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Mitch Albom 出版社: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group 副标题: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 出版年: 1999-7-23 页数: 192 定价: GBP 4.23 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780385496490
while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy, Jr. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be ... (查看原文)
while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy, Jr. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things th...(1回应)
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while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy, Jr. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He sighed. “Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”
It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.” Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely—but eventually be able to say, “All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.” “Detach,” Morrie said again.引自第1页
For all that was happening to him,his voice was strong and inviting,and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts.He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless". When a collegue at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack,Morrie went to his funeral.He came home depressed. "What a waste,"he said."All those people saying all those wonderful things,and Irv ne...(1回应)
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For all that was happening to him,his voice was strong and inviting,and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts.He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless".
When a collegue at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack,Morrie went to his funeral.He came home depressed.
"What a waste,"he said."All those people saying all those wonderful things,and Irv never got to hear any of it."
"Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do"; "Accept the past as past,without denying it or discarding it";"Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others";"Don't assume that it's too late to get involved."
"Dying," Morrie suddenly said,"is only one thing to be sad over,Mitch.Living unhappily is something else.So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy."Why?
"Well,for one thing,the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.We're teaching the wrong things.And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work,don't buy it.Create your own.Most people can't do it.They're more unhappy than me--even in my current condition.
"I may be dying,but I am surrounded by loving,caring souls.How many people can say that?"
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth.You want to do one thing,but you are bound to do something else.Something hurts you,yet you know it shouldn't.You take certain things for granted,even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
"A tension of opposites,like a pull on a rubber band.And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
Sounds like a wrestling match,I say.
"A wrestling match."He laughs."Yes,you could describe life that way."
So which side wins,I ask.
"Which side wins?"He smiles at me,the crinkled eyes,the crooked teeth."Love wins.Love always wins."
They didn't know O.J.Simpson.They didn't know anyone involved in the case.Yet they gave up days and weeks of their lives,addicted to someone else's drama.
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life.They seem half-sleep,even when they'are busy doing things they think are important.This is because they're chasing the wrong things.The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others,devote yourself to your community around you,and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see,you have to believe what you feel.And if you are ever going to have other people trust you,you must feel that you can trust them,too--even when you're in the dark.Even when you're falling."
"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things[worries and regrets] until you're about to die.We're so wrapped up with egotistical things,carrer,family,having enough money,meeting the mortgage,getting a new car,fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying,Is this all?Is this all I want?Is something missing?"
He paused.
"You need someone to probe you in that direction.It won't just happen automatically."
I knew what he was saying.We all need teachers in our lives.
"To know you're going to die,and to be prepared for it at any time.That's better.That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living."
How can you ever be prepared to die?
"Do what the Buddhists do.Every day,have a little bird on your shoulder that asks,Is today the day?Am I ready?Am I doing all I need to do?Am I being the person I want to be?"
He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now.
"Is today the day I die?"he said.
"Once you learn how to die,you learn how to live."
Did you think much about death before you got sick,I asked.
"No."Morrie smiled."I was like everyone else.I once told a friend of mine,in a moment of exuberance,I'm gonna be the healthies old man you ever met!"
How old were you?
"In my sixties."
So you were optimistic.
"Why not?Like I said,no one really believes they're going to die."
But everyone knows someone who has died,I said.Why is it so hard to think about dying?
"Because,"Morrie continued,"most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking.We really don't experience the world fully,because we're half-asleep,doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes all that?
"Oh,yes.You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.When you realize you are going to die,you see everything much differently."He sighed."Learn how to die,and you learn how to live."引自 全书
Morrie had aging in better perspective.
"All this emphasis on youth--I don't buy it,"he said."Listen,I know what a misery being young can be,so don't tell me it's so great.All these kids who came to me with their struggles,their stife,their feelings of inadequacy,their sense that life was miserable,so bad they wanted to kill themselves.
