Friends
1. 朋友对我们来说非常重要。
2. 一个人应该广交朋友。
3. 然而，真正的朋友却不易寻觅。
Friends are very important to us. When in trouble, we need friends to offer us en couragement and help. With success achieved, we also need friends to share our joys. It's hard to imagine life without friendship!
A person should make as many friends as he can. The more friends he has, the more meaningful his life will be. Similarly, a country, too, needs friends. China today, for example, has friends all over the world. With the open policy being successfully carried out, she is certain to make more friends in the future.
However,real friends are not easy to find. That's why we highly value our friend ship with them. False friends also exist. They may have a bad influence on our character and are even worse open enemies. Therefore, it is essential we take care in making friends.
朋友
朋友对我们非常重要。当遇到困难时，我们需要朋友给予鼓励和帮助：获得了成功，我们也需要朋友分享我们的欢乐。没有友谊的生活是难以想象的! 一个人应广交朋友。朋友越多，他的生活将更有意义。同样，一个国家也需要朋友。譬如，今天的中国，朋友遍天下。随着开放政策成功的施行，中国将会有更多的朋友。
然而，真正的朋友却不易寻觅。这就是为什么我们非常珍视朋友之间友谊的原因。假朋友也是存在的，他们对我们的品格有不良影响，甚至是更坏的公开敌人。因
此，根本的问题在于慎重交友。
Learn to Stand on Your Own Feet
In every school a "top" crowd sets the pace, while the others follow their lead. Let's say the top crowd decides that it is smart to wear bright red sweaters.Pretty soon everybody is wearing a bright
red sweater. There is nothing wrong with that, except the fact that on some people a bright red sweater is extremely unbecoming. The situation can even become dangerous, if the top crowd decides that it is smart to drink or to drive cars at seventy miles an hour.Then the people who follow the lead are endangering their lives. They are like the sheep being led to the butcher.
Now, chances are that you have come across situations like these more than once in your life; chances are that one time or another you probably did something you knew to be wrong. You may have excused yourself by saying, "Gee, the crowd does it." Well, let the crowd do it, but don't do it
yourself. Learn to say, "No."
Develop your own standards and your own judgment. If you know the crowd is planning something you disagree with,have the courage to bow out politely. You'll have the satisfaction of standing on your own two feet.
学会自立
每所学校中都有一群领头学生做出榜样，其他人蜂拥效仿。比如这些领头学生决定穿鲜红色羊毛衫很时尚，那很快人人都会穿着鲜红色羊毛衫。这件事本身没什么问题，除了有些人极不适合穿鲜红色毛衫这一事实。但如果这些领头学生觉得喝酒或以70英里的时速开车很时尚的话，情况甚至会变得危险起来。这些盲从的学生在危及自己的生命。他们就像被领到屠夫前的羊群。
在你生命中，这种情况你可能遇到不止一次；可能你时不时也会做自己知道是不对的事情。你可能会为自己开脱说：“大家都在这么做嘛。”那让大家这么做好了，但你自己不要这样做。要学会说“不。”
要有自己的标准和判断。如果你知道大家正计划你不赞成的事情，鼓起勇气礼貌地退出。你会为自己学会自立感到满意的。
Money and the Meaning of Life
Recently, a professor of philosophy in the United States has written a book called Money and the Meanlng of Life. He has discovered that how we deal with money in our day-to-day life has more meaning than we usually think. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep a record of every penny they spend for a week.From the way they spend their money, they can see what they
really value in life.
He says our relation with others often becomes clearly defined when money enters the picture. You might have a wonderful friendship with somebody and you think that you are very good friends. But you will know him only when you ask him to lend you some money. If he does, it brings something to the relationship that seems stronger than ever before. Or it can suddenly weaken the relationship if he doesn't. This person may say that he has a certain feeling, but if it is not carried out in the money world, there is something less real about it.
