1、What I Have Lived For Bertrand Russell Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, o

2、ver a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in w

3、hich one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and tho

4、ugh it might seem too good for human life, this is what - at last - I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men, I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds away above

5、 the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberated in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old pe

6、ople a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and I would gladly live it again if the chance were

7、offered to me. 我為何而活 伯蘭特.羅素 三種簡單卻極其強(qiáng)烈的情感主宰著我的生活：對愛的渴望、對知識的追求、對人類痛苦的難以承受的憐憫之心。這三種情感，像一陣陣颶風(fēng)一樣，任意地將我吹的飄來蕩去，越過痛苦的海洋，抵達(dá)絕望的彼岸。 我尋找愛，首先，因為它令人心醉神迷，這種沉醉是如此美妙，以至于我愿意用余生來換取那幾個小時的快樂。我尋找愛，其次是因為它會減輕孤獨(dú)，置身于那種可怕的孤獨(dú)中，顫抖的靈魂在世界的邊緣，看到冰冷的、死寂的、無底深淵。我尋找愛，還因為在愛水乳交融時，在一個神秘的縮影中，我見到了先賢和詩人們所想象的、預(yù)覽的天堂。 這就是我所追求的，盡管對于凡人來說，這好像是一種奢望

8、。但這是我最終找到的。 我曾以同樣的熱情來追求知識。我希望能理解人類的心靈，希望能知道為什么星星會發(fā)光。我也曾經(jīng)努力理解畢達(dá)哥拉斯學(xué)派的理論，他們認(rèn)為數(shù)字主載著萬物的此消彼長。我了解了一點知識，但是不多。 愛和知識，可以最大可能地，將人帶入天堂。可是，憐憫總是將我?guī)Щ氐孛妗Ｈ藗円蛲纯喽l(fā)出的哭聲在我心中久久回響，那些饑荒中的孩子們，被壓迫者摧殘的受害者們，被子女視為可憎負(fù)擔(dān)的、無助的老人們，以及那無處不在的孤單、貧窮和無助都在諷刺著人類所本應(yīng)該有的生活。我渴望能夠消除人世間的邪惡，可是力不從心，我自己也同樣遭受著它們的折磨。 這就是我的生活。我覺得活一場是值得的。如果給我機(jī)會的話，我愿意開心地

9、，再活一次。 伯蘭特.羅素（1872-1970）,英國著名哲學(xué)家、數(shù)學(xué)家和文學(xué)家。他在多個領(lǐng)域都取得了巨大成就。他所著的西方的智慧、西方哲學(xué)史對中國讀者影響很大。 Man Is Here For The Sake of Other Men Albert Einstein Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of dai

10、ly life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how

11、much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of

12、other men. To ponder interminably over the reason for ones own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone bef

13、ore me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. 人是為了別人而活著 阿爾伯特.愛因斯坦 我們在這個世界上的處境是奇怪的：每個人，都是來做一次短暫的訪問，不知道是為了什么。不過有時似乎也會覺察

14、到有某種目的。 但是從平日的生活來看，有一件事情我們是很清楚的：我們是為別人而活，最重要的是為了這些人活：他們的笑容和幸福構(gòu)成了我們快樂的源泉。同時，我們活著還為了另外無數(shù)個不相識的生命，憐憫之心，將我們同他們的命運(yùn)聯(lián)系起來。每天，很多次，我都會意識到我的肉體生活和精神生活很大程度上是建立在那些活著的，和死去的人們的工作之上的，意識到我必須誠摯地、竭盡全力地努力去回報我所得到的東西。我經(jīng)常心緒不寧，感覺自己從別人的工作里承襲了太多，這種感覺讓我惴惴不安。 總體上在我看來，從客觀的角度，沒完沒了地思考自己為什么會存在，或者是生命有什么意義，是非常愚蠢的行為。不過，每個人都有一些理想，來指引著自己

