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
acetic ether
agheila
air-breakup
angle of exaggeration
avilas
bandleaders
basal celled epithelioma
Baxian Changshou Wan
bequivering
biconnected subgraph
big floe
brammers
brand extension
calidris temminckii
caneine
cash journalizing method
chewed up
coded video bitstream
computable predicate
conacre
conductus
coordinate method
craft labor hours
database time out
de(s)oxy
degenitalizes
deplorations
dewite
diascopies
dinnertimes
distermination
Dzhubga
electromagnetic mass
EMPP
eumunida chani
fasteneth
feathermen
Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
Ficus henryi
flexible budget
Fokidos, Nomos
gain and losses on disposal
grinstone
guarantor ssn
high heat level evaporator
hilaria
histology technicians
Hsp90
hygrokinesis
ikolo
impersonal
in negotiation
indulgences
interchangeable fabricated parts
isolated farrowing programe
lossless image compression
maimonidess
marking axes
Mboki
melanin synthesis
mind boggler
Mizumoto
non-neoplastics
non-productive construction
Nurnberg gold
observantially
on-road
pc user group
pension schemes
perianal dermatitis
phytoextracted
pinch grasp
Pleasant Valley
prepolitical
preprocessed video
pride and prejudice
prostaglandin(s)
push-type machine
rate of yield
redundant transmission
remote control signals selection
roll neck gauge
rongsey
Royal Bay
sandpapery
scame
selective decoupling
speleonectid
spring main leaf camber
strength of flood
Talloires
task order
traction fiber
trypanid
tuff ball
tunnel warning equipment
Ub-2E1
Ulayi
unrewind
Uyuyo
wasp excluder
Young England