"And,in addition to all the miseries,the young are not wise.They have vey little understanding about life.Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on?When people are manipulating you,telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful,or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy--and you believe them!It's such nonsense."
Weren't you ever afraid to grow old,I asked.
"Mitch,I embrace aging."
Embarce it?
"It's very simple.As you grow,you learn more.If you stayed at 22,you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22.Aging is not just decay,you know.It's growth.It's more than the negative that you're going to die,it's also the postive that you understand you're going to die,and that you live a better life because of it."
Yes,I said,but if aging were so valuable,why do people always say,"Oh,if I were young again."You never hear people say,"I wish I were sixty-five."
He smiled."You know what that reflects?Unsatisfied lives.Unfulfilled lives.Lives that haven't found meaning.Because if you've found meaning in your life,you don't want to go back.You want to go forward.You want to see more,do more.You can't wait until sixty-five.Listen.You should know something.All younger people should know something.If you're always battling against getting older,you're always going to be unhappy,because it will happen anyhow."
"The fact is,you are going to die eventually."I nodded.
"It won't matter what you tell yourself."引自 全书
How do you keep from envying...
"It is impossible for the old not to envy the young.But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that.This is your time to be in your thirties.I had my time to be in my thirties,and now is my time to be seventy-eight.
"You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.Looking back makes you competitive.And,age is not a competitive issue."
He exhaled and lowered his eyes,as if to watch his breath scatter into the air.
"The truth is,part of me is every age.I'm a three-year-old,I'm a five-year-old,I'm a thirty-seven-year-old,I'm a fifty-year-old.I've been through all of them,and I know what it's like.I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child.I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man.Think of all I can be!I am every age,up to my own.Do you understand?"
I nodded.
"How can I be envious of where you are--when I've been there myself?"
"There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need,''Morrie said."You need food,you want a chocolate sundae.You have to be honest with yourself.You don't nedd the latest sports car,you don't need the biggest house.
"The truth is ,you don't get satisfaction from those things.You know what really gives you satisfaction?"What?
"Offering others what you have to give."
You sound like a Boy Scout.
"I don't mean money,Mitch.I mean your time.Your concern.Your stroytelling.It's not so hard.There's a senior center that opened near here.Dozens of elderly people come there every day.If you're a young man or young woman adn you have a skill,you are asked to come and teach it.Say you know computers.You come there and teach them computers.You are very welcome there.And they are very grateful.This is how you start to get respect,by offering something that you have."
"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart.When you do,you won't be dissatisfied,you won't be envious,you won't be longing for someboday else's things.On the contrary,you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back."引自 全书
Each night,when I go to sleep,I die.And the next morning,when I wake up,I am reborn.----Mahatma Gandhi
"Part of the problem,is that everyone is in such a hurry,"Morrie said."People haven't found meaning in their lives,so they're running all the time looking for it.They think the next car,the next house,the next job.Then they find those things are empty,too,and they keep running."
Once you start running,I said,it's hard to slow yourself down.
"Not so hard,"he said,shaking his head."Do you know what I do?When someone wants to get ahead of me in traffic--when I used to be able to drive--I would raise my hand..."
He tried to do this now,but the hand lifted weakly,only six inches.
"...I would raise my hand,as if I was going to make a negative gesture,and then I would wave and smile.Instead of giving them the finger,you let me go,and you smile.
"You know what?A lot of times they smiled back.The truth is ,I don't have to be in that much of a hurry with my car.I would rather put my energies into people."
"In this culture,it's so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that.But the poor kids today,either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship,or they rush into marriage don't know what they want in a partner.They don't know who they are themselves--so how can they know who they're marrying?"
He sighed.Morrie had counseled so many unhappy lovers in his years as a professor."It's sad,because a loved one is so important.You realize that,especially when you're in a time like I am,when you're not doing so well.Friends are great,but friends are not going to be here on a night when you're coughing and can't sleep and someone has to sit up all night with you,comfort you,try to be helpful."
