内容正文:
Extended reading【P. 39】
Of Friendship
As we walk the "path of life", we may sometimes wish to be alone with our own thoughts, for quiet periods of reflection can lead to personal improvement. However, when we seek to be alone, we must be careful that we do not always escape into our own world. Social life is also important to us.
More often than not, close friendships will help smooth out the sometimes rocky road that we are all meant to travel.
生命之路
思想
反射,反思
引向
个人提升
seek-sought-sought寻找;搜寻
系表结构可以接宾语从句
逃离
通常;多半
消除;使平滑
坎坷崎岖的路
打算;本应该
As we live in social groups, there are many benefits of friendship that we can enjoy. Generally speaking, close friendships have three "fruits": they may comfort the heart, advise the head and help us achieve the goals we set for ourselves. Through friendship, we can become happier, wiser and more satisfied humans.
The first fruit of friendship is the peace that comes from sharing with friends our joy, sadness, success and failure. Here, friendship has a double advantage—happiness takes on a greater meaning and a trouble shared becomes a trouble halved! Naturally, this kind of openness results
社会群体
利益;好处→benefit from因...而受益
一般来说
果实,收获
安慰
成就
球门;目标
为...设定
更满足的人类
与朋友分享的和平
失意
双重优势
呈现
过去分词,后置定语
一半的
这种开放(态度)导致
from a close friendship. With true friends, we feel free to share our joy and sadness in full measure. We know that our friends will both respect our feelings and treasure these moments of closeness. Indeed, the human heart depends on such opportunities for comfort and protection.
The second fruit of friendship is the better understanding and judgement that may be achieved through conversations with well-meaning and wise friends.
We often find it easier to recognize other people's weaknesses than our own.
最大程度地
尊重
珍惜=value
-ness名词后缀
相反,此外
依赖
机遇
-tion,名词后缀
-ment,名词后缀
成就
交谈
善意的;好心的
认出;承认→recognition n.
As a result, if we are guided only by our own feelings, our judgements might be one-sided. On the other hand, our friends a