雅思阅读精品材料：梦想构造生活.pdf

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 雅思阅读精品材料：梦想构造生活 小编为大家带来一则双语励志美文，供大家赏析，下面一起来看看 吧~ Dreams Are the Stuff Life Is Made Of 梦想构造生活 by Carroll Carroll卡洛.卡洛 I believe Im a very lucky man. 我相信自己是一个幸运的人。 My entire life has been lived in the healthy area between too little and too much. Ive never experienced financial or emotional insecurity, but everything I have, Ive attained by my own work, not through indulgence, inheritance or privilege. 我的一生生活平稳，毫无波澜。我从未经历过经济或情感危机，但 我拥有的一切并不是依靠溺爱、遗产或特权，而是通过我自己的努力工 作得来的。 Never having lived by the abuses of any extreme, Ive always felt that a workman is worthy of his hire, a merchant entitled to his profit, an artist to his reward. 生活中的我从不滥走极端，始终认为工人就应当工作，商人就应当 获利，艺术家有权获取报酬。 As a result of all this, my bargaining bump may be a little underdeveloped, so Ive never tried to oversell myself. And though I may work for less than I know I can get, I find that because of this, Im never so afraid of losing a job that Im forced to compromise with my principles. 正因如此，我讨价还价的能力没有丝毫长进，所以我从不试图过分 吹嘘自己。尽管我知道自己的酬劳少于实际应得的，但我仍会继续工作 。我发现，由此一来，我从未因害怕失业而做出任何违背原则的事。 Naturally in a life as mentally, physically, emotionally and financially fortunate as mine has been, a great many people have helped me. A few meant to, most did so by accident. 的确，像我这种在精神、身体、情感与经济上如此幸运的人，少不 了很多人曾给予的帮助。有些帮助是刻意的，但大部分的则是偶然为之 I still feel I must reciprocate. This doesnt mean that Ive dedicated my life to my fellow man. Im not the type. But I do feel I should help those Im qualified to help, just as Ive been helped by others. 尽管如此，我依然认为必须报答他们。这并不是说我为同胞们奉献 出???自己的一生，我也不是那样的人。但我觉得应该尽自己所能去帮助 他人，就像别人帮助我一样。 What Im saying now is, I feel, part of that pattern. I think everyone should, for his own sake, try to reduce to six hundred words the beliefs by which he lives - its not easy - and then compare those beliefs with what he enjoys - not in real estate and money and goods, but in love, health, happiness and laughter. 我认为，现在所说的