第一篇：獨自生活的報償 英語美文翻譯

獨自生活的報償

前些日子，我的一個熟人，一位熱愛交際且富有魅力的男士告訴我，他在紐約的兩個約會之間偶然有一兩個小時的空閑，便去了惠特尼博物館，四處瀏覽著展品，無比幸福的度過了那些時光。發現自已獨自一人也能如此的幸福，他感覺像墜入愛河那般震驚。

“他一直在害怕什么呢？”，我問自已。怕突然一個人呆著會發現自已厭煩自己，或者怕會失去自我？但是有了這次償試，他便要開始探險了，即將發射到自已內心的宇宙之中。他的所見所感對他來說將是全新的，一度會新穎的讓人驚奇。

因此，每個能用肉眼親自觀看事物的人一時之間便成為天才。如果身邊有別人，一個看法便不可避免地變成雙重看法。我們急于知道周圍人的看法，以及自己的觀點？” 最初的印像消失了，或者變得模糊不清。

“與你共享的音樂便不止是音樂了。” 的確如此。因此，音樂本身只能獨自一人聆聽。獨處是人生的趣味所在，它讓人感受到所有經歷的真實韻味。

“獨居但不孤獨：精神在不停的探索，徜徉于靜寂的花園中，徘徊在陰涼的房舍里，獨自在那逗留。

與別人呆在一起時孤獨感更為強烈，因為與他人在一起，即使是戀人，我們也會被不同的品味，不同的性格，以及不同的情緒所困擾。人際交往要求我們必須磨掉感知的棱角，在每每涉及個人私事時，我們因為怕傷害別人而避而不談，或者害怕在社交場合不合時宜,比如過于暴露自已。而獨自一人，我們便可以隨心所欲，感受真正的自我。那真是有些奢侈的享受！我已獨自生活了二十年。對我來說，獨自生活最大意義在于它變得越來越有裨益。每當早晨醒來，看著旭日從海平面上冉冉升起，我知道后面還有整整一天。在這一天里，我可以不受打擾地寫幾頁書，帶著我的狗一起散散步，下午長時間地躺著想一些事情（為什么人躺著時能更好地思考？），讀讀書，聽聽音樂。想到這些，我便沉浸在幸福之中。

只有在我過度勞累的時候，在我長時間不斷工作的時侯，在我感到內心空虛，需要充實的時候，我才會感到寂寞。有時，外出演講回來，見了許多人,講了許多話，心中滿是紛亂的體驗需要整理，偶而也會覺得孤獨。

于是有那么一會兒，我感到整個房子非常大，空蕩蕩的。不知此時的自我又藏匿于何處。這時，我會給花草澆澆水，挨個瞅瞅，仿佛它們是活生生的人一樣，或是喂喂兩只小貓，親手做頓飯菜，這樣自我就慢慢地重新找回。

田野的盡頭泉水噴涌翻騰，我注視良久。現實世界逐漸消退，自我再次從內心深處浮現。最近的種種經歷都隨之而來，以待我可以再次同內心潛在力量交流時慢慢地探究和領會。這些力量便如此慢慢增強，不斷獲得新生，直至死神將我們分開.

第二篇：享受生活(英語美文+翻譯)

Enjoy Your Life

享受生活

或許這只真的，只有我們失去了才懂得曾經我們擁有過；同樣我們有時候只有再次來到我們身邊，才知道原來我們曾經相擁！也許當幸福的門關閉的時候，另一扇門卻為我們開啟。只是我們通常緊盯著那早已關閉的門，卻忽略了那扇為我們打開多時的門！喜歡上一個人需要一個小時，愛上一個人需要一天，但要忘記一個人，卻需要一生的時間。給一個人你所有的愛并不意味著他一定會愛你，不要期望愛的回報。即使真的沒有回報，我們也要感到滿足，至少愛已經滋生在我們的心底至少愛已經滋生在我們的心底。不要追求相貌；人不可貌相。它可能會欺騙你;不要追求財富，財富也會坐吃山空;追求可以讓你微笑的人吧，因為一個微笑足以讓你眼前的陰霾煙消云散。

