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篇一
Girls of summer夏日女孩
We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid潮溼的，溼润的 summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school, no rules , no parents, and no constructs构图，建筑物 other than our fantasies. We were good girls, my sister and I. We had nothing to rebel against. This was just life as we knew it, and we knew the summers to be long and to be ours.
The road that ran past our house was a one-lane rural route. Every morning, after our parents had gone to work, I'd wait for the mail lady to pull up to追上 our box. Some days I would put enough change for a few stamps into a mason jar玻璃瓶 lid and leave it in the mailbox. I hated bothering mail lady with this transaction交易，办理 , which made her job take longer. But I liked that she knew that someone in our house sent letters into the outside world.
I liked walking to the mailbox in my bare feet and leaving footprints on thedewy带露水的 grass. I imagined that feeling the wetness on the bottom of my feet made me a poet. I had never read poetry, outside of some Emily Dickinson. But I imagined that people who knew of such things would walk to their mailboxes through the morning dew晨露 in their bare feet.
We planned our weddings with the help of Barbie dolls and the tiny purple wild flowers growing in our side yard. We became scientists and tested concoctions调和，混合 of milk, orange juice, and mouthwash漱口水 . We ate handfuls ofbittersweet苦乐参半的 chocolate chips and licked peanut butter花生酱 off spoons. When we ran out of sweets to eat, we snitched sugary Flintstones vitamins out of the medicine cabinet. We became masters of the Kraft macaroni通心面条 and cheese lunch, and we tifully called our mother at work three times a day to give her updates on our adventures. But don't call too often or speak too loudly or whine too much, we told ourselves, or else they'll get annoyed and she'll get fired and the summers will end.
We shaped our days the way we chose, far from the prying爱打听的，窥探的eyes of *** s. We found our dad's Playboys and charged the neighborhood boys money to look at them. We made crank易怒的 calls around the county, telling people they had won a new car. "What kind?" they'd ask. "Red," we'd always say. We put on our mom's old prom舞会 dresses, plete with gloves and hats, and sang backup to the C.W. McCall song convoy, " which we'd found on our dad's turntable.
We went on hikes into the woods behind our house, crawling under barbed wire fences and through tangled undergrowth. Heat and humidity溼度，溼气 found their way throught he leaves to our flushed faces. We waded in streams that we were always surprised to e across. We walked past cars and auto parts that had beenabandoned抛弃 in the woods, far from any road. We'd reach the tree line and e out unexpectedly into a cow pasture牧场，牧草 . We'd perch on the gate or stretch out on the large flat limes边界，界限 tone outcrop that marked the end of the Woods Behind Our House.
One day a thunderstorm blew up along the Tennessee River. It was one of those storms that make the day go dark and the humidity disappear. First it was still and quiet. There was electricity in the air and then the sharp crispness易碎，酥脆 of a summer day being blown wide open as the winds rushed in. We threw open all the doors and windows. We found the classical radio station from two towns away and turned up the bass and cranked up把声音调大，启动 the speakers. We let the wind blow in and churn搅动，搅拌 our summer day around. We let the music we were only vaguely暧昧地，含糊地 familiar with roar吼叫，咆哮 through the house. And we twirled转动，旋转 . We twirled in the living room in the wind and in the music. We twirled and we imagined that we were poets and dancers and scientists and spring brides.
We twirled and imagined that if we could let everything --- the thunder, the storm, the wind , the world --- into that house in the banks of the Tennessee River, we could live in our summer dreams forever. When we were girls.
篇二
感悟生活
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling玩杂耍 some five balls in the air. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends, Spirit. And you re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back反弹 . But the other four balls-family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably不能取消地 scuffed磨损 , marked, nicked割进，刻痕 , damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.
How?
Don't undermine破坏，危害 your worth by paring yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you. Don't take for granted认为……理所当然 the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would cling to your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us each together. Don't be afraid to encounter遭遇 risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.
把生活想象成一个在空中抛接五只球的游戏。这五只球被你分别称为：工作、家庭、健康、友谊和精神。你努力不让它们从空中掉下来。你马上就发现惟有工作是一个橡皮球。如果你将它掉到地上，它还会弹回来。但其它四只球——家庭、健康、朋友和精神都是玻璃的。如果你把任何一个掉到地上，便会不可挽回地留下疤痕、裂缝、受损甚至摔得粉碎。它们永远也无法恢复原样。你必须懂得这一点并在生活中努力保持平衡。
怎样做到这一点呢?
不要总拿自己与别人比从而贬低自身的价值。正因为我们彼此的差异不同，我们才会各有千秋。别人认为重要，并不能作为你确定目标的根据。只有你自己知道，什么东西对你最好。与你内心最贴近的东西，切莫等闲视之。要像坚守生命一样坚守住它们，因为失去它们，生活就会毫无意义。
不要耽于过去或未来，而让生命从指间悄悄溜走。一次只活一天，活在今日，你就充实地活过生命中的每一天。如果你还可以付出，就不要轻言放弃。在你停止努力那一刻之前，什么都没有真正结束。正因为我们都不完美，我们才会彼此需要。不要害怕遭遇风险。只有通过冒险，我们才能学会如何变得勇敢。
别说真爱难求，而将爱拒之门于生活之外。获得爱的捷径是给予爱，失去爱的捷径是扼住爱，而守住爱的捷径是给爱插上翅膀。
不要一生奔忙，匆匆而过，以至于忘了自己从何而来，往何而去。
不要忘记一个人最大的感情需要是得到别人的理解。
不要害怕学习。知识没有重量：它是你随时可以轻松携带的宝藏。
不要漫不经心地打发时间或口无遮拦地说话，失去的时间和说出去的话都无法挽回。
生活不是一场赛跑，而是每一步都宜细细品尝的人生旅程。
篇三
Refusing to accept failure
"Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but Ill beat you the next time"
Sir阁下，爵士 Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest珠穆朗玛峰 . On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feetstraight up直率地，真实地 . He was knighted授予爵位 for his efforts.
He even made American Express card美国运通卡 mercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.
You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.
Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous像打雷的 applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform.
He made a fist握拳 and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"
