99.Fun in Life生活中的乐趣
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从生活中获得乐趣,才不枉虚度此生。无论在生活中做什么,只要不违背自己的良心,只要付出努力,奋力拼搏达到目标,就会让生活充满乐趣,实现人生在世的生存意义。
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ANow, as to fun:to get myself straight at once, for fear that in my garrulous way I might stray from my point, I shall say this:unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he as had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.It is un-Christian and wicked, in my opinion, to allow such a thing to occur.Now, there are many, many different things and thoughts and ideas that will contribute—any acts of your own—that will contribute to the fun you have out of the life.You can go along the bank of a stream in the tropics, and there is a crocodile lying in the sun.He looks the picture of contentment.BThey often tell me that they live to be great age—a hundred years or more—and still lying in the sun and that is all they do.
Now, by going to Dartmouth, by coming this far along the road, you have achieved certain standard, one of those standards is:it is no longer so easy for you to have fun and you can"t be like a crocodile and sleep away your life and be satisfied. You must do something, and normally it must involve others, something you do for them.The satisfaction—it"s trite but it"s true—the satisfaction of a clear conscience, no matter what happens……
Whatever you do—a little help to someone along the road—something you have achieved because you worked hard for it, like your graduation diploma today, those things have become worthwhile, and in your own estimation will contribute to your happiness. CThey will measure up to your standards because your standards have become those that only you know, but they have become very high.And if you do those things, they are the kind of things that will satisfy you and make life something that is joyous, that will cause your face to spread out a little.
难点重点,一目了然!
长难句解析Sentence Structures
ANow, as to fun:to get myself straight at once, for fear that in my garrulous way I might stray from my point, I shall say this:unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he as had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
现在,关于乐趣,我想直奔主题,以免唠唠叨叨偏离了我今天的主题。我想说:除非一个人回顾度过的每一天都能找到一些乐趣,一些快乐还有真正的满足,才不至于虚度了一天。
that in my garrulous way I might stray from my point是有that引导的同位语从句。后面in which这就是which引导的定语从句。
BThey often tell me that they live to be great age—a hundred years or more—and still lying in the sun and that is all they do.
人们常常告诉我这些鳄鱼比较长寿,能活百年以上,而且沐浴在阳光之下是他们生活的全部。
句中第一个they指人们,第二个they指鳄鱼。
CThey will measure up to your standards because your standards have become those that only you know, but they have become very high.
所有的这些都将符合你们的标准,因为这些标准只有你们自己能够理解,尽管这些标准已经达到了很高的水平。
measure up to 达到或符合某标准。例如:The discussions didn"t measure up to my expectations.这些讨论有负于我的期望。
100.Make Dreams Real梦想成真
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每个人都有自己的梦想,尤其是年轻人的梦想更是美好的,但是真正实现的并不多。谷歌传奇创始人拉里·佩奇(Larry·Page)回忆起自己的梦,他说:“关键是找到一条梦想成真的路。”
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What I"m trying to tell you, this is way more than a homecoming for me.I have a story about following dreams.Or maybe more accurately, it"s a story about finding a path to make those dreams real.
You know what it"s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream?AAnd you know how, if you don"t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning?
Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking:What if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links?And I grabbed a pen and started writing!Sometimes it"s important to wake up and stop dreaming.I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks for me to download the web—he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough not to tell me.The optimism of youth is often underrated!Amazingly, at that time, I have no thoughts building a search engine.BThe idea wasn"t even on the radar.But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking and we made a really great search engine, and Google was born.When a really great dream shows up, grab it!
When I was here at Michigan, I had actually been taught how to make dreams real!I wanted to build a personal rapid transit system on campus to replace the buses. I still think a lot about transportation—you never loose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts.But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you"ll have little competition.The best people want to work on the big challenges.That is what happened with Google.COur mission is to organize the world"s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
难点重点,一目了然!
长难句解析Sentence Structures
AAnd you know how, if you don"t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning?
你们知道吗,如果床边没有纸笔,第二天早上起来一定会忘个精光。
这是一句条件状语从句。句中it指的是前一句的vivid dream。
BThe idea wasn"t even on the radar.
我甚至都没有过这一想法。
on the radar 表示引起注意。
COur mission is to organize the world"s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
我们的目标是去组织世界的信息并且使被普遍接受。
to 不定式在句子中做表语。to不定式还可以做主语、宾语、表语、补语、定语、状语。例如:To save time is to lengthen life.节约时间就等于延长了生命。不定式结构作主语时,现代英语倾向于采用it作形式主语,而把不定式结构后置的形式。如:It is important for students to study English.学好英语对学生来说是很重要的。
101.Connecting the Dots(1)串起生活中的点点滴滴(1)
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