讀點好英文:What wiII Matter?什么才重要？

What wiII Matter?什么才重要？

·Bud Tenney·

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.

Your wealth, fame and temporaI power will shriveI to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jeaIousies will finally disappear.

So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or briIIiant. Your gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?How will the value of your days be measured?

What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built；not what you got, but what you gave.

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage and sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example.

What will matter is not your competence, but your character.

What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone.

What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.

Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident.

It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice.

Choose to live a life that matters.

巴德·坦尼

無論是否準備好，總有一天它都會走到盡頭。那里沒有日出，沒有白天，沒有小時和分鐘。你收集的所有東西，不管你珍惜或忘記與否，它們都將流入他人手中。

不管是你得到的或是你欠別人的，你的財產、名譽和權勢也都會變成和你毫不相干的東西。

你的怨恨、憤慨、挫折和妒忌最終也將消失。

因此，你的希望、抱負、計劃以及行動日程表也將全部結束。當初看得比較重的成功得失也會消失。

你來自何方，住在窮人區(qū)還是富人區(qū)也都不重要了。

你昔日的漂亮與輝煌也都不重要了，你的性別、膚色、種族地位也將消失。

因此，什么重要呢？怎么衡量你有生之年的價值呢？

重要的不是你買了什么，而是你創(chuàng)造了什么；不是你得到了什么，而是你給予了什么。

重要的不是你成功了，而是你生命的意義。

重要的不是你學到了什么，而是你傳授了什么。

重要的是每個行動之中都有正直和無所畏懼的氣概，偉大的同情心和犧牲精神，并且鼓勵他人遵從榜樣。

重要的不是你的能力，而是你的性格。

重要的不是你認識多少人，而是在你離開后，別人會認為這是個永遠的損失。

重要的是別人會記著你多長時間，誰記著你，為什么記著你。

過一種有意義的生活不是偶然的。

那不是環(huán)境的問題，而是選擇的問題。

選擇有意義的人生吧！

核心單詞

temporaI['temp?r?l]adj.暫存的，短暫的；世俗的；現世的

shriveI['?rivl]v.使束手無策；使無能為力；使無用

jeaIousy['d?el?si]n.妒忌；猜忌

briIIiant['brilj?nt]adj.光輝的；優(yōu)秀的；輝煌的；出色的

ethnicity[eθ'nisiti]n.種族地位；種族特點；種族淵源

integrity[in'tegriti]n.正直；廉正；誠實

competence['k?mp?t?ns]n.能力，勝任，稱職

實用句型

Ready or not, some day it wiII aII come to an end.無論是否準備好，總有一天它都會走到盡頭。

①ready or not是狀語從句No matter you are ready or not的省略形式。②come to涉及，達成，類似的表達還有come on進展，逐漸開始；come out出現，出版；come up開始，發(fā)生，被提出等固定搭配。

翻譯練習

1.會議終于結束了。（come to an end）

2.這不是你的錯，而是他的問題。（not……but……）

3.我偶然遇到了她。（by accident）