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
Acetes
almond milk
apigeninidin
Babouvists
belly worm
biotal diversity
boe
Brunson jig transit
Catunaregam
Clearing Center for Intra-Asia
colletotrichum corchori
colo(u)rimetric analysis
competitive strategy
conceed
contradistinguishing
controlled structure polymer
councilmate
d'oc
deposits received
discharge control valve
distillation end point
dysarteriotony
egg-nog
electrochemical equivalention
endothecal
epilithic
family stichaeidaes
fiveleaf akebia
flexible use of tracks
Frederiksberg
geothermal hot water reservoir
goallines
good looks
guizhi decoction
haemony
Heterolocha
hot metal charging crane
hswas
Hymenanthera
ikas
intermolecular transposition
International Telephone Consultative Committee
irrotational vibrations
istre
kaempferols
La Rochelle
manninen
maxillary tendon
mestoes
mutually inverse
netta
nuclei sapraopticus
objectives mapping
obnubilated
okome
ophoven
para-methoxybenzyl alcohol
Parkiae
peesash
Phyllostachys parvifolia
phytoene
pigeon retina
pituitarium anterius
Podochilus
porcelain covered connector
Pterotracheidae
puissance
quadrature phase
quininism
rebut
reoil
repatterns
resignee
roger me
sardining
securities custodian
series controller
Sesame Street
set of node
sethence
sheroots
skodaic
sonaradiography system
sporo-pollen statistics
start-stop transmission
statistic energy analysis
step and repeat camera
suspension of fourth
Sutura ethmoidolacrimalis
take form and shape
takes possession of
tank-transport truck
target arrow
temozolomide
teucholabis aberrans
Thuan Thành
transfer admittance
Trasparga
unified fine (unf) threaded bolt
us hood
witch's magical dance
X-chairs