时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:原版英语对话1000个


英语课

   Todd: We're talking about education and about, you know, people applying themselves and giving grades and giving praise and stuff like that. Have you ever thought that maybe we, because we're both teachers, both of us are teachers, that maybe we put too much effort on judging everybody and that maybe it's OK for kids to realise failure is not really a bad thing or maybe quitting is not a bad thing?


  Julia: Absolutely. Yeah, I think, I think all the emphasis should be put on the effort that people make and yeah the failing or succeeding is kind of secondary to that.
  Todd: Because it does seem that we push kids at all levels to get good grades, go to college, get that good job and that, that usually works out but in a lot of cases people find success because they fail, because they don't do well and that leads them to something else in life. So I guess, I'm not saying don't try, just quit at everything, but that we have to just accept that actually maybe quitting is not such a bad thing.
  Julia: No, I don't think it is. No, I think you're working, that's all part of the learning process, working out what. I was lucky. I was given very good advice at school and I wasn't pushed to get good grades, I wasn't pushed to pursue a career. The advice I was given was do what you enjoy doing cos they're the things you'll be good at.
  Todd: Yeah.
  Julia: And that was great advice. I don't have a career but I'm happy.
  Todd: There was a great quote the other day by someone in the paper about starting your own business and the person said, you know, follow your passion and keep at it and the money will follow and I think that's pretty much the case for a lot of people that, you know, that they find success.
  Julia: There's that other famous quote about doing what makes you come alive. Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive because the world needs people who've come alive, meaning like pursue your passion and that will lead to success, whatever success means. It's the way we define 1 success as well is also part of the problem.
  Todd: True, true.
  Julia: You know, high income, is that success? And in my book that's not what success is. Success is happiness.
  Todd: So what is happiness?
  Julia: Happiness is just contentment, absolute peace with the way you are right now and what you're doing right now. Not striving 2 or yearning 3 for things that are beyond your grasp.
  Todd: Beyond your reach?
  Julia: Yeah.
  Todd: Yeah, that's good.

1 define
vt.解释,下定义,阐述,限定,规定
  • Please define the words.请解释这些字的意义。
  • It's hard to define exactly what has changed.很难解释清楚到底发生了什么变化。
2 striving
v.努力奋斗,力求( strive的现在分词 )
  • The swimmer was striving against the current. 游泳者正在和激浪搏斗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rows of dragons pull downstream, each striving to take the lead. 各色各状造型的“蛟龙”如箭离弦,顺流而下,欲争群龙首。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
3 yearning
a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的
  • a yearning for a quiet life 对宁静生活的向往
  • He felt a great yearning after his old job. 他对过去的工作有一种强烈的渴想。
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