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晨歌Morning Song by Sylvia Plath 作者简介：希尔维亚普拉斯Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) 美国20世纪最有影响力的女诗人，自白派的代表人物之一。她是20世纪最著名的女诗人、女权主义者的文化偶像、获得普利策文学奖、引领“自白派”诗歌浪潮；她终生被伤痛灵魂与迷乱心智所折磨，饱受精神梦魇摧残，以自杀结束了悲伤的生命Morning Song-Sylvia PlathLove set you going like a fat gold watch.The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cryTook its place among the elements.Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.In a drafty museum, your nakednessShadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.Im no more your motherThan the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slowEffacement at the winds hand.All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:A far sea moves in my ear.One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floralIn my Victorian nightgown.Your mouth opens clean as a cats. The window squareWhitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you tryYour handful of notes;The clear vowels rise like balloons.晨歌 西尔维亚普拉斯爱发动你，像个胖乎乎的金表。助产士拍拍年的脚掌，你无头发的叫喊在世界万物中占定一席之地我们是声音呼应，放大了你的到来。新的雕像。在多风的博物馆里，你的赤裸使我的安全蒙上阴影。我们围站着，墙一般空白。云渗下一面镜子，映出他自己在风的手中慢慢消失的形象，我比云更不像你的母亲。整夜，你飞蛾般的呼吸在单调的红玫瑰间闪动。我醒来静听：我耳中有个远方的大海。一声哭，我出床上滚下，母牛般笨重，穿着维多利亚式睡衣满身花纹。你嘴张开，干净得像猫的嘴。方形的窗变白，吞没了暗淡的星。而你现在试唱你满手的音符清脆的元音像汽球般升起。Return to Love回归真爱编者按：Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.心灵的独奏是不完整的，直到另一颗心灵有所回应。渴望歌唱的人总能找到曲谱。真爱所到之处，诗情画意无处不在。What is wrong with our world is that love is in short supply.我们的世界让人无所适从只因真爱太少。When we were born, we were programmed perfectly. We had a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a world much richer than the one we connect to now, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous.So what happened? Why is it that we reached a certain age, looked around, and the enchantment was gone?Because we were taught to focus elsewhere; We were taught to think unnaturally；We were taught a way of looking at the world that contradicts who we are；We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.Love is what we were born with；Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.Meaning doesnt lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that arent love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we love things that cant love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.This is Faith from Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax. Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts. Its a world beyond that we all secretly long for. An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.出生时我们的基因是那么完美，我们自然而然地向往爱。我们拥有无限的想象力和创意，并且知道如何运用它们。当时的世界比如今的具有更加丰富的内涵，充满魅力和奇迹。那么我们到底怎么了？为什么当我们年岁渐长，环顾四周时却发现原来生活的魅力已经不复存在了？因为成长偏移了我们的视线，扭曲了我们的心志，甚至违背了我们原来的世界观。它使我们觉得拿高分、表现好、挣钱多、不犯错等要比爱重要的多。爱是与生俱来的，恐惧则是后天学会的。人类心灵的旅程是一个放弃或忘却恐惧，并从心底里接受真爱的过程。爱是根本，是我们唯一的归宿和活着的原因。意识到这一点，感受自我与他人之间的真爱，方才是生命的意义所在。这一意义无法通过任何物质来体现，它仅存在于你我心中。如果我们珍惜的是金钱、汽车、房子、名誉，我们将得不到任何爱的回报，付出的一切都是徒劳。这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台。爱是我们心中的本能，是埋藏在我们心底的“世外桃源”。对爱的向往一直萦绕在我们心头，并且时刻召唤我们回归真爱。新年的八份礼物Eight Gifts in Spring Festival 在这个最令人愉快的节日里，送礼物给家人，朋友或同事似乎是一项挺重要的假日活动。但是，选择一份合适的礼物并不容易。在今天的节目中，我想给大家介绍8种你可以给予他人的礼物。