晨读英语美文60篇(含lrc字幕)Six Famous Words
 音频下载[点击右键另存为]同步字幕下载[点击右键另存为][00:00.00]Six Famous Words [00:04.31]“To be or not to be.” [00:06.84]Outside the Bible, [00:08.79]these six words are the most famous [00:10.98]in all the literature of the world. [00:13.62]They were spoken by Hamlet [00:15.80]when he was thinking aloud, [00:17.44]and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare [00:20.96]because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself [00:24.70]but also for every thinking man and woman. [00:28.30]To be or not to be, to live or not to live, [00:33.33]to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, [00:37.04]or to live dully and meanly and scarcely. [00:41.08]A philosopher once wanted to know [00:44.05]whether he was alive or not, [00:45.67]which is a good question for everyone [00:48.31]to put to himself occasionally. [00:49.96]He answered it by saying: [00:52.24]“I think, therefore I am.” [00:54.88]But the best definition of existence I ever saw [00:59.61]was one written by another philosopher who said: [01:03.00]“To be is to be in relations.” [01:05.94]If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, [01:10.54]the more it is alive. [01:12.40]To live abundantly means simply [01:16.33]to increase the range and intensity of our relations. [01:19.85]Unfortunately we are so constituted [01:23.12]that we get to love our routine. [01:25.41]But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive? [01:30.54]If you are interested only in your regular occupation, [01:34.72]you are alive only to that extent. [01:38.00]So far as other things are concerned— [01:40.94]poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports, [01:45.11]unselfish friendships, politics, [01:48.28]international affairs—you are dead. [01:51.88]Contrariwise, it is true [01:55.07]that every time you acquire a new interest— [01:57.68]even more, a new accomplishment— [02:00.32]you increase your power of life. [02:03.15]No one who is deeply interested in a large variety [02:07.19]of subjects can remain unhappy, [02:09.72]the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest. [02:13.98]Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend. [02:20.11]But we gain new life by contacts and new friends. [02:24.48]What is supremely true of living objects [02:28.08]is only less true of ideas, [02:30.39]which are also alive. [02:32.35]Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also. [02:36.49]If your thoughts are confined only to your business, [02:40.45]only to your physical welfare, [02:42.73]only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live, [02:46.89]then you live in a narrow-circled life. [02:49.94]But if you are interested in what is going on in China, [02:54.66]then you are living in China— [02:56.65]if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel, [03:00.46]then you are living with those highly interesting people, [03:04.40]if you listen intently to fine music, [03:07.89]you are away from your immediate surroundings [03:10.97]and living in a world of passion and imagination. [03:14.57]To be or not to be—to live intensely and richly, [03:19.71]merely to exist, that depends on ourselves. [03:23.75]Let widen and intensify our relations. [03:28.01]While we live, let live! |
