To succeed, you must accept challenges. There will always be barriers, cultural differences, and lack of understanding around us, but it is beneficial for us to stay together, be sensitive to each other needs, and to help each other. Maintaining cultural diversity and integrity is possible as a healthy community builds on teamwork, praise, pride and enthusiasm. Once, we are dedicated to improve critical skills such as knowledge sharing, collaboration, flexibility and risk taking, we will improve our future.
Together, we can make our world a better place in which to live by changing the way we and the rest of the population view it—positively. Let’s make this challenge a reality.
面对生活中的尴尬和艰辛，我们应该轻易悲痛吗？或者，我们是否应该直面阻碍，接受它的挑战呢？选择不同的立场，可能使自己成为被压抑的牺牲品。不论发生什么事，我们都可以把它当成生活中某种不祥的征兆。很多时候，我们需要确定自己作出的选择，是受智慧的指引还是恐惧的驱使。
如果把生活比喻成杂耍，或是一种体育竞赛，我们就会认同那些设置的限制和阻碍，然后寻找方法，集中精力去跨越。我们需要不同的才能和力量以清除障碍；我们的信念、幽默和希望都可能受到考验，但它们在我们全力克服各种困难的过程中，促进了我们的成长。
歧视和偏见都是挑战。我们迫使自己付出比别人更多的努力，但是，工作的回报由自己享用。重要的是，我们要从事那些更有意义和价值的工作。
要获得成功，你必须接受挑战。通常，各种障碍如文化差异、缺乏了解等困扰着我们，但团结一致，相互帮助，敏锐察觉彼此的需要，有利于我们的成长。只有处于一个建立在合作、荣耀、自豪和热情之上的健康社会中时，我们才有可能保持文化的差异性和完整性。只要我们致力于提高如知识共享、团结协作、随机应变和敢于冒险等重要技能，我们的未来就会更加美好。
团结起来吧！通过改变我们和他人看待问题的方式，我们就能使这个世界更加美好，让我们勇敢地迎接挑战吧！
心灵小语
勇于面对挑战。
记忆填空
1.__ we easily wail about the embarrassment and the unfairness of__? Or should we accept obstacles__ challenges? With a choice of stance we can allow ourselves to be oppressed victims. When anything__ to us, we can take it as a sign that we should not expect anything good out of our lives.
2. Discrimination and prejudice are__. We force ourselves to work__ as hard as others; however, the rewards from our work are__ to enjoy. The important thing is to be working at something we find__ and worthwhile.
佳句翻译
1. 或者，我们是否应该直面障碍，接受它的挑战呢？
译______________
2. 要获得成功，你必须接受挑战。
译______________
3. 通过改变我们和他人看待问题的方式，我们就能使这个世界更加美好，让我们勇敢地迎接挑战吧！
译______________
短语应用
1. When anything happens to us, we can take it as a sign that we should not expect anything good out of our lives.
happen to：发生于；偶然发生
造______________
2. ...we learn to go along with the limitations and obstacles that are dealt us.
go along with：与某人相处
造______________
时间因稀而贵
The Value of Time
佚名 / Anonymous
“Time,” says the proverb, “is money.” This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experience and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. Let those who think nothing of wasting time remember this.
Our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. We are shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that our life is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day or an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy or eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in watching over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the term over which our life extends, we shall find about twenty or thirty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment of his life.
All time is precious, but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledge and develop our capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood any youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages.
谚语说：“时间就是金钱。”这句话的意思是，有效地利用每一分钟，就可能让我们增加财富。如果我们充分利用了时间，生产一些实用的东西，到市场上卖掉，会赚些钱，同时丰富我们的经验，增长我们的才智，这就是说，赚钱的机会成熟了。让那些对浪费时间毫不在意的人记住这一点吧。
时间就是生命，所以浪费时间就是变相自杀。一想到死亡，我们就会惊恐万分，不遗余力、不惜一切代价去保全生命。失去一个小时或一天的时间对于我们来说无关紧要，但我们忘记了，生命就是由这一天、一小时所构成的，因此生命就这样逐渐流逝了。人生短暂，总共不过七八十年。但是，睡眠占据了三分之一，吃饭花去几年，海陆空旅行用去几年，再加上娱乐，照看病床上的亲友，如果扣除生命中的这些光阴，我们会发现，仅仅二三十年的时间能供我们积极工作。记住这一点，就不会有人甘愿浪费生命的每一分钟。
所有的时间都是宝贵的，而童年和青春时光比生命中的任何阶段都珍贵，因为这是我们汲取知识、增长才智的特有阶段。如果让这些时光悄然流逝，我们将无法弥补这些损失。就像储存金钱可以得到两三倍的利息一样，充分利用童年和青春的宝贵时光，会给我们带来不可估量的利益。
心灵小语
机会无处不在，就看你是否有能力抓住它，利用它。你有什么样的能力决定你能抓住什么样的机会。在机会来临之前，不妨提升自己的能力，以便将来抓住更多更好的机会。
记忆填空
1. If our__ is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will__ to our experience and__ our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity__. Let those who think__ of wasting time remember this.
2. Our life is a brief span measuring some seventy__ eighty years in all. But nearly one third of this has to be spent in__; some years have to be spent over our__; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merrymaking; some in__ over the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives.
佳句翻译
1. 时间就是金钱。
译 ______________
2. 浪费时间就是变相自杀。
译______________
3. 所有的时间都是宝贵的，而童年和青春时光比生命中的任何阶段都珍贵。
译______________
短语应用
1. …and increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes.
so as to：以便；为的是；使得
造______________
2. ...we shall never be able to recoup the loss.
be able to：能；会；能够；胜任
造______________