15、的抱負(fù)和辨別是非。始終在我面前閃耀著光芒，并且讓我充滿活著的喜悅的理想，是善、美和真理。對我來說，以舒適和享樂為目標(biāo)的生活從來沒有吸引力。以這些目標(biāo)為基礎(chǔ)建立起來的一套倫理觀點只能滿足一群牲畜的需要。 阿爾伯特.愛因斯坦（1879-1955）,美國籍猶太人，20世紀(jì)最偉大的科學(xué)家。1921年獲諾貝爾物理學(xué)獎。他一生崇尚科學(xué)與民主，追求真理和光明，畢生致力于國際和平事業(yè)。 Work and Pleasure Winston C hurchill To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three

16、hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: “I will take an interest in this or that.” Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief

17、. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual labourer, tired out with a hard we

18、eks sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend. It ma

19、y also be said that rational, industrious useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the

20、office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms. But Fortunes favoured children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long

21、enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work

22、is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds. 工作和娛樂 溫斯頓.丘吉爾 要想獲得真正的快樂與安寧，一個人應(yīng)該有至少兩三種愛好，而且必須是真正的愛好。到晚年才說“我對什么什么有興趣”是沒用的，這只會徒然增添精神負(fù)擔(dān)。一個人可以在自己工作之外的領(lǐng)域獲得淵博的知識，不過他可能幾乎得不到什么好處或是消遣。做你喜歡的事是沒用的，你必須喜歡你所做的事?？偟膩碚f，人可以分為三種：勞累而死的、憂慮而死的、和煩惱而死的。對于那些體力勞動者來說，經(jīng)歷了一周精疲力

23、竭的體力勞作，周六下午讓他們?nèi)ヌ咦闱蚧蛘叽虬羟蚴菦]有意義的。而對那些政治家、專業(yè)人士或者商人來說，他們已經(jīng)為嚴(yán)肅的事情操勞或煩惱六天了，周末再讓他們?yōu)楝嵤聞谏褚彩菦]有意義的。 也可以說，那些理性的、勤勉的、有價值的人們可分為兩類，一類，他們的工作就是工作，娛樂就是娛樂；而另一類，他們的工作即娛樂。大多數(shù)人屬于前者，他們得到了相應(yīng)的補(bǔ)償。長時間在辦公室或工廠里的工作，回報給他們的不僅是維持了生計，還有一種強(qiáng)烈的對娛樂的需求，哪怕是最簡單的、最樸實的娛樂。不過，命運(yùn)的寵兒則屬于后者。他們的生活很自然和諧。對他們來說，工作時間永遠(yuǎn)不嫌長。每天都是假日，而當(dāng)正常的假日來臨時，他們總是埋怨自己所全身心投

24、入的休假被強(qiáng)行中斷了。不過，有些事情對兩類人是同樣至關(guān)重要的，那就是轉(zhuǎn)換一下視角、改變一下氛圍、將精力轉(zhuǎn)移到別的事情上。確實，對那些工作即是娛樂的人來說，最需要隔一段時間就用某種方式把工作從腦子里面趕出去。 溫斯頓.丘吉爾（1874-1965）, 英國政治家、作家。二戰(zhàn)中曾兩任英國首相，為二戰(zhàn)勝利立下汗馬功勞。他在文學(xué)上也有很深的造詣，1953年獲諾貝爾文學(xué)獎。 An Illusion William S. Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the

25、young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection,

26、and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail drivens into the bod

27、y on the cross of life. The strange thing is that each one who has gone through that bitter disillusionment add to it in his turn, unconsciously, by the power within him which is stronger than himself. 一種錯覺 威廉. S. 毛姆 認(rèn)為青春是快樂的，這是一種錯覺，是那些失去了青春的人的一種錯覺。年輕人知道，自己是不幸的，他們腦子里充斥了被灌輸?shù)牟磺袑嶋H的想法，每次與現(xiàn)實接觸時，都會碰的頭破血流。

