Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter
The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.
Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were "stupid", you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of "I am so slow" and "it is so hard to learn". If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.
A common negative talk involves telling yourself "I can’t". When you say to yourself "I can’t" or "it is too difficult", you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.
Anytime you catch yourself saying "I can’t…", turn around and challenge your own claim with, "Why can’t I?" Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying "I can" a lot more.
A great method that I have also found useful is to say "Cancel Cancel" each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.
英语文章摘抄（二）
positive Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.
An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.
Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.
英语文章摘抄（三）
positive Scripts
One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.
From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.
英语文章摘抄（四）
Replace Negative Influences with positive Ones
It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.
Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.
英语文章摘抄（五）
Present Tense Messages
You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.
What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, "What can I do right now?" Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.
英语文章摘抄（六）
Confront Fears
Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.
Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.
英语散文中也有很多简短的优美段落值得赏析，下面是关于优美英语散文段落摘抄的内容，欢迎阅读！
1、A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
知足是人生在世最大的幸事。
——Joseph Addison（美国作家艾迪生）
2、If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
要想知道钱的价值，就想办法去借钱试试。
——Benjamin Franklin（美国总统富兰克林）
3、If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend,
experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
如果你希望成功，当以恒心为良友，以经验为参谋，以谨慎为兄弟，以希望为哨兵。
——Thomas Edison（美国发明家爱迪生）
4、Health is certainly more valuable than money,
because it is by health that money is procured.
健康当然比金钱更为重要，因为我们所赖以获得金钱的就是健康。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家约翰逊）
5、That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
——Henry David Thoreau（美国作家梭罗）
6、Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
——Albert Einstein（美国科学家爱因斯坦）
7、Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.
意志、工作和等待是成功的金字塔的基石。
——Louis Pasteur（法国化学家巴斯勒）
8、All the splendor in the world is not worth a good friend.
人世间所有的荣华富贵不如一个好朋友。
——Voltaire（法国思想家伏尔泰）
9、There is a great different between exposure of
the mind and that of the body.
表露思想和展露身体之间存在极大的不同。
——William Hazlitt（英国批评家散文家哈滋里特）
10、To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive,
and the true success is to labor.
怀着希望去旅行比抵达目的地更愉快；而真正的成功在于工作。
——Robert Louis Stevenson（英国作家史蒂文森）
11、The greater a man is, the more distasteful is praise and flattery to him.
一个人越伟大，对表扬和奉承就越反感。
——John Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
12、I might say that success is won by three things:
first, effort; second, more effort; third, still more effort.
可以说成功要靠三件事才能赢得：努力，努力，再努力。
——Thomas Hardy（英国诗人小说家哈代）
13、Success often depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
成功常常取决于知道需要多久才能成功。
——Charles Montesquieu（法国思想家孟德斯鸠）
14、Only those who have the patience to do simple things
perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
只有有耐心圆满完成简单工作的人，才能够轻而易举的完成困难的事。
——Friedrich Schiller（德国剧作家诗人席勒）
15、You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret of success.
你必须相信自己，这是成功的关键。
——Charles Chaplin（美国演员卓别林）
16、A man can succeed at almost anything for which
he has unlimited enthusiasm.
无论何事，只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。
——C. M. Schwab（美国实业家施瓦布）
17、The man who has made up his mind to win will never say “impossible”.
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。
——Bonapart Napoleon（法国皇帝拿破仑）
18、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
进步是今天的活动，明天的保证。
——Emerson（美国思想家爱默生）
20、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
but the chalice of opportunity.
命运给予我们的不是失望之酒，而是机会之杯。
——Richard Nixon（美国总统尼克松）
21、Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly for them.
奇迹有时候是会发生的，但是你得为之拼命的努力。
——C. Weizmann（爱尔兰总统魏茨曼）
22、It never will rain roses.
When we want to have more roses we must plant trees.
天上不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
——G. Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
23、If you have great talents, industry will improve them;
if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
——Joshuas Reynolds（美国散文家雷诺兹）
24、Great works are performed not by strength , but by perseverance.
完成伟大的事业不在于体力，而在于坚韧不拔的毅力。
——Samuel Johnson（英国作家和评论家约翰逊）
25、Genius only means hard-working all one's life.
