1. An Advanced Course in Interpretation 高级口译教程 Unit 1

2. What is life? 人生是路，铺满鲜花，也布满荆棘。 人生是烛，照亮别人，却燃尽自己。 Life is a road, strewn with flowers and beset with brambles. Life is a candle, illuminating others and burning itself out. 生不带来，死不带去。 At birth, we bring nothing; at death we take away nothing.

7. Reading Aloud and Reciting 要支配人生，二十岁靠意志，三十岁靠机敏，四十岁靠判断。 — 富兰克林 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. -- Benjamin Franklin 人生的大悲剧不在于人们死亡，而在于他们不再热爱生活。 — 毛姆 The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. -- William Maugham

8. Quotations from Celebrities 人生的悲剧不在于人们所受的苦，而在于他们错失的良机。 — 卡莱尔 The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. -- Thomas Carlyle 人生是一连串教训，经历了才会理解。 — 爱默生 Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -- Ralph Emerson

9. Quotations from Celebrities 人生的意义不在于一个人获得了什么，而在于他渴望获得什么。 — 纪伯伦 The significance of the life of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. – Kahlil Gibran 人生的充分利用就是为争取比人生更长久的东西而度过一生。 — 詹姆斯 The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

10. Now let’s learn a poem “ Life” .

18. Watch and Interpret