英語翻譯
Ring out the old,ring in the new!
Foreword
We will open the book.Its pages are blank.We are going to put words on them ourselves.The book is called“Opportunity”and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.(Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
Making a resolution
—It’s my New Year’s wish.
I will study hard,think quietly,talk gently,and act frankly.I will listen to stars and birds with an open heart.I will do all things bravely.(William Ellery Channing)
Famous Quotes
* It is difficult not to believe that the next year will be better than the old one!Future is always good,no matter what happens.It will always give us what we need and what we want in secret.It will always bless us with right gifts.(Kersti Bergroth)
* If you make at least one person happy every day,and then in ten years you may have made three thousand,six hundred and fifty persons happy.Believe it or not,you can brighten a small town.(Sydney Smith)
A Joke
A young man at a New Year’s party turns to his friend and asks for a cigarette.“I thought you made a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking,”his friend says.“I’m in the process of quitting,”the man says.“Right now,I am in the middle of phase one.”“What’s phase one?”“I’ve quit buying.”
Poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson*
Ring out the old,ring in the new,
Ring,happy bells,across the snow:
The year is going,let him go;
Ring out the false,ring in the true.
Ann Landers
Let this coming year be better than all the others.
Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.
Call up a forgotten friend.
Drop an old grudge,
and replace it with some pleasant memories.
Vow not to make a promise you don’t think you can keep.
Walk tall,and smile more.
You’ll look ten years younger.
Don’t be afraid to say,“I love you.”
Say it again.
They are the sweetest words in the world.
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