两条道路The Two Roads（2/2）
Active happess—not re satisfa or —often es suddenly, like an April shower or the unfoldg of a bud. Then you disver what kd of wisdo has aopa. The grass is greener, bird songs are sweeter, the shs of your friends are ore uandable and ore fivable. Happess is like a pair of eyegsses rrectg your spiritual vision.
Nor are the sights of happess liited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turnedupon your eotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crubles.
The long vista is there for the seeg. The ground at your feet, the world about you—people, thoughts, eotions, pressures—are now fitted to the rger se. Everythg ass a fairer proportion. And here is the begng of wisdo.
参考译文
“快乐的日子，使我们聪明。”
———约翰·梅斯菲尔德
第一次读到英国桂冠诗人梅斯菲尔德这行诗的时候，我非常惊讶，它真正的寓意是什么呢？不仔细考虑的话，我一直认为这句诗倒过来才对。不过他的冷静与自信却俘获了我，所以我一直无法忘记这句诗。
终于，我好像领会了他的意思，意识到其中蕴涵着深刻的观察思考。快乐带来的智慧存在于清晰的心灵感觉中，不因忧虑、担心而困惑，不因绝望、厌烦而迟钝，不因惶恐而出现盲点。
跳动的快乐——不仅是满足或惬意——会突然到来，就像四月的春雨或是花蕾的绽放，然后你发觉智慧已随快乐而来。草儿更绿，鸟儿的歌声更加美妙，朋友的缺点也变得更加可以理解、原谅。快乐就像一副眼镜，可以修正你精神的视力。
快乐的视野并不受你周围事物的局限。只不过当你不快乐的时候，思想便转向你感情上的苦恼，眼界也就被心灵之墙隔断了。而当你快乐的时候，这道墙便崩塌了。
你的眼界更宽了。脚下的大地，身旁的世界——人们、思想、情感、压力——现在都溶进了一个更加宏伟的情境中，每件事都恰如其分。这就是智慧的开端。
Seize Your Ti
A to the article, atch each of the follog words or phrases
with its ang.
(1) sha. belong to a particur group
(2) fit tob. show great tellectual depth and uandg
(3) fivablec. fault or weakness which soone or sothg hase
(4) profoundd. uand sothg bad
Practicg for Better Learng
Read the passage carefully and then ahe follog questions.
1. Whatyou learn fro Masefield’s words?
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2. What will happen if you feel unhappy?
Now a Try
Trahe follog senteo English.
1.快乐就像一台净化器，可以净化我们的内心世界。
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2.他离去时悲伤绝望的眼神，使我对那天发生的事无法忘怀。
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3.露西好像心事重重。
爱是艰难的
Love Is Difficult
勒内·马利亚·里尔克/ Raer Maria Rilke
勒内·马利亚·里尔克（1875—1926），奥地利诗人。大学攻读哲学、艺术与文学史。里尔克的诗歌尽管充满孤独痛苦情绪和悲观虚无思想，但艺术造诣很高。本篇节选自他的书信集《给一位青年诗人的十封信》。
Acethe Hole
Uand these new words before you listen to this article.
1. entrt [tr?st] v. 委托，信托
2. solitude [s?litju:d] n. 孤独；隐居
3. dut [dju:s?nt] n. 诱因
It is also good to love: becae love is difficult. For one huao love another huahat is perhaps the ost difficult task that has beeed to , the ultiate task, the fal test and proof, the work for which all other work is rely preparation. That is why young people, who are begner s everythg, are not yet capable of love: it is sothg they t learn. With their whole beg, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxio, uard-beatg heart, they t learn to love. But learng-ti is always a long, secded ti ahead and far on to life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kd of aloneness for the person who loves. Lovg does not at first an rgg, surrenderg, and unitg with another person (for what would a union be of o people who are uncrified, unfished, and still herent). it is a high dut for the dividual to ripen, to bee sothghiself, to bee world, to bee worldhiself for the sake of another person; it is a great, deandghi, sothg that chooses hi and calls hi to vast distances. Onlythis sense, as the task of w on theselves (“to hearken and to har day and night”), ay young people e the love that is given to the. Mergg and surrenderg and every kd of union is not for the (who t still, for a long, long ti, save and gather theselves); it is the ultiate, is perhaps that for which huan lives are as yet barely rge enough.
参考译文
爱，很好。因为爱是艰难的。当一个人去爱另一个人，这也许是神给予我们的最艰难、最重大的任务，是最后的考验与测试，是最崇高的工作，别的工作都不过是为此而做的准备。所以那些一切都还刚刚开始的青年们还不能去爱，他们必须要学习。必须用他们整个的生命，用一切的力量，用集聚了他们寂寞、痛苦和荣誉感的心去学习爱。在学习时期这个长久而专注的过程中，爱就会永远地铭刻心扉——深深的寂寞中孤独地等待，是为了所爱的人。爱的要义并不是什么倾心、献身，或二人的结合（那会是怎样的一种结合呢？是一种糊涂的、不负责任的、轻率的结合）。它对于个人是一种崇高的动力，是去成熟并实现自身的圆满，去完成一个世界，是为了另一个人而完成一个自己的世界，这是一个艰巨的、不可妥协的目标，用坚定的信念，向远方召唤。青年们应把爱当做他们的课业、他们工作的意义，并在其中（“昼夜不停地探索、锤炼”）使用那些给予他们的爱。至于倾心、献身以及结合，还不是他们所能做的（他们还需长时间地克制、积累），那是最后的终点，也许是我们现在还几乎不能达到的境界。
Learng for Better Uandg
Listen to the article, and then try to ahe follog questions.
1. Why should young people ake great efforts on studyg?
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2. What is the fal destation of learng and w?
ksPractice
Listen to the follog passage id then fill
the bnks with appropriate words.
1.It is also good to love: becae love is______. For one huao love another huahat is perhaps the ost difficult______that has beeed to , the ultiate task, the______and proof, the work for which all other work is rely______.
2.But______is always a long, secded ti ahead and far on to life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kd of______for the person who loves.
Now a Try
Listen to the article aga, and then try to write a suary
that is no ore than 25 words.
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