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英语演讲短文
On behalf of all the employees invited tonight, I would like to extend our congratulations to President and Mrs.
Johnson for the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.Twenty-five years seems like such a long time, especially to a man like me who got married only recently.
I seriously wish I would be able to learn from President and Mrs.
Johnson about the secret of having a happy and enduring marriage.Customarily, a gift of silver is given on the twenty-fifth anniversary.
We observe that custom, and would like to present a pair of silver ‘jeou’ cups to honor your marriage.
with these cups, Im sure your marriage will always be in a high ‘spiritCongratulations, President and Mrs.
Small Things To Do Every Day To Be Much Smarter
Intelligence is flexible and there are a lot of things to give it a daily boost. For smart thinking your mind needs 3 things:
To be trained in thinking processes
To have plenty of information
To focus on a problem or idea
For example, Thomas Edison was able to think of his light bulb because:
He was a trained logical thinker
He knew a lot about electrical engineering
He focused on solving a problem
Here are a bunch of things to do every day to help your mind to think smart.
1. Drink 2 glasses of water within 30 minutes of waking up
Since you’ve been asleep for hours, your body has not gotten water for 6-9 hours. Water is needed for the filtration of waste products and fluid balance. Two big glasses of water offset the fluid deficit you had from sleeping. Studies on kids (study 1, study 2) show that drinking more water increases their ability to complete mental tasks. Make sure your brain is not dehydrated at the beginning of the day already.
2. Read a book summary during breakfast
Reading books is great, but breakfast is far more suitable for something shorter. Instead of reading news articles that have little impact on your life/intelligence, read best selling book summaries. You can find summaries by:
Googling your book title + summary, for example “7 Habits of Highly Effective People summary”
Use a summary subscription like Blinkist or getAbstract
3. Listen to stimulating podcasts/audiobooks during your commute
Even if you spend only 10 minutes on your bike like I do, load your phone up with intellectually stimulating audio. Good sources could be:
TED talks (their app lets you pre-download audio so you don’t eat your mobile data)
Blinkist has some of their summaries in audio form
Audiobooks you purchased
Podcast of your favorite authors
4. Drink green tea while working
Where caffeine makes many people anxious, green tea (especially Matcha tea) contains l-theanine. This aminoacid causes an increase in alpha brain waves in the brain:
In practice this means that where coffee can induce anxiety, high quality green teas cause a relaxed focus without inducing sleepiness. This is also why l-theanine is available as a supplement to aid in relaxation and increasing cardiovascular health.
5. Take naps during the day
Napping helps your mind refresh. It’s been shown that napping during learning increases learning speed. Your mind has a rhythm that determines when it gets sleepy and when it needs sleep:
Daily-Rhythm-Sleep-Wake-Cycle
As you can see on average people feel more sleepy than usual between noon and 4 PM. This is a perfect time to have a nap, and will increase your alertness and productivity for the rest of the day. Personally I’ve has good results with post-workday naps too (around 6 PM).
6. Don’t take sugar during the day
In fact, if you can cut it altogether. But if you can’t for whatever reason, just make sure not to have it during times where you need to focus. Sugar highs and the following lows are not good to keep your brain functioning smartly. What does work very well are fatty acids. Try to switch any sweet stuff during lunch for something more substantial like fish or eggs.
7. Do social media / meme websites only a couple of times a day
The brain adapts to the information you throw at it. If you bombard it work non-stimulating and fast switching information your focus will get destroyed. Keep your brain functioning on a higher level by throwing stimulating things at it. If you feel the need to procrastinate, set a timer and don’t get lost in mindlessly scrolling.
8. Play games instead of watching series or movies
Watching tv is a passive activity. Your brain is consuming information, but not processing or interacting with it. Substitute or supplement this entertainment with gaming. A study showed that even a simple game like Super Mario has visible impact on brain plasticity (flexibility). Another piece of research covered by Forbes shows the same. Actively engage your brain where you can, instead of letting it slumber passively.
