英语哲理短文带翻译
篇一：中英文对照哲理小故事
上帝的咖啡
一群事业有成的同学回去看望他们的大学老师，很快他们开始抱怨生活和工作中的压力。 老师去厨房为客人们准备咖啡，回来时端着一大壶咖啡和各式各样的杯子，这些杯子有、塑料的、玻璃的、水晶的，有的普通，有的昂贵，有的精致，老师让大家随意享用。 等每个人都端起一杯咖啡，老师说话了：你们注意到吗：所有好看昂贵的杯子都被用了，剩下那些朴素便宜的杯子。你们都只想要最好的，这很正常，这恰恰是你们的问题和压力所在。杯子不会让咖啡的质量变得更好，很多时候，只是让它变得更贵一些，甚至，有时候，让人忽略了到底我们在喝什么。你们真正想要的其实是咖啡，不是杯子，但你们有意识地去拿那些最好的杯子，随后开始打量其他人手上的杯子。
生活好比咖啡，工作、金钱和社会地位都只是杯子，只是生活的容器，而我们拥有的杯子既无法定义、也无法改变我们生活的质量。有时，由于我们只关心杯子，我们甚至不能够好好品尝上帝赐予我们的咖啡。
上帝冲泡了咖啡，不是杯子。享受你们的咖啡吧。 最快乐的人们并不是因为他们拥有最好的一切，他们只是把一切当成最好。 简单地活着。仁慈地爱着。深深地关心着。友善地说话。 其他的，就留给上帝吧。
God's Coffee
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups -, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee! "The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything."
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.
We Are The World ,We Are The Future
Someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. I don?t know who wrote these words, but I?ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. We are all in the position of the farmers. If we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
We are young. “How to spend the youth?” It is a meaningful
question. To answer it, first I have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” Youth is not a time of life, it?s a state of mind. It?s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It?s the matter of the will. It?s the freshness of the deep spring of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over
timidity of the appetite , for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 . Nobody grows old merely by a number of years . We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul . Worry , fear , self –distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .
Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ?s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what?s next and the joy of the game of living . In the center of your heart and my heart there?s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .
A poet said “To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. Several days ago, I had a chance to listen to a lecture. I learnt a lot there. I?d like to share it with all of you. Let?s show our right palms. We can see three lines that show how our love.career and life is. I have a short line of life. What about yours? I wondered whether we could see our future in this way. Well, let?s make a fist. Where is our future? Where is our love, career, and life? Tell me.Yeah, it is in our hands. It is held in ourselves.
We all want the future to be better than the past. But the future can go better itself. Don?t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. From the past, we?ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. We?ve learnt that we can?t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. Failure doesn?t mean you don?t have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way. Failure doesn?t mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder.
As what I said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. The past has gone. Nothing we do will change it. But the future is in front of us. Believe that what we give to the world, the world will give to us. And from today on, let?s be the owners of ourselves, and speak out “We are the world, we are the future.”
篇三：一篇很有哲理的英文翻译
12. True happiness is found in simple, seemingly uemarkable things.
幸福的真谛在于平淡似水，不着痕迹。
14. But to be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside.
A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.
若想要追寻那安静细小的幸福，需要的是心神之沉静和高度灵敏之感官，去看，去听，去感悟。
16. Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature. 用心灵聆听大自然的私语。
18. The rustling of leaves in the wind,
风中落叶的呢喃
20. Raindrops falling,
绵绵细雨的飘摇
22. The humming of an insect,
嗡嗡作响的飞虫
24. The first birdsong at dawn.
黎明晨鸟的初啼
26. Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater: a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
请赋予自己全面行驶听觉的权利。
而还有一些是超越了声音范畴的，更伟大，更神圣的东西，它们甚至不能通过理性的思维来琢磨明白
28. Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still it is, how deeply rooted in being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
目光在一朵花，一棵树，一株植物上流淌，请也让你的意识在上面徜徉，感受它们是多么的静谧，多么安静地深深地扎根与大地…让自然教会你静的含义
30. Everything natural--evert flower, tree, and animal--has important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
如果我们肯停下脚步，去听，去看，那么任何天然的存在—无论是盛开的花朵，翠绿的树木亦或是各种动物都会给我们上一堂深刻的人生之课.
31. Just float. Reflect. Keep a song in your heart. Smell the roses. Be hoppy. Find your own pace. I should be taking notes.
轻嗅玫瑰的芬芳，美妙的旋律始终在心中回荡，就这样找到自己的节奏，陶然其中，无拘无束，深思自省，随时记录心灵的点滴。
32. Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time--surrendered to life.
近距离的观察一个动物可以将你带入一个奇异的境界—眼前这个动
物一直生活着的—顺应生活的世界。
34. It's so wonderful to watch an animal, because an animal has no opinion about itself. It is.
这样观察动物的世界是如此美妙，因为他们对自己没什么太多的感触，他们觉得一切就是一切，仅此而已。
36. That's why the dog is so joyful
这就是狗狗缘何如此的快乐
38. And why the cat purrs.
为什么猫咪总是发出咕咕噜噜的声音
40. When you pet a dog or listen to a cat purring, thinking may subside for a moment and a space within you, a doorway into being.
当爱抚狗狗或者听着猫咪咕咕噜噜时，你的思绪可能会走神一会儿，此时，在意识的未知领域一扇神秘的大门正缓缓打开。
44. The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
宠物对人类至关重要的作用还没有被充分的认识到，实际上，它们保证了成千上万人类的心智健康。
45. Heal.
抚慰心灵
46. They have become guardians of being.
它们成为了生命的守护者。
48. Most of us live in a world of mental abstraction, conceptualization, and image making--a world of thought. We are immersed in a continuous stream of mental noise. It seems that we can't stop thinking.
我们大多数人沉浸在一个抽象，概念化和形象化的世界，全世界的信息在我们身边不爆炸，而我们似乎永远在不停地思考
。49. I was thinking of all my problems. I was thinking of all the pain of the past and... I was thinking of all the uncertainty of the future. And I was thinking poor, poor me--my sad life. And I was thinking how little time there is... And I'm really thinking it's all just...hopeless...what can I do? Stop thinking.
我曾经不停想我所有的问题，所有曾经经历的痛苦；曾一直纠结于不确定的未来，一直担忧我困苦的生活，悲惨的命运。也曾不断的焦虑时间所剩无几却一事无成…甚至我一度绝望…，我能做什么？停下来不再去思考。
50. Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.
正如狗爱啃骨头，人类的思维喜欢他创造的难题.
51. Fun for the whole family.
要给整个家庭带来欢乐
52. We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating--lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us
the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.
我们迷失在不停地思考，记忆和期待当中—一个迷宫一般复杂充满难题的世界里。自然可以为我们指明回家的道路，帮我们走出思维的牢狱。
53. The dog star... The brightest star in all the heavens, always there to show me the way... Also known as sirius... Or ... My earl 犬星，也叫天狼星或者叫伯爵星，是夜空中最明亮的繁星，总是指引我们前进的道路。
54. Close your eyes and say to yourself: i wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise...
闭上眼然后对自己说：我想知道我下一个想法是什么，然后就像猫注视着老鼠洞一样等待着，你将会发现，这样刻意的警觉是毫无作用的…
55. Waiting for the mouse. Waiting, for the mouse.
我等着老鼠，等…
58. I have lived with many zen masters, all of them cats. 我曾和许多禅宗大师朝夕相处，包括他们的猫。
60. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in their minds and in endless past and future concerns are taken back by their dog or cat into the present moment, again and again, and