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1
On His Blindness
哀失明
When I consider how my light is spent
想到了在这茫茫黑暗的世界里，
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
还未到半生这两眼就已失明，
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
想到了我这个泰伦特，要是埋起来，
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent
会招致死亡，却放在我手里无用，
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
虽然我一心想用它服务造物主，
My true account, lest he returning chide,
免得报账时，得不到他的宽容；
Doth God exact day-labour, light denied,
想到这里，我就愚蠢地自问，
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent
"神不给我光明，还要我做日工?"
That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
但"忍耐"看我在抱怨，立刻止住我：
Either man's work or his own gifts, who best
"神并不要你工作，或还他礼物。
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best, his State
谁最能服从他，谁就是忠于职守，
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
他君临万方，只要他一声吩咐，
And post over Land and Ocean without rest:
万千个天使就赶忙在海陆奔驰，
They also serve who only stand and wait.
但侍立左右的，也还是为他服务。"
2
Books
书籍
The good books of the hour, then, --I do not speak of the bad ones—is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very useful often, telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels; good-humoured and witty discussion of questions; lively or pathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling, by the real agents concerned in the events of passing history; --all these books of the hour, multiplying among us as education becomes more general, are a peculiar characteristic and possession of the present age: we ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them. But we make the worse possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books: for, strictly speaking, they are not books at all, but merely letters or newspapers in good print. Our friend's letter may be delightful, or necessary, today: whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered.
然则，风行一时的好书(且不谈坏书)，也不过是某人有益或有趣的谈话，不印出来则你无法与之交谈。这类书往往很有用，告诉你需耍知道的东西，也往往颇令人愉快，宛如通情达理的朋友同你当面晤谈。例如风光绮丽的游记，对间题心平气 和、妙趣横生的讨论，小说中栩栩如生或娓娓动人的故事，近代重大事件亲自参加或目击者的详实报导—所有这些风行一 时的书，由于教育日益普及而发行量倍增，实为当代独有的特色与财富。我们应该对这些书深为感谢，若不好好利用，就 该感到十分惭愧。然而，倘若我们任凭这类书籍僧夺了真正有价值的书的位置，则未免利用得太捕，因为严格说来，这类书 根本不算书，无非印刷精致的书信或报纸而已。朋友的书信今天读来或许令人愉快，至或必要多有无保存价值则值得考虑。
The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day. So though bound up in a volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns, the roads, and weather last year at such a place, or which tells you that amusing story, or gives you the real circumstances of such and such events, however valuable for occasional reference, may not be, in the real sense of the word, a "book" at all, nor, in the real sense, to be "read". A book is essentially not a talked thing, but a written thing; and written, not with the view of mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands of people at once; if he could, he would-the volume is mere multiplication of his voice. You cannot talk to your friend in India; if you could, you would; you write instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it.
早餐时间看看报纸，似乎十分相宜，但肯定不必整天看报。因此那封长信几虽然装订成册，对旅舍、道路，对某地去年天气，为你作了种种美妙叙述，或为你讲了有趣的故事，或对如此这般的事件为你提供了真实情况，不论一时有多大参考价值，但从“书”这个词的真正意义来说，它可能根本算不上，也不是真正让你“读”的。究其本质，一本书不是随便谈谈的东酉，而是认真写出来的东西，且不仅为通信或交流而写，而是为了传之久远。一本随便谈谈的书之所以印出来，是由于作者不能同时 和成千上万人讲，倘若可能，他侧愿意。那册书无非让他的声 音化成若干倍而已。你无法同远在印度的朋友谈话，倘若可能，你倒愿意。你代之以写，这也不过是声音的传播，然而著书不仅是为了把声音化做若千倍，也不仅是为了传播声音，而是为了保存。
The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful. So far as he knows, no one has yet said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he finds this to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; --this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "this is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory, " That is his "writing"; it is, in his small human way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture. That is a "Book".
作者以为有一些真实和有益的东西要讲，有一些美好而对读者有帮助的东西要讲多且据他所知，此事还没有人讲过，也没有别人能讲。他责无旁贷，非说不可，倘有可能，则须力求清楚明白，词章优美，至少务必清楚明白。他发现在他 一生中，这就是他看得十分清楚的一件事或一:,事—且这 就是他通过人生经历得以把握的那一点真知灼见。他乐于将它 水远保存下来，如有可能，不妨铭刻在石头上，并且说:“这是 我毕生精华，至于其他.一饮一食，或眠或醒，或爱或很，概 与他人无异，我的生命过去如同水汽，转眼之间已不存在，惟‘ 独这点是我曾经看清和明白的:设若我有什么值得你记住的， 这就是”。这就是他的“著作，多虽他决非神明，力量微薄，也不论他有几分真正灵感，这就是他的传世之作，或经典之作。这便是书”。
3
The Beautiful Lady Yu
虞美人
Li Yu
李煜
Spring flowers and autumn moon-when will they be ended?
春花秋月何时了，
How many past events can we tell?
往事知多少！
The east wind blew through my small lodge again last night.
小楼昨夜又东风，
The old country, bathed in a bright moon.
故国不堪回首月明中。
Is an overwhelming sight!Those carved balustrades, those marble terraces-
雕栏玉砌应犹在，
They should still be there.Only the rosy cheeks have faded.
只是朱颜改。
How much sorrow and pray, can a person carry?