9. Read a book instead of watching tv
Similar to playing games instead of watching tv, reading a book is an active exercise for the brain. Where watching video entertainment is a passive consumption of information, reading a book requires your brain to actively construct mental images of what you are reading.
10. Do some programming
Programming is a great way to learn to think logically and in patterns. Coding used to be hard to learn but with free websites like Codeacademy and free/paid platforms like Udemy it is easy and fun to learn. Consider it the next level of puzzles. As an added advantage learning to code in your free time increases your employability in the job market.
11. Watch TED talks while cooking
Preparing dinner is a great time to catch up on some cutting edge developments in Technology, Education and Design (ted.com). It turns what would otherwise be downtime into a fascinating and stimulating block of time. It’s like watching the news, only you are watching the world’s most inspiring individuals talk about their work.
12. Do some simple exercises during the day
The body and the mind are strongly connected. Physical fitness helps the brain function well. You don’t however have to go to the gym every day to benefit from this (though you can of course). Doing some push-ups throughout the day and walking or skipping up some stairs has a great impact already. Try to do something physical every hour or so, even if it’s just getting up, stretching a little and tensing all your muscles as hard as you can for 5-10 seconds.
13. Spend time with someone smarter than you
Habits are socially contagious. It is a well known fact in science that obesity for example spreads through social networks (link to research). The habits and thinking patterns of those you spend time with rub off on you. Expose yourself to people who are smarter than you in order to benefit from them.
14. Talk to people who disagree with you
Get into (friendly) discussions with people who disagree with you on any topic. Arguing with them allows you to either:
Sharpen your arguments
Be convinced that you are wrong
In both cases you win. In the first you convince the other person by out reasoning them, and I the second false logic you previously had is not eliminated.
15. Go for a walk in nature
Walking through nature has a number of benefits:
There is more oxygen since plants produce it
The human mind calms down when surrounded by plants
Walking helps your blood circulation
Having a walk in a park at lunch time can greatly help you work smartly for the rest of the day.
16. Carry a notepad
Great minds like Leonardo Da Vinci always carries a notepad. They used it to jot down ideas, sketches and questions they had for later review. Having a little book on you and writing down interesting things can greatly help you train your curiosity and logical thinking.
17. Take 10 minutes at the end of the day to plan tomorrow
By planning tomorrow the day before you begin the day with a plan. This allows you to work much more productively. Many people are busy all day, but not actually productive. A great part of being smart is knowing that hard work is inferior to smart work. Pick your battles in advance.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to have you all to this party to celebrate the inauguration of our new company president, Mr. Cheng-En Lin.
I Would like to give a brief profile of Mr. Lin for those of you who do not know him well. Mr. Lin graduated from Tsinghua University in 1980. Right after graduation he started working for our company in the sales department. Between 1983-1995, he visited and lived in six different foreign countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, to develop our overseas market. Upon returning from abroad, he began to assume the position of executive manager of the sales department and has remained in that position until the appointment to the president this time.
He is very aggressive in business, but at the same time, a good husband and a caring father of three children.
Ladies and gentlemen, our new president, Mr. Cheng-En Lin !
Notes:
inauguration: 就职典礼
aggressive:积极进取
A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections.” The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred, These eggs, allowing for what may prove addle, and what may be destroyed by vermin, will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will be fit to carry to market just at the time when poultry is always dear; so that by the New Year I cannot fail of having money enough to purchase a new gown. Green-let me consider-yes, green becomes my complexion best. And green it shall be, in this dress I will go to the fair, where all young fellows will strive to have me for a partner; but no-I shall refuse every one of them, and with a disdainful toss turn from them.“
Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her head the thought that passed in her mind, when down came the can of milk! And all her imaginary happiness vanished in a moment.
Happy New Year, everybody!
