时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语专业晨读美文


英语课

[00:01.49]I Want! I Do! I Get!

[00:04.34]There's a great song out there by Jimmy Cliff,

[00:08.16]one of reggae's top artists,

[00:10.25]that in six words summarizes just how you succeed in life:

[00:14.29]I want! I do! I get!

[00:17.90] These six words are a very powerful way

[00:20.86]of connecting what you want with what you will achieve.

[00:24.24]First comes wanting something—a better life for yourself,

[00:28.18]your family, more money, a better job,

[00:31.35]whatever it is you dream about and long for.

[00:34.53]You desire it, you dream about it,

[00:37.09] you daydream 1 about it, you yearn 2 for it.

[00:40.81]But that's not enough.

[00:42.88]Next and this the part too many people forget about—comes the doing.

[00:48.13]All of the wanting in the world

[00:49.99]is not going to move you one inch closer to what you want: you have to do.

[00:55.24]You have to find a better job, change jobs, take risks, write software,

[01:01.25] try new things, stop doing old things, go to college, work, act, do.

[01:08.69] The doing is the absolutely indispensable connection

[01:12.41]between what you want and what you get.

[01:15.04]Finally, if you keep doing what needs to be done,

[01:18.43]if you keep adjusting what you do to move you closer to what you want, you get.

[01:23.79] Maybe not easily, maybe not as quickly as movies and television portray 3,

[01:29.37]but it will come.

[01:31.33]One final philosophical 4 note about these six words:

[01:35.05]notice that "I" is three of them?

[01:38.00]Not what others want, not what others say you are "supposed" or "should" do.

[01:43.91]What's more, no one is going to do it for you.

[01:47.66] You are the key to making these six words work.



1 daydream
v.做白日梦,幻想
  • Boys and girls daydream about what they want to be.孩子们遐想着他们将来要干什么。
  • He drifted off into another daydream.他飘飘然又做了一个白日梦。
2 yearn
v.想念;怀念;渴望
  • We yearn to surrender our entire being.我们渴望着放纵我们整个的生命。
  • Many people living in big cities yearn for an idyllic country life.现在的很多都市人向往那种田园化的生活。
3 portray
v.描写,描述;画(人物、景象等)
  • It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
  • Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗?
4 philosophical
adj.哲学家的,哲学上的,达观的
  • The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
  • She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。
学英语单词
AAAIS
achenodium
ADF reversal
agonism
Ainsa
amplitude modulation signal
aperture correlation function
apochromat
arkosite
ascitical
associated (natural) gas
balancy
between tracks connection
BPS,bps
brix degree
Casas de Juan Gil
classification of costs by responsibility
Coercive Acts
composite sine squared pulse
consumer-orientated
continuing medical education
corticocerebellar tracts
counter-current contact
creative intelligence
crisses
custer pk.
deregistration of a ship
destabilization
doltons
duplex lathe
ethologist
fishhook stomach
frabbed
fract
fruit powder
furnace installation
generalized mathematical induction
genus Alopex
gladdon
gravity toolface angle
H-ras
hammer drum
incurrings
J box
lacerating machine
lagophthalmoss
landing-places
large-scale
Laser Fingerprint Detectors
leighty
locating hardware error
longitudinal boom
mangnall
Maryland Seamount
minimum operational pressure
monetary mechanism
mountebankism
normative optimal model
off-colour
ofhear
on-line system environment
onefifth
orthicon
Peters Ridge
Philistian
pollantine
possibly-intended program
prophelan
pullin'
recording time
reinsurance waiver clause
repetitive discharge
rhythmic units
semiconductor thermocouple
sergeant major of the marine corps
silica brick
similac
Some Pig
spray-cans
striped hyena
stroke display
supersonic combustion ramjet (scrj)
synchronous tie
tail clipping
tanghan
testicle tuberculosis
thanen
thermic equivalent
three lamp
Tlaxcala, Estado de
to associate A with B
tonges
touristify
trimethylating
two-facedness
uranium oxide
vandal-proof
Vinningen
waitinglist
water jacket furnace
whale shot
works up