新高考高中英语学习—读名篇8学知识,积累英语作文写作素材:奋进的人生 （含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

新高考高中英语学习—读名篇学知识,积累英语作文写作素材：奋进的人生 （含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展） 说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。 当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。 读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（孙三五编辑） 导读 人们常说艰难困苦是幸福的源泉，安逸享受是苦难的开始。为了追逐梦想，多少人在异地学习和工作，忍受着孤独寂寞，下雨了没人送伞，开心的事没人可以分享，愁苦愤懑没人可以倾诉，独自走过四季，冷暖自知。人生就是这样，耐得住寂寞才能守得住繁华，该奋斗的年龄就不要选择安逸，你想要的岁月终究会给你。 正文 The Strenuous Life奋进的人生 Theodore Roosevelt西奥多·罗斯福 A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as an individual. We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts, the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in