I am very happy to see all of you here to celebrate the arrival of a new year. In particular, I am delighted to have the attendance of Mr. Williams and Mr. Richardson from the United Electric Company. Mr. Williams and Mr. Richardson, I really appreciate your presence here tonight. I hope you will enjoy this Chinese-style New Year's party. Please enjoy the traditional new Year's dishes such as Twan-yuan-huoo-guo and shy-jiin-way. Also, we have plenty of wine for your drinking enjoyment. I think you will be able to enjoy pouring wine to each other.
I hope you will have a good time tonight, and wish every one of you a very happy new year. Let's all have fun!
英语励志短文：超越卓越的自己
You! 生命掌握在你的手里——超越卓越的你!
Consider...YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion…
You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!!!
You're amazing! You're awesome! And by the way, TAG, you're it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. But you don't become ”beautiful“ just by virtue of the aging process.
Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today.
Paint a Masterpiece.
God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it's truly up to you.
试想一下……你!一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。哇!想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。
在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的!!!
你是了不起的!你是卓越的!没错，就是你。你已经是了不起的，是卓越的，你还可以更卓越更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自然而然地变得“美丽”。
真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。你可以只听天由命, 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以选择加速自己的成长，故意地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描绘自己未来的艺术家。画出一幅杰作吧!
上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。
英语励志短文：Life Is Yours(生命属于你)
Don’t wait for someday. This is the day, this is the moment, and this is your opportunity to live.
不要等待未来的某天。今天,就在此刻,就是你活出精彩的机会。
Let go of any thoughts of limitation. You deserve every joy you can imagine and you’re fully able of creating them all. xiaogushi8.com Stop settling for what’s only easy or comfortable or convenient. Give yourself the respect you deserve and take on the difficult challenges that bring real fulfilment1.
摒弃任何思想的局限性。你值得享有任何想象中的快乐,而且你完全有能力创造这些快乐。不要满足于简便和舒适的事物。你应该给自己应有的尊重,接受那些能让你实现梦想的艰巨挑战。
Give your life some beautiful and meaningful substance2 today. Remind yourself of how fortunate you are to have each moment, and sincerely fill those moments with richness.
今天,请让你的生命变得美好和有意义。提醒自己能拥有现在的每一刻你是多么幸运,要用心地、充实地度过每一刻。
Admit and be thankful for what you desire to experience, to express, to give and to live. Then, fully use the power of your purpose and make it happen. The best of life is never out of reach. It is yours to fulfil, right now.
承认你所渴望去体验、去表达、去给予、去经历的事情,并对其心怀感激。然后,充分利用你强大的意志力,使这些事情成为现实。生命中最美好的事情并不是遥不可及的。现在就是你实现它的时刻。
英语励志短文：Follow Your Dream(追随梦想)
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, ”I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy“s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.
”That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after class.”
“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?”
“The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you”ll have to pay large stud fees. There“s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’
”The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for you.’
“Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, www.52article.com making no changes at all. He stated, `You can keep the F and I”ll keep my dream.“”
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, `Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.’“
Don”t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
我的一个朋友在圣地亚哥(San Diego)南部的圣伊西德罗(San Ysidro)社区拥有一个马场，他的名字叫曼迪罗伯茨(Monty Roberts)。他答应我可以用他的房子来举办一些活动，来为一些年轻人的风险投资计划方案募集资金。
记得上次我在他那里的时候，他是这样介绍我的：“我想让你们知道，为什么我会把房子借给Jack用。这让我想起以前曾经发生的跟一个小男孩有关的小故事。这个小男孩是一个游走驯马师的儿子。而父亲总是会到处奔走于各个马厩、跑道与农牧场之间为别人训练马匹。小男孩在高中的正常学习生活也因此不断受到打扰。临毕业的一年，老师给他布置了一篇短文作业，描述一下自己将来想成为什么样的人和会做一些什么样的事情”
“当晚，他写了7页纸的作业文章，构想是他将来想拥有一个马场。详述并绘制一幅图，图中，这个马场有200英亩大，以及各个相关建筑、马厩和跑道的具体地点。还有一个详细的建屋计划---一个坐落在200英亩马场里的4000平方英尺的大房子。”
“小男孩很用心完成了这篇作业，第二天交给了老师。两天后，作业发下来了。一个大大的红色的F出现在作业的头页，还有几个字：课后来见我”
“课后，这个内心充满梦想的小男孩来到了老师面前问：为什么我的作业只得了F呢?”