People just have an idea of making more and more money, but what is it for? How much do I need for any given purposes in my life7 In his book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society: to bring back the idea that money is an instrument rather than the end. Money plays an important role in the material
world, but expecting money to give happiness may be missing the meaning of life. 金钱与生命的意义
最近，美国一位哲学教授完成了一本名为《金钱与生命的意义》的书。他发现日常生活中人们如何对待金钱所展示出的意义比我们通常认为的更为深远。他让学生们所做的一项练习就是记录下他们一周来所花费的每一分钱。从花钱方式上，他们可以看到在生活中他们真正珍惜的是什么。
他说，一旦有金钱介入，通常我们与他人之间的关系就变得易于分辨了。也许你和某个人的友谊亲密无间，你觉得你们是相当不错的朋友。但只有当你向他借钱的时候你才会真正了解他。如果他借钱给你，这带给你们的关系一些什么东西使你们的关系也好像比以往任何时候都更为牢固。如果他不借钱给你，这就会突然削弱你们的关系。这个人可能会说他有某种感情，但如果不在金钱的世界加以实施，这种感情中就有些东西不那么真实。
人们只想着要赚越来越多的钱，但赚钱为什么呢?生命中的一个特定目标需要多少钱呢?教授在他的书中揭示了一个现代社会至关重要的需求：找回金钱只是工具而非目的这样一理念。金钱在物质社会中发挥着重要作用，但期望金钱带来快乐也许是对生命意义的误解。
How to Be a Successful Person ?
As the saying goes, nothing succeeds like success. People like to deal with a successful person.
Why? You see there must be a reason why the person has achieved success. And most obviously it is
because he .is expert at what he is doing.
When given a chance, people would deal with the best.Naturally, the best way to produce success is to do a lot of work. Your achievement and the fame it leads to will make it known to the public how good you really are. People will know this by your completed record or simply by recognizing it upon seeing you in action. Just as it becomes quite obvious that a man is a full-time tennis player when you see him play on the tennis court, it will become obvious that you are skilled in your work when people see you do your work.
如何做一个成功的人?
俗话说，没有什么事比成功更成功。人们愿意和成功的人打交道。为什么?你觉得那人成功肯定是有原因的。而且最显而易见的就是因为在他所工作的领域他就是专家.
如果有机会，人们愿意和最优秀的人交往。 自然，成功的最佳途径就是做大量工作。工作带给你的成就和声誉让公众了解你到底有多么优秀。人们可以通过你完善的记录了解这
一点或仅仅通过观察你工作意识到这一点。你看到某人在网球场上打球，很明显可以看出他是职业网球运动员，同样，人们看到你工作的话，你对工作的熟练技巧也就变得显而易见。 如果有机会，人们愿意和最优秀的人交往。 自然，成功的最佳途径就是做大量工作。工作带给你的成就和声誉让公众了解你到底有多么优秀。人们可以通过你完善的记录了解这一点或仅仅通过观察你工作意识到这一点。你看到某人在网球场上打球，很明显可以看出他是职业网球运动员，同样，人们看到你工作的话，你对工作的熟练技巧也就变得显而易见。
My idea of Family Planning
Family planning is the most effective way to solve the population problem, the seriousness of which we often underestimate. Quite obviously family planning has so far macle little progress. At a time when half of the world is suffering from starvation, poor health and a badly Iow standard of living, we simply cannot take lightly the population problem. If we don't control the birth rate right now we'll surely lead a miserable life in the near future.
llliteracy is perhaps the main enemy of family planning.Countries, which share the highest birth rate such as Brazil and India, are also those which share the highest illiteracy rate. People there don't even know what "birth control" is. To me, the ignorance of family planning is a social problem. So we had better begin with social reforms through,say, legislation, etc. Of course, we cannot deny the necessity of the medical approach and we should use it in conjunction with other methods. The answer to the question whether man can survive one of the crises of the 21st century, namely population, is in our hands.
计划生育之我见
计划生育是解决人口问题最有效的方法，而我们经常低估人口问题的严重性。非常明显，计划生育至今为止几乎没有得到什么进展。 当世界的一半人口经历饥饿、健康水平差和低得让人吃惊的生活水平的痛苦时，我们不能简单地轻视人口问题。如果我们现在不控制出生率，我们在不久的将来必定要过上更悲惨的生活。
无知或许是计划生育最大的敌人。人口出生率最高的国家，比如巴西和印度，同时也是文盲率最高的国家。 那里的人们甚至不知道什么叫做“人口控制”。
依我之见，对计划生育的无知是一个社会问题。所以我们最好先进行·一些社会改革，比如通过立法等来控制人口数量。 当然我们也不能否定药物方法的必要性，并且要把这种方法和其他方法结合起来。决定我们是否能够解决21世纪的一大危机，即人口问题的答案就在我们自己手中。