Maybe it is true that we do not know what we have got until we lose it,but it is also true that we do not what we have been missing until it arrives.It takes one hour to like someone,and a day to love someone,but it takesa lifetime to forget someone.Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back.Do not rely on one’s appearance;it can trick you.Do not rely on wealth;even that fades away.Rely on someone who make you smile,becase it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright！生命中總有那么一刻，讓你十分的想念一個人，渴望在夢中見到她（他），和她（他）擁抱在一起。夢你所夢，去你要去的地方；做自己想做的人，因為你只有一生，也只有一次機會去完成你要完成的事情。人生的美境，在于對過去的忘卻。忘卻過去的失敗和悲傷，你才能繼續幸福的生活。祝你的幸福足以使你甜蜜，經歷足夠的波折使你堅強，擁有足夠的希望使你快樂。人生之幸，不在于擁有一切，而在于凡事能盡力而為。There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them.Dream what you want to dream,go where you want to go;because you have only one chance to do all things you want to do.The brightest future will always be based on a forgottten past.You cannot go on well in life until you let past failures and heartaches go off.May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,enough trials to make you strong,enough sorrow to keep you human,enough hope to make you happy?The happiest of people do not necessarily have the best of everything;they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.幸福等待那些哭泣的人、曾被傷害的人、苦苦尋找的人、疲憊不堪的人，唯有他們能夠真正珍惜人生路上曾經幫助過他們的人。永遠為他人著想，如果你感覺到那傷害了你，那也一定傷害了他人。你出生時，你在啼哭，周圍的人卻為一個新生命的誕生而微笑。終其一生終，隨風而逝的時候，你在微笑，周圍的人卻為失去一個親人而哭泣。

Happiness waits for those who cry,those appreciate the importance of peple who have touched their lives.Always put yourself in others shoes.If you feel that it hurts you,it probably hurtsthe other person,too.When you were born,you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.Live your life so that when you die,you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.在我們的一生中，一定過有像這樣的感覺。也許我們已經經歷過像這樣的一些事情，并且我們還會經歷更多。生活就像一杯茶，時而苦，時而甜，我們應該仔細品味。最后，我希望我們應該享受我們的生活，請相信，風雨之后會有彩虹。

In our life,we must have some feels like this.Maybe we have experienced something like this and we will experience more things like that.Life is like a cap of tea,we shoud taste it carefully.Sometimes it can be bitter or sweet.Last,I hope that we shoud enjoy our life and believe it,we will find the rainbow after the storm!

第三篇：獨自凄美情感美文

一個人的生活、很簡單、很孤單、一個人的時候、喜歡沉默不語、喜歡胡思亂想、一個人的房間、很安靜、讓人很有記憶力、那個夜冷冰冰、放一首喜歡的歌曲、增添一點點氣息… 曾幾何時、我開始喜歡用黑夜來襯托自己的心情、天空、也下起了綿綿細雨、勾起了許許多多的回憶、就像這雨、一點一滴、猶如昨天一樣清晰、過去的一切就好像是一個夢、只是這個夢比平常的夢多了一點點痕跡、這種痕跡、叫回憶！聽別人說、我是一個比較多愁善感的孩子、的確如此、我也這樣看待我自己、只是、我好喜歡、這樣的我快一點死去、我好希望、嶄新的我快一點來臨！是不是我很愛展示我自己、試問一句！其實、我只是一個再平凡不過的人、并沒有什么比別人了不起、寫日記、是我個人喜歡、與任何人無關、即使會讓別人以為我是在無病呻吟、那也沒有關系、我不敢說我很低調、但至少、我并不自傲、記得我說過、我從沒高抬過我自己、同樣的、我也不會低估我自己、我就是我、真真實實的我、寧可高傲一點、也不會再去向誰展示自己的卑微、聽著窗外雨滴在訴說著和我同樣的心情、走進雨里、張開雙臂、閉上眼睛、抬起頭、我會一直沉默的笑下去！

第四篇：英語美文欣賞(帶翻譯)

Friends or 'Enemies?'

At the time, I didn't agree.I thought: I can crack a good joke, I know how to shoot a hoop, and I'm a cheerful person(but not in an annoying way).What kind of boy wouldn't want to be around that kind of girl?