“老师说：像你这样的学生有这样的梦想非常的不切实际。你没有钱，又来自一个游走驯马师的家庭，你根本没有实现梦想所需要的资源。拥有一个马场需要很多的资金，你必须买地，买种马，将来你还要支付一大笔的配种费用。你根本就无法做到这些。老师接着说：如果你重新写一篇作业，说一些比较实际的理想。我会考虑重新给你打分。”
“小男孩回到家，仔细的想了好久好久。他问爸爸他究竟该怎么办。爸爸说：这样吧，儿子，这个决定由你自己做吧。但我想，这个决定对你来说也非常的重要”
“思考了整整一周的时间后，小男孩最后还是没有把作业做任何的改动，交了上去。跟老师说：你可以继续给我F的评分，而我却要继续保留我的梦想”
曼迪回过头对大家说：“跟你们说这些是因为你们现在就正坐在我的200英亩大的马场里的一个4000平方英尺的房子里面。那篇高中作业文章我一直留到现在，做了个框架，现在就挂在壁炉的上方。这个故事中，最精彩的部分是两个夏天之前，给我作业评分F的老师带着30个学生来到了我的马场，宿营了一周。当老师即将离开的时候，他说：曼迪，我可以这样跟你说，当我还是你的老师的时候，我简直就是一个盗取别人梦想的人。那些年，我偷了太多孩子的梦想了。让我感到欣慰和幸运的是，你却有足够的魄力和勇气没有放弃你自己的梦想。”
不要让任何人盗取你们的梦想。无论发生什么，跟随你的心，勇敢的前进吧!
Let's take steps to banish some of the most common negative thoughts many of us repeat to ourselves. Being in a negative space is harmful to our overall well-being, because what you dwell on can easily become self fulfilling if you don't change your mindset.
让我们一起行动起来，消灭那些我们经常告诉自己的消极想法吧!如果你不改变想法，而是一味地沉浸在消极的念头中，那么，我们的整个身心就会受到影响，因为“噩梦”也会成真。
1.I'm not good enough.
我不够好。
This type of negative thought that can apply to many categories. Maybe you don't think you're a good enough mother or good at a sport. Even if you find yourself lacking in something, there's no need to keep repeating it to yourself. The human brain is an incredible thing. Be inspired by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Harvard-trained neuroscientist who suffered a stroke that left her unable to walk, read, write, talk, or remember her previous life. Dr. Taylor took eight years to recover and has since then written a best-selling book about her experience and appeared on Oprah. Keep on working toward something, and watch the leaps and bounds you'll make.
这种消极想法有很多类型。比如你认为自己不是个称职的妈妈或不擅长运动。即使你真的`发现了自己的弱点，也没必要对自己不断复述。人脑是神奇的。吉尔泰勒就是个激励的好典型，她是哈佛大学的神经系统学专家，中风后她就失去了行走、阅读、书写、交谈的能力了，甚至还失忆了。她花了八年的时间复原，用自己的经历写了畅销书，还上了奥普拉的节目。坚持做一件事，亲眼见证自己的变化。
2.No one cares about me.
没人关心我。
To accurately say that your family and friends don't care about you would be a very rare situation. Maybe you're being too negative and overlooking the gestures of love they show you. They don't even have to be big gestures, but it's the little things they do for you that count. And people may be reacting to the energy you're putting out; perhaps you think they don't care about you so you don't make any effort in your relationships. Start showing people you care, so they can show you back in kind. And if you don't have good relationships with the people you know, what's stopping you from making new friends?
