00015 英语二自学教程 unit5

Text A Life Is Difficult
Most people do not fully see this truth that life is difficult.
然而大多数人并没有完全理解生活的艰辛。
Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.（承上、总结的句子）
Text A Life Is Difficult
然而，正是在遇到问题并解决问题的整个过程中，生活才具有意义。问题是 区分成功与失败的关键因素。问题赋予我们勇气和智慧；实际上，问题激发 了我们的勇气和智慧。我们想促进人类精神的发展，就要发出挑战、鼓励人 们去解决问题，就像在学校里那样，我们有意给孩子设置问题，让他们去解 决。正如本杰明·富兰克林说的那样，“给我们带来伤害的，也会给我们以启 示。”恰恰出于这个原因，明智的人们学会了不畏惧困难，而是迎接困难， 迎接困难带来的痛苦。
Text A Life Is Difficult
生活的艰辛之处在于，面对困难、解决困难的过程是痛苦的。根据其性质， 困难会使我们感到悲痛、伤心、孤独、内疚、悔恨、愤怒、恐惧、苦恼或者 失望。这些都是让人不舒服的感觉，非常不舒服，就如同身体上的疼痛是一 样的，有时候甚至等同于身体上最大的疼痛。实际上，正是由于痛苦的原因， 事件或者冲突给我们带来了所有的问题。生活是艰辛的，因为它给我们带来 了无尽的问题，生活不仅有快乐，也充满了痛苦。
TeLeabharlann Baidut A Life Is Difficult
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them? 生活中会出现一连串的问题，我们要发牢骚还是想办法解决呢？我们要传授孩 子们解决问题的方法吗？
Text A Life Is Difficult
What make life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration of grief, sadness, loneliness, guilt, regret, anger, fear, anxiety, anguish, despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. （承上启下句） And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
Text B Begin Again
To begin again means you're trying. You can either start over and live your life Or spend the rest of your life slowly dying. It is never the falling that makes us fail. It is never the pain or the crying. You can never fail in life, my friend, Unless you give up trying.
——鲍勃·坡克
Text B Begin Again
It seems lately that more and more of my friends are facing some seemingly insurmountable challenges in their lives. A few have lost their jobs and some have failed marriages. All too many have health issues or are battling cancer.
最近，越来越多的朋友在生活上面临着似乎难以克服的挑战。有几个朋友失 业了，有几个遭遇了婚姻失败，太多的人遇到了健康问题或者正在同癌症作 斗争。
Text B Begin Again
I don't know if it is desperation that causes them to turn to me for advice or whether they have come to value our friendship. But it is difficult, to say the least, to offer words of hope when all they feel is hopelessness. They expect answers, some magic waving of a wand, or a roadmap to get them back on their feet again.
Text A Life Is Difficult
Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human capacity to solve problems, just as in school we deliberately set problems for our children to solve.It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. （承上启下句）As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
Text A Life Is Difficult
相反，他们一直公开或者私下抱怨生活中的问题太多，负担太重，困难太大 了，听起来就好像生活一向是轻松的，或者说好像生活应该是轻松的。他们 直接或者委婉地表示，他们遇到的困难是一种特殊的痛苦，这种痛苦本不该 有的，但是不知道是什么原因，专门降临到他们身上，或者偏爱他们的家人、 他们的部落、他们的阶层、他们的民族、他们的种族，甚至他们那一类人， 而不是降临到别人身上。因为我也曾经这样抱怨过，所以对此比较了解。
Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems.（主题句） Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems. 自制力是必需的基本工具，它用来解决我们生活中出现的各种问题。没有自制 力，我们什么问题都解决不了。具备某种自制力可以解决某些问题，具备了所 有的自制力，就可以解决所有的问题了。
英语（二）
全国高等教育自学考试
讲解人：Grace Shao
Unit 5
Keeping Your Dreams Alive
Text A Life Is Difficult
Life Is Difficult. 生活是艰辛的。
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.（承上句） 这是伟大的事实，是最伟大的事实之一其伟大之处就在于，一旦我们真正理 解了，就能超越这个事实。一旦我们真正意识到生活的艰辛——一旦我们真 正理解、接受这一事实——生活便不再艰辛。因为一旦我们接受了这一事实， 生活的艰辛就不再重要了。
---- Bob Perks
Text B Begin Again
重新开始意味着你不会放弃。 重新开始意味着你一直在努力。 你可以重新开始新的生活， 也可以慢慢度过余生直至终老。 跌倒永远不是我们失败的根本原因。 痛苦或者痛哭永远不是我们失败的根本原因。 你永远也不会在生活中失败的，我的朋友， 除非你放弃努力。