Two Truths to Live by
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在一年中某些固定的时候，你发现世界宛如一丛荒草。
你对世人鸡同鸭讲，他们对你驴头马嘴。
所有的一切都是荒芜的，是一个没有解的循环，他们争辩，他们厮杀，他们忏悔，在忏悔声里新的厮杀却早就诞生了。
天空太冷、大地太热，纯真比瓷器还要易碎，而你看着它们淙淙地落进泥土里。
在一年中某些固定的时候，你思考死亡。
她应当是一件意外，一种极端的喜剧和悲剧。
你思考死亡豁免的那些责任，再思考会为此伤心欲绝的人们。
这大概是令人期待的，也是令人悲伤的，但你只想到这个世界，想到它会毫无知觉地从你的身体上碾过去，十年如一日的残暴和扭曲。
于是你感到愤怒。
在一年中某些固定的时候，你陷入一种难以自拔地忧郁和感伤之中。
那可能只是因为你饿了，你困了，或是一种全然随机性的激素失调。
但你感到不明所以的悲伤。
你觉得世界是一条遍受污染的河，价值是宇宙沧海中的`一颗砂砾，而你是一只活的太久的蜉蝣，不渴望闻道而只期待死亡。
活着太孤独了，太绝望了，而死亡像是一种确定的恐怖。
你觉得自己做成了太多的事，你觉得自己一事无成。
你躺在床上，建筑嗡鸣作响的循环系统发出一种温暖的乐声，也让你听到死神的镰刀敲在屋顶上。
Two Truths to Live by
Sentence Patterns
I looked to see whether… (Para. 7) The insight… is as commonplace as was the experience itself: (Para. 8) We must confront…losing ourselves, as it were, all that… (Para. 12) (used when describe sb. or sth. in a way that does not quite exist) He is my best friend, my second half, as it were.
Sentence Patterns
Add
love to a house and you have a home. = If you add love to a house, you will have a home
Words
perish
vi. be destroyed, die Unless the plant get water for its root to absorb, it will perish. George and all his men perished at the battle field. we are trying to make sure that democracy will never perish from this earth.
invest
with vt. to give officially to sb. signs of rank or power The singer invested her songs with a bittersweet sadness. The old ruins were invested with romance. The government invested him with special powers to deal with the situation.
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new words and phrases
1.enjoin
• 禁止 forbid ban inhibit enjoin sb.from doing sth. The judge enjoined him from selling alcohol. • 命令，嘱咐 order to do impose on enjoin sb.to do /sth.on Our boss enjoined us to obey the rules. He enjoined a duty on his assistant.
Translation of long sentences
• 1. (Paragraph1) The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• Tips: nay:adv,否，不；不但如此，而且
• 这是不太容易学到的教训，特别当我们年 轻，以为世界掌握在我们手中，无论我们 满怀激情、全力渴望什么，都能够，不， 都将是我们的。但是后来生活推进，让我 们面对现实，我们渐渐而确定地明白了第 二条真理。
• Rabbi Chanayo Ben Teradyon • When he was burned at the stake ,he replied “I see the parchment burning,but the letters of the law, they soar on high.”
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unit6twotruthstolivebyUnit Six Two Truths to Live By(8 Class Periods)About the authorAlexander M. Schindler(1925-2000 ), President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregation (1973-1996),leader of the reform Movement of American Judaism for more than two decades and a pivotal figure in 20th century Judaism.Rabbi Schindler‘s papers contain contemporary perspectives on many, if not most, of the keys social and cultural issues facing American Jewry and American society from the 1960s to 1990s. This text is an excerpt from his speech at the commencement of the University of South Carolina.Lead-in discussionWhat is your motto in life? Explain it.Do you find life sometimes paradoxical? If yes, please give one exampleDetailed AnalysisPara 1.The theme of the essay is explicitly stated in the first sentence. The author points out that life itself is a paradox. We should cling to its gifts and let go of them in time, which is explained by the rabbi‘s analogy. Paragraphs 2-In these two paragraphs, the author explains one side of the paradox and points out that we often fail to see the beauty and wonder of life when we shoud be holding on to it. As a result it is often too late when we finally realize it.paragraphs 4-7The author relates one event during his hospitalization thatre-teaches him the truth (when and how to hold fast to life) These paragraphs describe the immediate impact of the sunlight on the author as he was wheeled across the courtyard. It suddenly dawned on him how beautiful and precious life was and how indifferent people were to the gift of life.paragraphs 8-9In these short paragraphs the author sums up the truth revealed to him in the event and urges us to hold fast to the gifts of life. (Notice the imperative mood in para. 9)paragraphs 10-11After explaining one side of life‘s paradox— how to hold fast to life, the author directs his discussion to the other side of the paradox– how to let go.paragraphs 12-13The author explains why we must accept losses and learn how to let go: it is the inevitabilities of life that we must endure form birth to death. This truth is revealed by the author through the inevitable losses we suffer at every stage of lifeparagraphs 14-15As a solution to the paradox the author suggests a wider perspective to view what is transient and what is eternal. This perspective enables us to realize that ―our lives are finite‖, but our deeds, beauty and wonder on earth are timelessparagraphs 16-17In these two paragraphs the author, having convinced us about the paradox of life, gives us his advice as to what we should do in order to make our lives meaningful and our deeds ―timeless‖, that is, instead of pursuing perishable objects and material wealth, we should pursue ideals---and add love, righteousness, truth, religion and justice to our materialpossessions.Poem Appreciation: Nothing gold can stayRobert FrostNature?s first green is gold, 大自然的第一抹新绿是金色，Her hardest hue to hold. 也是她最无力保留的颜色.。