Welcome to Spring Festival at Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith. During this most pleasant holiday, sending gifts to our family, friends or colleagues seems to be a very important holiday activity. However, choosing a proper gift isnt an easy job. In todays program, I would like to recommend 8 gifts that you can give of yourself.The Gift of ListeningYou must really listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening.The Gift of ComplimentA simple and sincere, You look great in red, or You did a super job or That was a wonderful meal can make someones day.The Gift of AffectionBe generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends.The Gift of Cheerful DispositionThe easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone, really its not that hard to say, Hello or Thank You.The Gift of LaughterClip cartoons. Share articles and funny stories. Your gift will say, I love to laugh with you.The Gift of a FavorEvery day, go out of your way to do something kind.The Gift of A Written NoteIt can be a simple Thanks for the help note or a full sonnet. A brief, handwritten note may be remembered for a lifetime, and may even change a life. The Gift of SolitudeThere are times when we want nothing more than to be left alone. Be sensitive to those times and give the gift of solitude to others.Youre listening to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith. I wish you a cheerful, pleasant holiday. Goodbye. 欢迎收听Faith轻松电台春节特辑，我是Faith。在这个最令人愉快的节日里，送礼物给家人，朋友或同事似乎是一项挺重要的假日活动。但是，选择一份合适的礼物并不容易。在今天的节目中，我想给大家介绍8种你可以给予他人的礼物。倾听的礼物一定要真正地倾听。不要打岔，不要似听非听，不要去计划你的反应。只要静静地倾听。赞美的礼物一个简单，真诚的赞美，“你穿红色很漂亮”，或者“你的工作很出色”，或者“这顿饭真好吃”，这种赞美可以让一个开心一整天。关爱的礼物慷慨地，适当地给予你的拥抱，亲吻，拍拍后背，握握手。让这些微小的行动表现出你对家人及朋友的关爱。愉快的礼物最简单地令人开心的方式莫过于对他人说句善意的话，你好，或谢谢你。 欢笑的礼物剪一些卡通画一起分享令人发笑的故事。这种礼物传递着：“我喜欢和你一起欢笑”。 助人为乐的礼物每天，尽你所能为他人做些善事。小纸条的礼物可以是一个简单的“谢谢你的帮助”的纸条，或者一首十四行小诗。一个简洁的，手写的纸条可能会被永记一生，也或者会改变一生。 独处的礼物有时候我们只想独处，不想被打扰。洞察他人此时的需要，给予他们独处的礼物。您正在收听的是Faith轻松电台，我是Faith。祝愿大家有一个愉快，开心的节日。再见！为亲爱的母亲祷告Dear God,亲爱的上帝：Now that I am no longer young, I have friends whose mothers have passed away. I have heard these sons and daughters say they never fully appreciated their mothers until it was too late to tell them.如今我已不再年轻，一些朋友的母亲已经去世了。我曾听这些子女们说过，他们从没有向母亲充分表示过他们的感激之情，而待到要告诉时为时已晚了。I am blessed with the dear mother who is still alive. I appreciate her more each day. My mother does not change, but I do. As I grow older and wiser, I realize what an extraordinary person she is. How sad that I am unable to speak these words in her presence, but they flow easily from my pen.幸运的是，我亲爱的母亲依然健在。我对她的感情与日俱增。母亲没有变，而我却变了。随着年岁的增长，我越来越懂事了，我认识到她是个非常了不起的人。这些话在她面前我难以启齿，但在笔下却可以轻易地写出来，这令我感到多么难过。How does a daughter begin to thank her mother for life itself? For the love, patience and just plain hard work that go into raising a child? For running after a toddler, for understanding a moody teenager, for tolerating a college student who knows everything? For waiting for the day when a daughter realizes her mother really is?一个女儿该怎样开口感谢她的母亲所给予的生命？感谢她在抚养孩子时所付出的爱、耐心以及无私的辛勤劳动？感谢她跟在蹒跚学步的孩子身后奔跑，对情绪不定的少女的理解，以及对一个自以为是的大学生的宽容? 感谢她等待女儿认识到她真是一位好母亲的这一天？How does a grown woman thank for a mother for continuing to be a mother? For being ready with advice (when asked) or remaining silent when it is most appreciated? For not saying: I told you so, when she could have uttered these words dozens of times? For being essentially herself-loving, thoughtful, patient, and forgiving?