"There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage:If you don't respect the other person,you're gonna have a lot of trouble.If you don't know how to compromise,you're gonna have a lot of trouble.If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you,you're gonna have a lot of troble.And if you don't have a common set of values in life,you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike."
"And the biggest one of those values,Mitch?"
Yes?
"Your belief in the importance of your marriage."
"Personally,"he sighed,his eyes still closed,"I think marriage is a very important thing to do,and you're missing a hell of a lot if you don't try it."
"Love each other or perish."
"People are onl mean when they're threatened,"he said later that day,"and that's what our culture does.That's what our economy does.Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened,because they worry about losing them.And when you get threatened,you start looking out only for yourself.You start making money a god.It is all part of this culture."
He exhaled."Which is why I don't buy into it."
"Here's what I mean by building your own little subculture,"Morrie said."I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community.I don't go around naked,for example.I don't run through red lights.The little things,I can obey.But the big things--how we think,what we value--those you must choose yourself.You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you.
"Take my condition.The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now--not being able to walk,not being to wipe my ass,waking up some mornings wanting to cry--there is nothing innately embarrasing or shaming about them.
"It's the same for women not being thin enough,or men not being rich enough.It's just what our culture would have you believe.Don't believe it."
"Every society has its own problems,"Morrie said,lifting his eyebrows,the closest he could come to a shrug."The way to do it,I think,isn't to run away.You have to work at creating your own culture.
"Look,no matter where you live,the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness.We don't see what we could be.Whe should be looking at our potential,stretching ourselves into everything we can become.But if you're surrounded by people who say I want mine now,you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it."
"For me,Ted,living means I can be responsive to the other person.It means I can show my emotions and my feelings.Talk to them.Feel with them..."
He exhaled."When that is gone,Morrie is gone."
"It's not just other people we need to forgive,Mitch."he finally whispered."We also need to forgive ourselves."
Ourselves?
"Yes.For all the things we didn't do.All the things we should have done.You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.That doesn't help you when you get to where I am.
"I always wished I had done more with my work;I wished I had written more books.I used to beat myself up over it.Now I see that never did any good.Make peace.You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you."
"We are so afraid of the sight of death,"Morried told me when I sat down.I adjusted the microphone on his collar,but it kept flopping over.Morrie coughed.He was coughing all the time now.
"I read a book the other day.It said as soon as someone dies in a hospital,they pull the sheets up over their head,and they wheel the body to some chute and push it down.They can't wait to get it out of their sight.People act as if death is contagious."
"It's not contagious,you know.Death is as natural as life.It's part of the deal we made."
"It's natural to die,"he said again."The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature.We think because we're human we're something above nature."
He smiled at the plant.
"We're not.Everything that gets born,dies."He looked at me.
"Do you accept that?"Yes.
"All right,"he whispered,"now here's the payoff.Here is how we are different from these wonderful plants and animals.
"As long as we can love each other,and remember the feeling of love we had,we can die without ever really going away.All the love you created is still there.All the memories are still there.You live on--in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here."
"Death ends a life,not a relationship."
"There is no formula to relationships.They have to be negotiated in loving ways,with room for both parties,what they want and what they need,what they can do and what their life is like.
"In business,people negotiate to win.They negotiate to get what they want.Maybe you're too used to that.Love is different.Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
"You've had these special times with your brother,and you no longer have what you had with him.You want them back.You never want them to stop.But that's part of being human.Stop,renew,stop,renew."引自 全书
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too---even when you're in the dark.Even when you're falling.引自第61页
"Whenever people ask me about having children or not having children, I never tell them what to do,"Morrie said now, looking at a photo of his oldest son."I simply say,"There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover.If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children."引自第93页
"Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."引自第127页
"It's not just other people we need to forgive,Mitch," He finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves."
Ourselves?
"Yes. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you when you get to where I am."
