英语专业晨读美文-励志篇 11 Getting What You Want i

[00:01.50]Getting What You Want in Life
[00:05.77]There are lives that have bread in abundance and yet are starved;
[00:11.93]with barns and warehouses¹ filled,
[00:14.34] with shelves and larders² laden³ they are empty and hungry.
[00:18.61] No man need envy them; their feverish⁴,
[00:21.45]restless whirl in the dust of publicity⁵ is
[00:23.97]but the search for a satisfaction never to be found in things.
[00:28.12]They are called rich in a world where no others are more truly, pitiably poor;
[00:33.59]having all, they are yet lacking in all
[00:36.18]because they have neglected the things within.
[00:39.03]The abundance of bread is the cause of many a man's deeper hunger.
[00:42.96] Having known nothing of the discipline
[00:45.26]that develops life's hidden sources of satisfaction,
[00:47.88]nothing of the struggle in which deep calls unto deep
[00:51.60]and the true life finds itself,
[00:53.46] he spends his days seeking to satisfy his soul with furniture,
[00:58.05]with houses and lands, with yachts and merchandise,
[01:01.66]seeking to feed his heart on things,
[01:04.39]a process of less promise and reason than feeding a snapping turtle on thoughts.
[01:08.99]It takes many of us altogether too long to learn that
[01:13.47]you cannot find satisfaction so long as you leave the soul out of your reckoning.
[01:18.07]If the heart be empty the life cannot be filled.
[01:21.67] The flow must cease at the faucet⁶ if the fountains go dry.
[01:26.05]The prime, the elemental necessities of our being are
[01:29.77] for the life rather than the body, its house.
[01:33.16] But, how often out of the marble edifice⁷ issues the poor emaciated⁸ inmate⁹,
[01:38.19]how out of the life having many things comes that which amounts to nothing.
[01:43.44]The essential things are not often those which most readily strike our blunt senses.
[01:48.91]We see the shell first. To the undeveloped mind the material is all there is.
[01:54.81]But looking deeper into life there comes an awakening¹⁰ to the fact
[01:58.75]and the significance of the spiritual, the feeling that the reason,
[02:02.58]the emotions, the joys and pains that have nothing to do with things,
[02:07.17]the ties that knit one to the infinite,
[02:09.90]all of which constitute the permanent elements of life.
 

1 warehouses   

仓库，货栈( warehouse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
• Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。

2 larders   

n.（家中的）食物贮藏室，食物橱( larder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

3 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

4 feverish   

adj.发烧的，狂热的，兴奋的

参考例句：

• He is too feverish to rest.他兴奋得安静不下来。
• They worked with feverish haste to finish the job.为了完成此事他们以狂热的速度工作着。

5 publicity   

n.众所周知，闻名；宣传，广告

参考例句：

• The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
• He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事，只当它是一种宣传手法。

6 faucet   

n.水龙头

参考例句：

• The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
• She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头，把手擦干。

7 edifice   

n.宏伟的建筑物(如宫殿，教室)

参考例句：

• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
• There is a huge Victorian edifice in the area.该地区有一幢维多利亚式的庞大建筑物。

8 emaciated   

adj.衰弱的，消瘦的

参考例句：

• A long time illness made him sallow and emaciated.长期患病使他面黄肌瘦。
• In the light of a single candle,she can see his emaciated face.借着烛光，她能看到他的被憔悴的面孔。

9 inmate   

n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人

参考例句：

• I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
• The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。

10 awakening   

n.觉醒，醒悟 adj.觉醒中的；唤醒的

参考例句：

• the awakening of interest in the environment 对环境产生的兴趣
• People are gradually awakening to their rights. 人们正逐渐意识到自己的权利。