一个成年女子该怎样感谢母亲依然如故的角色？感谢在被问到时她会及时提供良言，而在不需要时她会保持沉默？感谢她没有说：我告诉过你，而她本来可以说上许多次？感谢她始终不变的爱心、体贴周到、耐心与宽容厚道?I dont know how, dear God, except to bless her as richly as she deserves and to help me live up to the example she has set. I pray that I will look as good in the eyes of my children as my mother looks in mine.我不知道该怎样来表达，亲爱的上帝，除了请求你好好地保佑她那是她该得到的并帮助我朝她做出的榜样看齐。我祈愿在孩子的眼里我会如同母亲在我眼里一般好。A daughter一个女儿Happy New You做一个崭新的你 快乐并不来自于新年的到来；它源自人们的内在。生活并不因我们在墙上挂上了新日历或者时钟在午夜敲响新年的钟声而改变。能改变我们的生活的唯一方式是改变我们自己。Welcome to New Year. The conventional Happy New Year approach is to think of the New Year as something that happens outside of us. It is a good luck wish that the New Year, in some magical way, will bring us our hearts desire. We look to the New Year to make us happy.Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith. However, when we expect happine ss to come to us from the outside we are usually disappointed. Happine ss is not guaranteed by sunny weather, a raise in pay, a new car, a beautiful home or anything else of a material nature. External things are often po sse ssed by very unhappy people.Happine ss does not come out of a New Year; it comes out of men and women. Life does not change when we hang a new calendar on the wall or when the clock strikes midnight and a New Year begins. The only way life will change for us is when we change ourselves.This is Faith at Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax. at the beginning of New Year, Im reminded that the source of happiness is not in events happening outside of us; the source of happiness is within us. We cannot control the outside world but we can control our own thoughts and emotions. A new you will surely bring you a brand new year, happy new you!欢迎来到新年。传统的新年快乐祝愿是把新年当作是外在发生的事情。它是一种好运祝福，希望新年以一种神奇的方式，带来我们心中所想。我们期盼着新年让我们快乐。欢迎来到Faith轻松电台，我是Faith。然而，当我们期盼着快乐从外界而来时，我们通常都会失望。快乐并不是由阳光灿烂的天气，长工资，一辆新车，一个漂亮的家或者任何其它物质的东西而担保的。外在物质丰富的人也会是非常不开心的人。快乐并不来自于新年的到来；它源自人们的内在。生活并不因我们在墙上挂上了新日历或者时钟在午夜敲响新年的钟声而改变。能改变我们的生活的唯一方式是改变我们自己。这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台。在这新年的启始，我们提醒自己快乐的源泉并不存在于我们外在发生的事情，快乐的源泉就流淌于我们的内心。我们虽不能控制外在的世界，但我们能够支配我们自己的思想和情感。一个全新的你势必带给你一个崭新的新年，祝全新的你快乐！时间银行Time is a Bank 每个人都有一个银行，它的名字叫“时间”。 每天早晨，它在你的帐户里存入86,400秒钟。有效地投资这笔时间以便从中获取有关健康，快乐及成功最大的收益。 时钟正在旋转。好好地利用今天：“抓住每一天！”Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith. At the beginning of todays program, I would like to thank you for dropping by!Im glad that youve come to visit this online radio program in this new week. I hope that this program finds you doing well and living a full and happy life, and that the contents here might help you to think, to grow, to be.Everyone has a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the days deposits, the loss is yours.There is no going back. There is no drawing against the tomorrow. You must live in the present on todays deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is running. Make the most of today: Seizethe day!So, you see, time is important, make the most of it. After all, life is either a daring adventure or nothing!This is Faith at Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax. Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to have your time. And remember time waits for none.1. write off 勾销, 报废, 完全无用2. overdraft n.