What Is Success
Guidance for Reciting
Success should be more synonymous with happiness than with affluence.
What is success?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one's self;
To leave the world a bit better,whether by a healthy child,a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
Notes
1.affection [E5fekFEn] n.慈爱,爱,感情,作用,影响
2.betrayal [bi5treiEl] n.背叛,暴露
3.redeem [ri5di:m] v.赎回,挽回,履行
成功的内涵
诵读导言
成功更应该是幸福,而不是富有。
成功是什么?
笑口常开;
赢得智者的尊重以及孩子们的爱戴;
容忍损友的背叛,博得真诚的青睐;
欣赏美好的东西,发现别人的可爱。
学会无私地奉献,给世界增添光彩:
培育出健康后代,或留下花园一块,
甚或改善社会条件;
尽情娱乐开怀,
笑得畅快,把欢乐的歌儿唱起来;
甚至知道一个生命活得自在,只因你一路走来……
这就是成功的内涵。
口语点津
我们似乎都对文中出现的“the betrayal of false friends”(损友的背叛)感到深恶痛绝,但正如《加勒比海盗3》中的一句台词所说,“你我对背叛都不陌生(You and I are not strangers to betrayal.)”。人们常说“忘记过去就意味着背叛(Forgetting the past means betrayal.)”,可是又有多少人做得到呢?