"I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace.You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you."引自第166页
"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart.When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.引自第128页
【服装】
briefcase 公文包 [ˈbriːfkeɪs]
plaid flannel shirt 格子法兰绒衬衫
----plaid 格子呢 [plæd] flannel 法兰绒 [ˈflænl]
windbreaker 风衣 （英：wind cheater）
parka 风雪大衣 [ˈpɑːrkə] （派克大衣）
tuxedo 男士无尾礼服 [tʌkˈsiːdoʊ]
turtleneck 高领 （turtleneck sweater 高领套头衫）
lapel 翻领 [ləˈpel] （夹克或大衣的翻领）
hood 风帽 兜帽 [hʊd]
snap 扣子（117页：a sultry-looking teenager with her jeans unsnapped：unsnap表示解开扣子）
corduroy 灯芯绒 [ˈkɔːrdərɔɪ]
【形容衣服的形容词】
crisp （布料）挺阔的
shaggy （毛）蓬乱的 [ˈʃæɡi]
---- // Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater
【医学相关】
【疾病】
asthma 哮喘 [ˈæzmə]
ALS 肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症 (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
----amyotrophic [韦氏音标 ˌā-ˌmī-ə-ˈtrō-fik] --amyotrophy: atrophy of a muscle
----lateral [ˈlætərəl] 侧面的
----sclerosis [skləˈroʊsɪs] 硬化 硬化症
heartburn (因不消化引起的)烧心 胃灼热
diarrhea 腹泻 [ˌdaɪə'riə]
【药物】
amphetamine 安非他明，苯丙胺 [æmˈfetəmiːn]（中枢兴奋药）
morphine 吗啡 [ˈmɔːrfiːn]
opiate 鸦片制剂[ˈoʊpiət] opium 鸦片 [ˈoʊpiəm] （罂粟：poppy）
ointment 药膏 软膏 [ˈɔɪntmənt]
【器官/激素】
adrenal gland 肾上腺 [əˈdriːnl ɡlænd]
adrenaline 肾上腺素 [韦氏音标 ə-ˈdre-nə-lən]
pancreas 胰腺[ˈpæŋkriəs]
pancreatic 胰腺的[ˌpæŋkriˈætɪk] ---- pancreatic cancer
【其他医学相关词汇】
biopsy 活组织检查 [ˈbaɪɑːpsi] (the removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body)
intravenous 静脉注射的 [ˌɪntrəˈviːnəs] (going into a vein)
remission 重病缓和期 (96页：After five years of treatment, the drug appeared to chase the cancer into remission.) (remit 赦免v.）
catheter 导管 导尿管 [ˈkæθɪtər]（131页：Since my last visit, a nurse had inserted a catheter into his penis, which drew the urine out through a tube and into a bag that sat at the foot of his chair.）
dropper 滴管
phlegm 痰 [flem]
【身体部位】
scalp 头皮 [skælp]
armpit 腋窝 [ˈɑːrmpɪt]
palm 手掌 手心 [pɑːm] （注意L不发音）
calf 腿肚子 [kæf]
belly 腹部 [ˈbeli]
ribcage 胸廓
tear duct 泪管
stubble 胡茬 [ˈstʌbl]（52页：the thin stubble of his whiskers brushing my face）
callus 老茧 胼胝 [ˈkæləs] (164页：...holding his bare feet. They were callused and curled, and his toenails were yellow.) ( 附注：胼胝 pián zhī )
【形容人的词汇】
freelance 自由职业者 [ˈfriːlæns]（a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer）
vendor 小贩 摊贩 == seller
paparazzo 狗仔 [韦氏音标 ˌpä-pə-ˈrät-(ˌ)sō ] <pl.> paparazzi [韦氏音标 ˌpä-pə-ˈrät-(ˌ)sē ]
mogul 大亨 [ˈmoʊɡl]（138页：Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul, founder of CNN, who had been lamenting his inability to snatch up the CBS network in a corporate megadeal）
executioner 行刑者 [ˌeksɪˈkjuːʃənər]（处决：execute，execution）（96页：From the day my uncle died, I believed that I would suffer a similar death, an untimely disease that would take me out. So I worked at a feverish pace, and braced myself for cancer. I could feel its breath. I knew it was coming. I waited for it the way a condemned man waits for the executioner.）a cappella (adj.) [ˌæ kəˈpelə] 无伴奏合唱的（124页：The night before, he had been entertained by a local a cappella group that had come to the house to perform, and he relayed the story excitedly, as if the Ink Spots themselves had dropped by for a visit.）（附上 the Ink Spots 的豆瓣音乐人链接 https://music.douban.com/musician/112662/ )