28、似乎，他們是某種陰謀的犧牲者：那些他們所讀過的精挑細(xì)選的書，那些長輩們談起的因遺忘而蒙上玫瑰色薄霧的往事，都為年輕人提供了一種不真實的生活。 他們必須自己發(fā)現(xiàn)，所有他們讀到的、聽到的東西，都是謊言、謊言、謊言。每一次的這樣的發(fā)現(xiàn)，都像是另一根釘子釘入他們的身體，那被束縛在生活的十字架上的身體?？墒瞧婀值氖?，每個曾經(jīng)被這種錯覺折磨過的人，輪到他們時，有一種不可控制的力量，讓他們不自覺地為別人增添這種錯覺。 威廉. S. 毛姆（1874-1965）,英國著名小說家、劇作家、散文家。原先攻讀醫(yī)學(xué)，后轉(zhuǎn)而致力寫作。他的文章常常在譏諷中潛藏著對人性的憐憫與同情。 The Wholeness of Lif

29、e Anonymous Once a circle missed a wedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of di

30、fferent pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. It was so happy. Now it could be whole, with nothing missing. It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. Now that i

31、t was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to notice flowers or talk to the worms. When it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it stopped, left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away. The lesson of the story, I suggested, was that

32、 in some strange sense we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has everything is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it feels like to yearn, to hope, to nourish his soul with the dream of something better. He will never know the experience of having someone who love

33、s him give him something he has always wanted or never had. There is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations, who has been brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so. There is a wholeness about the man or woman who has le

34、arned that he or she is strong enough to go through a tragedy and survive, she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person. Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing. Life is not a spelling bee, where no matter how many words youve gotten right, youre disq

35、ualified if you make one mistake. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can contin

36、ue rolling through life and appreciate it, we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to. That, I believe, is what God asks of us - not “Be perfect”, not “Dont even make a mistake”, but “Be whole”. If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoic

37、e in anothers happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know. 人生的完整 從前有個圓圈，它丟失了一小段。它想變得完整，于是它到處尋找它所丟失的那部分。由于不完整，它只能滾的非常慢。在路上，它羨慕過花兒，它與蟲子聊過天，它享受了陽光的照耀。它遇到過很多不同的小段，可是沒有一個適合它。所以它把它們丟在路邊，繼續(xù)尋找

38、。有一天，圓圈找到了可以與它完美結(jié)合的一小段，它非常高興。它現(xiàn)在終于完整了，不缺任何東西了。它把丟失的那段裝到自己身上，然后滾了起來。它現(xiàn)在是個完整的圓圈了，它可以滾的很快，快到忽視了花兒，快到?jīng)]有時間和蟲子們說話。當(dāng)它意識到由于它滾的太快，世界變得如此的不同時，它便停了下來，把找到的那段卸下丟在路邊，慢慢地滾走了。 我想這個故事告訴我們，從某種奇怪的意義上說，當(dāng)我們?nèi)鄙偈裁礀|西時，我們反而是更完整的。一個擁有一切的人在某些方面也是個窮人，他永遠(yuǎn)不會知道什么是渴望、什么是期待；永遠(yuǎn)不知道用渴求更美好的東西來充實他的靈魂。他永遠(yuǎn)不會知道一個愛他人送給他一樣他所夢寐以求的東西時是怎樣的一種感覺。

39、人生的完整性，在于接受自己的缺陷，勇敢地丟棄不切實際的幻想，并且不覺得這樣做是失敗的；人生的完整性，在于知道自己足夠強(qiáng)大，可以承受人生的苦難，可以在失去一個人時仍然覺得自己是完整的。 生活并不是上帝為了譴責(zé)我們的缺陷而設(shè)下的陷阱。人生也不是一場拼字比賽，無論你拼出了多少單詞，只要拼錯了一個你就前功盡棄了。人生更像一個棒球賽季，最好的球隊也會丟掉三分之一的比賽，而最差的球隊也有輝煌的勝利。我們的目標(biāo)是讓打贏的比賽比輸?shù)舻谋荣惗?。?dāng)我們接受了“不完整性”是人生的一部分時，當(dāng)我們在人生之路上不斷前進(jìn)并且欣賞生命之美時，我們就獲得了別人只能渴望的完整的人生。我相信這就是上帝對我們的期望：不求“完美”，