家人朋友都不关心你，这种情况其实不太常见。可能你过于消极的想法使你忽略了他们对你表达的爱。他们甚至并不需要为你做什么惊天动地的大事，正是一些小事才真正打动人心。或者你觉得没人关心你，所以无需再经营人际关系，但其实也许人们只有在感知到你的付出后，才会对你进行回报;关心别人，别人才会关心你。如果你和周围人的关系处理不好，为何不结交些新朋友?
3.I really dislike this person.
我真的不喜欢这个人。
If you dislike a person in your work or personal life, focusing on her bad qualities is not going to make things better. You need to let go of your assumptions about her and know that she is human too, which means she makes mistakes. Either you move on and stop thinking and talking about her, or learn to approach her or think about her in a positive manner. Focus on her good qualities, and repeat them to yourself instead of honing in on the unpleasant things.
如果工作或生活中有你讨厌的人，只关注她的缺点有害无益。你需要放下对她的所有成见，告诉自己她也是个人，也有犯错的时候。要么就不再谈论她和想着她，要么学着去接近她，或想想她好的一面。多想想她的优点，不要再专注于让你不开心的事情。
4.Why is she better off?
为什么她比我好?
Comparing yourself to someone else is never productive or positive. There's always going to be someone who is younger, prettier, smarter, or richer than you. If you keep coveting what someone else has, then this may cause you to be resentful of them, which will open a whole other negative can of worms. Remember, what they don't have is your whole package. Be appreciative of what you have, because if you want to play the comparison game, remember that there are people who are also worse off than you are.
和别人比较永远不是有效率和积极的表现。总有比你年轻，漂亮，聪明，富有的人。如果你始终关注别人拥有什么，会带来你对他们的恨意，随即带来更多消极的想法。记住，你所拥有的也是他们所没有的。珍惜你所拥有的东西，如果真的想和别人比较，也别忘了总有比你差的人。
5.I'll never reach my goal.
我永远无法达到目标。
If you think you're not going to be able “get there,” think again. There are many people who are worse off and have overcome bigger obstacles than what you are facing. Take, for example, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, an amputee who overcame his handicap to compete in the Olympics against his able-bodied peers. Everything is within your reach as long as you work hard and have a a positive attitude.
如果你认为自己达不到，再想想。比你差的人比比皆是，他们遇到的困难也比你的更大。比如，奥运会短跑选手刀锋战士奥斯卡·皮斯托利斯，一个被截肢的运动员，战胜了自己的阻碍，在其他健壮的对手中脱颖而出赢得了奥运会的冠军。只要你努力付出，有着积极的信念，任何事都能够做到。
A farmer has five sons.They are Ted,Bob,Tom,John and Bill. John has no elder brother. He was four years older when his first younger brother was born. The number of Tom's elder brothers is equal to his younger brothers.
Bill will be twenty-one years old next year, and he is five years older than Bob. Bob is two years younger than Tom. Ted was sad because he has no younger brother. There are twelve years between him and John.
