05 Old Shoes,Happy Life旧鞋子也有温暖
People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to extricate themselves.
人常常会陷于幽暗的人生胡同不能自拔。
There once was a poor and frustrated salesman complaining every day that there was no platform for him to display his ability and the fate was often pulling his legs.
有个生活比较潦倒的销售员，每天都埋怨自己怀才不遇，命运在捉弄他。
At Christmas Eve,every family decorated their houses with lanterns and streamers and it was very festive everywhere. But he was alone sitting in a bench in a park and recalling the past.It was on the same day last year when he was also alone drinking his Christmas day away,without new clothes,new shoes,let alone a new car and a new house.
圣诞节前夕，家家户户张灯结彩，充满佳节的热闹气氛。他坐在公园里的一张椅子上，开始回顾往事。去年的今天，他也是孤单一人，以醉酒度过他的圣诞节，没有新衣，没有新鞋，更甭谈新车子、新房子。
“Damn！I have to spend this Christmas day with these old shoes again.”he signed and began to take off the old shoes. Suddenly,he glanced a young man in a wheel chair passing by him with his hands arduously pushing the wheel forward.It dawned on him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the chance.Afterwards,the sales man did anything with a calm mood and cherished every opportunity to improve himself.He worked hard and tried his best to make a progress every day.Several years later,he eventually changed his life totally and became a millionaire.
“唉，今年我又要穿着这双旧鞋子度过圣诞节了！”说着准备脱掉这旧鞋子。这时候，他突然看见一个年轻人自己滑着轮椅从他身边路过。他顿悟：“我有鞋子穿是多么幸福！他连穿鞋子的机会都没有啊！”之后，推销员做任何一件事都心平气和，珍惜机会，发奋图强，力争上游。数年之后，他终于改变了自己的生活，成了一名百万富翁。
If you look all around,you will find there are so many people who were born disabled in the society but they are confident in life and never complain about the unfair destiny. They are also not to beg others'almsgiving.Instead,they constantly strive to make themselves stronger and more excellent to serve the society.By contrast,we should feel ashamed.We are born healthy,but we are fed up with life；we complain about our colleagues and dissatisfy with our jobs.
环顾四周，我们会发觉社会上有许多天生残缺的人，他们对生活充满信心，从不抱怨上天对他们的不公平，也不乞求他人救济，反而自立自强，脱颖而出，成为有用之才。与他们相比，我们会觉得很惭愧，我们生来五官端正，手脚齐全，却为何厌倦生活厌倦人生，抱怨同事，不满意自己的工作。
Maybe all of us would feel afraid when we realize we have fallen into such frustrating state of life,but worse is you even do not realize you have fallen into such a jeopardous situation.
也许我们每个人对陷入这种幽暗的人生胡同都感到可怕，但更可怕的是，当你陷入这种危险的境地却浑然不知。
gloomy[ˈgluːmi]adj.黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的
例 Inside it’s gloomy after all that sunshine.
尽管阳光明媚，里面依然暗淡无光。
例 Miller is gloomy about the fate of the serious playwright in America.
米勒对这位严肃剧作家在美国的命运颇为忧虑。
extricate[ˈekstrɪkeɪt]v.使解脱；解救；使游离
例 He endeavoured to extricate the car,digging with his hands in the blazing sunshine.
他在烈日下用手挖着，拼命想要把那辆汽车弄出来。
festive[ˈfestɪv]adj.欢乐的；喜庆的；节日的
例 The Captain’s Party on Saturday evening is the cruise’s most festive event.
周六晚上的船长晚会是游轮上最喜庆的活动。
alone[əˈləʊn]adv.单独地，独自地；孤苦伶仃的，无依无靠的
例 I couldn’t imagine why he would want to be alone with me.
我想象不出为什么他会想和我独处。
例 Never in her life had she felt so alone,so abandoned.
她一生中从来没有感到如此孤单，如此无助。
arduously[ˈɑːdʒʊəslɪ]adv.严酷地；费力地
例 He arduously and soon began to play in local bands.
他拼命学习弹奏，很快就加入了当地的一个乐队。
dawn[dɔːn]v.被领悟；破晓；出现
例 A new era seemed to be about to dawn for the coach and his young team.
