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放松心情 走进双语吧（七五）
作者：杨思晴
Dreams 梦想
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
紧紧抓住梦想
For if dreams die
梦想若是消亡
Life is a broken-winged bird
生命就象鸟儿折了翅膀
That can never fly
再也不能飞翔
Hold fast to dreams
紧紧抓住梦想
For when dreams go
梦想若是远去
Life is a barren field
生命就像贫瘠的荒野
Frozen only with snow
雪覆冰封，万物不再生长
幽 默 林
猜谜语学英语
中国有谜语，西方也有。西方人称谜语为riddle。它跟中国谜语一样，常在字形、字音和字意上卖关子，就看你能不能灵机一动。Riddle 除了可以益智外，也可以增加你对英文的兴趣，不失为一种学英文的好方法。
Questions
(1)What is the difference between here and there?
(2)What are the strongest days of the week?
(3)Why is the letter“R”like Christmas?
(4)Why did the person throw a clock out the window?
(5)What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?
Answers
(1)The letter“t”.(there 去掉“t”，跟 here 这个词就没什么两样。)
(2)Saturday and Sunday --- all the other days are weak (week) days.（weak与week的发音一样。而美国人的工作日只有五天，即从 Monday到 Friday ，这五天是他们的week days。）
(3)Because it comes at the end of December. (意思是R这个字母正好排在December的末尾，除此以外，答案还有一个意思，Christmas在the end of December的时候到来。）
(4)To see time fly.（不是因为夫妻吵架而摔东西，而是看时光飞驰，你说妙不妙？）
(5)A quarter to one. (A quarter to one是12点45分，再过一刻钟就到1点。另外一个意思是每人分四分之一。)
留 声 机
快乐时要感谢，悲伤时要从容
The happiness person on earth（1）isn't always happy.In fact,the happiness people all have their fair share of low moods,problems, disappointments,and heartache（2）.Often the difference between a person who is happy and someone who is unhappy isn't how often they get low, or even how low they drop,but instead,it's what they do with their low moods.How do they relate to their changing feelings?
Most people have it backward.When they are feeling down（3）,they roll up their sleeves and get to work.They take their low moods very seriously and try to figure out（4）and analyze what's wrong.They try to force themselves out of their low state,which problem rather than solve it.
To happy people, this is ok.They accept the inevitability of passing feelings.So,when they are feeling depressed,angry,of stressed out,they relate to these feelings with the same openness and wisdom.Rather than fight their feelings and panic simply because they are feeling bad,they accept their feelings,knowing that this too shall pass. This allows them to come gently and gracefully out of negative feeling states into more positive states of mind.
The next time you're feeling bad,rather than fight it,try to relax.See if, instead of panicking, you can be graceful and calm.Know that if you don't fight your negative feelings,if you are graceful,they will pass away just as surely as the sun sets in the evening.
词汇补给
（1）on earth：究竟，到底
（2） heartache：心痛, 悲叹；
headache:头疼；
stomachache:肚子痛，胃痛。
（3）feel down:心情沮丧，情绪低落。
（4）figure out：理解，解决，明白，计算出。
译文链接
世界上最开心的人并不是永远都是快乐的。事实上，最快乐的人也会有情绪低落，难事困身，伤心失意之时。通常来说，区分一个快乐的和一个不快乐的人的关键，就是看他们情绪低落的周期，或是他们情绪低落的程度。换句话说，就是要看他们处理低落情绪的方式。他们是怎么调整心情的？
很多人会采取回避的方式。当他们情绪低落时，就拼命工作。他们非常在意这种低落的情绪，总是努力的去领会和分析问题出在哪里。想方设法地强迫自己摆脱这种灰暗的情绪，结果往往是问题越弄越复杂，却没有得到解决。
对于快乐的人来说，这没什么，当他们感到沮丧，生气，或者有其它相关压抑心情的时候，同时也拥有开朗、明智的心情，他们不是因为感觉到很糟糕而与这些心情作斗争，或者是没有理由得惊惶失措，而是从容的对待这种情绪，他们相信一切都会过去的。这就让他们逐渐摆脱了消极情绪的影响，具有一种更加积极的心态。
下一次在你心情很坏的时候，不要进行心理斗争，放松一点而不是惊惶失措，这样你也可以变得从容、平和。如果你从容地面对，而不是与你消极的情绪抗争的话，它们就会像傍晚落山的太阳一样，很快地过去。