narcissist 自恋狂
agnostic 不可知论者 [æɡˈnɑːstɪk]
slob 懒惰而邋遢的人（lazy and untidy）
mutt 杂种狗（注：Mutt can now be used with either affection or disdain to refer to a dog that is not purebred）（82页：He enjoyed some of the philosophies of Buddhism adn Christianity, and he still felt at home, culturallym in Judaism. He was a religious mutt, which made him even more open to the students he taught over the years.）
picketer 罢工行动的纠察队员 marcher 游行者（= demonstrator；march 行军 游行）（44页：...the unions at my newspaper had gone on a strike. The place was shut down. There were picketers at the front entrance and marchers chanting up and down the street.）
prosecutor 检察官，公诉人；控方律师 [ˈprɑːsɪkjuːtər] （prosecute 起诉，检举 persecute 迫害）
foreman 陪审团主席 [ˈfɔːrmən]
【建筑/家具】
synagogue 犹太教堂 [ˈsɪnəɡɑːɡ]
hospice 临终安养院 [ˈhɑːspɪs]
Pentagon 五角大楼 [ˈpentəɡɑːn] （美国国防部）（pentagon 五角形 penta- 五 gon 角）
alley [ˈæli] 小街 小巷 (a narrow passage behind or between buildings) (182页：...in a garbage can in an alley in Los Angeles)
cubicle 格子间 隔间 [ˈkjuːbɪkl]
locker room 更衣室
tenement 廉租公寓 [ˈtenəmənt]
attic 阁楼 [ˈætɪk]
porch 门廊
curb 路沿 路缘 （英：kerb）
windowsill 窗台 窗沿
gutter 檐沟 天沟 （100页：The white rain gutter hung like a lid over the doorway.）
chute 斜槽 溜道 [ʃuːt] (e.g. laundry chute)
tile 瓦片 瓷砖 [taɪl]
faucet 水龙头 [ˈfɔːsɪt] （英：tap）
radiator 散热器 暖气片
rollaway bed 折叠床
rug 地毯 throw rug 小张地毯
bust 半身像（165页：...a bust that sat high on a shelf... Cast in bronze, it was the face of a man in his early forties, wearing a necktie, a tuft of hair falling across his forehead.）
【日用工具】
cane 手杖（a piece of cane or a thin stick, used to help sb to walk）（其他意义：竹竿，藤条，竹杖）
walker 助行架 （= Zimmer frame 齐默式助行架）
beaker （无柄的）塑料杯 纸杯 烧杯 （11页：As his body weakened, the back and forth to the bathroom became too exhausting, so Morrie began to urinate into a large beaker.）
commode 座椅式便桶 [kəˈmoʊd]
trunk 行李箱（其他意义：树干、象鼻、人的躯干）
Instamatic 傻瓜相机
thimble 顶针 针箍 (155页)
【其他名词】
bazaar 集市 义卖 [bəˈzɑːr]（时尚芭莎 BAZAAR）
lavaliere 项链上的垂饰 [韦氏音标 ˌlä-və-ˈlir]
bead 珠子 念珠 (love beads: a necklace of small, often handmade beads, worn as a symbol of peace and goodwill, esp. in the 1960s. )
pelt 动物毛皮 [pelt]（77-78页：The fur hairs were flying, creating a thickened air, and the workers, sewing the pelts together, were bent over their needles...）
sled 雪橇（= sledge） runner 雪橇上的滑板
snowbank 雪丘 bank 斜坡 埂
tournament 锦标赛
modem 调制解调器
horoscope 占星预言 (41页)
mantra 咒语（163页） wand 魔杖 (174页)
syllabus 课程大纲 pl. syllabi
grant 政府拨款、经费（109）
chore [tʃɔːr] 日常事务；令人厌烦的无聊乏味的工作
crescent(146)新月
alabaster(153)雪花石膏（作形容词时形容皮肤白净）
calisthenics(153)健美操
crunch=sit-up (154)仰卧起坐
courtship (= the time when two people have a romantic relationship before they get married )(17页：We married after a seven-year courtship.)