对于那名教练和他的年轻球队来说，一个崭新的时代似乎即将到来。
eventually[ɪˈventʃuəli]adv.终于，最后；竟；总归；终究
例 Eventually,the water will permeate through the surrounding concrete.
最终，水会渗透进周围的混凝土中。
destiny[ˈdestəni]n.命运，定数，天命
例 We are masters of our own destiny.
我们是自己命运的主宰者。
almsgiving[ɑːmzˈgɪvɪŋ]n.救济，施舍
例 True charity does not consist in almsgiving.
真正的仁慈并不在于施舍。
jeopardous[ˈdʒepədəs]adj.冒险的
例 Hot money is jeopardous to the balance of international payment
the stability of RMB exchange rate.
“热钱”不利于国际收支平衡和人民币汇率稳定。
①People often drop into a gloomy life and are unable to extricate themselves.
drop into不知不觉变得；顺便进入；偶然进入
例 You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job.
你不可能在退学后就有一个好的工作在等你。
②But he was alone sitting in a bench in a park and recalling the past.It was on the same day last year when he was also alone drinking his Christmas day away,without new clothes,new shoes,let alone a new car and a new house.
let alone更不必说，不干涉，不打扰
例 If a difference is going to be made in this world,let alone in your own life,it is up to you.
如果这个世界正在发生改变，那就更不用提你自己的生活了，而这种改变是由你来决定。
例 Let her alone when she is not happy.
她不高兴时别去惹她。
alone独自的，单独的lonely寂寞的，孤寂的
例 He is alone,but he doesn’t feel lonely.
他独自一人，但并不感到寂寞。
③“Damn！I have to spend this Christmas day with these old shoes again.”he signed and began to take off the old shoes.
take off脱掉；（飞机）起飞；（产品、活动、事业等）腾飞，突然成功
例 We eventually took off at 11 o’clock and arrived in Venice at 1.30.
我们终于在11点起飞，1：30到达威尼斯。
In 1944，he met Edith Piaf,and his career took off.
1944年，他结识了伊迪思·比阿夫，从此他的事业开始腾飞。
④It dawned on him that he was so lucky to have shoes to wear while that man did not even have the chance.
此句中while译为“却，而”，用于强调两种情况、活动等之间的差别
例 That region has plenty of natural resources while this one has none.
那个地区自然资源丰富，这个地区却一点也没有。
⑤We are born healthy,but we are fed up with life；we complain about our colleagues and dissatisfy with our jobs.
be fed up with极厌倦；吃得过饱
例 People will be fed up with you if you have a hard head.
如果你为人老是那样，人家很快就会讨厌你的。
1.The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity,absolute justice,absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
有幽默感的人明白，绝对的纯净、绝对的公平、绝对的逻辑以及完美是人类无法企及的，人类在平凡与脆弱中，已经欣然存活了上万年。
2.Life is the greatest bargain；we get it for nothing.
生命是一笔再划算不过的交易；我们免费得到了它。
3.Death,my son,is a benefit for all of us,it is the night of this turbulent day that we call Life.
死亡，我的孩子，对我们来说都有好处，在我们奔波的白天终于结束时，死亡是得以歇息的夜晚。
4.Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
电子通信永远无法代替人们面对面的交流，无法代替一个能带来勇气和真诚的灵魂。
5.Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals；love,an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
友谊是平等的人们之间无利益纠葛的来往；而爱情总是发号施令的一方与被奴役的一方之间可悲的交易。
6.An open foe may prove a curse,but a pretended friend is worse.
虽然你公开的敌人会咒骂并加害于你，但是假装是你的朋友的人更加可怕。
7.You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
要评价一个人，既要看他的朋友，也要看他的敌人。
8.Friendship is unnecessary,like philosophy,like art.It has no survival value；rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
如同哲学、艺术一样，友谊也不是必需品。它没有生存价值，然而它是能够给人们的生存带来价值的东西之一。
9.It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them,and important to friendship that we are not.
对朋友们来说，知道我们对他们坦诚以待是非常重要的；而对友谊来说，同样重要的是，不要真的对他们事事相告。
10.He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
一个人就算有上千个朋友也不算多，而就算他只有一个敌人，也会到处碰到这个敌人。