一个农民有5个儿子。他们是Ted,Bob,Tom,John 和 Bill。John没有比他大的哥哥，他比第一个出生的比他小的那个弟弟大4岁，Tom哥哥的数量和他的弟弟的数量是一样的(就是他是老三)Bill 明年就21岁了，他比Bob大5岁，比Tom小2岁，Ted因为没有弟弟而难过 Ted 和John之间差了12岁
THERE was once a darning-needle who thought herself so fine that she fancied she must be fitfor embroidery. “Hold me tight,” she would say to the fingers, when they took her up, “don'tlet me fall; if you do I shall never be found again, I am so very fine.” “That is your opinion, isit?” said the fingers, as they seized her round the body. “See, I am coming with a train,” saidthe darning-
needle, drawing a long thread after her; but there was no knot in the thread.The fingers then placed the point of the needle against the cook's slipper. There was a crack inthe upper leather, which had to be sewn together. “What coarse work!” said the darning-needle, “I shall never get through. I shall break!- I am breaking!” and sure enough she broke. “Did I not say so?” said the darning-needle, “I know I am too fine for such work as that.” “Thisneedle is quite useless for sewing now,” said the fingers; but they still held it fast, and the cookdropped some sealing-wax on the needle, and fastened her handkerchief with it in front. “Sonow I am a breast-pin,” said the darning-needle; “I knew very well I should come to honorsome day: merit is sure to rise;” and she laughed, quietly to herself, for of course no one eversaw a darning-
needle laugh. And there she sat as proudly as if she were in a state coach, andlooked all around her. “May I be allowed to ask if you are made of gold?” she inquired of herneighbor, a pin; “you have a very pretty appearance, and a curious head, although you arerather small. You must take pains to grow, for it is not every one who has sealing
-wax droppedupon him;” and as she spoke, the darning-needle drew herself up so proudly that she fell outof the handkerchief right into the sink, which the cook was cleaning. “Now I am going on ajourney,” said the needle, as she floated away with the dirty water, “I do hope I shall not belost.” But she really was lost in a gutter. “I am too fine for this world,” said the darning-needle, as she lay in the gutter; “but I know who I am, and that is always some comfort.” Sothe darning-needle kept up her proud behavior, and did not lose her good humor. Then therefloated over her all sorts of things,-
chips and straws, and pieces of old newspaper. “See howthey sail,” said the darning-needle; “they do not know what is under them. I am here, and hereI shall stick. See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself-
only a chip.There's a straw going by now; how he turns and twists about! Don't be thinking too much ofyourself, or you may chance to run against a stone. There swims a piece of newspaper; what iswritten upon it has been forgotten long ago, and yet it gives itself airs. I sit here patiently andquietly. I know who I am, so I shall not move.” One day something lying close to the darning-
needle glittered so splendidly that she thought it was a diamond; yet it was only a piece ofbroken bottle. The darning-needle spoke to it, because it sparkled, and represented herself asa breast-pin. “I suppose you are really a diamond?” she said. “Why yes, something of thekind,” he replied; and so each believed the other to be very valuable, and then they began totalk about the world, and the conceited people in it. “I have been in a lady's work-box,” saidthe darning-needle, “and this lady was the cook. She had on each hand five fingers, andanything so conceited as these five fingers I have never seen; and yet they were onlyemployed to take me out of the box and to put me back again.” “Were they not high-born?” “High-born!” said the darning-needle, “no indeed, but so haughty. They were five brothers, allborn fingers; they kept very proudly together, though they were of different lengths. The onewho stood first in the rank was named the thumb, he was short and thick, and had only onejoint in his back, and could therefore make but one bow; but he said that if he were cut offfrom a man's hand, that man would be unfit for a soldier. Sweet-
tooth, his neighbor, dippedhimself into sweet or sour, pointed to the sun and moon, and formed the letters when thefingers wrote. Longman, the middle finger, looked over the heads of all the others. Gold-
band,the next finger, wore a golden circle round his waist. And little Playman did nothing at all, andseemed proud of it. They were boasters, and boasters they will remain; and therefore I leftthem.” “And now we sit here and glitter,” said the piece of broken bottle. At the same momentmore water streamed into the gutter, so that it overflowed, and the piece of bottle was carriedaway. “So he is promoted,” said the darning-needle, “while I remain here; I am too fine, butthat is my pride, and what do I care?” And so she sat there in her pride, and had many suchthoughts as these,- “I could almost fancy that I came from a sunbeam, I am so fine. It seemsas if the sunbeams were always looking for me under the water. Ah! I am so fine that even mymother cannot find me. Had I still my old eye, which was broken off, I believe I should weep;but no, I would not do that, it is not genteel to cry.” One day a couple of street boys werepaddling in the gutter, for they sometimes found old nails, farthings, and other treasures. Itwas dirty work, but they took great pleasure in it. “Hallo!” cried one, as he pricked himself withthe darning-needle, “here's a fellow for you.” “I am not a fellow, I am a young lady,” said thedarning-needle; but no one heard her. The sealing-wax had come off, and she was quite black;but black makes a person look slender, so she thought herself even finer than before. “Herecomes an egg-shell sailing along,” said one of the boys; so they stuck the darning-needle intothe egg-shell. “White walls, and I am black myself,” said the darning-needle, “that looks well;now I can be seen, but I hope I shall not be sea-sick, or I shall break again.” She was not sea-sick, and she did not break.