Turns out, my Dad was right.Not to be all “Samantha Brick” about it, but in my experience, single, heterosexual men aren't actively looking for an exclusively platonic relationship with a woman they find sexually attractive.This of course is not a revolutionary concept.In fact, it seems pretty natural to me.Now, I will be the first to say that it is really and truly the most wonderful thing in the world if the attraction is mutual.But the Powers That Be seem to like to play these complicated little mating games with humans where the guy we want to re-enact scenes from 9? Weeks with sees our attractiveness level as akin to that of a discarded dishcloth, and the most physical we could see ourselves being with the guy who actually likes us is a game of ping pong over an especially long table.All of which means that someone usually ends up getting rejected.I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I have struggled with the scenario where I am not interested in a man romantically, but I want to keep him as a friend because he is funny and I enjoy his company, or he has shown himself to be that rare specimen known as “a nice, genuine person, ” or he simply doesn't mention his therapist in every other sentence.Rather than string him along and give him hope, I feel compelled to somehow communicate to him sooner rather than later that we'll just be staying friends, nothing more.Otherwise, I think I am being unfair to him.Why should he waste his romantic stamina on me when there are loads of other single women out there who might fall instantly in love with him? The thing is, it can sometimes be tricky to reject a man and keep him as a friend.If the operation is not executed carefully, you may end up creating a “menemy.”

It requires a certain amount of skill to be able to turn down a man's sexual advances or romantic gestures and then get him to agree to meet you for blueberry pancakes the following weekend and chat about the latest Woody Allen film.Some men aren't satisfied with just that.I'm not clear why.What's so bad about friendship? Everyone needs buddies.But I've seen men react poorly or simply fall off the face of the earth.I get it--their feelings are hurt.None of us likes getting rejected.But in my experience, some men find it especially soul-crushing.I am only bringing all of this up because I recently had to go through this scenario again.I had spent some time cultivating a friendship with a man who, in my defense, I thought was gay.So I didn't see the harm in him buying me the occasional falafel, or accepting an invitation to see a film with him.Isn't that what friends are for? But a mutual friend shed light on his sexual orientation(straight)and suggested that his intentions--and attentions--weren't platonic.He had never “made the moves” but now it was all crystal clear--that explains the way he had looked at me that time the tahini sauce dribbled down my chin!Since he had clearly been too timid to express his feelings, I thought I would be clever this time and subtly mention the dates I had been going on, focusing on the one guy I was kind of keen on, so that he would know that I was “unavailable” for heavy petting and those sorts of activities, but that I was available for things like roller skating, falafel-eating and shooting the breeze.Doesn't that sound nice? That way, he would known not to try to lean in for a kiss, and I wouldn't have to pull the Stevie Wonder dance and dodge him went he went for it.It was like pre-rejection, yet I was sparing his feelings because he didn't even have to put himself out there!I really thought I was being brilliant.It backfired, of course.Said man ended up sending me an email rant accusing me of being insensitive by talking about other men when he had “feelings for me.” As if I am psychic, by the way, just because I am a woman!How was I supposed to know that? I think in his mind we were dating.In my mind, he was my new gay BFF.In the end, I got mad at him for getting mad at me, and now the friendship has ended.And I have created yet another “menemy.”

Look, I have also tried the direct thing: “I really like you, but only as a friend, ” but you can only do that when the guy has made his intentions clear, and in my experience, they either cope okay(though rarely do I feel much enthusiasm for friendship after that), or they really don't cope well.I also tried the thing where you make them think they are rejecting you, but it gets quite confusing and only works if the guy isn't very sharp, and why would I--or you--be hanging out with someone not that sharp in the first place?

As we all remember, Billy Crystal's character says men and women can't be friends in When Harry Met Sally because the sex stuff gets in the way.I do have single, male, heterosexual friends with whom I have an easy, non-romantic rapport, but I honestly don't know if they would walk away if I was sprawled naked on a bed calling out to them.I may not be everybody's cup of tea, but sometimes, I wonder if they wonder.And they may wonder if I wonder.If so, I hope they'll keep it to themselves.被拒后：朋友亦或敵人？

那時我并不以為然，認為憑自己的幽默詼諧，灌籃嫻熟，開朗活潑的性格，又有那一個男孩不喜歡在這樣的女孩身邊呢？

但結果證明父親是對的。對此不需要太自戀（Samantha Brick，自由專欄女作家曾寫過為什么女人恨我等文章，有英版芙蓉姐姐之稱），但以我的經驗來說，單身異性戀男士在他們認為極具吸引力的女性身上并不想只是尋求一份簡單的柏拉圖式的關系。當然這一概念并沒有什么開創性，事實上在我看來再自然不過了。

首先我要說的是兩情相悅的確是世界上最為美妙事。但上帝卻好似很喜歡玩這種復雜的配對游戲，要么是通過九個半周的交往后，我們想與之確定關系的男孩認為我們的吸引力指數同丟棄的抹布不相上下，要么就是我們對中意我們的男孩不起化學反應，兩人總是像隔著一長長的桌臺打乒乓球一般。結果都是以另一方被拒而告終。

有些異性我雖然不想和他交往，但很想和他做朋友，因為他幽默詼諧，有他陪在身邊我會很開心,或者他友好善良并且為人真誠（這一類人可是稀缺性品種），或者是他不是每隔一句便提起他的理療師。我敢說這種情形你也經歷過吧。

我認為有必要對他說明白我們之間只會是朋友這種關系這么簡單，僅此而已。說這些話宜早不宜晚，而不是將他帶在身邊給他希望。不然對他來說是不公平的。外面那么多單身女性，她們或許會對他一見鐘情，為什么要讓他白白浪費精力放在我身上呢？

但有時在拒絕一位男士后要想和他保持朋友關系，這種情況頗為棘手。如果處理不當，結果是你可能會結下梁子。

要想拒絕異性的追求或是一些曖昧舉動，同時還要讓他同意下一周他依然可以和你會面，邊品嘗藍莓煎餅邊談論伍迪艾倫執導的電影，這的確需要一定的技巧。有些男士對此不以為意。我不清楚他們的原因，做朋友難道不好嗎？每個人都有自己的朋友呀。但是我確實見到有些男性在被拒絕后反應很糟糕，有的甚至好似在地球蒸發了一樣再也沒見到他的面。我明白--他們受傷了。沒有人喜歡被別人拒絕。根據我的經驗甚至有些男士認為被拒讓人精神崩潰。

提起這些是因為最近我就遇到了這種情況。前段時間我和位異性發展著朋友關系，我起初一直以為他是同性戀。所以他時不時給我買三明治，或是邀請我去看電影，我都沒覺得有什么問題。朋友不就是做這些嗎？但朋友間是需要彼此都明白各人的性取向的（他是異性戀）還要暗示對方他的想法意圖并不是柏拉圖之類。他從未做出曖昧舉動，但事實上，他看我臉上有芝麻醬的眼神就已經說的很明白了。

他有些膽怯還沒有袒露對我的感情，所以我想這次我可以聰明些向他委婉的提下我最近一直和某個男生在交往，并對這個我頗為動心的男生十分用心。不用說他就明白戀人間得耳鬢廝磨不屬于我和他，而類似滑冰，吃吃三明治呀，或閑聊呀我都沒問題。我這樣做是不是還不錯呀？這樣他就明白不要試著前傾身子去吻我，我也不會用以要學史蒂威·旺達舞蹈為借口來躲避他的不軌舉動。在他未向我表白前我就已然拒絕他了，我認為這招妙哉。

當然結果是事與愿違。此男再給我發送的郵件中激昂痛罵我多么沒有感情：明知道他對我的情意卻當著他的面談論其他男生。僅僅因為我是女的，好像我就是神經病一樣。我哪知道這些呀？我認為在他心里我們就一直在約會，而在我心里卻把他當做可以做一輩子的同性戀朋友。最后，因為他對我生氣，我也對他動了氣，友情也就戛然而止了。

我又結下了一段梁子。

你瞧，我也試過用較為直接的方式回絕男生，“我真的很喜歡你，但只是出于朋友間的喜歡而已。”這招僅適用于當此男表明了他的感情時候。在我經驗中，有些男生反應還可以（盡管隨后我覺得他同我做朋友的熱情度大打折扣），有些男生對此應對得不是太好。還有一招我也用過，就是讓他們感覺是他們在拒絕你，這招頗具有迷惑性且對象僅適用于頭腦不是很敏捷的男生。但話又說回來，我怎么會和一個頭腦不靈光的男生交往呢？