《Two Truths to Live by》-backgroud & new words研究生英语课程-犹太教介绍
nay
【n.】 • a negative
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.我指著信实的神说:我们向你们所传的道并没有 是而又非的 【adv.】 • not this merely but also; not only so; but Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.然而靠著爱我们的主、在这 一切的事上已经得胜有馀了。
demise
【n.】 • transfer of the sovereignty to a successor. Upon his demise，his house passed to his son.他故 世后，房子便传给了儿子。 • death or a cessation of existence or activity. Focus upon death, disease, demise, and you shall live to experience such.聚焦于死亡、疾病、沮丧，而 你会活生生地去体验这些。 【v.】 • to convey by will or lease • to transmit by succession or inheritance • die, decease
cling to
• cling to:hold firmly it enjoins us to cling to many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• cling together:unite as one We should cling together in times Live by
two truths to live by课文课件
two truths to live by课文课件全文共四篇示例，供读者参考第一篇示例：Two Truths to Live By1. Truth #1: Treat Others as You Would Like to Be TreatedThe golden rule, “treat others as you would like to be treated,” is a fundamental principle that can help us create harmonious relationships with others. When we treat others with kindness, respect, and empathy, we are more likely to receive the same treatment in return. By showing love and compassion to those around us, we can build a strong support system and create a positive environment for ourselves and others.第二篇示例：在我们的日常生活中，有许多值得我们遵循的真理和道理。
在这篇文章中，我们将探讨两个可以帮助我们更好生活的真理。
这两个真理是：诚实和善良。
这两个真理是我们在日常生活中应该遵循的基本原则，并且可以帮助我们建立更加积极、正面的人生态度。
第一个真理是诚实。
诚实是一个人最基本的品质之一，也是构建良好人际关系的基础。
在我们的日常生活中，经常会遇到需要说谎的情况，但是诚实才是我们应该遵循的原则。
只有诚实才能建立信任，而信任是人与人之间互相依赖的基础。
不管是在工作、家庭还是社交圈中，诚实都是至关重要的。
另一个真理是善良。
善良是一个人品德的象征，也是我们应该保持的态度。
6课 two truths to live by
We should hold fast to life and let go of losses we have in life.
When we have what we have, we should
understand it, appreciate, treasure it, cherish it,
make full use of it, knowing our life consists of
o lot of things, such as friendship, love, happiness and sufferings, gains and losses and so on.
6. What is a paradox? A paradox is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which seems self-contradictory, absurd or contrary to an established fact or practice, but which on further thinking and study, is true, well founded and even to contain a succinct point.
7. text division Divide the text into four parts and write the main idea for each part.
Part One (Para.1 — Para --) Introduction Part Two (Para. Part Three (Para. to Para. ) to Para. )
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Two Truths to Live byHold fast, and let go: Understand this paradox, and you stand at the very gate of wisdomAlexander M. SchindlerCommencement speech at the University of South Carolina in 1987The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go. For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment. The rabbis of old put it this way: “A man comes to this world with his fist clenched, but when he dies, his hand is open.Surely we ought to hold fast to life, for it is wondrous, and full of a beauty that breaks through every pore of God's own earth. We know that this is so, but all too often we recognize this truth only in our backward glance when we remember what it was and then suddenly realize that it is no more.We remember a beauty that faded, a love that waned. But we remember with far greater pain that we did not see that beauty when it flowered, that we failed to respond with love when it was tendered.A recent experience re-taught me this truth. I was hospitalized following a severe heart attack and had been in intensive care for several days. It was not a pleasant place.One morning, I had to have some additional tests. The required machines were located in a building at the opposite end of the hospital, so I had to be wheeled across the courtyard on a gurney.As we emerged from our unit, the sunlight hit me. That's all there was to my experience. Just the light of the sun. And yet how beautiful it was--how warming, how sparkling, how brilliant!I looked to see whether anyone else relished the sun's golden glow, but everyone was hurrying to and fro, most with eyes fixed on the ground. Then I remembered how often I, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.The insight gleaned from that experience is really as commonplace as was the experience itself: life's gifts are precious--but we are too heedless of them.Here then is the first pole of life's paradoxical demands on us: Never too busy for the wonder and the awe of life. Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.Hold fast to life...but not so fast that you cannot let go. This is the second side of life's coin, the opposite pole of its paradox: we must accept our losses, and learn how to let go.This is not an easy lesson to learn, especially when we are young and think that the world is ours to command, that whatever we desire with the full force of our passionate being can, nay, will, be ours.But then life moves along to confront us with realities, and slowly but surely this second truth dawns upon us.At every stage of life we sustain losses--and grow in the process .We begin our independent lives only when we emerge from the womb and lose its protective shelter.We enter a progression of schools, then we leave our mothers and fathers and our childhood homes. We get married and have children and then have to let them go. We confront the death of our parents and our spouses. We face the gradual or not sogradual waning of our own strength.And ultimately, as the parable of the open and closed hand suggests, we must confront the inevitability of our own demise, losing ourselves, as it were, all that we were or dreamed to be.But why should we be reconciled to life's contradictory demands Why fashion things of beauty when beauty is evanescent Why give our heart in love when those we love will ultimately be torn from our graspIn order to resolve this paradox, we must seek a wider perspective, viewing our lives as through windows that open on eternity. Once we do that, we realize that though our lives are finite, our deeds on earth weave a timeless pattern.Life is never just being. It is a becoming, a relentless flowing on. Our parents live on through us, and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death.Our flesh may perish, our hands will wither, but that which they create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pursue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth.Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community.Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the humblest of edifices and you have a sanctuary. Add justice to the far-flung round of humanendeavor and you have civilization.Put them all together, exalt them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind redeemed, forever free of need and strife and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.人生的两条真理抓紧与放松：理解了这一悖论，你便立于智慧之门亚历山大·辛德勒1987年在南卡罗来那大学毕业典礼上的演讲生活的艺术就是要懂得适时地收与放，因为生活本身即是一种悖论：一方面，它让我们依恋于它所赋予的各种馈赠；另一方面，又注定了我们对这些礼物最终的弃绝。
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Two Truths to Live by Language Point
Para 1
1.a rt: method, facility; liberal art, humanities He is good at the art of making friends.
He received his master’s degree of art.
2.F or life is a paradox: life is self-contradictory.
3.I t enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
While: although (conj) introducing an adverbial clause of concession.
Enjoin: direct, instruct
Relinquish: let go of
Edward III relinquished his throne to marry Mrs. Simpson.
Lucy has relinquished all hope of going to Europe this year.
Ordain: destine
4.t he rabbis of the old: the spiritual leaders of Jewish congregation in the past
5.p ut it this way: express it in words this way
para 2
1.b reak through; to be successful after
2.a ll too often: more often than is desired
During foggy weather the train are all too often late.
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Para 3
1.f lower: flourish
2.t ender: offer, give
He tendered what he could to the association.
Para 5
Be wheeled on a gurney: be moved or pushed along with a Forney
Para 6
That’s all: there is no alternative; that is all that can be done
Para 7
1.r elish: enjoy thoroughly; appreciate
I relish a good song as much as anyone else.
I do not relish my food as I used to.
I do not relish the idea of a battle in that icy water.
2.t o and fro: here and there
3.b e preoccupied with: be engaged in
When Tom ia preoccupied with his computer programming, he has no idea of what is going on around him.
I was too preoccupied to hear the bell.
4.s plender: excellent or grand beauty
5.t he splendor of it all: all of the splendor Para 8
Glean: to gather
Para 9
1.H ere is the first pole of life’s paradoxical demand on us.
---Here is the one side of self-contradictory demands life makes on us.
2.a we: a feeling of respect mixed with fear and wonder.
Para 11
1.d awn upon: to become suddenly clear to someone
It dawned on them that might be cut off by the tide which destroyed the railway line. 2.n ay: not only so but also (old use, formal) All of us are willing, nay, eager to go to Beijing for a visit.
Para 12
1.s ustain: suffer, undergo; keep up, maintain She sustained a great loss in the death of her husband.
This book can sustain comparison with other classics.
A light meal will not sustain us through the day.
2.…our own demise, losing ourselves as it were
“losing ourselves”is the apposition of “demise’.
Para 13
1.r econcile to: to have to accept something unpleasant
He reconciled himself cheerfully to a modest livelihood in a small country town.
2.W hy fashion things of beauty when beauty is evanescent?
Why make beautiful things when beauty is soon disappearing?
Para 15
1.i nstitution:
a.custom, established practice, convention
b.c ompany, organization, association,
college
c.the act of instituting
para 16
1.i nvest with: clothe; endow; decorate; surround (with qualities)
The singer invested her songs with a bittersweet sadness.
The old ruins were invested with romance.
The government invested him with special powers to deal with the situation.
Para 17
Add love to a house and you have a home.
----- If you add love to a house, you will have a home.。