“It is a good thing against sea-
sickness to have a steel stomach,and not to forget one's own importance. Now my sea-sickness has past: delicate people canbear a great deal.” Crack went the egg-shell, as a waggon passed over it. “Good heavens, howit crushes!” said the darning-needle. “I shall be sick now. I am breaking!” but she did notbreak, though the waggon went over her as she lay at full length; and there let her lie.
织布针
从前有一根织补衣服的针。作为一根织补针来说，她倒还算细巧，因此她就想像自己是一根绣花针。“请你们注意你们现在拿着的这东西吧!”她对那几个取她出来的手指说。“你们不要把我失掉!我一落到地上去，你们就决不会找到我的，因为我是那么细呀!”“细就细好了，”手指说。它们把她拦腰紧紧地捏住。“你们看，我还带着随从啦!”她说。她后面拖着一根长线，不过线上并没有打结。
手指正把这根针钉着女厨子的一只拖鞋，因为拖鞋的皮面裂开了，需要缝一下。“这是一件庸俗的工作，”织补针说。“我怎么也不愿钻进去。我要折断!我要折断了!”——於是她真的折断了。“我不是说过吗?”织补针说，“我是非常细的呀!”
手指想：她现在没有甚么用了。不过它们仍然不愿意放弃她，因为女厨子在针头上滴了一点封蜡，同时把她别在一块手帕上。“现在我成为一根领针(註：领针(brystnaal)是一种装饰*?，穿西装时插在领带上;针头上一般镶有一颗珍珠。)了!”织补针说。“我早就知道我会得到光荣的：一个不平凡的人总会得到一个不平凡的地位!”
於是她心里笑了——当一根织补针在笑的时候，人们是没有办法看到她的外部表情的。她别在那儿，显得很骄傲，好像她是坐在轿车里，左顾右盼似的。“请准许我问一声：您是金子做的吗?”她问她旁边的一根别针。“你有一张非常好看的面孔，一个自己的头脑——只是小了一点。你得使它再长大一点才成，因为封蜡并不会滴到每根针头上的呀。”
织补针很骄傲地挺起身子，结果弄得自己从手帕上落下来了，一直落到厨子正在沖洗的污水沟里去了。“现在我要去旅行了，”织补针说。“我只希望我不要迷了路!”
不过她却迷了路。“就这个世界说来，我是太细了，”她来到了排水沟的时候说。“不过我知道我的身份，而这也算是一点小小的安慰!”
所以织补针继续保持着她骄傲的态度，同时也不失掉她得意的心情。许多不同的东西在她身上浮过去了：菜屑啦，草叶啦，旧报纸碎片啦。“请看它们游得多么快!”织补针说。“它们不知道它们下面还有一件甚么东西!我就在这儿，我坚定地坐在这儿!看吧，一根棍子浮过来了，它以为世界上除了棍子以外再也没有甚么别的东西。它就是这样一个傢伙!一根草浮过来了。你看它扭着腰肢和转动的那副样儿!不要以为自己了不起吧，你很容易撞到一块石头上去呀!一张破报纸游过来了!它上面印着的东西早已被人家忘记了，但是它仍然铺张开来，神气十足。我有耐心地、静静地坐在这儿。我知道我是谁，我永远保持住我的本来面目!”
