赖大师的精选---我的挚爱(不要说晚)

第三弹  不要说晚
                     We’re Just Beginning

                                 Charles F Kettering


    “We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book whose
pages are infinite…”
   I do not know who wrote these words, but I have always liked them
as a reminder¹ that the future can be anything we want to make it. We
can take the mysterious, hazy² future and carve out of it anything that
we can imagine, just as a sculptor³ carves a statue from a shapeless
stone.
    We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed,
we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we
reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing
at all.
    I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it
contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled.
We should all be concerned about the future because that is where
we will spend the remainder of out lives.
    The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it.
The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will affect it.
Each day brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our
businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the
beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor。

1 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

2 hazy   

adj.有薄雾的，朦胧的；不肯定的，模糊的

参考例句：

• We couldn't see far because it was so hazy.雾气蒙蒙妨碍了我们的视线。
• I have a hazy memory of those early years.对那些早先的岁月我有着朦胧的记忆。

3 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。