时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:白领英语晨读


英语课
This Too Shall Pass

For all worldly things shall indeed pass. When I am heavy with heartache I shall console myself that this too shall pass; when I am puffed 1 with success I shall warn myself that this too shall pass. When I am strangled in poverty I shall tell myself that this too shall pass; when I am burdened with wealth I shall tell myself that this too shall pass. Yea, verily, where is he who built the pyramid? Is he not buried within its stone? And will the pyramid, one day, not also be buried under sand? If all things shall pass why should I be of concern for today?

I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously. Never will I fall into this trap of the mind. For though I be nature's greatest miracle am I not still a mere 2 grain tossed about by the winds of time? Do I truly know whence I came or whither I am bound? Will my concern for this day not seem foolish ten years hence? Why should I permit the petty happenings of today to disturb me? What can take place before this sun sets which will not seem insignificant 3 in the river of centuries?

And how can I laugh when confronted with man or deed which offends me so as to bring forth 4 my tears or my curses? Four words carry me through every adversity and maintain my life in balance. These four words are: This too shall pass.

adj.疏松的v.使喷出( puff的过去式和过去分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧
  • He lit a cigarette and puffed at it furiously. 他点燃了一支香烟,狂吸了几口。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He felt grown-up, puffed up with self-importance. 他觉得长大了,便自以为了不起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
adj.无关紧要的,可忽略的,无意义的
  • In winter the effect was found to be insignificant.在冬季,这种作用是不明显的。
  • This problem was insignificant compared to others she faced.这一问题与她面临的其他问题比较起来算不得什么。
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
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a young animal
acetogenesis
acquainteth
adjoint surface
allotriomorphic granular
anenzymia
aquae regia
Bahawalnagar
bodyfuse
bookcraft
Brassica oleracea gemmifera
Brenish
Brianchon's theorem
browen
bruin pt.
cascode transistor circuit
centesimal graduation
charger feeder
choons
clearing summer-heat and benefiting qi
clotted blood
conditional breakpoint expression
costs of production
cyanocrystallin
digitally controlled
dimension stock
disk-area
disticardo
Dixurol
Doppler cabinet
draw-bar pocket
due easts
electrical impulse frequency
empathetical
fail in election
field's
flattening die
Fosun
Fothergill operation
Gashua
Germany
governor motor
gynecic
hageman factors
hard-drinking
hexaster
hindrance function
hydrologic data
innovative ability
Isachne hoi
knobbily
list processing system
management by results
marriage certificate
mesocrtic
moacyr
moment limiting device
most vital
muffrone
N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitroso-guanidine
neck-gable
night school
optical waveguide circuit
outest
paper credit system
pay-
Percent utilization
perivalvular leakage
Police, Pte.
polyphons
preliminarily enjoin
pseudosmia
pvt (pit volume totalizer)
rapid processing
resting guide
revealedness
rotary abutment pump
series-parallel
Sharma
silzin bronze
sluicings
smoke stack emission
some way
sphaerocrystal
spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia
stripper bar
Tajikness
talcous
tapered cascade
thermal oxidation
tipis
trail-behind planter
transsexual surgery
triacsins
Tychinino
U-core
upper branch of meridian
visible spectra
vitrodurite
weave figure
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