好的事情等着我去做，但偶尔看看电视也很好。

I think doing things without purpose, a plan or the bigger picture in mind can be fun but it may be wasting your time, effort, energy, talents and skills.

我认为做事情没有目标，没有计划或是在脑海中没有一幅蓝图，会很有趣，但这样子确实浪费时间、精力、才能和你的技能。

So what are you doing and why are you doing it?

所以说：你在做些什么?你为什么要做?

Take inventory of what you’re doing in major life areas and try to understand why you’re doing them.

列下在你重要的人生领域里，你所做事情的清单，找到做这些事情的原因。

Does what you do play to your strengths? Do you get great joy out of doing it? Is it helping you get closer to a goalor a dream you have?

你所做的有助于发挥你的实力吗?你快乐吗?做这些事情能帮你朝既定的目标或者梦想迈进一些吗?

If you spend too much of your time focusing on things that don’t really matter, that don’t really excite you and you don’t have a reason for doing what you’re doing you could be missing out on a lot of great things.

如果你把过多的时间花在这样一些事情上：无关紧要，不会让你兴奋，你也没有很好的理由来解释为什么要做现在正在做的事情，那么你将会失去很多美好的事情。

Think of all the opportunities you could be missing out on if you’re tied up in activities that don’t matter to you. Wouldn’t you hate to realize one day that what you wanted all along passed you by because you were too busy doing other things. Menial things.

想一下：如果你在一些无关紧要的事情上面忙忙碌碌，你将失去多少机会?你会不会有一天突然意识到：因为你忙着做一些其他你认为重要的事情，而你真正想要的东西却通通都已溜走。

So my question remains: What are you doing and why do you do it?

所以我的问题依然是：你在做什么，你为什么做?

大石块The big rocks

One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achievers he said, "Okay, time for a quiz.” Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of him. He then produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is the jar full?" Everyone in the class said, "Yes."

一天，一名时间管理专家在对一群学习商业的学生讲话时，为了论证一个论点，他用了一个令学生们永远难忘的 表述方式。站在这群出类拔萃的学生面前，他说：“来，做个小测试。”他拿出一个一加仑的广口玻璃瓶，放在他们面前的桌上。接着他拿出一小堆拳头大小的石块，小心翼翼、一块一块地放进瓶子里。等石块装满到瓶子，再也塞不下时，他问：“瓶子满了吗?”大家都说：“满了。”

He replied, "Really?"

他问：“真的满了吗?”

He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel, then dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the space between the big rocks.

他伸手到桌下提出一桶碎石，将碎石倒进瓶子里，摇晃瓶子让碎石漏进石块的间隙里去。

He asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?"

他又问学生：“瓶子装满了吗?”

By this time the class was on to him. "Probably not," one of them answered.

这时学生们领悟过来了。“可能还没满吧!”一个学生回答说。

"Good!" he replied.

“好!”他说道。

He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question,"Is the jar full?"

他伸手从桌底下拎出了一桶沙，把沙往瓶子里倒，沙子塞满了石块与碎石的缝隙，他又一次问：“满了吗?”

"No!" the class shouted.

“没满!”全班学生大声回答。

Once again he said, "Good!"

再一次，他说道：“好!”

Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager student raised her hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in!"

然后他又拿出一大罐水往瓶子里倒，一直倒到水升到瓶口高。他看着学生们问“这个演示说明了什么?”一个学生急忙举手说：“说 明了：不管时间安排得多紧，只要你想办法，总是可以见缝插针地做更多的事情。”

"Good answer, but no," the speaker replied, "that’s not my point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all. What are the’big rocks" in your life? In my life they are my children... my wife... my loved ones... my education... my dreams... charities and worthy causes... teaching or mentoring others... doing things that I love... time for myself... my health... Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you’ll never get them in at all."

“回答得好，不过，”专家说：“这不是我想说的。这个例子告诉我们一个事实：如果你不是先放大石块，以后 它们就永远摆不进去。你生活中的‘大石块’是什么呢?在我的生活中，那就是我的孩子、妻子、所爱的人、学习、梦想、善行和有价值的事业、教导他人、做我喜欢做的事、留给自己的时间、健康，等等。要记住，必须先放“大石块”，否则它们永远放不进去。”

If you sweat the little stuff then you’ll fill your life with little things to worry about that don’t really matter, and you’ll never have the real quality time you need to spend on the big,important stuff：the big rocks.

如果你奔忙于琐事，那么这些无关紧要的小事就会充斥你的生活，让你成天操心，你就永远没办法腾出有质量的时间来处理你的大事和要事(大石块)。

生活的一课

"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

每当我遇到挫折时，母亲就会说：“一切都会好的。如果你坚持下去，总有一天会有好事发生。你会认识到，如果没有以前的挫折就不会有现在的一切。”

Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicagoand knocked on the door of every station - and got turned down every time.

母亲是对的，发现这个时是在1932年，我刚从大学毕业。我已决定试着在电台找个事儿做，然后争取做体育节目的播音员。我搭便车到了芝加哥，挨家电台地敲门推销自己--但每次都被拒绝了。

In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring an inexperienced person. "Go out in the sticks and find a small station that'll give you a chance," she said.

在一个播音室里，一位好心的女士告诉我，大的广播电台是不会冒险雇佣没经验的新手的。“去乡下找一家给你机会的小电台吧，”她说。

I thumbed home toDixon,Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs inDixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. SinceDixonwas where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't hired.

我搭车来到我的家乡，那是伊利诺斯州的迪克森。在迪克森当时还没有电台播音员这样的工作，父亲说，蒙哥马利·沃德开了一家新商店，想雇请一个本地的运动员管理店里的体育部。我中学时曾在迪克森打过橄榄球，出于这个原因我去申请了这份工作。工作听起来挺适合我的，但是我没被聘用。

My disappointment must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio inDavenport,Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.

我的沮丧心情一定表现出来了。“一切总会好的，”母亲提醒我说。爸爸给我买了一辆汽车找工作用。我试到爱荷华州达文波特的WOC电台去求职。那里的电台节目负责人是一个很棒的苏格兰人，名叫彼得?麦克阿瑟，他告诉我他们已经雇到播音员了。

As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, "How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"

离开他办公室时，我愤怒极了。我大声地说：“一个连在电台都找不到工作的家伙又怎么能成为体育节目的播音员呢?”

I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game.

等电梯时，我听见麦克阿瑟喊道：“你说什么体育?你了解橄榄球吗?”接着他让我站到麦克风前，请我解说一场想象中的比赛。

On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother's words: "If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment."

在回家的路上--以后也有很多次地，我思考着母亲的那句话：“如果你坚持下去，总有一天会有好事发生。如果没有以前的挫折，就不会有现在的一切。”

I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.

我常想，如果我当年得到了蒙哥马利·沃德的那份工作，我的人生之路又会怎样走呢?

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