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Today I add an optional Reading Comprehension exercise, and you are welcome to read that paragraph.
【Chinese to English Translation】
1. 生活沒有目標, 猶如航海沒有羅盤。
2. 冬天來了, 春天還會遠嗎?
3. 幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思於嬉笑”。
4.世界猶如一麵鏡子：朝它皺眉它就朝你皺眉，朝它微笑它也朝你微笑。
【English to Chinese Translation】
1. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
2. The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes. He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them.
【English Idioms】
Please create a sentence using the idioms.
1. Once in a blue moon
Example: We work on different schedules. I only see him once in a blue moon.
2. Bite off more than you can chew
Example: Nancy started to repair her car by herself, but she realized that she had bitten off more than she could chew.
【Reading Comprehension】(Optional)
In a calm sea every man is pilot.
But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all. Take the lot of the happiest – it is a tangled yarn. Bereavements and blessings, one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.
In the affairs of life or business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.
To regret one’s errors to the point of not repeating them is true repentance. There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
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【Chinese to English Translation】
1. 生活沒有目標, 猶如航海沒有羅盤。
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. (By John Ruskin)
來源：https://www.quotenova.net/authors/john-ruskin/q3zw52
2. 冬天來了, 春天還會遠嗎?
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? (By P. B. Shelley , British poet )
來源：https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/percy_bysshe_shelley_378917
3. 幽默被人正確地解釋為“以誠摯表達感受，寓深思於嬉笑”。
Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. (By Mark Twain , American novelist)
來源：https://useinasentence.com/use-in-earnest-in-a-sentence/
4.世界猶如一麵鏡子：朝它皺眉它就朝你皺眉，朝它微笑它也朝你微笑。
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. (By Herbert Samuels)
來源：https://www.tisserontorthodontics.com/blog-post/the-world-is-like-a-mirror
【English to Chinese Translation】
1. Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有時候一個人為不花錢得到的東西付出的代價最高。(美國科學家 愛因斯坦)
來源：https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_382929
2. The world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes. He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new; and have sufficient courage and skill to novel facts and to deal with them.
人們經過努力可以改變世界，使人類達到新的、更美好的境界。沒有人僅憑避開視線、不看社會現實就能割斷自己與社會的聯係。人們必須始終對新生事物保持敏感，並隨時準備接受它們; 人們必須有足夠的勇氣與技能去麵對並應付新生事物。(美國總統 羅斯福)
來源：https://sentencedict.com/s/193234.html
【English Idioms】
Please create a sentence using the idioms.
1. Once in a blue moon
Meaning: Something happens rarely.
Example: We work on different schedules. I only see him once in a blue moon.
2. Bite off more than you can chew
Meaning: To try to do something that is too difficult for you.
Example: Nancy started to repair her car by herself, but she realized that she had bitten off more than she could chew.
【Reading Comprehension】(Optional)
在風平浪靜的大海上，每個人都是領航員。
但是, 隻有陽光而無陰影，隻有快樂而無痛苦，那根本不是真正的生活。就拿最幸福的人來說，他們的命運也是一團糾纏的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現，使得我們一會兒悲傷一會兒高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻，在悲傷與失落的陰影之下，人們與真實的自我最為接近。
在生活和事業的種種事務之中，性格比才智更能指導我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導我們，天資對我們的影響也不如由判斷力所約束的自製，耐心與修養。
我一直認為，開始在內心更加嚴謹地生活的人，也會在外在上開始生活得更為樸素。在一個奢侈浪費的時代，我希望能向世人表明，人類真正的需求是如此之少。
反思自己的過錯以至於不重蹈覆轍，才是真正的悔悟。優於別人，並不高貴，真正的高貴是優於過去的自己。
(海明威)
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