關於成長的經典英語美文

　　成長路上所有的傷，時間替我撫平;成長路上所有的淚，時間替我擦拭;成長路上所有的疲勞，時間替我緩解……時間是我的依靠。小編整理了，歡迎閱讀!

　　：Still Growing

　　成長不息

　　Sir Edmund Hillary is famous for being the first person to climb Mt. Everest.

　　埃德蒙·希拉里爵士是登上珠穆朗瑪峰的第一人，他因此而聞名天下。

　　What many people do not know is that Sir Hillary did not make it to the top of Everest the first time he tried The first attempt was a complete failure. His climbing party encountered one problem after another and more than half his climbing party died.

　　然而，很多人並不知道，希拉里爵士第一次試著攀登珠穆朗碼峰時並未成功登頂。他第一次登山以徹底的失敗而告終。他們接二連三遇到問題，登山隊中超過半數的人都喪生了。

　　Nonetheless, the British Parliament decided to honor him with some type of award. When he entered the chamber to receive his award, Sir Hillary saw that a large picture of Everest had been set up.

　　儘管如此，英國議會還是決定授予他某種獎勵。希拉里爵士走進議會大廳領獎時，看到裡面豎著一幅很大的珠穆朗瑪峰的畫。

　　During the standing ovation that he was receiving, he walked over to the picture, shook his fist at it and said, "You won, this time. But you are as big as you are ever going to get. And I'm still growing."

　　大家起立熱烈歡迎希拉里爵士，這時他走到畫跟前，衝畫揮動了一下拳頭，說道，“你這次贏了。但是你就這麼高，再也不會長，而我還在長。”

　　We frequently hear the stories of people who have succeeded. And we frequently assume that they succeeded the first time.

　　我們常常聽到成功人士的故事。我們常常以為他們第一次就成功了。

　　But in fact it's the exact opposite.

　　但事實恰恰相反。

　　The road to success is paved with the bricks of failure.

　　成功之路是由失敗之磚墊就的。

　　：在工作中成長

　　To respect my work, my associates and myself. To be honest and fair with them as I expect them to be honest and fair with me. To be a man whose word carries weight. To be abooster升壓機，支持者 , not a knocker; a pusher, not a kicker; a motor, not a clog.

　　To base my expectations of reward on a solid foundation of service rendered; to be willing to pay the price of success in honest effort. To look upon my work as opportunity, to be seized with joy and made the most, and not as painful drudgery苦工，苦差事 to be reluctantly endured.

　　To remember that success lies within myself; in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage and determination. To expect difficulties and force my way through them, to turn hard experiences into capital for future struggles.

　　To interest my heart and soul in my work, and aspire to the highest efficiency in the achievement of results. To be patiently receptive of just criticism and profit from its teaching. To treat equals and superiors with respect, and subordinates使服從 withkindly encouragement.

　　To make a study of my business duties; to know my work from the ground up. To mix brains with my efforts and use system and method in all I undertake. To find time to do everything needful by never letting time find me or my subordinates doing nothing. To hoard days as a miser does dollars, to make every hour bring me dividends in specific resultsaccomplished. To steer clear of dissipation and guard my health of body and peace of mind as my most precious stock in trade.

　　Finally, to take a good grip on the joy of life; to play the game like a gentleman; to fight against nothing so hard as my own weakness, and endeavor to grow in business capacity, and as a man, with the passage of every day of time.

　　：Growing roots 成長的樹根

　　When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than circumstances warranted.

　　When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.

　　The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant husbandry. He came from the “No pain, no gain” school of horticulture. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out the weenie trees early on.

　　He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.

　　So he never watered his trees. He’d plant an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

　　Dr. Gibbs went to glory a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re granite strong now. Big and robust. Those trees wake up in the morning and beat their chests and drink their coffee black.

　　I planted a couple of trees a few years back. Carried water to them for a solid summer. Sprayed them. Prayed over them. The whole nine yards. Two years of coddling has resulted in trees that expect to be waited on hand and foot. Whenever a cold wind blows in, they tremble and chatter their branches. Sissy trees.

　　Funny things about those trees of Dr. Gibbs’. Adversity and deprivation seemed to benefit them in ways comfort and ease never could.

　　Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer.

　　This change has to do with the inevitability of cold winds that hit us at the core. I know my children are going to encounter hardship, and I’m praying they won’t be naive. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere.

　　So I’m changing my prayer. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won’t be swept asunder.