English Chinese practice (4)

1) I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. 2) No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won‘t make you cry. 3) The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can‘t have them. 4) Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile. 5) To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

1) 我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是 因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。 2) 没有人值得你流泪，值得让你这么做的人 不会让你哭泣。 3) 失去某人，最糟糕的莫过于，他近在身旁， 却犹如远在天边。 4 ) 纵然伤心，也不要愁眉不展，因为你不知 是谁会爱上你的笑容。 5) 对于世界而言，你是一个人；但是对于某个 人，你是他的整个世界

6) Don‘t waste your time on a man/woman, who isn‘t willing to waste their time on you. 7) Just because someone doesn‘t love you the way you want them to, doesn‘t mean they don‘t love you with all they have. 8) Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to. 9) Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful. 10) Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

6) 不要为那些不愿在你身上花费时间的人而浪 费你的时间。 7) 爱你的人如果没有按你所希望的方式来爱你， 那并不代表他们没有全心全意地爱你。 8) 不要着急，最好的总会在最不经意的时候出 现。 9) 在遇到梦中人之前，上天也许会安排我们先 遇到别的人；在我们终于遇见心仪的人时，便 应当心存感激。 10) 不要因为结束而哭泣。微笑吧，为你的曾 经拥有。

An Excerpt from what Life Means to Me by Jack London Jack London ( ), Considered by many to be America’s finest author, whose name at birth was John Griffith Chaney, and whose life symbolized the power of will, was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. “The Call of the Wild” and “The Sea-Wolf”, were his best known works. He died at age 40 of various diseases and drug treatments.

1. I was born in the working-class. Early I discovered enthusiasm, ambition, and ideals; and to satisfy these became the problem of my child-life. My environment was crude and rough and raw. I had no outlook, but an uplook rather.

2. My place in society was at the bottom. Here life offered nothing but sordidness and wretchedness, both of the flesh and the spirit; for here flesh and spirit were alike starved and tormented.

3. Above me towered the colossal edifice of society, and to my mind the only way out was up. Into this edifice I early resolved to climb. Up above, men wore black clothes and boiled shirts, and women dressed in beautiful gowns. Also, there were good things to eat, and there was plenty to eat. This much for the flesh. Then there were the things of the spirit.

4.. Up above me, I knew, were unselfishnesses of the spirit, clean and noble thinking, keen intellectual living. I knew all this because I read "Seaside Library" novels, in which, with the exception of the villains and adventuresses, all men and women thought beautiful thoughts, spoke a beautiful tongue, and performed glorious deeds.

5. In short, as I accepted the rising of the sun, I accepted that up above me was all that was fine and noble and gracious, all that gave decency and dignity to life, all that made life worth living and that remunerated one for his travail and misery.