赖大师的精选---我的挚爱(友情相伴)

第六弹  友情相伴

                                         Friendship

                                 Oriaon Swett Marden

    No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty
of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great
effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of
the right sort will help him more---to be happy and successful---than
much money or great learning.

   Friendship is no one-sided affair. There can be no friendship without
reciprocity. One cannot receive all and give nothing, or give all and
receive nothing, and experience the joy and fullness of true
companionship.
   Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are
admired and which attract. If you are mean, stingy and selfish, nobody
will admire you. You must cultivate generosity¹ and large-heartedness;
you must be magnanimous and tolerant; you must have positive qualities,
for a negative, shrinking, apologizing, roundabout man is despised. You
must believe in yourself. If you do not, others will not believe in you. You
must look upward and be hopeful, cheery, and optimistic. No one will be
attracted to a gloomy pessimist².

1 generosity   

n.大度，慷慨，慷慨的行为

参考例句：

• We should match their generosity with our own.我们应该像他们一样慷慨大方。
• We adore them for their generosity.我们钦佩他们的慷慨。

2 pessimist   

n.悲观者；悲观主义者；厌世

参考例句：

• An optimist laughs to forget.A pessimist forgets to laugh.乐观者笑着忘却，悲观者忘记怎样笑。
• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.悲观者在每个机会中都看到困难，乐观者在每个困难中都看到机会。