comradeship ---comrade 同志 [ˈkɑːmrædʃɪp] [ˈkɑːmræd]
aphorism 格言警句 [ˈæfərɪzəm]
greenery 青葱草木 [ˈɡriːnəri] (韦氏词典: green foliage or plants)
exuberance 热情洋溢；勃勃生机 [ɪɡˈzuːbərəns]（adj. exuberant）
composure 沉着 冷静 镇定 [kəmˈpoʊʒər]
solidarity 团结 [ˌsɑːlɪˈdærəti] (80页：Back in Detroit, the newspaper strikers were gearing up for a huge holiday demonstration, to show the solidarity of unions against management.)
alienation 疏离 [ˌeɪliəˈneɪʃn]（46页：He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.）
compassion 同情
while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy, Jr. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things th...(1回应)
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while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy, Jr. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie’s time even as I lamented its diminishing supply.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He sighed. “Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”
It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.” Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely—but eventually be able to say, “All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.” “Detach,” Morrie said again.引自第1页
Acknowledge Mul•ti•tude multitude Hibiscus Glimpse Oral Lieu Impatiently Awkward Hesitation Twisted and twirled Applauded Weary Neurological Terminal Groceries Purchased “My friends, I assume you are all here terminal? nerves entertained inviting Vibrating Horizon Journalism Gaunt Reunion Medication Unaware Chewing Delivers Overwhelming Jotting Beam Regained Announced Motorcycle Traded S...
2014-02-11 11:38:55
Acknowledge
Mul•ti•tude multitude
Hibiscus
Glimpse
Oral
Lieu
Impatiently
Awkward
Hesitation
Twisted and twirled
Applauded
Weary
Neurological
Terminal
Groceries
Purchased
“My friends, I assume you are all here terminal?
nerves
entertained
inviting
Vibrating
Horizon
Journalism
Gaunt
Reunion
Medication
Unaware
Chewing
Delivers
Overwhelming
Jotting
Beam
Regained
Announced
Motorcycle
Traded
Squirmed
Astonished
Reservation
Gasping for air
Contagious
Squeezing
Trial
Fuzz
Alienation
Atrophied
Refiexively
Journalism
Moist
Grieving
Reunion
分隔栏
——
Infection
Glance
Exertion
Detaching
Impermanent
Penetrate
Contrariwise
(P103)
Vulnerability
Vulnerability
Entail
Faucet
Half-choking
Congestion（P105）
——
Instinctive
Serenely
Fright
Reincarnation （P106-P109）
——
Tease
Mental
Radical
Fierce
Administration（P111）
——
Amusement
Embrace
Aging
Envy（P119）
——
Fogged up
Perspective
Gobble up
Substitute
Tenderness
Comradeship
Cluttered (P125)
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“Mitchell?” Morrie says, reading from the attendance list.
I raise a hand.
Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?” I have never been asked this by a teacher. I do a double take at this guy in his yellow turtleneck and green corduroy pants, the silverhair that falls on his forehead. He is smiling. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. “Well, Mitch it is then,” Morrie says, as if closing a deal. “And, Mitch?”
Yes?
“I hope that one day you will think of me as your friend.”
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Created your own, but most people can’t do it.
Life is a series pull back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything from granted.
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. (P103)
You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. (P120)
I don’t want my Tombstone to read: I never owned a network disillusioned appeal. (P124)
2014.06.08~2014.06.17 第一本原版书192页，我现在估计3500词汇能看懂。内容讲＂an old man, an young man, and life's greatest lesson"，年初家里发生大事，改变了我的人生观-人生最重要的是什么？Learn how to die learn how to live,这本书也是讲这个的，算感兴趣的书。有道词典生词本6000多，估计掌握一半，读这本书书，开始每页有5个左右生词，不查词典，不影响阅读，上下文能猜个大概，后来觉得这样一本下来生词还是会不...
2014-06-10 10:13:16
2014.06.08~2014.06.17
第一本原版书192页，我现在估计3500词汇能看懂。内容讲＂an old man, an young man, and life's greatest lesson"，年初家里发生大事，改变了我的人生观-人生最重要的是什么？Learn how to die learn how to live,这本书也是讲这个的，算感兴趣的书。有道词典生词本6000多，估计掌握一半，读这本书书，开始每页有5个左右生词，不查词典，不影响阅读，上下文能猜个大概，后来觉得这样一本下来生词还是会不认识，10页后就开始查词典，不是每次遇到就查，遇到先红笔划出来，几页读完后再查，发现查的词80%确实不认识，另20%一查后发现已进过生词本，以前见过。由此阅读对记生词帮助很大的，即使像我这样遇到生词就加入生词本，但很少背它，还是无形中记住了不少。加油接下来第二本《Barack Obama the audacity of hope》。
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十年前，因为李欣频的《十四堂创意人生课》知道了《相约星期二》，也幸运地去了她在深圳中心书城的白金版签售会，拿到了我人生中的第一本有作者签名的书，签售会上她又提到了《相约星期二》，我也记录下来了。十年过去了，却从来没有读过这本书，直到偶然看到豆瓣的推荐，刚好最近都在看英文原版书，所以上周日上午就在淘宝买了一本。奇妙的是，下午女儿翻出来这本书，我看到了自己当初做的笔记，第一行就是《相约星期二》。也...
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5 有用 Mia 2016-03-22 16:46:53
书中我最喜欢的一句话：Accept the past as past ,learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
9 有用 无名之辈 2015-05-29 16:20:14
睡前想起来会读一点的鸡汤，只能说这本鸡汤不适合我，我需要的是鸡血而非鸡汤~
4 有用 Ann 2014-09-23 11:29:33
经历过才能读懂
1 有用 小p 2010-12-23 18:10:43
最后章节一边哭一边读。第二次抄的时候正常了。呵呵。这本书的存在充分证明了我有多冲动。。。
4 有用 高尔基呀 2013-10-22 10:35:40
well,忍着恶心把这本心灵鸡巴汤读完了！
0 有用 La Reina 2022-08-17 11:25:05
值得反复看 很受用
0 有用 赵越 2022-07-28 23:18:38
when you know how to die, you will know how to live. I have my coach, I love my life.
0 有用 🐯 2022-07-25 00:41:53
文笔很好，一堂与死亡相关的课程
0 有用 周末夜狂热 2022-07-20 00:25:15
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0 有用 TegridyFarmer 2022-07-18 12:12:03
老爷子和病魔斗得那么痛苦，但他还要挣扎表达爱，我太理解了，在死亡面前，所有的一切都变得不重要了，你可以原谅整个世界，只有爱是最珍贵的。人世间最震耳欲聋的道理都是简单的大白话，但希求通悟却是难上加难。大家读完大概会幸福倍增吧…我心境却是完全不同了。