生活是不公平的，要去适应它。
Life is not fair, get used to it.
世界并不会在意你的自尊。这世界指望你在自我感觉良好之前先要有所成就。
The world won"t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won"t be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
刚毕业的你不会一年挣4万美元，在你将此职位和汽车都挣到手以前，你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，并拥有一部装有电话的汽车。
你认为你的教师严厉，等你在老板手下干活时再这样想，老板可不像教师那样有任期限制的。
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn"t have tenure.
如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，所以不要抱怨错误，要从中汲取教训。
If you mess up, it"s not your parents" fault, so don"t whine about our mistakes, learn from them.
在你出生之前，你的父母并非像他们现在这样乏味。他们变成今天这个样子，是因为这些年来一直在为你付帐单，给你洗衣服，听你大谈如何的酷。所以在对父母喋喋不休之前，还是先去打扫一下你自己的屋子吧。
Before you were born, your parents weren"t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents" generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.
你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生，但生活却仍在做出类似区分。某些学校已经废除不及格分，只要你想找到正确答案，学校会给你无数次机会。这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they"ll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn"t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.
生活不分学期，你并没有暑假可以休息，也没有几位雇主乐于帮助你发现自我。自己找时间做吧。
Life is not divided into semesters. You don"t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
电视不是真实的生活。现实生活中，人们实际上得离开咖啡屋去干自己的工作。
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
善待乏味的人。有可能到头来你在工作中也会变成一个乏味的人。
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you"ll end up working for one.
Virtue美德
Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright!甜美的白昼，如此凉爽、安宁、明媚！
The bridal of the earth and sky-天地间完美的匹配-----
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;今宵的露珠儿将为你的消逝而落泪；
For thou must die.因为你必须离去。
Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave,美丽的玫瑰，色泽红润艳丽，
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,令匆匆而过的人拭目而视，
Thy root is ever in its grave,你的根永远扎在坟墓里，
And thou must die.而你必须消逝。
Sweet spring,full of sweet days and roses,美妙的春天，充满了美好的日子和芳香的玫瑰，
A box where sweets compacted lie,如一支芬芳满溢的盒子，
My music shows ye have your closes,我的音乐表明你们也有终止，
And all must die,万物都得消逝。
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,唯有美好而正直的心灵，
Like season‘d timber,never gives;犹如干燥备用的木料，永不走样；
But though the whole world turn to coal,纵然整个世界变为灰烬，
Then chiefly lives.它依然流光溢彩。
A Grain of Sand
一粒沙子
William Blake/威廉.布莱克
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild fllower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
从一粒沙子看到一个世界，
从一朵野花看到一个天堂，
把握在你手心里的就是无限，
永恒也就消融于一个时辰。
Love Your Life
热爱生活
Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man‘s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town‘s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。
These Things Shall Never Die
这些美好不会消逝
The pure.the bright,the beautiful,一切纯洁的,辉煌的,美丽的,
That stirred our hearts in youth,强烈地震撼着我们年轻的心灵的,
The impulses to wordless prayer,推动着我们做无言的祷告的,
The dreams of love and truth;让我们梦想着爱与真理的;
The longing after something‘s lost,在失去后为之感到珍惜的,
The spirit‘s yearning cry,使灵魂深切地呼喊着的,
The striving after better hopes-为了更美好的梦想而奋斗着的-
These things can never die.这些美好不会消逝。
The timid hand stretched forth to aid羞怯地伸出援助的手，
A brother in his need,在你的弟兄需要的时候，
A kindly word in grief‘s dark hour伤恸、困难的时候，一句亲切的话
That proves a friend indeed ;就足以证明朋友的真心；
The plea for mercy softly breathed,轻声地乞求怜悯，
When justice threatens nigh,在审判临近的时候，
The sorrow of a contrite heart-懊悔的心有一种伤感--
These things shall never die.这些美好不会消逝。
Let nothing pass for every hand在人间传递温情
Must find some work to do ;尽你所能地去做；
Lose not a chance to waken love-别错失去了唤醒爱的良机-----
Be firm,and just ,and true;为人要坚定，正直，忠诚；
So shall a light that cannot fade因此上方照耀着你的那道光芒
Beam on thee from on high.就不会消失。
And angel voices say to thee---你将听到天使的声音在说-----
These things shall never die.这些美好不会消逝。
