新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第31篇：感恩生活

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[00:00.43]31. Be grateful to life 感恩生活
[00:10.80]Once President Roosevelt's house was broken into and lots of things were stolen. 美国总统罗斯福的家曾经失窃，财物损失严重。
[00:17.15]Hearing this, one of Roosevelt's friends wrote to him and advised him not to take it to his heart so much.  朋友闻此消息，就写信来安慰他，劝他不必把这件事放在心上。
[00:24.73]President Roosevelt wrote back immediately, saying,"Dear friend, thank you for your letter to comfort me. I'm all right now. 罗斯福总统很快回信说：“亲爱的朋友，谢谢你来信安慰我，我一切都很好。
[00:34.83]I think I should thank God. This is because of the following three reasons:我想我应该感谢上帝，因为：
[00:40.99]firstly, the thief only stole things from me but did not hurt me at all; 第一，我损失的只是财物，而人却毫发未损；
[00:47.16]secondly, the thief has stolen some of my things instead of all my things; 第二，我只损失了部分财物，而非所有财产；
[00:54.72]thirdly, most luckily for me, it was the man rather than me who became a thief..."第三，最幸运的是，做小偷的是那个人，而不是我......”
[01:02.59]It was quite unlucky for anyone to be stolen from.. 对任何人来说，家中失窃绝非幸事。
[01:07.46]However, President Roosevelt had such three reasons to be so grateful. 但是，罗斯福总统却能找到三个感恩的理由。
[01:14.13]This story tells us how we can learn to be grateful in our life.这个故事告诉我们，生活中，我们应该学会感恩。  
[01:19.00]Being grateful is an important philosophy of life and a great wisdom.. 感恩是一项重要的处世哲学，是生活的大智慧。
[01:25.50]It is impossible for anyone to be lucky and successful all the time so long as he lives in the world. 人生在世，不可能事事顺通。
[01:33.27]We should learn how to face failure or misfortune bravely and generously and to try to deal with it. 对于各种失败和不幸，我们要豁达大度，勇敢地面对，并想办法解决。
[01:42.94]If so, should we complain about our life and become frustrated and disappointed ever since then or should we be grateful for our life, rise again ourselves after a fall? 面对困难，我们是懊恼抱怨、沮丧气馁，陷入绝望，还是对生活满怀感恩之心，跌倒后再爬起来呢？
[01:55.95]William Thackeray, a famous British writer, said, "Life is a mirror. When you smile in front of it, it will also smile and so will it when you cry to it. "英国著名作家威廉・萨克雷说过，“生活是一面镜子，你对它笑，它也会对你笑；你对他哭，它也会对你哭。”
[02:10.64]If you are grateful to life, it will bring you shining sunlight. 如果对生活感恩，你的生命将充满灿烂的阳光。
[02:15.89]If you always complain about everything, you may own nothing in the end. 如果一味怨恨，终将一无所获。
[02:21.58]When we are successful, we can surely have many reasons for being grateful, but we have only one excuse to show ungratefulness if we fail.  我们成功时，有千万个理由感恩生活，而失败时，只要一个借口就会表现出忘恩负义。
[02:33.20]I think we should even be grateful to life whenever we are unsuccessful or unlucky. 我想，不论是遭遇失败还是不幸，我们都应该感谢生活。
[02:40.51]Only by doing this can we find our weakness and shortcomings when we fail. 只有这样，失败后，我们才能发现自己的缺点和不足，
[02:47.90]We can also get relief and warmth when we are unlucky. 不幸时，我们还能感受到安慰和温暖。
[02:52.21]This can help us find our courage to overcome the difficulties we may face, and receive great impetus to move on. 这些就能帮我们找回勇气，战胜困难，并获取前进的强大推动力。
[03:00.86]We should treat our frustration and misfortune in our life in the other way just as President Roosevelt did. 我们应像罗斯福总统那样，换一个角度去看待生活中的失败和挫折，
[03:10.36]We should be grateful all the time and keep having a healthy attitude to our life forever, and keep having perfect characters and enterprising spirit. 永远对生活充满感恩，才能时刻保持健康的心态，积极地生活，并能保持完美的人格和不断进取的精神。
[03:21.21]Being grateful is not only a kind of comfort, not an escape from life and nor thinking of winning in spirit like Ah Q. 感恩不仅仅是一种精神慰藉，也不是对现实的规避，更不是阿Q的精神胜利法。
[03:31.63]Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope. 感恩源于我们对生活的热爱和希望，它是我们歌颂生活的一种方式。
[03:39.14]When we put a small piece of alum into muddy water, we can see the alum can soon make the water clear. 把一小块明矾放入混沌的水中，我们发现，水很快就澄清了。
[03:47.73]If each of us has an attitude of being grateful, we'll be able to get rid of impulse, upset, dissatisfaction and misfortune. 如果人人都有一颗感恩的心，就能沉淀许多的浮躁和不安，消融许多的不满和不幸。
[03:58.40]Being grateful can bring us a better and more beautiful life. 感恩能让我们的生活变得更加美好。

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新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第31篇：感恩生活