天才只意味着终身不懈的努力。
——Mendeleyev（俄国化学家门捷列耶夫）
26、Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will ,
rather than of means, that man fails to succeed.
事情很少又根本做不成的；其所以做不成，与其说是条件不够，不如说是由于决心不够。
——（La Racheforcauld（法国作家罗切福考尔德）
27、Dare and the world always yields.
If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb.
大胆挑战，世界总会让步。如果有时候你被它打败了，不断地挑战，它总会屈服地。
——W.M Thackeray（英国小说家萨克雷）
28、All that you do, do with your might; t
hings done by halves are never done right.
做一切事情都应尽力而为，半途而废永远不行。
——R.H. Stoddard（美国诗人斯托达德）
29、A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
一个人可以失败多次，但是只要他没有开始责怪旁人，他还不是一个失败者。
——J.Burroughs（美国博物学家巴勒斯）
30、You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
从一个国家的广告可以看出这个国家的理想。
——Norman Douglas（英国作家道格拉斯）
31、The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。
——Franklin Roosevelt（美国总统罗斯福）
32、The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
具有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。
——Mark Twain（美国作家马克？吐温）
33、The important thing in life is to have a great aim,
and the determination to attain it.
人生重要的事情是确定一个伟大的目标，并决心实现它。
——Johann Wolfgang von Goethe（德国诗人、剧作家歌德）
34、Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
人世间的大多数烦恼都是由那些想成为重要人物的人惹出来的。
——George Eliot（英国小说家艾略特）
35、If you doubt yourself,
then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
如果你怀疑自己，那么你的立足点确实不稳固了。
——Ibsen（挪威剧作家易卜生）
36、Ideal is the beacon. Without ideal,
there is no secure direction; without direction ,there is no life.
理想是指路明灯。没有理想，就没有坚定的'方向；
没有方向，就没有生活。 ——Leo Tolstory（俄国作家托尔斯泰）
37、Ideal are like the stars ——- we never reach them ,
but like mariners , we chart our course by them.
理想犹如天上的星星，我们犹如水手，虽不能达到天上，
但是我们的航程可凭借它指引。
——Carl Schurz（美国政治家舒尔茨）
38、Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted.
人生应该树立目标，否则你的精神会白白浪费。
——R. Peters（美国法学家彼得斯）
39、Don't part with yourxxxs, When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
不要放弃你的幻想。当幻想没有了以后，你还可以生存，但是你虽生犹死。
——Mark Twain（马克 吐温）
40、Do not, for one repulse,
give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来决心想要达到的目的。
——Willian Shakespeare（莎士比亚）
41、Between the ideal and the reality,
Between the motion and the act, Fall the shadow.
理想与现实之间，动机与行为之间，总有一道阴影。
——Thomas Stearns Eliot（T.S.爱略特）
42、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
只要有一个人还有所追求，他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想，一个人才算老。
——J. Barrymore（巴里穆尔）
43、Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realises itself through changes.
如果仅仅就变化论变化，则只是变动不羁，倏忽即逝；这是低能的表现，真正了解变化在于把握住在变化中完成自身的永恒目标。
——John Dewey 约翰·杜威
44、Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
变化是生活的法则。只盯着过去或眼前的人注定失去未来。
——John F.Kennedy 约翰·弗·肯尼迪
45、Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life.
天才悄无声息地诞生，性情却在生命之河里逐渐形成。
——Goethe 歌德
46、With a character both proud and timid, one never amounts to anything.
