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1、三、Help?Yourself?through?the?Hard?Times1、Some?years?ago?I?had?what?most?would?call?the?American?Dream:?a?thriving?construction?business,?a?comfortable?home,?two?new?cars?and?a?sailboat.?Moreover,?I?was?happpily?married.?I?had?it?all.幾年前,我擁有大多數(shù)人稱之為美國夢想的東西:一份蒸蒸日上
2、的建筑生意,一個舒適的家,兩輛新車和一艘帆船,此外,我婚姻幸福。我擁有這一切。?2、Then?the?stock?market?crashed,?and?suddenly?no?one?was?looking?at?the?houses?I‘d?built.?Months?of?murderous?interest?payment?gobbled?up?my?savings.?I?couldn‘t?make?ends?meet?and?lay?awake?nights?in?a?cold?sweat.?Just?w
3、hen?I?though?things?couldn‘t?get?worse,?my?wife?announced?that?she?wanted?a?divorce.接著,股市垮了,突然間再沒人看我修的那些房子。連續(xù)幾個月支付要命的利息,耗盡了我的積蓄。我入不敷出,經(jīng)常徹夜無眠,一身冷汗。就在我認(rèn)為事情不可能變得更糟的時候,我太太宣布她想離婚。?3、With?no?idea?what?to?do?next,?I?resolved?literally?to?―sail?off?into?the?sunset,‖?f
4、ollowing?the?coastline?from?Connecticut?to?Florida.?But?somewhere?off?New?Jersey?I?turned?due?east,?straight?out?to?sea.?Hours?later,?I?climbed?up?on?the?stern?rail?and?watched?the?dark?Atlantic?slip?beneath?the?hull.?How?easy?it?would?be?to?let?the?water?take
5、?me,?I?thought.無所適從的我決心真正駕船“向夕陽行駛”,沿著海岸線從康涅狄格州駛向佛羅里達(dá)州。但是在離新澤西巷的地方,我轉(zhuǎn)向正東方,直接駛往大海。幾小時后,我爬上船尾的欄桿,注視著從船體下面滑過的黑沉沉的大西洋海水。我想讓海水淹死是多么容易的一件事。?4、Suddenly?the?boat?plummeted?between?two?swells,?knocking?me?off?balance.?I?grabbed?the?rail,?my?feet?dragging?in?icy?brine,?a
6、nd?just?managed?to?haul?myself?back?on?board.?Shaken,?I?thought,?what‘s?happening?to?me??I?don‘t?want?to?die.From?that?moment,?I?knew?I?had?to?see?things?through.?My?old?life?was?gone.?Somehow?I‘d?have?to?build?a?new?one.突然,帆船筆直地落在兩個巨浪之間,使我失去了平衡。我手抓住欄桿,腳浸在冰冷的海
7、水里,勉強(qiáng)把自己拉回船上。震驚之余,我想,我這是怎么了?我不想死。從那一刻起,我知道我必須看穿萬物。我從前的生活一去不復(fù)返了,必須得想辦法自己重建新的生活。?5、Everyone,?at?some?point,?will?suffer?a?loss-the?loss?of?loved?ones.?Good?health,?a?job.?―It‘s?your?desert?experience‘-a?time?of?feeling?barren?of?options,?even?hope,‖?explains?Pat
8、rick?DdlZoppo,?a?psychologist?and?bereavement?specialist?with?the?Archdiocese?of?New?York.?―The?important?thing?is?not?to?allow?yourself?to?be?stranded?in?the?desert.‖每個人,在某個時刻,都將遭