怪事不止这一桩。
haltingly ['h:ltili] adv. 犹豫地；不完善地；跛地；踌躇地
Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula is moving haltingly.
朝鲜半岛的和解进程依然曲折。
勇敢的小男孩再一次下定决心，他要学会走路。不幸的是，他的腰部以下都失去了知觉。
然而，他要学会走路的决心丝毫未减。
没有什么事比给自己的腿注入生命更让他斗志昂扬了。
He made up his mind that he would survive.
made up mind：决意
He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence.
start to do：开始做某事；开始做；开始做（另一件事）
生活的真谛
What抯 Life
佚名 / Anonymous
Life isn't about keeping score.
It's not about how many friends you have or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone.
It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all.
It isn't about who you have kissed.
It's not about sex.
It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have.
Or what kind of car you drive.
Or where you are sent to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to.
It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown or if your skin is too light or too dark.
Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests say you are.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you." Life just isn't?
But, life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.
It's about keeping or betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon.
It's about what you say and what you mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
It's about starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.
It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgment are spread to.
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge.
It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone.
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about.
生活不是积分。
你有多少朋友或你受大家欢迎的程度与它无关。
这个周末你是佳人有约还是独自度过与它无关。
你现在正与谁约会，你曾经与谁约会，又与多少人约会，或者你有没有与谁约会，都与它无关。
你曾吻过谁，与它无关。
它也与两性问题无关。
它不是关于谁是你的家人，他们有多少钱。
或者你开哪种车。
你在哪儿上学。
你有多漂亮或多丑陋与它无关。
你穿什么样的衣服，有什么样的鞋子，听哪种类型的音乐，都与它无关。
你的头发是金色、红色、黑色或者棕色，或者你的肤色太白还是太黑，都与它无关。
你得了多少分，你有多聪明，别人认为你有多聪明，或者智力标准测试告诉你有多聪明，与它无关。
它不是把你各方面的情况写在一张纸上，然后看谁会“接受书面上的你”，它不是这样。
生活是你爱谁和你伤害了谁的问题。
是关于你故意逗谁开心或惹谁生气的问题。
是关于遵守诺言或者背信弃义的问题。
是关于友谊，把友谊当做一种圣洁还是利用的武器的问题。
是关于你所说的及其用意，也许使人痛苦，也许振奋人心的问题。
是关于散布谣言和捏造谈资。
是关于你作出的判断及其原由，还有，你对谁作出的判断。
是关于你对谁带着绝对控制和某些意图的忽视。
是关于嫉妒、恐惧、愚昧和报复。
是关于内心深处的恨和爱、释怀和蔓延。
最重要的是，它是关于你的生活使他人的心灵受到触动还是毒害，这样你的心不再独自悲欢。
只要你选择了触动他人的心灵，这些选择便是生活的全部。
生活不是物质条件的交换，而是你用心感受的点点滴滴。
sanctity ['s鎘titi] n. 神圣；尊严；圣洁
We should respect the sanctity of marriage.
我们应该尊重婚姻的神圣。
gossip ['gsip] n. 闲聊；随笔
Gossip is halitosis of the brain.
闲话是头脑发出的口臭。
jealousy ['delsi] n. 嫉妒
Can we assign jealousy as the motive for the crime?
我们能否确定这一犯罪动机是出于嫉妒？
revenge [ri'vend] n. 报仇；复仇；报复
I did not do it out of revenge.
我做那件事并不是出于报复。
生活是你爱谁和你伤害了谁的问题。
是关于友谊，把友谊当做一种圣洁还是利用的武器的问题。
只要你选择了触动他人的心灵，这些选择便是生活的全部。
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone.
most of all：最；最重要的是；首先；几乎全部
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone.
in such a way that ：通过……来
每个成功者都知道的秘密
Secrets Every Achiever Knows
佚名 / Anonymous
In October 1982, a 25-year-old woman finished the New York City Marathon. No big deal—until you learn that Linda Down has cerebral palsy and was the first woman ever to complete the 26.2-mile race on crutches. Down fell half a dozen times, but kept going until she crossed the finish line, 11 hours after she started. Her handicap limited her speed but not her determination.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote: "Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending." How nice it would be if we all had a genie who could help us finish what we begin. Unfortunately, we don't. But what we do have is a dynamic called discipline—which extracts a high price. Following one of Paderewski's performances, a fan said to him, "I'd give my life to play like that." The brilliant pianist replied, "I did."
Accomplishment is often deceptive because we don't see the pain and perseverance that produced it. So we may credit the achiever with brains, brawn or lucky breaks, and let ourselves off the hook because we fall short in all three. Not that we could all be concert pianists just by exercising enough discipline. Rather, each of us has the makings of success in some endeavor, but we will achieve this only if we apply our wills and work at it.
How can we acquire stick-at-itiveness? There is no simple, fast formula. But I have developed a way of thinking that has rescued my own vacillating will more than once. Here are the basic elements:
"Don't" power
This is as important as willpower. The ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius said, "Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do."
Discipline means choices