晨读英语美文60篇(含lrc字幕)Six Famous Words
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[00:00.00]Six Famous Words
[00:04.31]“To be or not to be.”
[00:06.84]Outside the Bible,
[00:08.79]these six words are the most famous
[00:10.98]in all the literature of the world.
[00:13.62]They were spoken by Hamlet
[00:15.80]when he was thinking aloud,
[00:17.44]and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare
[00:20.96]because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself
[00:24.70]but also for every thinking man and woman.
[00:28.30]To be or not to be, to live or not to live,
[00:33.33]to live richly and abundantly and eagerly,
[00:37.04]or to live dully and meanly and scarcely.
[00:41.08]A philosopher once wanted to know
[00:44.05]whether he was alive or not,
[00:45.67]which is a good question for everyone
[00:48.31]to put to himself occasionally.
[00:49.96]He answered it by saying:
[00:52.24]“I think, therefore I am.”
[00:54.88]But the best definition of existence I ever saw
[00:59.61]was one written by another philosopher who said:
[01:03.00]“To be is to be in relations.”
[01:05.94]If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has,
[01:10.54]the more it is alive.
[01:12.40]To live abundantly means simply
[01:16.33]to increase the range and intensity of our relations.
[01:19.85]Unfortunately we are so constituted
[01:23.12]that we get to love our routine.
[01:25.41]But apart from our regular occupation how much are we alive?
[01:30.54]If you are interested only in your regular occupation,
[01:34.72]you are alive only to that extent.
[01:38.00]So far as other things are concerned—
[01:40.94]poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports,
[01:45.11]unselfish friendships, politics,
[01:48.28]international affairs—you are dead.
[01:51.88]Contrariwise, it is true
[01:55.07]that every time you acquire a new interest—
[01:57.68]even more, a new accomplishment—
[02:00.32]you increase your power of life.
[02:03.15]No one who is deeply interested in a large variety
[02:07.19]of subjects can remain unhappy,
[02:09.72]the real pessimist is the person who has lost interest.
[02:13.98]Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend.
[02:20.11]But we gain new life by contacts and new friends.
[02:24.48]What is supremely true of living objects
[02:28.08]is only less true of ideas,
[02:30.39]which are also alive.
[02:32.35]Where your thoughts are, there will your life be also.
[02:36.49]If your thoughts are confined only to your business,
[02:40.45]only to your physical welfare,
[02:42.73]only to the narrow circle of the town in which you live,
[02:46.89]then you live in a narrow-circled life.
[02:49.94]But if you are interested in what is going on in China,
[02:54.66]then you are living in China—
[02:56.65]if you’re interested in the characters of a good novel,
[03:00.46]then you are living with those highly interesting people,
[03:04.40]if you listen intently to fine music,
[03:07.89]you are away from your immediate surroundings
[03:10.97]and living in a world of passion and imagination.
[03:14.57]To be or not to be—to live intensely and richly,
[03:19.71]merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.
[03:23.75]Let widen and intensify our relations.
[03:28.01]While we live, let live!