美文赏析:活出精彩，活出生命的质量！

 While there may be reasons in life to focus on just survival, to fully¹ live, you must thrive!

尽管生活中有理由只关注生存，但如果要潇洒走一回，你必须活出精彩。

Here Are 5 Things to Do Every Day to Ensure You Thrive.

以下五件事情可以确保你活得精彩。

美文赏析:活出精彩，活出生命的质量！

1. Create art, even if you're not an artist! Art comes in many forms. Art could be decorating your home, cooking meals and gardening.

1、创造艺术，即便你不是艺术家。艺术的形式多种多样。艺术可以是装饰你的家园、煮饭做菜和园艺。

?2. ?Create beauty in thought and deed as well as creating beautiful surroundings. Enjoying the natural beauty in nature inspires us to ?bring that beauty indoors. Beautiful surroundings create beautiful thoughts.

2、创造漂亮的周边环境之外，也要在思维言行上创造美。享受自然之美激励我们把美带到室内，美好的环境会带来美好的想法。

?3. ?Love boldly. Do something special, make others feel important.

3、大胆去爱。做些特别的事情，让别人感到自己的重要性。

?4. ?Play more! It sounds easy; but is it really easy to set aside time just for fun when deadlines loom², and your phone keeps you alert to the fact that you have a very busy day ahead? Play is essential to your health and well-being³. Get outside, chase your kids around, go dancing, watch a comedy act.

4、多玩！说起来容易，但当截止日期却步步临近、手机又不断提醒你接下来又是繁忙的一天时，真的让你匀出时间玩又谈何容易？玩乐对身心健康至关重要。去户外、和孩子追逐打闹、去跳舞、去看看喜剧吧。

?5. ?Create margin⁴. Create space in your day for the unexpected and space just to breathe.

5、留白。一天中给意外留点时间和空间，透透气儿。

Finding a bit of time? ?each day to incorporate these simple ideas. It's time to regain⁵ control of your life, it's time to thrive!

每天匀一点时间把这些简单的想法付诸实践，该是重新把握人生、活出精彩的时候了！

1 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

2 loom   

n.织布机，织机；v.隐现，(危险、忧虑等)迫近

参考例句：

• The old woman was weaving on her loom.那位老太太正在织布机上织布。
• The shuttle flies back and forth on the loom.织布机上梭子来回飞动。

3 well-being   

n.安康，安乐，幸福

参考例句：

• He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
• My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。

4 margin   

n.页边空白；差额；余地，余裕；边，边缘

参考例句：

• We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。

5 regain   

vt.重新获得，收复，恢复

参考例句：

• He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
• The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。