40、也不求“從來不犯錯誤”，而是追求人生的“完整”。 如果我們有足夠的勇氣去愛，足夠強(qiáng)大的力量去原諒別人，足夠的寬容因別人的快樂而快樂，并有足夠的智慧去認(rèn)識到我們身邊充滿著愛，我們就會得到其它生命所得不到的一種滿足感。 最美的十大精典愛情句子1)Iloveyounotbecauseofwhoyouare,butbecauseofwhoIamwhenIamwithyou.我愛你，不是因為你是一個怎樣的人，而是因為我喜歡與你在一起時的感覺。2)Nomanorwomanisworthyourtears,andtheonewhois,wontmakeyoucry.沒有人值得你流淚，值得讓你這么做的人不會讓

41、你哭泣。3)Theworstwaytomisssomeoneistobesittingrightbesidethemknowingyoucanthavethem.失去某人，最糟糕的莫過于，他近在身旁，卻猶如遠(yuǎn)在天邊。4)Neverfrown,evenwhenyouaresad,becauseyouneverknowwhoisfallinginlovewithyoursmile.縱然傷心，也不要愁眉不展，因為你不知是誰會愛上你的笑容。5)Totheworldyoumaybeoneperson,buttoonepersonyoumaybetheworld.對于世界而言，你是一個人；但是對于某個人，

42、你是他的整個世界。6)Dontwasteyourtimeonaman/woman,whoisntwillingtowastetheirtimeonyou.不要為那些不愿在你身上花費(fèi)時間的人而浪費(fèi)你的時間。7)Justbecausesomeonedoesntloveyouthewayyouwantthemto,doesntmeantheydontloveyouwithalltheyhave.愛你的人如果沒有按你所希望的方式來愛你，那并不代表他們沒有全心全意地愛你。8)Donttrysohard,thebestthingscomewhenyouleastexpectthemto.不要著急，最好的總

43、會在最不經(jīng)意的時候出現(xiàn)。9)MaybeGodwantsustomeetafewwrongpeoplebeforemeetingtherightone,sothatwhenwefinallymeettheperson,wewillknowhowtobegrateful.在遇到夢中人之前，上天也許會安排我們先遇到別的人；在我們終于遇見心儀的人時，便應(yīng)當(dāng)心存感激。10)Dontcrybecauseitisover,smilebecauseithappened.不要因為結(jié)束而哭泣，微笑吧，為你的曾經(jīng)擁有。There are many rules in ours chool. I agree to so

44、me of them, but disagree to others.I dont think we should wear uniforms every day. The uniforms are in bad quality and they make us feel uncomfortable. Another rule i dont like is that we arent allowed to drink drinks like cola in the school. Its really strange because the school supermaket always s

45、ells drinks.Of course, there are also some good rules. For example, we arnt allowed to drive or ride a motorbike, for teenagers, its much safer to ride a bikeThere are lots of rules in our school. For example:1. Dont eat in class, dont run in the hallways.2. Dont fight or argue with others.3. Be qui

46、et when you are having the classes.4. No smoking or drinking5. Wear the uniforms at schoo.In fact, I dont like most of them. They are too strict! For instance, wear the uniforms at school. is the worst one. We are kids, we need to be cool, and if we must wear uniforms, we should design them by ourselves! Also , the rules are aimed at the students. What about the teachers? They are free all the time! Thats unfair! But some rules are good for us. For example, No smoking or drinking is good, because smoking and drinking are bad for our health. ( Lin Shiwei, Class 12