Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Two Truths to Live b Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio Two Truths to live by Detailed Read ing Alexander M. Schindler The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. An ancient man said long ago: S"A man comes to this world with his fist clenched. but when he dies, his hand Is open 4 Surely we ought to hold fast to life. for it is wonderful. and full of a beauty ( S We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more Prev.‖Next> 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子③
The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. An ancient man said long ago: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.” Two Truths to Live by Detailed Reading Alexander M. Schindler Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wonderful, and full of a beauty. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Two Truths to Live b Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio 4 We remember a beauty that faded, a love that withered Detailed Read ing But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered 4 A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place Prev.‖Next> 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子③
Detailed Reading We remember a beauty that faded, a love that withered. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered. A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Two Truths to Live b Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio One morning, I had to have some Detailed Read ing additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard in a chair. as we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me 恭通 That's all there was to my experience Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was-how warming: how sparkling; how brilliant <OS I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun's golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground (SThen I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all Prev.‖Next> 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子③
I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun’s golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the great beauty of it all. Detailed Reading One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard in a chair. As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. That’s all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was — how warming; how sparkling; how brilliant!
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Two Truths to Live b Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio (SThe insight gleaned from that experience is really as Detailed Read ing commonplace as was the experience itself: life's gifts are precious-but we are too careless of them <e Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute <e Hold fast to life but not so fast that you cannot let go.This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go SThis is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passion can and will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us 《Prev.Next 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子③
The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life’s gifts are precious — but we are too careless of them. Here then is the first pole of life’s paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be respectful before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute. Hold fast to life, but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life’s coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go. This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passion can, and will be ours. But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us. Detailed Reading
Unit Six Before Reading Global Reading Detailed Reading After Reading Two Truths to Live b Zooming In: An Integrated English Course- Electronic Teaching Portfolio <e At every stage of life we sustain losses- and grow in the Detailed Read ing process. We begin our independent lives only when we come to this world. We enter schools then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not so gradual weakening of our own strength. S And ultimately, we must confront the inevitability of our own death, losing ourselves, as it were. all that we were or dreamed to be 《Prev.Next 新世纪大学英语系列教材综合教程电子③
or not so gradual weakening of our own strength. And ultimately, we must confront the inevitability of our own death, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be. Detailed Reading At every stage of life we sustain losses — and grow in the process. We begin our independent lives only when we come to this world. We enter schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual