经典美文

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　　经典美文【1】

　　猎人、猎狗和兔子

　　一

　　一条猎狗将兔子赶出了窝，一直追赶他，追了很久仍没有捉到。牧羊看到此种情景，讥笑猎狗说‘你们两个之间小的反而跑得快得多。‘猎狗回答说：‘你不知道我们两个的跑是完全不同的!我仅仅为了一顿饭而跑，他却是为了性命而跑呀!

　　二

　　这话被猎人听到了，猎人想：猎狗说的对啊，那我要想得到更多的猎物，得想个好法子。于是，猎人又买来几条猎狗，凡是能够在打猎中捉到兔子的，就可以得到几根骨头，捉不到的就没有饭吃。这一招果然有用，猎狗们纷纷去努力追兔子，因为谁都不愿意看着别人有骨头吃，自已没的吃。就这样过了一段时间，问题又出现了。大兔子非常难捉到，小兔子好捉。但捉到大兔子得到的奖赏和捉到小兔子得到的骨头差不多，猎狗们善于观察发现了这个窍门，专门去捉小兔子。慢慢的，大家都发现了这个窍门。猎人对猎狗说：最近你们捉的兔子越来越小了，为什么?猎狗们说：反正没有什么大的区别，为什么费那么大的劲去捉那些大的呢?

　　三

　　猎人经过思考后，决定不将分得骨头的数量与是否捉到兔子挂钩，而是采用每过一段时间，就统计一次猎狗捉到兔子的总重量。按照重量来评价猎狗，决定一段时间内的待遇。于是猎狗们捉到兔子的数量和重量都增加了。猎人很开心。但是过了一段时间，猎人发现，猎狗们捉兔子的数量又少了，而且越有经验的猎狗，捉兔子的数量下降的就越利害。于是猎人又去问猎狗。猎狗说‘我们把最好的时间都奉献给了您，主人，但是我们随着时间的推移会老，当我们捉不到兔子的时候，您还会给我们骨头吃吗?‘

　　四

　　猎人做了论功行赏的决定。分析与汇总了所有猎狗捉到兔子的数量与重量，规定如果捉到的兔子超过了一定的数量后，即使捉不到兔子，每顿饭也可以得到一定数量的骨头。猎狗们都很高兴，大家都努力去达到猎人规定的数量。一段时间过后，终于有一些猎狗达到了猎人规定的数量。这时，其中有一只猎狗说：我们这么努力，只得到几根骨头，而我们捉的猎物远远超过了这几根骨头。我们为什么不能给自己捉兔子呢?‘于是，有些猎狗离开了猎人，自己捉兔子去了骨头与肉兼而有之……

　　五

　　猎人意识到猎狗正在流失，并且那些流失的猎狗像野狗一般和自己的猎狗抢兔子。情况变得越来越糟，猎人不得已引诱了一条野狗，问他到底野狗比猎狗强在那里。野狗说：“猎狗吃的是骨头，吐出来的是肉啊!”，接着又道：“也不是所有的野狗都顿顿有肉吃，大部分最后骨头都没的舔!不然也不至于被你诱惑。”于是猎人进行了改革，使得每条猎狗除基本骨头外，可获得其所猎兔肉总量的n，而且随着服务时间加长，贡献变大，该比例还可递增，并有权分享猎人总兔肉的m。就这样，猎狗们与猎人一起努力，将野狗们逼得叫苦连天，纷纷强烈要求重归猎狗队伍。

　　只有永远的利益，没有永远的朋友

　　日子一天一天地过去，冬天到了，兔子越来越少，猎人们的收成也一天不如一天。而那些服务时间长的老猎狗们老得不能捉到兔子，但仍然在无忧无虑地享受着那些他们自以为是应得的大份食物。终于有一天猎人再也不能忍受，把他们扫地出门，因为猎人更需要身强力壮的猎狗……

　　美文赏析:去经历去体验 做最好最真实的自己【2】

　　Truly happy and successful people get that way by becoming the best, most genuine version of themselves they can be. Not on the outside--on the inside. It's not about a brand, a reputation, a persona. It's about reality. Who you really are.

