34生活中，我们最幸福的时刻
In Life, We Are the Happiest When...
佚名 / Anonymous
A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.
All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had wonderful time.
The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, "I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our marriage," she offered, "Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."
The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists.
"I' ll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband' s eyes.
"What' s wrong?" she asked. "Nothing," the husband replied, "keep reading your list."
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over the top of it.
"Now, you read your list and then we' ll talk about the things on both of our lists." She said happily.
Quietly the husband stated, "I don' t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don' t want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn' t want to try and change anything about you."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don' t really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wondrous things before us?
一个男人与他的女朋友举行了一场盛大的结婚典礼。
所有的亲朋好友都来参加，分享他们的喜悦，对他们表示祝贺，大家都很愉快。
身着雪白婚纱的新娘楚楚动人，穿着黑色礼服的新郎英俊潇洒。大家看得出来，他们彼此相爱。
婚后数月，妻子提议：“我刚在杂志上看到一篇文章，讲的是如何增进夫妻感情。我们各自在纸上罗列出对方的小缺点，然后一起讨论如何解决的办法，会使我们的婚姻生活更融洽。”
丈夫很赞成。于是，他们分头找了个房间，想对方的缺点。那天余下的时间，他们都在想这个问题，同时也把所想的写了下来。
第二天早上，吃早餐时，他们决定谈谈彼此的缺点。
“我先来吧。”妻子说。她拿出单子，上面都写满了，足有三页纸。开始念纸上写的丈夫的小毛病时，她注意到他的眼角湿润了。
“怎么了？”她问道。“没什么，”丈夫答道，“继续念啊。”
妻子接着念，念完以后，她把单子整齐地放在桌上，两手交叉放在上面。
“现在，该你了。你念完后，我们就来谈谈这些缺点吧。”妻子开心地说道。
丈夫平静地说：“我什么也没写，我觉得你这样已经很完美了，不用为我改变。你很可爱，也很迷人，我不想改变你的任何事情。”
丈夫的诚实、深沉的爱与包容，深深地触动了她。她转过头去，哭了起来。
生活中，已经有很多时候，我们都会感到失望、沮丧和厌烦，真的不用再去刻意寻找它们。我们拥有一个充满美丽、光明和希望的美好世界。我们环顾四周，就可以发觉这些美好，那又何必把光阴耗费在寻找不快、失落和烦恼上呢？
partake [p:'teik] v. 参与；分享；分担；带有某种性质
Can you partake some of my job?
你能帮我分担些工作吗？
gorgeous [':ds] adj. 华丽的；灿烂的；极好的
During festivals, we all put on gorgeous dresses.
节日里，我们都穿上华丽的服装。
item ['aitem] n. 项目；条款
What is the next item on the agenda?
议程表上，下一个项目是什么？
wondrous ['wndrs] adj. 令人惊奇的；奇妙的；非常的
It is a wondrous sight.
这是一个奇妙的情景。
大家看得出来，他们彼此相爱。
我们拥有一个充满美丽、光明和希望的美好世界。
那又何必把光阴耗费在寻找不快、失落和烦恼上呢？
Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person.
a list of：一列；一览表；清单
They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.
come up with：赶上；提出；想出
35铭记微笑的力量
Remember the Power of a Smile
佚名 / Anonymous
I placed the items on the moving belt. Slowly my packages moved towards the cash register.
The cashier was tired. I could see it on her face. It was towards the end of her shift. She had no doubt been standing and ringing the cash register all day. I know the cash registers don' t ring anymore, they are computerized, but when I worked as a cashier, they rang.
My two-year-old son, Josees, was with me.
She performed her job with all of the speed-tired muscles and weary spirit could summon.
Josees stood in front of her across the belt. His tiny frame was inches below the top of the moving belt. I don' t know what made him move away from me and stand there. Children can at times move more on instinct than logic.
He stood there looking up. Sensing something.
She looked down. " Oh my God, look at that smile!" she exclaimed.
She changed. The tiredness left. The dreariness left. She appeared as fresh as if she had just walked through the door.
Josees continued standing and smiling. She continued to revived.
I saw not the power of a child, but the power of a pure smile.
Remember, you have the same power.
Each day you will meet someone who is tired, weary, and dreary. For many, the tired, weary, dreary person you meet will be in the mirror.
Even in the mirror, the power of a smile still works.
When you smile, the muscles of your face contract on a special gland in the brain which release a hormone in the brain that eases stress and causes a slight euphoric high.
Smile real big right now and see if that gland is in your brain too.
She was still bubbling as we walked out of the store.
Josees never said a word. He only smiled.
Remember Josees when you meet your weary person each day. Remember someone needs smile.
我把选购的商品放在传送带上，慢慢地，我的东西移向收银员。
收银员很疲倦，我从她的脸上就看出来了。她换班的时间要到了，毫无疑问，她已经站在那里摁了一天的收银机。我知道，收银机全部是电脑化处理的，不再响铃了。要知道，我做收银员那会儿，收银机还是响铃的呢。
我两岁的儿子乔斯和我在一起。
收银员强打精神做着她的工作。
隔着传送带，乔斯站在她面前，他矮小的身材离传送带的顶部还有几英尺。我不知道是什么使他离开我，站在收银员的面前。有时候，孩子更多的是依靠本能活动，而不是逻辑思维。