英语朗读材料

We’re Just Beginning

从零开始

By Charles F. Kattering

BGM:夏の終わりの海（夏末的海）-岸部真明

“We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose pages are infinite ...”

“我们正在读一本书的第一章第一行，而这本书有无数页……”

I do not know who wrote these words, but I have always liked them as

a reminder that the future can be anything we want to make it.

我不知道这句话是谁写的，可我很喜欢。它提醒着我们，未来是由自己创造的，一切皆有可能。

We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just as a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.

我们可以把神秘的、不可知的未来塑造成我们想象中的任何一种样子，就像雕塑家把一尊未成形的石头刻成雕像。

We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

我们就像是农夫。如果我们播下良种，必将获得丰收。然而，如果播下劣种，或田间杂草丛生，我们收获的就是无用的庄稼。没有耕耘就

不会有收获。

I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the remainder of our lives.

我希望未来比过去更加美好。我希望未来不再重蹈历史的错误与过失。我们应该专注于未来，因为我们的余生都将在未来中度过。The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it.

往昔已逝，静如止水，我们无力改变它。未来就在眼前，生机勃勃，我们所做的一切都会影响它。

Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.

如果我们意识到这些，无论是工作还是家庭，我们都能开拓一片新天地。在人类致力开拓的每一个领域里，我们正好站在进步的起跑点上。

These Things Shall Never Die

Charles John Huffam Dickens

这些美好不会消逝

查尔斯·狄更斯

The pure,the bright,the beautiful,

That stirred our hearts in youth,

The impulses to wordless prayer,

The dreams of love and truth;

The longing after something’s lost, The spirit’s yearning cry,

The striving after better hopes-

These things can never die.

The timid hand stretched forth to aid, A brother in is need,

A kindly word in grief’s dark hour That proves a friend indeed;

When justice threatens nigh,

The sorrow of a contrite heart-

These things shall never die.

Let nothing pass for every hand

Must find some work to do;

Lose not a chance to waken love-

Be firm,and just and true;

So shall a light that cannot fade

Beam on thee from on high.

And angel voices say to thee---

These things shall never die.

BGM:《Joy to the world》-Kevin Kern

Though there is much to be concerned about, there

is far, far more for which to be thankful. Thou gh life’s goodness can at times be overshadowed,

it is never outweighed.

尽管有很多事让人忧虑，但相比而言，值得感激的事要多得多。尽管生命的美好有时被蒙上阴影，但它却永远不会被埋没。

For every single act that is senselessly destruct ive, there are thousands more small, quiet acts of love, kindness and compassion. For every person w ho seeks to hurt, there are many, many more who devote their lives to helping and to healing.

相对于每一个无谓的破坏行为而言，都有更多数以千计更为微小的，包含着爱，友善和同情的举动静静地上演着。相对于每一个试图伤害他人的人而言，都有更多的人致力于帮助他人，治愈他人的创伤。