我們都會記得在當哈利遇上莎莉這部電影中比利克里斯托扮演的角色曾說：男人和女人從來不會是朋友，因為“男女有別”。我的確有一些單身異性戀的男性朋友，我和他們之間也處的輕松隨意，無關乎風月，但我真的不知道要是我懶洋洋赤身裸體于床上，大聲喚著他們，他們是否會決然走開呢？我或許不是每個人的菜，但有時我想他們是否會考慮我是不是他們喜歡的類型，或許他們也會想我會不會有同樣的念頭。如果是這樣的話，希望他們緘口不提保密于心吧。

Living With My Teenage Genius AS HER son Cameron sits at his laptop completing an assignment for his maths degree course Alison Thompson is busy helping her daughter Emma get dressed.Nothing unusual there, except that at just 14 Cameron is a highly gifted maths prodigy, while Emma is 12 and severely autistic.Having two children with such contrasting abilities has at times been a challenge, admits full-time mum Alison, 34, who also has 10-year-old daughter Bethany.While help has always been readily available for Emma, Alison and her husband Rod, 37, a computer programmer, have had to fight to get Cameron the support he needs.“People could see that Emma has special needs but because Cameron was doing so well at school his teachers never thought there was a problem.They refused to acknowledge that he was gifted, ” says Alison.Admittedly it took Alison and Rod a while to realise their son was different.“Cameron was our first child and we didn’t really have anything to compare him with.He always had a very impressive vocabulary and we knew he was bright but he didn’t reach his milestones exceptionally early and there were no other real signs.”

It was only when he began primary school that his abilities became clear.“He used to cry when it was time to come home, ” recalls Alison.“He just always wanted to learn more.”

On one occasion he even corrected the teacher when she told the class that zero was the lowest number.Cameron told her she was wrong because there were negative numbers.He was four at the time.By the time he was seven, Cameron, who lives with his family in Wrexham, North Wales, was leaps and bounds ahead of his classmates.It was also clear that he was suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, which is a form of autism.Children with Asperger’s typically find social interaction incredibly difficult and can become obsessive and inflexible.“Not only was he getting bored at school but he didn’t know when to keep quiet and had no idea how to pick up on social cues, ” says Alison, who along with Rod started to put pressure on the school for extra support for their son.Now 14 Cameron is at secondary school, studying for a distance learning maths degree with the Open University, having sailed through his GCSE at 11 and his A-level at 12, achieving top grades.Today it is clear that this slightly built, engaging and awkward teenager is gifted but it has been a battle to get the authorities to acknowledge his needs.“I don’t think the teachers had a clue what to do with a gifted child, ” says Alison.“We were worried about being labelled as pushy parents but there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting the best for your child.I think the teachers thought we were trying to drive Cameron with his maths but the drive came from him.”

Frustrated, the Thompsons considered home education – Cameron was also being targeted by bullies – but they thought it would hamper their son socially.By his final year of primary school, Cameron had become bored and disruptive but fortunately when he moved to senior school teachers there took his talents seriously and he was encouraged to do more advanced maths work.“He steamed through the GCSE syllabus in just three months, ” says Alison.“For the first time in ages he seemed really happy.”

Then his parents had to decide what to do next.Some gifted children are sent to university early but Alison and Rod felt this wasn’t right for Cameron.“What would he have in common with the other students?” she asks.“I just don’t understand these parents who are so ambitious that they lose all sight of their child.“I was once contacted by a mother who told me her five-year-old was interested in taking a GCSE.I mean, really? What five-year-old has actually heard of a GCSE? When Cameron was five all he wanted was to be a train driver.”

Alison admits she is baffled by much of her son’s degree course.Even Rod, who has a maths degree himself, struggles to keep up.Yet they are careful never to compare Cameron with his sisters.Bethany is bright too but not gifted.Sociable and artistic she is the one who will remind absent minded Cameron to put on his coat.She also helps him out in social situations.“Bethany could make friends in an empty room, ” says Alison proudly.“Having siblings with such different needs has made her very accepting.”

