篇一：英语励志美文：年轻时一定要知道的15件事
英语励志美文：年轻时一定要知道的15件事
Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that I know now that would have been extremely useful to me earlier in my life; things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years—and most of those that I inflicted on others too.
I don’t buy the romantic notion that my life has been somehow richer or more interesting because of all the times I screwed up; nor that were the mistakes “put” there to help me learn. I made them myself—through ignorance, fear, and a dumb wish to have everyone like me—and life and work would have been less stressful and more enjoyable (and certainly more successful) without them. So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then.
1. Most of it doesn’t matter. So much of what I got excited about, anxious about, or wasted my time and energy on, turned out not to matter. There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.
2. The greatest source of misery and hatred in this world is clinging to past hurts. Look at all the terrorists and militant groups that hark back to some event long gone, or base their justification for killing on claims of some supposed historical right to a bit of land, or redress for a wrong done hundreds of years ago.
3. Waiting to do something until you can be sure of doing it exactly right means waiting for ever. One of the greatest advantages anyone can have is the willingness to make a fool of themselves publicly and often. There’s no better way to learn and develop. Heck, it’s fun too.
4.Following the latest fashion, in work or in life, is spiritual and intellectual suicide. You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours. Religion isn’t the opiate of the masses, fashion is.
5. If people complain that you’re too fond of going your own way and aren’t fitting in, you must be on the right track.Who wants to live life as a herd animal? The guys in power don’t want you to fit in for your own sake; they want you to stop causing them problems and follow their orders. You can’t ha
ve the freedom to be yourself and meekly fit in at the same time.
6. If you make your work your life, you’re making your life into hard work. Like most people, I confused myself by looking at people like artists and musicians whose life’s “work” fills their time. That isn’t work. It’s who they are. Unless you have some overwhelming passion that also happens to allow you to earn a living doing it, always remember that work should be a means to an end: living an enjoyable life. Spend as little time on the means as possible consistent with achieving the end. Only idiots live to work.
7. The quickest and simplest way to wreck any relationship is to listen to gossip.The worst way to spend your time is spreading more. People who spread gossip are the plague-carriers of our day. Cockroaches are clean, kindly creatures in comparison.
8. Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity. Everyone will be mad at you sometime.Most of the people you deal with will dislike, disparage, belittle, or ignore what you say or do most of the time. Besides, you can never really know what others do want, so a good deal of whatever you do
in that regard will go to waste. Be comforted. Those who love you will probably love you regardless, and they are the ones whose opinions are worth caring about. The rest aren’t worth five minutes of thought between them.
9. Every winner is destined to be a loser in due course.It’s great to be up on the winner’s podium. Just don’t imagine you can stay there for ever. Worst of all is being determined to do so, by any means available.
10.You can rarely, if ever, please, placate, change, or mollify an asshole.The best thing you can do is stay away from every one you encounter. Being an asshole is a contagious disease. The more time you spend around one, the more likely you are to catch it and become one too.
11. Everything takes twiceas long as you plan for and produces results about half as good as you hoped. There’s no reason to be downhearted about this. Just allow for it and move on.
12. People are oddly consistent.Liars usually tell lies. Cheaters cheat whenever it suits them. A person who confides in you has usually confided in several others first—but not got th
e response they wanted. A loyal friend will stay loyal under enormous amounts of thoughtless abuse.
13.However hard you try, you can’t avoid being yourself.Who else could you be? You can act and pretend, but the person acting and pretending is still you. And if you won’t accept yourself—and do the best you can with what you have—who then has any obligation to accept you?
14. When it comes to blatant lies, there are none more egregious than budget figures.Time spent agonizing over them is time wasted. Even if (miracle of miracles!) yours are honest and accurate, no one else will have been so foolish.
15. The loudest noise in the world is the sound of people whining.Don’t add to it.
篇二：【英】励志美文：大学时你就该懂的几件事
关于大学生活：
Don't let the fact that a class starts as early as 9 a.m. deter you from taking it.
别因为最早的课九点开始就不去上课。
Budget and avoid credit cards. It's OK to not go out on the weekends or on "Thirsty Thursdays," but don't beat yourself up for going out and having fun either.
做好预算，避免使用信用卡。周末或周四晚上派对不出去也没什么大不了。不过也别因为出去玩把自己搞得筋疲力尽。
关于人际交往：
Make friends, but get comfortable hanging out by yourself. Teach yourself to get up early, nothing good happens super late honestly. Treat school like it's a job and try to build a solid work ethic.
交朋友，但独自出去时也要让自己玩得开心。学会让自己早起，因为说实话晚起的鸟儿没虫吃。把学习当成一份工作，并尝试建立稳固的职业道德。
Becoming friends with professors is a good idea. Explore every inch of your campus. Don't tolerate a bad dormmate, it's not worth the stress, get out if you can.
和教授做朋友是个不错的主意。走遍校园的每一个角落。别忍受一个糟糕的室友，这样的压力不值得，如果可能就自己搬出去吧。
Befriend people who make you feel good about yourself, who are kind to you and eich your life in new ways and don't hold you back. Don't befriend those who you feel like you should be friends with because everyone else is.
别犹豫，与那些让你感到自在、真诚对你和让你生活有新意的人做朋友吧。别因为其他人都跟这个人关系好，你也随大流跟他交朋友。
关于职业道路：
You will not make as much money as you think you will after graduating.毕业之后，你并不会如你想象的赚那么多钱。
Life experience is just as important as your formal education, if not more so. For many fields, employers care more about the initiatives you took and the experience you gain than your GPA or what classes you took. Plus it makes you a more well-rounded person and more able to handle different types of life challenges. Take time to experience new things and learn about yourself! It's the best time to do it.