透支，透支额 3. utmost n.极限，最大可能4. seize vt.抓住，捉住；夺取，占据欢迎收听Faith轻松电台，我是Faith。在今天节目的开始，我想谢谢大家的到来，我很高兴你们在新的一周又来到了这个网络英语电台节目。我希望这个节目伴随你一切顺利，充实和快乐地生活，同时这里的内容可以帮助你去思考，去成长，去做你自己。每个人都有一个银行，它的名字叫时间。 每天早晨，它在你的帐户里存入86,400秒钟。不管你是否很好地利用了这笔时间，每天晚上它会照例把这笔时间作为遗失注销。它没有设置余额，也不允许透支。每天它会为你开一个新帐户，每晚它会把该天的记录全部删除。 如果你没有好好地利用当天的这笔时间，那么损失由你自己承担。没有回头路，也不能向明天借时间。你必须以今天的时间存款为基础生活在现在。有效地投资这笔时间以便从中获取有关健康，快乐及成功最大的收益。 时钟正在旋转。好好地利用今天：抓住每一天！你看，时间挺重要的吧，一定要好好利用它。毕竟，生活要么是大胆的尝试，要么就什么都没有。这里是Faith主持的Faith轻松电台。 珍惜你所拥有的每一分钟！ 你要更加珍惜它，因为你与某个特殊的朋友一起在分享它，这位朋友特殊到拥有你的时间。 记住：时间不等人。为爱不分手Never Say Goodbye为什么大部分的爱情最后都演变成为孤独及伤心的代言词，为什么我们在一起是那么的愉快，却还是要说再见？如果我能重新再做一次选择，或者再让我回到过去，我们的爱情故事会有不同的结局吗？Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith. Love is a Universal emotion, the goal we all seek, the prize that can make our lives complete and whole. Love is both timeless and, in too many instances, transient. We all believe, if only because we must, that love can be found. Some of us - maybe most of us - have discovered it can also be lost easilyIf I could take this moment forever,Turn the pages of my mindTo another place and time,We would never say goodbye.If I could find the words, I would speak them,Then I wouldnt be tongue-tied,When I looked into your eyes,We would never say goodbye.If I could stop the moon ever rising,Day would not become the night,I wouldnt feel this cold inside,And we would never say goodbye.I wish that our dreams were frozen,Then our hearts would not be broken,When we let each other go.If I could steal this moment forever,Paint a picture-perfect smile,So our story stayed alive,We would never say goodbye.1. transient a.短暂的，转瞬即逝的；临时的，暂住的 2. Tongue-Tied 语塞3. frozen a. 冰冻的;结冰的;极冷的欢迎收听Faith轻松电台，我是Faith。爱情是一种全世界共有的情感，是我们追求的目标，以及让我们的生活变得完整的必要元素。爱情即是永恒的，然而在很多情况下，又是短暂的。我们一致相信，如果我们一定要去寻找爱情，那它一定会被找到。有一些人，或者我们中的大多数人已经找到了爱情，却又发现爱情也极易失去如果我可以永远拥有这个瞬间，将我心灵的记忆倒回到另一个地点及时间，我们永不会说再见。如果我可以找到这些话，我一定要把它们说出来，这样我的舌头就不会打结，当我注视着你的眼睛，我们永不会说再见。如果我可以永远地阻止月亮升起来，白天就不会成为黑夜，我也就不会感到内心寒冷，我们也不会说再见。我希望我们的梦可以冻结，这样我们的心也就不会破碎，当我们让彼此成为过去时.如果我可以永远地偷走这个瞬间，画一幅照片式完美的微笑，这样我们的故事仍在上演，我们永不说再见。冬之美Snow Season 最喜欢冬天的部分，就是它的雪景。轻盈、洁白的雪花纷纷扬扬，这场初雪似乎在抚慰大地。在这样的时节里我们也许应该驻足，审视内心，重新感受亲人团聚的温馨。我们观察着事物的结构、树枝与雪花的形状，还有家庭、事业 冬日带来的是宁静的漫漫长夜，正好入梦。Welcome to Faith Radio Online-Simply to Relax, Im Faith.What I love most about winter is its snow.The early snows fall soft and white and seem to heal the landscape. There are as yet no tracks through the drifts, no muddied slush in the roads. The wind sweeps snow into the scars of our harvest-time haste, smoothing the brow of hill, hiding furrow and cog and trash in the yard. Snow muffles the shriek of metal and the rasp of motion. It covers our flintier purposes and brings a redeeming silence, as if a curtain has fallen on the strivings of a year.And now we may stop, look inward, and rediscover the amber warmth of family and conversation. At such times, locked away inside wall and woolen, lulled by the sedatives of wood-smoke and candlelight, we recall the competing claims of nature. We see the branch and bark of trees, rather than the sugar-scented green of their leaves. We look out the window and admire the elegance of ice crystal, the bravely patient tree leaning leafless into the wind, the dramatic shadows of the stooping sun. We look at the structure of things, the geometry of branch and snowflake, family and deed.When snowflake drifts the road we head indoors and resign ourselves to the quietcrackle of the wood fire. The example of the woodpile and the well-stocked larder tells us that we can achieve what we dream, and winter brings us long, silent nights to dream on.1. slush sl n. 