All Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten…
罗伯特·富尔格姆 / Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup—they all die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: Look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all—the whole world— had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes, And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.
生活中真正需要的大部分知识，包括如何生活，要做些什么，怎样行事，这些我都是在幼儿园时学会的。研究生院或许是求学过程的巅峰，但人生的智慧却是在幼儿园内嬉戏的沙堡里。
以下这些就是我从幼儿园里学到的：跟别人分享你的一切；光明磊落地处事；不攻击别人：物归原处；清理好自己的垃圾；不拿不属于自己的东西；伤害了别人就说抱歉；吃东西之前记得洗手；热甜点和凉牛奶对身体有益。生活要有张有弛，学习、思考、绘画、唱歌、跳舞、休息和工作，安排轻松生活。
每天下午小憩片刻。外出时，注意交通安全，手挽手，互相扶持。留意生活中的奇迹。还记得那个塑料杯里的小小种子吗？它的根不断地往下扎，枝不断地往上长。没有人真正知道它怎样生长，也不知道它为什么要生长。但有一点很清楚，我们跟它一样，在慢慢长大。
金鱼、仓鼠、小白鼠，甚至花盆中的一颗小种子——它们的生命最后都将消亡。我们亦明白，自己同样也不能避免死亡。
记得我从《迪克与简》这本书中学到的第一个生词，那也是最了不起的一个词：观察。一切你需要掌握的知识：包括做人的准则、爱、基本的卫生习惯，生态环境和政治哲学以及健全的生活方式，你都可以在该书的某个角落寻到答案。
试想一下，如果我们——全世界每一个人——每天下午3点左右都能够享受甜点和牛奶，然后躺下来盖上毯子小睡片刻；或是全世界所有国家都能遵循一个基本的立国之道，即：物归原处，清理自己的垃圾，那么这个世界将会变得更加美好。无论年龄大小，出门在外时都要团结一致，互相扶持——这是一条颠扑不破的真理。
记忆填空
1. These are the things I learned: everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t . Say you’re when you hurt somebody.
2. When you go out into the , watch for traffic, hold and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows or why, but we are all like that.
3. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and the little seed in the plastic cup—they all die. do we.
佳句翻译
1. 生活中真正需要的大部分知识，包括如何生活，要做些什么，怎样行事，这些我都是在幼儿园时学会的。
2. 生活要有张有弛，学习、思考、绘画、唱歌、跳舞、休息和工作，安排轻松生活。
3. 无论年龄大小，出门在外时都要团结一致，互相扶持——这是一条颠扑不破的真理。
短语应用
1. Clean up your own mess.
clean up：清理；大捞一笔
2. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
be good for：有益于；对……有好处