美文欣赏

【美文欣赏】

信任！是一种弥足尊贵的东西，没有人可以用金钱买得到，也没有人可以用诱惑或武力争取得到，它来自一个人的灵魂深处，是活在灵魂里的清泉，它可以拯救灵魂，滋养灵魂，让心灵充满纯洁和自信

A Shared Moment Of Trust

One night recently I was driving down a two lane highway at about 60 miles an hour. A car approached from the opposite direction at about the same speed. As we passed each other, I caught the other driver’s eye for only a second.

I wondered whether he might be thinking, as I was, how dependent we were on each other at that moment. I was relying on him not to fall asleep, not to be distracted by a cell phone conversation, not to cross over into my lane and bring my life suddenly to an end. And though we were strangers to each other, he relied upon me in just the same way.

Multiplied a million times over, I believe that is the way the world works. At some level we all depend upon one another to act in a way that avoids mutual destruction. Sometimes that dependence requires us simply to refrain from doing something — like crossing over the double yellow line. And sometimes it requires us to act cooperatively — as in the case of profound threats to our health or safety.

One familiar example of a serious problem that could not have been solved — or could not have been solved as promptly — without worldwide cooperation is the SARS epidemic. In 2003, SARS claimed 700 lives and threatened to spread around the world. The virus had to be quickly identified and controlled. That was too big an undertaking for any one country, but scientists from five nations were able — working together — to identify the virus in record time. Doctors around the world then brought the outbreak quickly under control.

Another area in which international cooperation is essential is terrorism. In the continuing struggle against this lethal threat, we cannot prevail without cooperation among the law enforcement agencies. intelligence services, and sometimes the military establishments of countries around the world. The daily news from Iraq and Afghanistan underscores just how much even America, the super power, needs such help.

Americans are a people who value their freedom to do what they want to do, when and how they want to do it. But we cannot escape the reality that in ways large and small, we live in an interdependent world. Only the unwise would say that an individual or a nation can go it alone.

短语释义

【短语释义】

1.mutual adj. 共同的，相互的

如：Negotiations between unions and management are made more difficult by mutual distrust.
工会和资方之间的谈判由于互不信任而愈加困难。

Other organizations have joined the confederation for mutual benefit.
其他组织为了共同的利益也加入了这个联盟。

2.refrain from 忍住，抑制，制止

如：I'm just trying to refrain from drowsing at work.
我只是试着别在工作时打瞌睡而已。

I wish he would refrain from scattering his ash all over the carpet.
我希望他不要将烟灰往地毯上乱弹。

3.cooperatively adj. 合作的，共同的

如：They decided to set up a cooperative.
他们决定开办一家合作社。

The management would like to thank the staff for being so cooperative.
资方要感谢全体员工的通力合作。

4.interdependent adj. 相互依赖的，互助的

如：Allnations are interdependent in the modern world.
当今世界上所有国家都是互相依存的。