英语专业晨读美文-励志篇 11 Getting What You Want i
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：英语专业晨读美文
[00:01.50]Getting What You Want in Life
[00:05.77]There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved;
[00:11.93]with barns and warehouses 1 filled,
[00:14.34] with shelves and larders 2 laden 3 they are empty and hungry.
[00:18.61] No man need envy them; their feverish 4,
[00:21.45]restless whirl in the dust of publicity 5 is
[00:23.97]but the search for a satisfaction never to be found in things.
[00:28.12]They are called rich in a world where no others are more truly, pitiably poor;
[00:33.59]having all, they are yet lacking in all
[00:36.18]because they have neglected the things within.
[00:39.03]The abundance of bread is the cause of many a man's deeper hunger.
[00:42.96] Having known nothing of the discipline
[00:45.26]that develops life's hidden sources of satisfaction,
[00:47.88]nothing of the struggle in which deep calls unto deep
[00:51.60]and the true life finds itself,
[00:53.46] he spends his days seeking to satisfy his soul with furniture,
[00:58.05]with houses and lands, with yachts and merchandise,
[01:01.66]seeking to feed his heart on things,
[01:04.39]a process of less promise and reason than feeding a snapping turtle on thoughts.
[01:08.99]It takes many of us altogether too long to learn that
[01:13.47]you cannot find satisfaction so long as you leave the soul out of your reckoning.
[01:18.07]If the heart be empty the life cannot be filled.
[01:21.67] The flow must cease at the faucet 6 if the fountains go dry.
[01:26.05]The prime, the elemental necessities of our being are
[01:29.77] for the life rather than the body, its house.
[01:33.16] But, how often out of the marble edifice 7 issues the poor emaciated 8 inmate 9,
[01:38.19]how out of the life having many things comes that which amounts to nothing.
[01:43.44]The essential things are not often those which most readily strike our blunt senses.
[01:48.91]We see the shell first. To the undeveloped mind the material is all there is.
[01:54.81]But looking deeper into life there comes an awakening 10 to the fact
[01:58.75]and the significance of the spiritual, the feeling that the reason,
[02:02.58]the emotions, the joys and pains that have nothing to do with things,
[02:07.17]the ties that knit one to the infinite,
[02:09.90]all of which constitute the permanent elements of life.
- The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
- Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
- He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
- Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
- He is too feverish to rest.他兴奋得安静不下来。
- They worked with feverish haste to finish the job.为了完成此事他们以狂热的速度工作着。
- The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
- He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。
- The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
- She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头，把手擦干。
- The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
- There is a huge Victorian edifice in the area.该地区有一幢维多利亚式的庞大建筑物。
- A long time illness made him sallow and emaciated.长期患病使他面黄肌瘦。
- In the light of a single candle,she can see his emaciated face.借着烛光，她能看到他的被憔悴的面孔。