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1、关于优秀英语美文鉴赏I Call Things As I See Themby Ralph PinelliAn umpire has to make instant decisions. I ve learned to call things as I see them. This helps me make a quick reply to such an important and personal question as my belief. My philosophy of life is simple, with a vital, driving force： I believe i
2、n my God, my family, my country, and baseball.Including baseball may seem out of place in this statement, but I firmly believe that baseball, more than being just a national pastime, has been officially bound up with American life, certainly with my own. It helped develop me physically as a boy. It
3、taught me teamwork and an ability to cooperate with others. Another thing, it taught me to try to play according to the rules of the game. This has helped me throughout life.My parents came to this country from Italy as poor immigrants. I grew up at a time when even a high school education was out o
4、f reach. My formal education never went beyond the elementary grades, but the lessons I learned at home, at church, and on the playground have carried me through. I believe firmly in higher education. My son was signed to a baseball contract when he was still in high school, but I insisted on a clau
5、se permitting him a full four-year college course before starting professional ball.I believe that even more important than a college education, though, is the good, solid, practical, and religious training in the home and at church. My mother taught me a proper scale of values and trained me to liv
6、e up to them. I still remember the sandlot game I had to leave before the final inning, so I could get on my Sunday suit and be at church in time for confirmation.Experience has proved my belief in the importance of the family. This is where good, useful citizens come from. My wife and I have enjoye
7、d the companionship of some 35 years of married life, and we have had the happiness of seeing our two sons grow into manhood and start their own families. We never had the pleasure of having a daughter, but now we happily share three granddaughters and five grandsons. Our happiness with them is a gr
8、eat consolation and comfort against the older years when many a couple grow lonely.I have found strength and consolation in my church, and I have found peace and help in humble, daily prayer when I praise God for his goodness and ask Him to forgive me my trespasses, as I forgive others, and beg His
9、blessings for myself, and my family and friends.So these are the things I believe in： my God, who has given me a personal destiny and who deserves all praise and service; my family, who have given me happiness and strength; my country, which has given me every opportunity to live my life according t
10、o my conscience; and baseball, which has given me healthy recreation and solid training for life. This is my theology and philosophy of life.How to Refill an Empty Lifeby Albert J NesbittOne day about fifteen years ago I suddenly came face to face with myself and realized there was something quite e
11、mpty about my life. My friends and associates perhaps didn t see it. By the generally accepted standards, I was u successful, “ I was head of a prosperous manufacturing concern and led what is usually referred to as an active life, both socially and in business. But it didn t seem to me to be adding
12、 up to anything. I was going around in circles. I worked hard, played hard, and pretty soon I discovered I was hitting the highballs harder than I needed. I wasn* t a candidate for Alcoholics Anonymous, but to be honest with myself I had to admit I was drinking more than was good for me. It may have
13、 been out of sheer boredom.I began to wonder what to do. It occurred to me that I might have gotten myself too tightly wrapped up in my job, to the sacrifice of the basic but non-materialistic values of life. It struck me abruptly that I was being quite selfish, that my major interest in people was
14、in what they meant to me, what they represented as business contacts or employees, not what I might mean to them. I remembered that as my mother sent me to Sunday school as a boy, and encouraged me to sing in the church choir, she used to tell me that the value of what she called a good Christian ba
15、ckground was in having something to tie to. I put in a little thought recalling the Golden Rule and some of the other first principles of Christianity. I began to get interested in YMCA work.It happened that just at this time we were having some bitter fights with the union at our plant. Then one da
16、y it occurred to me： What really is their point of view, and why? I began to see a basis for their suspicions, theiroften chip-on-shoulder point of view, and I determined to do something about it.We endeavored to apply-literally apply-Christian principles to our dealing with employees, to practice,
17、for example, something of the Golden Rule. The men, s response, once they were convinced we were sincere, was remarkable. The effort has paid for its pains, and I don t mean in dollars. I mean in dividends of human dignity, of a man s pride in his job and in the company, knowing that he is no longer
18、 just a cog but a live personal part of it and that it doesn t matter whether he belongs to a certain church or whether the pigmentation of his skin is light or dark.But I can speak with most authority on how this change of attitude affected me and my personal outlook on life. Perhaps, again, many o
19、f my friends did not notice the difference.But I noticed it. That feeling of emptiness, into which I was pouring cocktails out of boredom, was filling up instead with a purpose： to live a full life with an awareness and appreciation of other people. I do not pretend for a second that I have suddenly
20、 become a paragon. My faults are still legion and I know them.But it seems to me better to have a little religion and practice it than think piously and do nothing about it. I feel better adjusted, more mature than I ever have in my life before. I have no fear. I say this not boastfully but in all h
21、umility. The actual application of Christian principles has changed my life.One Girl Changed My Lifeby Rose ResnickMy childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons
22、in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts. And books, big Braille books that came with me on streetcars, to the table, and to bed. Then one night at a high school dance, a remark, not intended for my ears, stabbed my youthful bliss： uThat girl, wha
23、t a pity she is blind. Blind! That ugly word that implied everything dark, blank, rigid, and helpless. Quickly I turned and called out, Please don t feel sorry for me, I m having lots of fun. But the fun was not to last.With the advent of college, I was brought to grips with the problem of earning a
24、 living. Part-time teaching of piano and harmony and, upon graduation, occasional concerts and lectures, proved only partial sources of livelihood. In terms of time and effort involved, the financial remuneration was disheartening. This induced within me searing self-doubt and dark moods of desponde
25、ncy. Adding to my dismal sense of inadequacy was the repeated experience of seeing my sisters and friends go off to exciting dates. How grateful I was for my piano, where-through Chopin, Brahms, and Beethoven-I could mingle my longing and seething energy with theirs. And where I could dissolve my fr
26、ustration in the beauty and grandeur of their conceptions.Then one day, I met a girl, a wonderful girl, an army nurse, whose faith and stability were to change my whole life. As our acquaintance ripened into friendship, she discerned, behind a shell of gaiety, my recurring plateaus of depression. Sh
27、e said, “Stop knocking on closed doors. Keep up your beautiful music. I know your opportunity will come. You re trying too hard. Why don t you relax, and have you ever tried praying?MThe idea was strange to me. It sounded too simple. Somehow, I had always operated on the premise that, if you wanted
28、something in this world, you had to go out and get it for yourself. Yet, sincerity and hard work had yielded only meager returns, and I was willing to try anything. Experimentally, selfconsciously, I cultivated the daily practice of prayer. I said: God, show me the purpose for which You sent me to t
29、his world. Help me to be of use to myself and to humanity.In the years to follow, the answers began to arrive, clear and satisfying beyond my most optimistic anticipation. One of the answers was Enchanted Hills, where my nurse friend and I have the privilege of seeing blind children come alive in God s out-of-doors. Others are the never-ending sources of pleasure and comfort I have found in friendship, in great music, and, most important of all, in my growing belief that as I attune my life to divine revelation, I draw closer to God and, through Him, to immortality.感谢您的阅读，祝您生活愉快。