Emma attends a specialist school and the family is quick to celebrate her successes too.“The other day she did up the buttons on her coat which was real progress, ” Alison says.The Thompsons try to live a normal life.Late last year they took part in a fly-on-the-wall television documentary to prove that not all gifted children are the result of overly ambitious parents.Cameron, who is also a brown belt in karate, was happy to take part as he had always wanted to be on TV.“There is so much help out there for children like Emma but hardly anything at all for those at the other end of the spectrum, ” says Alison.“Gifted children need support too but their lives don’t have to be that different to anyone else’s.Cameron is proof of that.” 家有神童

艾莉森?湯普森家有三個孩子，三個孩子個個不同。一個是天賦異稟的小神童，一個是自閉癥兒童，還有一個卻在社交方面表現出眾。艾莉森是怎樣撫養他們的？她遇到了哪些困難？

當艾莉森?湯普森的兒子卡梅倫坐在電腦前完成他的數學學士學位課作業時，她忙著幫她的女兒埃瑪穿好衣服。

很平常的場景，除了14歲的卡梅隆是一個非常有天賦的數學神童，而12歲的艾瑪則是嚴重的自閉癥患者。

艾莉森承認撫養兩個反差很大的孩子有時是一個挑戰。34歲的艾莉森是一個全職母親，他同時還有一個10歲的女兒伯達尼。

艾瑪總是及時獲得幫助的那一個，而艾莉森和她的程序員丈夫羅德不得不為卡梅隆爭取他所需要的支持。“大家都知道艾瑪有特殊需要，但因為卡梅倫在學校表現優秀，他的老師從來沒有想過他的問題。他們拒絕承認他是天才，”艾莉森說。

誠然，艾莉森和羅德也不是一開始就發現他們的兒子有什么不同。“卡梅隆是我們的第一個孩子，我們真的沒有什么可以比較。他的詞匯量一直佷令人驚訝，我們知道他聰明，但在他的階段性發展中，他沒有提前很多，也有沒有其他明顯的跡象。“

直到他上小學，他的能力才變得明顯。“過去一到回家的時候，他就哭，”艾莉森。“他只是想學更多的知識。”

有一次，他甚至還糾正了老師。當老師告訴同學零是最小的數字時，卡梅倫告訴她，她錯了，因為有負數。那時候他四歲。

七歲的卡梅倫與他的家人住在北威爾士最大的城市雷克瑟姆（Wrexham），那時候他已經遠遠超過他的同學。但很明顯，他很患有阿斯伯格綜合癥，這是自閉癥的一種形式。患有阿斯伯格綜合癥的兒童通常在社會交往上存在困難，還可能變得執著而頑固。

“他在學校不僅感到厭煩，還不知道什么時候應當保持安靜，無法理解人際交流中的隱藏含義，”艾莉森說。她和羅德開始向學校施壓，以求他們的兒子獲得額外的幫助。

14歲的卡梅隆目前還在中學階段，已經開始攻讀開放大學函授數學學位。11歲他通過了GCSE課程，12歲通過A-level課程，并且都取得了優異的成績。

毋庸置疑，這個清瘦、有魅力卻有點古怪的青少年是有天賦的，但讓當局承認他的需求卻是一場艱苦的戰斗。

“我不認為教師們知道該怎么教育一個有天賦的孩子，”艾莉森說。“我們害怕被當作為愛出風頭的父母，但希望孩子獲得最好的教育這一點絕對沒有錯。老師認為是我們要求卡梅隆學數學，但實際上那是他主動要學的。”

他們的嘗試受到打擊，卡梅倫也成為了眾矢之的，隨后他們想到了家庭教育，但又覺得這不利于孩子社會化的培養。

到卡梅倫小學最后一年時，他已經開始無聊到搗亂了，所幸升學后那里的老師很看重他的天賦，并鼓勵他學習高年級的數學。

“他在短短三個月內學完了GCSE課程教學大綱，”艾莉森說，“他似乎很久沒那么高興了。”

然后，他的父母不得不決定下一步做什么。一些天才兒童提前進入大學，但艾莉森和羅德覺得這樣對卡梅倫不好。“他與其他學生有什么共同點？”她問，“我只是不明白有些家長是如此雄心勃勃，卻全然忘記了他們的孩子。“

