世界节假日博览 第5期:世界宗教日
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：2016年ESL之就医和人际交往
World Religion Day takes place every year on the third Sunday in January. Its aim is to help people understand religions other than their own. It hopes to promote understanding and harmony by focusing on the things that are common to all religions. Things like love, forgiveness, treating others with respect and protecting our world. The World Religion Day website says that "Religion must be the cause of unity 1". The sitealso says that World Religion Day is “dedicated towards encouraging the leaders and followers 2 of every religion to acknowledge 3 the similarities in each of our sacred Faiths.” World Religion Day is a time for all of us to understand that we are all one people of the Earth and we must act and work together for peace.
世界宗教日为每年一月的第三个星期日。世界宗教日的设立是为了让人们了解世界宗教。通过关注节日中共同的事物来促进理解和和谐。这些包括爱、原谅、尊敬他人以及保护世界。世界宗教日官网称“宗教必须是促进人民团结的事业。”网站还称该节日是为了鼓励各个宗教的领袖和信仰者来理解各个宗教的不同之处而设立的。它让我们明白了我们是这个世界的人民，我们应该团结努力，共创和平。
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On World Religion Day, it is a good idea to understand how similar the great world religions are in their beliefs. Look at these writings from different religions. Are they similar to your own religion’s teaching 4? Buddhism 5 states: “Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” This is similar to Christianity, which teaches us to: “Do unto others as you would have them do to you,” and Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man.” The Baha’I Faith tells us that: “Blessed is he who prefers his brother before himself.” This teaching is very similar to Islam, which says: “No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.” In Sikhism "No one is my enemy, none a stranger and everyone is my friend."
在这一天里，人们能够更好的明白各个宗教之间的相似之处。看看不同宗教的理念，他们是否与你的宗教有相似之处呢？佛教称：“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful。”佛教的教义与基督教非常相似，基督教认为“Do unto others as you would have them do to you,”犹太教说：“What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man。”巴哈伊教说：“Blessed is he who prefers his brother before himself。”这些教义与伊斯兰非常相似，伊斯兰教认为：“No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desiresfor himself.”在锡克教里是：“"No one is my enemy, none a stranger and everyone is my friend.”
1.be similar to 与…相似
New research suggests we use the same brain region 6 that we do when thinking about ourselves — but only aslong as we judge the person to be similar to us.
一项新研究提出，这时我们使用的脑区与进行自我思考时使用的相同——但仅在被判断者与我们相似时才是如此。
2.be hateful to 可恨的
Oh, if you are going to be hateful and rude enough to bring that up again !
啊，看你再敢那么可恨，那么放肆地提起这件事来！
3.focus on 集中于
ext, we turn from the disk subsystem to focus on the processors.
接下来，我们要将焦点从磁盘子系统转移到处理器上。
4.desire for 渴望
We should rise above our desire for wealth.
我们应当超越并摆脱发财的欲望。
- When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
- We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。
- the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
- The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
- With so much evidence against him he had to acknowledge his error.在这么多的证据面前，他不得不承认错误。
- It is ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help.你大力帮助而我尚未表示谢意，十分失礼。
- We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
- He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。