You! Consider... YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique①in the entire history and future of the universe②. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion③...
試想一下……你!一個空前絕后的你,不論是以往還是將來都不會有一個跟你一模一樣的人。你在歷史上和宇宙中都是獨一無二的。哇!想想吧,你是萬里挑一、億里挑一或兆里挑一的。
You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity④!
在無窮無盡的宇宙中,你是舉世無雙的!
You're amazing! You're awesome⑤!And by the way, you're it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsy⑥of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art⑦.But you don't become “beautiful” just by virtue⑧of the aging process⑨.
你是了不起的!你是卓越的!沒錯,就是你。你已經是了不起的,是卓越的,你還可以更卓越更了不起。美麗的年輕人是大自然的奇想,而美麗的老人卻是藝術的杰作。但你不會因為年齡的漸長就自然而然變得“美麗”。
Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate⑩your growth and intentionally devour(11)life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today.
真正的美麗源于生命里的學習、成長和熱愛。這就是生命的藝術。你可以只聽天由命慢慢地學,有時候或許會很痛苦。又或許你可以選擇加速自己的成長,故意地揮霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描繪自己未來的藝術家。
Paint a masterpiece(12).
畫出一幅杰作吧!
God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it's truly up to you.(13)
上帝給了鳥兒食物,但他沒有將食物扔到它們的巢里。不管你想要去哪里,不管你想要做什么,真正做決定的還是你自己。
【細節鏈接】
①unique: (adj.) 唯一的,獨特的,獨一無二的。
②universe: (n.)宇宙, 世界, 萬物, 領域。
③gazillion: 看過動畫片《格斯拉》嗎?確切地說,這個詞來自于日語,表示龐然大物的意思,被引入英文當中,表示超級多的,海量的意思。比如,我們熟悉的單詞中,有millionaire(百萬富翁)和billionaire(億萬富翁),那么如果形容像比爾·蓋茨或是默多克一樣的人物,我們還可以用個更加精確的單詞:gazillionaire,這種表達在電影《阿甘正傳》中就出現過的!
④infinity:(n.)無限, 無窮大。
⑤amazing、awesome:都有“特別棒、特別好”的意思,這兩個詞匯在日常口語表達中出現的頻率極高,建議各位多多使用哦!
⑥whimsy:(n.)怪念頭, 奇想, 任意。
⑦true works of art:藝術的杰作。
⑧virtue:美德, 貞操, 優點, 功效。
⑨aging process: 年齡變老的過程。
⑩accelerate:加速,增長,促進。
(11)devour:吞噬、揮霍。
(12)masterpiece: 杰作。
(13)up to sb.:表示depends on sb.,有“取決于某某”之意。如:It's up to you.意思即是:這取決于你!