　　真正快乐成功的人会长成最好最真实的自己——从内心而非外表上。重要的不是品牌、名誉或者外表形象，而是真实的自我。

　　Sounds simple, I know. It is a simple concept. The problem is, it's very hard to do, it takes a lot of work, and it can take a lifetime to figure it out.

　　道理很简单，讲出来也很容易。但问题是，做起来就不简单了：这需要付诸很多努力，甚或一辈子才能实现。

　　Nothing worth doing in life is ever easy. If you want to do great work, it's going to take a lot of hard work to do it. And you're going to have to break out of your comfort zone and take some chances that will scare the crap out of you.

　　需要穷尽毕生精力的事情必定不容易。成大事者必先苦其心志。因此，你必须走出舒适区，去经历、去体验那些会让你害怕的机会。

　　But you know, I can't think of a better way to spend your life. I mean, what's life for if not finding yourself and trying to become the best, most genuine version of you that you can be?

　　况且，人这一辈子，若到头来都认不清自己、未能长成最好最真实的自己，还有什么意义呢?

　　That's what Steve Jobs meant when he said this at a Stanford University commencement speech:

　　正如史蒂夫-乔布斯在斯坦福大学的毕业典礼上所言：

　　Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

　　时间宝贵，不要虚掷光阴过着他人的生活。不要让周遭的聒噪言论蒙蔽你内心的声音。

　　You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

　　你要相信，生活中的偶然冥冥中也能指引未来。你要心怀信念——相信你的直觉、命运、生活抑或因缘。这个方法一直给我力量，促使我过得卓然不同。

　　The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

　　成大事的唯一途径就是做自己喜欢的事情。若你还没找到，那就继续追寻吧，不要停下来。

　　Now, let's for a moment be realistic about this. Insightful as that advice may be, it sounds a little too amorphous and challenging to resonate with today's quick-fix culture. These days, if you can't tell people exactly what to do and how to do it, it falls on deaf ears.

　　现在我们来实际一点：建议或许很深刻，但听完却让人无从着手，难以运用到当今的快节奏文化中。现如今，如果一个建议讲不清具体做什么、该怎么做的话，那么说了也等于白说。

　　Not only that, but what Jobs was talking about, what I'm talking about, requires focus and discipline, two things that are very hard to come by these days. Why? Because, focus and discipline are hard. It's so much easier to give in to distraction and instant gratification. Easy and addictive.

　　不仅如此，乔布斯的讲话和我要说的话都需要集中和自制——这两个品质在当今社会非常难能可贵。何以见得?因为集中和自制都不容易做到。人们很容易分散注意力、寻求即时快感——舒服且容易上瘾。

　　To give you a little incentive to take on the challenge, to embark on the road to self-discovery, here are three huge benefits from working to become the best, most genuine version of yourself.

　　为激励你迎接挑战、踏上寻求自我的旅途，我列出了成为最好最真实自己后的三大益处：

　　It will make you happy. Getting to know yourself will make you feel more comfortable in your own skin. It will reduce your stress and anxiety. It will make you a better spouse, a better parent, a better friend. It will make you a better person. Those are all pretty good reasons, if you ask me.

　　你会感到快乐。了解自己后会让你更愉悦地接受自己，减轻你的压力和焦虑，使你成为更好的伴侣、父母、朋友，让你成为一个更美好的人。这些益处难道不够说服你为之努力吗?

　　Besides, you really won't achieve anything significant in life until you know the real you. Not your brand, your LinkedIn profile, how you come across, or what anyone thinks of you. The genuine you. There's one simple reason why you shouldn't try to be something you're not, and it's that you can't. The real you will come out anyway. So forget your personal brand and start spending time on figuring out who you really are and trying to become the best version of that you can be.

　　而且，只有了解真实的自己方能成就大事。你需要了解那个真实的你，而不是你的品牌、名誉、LinkedlIn资料、你的过去抑或他人对你的看法。为什么你不应该过他人的生活?很简单，因为首先你不是“其他人”，你的本性总有一天会现形。所以，请放开你的品牌形象，努力发掘真实自我、努力把自己经营成最好的自己吧。

　　美文赏析:爱情不是商品【3】

　　Love Is Not Like Merchandise

　　爱情不是商品

　　A reader in Florida, apparently bruised by some personal experience, writes in to complain, "If I steal a nickel's worth of merchandise, I am a thief and punished; but if I steal the love of another's wife, I am free."