有一天她旁边躺着一件甚么东西。这东西射出美丽的光彩。织补针认为它是一颗金刚钻。不过事实上它是一个瓶子的碎片。因为它发出亮光，所以织补针就跟它讲话，把自己介绍成为一根领针。“我想你是一颗钻石吧?”她说。“嗯，对啦，是这类东西。”
於是双方就相信自己都是价值很高的物件。他们开始谈论，说世上的人一般都是觉得自己非常了不起。“我曾经在一位小姐的匣子里住过，”织补针说，“这位小姐是一个厨子。她每只手上有五个指头。我从来没有看到像这五个指头那样骄傲的东西，不过他们的作用只是拿着我，把我从匣子里取出来和放进去罢了。”“他们也能射出光彩来吗?”瓶子的碎片问。“光彩!”织补针说，“甚么也没有，不过自以为了不起罢了。他们是五个兄弟，都属於手指这个家族。他们互相标榜，虽然他们是长短不齐：最前面的一个是”笨摸“(註：”笨摸“、”餂罐“、”长人“、”金火“和”比尔——玩朋友“，是丹麦孩子对五个指头所起的绰号。大拇指摸东西不灵活，所以叫做”笨摸“;二指常常代替吞头伸到果酱罐里去餂东西吃，所以叫”餂罐“;四指因为戴戒指，所以看起来像有一道金火;小指叫做”比尔——玩朋友“，因为它甚么用也没有。)，又短又肥。他走在最前列，他的背上只有一个节，因此他只能同时鞠一个躬;不过他说，假如他从一个人身上砍掉的话，这人就不够资格服兵役了。第二个指头叫做”餂罐“，他伸到酸东西和甜东西里面去，他指着太阳和月亮;当大家在写字的时候，他握着笔。第三个指头是”长人“，他伸在别人的头上看东西。第四个指头是”金火“，他腰间围着一条金带子。最小的那个是”比尔——玩朋友“，他甚么事也不做，而自己还因此感到骄傲呢。他们甚么也不做，只是吹牛，因此我才到排水沟里来了!”“这要算是升级!”瓶子的碎片说。
这时有更多的水沖进排水沟里来了，漫得遍地都是，结果把瓶子的碎片沖走了。“瞧，他倒是升级了!”织补针说。“但是我还坐在这儿，我是那么细。不过我也正因此感到骄傲，而且也很光荣!”於是她骄傲地坐在那儿，发出了许多感想。“我差不多要相信我是从日光里出生的了，因为我是那么细呀!我觉得日光老是到水底下来寻找我。啊!我是这么细，连我的母亲都找不到我了。如果我的老针眼没有断了的话，我想我是要哭出来的——但是我不能这样做：哭不是一桩文雅的事情!”
有一天几个野孩子在排水沟里找东西——他们有时在这里能够找到旧钉、铜板和类似的物件。这是一件很髒的工作，不过他们却非常欣赏这类的事儿。“哎哟!”一个孩子说，因为他被织补针刺了一下，“原来是你这个傢伙!”“我不是一个傢伙，我是一位年轻小姐啦!”织补针说。可是谁也不理她。她身上的那滴封蜡早已没有了，全身已经变得漆黑。不过黑颜色能使人变得苗条，因此她相信她比以前更细嫩。“瞧，一个蛋壳起来了!”孩子们说。他们把织补针插到蛋壳上面。“四周的墙是白色的，而我是黑色的!这倒配得很好!”织补针说。“现在谁都可以看到我了。——我只希望我不要晕船才好，因为这样我就会折断的!”不过她一点也不会晕船，而且也没有折断。“一个人有钢做的肚皮，是不怕晕船的，同时还不要忘记，我和一个普通人比起来，是更高一招的。我现在一点毛病也没有。一个人越纤细，他能受得住的东西就越多。”“砰!”这时蛋壳忽然裂开了，因为一辆载重车正在它上面碾过去。“我的天，它把我碾得真厉害!”织补针说。“我现在有点晕船了——我要折断了!我要折断了!”
虽然那辆载重车在她身上碾过去了，她并没有折断。她直直地躺在那儿——而且她尽可以一直在那儿躺下去。
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