问君能有几多愁？
Like the spring torrent flowing eastward, without tarry!
恰似一江春水向东流。
4
Abundance is a Life Style
富足的生活方式
Abundance is a life style, a way of living your life. It isn’t something you buy now and then or pull down from the cupboard, dust off and use once or twice, and then return to the cupboard.
富足是一种生活方式。它不是偶尔买来、从架子上拿下来、抹去灰尘用上一两次然后又放回到架子上的东西。
Abundance is a philosophy; it appears in your physiology, your value system, and carries its own set of beliefs. You walk with it, sleep with it, bath with it, feel with it, and need to maintain and take care of it as well.
富足是一种哲学，它体现于你的生理机能和价值观之中，并带有自己的一套信仰。无论走路、睡觉、洗澡你都会感觉到它，你就要维护并照顾它。
Abundance doesn’t always require money. Many people live with all that money can buy yet live empty inside. Abundance begins inside with some main self-ingredients, like love, care, kindness and gentleness, thoughtfulness and compassion. Abundance is a state of being. It radiates outward. It shines like the sun among the many moons in the world.
富足并不一定需要金钱。许多人拥有金钱所能买到的一切，但却内心空虚。富足源自内心，其中包含一些重要的自我成分，比如爱、关心、善良和温柔、体贴与同情。富足是一种生存状态，它向外发散，像处于众多星球之间的太阳那样发光发亮。
Being from the brightness of abundance doesn’t allow the darkness to appear or be in the path unless a choice to allow it to. The true state of abundance doesn’t have room for lies or games normally played. The space is too full of abundance. This may be a challenge because we still need to shine for other to see.
来自富足的光亮不允许黑暗的出现或存在。除非选择允许它存在。真正的富足不给谎言或通常玩的游戏留有空间，因为富足已经把空间填得太满了。这可能是一个挑战，因为我们仍然需要为了让别人看见而发光。
Abundance is seeing people for their gifts and not what they lack or could be. Seeing all things for their gifts and not what they lack.富足是看到人们的天赋，而不是他们的缺陷。所有的事物都要看其天赋而不是缺陷。
Start by knowing what your abundances are, fill that space with you, and be fully present from that state of being. Your profession of choice is telling you of knowing and possibilities. That is their gift. Consultants and customer service professionals have the administrative assistants and virtual assistants have an abundance of coordination and time management. Abundance is all around you, and all within. See what it is; love yourself for what it is, not what you’re missing, or what that can be better, but for what it is at this present moment.
从知道自己的富足是什么时候开始，填满空间，全身心投入生活。你的选择已经告诉了你。例如：教授能够了解队员并激发其潜力，那是他们的天赋；顾问和客服专业人事通常能够提供很多成功且很具实用性的案例；行政助理和虚拟助理熟识协调配合和时间管理的技巧。富足充盈于你的四周以及你的内心。明白富足的内容，爱本色的自己，不要为自己缺少的或是能变得更好的方面爱自己，而是为此时此刻的富足而爱自己。
Be in a state of abundance of what you already have. I guarantee they are there; it always is buried but there. Breathe them in as if they are the air you breathe because they are yours. Let go of anything that isn’t abundant for the time being. Name the shoe boxes in your closet with your gifts of abundance; pull from them every morning if needed. Know they are there.
要处于你已经拥有的事物的富足状态。我保证她们就在那儿，深藏不露却从未远离。将其看成空气，吸入体内，因为它们是你的。放开暂时并不富足的东西。把你富足的所有天赋写在橱柜里的鞋盒子上，如果需要就每天早上拉开橱柜，知道你的天赋都在那儿。
Learning to trust in your own abundance is required. When you begin to be within your own space of abundance, whatever you need will appear whenever you need it. That’s just the way the higher powers set this universe up to work. Trust the universal energy. The knowing of it all will humble you to its power yet let the brightness of you shine everywhere it needs to. Just by being from a state of abundance, it is being you.
你需要学会信任自己的富足。当你开始处于自己富足的空间之内时，你所需要的东西都会在你需要是出现。这就是更高的力量设置这个宇宙运转的方式。要相信宇宙的能量。知道这一点会让你在其力量面前保持谦卑，但也会让你的光亮闪耀在所有需要的地方。只有处于富足的状态，就是做你自己。
5
Friend 朋友
Sometimes in life, You find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.
有时在生活中， 你会发现一个特别的朋友; 有人通过成为你生活的一部分而改变你的命运
Someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop;
有人使你笑，直到你不能停止;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world.
有人使你相信真的有在世界上的良好。
Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it.
有人说服你，真的有一个上锁的门只等着你来打开它。
This is Forever Friendship. when you're down, and the world seems dark and empty,
这是永远友好。 当你遇到挫折， 世界似乎黑暗和空洞的，
Your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full.
你永远的朋友你在升降机的精神和作出的黑暗和空洞的世界 突然显得明亮，充满挑战。
Your forever friend gets you through the hard times,the sad times,and the confused times.
你永远的朋友度过困难时期你，时代的悲哀，时代的困惑。
If you turn and walk away, Your forever friend follows,
如果你扭头就走， 你永远的朋友如下，
If you lose you way, Your forever friend guides you and cheers you on.
如果你失去你的方式， 你永远的朋友会引导您和您的欢呼声。
Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay.
你永远的朋友认为你的手，告诉你，一切将是不错。