“曾經又一位母親告訴我，她5歲的女兒想要參加GCSE考試。我在想，這會是真的嗎？ 一個5歲的孩子真的了解GCSE是什么嗎？當卡梅倫5歲時，他就想當一名火車司機。“

艾莉森承認，她對兒子的學位課程感到困惑。即使擁有數學學位的羅德也不見得能跟上。然而，他們很小心，從來不拿卡梅隆與他的妹妹們做比較。

伯達尼也很聰明，但算不上天賦異稟。善于交際、喜歡藝術的她會提醒心不在焉的卡梅隆把他的外套穿上，她還回在社交場合為哥哥解圍。“即使在一個空房間里，伯達尼也能交朋友，” 艾莉森驕傲地說，“有不同需求的兄弟姐妹，讓她變得很包容。”

艾瑪就讀的是一所特殊學校，家里人也會即時為她的每一次成功慶祝。“有一天，她自己系上了衣服上所有的扣子，這絕對是進步，”艾莉森說。

湯普森一家嘗試著像正常家庭那樣去生活。去年年底，他們參加了一個觀察式電視紀錄片的拍攝，向大家證明并不是所有的天才兒童都是過于雄心勃勃的父母造就的。同時是空手道棕帶的卡梅倫很高興參加這次紀錄片拍攝，因為他一直想上電視。

“社會給了像艾瑪這樣的孩子許多幫助，但對于天才兒童幾乎沒有任何幫助，”艾莉森說。“天才兒童也需要支持，但他們的生活并沒有和其他人太不同。卡梅倫就是個例子。” 10 Biggest Puzzles of Human Evolution Advances in genomics are starting to unravel the mystery.Line up the genomes of humans and chimps side by side and they differ by little more than 1 per cent.That may not seem like much, but it equates to more than 30 million point mutations.Around 80 per cent of our 30, 000 genes are affected, and although most have just one or two changes(Gene, vol 346, p 215), these can have dramatic effects.The protein made by the human geneFOXP2, which helps us to speak, differs from its chimp counterpart by just two amino acids, for example.And small changes in the microcephalin andASPM genes may underlie big differences in brain size between humans and chimps.But protein evolution is only part of what makes us human.Also critical are changes in gene regulationsays James Noonan of Yale University.Mutations in key developmental genes are likely to be fatal.But, he says: ”Altering the expression of a gene in a single tissue or at a single time can more easily lead to an innovation that is not lethal." Noonan's lab is one of many that are busy comparing gene expression in tissues such as the brain to home in on the key regulatory difference between chimps and humans, most of which have still to be uncovered.Then there's gene duplication.This can give rise to families of genes that diversify and take on new functions, says Evan Eichler at the University of Washington in Seattle.His lab has identified uniquely human gene families that affect many aspects of our biology, from the immune system to brain development.He suspects that gene duplication has contributed to the evolution of novel cognitive capacities in humans, but at a cost: greater susceptibility to neurological disorders.Copying errors mean whole chunks of DNA have been accidentally deleted.Other chunks find themselves in new locations when mobile genetic elements jump around the genome or viruses integrate themselves into our DNA.The human genome contains more than 26, 000 of these so-called INDELs, many linked with differences in gene expression between humans and chimps(Mobile DNA, vol 2, p 13).Even a complete catalogue of genetic differences will not solve the mystery.Much of what makes us human is cultural, passed from generation to generation by learning, says Ajit Varki at the University of California, San Diego.What's more, he says, The co-evolution of genes and culture is a major force in human evolution, famously leaving the descendents of dairy farmers able to digest milk protein, for example.To crack the mystery of human uniqueness we need to know how genomes build bodies and brains, how brains create culture, and how culture eventually feeds back to alter the genome.It remains a distant goal.人類進化十大謎（之一）：我們與黑猩猩：形不似而基因似？人類和黑猩猩外貌迥異，沒有人會搞錯，但這兩者間的基因相似度卻很高，高過野鼠和家鼠之間的基因相似度。這怎么可能呢？基因組學研究正在解開這個謎底。