　　佛罗里达州的一位读者显然是在个人经历上受过创伤, 他写信来抱怨道: “如果我偷走了五分钱的商品, 我就是个贼, 要受到惩罚, 但是如果我偷走了他人妻子的爱情, 我没事儿。”

　　This is a prevalent misconception in many people's minds---that love, like merchandise, can be "stolen". Numerous states, in fact, have enacted laws allowing damages for "alienation of affections".

　　这是许多人心目中普遍存在的一种错误观念——爱情, 像商品一样, 可以 “偷走”。实际上，许多州都颁布法令，允许索取“情感转让”赔偿金。

　　But love is not a commodity; the real thing cannot be bought, sold, traded or stolen. It is an act of the will, a turning of the emotions, a change in the climate of the personality.

　　但是爱情并不是商品;真情实意不可能买到，卖掉，交换，或者偷走。爱情是志愿的行动，是感情的转向，是个性发挥上的变化。

　　When a husband or wife is "stolen" by another person, that husband or wife was already ripe for the stealing, was already predisposed toward a new partner. The "love bandit" was only taking what was waiting to be taken, what wanted to be taken.

　　当丈夫或妻子被另一个人“偷走”时，那个丈夫或妻子就已经具备了被偷走的条件，事先已经准备接受新的伴侣了。这位“爱匪”不过是取走等人取走、盼人取走的东西。

　　We tend to treat persons like goods. We even speak of the children "belonging" to their parents. But nobody "belongs" to anyone else. Each person belongs to himself, and to God. Children are entrusted to their parents, and if their parents do not treat them properly, the state has a right to remove them from their parents' trusteeship.

　　我们往往待人如物。我们甚至说孩子“属于”父母。但是谁也不“属于”谁。人都属于自己和上帝。孩子是托付给父母的，如果父母不善待他们，州政府就有权取消父母对他们的托管身份。

　　Most of us, when young, had the experience of a sweetheart being taken from us by somebody more attractive and more appealing. At the time, we may have resented this intruder---but as we grew older, we recognized that the sweetheart had never been ours to begin with. It was not the intruder that "caused" the break, but the lack of a real relationship.

　　我们多数人年轻时都有过恋人被某个更有诱惑力、更有吸引力的人夺去的经历。在当时，我们兴许怨恨这位不速之客---但是后来长大了，也就认识到了心上人本来就不属于我们。并不是不速之客“导致了”决裂，而是缺乏真实的关系。

　　On the surface, many marriages seem to break up because of a "third party". This is, however, a psychological illusion. The other woman or the other man merely serves as a pretext for dissolving a marriage that had already lost its essential integrity.

　　从表面上看，许多婚姻似乎是因为有了“第三者”才破裂的。然而这是一种心理上的幻觉。另外那个女人，或者另外那个男人，无非是作为借口，用来解除早就不是完好无损的婚姻罢了。

　　Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has "come between" oneself and a beloved. This is always a distortion of reality, for people are not the captives or victims of others---they are free agents, working out their own destinies for good or for ill.

　　因失恋而痛苦，因别人“插足”于自己与心上人之间而图报复，是最没有出息、最自作自受的乐。这种事总是歪曲了事实真相，因为谁都不是给别人当俘虏或牺牲品——人都是自由行事的，不论命运是好是坏，都由自己来作主。

　　But the rejected lover or mate cannot afford to believe that his beloved has freely turned away from him--- and so he ascribes sinister or magical properties to the interloper. He calls him a hypnotist or a thief or a home-breaker. In the vast majority of cases, however, when a home is broken, the breaking has begun long before any "third party" has appeared on the scene.

　　但是，遭离弃的情人或配偶无法相信她的心上人是自由地背离他的——因而他归咎于插足者心术不正或迷人有招。他把他叫做催眠师、窃贼或破坏家庭的人。然而，从大多数事例看，一个家的破裂，是早在什么“第三者”出现之前就开始了的。