英语沙龙：把生活唤醒

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers¹ urged,

“Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”

How right they were! Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure,

extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

An enthusiastic attitude enables us to hang in there when the going gets tough.

It's the inner drive that whispers, “I can do it!” when others believe it can't be done.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder

—as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant’s delight at the jingle² of keys

or the scurrying³ of a beetle⁴.

It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.

As poet and author Samuel Ullman once wrote,

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses

—finding pleasure in the fragrance⁵ of a back-yard garden,

the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting⁶ beauty of a rainbow.

It is such an enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes.

1 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

2 jingle   

n.叮当声，韵律简单的诗句；v.使叮当作响，叮当响，押韵

参考例句：

• The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
• The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉发出常有的叮当声。

3 scurrying   

v.急匆匆地走( scurry的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我们能听见老鼠在墙里乱跑。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚会开始前我们一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 来自辞典例句

4 beetle   

n.甲虫，近视眼的人

参考例句：

• A firefly is a type of beetle.萤火虫是一种甲虫。
• He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫。

5 fragrance   

n.芬芳，香味，香气

参考例句：

• The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.苹果花使空气充满香味。
• The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房间里充满了薰衣草的香味。

6 enchanting   

a.讨人喜欢的

参考例句：

• His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's. 他那种既迷人又有些忧郁的微笑，活脱儿象他父亲。
• Its interior was an enchanting place that both lured and frightened me. 它的里头是个吸引人的地方，我又向往又害怕。