精美英文欣赏:Today I Begin a New Life今天，我开始新
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：精美英文欣赏
Today I begin a new life.
And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard 1 my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved 3 nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls 5 and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll 4 nor the simplicity 6 of its words to cause me to treat the scroll's message lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar with wine, and the grapeskin and pulp 7 are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind.Only the pure truth lies distilled 8 in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and spill not a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.
Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not , for today I am a new man, with a new life.
今天，我天始新的生活．
我郑重地发誓，绝不让任何事情妨碍我新生命的成长。在阅读这些读物的时候，我绝不浪费一天的时间，因为时光一去不返，失去的日子是无法弥补的。我也绝不打破每天阅读的习惯。事实上，每天在这些新习惯上花费少许时间，相对于可能获得的愉乐与成功而言，只是微不足道的代价。
当我阅读书卷中的字句时，绝不能因为文字的精炼而忽视内容的深沉。一瓶葡萄美酒需要千百颗果子酿制而成，果皮和渣子抛给小鸟。葡萄的智慧代代相传，有些被过滤，有些被淘汰，随风飘逝。只有纯正的真理才是永恒的。它们就精炼在我要阅读的文字中。我要依照指示，绝不浪费，饮下成功的种子。
今天，我的老茧化为尘埃。我在人群中昂首阔步，不会有人认出我来，因为我不再是过去的自己、我已拥有新的生命。
1.oath n. 誓言,誓约
例句：
Repeat the oath after me.
请跟着我宣誓。
2.retard v. 妨碍,迟延,迟缓
例句：
Cold weather retards 9 the growth of the crops.
寒冷的天气妨碍了庄稼生长。
3.retrieve 2 [ri'tri:v] v. 取回,恢复,补偿
例句：
The company is fighting to retrieve its market share.
这个公司正在为恢复其市场份额（占有率）而奋斗。
4.brevity ['breviti] n. 短暂,简短
例句：
Brevity is the soul of wit.
简洁是智慧的精华。
5.distill [di'stil] v. 蒸馏,滴下
例句：
Water can be made pure by distilling 10 it.
水可以通过蒸馏而提纯。
- Lack of sunlight will retard the growth of most plants.缺乏阳光会妨碍大多数植物的生长。
- Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.持续不断的暴力活动会阻碍关系到国家未来的谈判的进行。
- He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
- The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。
- Yesterday I retrieved the bag I left in the train. 昨天我取回了遗留在火车上的包。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He reached over and retrieved his jacket from the back seat. 他伸手从后座上取回了自己的夹克。 来自辞典例句
- As I opened the scroll,a panorama of the Yellow River unfolded.我打开卷轴时，黄河的景象展现在眼前。
- He was presented with a scroll commemorating his achievements.他被授予一幅卷轴，以表彰其所做出的成就。
- Either turn it off or only pick up selected stuff like wands, rings and scrolls. 把他关掉然后只捡你需要的物品，像是魔杖(wand)，戒指(rings)和滚动条(scrolls)。 来自互联网
- Ancient scrolls were found in caves by the Dead Sea. 死海旁边的山洞里发现了古代的卷轴。 来自辞典例句
- She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。
- The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。
- The pulp of this watermelon is too spongy.这西瓜瓤儿太肉了。
- The company manufactures pulp and paper products.这个公司制造纸浆和纸产品。
- The televised interview was distilled from 16 hours of film. 那次电视采访是从16个小时的影片中选出的精华。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Gasoline is distilled from crude oil. 汽油是从原油中提炼出来的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Cold weather retards the growth of the crops. 寒冷的天气妨碍作物的生长。
- Lack of science and education retards social progress. 缺乏科学和教育会妨碍社会进步。
- Water can be made pure by distilling it. 水经蒸馏可变得纯净。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- More ammonium sulphate solution is being recovered in the process of distilling oil shale. 在提炼油页岩的过程中回收的硫酸铵液比过去多了。 来自《简明英汉词典》