时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:美丽英文


英语课

If I Died Today


"If I died today, how would I feel about my life?"Life is fragile.


A good friend of mine called me today and shared that his girlfriend's brother passed away last night. He was married, with two young children. He died of a massive heart attack in the middle of the night. And he was only 44 years old.


"It could never happen to me," we think. "I'm too young to die." But how young is "too young to die?"


We really don't know how many days or years we will live. An accident, such as by plane, automobile 1, or other mishap 2 could claim our life. Or perhaps, an unusual illness. Or a vital organ could fail.


So what would we say, if our life were to end today? Would we be satisfied? Would we know that we had lived our life fully 3, on purpose? Could we feel we "did it right?"


It is a hard question to answer. I recently had a cousin pass away from cancer. I don't know how she would have answered this question. But I'm 99% positive she wasn't "ready" to go. Not with two little ones and a loving husband and so much life ahead of her (she was 35 years old).


If we live our life completely every day, we still may not be thrilled with the thought of death. However, death is really only a passing from one physical body to our more complete spiritual one (not that our spirit isn't the core essence of who we are now).


Are there things we can be doing better? Are there people we can love better? Can we live our aspirations 4, today? If we know the answer, what are we waiting for to make us do it? Death? Life is fragile. Now is the time to live fully and bless those friends and family who grace us with their love.



1 automobile
n.汽车,机动车
  • He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
  • The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。
2 mishap
n.不幸的事,不幸;灾祸
  • I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了,你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
  • We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 aspirations
强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音
  • I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
  • The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。
学英语单词
a far cry from
administration of destination
AFR
ambu facepiece
antiabortifacients
armed plastic surgery
asko
auricular seta
Bacillus lactis albus
basic fertilizer
be at take pains
bet her boots
BHTD
bilichloan
bitblt
blibbing
bou djebeha
cear
cockeyed
commercial paper
counterly
crop-ward
crow-silk
cubings
cut noodles
daily parity
damadola
damar penak
digital rotation
disc crank
diversion order
electronics intelligence
electrontaxis
en masse
encore
etym.
Fart Proposal
fizzle
floral part
general count register
giant granadillas
Halle-Neustadt
hemo longicorn beetle
high input resistance circuit
input processor
instrument record dynamic range
insulated protection ring
internal grinding
leukemic retinitis
line linearity correction
lock chamber wall
Lord knows
lower branch
machinery system dynamics
magnetic bay
marmarization (marmorization)
Marquis de Laplace
Masoko
multibreed
neuronauts
non-indictable
nonacquired
Ostmen
over-running torque
overhead cabin
palmito
petasite
pharyngeal recess
pickwickian syndrome
planet-type grinding machine
protembryo
psychogalvanic response
ram air pipe
RCFC (reactor containment fan cooler)
Red Halloysite
riotry
Roegneria foliosa
roll box
romano
russian leather
self-beat spectroscopy
self-trainings
shore a type indentor
single speed synchro data system
solid koji
sound control egr system
sphygmochronograph
SPMT
steam generator cell
stink of something
stress checking for non-operation condition
sulphuric acid treatment
summary judgements
swit stability test
tank reconnaissance
transmission deviations
tychopotamic
undocumented person
Virginia reel
welding cable
wide-necked bottle
wolframatian