一个人既自傲又胆怯，将永远一事无成。
——Joseph Roux 约瑟夫·鲁
47、If there is anything that we wish to change the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
假如我们想让孩子在某个方面有所改变，我们应首先检验一下，看看我们自己是否最好在这一方面变一变。
——Jung 荣格
48、The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
你能留给孩子的最好财产莫过于允许他完全独立自主地摸索自己的道路。
——Isadora Duncan 伊莎多拉·邓肯
49、Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
人最大的优点是尽可能多地驾驭外部环境，尽可能少地让环境约束自己。
——Goethe 歌德
50、Don't wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
不要等候最好的条件或者最佳时机，它们永远不会降临。
——Janet Erskine Stuart 珍尼特·厄斯金·斯图亚特
51、Some people will never learn anything for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
有些人永远学不到什么东西，原因在于他们什么都理解得太快。
——Alexander Pope 亚历山大·蒲柏
52、To think justly, we must understand what others mean; to know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
要正确地思考，我们须领悟别人的意思；想知道自己见解的价值，我们须检验它们对别人有何影响。
——William Hazlitt 威廉·黑兹利特
53、No men is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
没有人是完全孤立的岛屿，每人都是构成大陆的一小块。
——John Donne 约翰·邓恩
54、No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
没有人能让社会服从个人的意志。倘若他想寻求符合心意的社会，也必须服务于它。
——Emerson 爱默生
55、Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
习惯做假是小人的特点，但常常是某人做假遮住了一个污点，却在另一处露了马脚。
——La Rochefoucauld 拉罗什福科
56、Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
每个人都是一轮月亮，都有黑暗的、从不示人的一面。
——Mark Twain 马克·吐温
57、The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
思想越狭隘，自负越膨胀。
——伊索
58、What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows.
哲学的首要任务是什么？是同自负决裂。因为任何人都不可能着手去学自以为已经掌握的东西。
——Epictetus 爱比克泰德
59、Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
不惜一切代价夺取胜利，不畏任何恐怖夺取胜利。不论道路多么漫长，多么崎岖，一定要夺取胜利！因为没有胜利就不能生存。
——Sir Winston Churchill 温斯顿·丘吉尔
60、The God of Victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.
胜利之神据说是独臂的，和平却将胜利赋予双方。
——Emerson 爱默生
篇一：英语美文摘抄
On beauty
美
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?
如果美不以自身为途径，为向导，你们又到哪里去找她，又怎么能找到她呢？如果她不是你们言语的编织者，你们又如何能谈论她呢？
The aggrieved and the injured say, "Beauty is kind and gentle. Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us."
伤心痛苦者说：“美是善良而温柔的。她像一位因自己的荣耀而半含羞涩的年轻母亲，走在我们的身边。”
And the passionate say, "Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."
热情奔放者说：“不，美是强烈而令人惊畏的。她如暴风雨般震动我们脚下的大地，摇撼我们头上的天空。”
The tired and the weary say, "Beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit. Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow."
疲惫怠倦者说：“美是温柔的低语，她在我们的心中诉说。她的声音波动在我们的沉默中，犹如一道微弱的光在对阴影的恐惧中颤抖。”
But the restless say, "We have heard her shouting among the mountains, and with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions."
但活泼好动者说：“我们曾听到她在山谷中大声呼叫，随其呐喊而来的是足蹄踏地、翅膀拍击和雄狮怒吼的声音。”
At night the watchmen of the city say, "Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east."
夜晚，城市的守夜人说：“美将与晨光一同从东方升起。”
And at noon-time the toilers and the wayfarers say, "We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset."
正午，辛勤劳作者和长途跋涉者说：“我们曾看到她透过黄昏之窗眺望大地。”
In winter say the snow-bound, "She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills."
严冬，困在风雪中的人说：“她将与春同至，雀跃于山峦之间。”
And in the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair."
酷暑，收割庄稼的人说：“我们曾看到她与秋叶共舞，雪花点缀于她的发梢。”
All these things have you said of beauty, yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, and beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, but rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.
你们谈到关于美的所有这些，实际并非关于她本身，而是关于你们未被满足的'需求，但美并不是一种需求，而是 心醉神迷的欣喜。她不是焦渴的唇，也不是伸出的空空的手，而是一颗燃烧的心，一个充满喜悦的灵魂。她不是你们想看到的形象，也不是你们想听到的歌声，而是 你们闭上眼睛看到的形象，堵住耳朵听到的歌声。她不是伤残树皮下的树液，也不是悬在利爪下的翅膀。而是一座鲜花永远盛开的花园，一群永远在天空飞翔的天使。
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
当生命摘去遮盖她圣洁面容的面纱时，美就是生命。
篇二：英语美文摘抄
During a research experiment a marine biologist placed a shark into a large holding tank and then released several small bait fish into the tank.
