【英语美文】If I Were a Boy Again 假如我又回到了童年（双语）

If I were a boy again I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror： if you smile upon it, it smiles back upon you； but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return. Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but of all that come in contact with it. “Who shuts love out, in turn shall be shut from love.”

假如我又回到了童年，我就要事事乐观。生活犹如一面镜子：你朝它笑，它也朝你笑； 如果你双眉紧锁，向它投以怀疑的目光，它也将还以你同样的目光。内心的欢乐不仅温暖了欢乐者自己的心，也温暖了所有与之接触者的心。“谁拒爱于门外，也必将被爱拒之门外。”

If I were a boy again, I would school myself to say “No” oftener. I might write pages on the importance of leaning very early in life to gain that point where a young boy can stand erect, and decline doing an unworthy act because it is unworthy.

假如我又回到了童年,我就要养成经常说“不”字的习惯。一个少年要能挺得起腰， 拒绝做不应该做的事，就因为这事不值得做。我可以写上好几页谈谈早年培养这一点的重要性。

If I were a boy again, I would demand of myself more courtesy towards my companions and friends, and indeed towards strangers as well. The smallest courtesies along the rough roads of life are like the little birds that sing to us all winter long, and make that season of ice and snow more endurable.

假如我又回到了童年，我就要要求自己对伙伴和朋友更加礼貌，而且对陌生人也应如此。在坎坷的生活道路上，最细小的礼貌犹如在漫长的冬天为我们歌唱的小鸟，那歌声使冰天雪地的寒冬变得较易忍受。

Finally, instead of trying hard to be happy, as if that were the sole purpose of life, I would, if I were a boy again, try still harder to make others happy.

最后，假如我又回到了童年，我不会力图为自己谋幸福,好像这就是人生唯一的目的； 与之相反,我要更努力为他人谋幸福。

cowardice ['kaʊədis] n. 懦弱

anticipate [æn'tisipeit] v. 预见; 预料; 预感

exceed [ik'si:d] v. 超过,胜过,越出 vt. 超过,胜过

courtesy ['kə:tisi, 'kɔ:-] n. 礼貌,好意,恩惠

companion [kəm'pænjən] n. 同伴,同事

endurable [in'djuərəbl] adj. 可忍受的,能忍耐的

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