生活经验同正规教育一样重要，可能更重要。对于很多行业来说，雇主更关心的可能是你的主动性和工作经验，而不是你的GPA或者你上过什么课。而且，生活经验让你发展更全面，能应对不同的人生挑战。花些时间去体验新事物，然后自我学习!现在是最好的时机。
Intern as much as you can while you're in school. It can help you land a job with that particular company, or with a related firm. At minimum, it can offer some fantastic references. It can also help you decide whether your studies are suited for you -- getting real-life experience in what you 'think' you want to do with your life can make all the difference in whether you actually understand and enjoy what your career path will look like.
在校期间多实习，它可以帮助你在实习的公司或相关公司找到一份工作。至少，实习能给你一些有用的参考。它能帮你检验所学知识是否适合你，因为在你所期待的工作中获得的实际经验对于你是否真正理解并喜欢你的职业道路关系重大。
Don't be afraid to go out of your comfort zone. Try new things. Remember everyone is in the same boat as you are and they're just as nervous!别害怕走出舒适区。尝试一些新东西吧。要记住，其他人都和你处境相同，并且他们也很焦虑。
关于人生发展：
"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself." Don't wait to start living the life you want to live. Follow what makes
you happy, you won't regret it. The things that are most worthwhile in life tend to be the ones you were afraid to try.
“生活不仅仅是发现自己，也是创造自己。”别只是等着你所期待的生活降临，追随能让你快乐的生活，你绝不会后悔。人生中最值得做的事情往往是你最初不敢尝试的。
Don't compare your successes with others and don't chase anyone else's dream but your own. We each have our own journeys in life, so just make sure yours counts!
别把自己的成功与他人作比较，也别去追逐他人的梦想，做好你自己。我们每个人都有属于自己的快乐，所以确保你的梦想有价值就可以!
You don't have to decide what you want to be for the rest of your life. You just have to decide what general direction you want to take and what you want to do for your first step. When you look back on your life it will seem linear and logical, but while you are going through it it's all haphazard and serendipity. And that's the fun of it.
你并不需要现在就决定今后成为一个什么样的人，你只需要想清楚一个大致方向，以及为了这个方向踏出的第一步。当你回首人生路时，你可能只看到一条逻辑清晰的轨迹，但当你经历其中时，你会发现生活充满了偶然性和意外发现，而这就是人生的乐趣。
篇三：英语短文--年轻时不做会后悔的八件事
年轻时不做会后悔的八件事
Life is filled with regrets. Ask anyone around you what their regrets are and they usually have no difficulty coming up with many items on their “regret list.” And for some reason our twenties are ripe for a field of regrets.
Perhaps it’s because as we get older we look back on that period of adulthood as the height of freedom and autonomy. As move into middle age, we look back and wish that we had made better choices and taken more opportunities. Here’s a list of things that we regret not doing in our 20s.
1. Traveling more
I regret not travelling more, and so does nearly everyone that I have asked. Before kids, and mortgages and marriages, when our commitments and expenses were lower, the opportunities for travel were much greater, but for some reason many of us thought we’d always have time for travel later.
We dreamed of visiting the pyramids of Egypt, surfing off the Hawaiian coast, dining at a Parisian café, drinking espresso in Rome, trekking through the rainforest, and so much more. Sadly, many of us never made these journeys and the opportunity passed us by.
2. Investing early
How many times have we kicked ourselves for not starting our 401Ks，in our twenties, for not putting our excess cash in long term investments, for not investing in our future early. No matter how much we try, we can never get back the head start that we missed. Playing catch up in our 40’s and 50’s is very difficult.
3. Being more responsible with spending
In order to invest in our retirement or save for that down payment, we would have needed to make wiser financial spending choices. Things like buying or holding on to that perfectly reliable used car, instead of splurging on the new model…because we could, eating out less and saving for a house instead, buying fewer shoes and purses and clothes and paying off student loans sooner. So many saving opportunities lost, money spent on tangible things, instead of on the future.
4. Better planning
I regret not focusing more on where I wanted to go in life, what I wanted to do, who I wanted to be and what it would take to get there. With some more planning in our twenties, we’d be further ahead in our 40s and perhaps a bit happier as well.
5. Seizing more experiences
I wish I had learned to ski and paint, speak Italian and do the Tango. I regret not living somewhere else before settling down. Others have said they regret not pursuing their hobbies or
learning to sky dive or mountain climb. I prefer to stay on the ground, but I do regret not learning more, not trying new things that are hard to fit into the life of a forty something working wife and mother.
6. Living a more active lifestyle
The bodies of youth are wasted on the young… I wish I had run a marathon before my knees ached, that I had biked more, hiked more, and took spinning classes when my legs were stronger. I regret not joining a softball team or volleyball league. We don’t often realize that we have squandered our physical abilities until things start aching and creaking.
7. Making more friends
I regret not reaching out more, putting more effort into creating a tribe of support that would carry me through more difficult times. We socialize sure, but many of us don’t put enough importance on building deep and lasting friendships. Some do, many don’t and wish they had.
8. Pursuing a more meaningful career
Many of us wish we had taken more career risks, opted for meaning over money, pursued the career path we wanted instead of what we were expected to do or simply following the path that was laid out before us. How much better to have explored our options and pursued meaningful work in our twenties than to have spent 20 years doing something we don’t love. Life is good; don’t misunderstand. Few of us walk around every day pining for our youth, at least I hope not, but we do occasionally look back with a wistful sigh and wish that we planned more, lived more, and stretched ourselves more when we had the freedom and energy to do so.
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