把人類和黑猩猩的染色體組并排比較，二者差異略高于百分之一。看似不多，但卻相當于三千多萬的點突變。我們30,000個基因的約百分之八十都會受影響，盡管多數僅有一兩處變異（見《基因》第346卷第215頁），但影響可能十分巨大。比如，人類FOXP2基因所制造的蛋白質作用于我們的語言能力，只有兩個氨基酸與黑猩猩的相應蛋白質不同。此外，微腦磷脂和ASPM基因里的細微差別可能決定了人類和黑猩猩大腦尺寸的巨大差異。

但是，蛋白質的進化只是造就人類的部分原因。耶魯大學詹姆斯?努南（James Noonan）說，基因規則的變化同等重要——在生長過程中基因何時何地進行表達。關鍵性發展基因的突變很可能致命。不過他說：“改變單一組織的基因表達或僅改變一次某個基因的表達更容易帶來安全的創新。”努南的實驗室忙于比較黑猩猩和人類大腦等組織之間的基因表達，找出關鍵性的規則差異；從事這一工作的實驗室還很多，大多尚不為世人所知。

此外還有基因復制。西雅圖華盛頓大學的伊萬?艾克勒（Evan Eichler）說，由此可能產生多樣化和具備新功能的基因族。唯有他的實驗室找出了影響了我們免疫系統到大腦發展等多個方面生物性的基因族。他懷疑基因復制對人類新認知能力的進化起著作用，不過是有代價的：更容易神經紊亂。

復制錯誤就意味著整段的DNA被意外刪除。別的基因段進入新的位置，基因組附近出現活動的基因成分，或者病毒融入我們的DNA。人類的基因組包含26000多個這種所謂的基因插入/缺失（INDEL），許多都和人類與黑猩猩之間的基因表達差異相關（《可移動的DNA》第2卷第13頁）。

即使取得完整的基因差異圖也無法揭開這個謎團。加州大學圣地亞哥分校的阿吉特?瓦基（Ajit Varki）說，造就人類的主要是代代傳承的文化。他還說，基因與文化的共同進化才是人類進化的主要力量，比如這個眾所周知例子，畜牧業牧民的后代擅于消化牛奶蛋白。要解開人類特殊性之謎，我們必須了解基因組如何構建出身體和大腦，大腦如何創造文化，文化最終又如何反過來改變基因組。這個目標依然遙遠。

第五篇：我獨自生活雜文隨筆

我不太看新聞。雖然這樣子有點活在自個兒世界的孤僻與對這個世界漠不關心，但是每回看新聞，總是會對于人生有著無可奈何與無能為力的感嘆。

這個世界并不是總是完美的，也不是每個人都是過著陽光燦爛的生活。但是仍是有很多人很努力的在過好自己的日子，也許艱難點，也許困苦點，也許總有挫折，卻仍是踏實歡樂的過著每一天。

每回有什麼重大的社會新聞發生時，也會跟著有許多相關于罹難者的相關訊息。有時看著那些點點滴滴，心裡頭總是發酸。

很多事很難問為什麼，也給不出一個為什麼來。在突然之間心中的某個信念會有所動搖。世界上總有陽光照不到的地方，而那些平時難以想像的事物，突然間展現在面前時，心裡頭總是有所震動。

那是真切曾活著的生命，踏實勤勞著。

但每個人都有自己各自面對的難題，有人覺得溫飽就是人生裡最大的滿足，有些人則是有著更高的期許跟期待，有些人是沒有辦法去想明天的事，有的人是想今天都不知道該要怎麼過下去。

有些事終歸還是屬于個人。誰也無法幫忙太多。

人其實都會對他人的處境而有所同感。也都很希望可以伸出援手幫助，但很多事基本上是做不完的。

總會想起故事裡頭那個在沙灘上將海星一隻隻丟回大海裡的孩子。雖然他說著救一隻是一隻，但一回頭看見仍是滿地掙扎著的海星，他會不會瞬間有種無力感。

我的腦子裡的理性與感性總時不時的在搖晃著。有些東西我可以很清楚的用理性看透徹，有些東西則是不由自主的就陷在那份情緒裡。

但也還好，這樣子的情緒過個二三天自己就能好好的平復下來，可以再次回覆我的能量，許多事也許做了并無法改變現狀，但也不能因為無法改變太多而不去行動。