[英语泛读教程4课文翻译.doc

第一单元第一篇 Good words cost nothing, but are worth much,said Thomas Fuller,the 17th century British scholar. “良言不费分文,但价值甚大,”托马斯说丰满,17th世纪英国学者。 They serve to give encouragement and smooth away differences and misunderstandings, as this article explains. 他们服役给予鼓励和克服差异和误解,因为这篇文章解释了。 Maybe when Im a hundred,Ill get used to having everything I do taken for granted,a young homemaker confided to her neighbor. “也许当我一百岁时,我就会习惯吃我做的一切视为理所当然,”一个年轻的家庭主妇被任命她的邻居。 If Bill would compliment me once in a while, hed make my life much happier. “如果法案恭维我,偶尔也好,他会使我的生活更幸福。” Few of us realize how much we need encouragement. 我们很少有人意识到我们是多么需要鼓励的。 Yet we must bask in the warmth of approval now and then or lose our self-confidence. 但是我们仍然必须沐浴在温暖的批准,否则现在失去自己的自信。 All of us need to feel needed and admired. 我们都需要去感觉需要和赞赏。 But unless we hear words of praise from someone else,how can we know that we are valued friends or co-workers? 但是如果我们听到别人的赞扬之词,我们怎样才能知道我们有价值的朋友或同事呢? Anyone who wants to improve his relationships with others need only show a sympathetic understanding. 任何人想要提高自己的和其他人的关系之间只需要显示一个有同情心的理解。 The way to express this understanding and to give others the feeling of importance and worthiness boils down to this:always look for something in the other person you can admire and praise--and tell him about it. 这种理解的方式来表达,给别人的感觉,重要性和价值归结为:总是寻找一些其他的人,你可以欣赏和赞美——告诉他这件事。 We each have a mental picture of ourselves,a self-image. 我们每个人都有自己的脑海里,一个自我形象。 To find life reasonably satisfying,that self-image must be one we live with,one we can like. 去发现生活相当满足、自我形象必须是一个我们生活在一起的人,一个我们可以像。 When we are proud of our self-image,we feel confident and free to be ourselves. 当我们以我们的队伍为荣的自我形象,我们相信自由是我们自己。 We function at our best. 我们最好的一面。我们功能 When we are ashamed of our self-image,we attempt to hide it rather than express it. 当我们自觉惭愧我们自己,我们尝试把它藏起来,而不是把它表达出来。 We become hostile and hard to get along with. 我们变得敌意和很难相处。 A miracle happens to the person whose self-esteem h