软泥(油灰, 水泥沙浆, 脂膏)2. furrow n.犁沟；皱纹3. muffle v. 围裹, 抑制, 发低沉的声音4. shriek vi.尖叫 5. sedative a.& n.(药物)镇静的，镇静剂 6. geometry n.几何(学)7. crackle v.劈啪地响 n.劈啪声欢迎收听Faith轻松电台，我是Faith。最喜欢冬天的部分，就是它的雪景。轻盈、洁白的雪花纷纷扬扬，这场初雪似乎在抚慰大地。积雪上还没有任何足迹，道路上也没有踏脏的雪泥。朔风扫过，白雪覆盖了人们丰收农忙之后的痕迹 它抚平了山脊，藏匿了院内的车辙和轮齿，让杂物都无影无踪。大雪还消减了金属摩擦发出的刺耳声和机器运转时的嘈杂声，它在埋没我们坚韧决心的同时，又 弥补般地降临了一种静谧，宛如一年的努力落下帷幕，就此告一段落。现在我们也许应该驻足，审视内心，重新感受亲人团聚的温馨。 在这样的时节里，我们紧闭房门，裹上毛衣，沐浴在木材燃烧和烛光带来的祥和之中，回想大自然中的两种悖论。我们看到的是树木的枝杈和树皮，而不是芬芳扑鼻 的绿叶；我们望着窗外，惊叹冰晶的美不胜收，钦佩光秃秃的树枝始终迎风而立，赞美落日的身影楚楚动人；我们观察着事物的结构、树枝与雪花的形状，还有家 庭、事业当雪花在路面堆积，我们回到屋内，让自己沉迷在炉火轻微的噼啪声中。柴堆和储备良好的食物表明我们可以美美睡上一觉了。而冬日带来的是宁静的漫漫长夜，正好入梦。学会接受这个世界 生活将更快乐我们能让这世界变得更美好么？这句话本身就是一个错误的假设，认为这世界不好。反过来，我们应该说世界就是这样的，没有什么绝对的好与不好。这是我们选择的生活方式，也是我们喜欢的生活方式。换个角度看待事物：接受并试着理解。接受这世界，你会快乐。“There is nothing either good or bad,but thinking makes it so.”William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.Without judgment, without wishing for otherwise.When we see something we dont like, we wish it could be different we cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps its something thats ingrained in our culture.The root of the unhappiness isnt necessarily that we want things to be different, however: its that we decided we didnt like it in the first place. Weve judged it as bad, rather than saying, Its not bad or good, it just is.An example: In my recent post, A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind, quite a few commenters thought my outlook was negative, pessimistic, or fatalistic because I said you should expect people to mess up, expect things to go differently than you planned, and that you should embrace that.Its too negative to expect things to go wrong, they said. However: its only negative if you see it as negative. If you judge it as bad.Instead, you could accept it as the way the world works as the way things actually are. And try to understand why that is, and embrace it. As it is.This can be applied to whatever you do: whether it be how other people act at work, how politics works and how depressing the news media can be. Accept these things as they are, and try to understand why theyre that way.Itll save you a lot of grief, because youll no longer say, Oh, I wish things didnt suck!Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But change things not because you cant accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of change, of learning and growing.Can we make this world a better place? Again, thats assuming that its a bad place right now. But instead, you could say the world is just what it is and thats neither good nor bad. You can say that youll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world not because youre such a bad person now, or the world sucks, but because thats the path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path.As you catch yourself judging, and wishing for different and we all do it try a different approach: accept, and understand. It might lead