在一个研究实验中，一个海洋生物学家把一条鲨鱼放进一个大的水箱中，然后投放了一些小的诱饵鱼进去。
As you would expect, the shark quickly swam around the tank, attacked and ate the smaller fish.
你可能已经预料到了，鲨鱼快速地在水箱里四处游动，攻击并吃掉了那些较小的鱼。
The marine biologist then ed a strong piece of clear fiberglass into the tank, creating two separate partitions. She then put the shark on one side of the fiberglass and a new set of bait fish on the other.
然后海洋生物学家将一面强韧的透明纤维玻璃插入到容器中，创建了两个单独的分区。然后，她把鲨鱼放在纤维玻璃的一边，另一边是一组新的诱饵鱼。
Again, the shark quickly attacked. This time, however, the shark slammed into the fiberglass divider and bounced off. Undeterred, the shark kept repeating this behavior every few minutes to no avail. Meanwhile, the bait fish swam around unharmed in the second partition. Eventually, about an hour into the experiment, the shark gave up.
再次，鲨鱼迅速攻击。然而，这一次，鲨鱼撞上了玻璃纤维隔板并被弹了回来。每隔几分钟，鲨鱼就不信邪地重复这徒劳的行为。同时，那些作为诱饵的鱼在另一个区域里毫发无伤地游来游去。最后，经过大约一个小时的实验，鲨鱼放弃了。
This experiment was repeated several dozen times over the next few weeks. Each time, the shark got less aggressive and made fewer attempts to attack the bait fish, until eventually the shark got tired of hitting the fiberglass divider and simply stopped attacking altogether.
在接下来的几个星期里，这个实验重复了几十次。每一次，鲨鱼的攻击性都变得更弱，并较少尝试攻击诱饵鱼，直到最终鲨鱼厌倦了冲击纤维玻璃隔板，并完全停止攻击。
The marine biologist then removed the fiberglass divider, but the shark didn’t attack. The shark was trained to believe a barrier existed between it and the bait fish, so the bait fish swam wherever they wished, free from harm.
海洋生物学家然后拿走了纤维玻璃隔板，但鲨鱼没有攻击。鲨鱼被训练得相信了它和诱饵之间存在一道屏障，所以鱼儿游到任何地方，都不会受伤害。
The moral: Many of us, after experiencing setbacks and failures, emotionally give up and stop trying. Like the shark in the story, we believe that because we were unsuccessful in the past, we will always be unsuccessful. In other words, we continue to see a barrier in our heads, even when no ‘real’ barrier exists between where we are and where we want to go.
寓意：我们中的许多人，在经历挫折和失败后，会从情感上选择放弃，并停止尝试。好比这个故事中的鲨鱼，因为过去失败过，所以就觉得永远不会成功。换句话说，我们经常会在我们的脑中看到一个障碍，即使我们所在的位置和我们想要达到的位置之间并没有“真正的”障碍。
篇三：英语美文摘抄
How To Make Friends And Connect With People In Challenging Times
在逆境中如何与人交朋友并建立牢固的关系。
It can be difficult to make friends living in a big city, especially when you don’t know many people.
生活在一个大城市里是很难交到朋友的，尤其是当你还不认识很多人的时候。
Over years of experience and studying social skills, I discovered that it’s possible to make friends without even trying. There are just a few strategies that you have to use on a consistent basis.
根据多年的经验以及对社交技能的研究，我发现其实你甚至能毫不费力地交到朋友。这里有一些你一直可以用得上的策略。
That’s what I’ll outline a few simple steps.
在这里我将列出几个简单的步骤。
Be seen without trying to get attention.
不刻意地引人注意也能获得他人的注意。
You don’t have to say anything witty or interesting to get people’s attention, all you have to do is place yourself in environments where people will see you.
你不必说诙谐或有趣的事情来吸引人们的注意，你所要做的只是将你自己置于人们能注意到的地方。
This can be done anywhere you go, such as the supermarket or your yoga studio.
这可以在你去的任何地方奏效，比如超市或是瑜伽馆。
Use the power of listening.
使用倾听的力量。
There’s an interesting phenomenon that occurs when you listen to other people, they’ll keep talking. Just keep giving them good eye contact and show with your body language that you care.
