The Meaning of Life
Guidance for Reciting
Helping others as you would expect others to help you gives a feeling of gratification. A healthy personality has the need not only to get but also to give.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Notes
1.in vain 徒然,白费力
2.aching [5eikiN] a. 疼痛的
3.faint [feint] a. 模糊的;微弱的;眩晕的
4.robin [5rCbin] n. 知更鸟
生命的意义
诵读导言
帮助他人正如你希望得到别人的帮助那样,能给予你满足感。健康的人格不但需要获得还需要付出。
假如我能使一颗心免于破碎,
我便没有白活一场;
假如我能消除一个人的痛苦,
或者平息一个人的悲伤,
或者帮助一只昏迷的小鸟
重新回到它的巢中
我便没有虚度此生。
口语点津
如果赢得你心(win your heart)的人并不爱你,那你可能就会有a broken heart。你觉得对方简直是石头心肠(heart of stone)。于是你决定向朋友倾吐(pour out your heart)。如果他似乎并不理解你的痛,就让他可怜可怜你(have a heart)。如果他对你的处境很同情,那么他的心肠是很好的(his heart in the right place)。他可能会警告你Don't wear your heart on your sleeve;Don't take the failure to your heart;Don't lose heart。向你的爱人表现出金子般的心(your heart of gold),或者给她写封信表达爱慕之情(write a letter to her and declare your heart),这样你就可以放心了。(Put your heart at rest.)