【美文欣賞】Friendship

Friendship

友誼

No young man starting life could have better capital than plenty of friends.

年輕人人生起步最好的資本莫過於擁有眾多的朋友。

They will strengthen his credit support him in every great effort, and make him what，unaided, he could never be.

朋友可以增加他的聲望，盡最大的努力支持他，並使他達到無朋友幫助時絕不可能達到的成就。

Friends of the right sort will help him more to be happy and successful than much money or great learning.

交對朋友將會比大筆的金錢或高深的學問更能讓他快樂和成功。

Friendship is no one-sided affair.

友誼不是單方面的事。

There can be no friendship without reciprocity.

沒有互惠就不能算是友誼。

One cannot receive all and give nothing，or give all and receive nothing，and expect to experience the joy and fullness of true companionship.

一個人不可能只是接受而不付出，只是付出而不回收，卻期望能夠享有真摯友誼的歡欣和滿足。

Those who would make friends must cultivate the qualities which are admired and which attract.

想交朋友必須培養受人讚賞和吸引人的特質。

If you are mean stingy and selfish，nobody will admire you.

如果你小氣、吝嗇又自私，沒有人會欣賞你。

You must cultivate generosity and large-heartedness; you must be magnanimous and tolerant;

你必須培養慷慨和寬宏大量的氣度;你必須有雅量並對人容忍;

you must have positive qualities, for a negative, shrinking, apologizing，roundabout man is despised.

你必須要有積極的特質，因為消極、畏縮、愛賠不是和遷回不前的人總是讓人瞧不起。

You must believe in yourself. If you do not, others will not believe in you.

你必須信任你自己，否則就不會獲得別人的信任。

You must look upward and be hopeful，cheery, and optimistic.

你必須要向前看，充滿希望，愉快且樂觀。

No one will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist.

沒有人會理會一個憂鬱的悲觀者。

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