有一个有趣的现象，当你听别人说话时，他们会一直说话。只要和他们保持良好的眼神接触，并用你的身体语言显示出你对他们的关心。
Listening is a mechanism to build trust and likeability.
倾听是一种建立信任和魅力的途径。
Think about what you can give to the other people.
想想你能给别人什么。
So often we think about what we can get out of others when we try to make friends, but that thinking needs to be flipped around.
当我们试图交朋友的时候，我们经常会考虑我们能从别人那里得到什么，但是我们需要扭转这种想法。
Try offering a piece of helpful advice or invite someone you just met to grab coffee or lunch with you the following week.
试着提供一个有用的建议或邀请你刚才遇到的人来喝杯咖啡或者邀请他在接下来的一周和你一起共进午餐。
Always have 3 good stories to tell other people.
总是有3个好故事来告诉别人。
When you have at least a few stories to share with others, you’ll never run out of things to talk about.
当你至少有几个故事与他人分享时，你将永远有谈不尽的话题。
Smile like there’s no tomorrow.
尽情微笑。
It may not be natural for some of us to smile, but a smile is one of the most attractive things that someone can display when they’re meeting new people.
对有些人来说，微笑可能是件不自然的事情，但是微笑是最有吸引力的事情之一。当结识新人时，人们可以传递他们的微笑。
Think about these 5 strategies as tools. They’re always available if you want to connect with people instantly and develop true lasting friendships.
我们可以把这5种策略作为工具。如果你想与人立即建立关系，并且发展成真正长久的友谊，它们总是有用的。
篇四：英语美文摘抄
It was a beautiful letter， but there was no way， except for the name Michael， to identify the owner. Maybe if I called information， the operator could find a phone listing for the address on the envelope. The operator suggested I speak with her supervisor， who hesitated for a moment， then said， "Well， there is a phone listing at that address， but I can't give you the number. " She said as a courtesy， she would call that number， explain my story and ask whoever answered if the person wanted her to connect me.
这是一封精美的信，但是除了迈克尔的名字以外，没有其他办法确定皮夹的主人。或许询问信息台，话务员可以通过信封上的住址查到电话。话务员建议我和她的负责人说，那位负责人犹豫了一会儿，然后说：嗯，“有那个住址的电话号码，但我不能给你。”她说出于礼貌，她可以打那个电话，说明我的情况后，看接电话的人是否愿意让她再与我联系。
I waited a few minutes and then the supervisor was back on the line. "I have a party who will speak with you. " I asked the woman on the other end of the line if she knew anyone by the name of Hannah. She gasped. " Oh！ We bought this house from a family who had a daughter named Hannah. But that was thirty years ago！" "Would you know where that family could be located now?"
I asked. "I remember that Hannah had to place her mother in a nursing home some years ago， "the woman said. "Maybe if you got in touch with them， they might be able to track down the daughter. "She gave me the name of the nursing home， and I called the number. The woman on the phone told me the old lady had passed away some years ago， but the nursing home did have a phone number for where the daughter might be living. I thanked the person at the nursing home and phoned the number she gave me. The woman who answered explained that Hannah herself was now living in a nursing home. This whole thing is stupid， I thought to myself. Why am I making such a big deal over finding the owner of a wallet that has only three dollars and a letter that is almost sixty years old?
我等候了几分钟，然后那位负责人回到线上：“有一位女士将会和你说。”我问电话另一端的女士，她是否认识一个叫汉娜的人。她吃惊地说：“哦！我们从一户人家买来这栋房子，他们家的女儿叫汉娜。但已经是30年前的事了！”“你知道那户人家现在可能住在哪里吗？”
我追问。“我记得汉娜数年以前将她的母亲送到一家养老院，”女人说，“如果你和他们联系，他们可能会找到她女儿。”她给了我养老院的名字，我拨通了电话。电话中的女人告诉我老妇人数年前就已经过世，但是养老院确实有个电话号码，老妇人的女儿可能住在那里。我谢过养老院的人并按她给我的号码去了电话。接电话的女人解释说现在汉娜自己也是住在一家养老院内。我想这整件事真是太傻了，为什么我费这么大的劲去找只有３美元和一封信的钱夹主人，而那封信差不多已有60年了？
