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FEELING GREAT (ZT)

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. d;kdw  
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Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" E'J|  p7  
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He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.” G()- NJ{  
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"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. Y=#g_(4*  
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"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life." 8>sToNRNe  
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I reflected on what he said. Soon thereafter I left to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw him about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?" Zk.LGYz  
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I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live." B3V=;zn3  
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"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. He continued, "..the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses I got really scared. In their eyes, I read he's a dead man. I knew I needed to take action." =os%22*  
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"What did you do?" I asked. qq+fUfB2:  
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"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John. “She asked if I was allergic to anything ' Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, Gravity." Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." 5$|wW}SA  
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He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. ]zza/O;31(  
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This is,  reminding you that to a large degree, happiness depends on your own perspective. 3Hli^9&OX_  
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沙发  发表于: 2007-06-27   
好!赞一个。 )&j4F)  
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I am allergic to Gravity...  佩服他的勇气和智慧 
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板凳  发表于: 2007-06-27   
"If I were any better, I would be twins!" SsDe\"?Q  
各位英语达人,上面这句是啥意思?
第一要真诚,其次要善良,最后要我们永不相忘
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引用第2楼echozhang于06-27-2007 20:12发表的  : aU,Zjm7fp  
"If I were any better, I would be twins!" 'ao<gTUbu  
各位英语达人,上面这句是啥意思?
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我已经做的很好的说。 
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地下室  发表于: 2007-06-27   
非常受用  深受启发  谢Wenwendywen!  0Zp) DM  
另外偶不是英语达人  看了此句  "If I were any better, I would be twins!"  偶会翻译成 .7Zb,r  
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我再好不过  要能更好 那就是分身了!
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5楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
多谢各位解惑。 R _WP r[P  
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8过,还是有点迷糊~~~ { ZiJnJX  
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“要能更好 那就是分身了!”--- 有点难以理解啊。 :?%$={m  
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原句是俗语/谚语吗?
第一要真诚,其次要善良,最后要我们永不相忘
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6楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
Very good article and like his attitude about life .... Thanks for sharing with us 
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7楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
      I am so happy that you gals like it. :-)
感恩,平安,喜乐,惜福。。。
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8楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
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引用第5楼echozhang于06-28-2007 00:12发表的  : ?.t naE  
多谢各位解惑。 #=mLQSiQ  
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8过,还是有点迷糊~~~ K.s\xA5`_  
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“要能更好 那就是分身了!”--- 有点难以理解啊。 N `-\'h  
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Echo  偶再老学究一把  "If I were any better, I would be twins!"   *->2$uWP  
第一句是英语里的违反现在式假设语气 (用于违反事实现状) 常见的用法是  If I were you ........   5VD(fW[OW]  
我是我  你是你  I can't be you 所以英语里就用过去式 If I were you 而不用 If I am you 表达 )Qe<XJH!  
补充一点  注意没  句子里第一句 也不用 If I was you  这个句型最大特色就是不管主词是什么 hTZ&  
动词只用 were ,  再造个句子  If he were Bill Gates, she would have married him. `|maf=SnY5  
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第二句 要按字译  是指 我就是双胞胎  要按意译 应为 我就有分身   任何人都不可能有分身 h3 -y}.VjG  
(有些人可能是双胞胎 或三胞胎 或 .....) G`H4#@]  
所以  这两句真正表达的意思是    我不可能再更好了   我再好不过了   是不是俗语/谚语偶不知道 nBw4YDR!  
但很多人这样用于文章中  (文绉绉的用法)  一般口语就只会说  I can't be any better.
[ 此贴被Ling1984在06-28-2007 11:20重新编辑 ]
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9楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
谢谢!
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10楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
要好好学习学习
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11楼  发表于: 2007-06-28   
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引用第8楼Ling1984于06-28-2007 07:15发表的  : ZC7ZlL _  
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Echo  偶再老学究一把  "If I were any better, I would be twins!"   CuT~ Bj  
第一句是英语里的违反现在式假设语气 (用于违反事实现状) 常见的用法是  If I were you ........   *vFXe_.  
我是我  你是你  I can't be you 所以英语里就用过去式 If I were you 而不用 If I am you 表达 K=Q<G:+&V  
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谢谢玲姐!
第一要真诚,其次要善良,最后要我们永不相忘
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