Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers1 urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle2 of keys or the scurrying3 of a beetle4.
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It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age.
At 90, cellist5 Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir6 that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding7 sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time8 career, we can as a part-time avocation9, like the head of state who paints, the nun10 who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.
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Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts11 of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted12 to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."
We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance13 of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting14 beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.
1 advisers
顧問(wèn)，勸告者( adviser的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )； （指導(dǎo)大學(xué) 新生學(xué)科問(wèn)題等的）指導(dǎo)教授 <a hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/MiNiFoRm.html>蘇州中考作文培訓(xùn)</a>
參考例句：
a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 總統(tǒng)寵愛(ài)的顧問(wèn)班子中的一員 She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去請(qǐng)教顧問(wèn)然后再宣布決定。
2 jingle
n.叮當(dāng)聲，韻律簡(jiǎn)單的詩(shī)句；v.使叮當(dāng)作響，叮當(dāng)響，押韻
參考例句：
The key fell on the ground with a jingle.鑰匙叮當(dāng)落地。 The knives and forks set up their regular jingle.刀叉發(fā)出常有的叮當(dāng)聲。
3 scurrying
v.急匆匆地走( scurry的現(xiàn)在分詞 )
參考例句：
We could hear the mice scurrying about in the walls. 我們能聽見(jiàn)老鼠在墻里亂跑。 來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》 We were scurrying about until the last minute before the party. 聚會(huì)開始前我們一直不停地忙忙碌碌。 來(lái)自辭典例句
4 beetle
n.甲蟲，近視眼的人
參考例句：
A firefly is a type of beetle.螢火蟲是一種甲蟲。 He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.我看見(jiàn)樹葉上有一只閃閃發(fā)光的綠色甲蟲。
5 cellist
n.大提琴手
參考例句：
The cellist's bowing was very sensitive . 那位大提琴手的弓法十分細(xì)膩。 來(lái)自辭典例句 World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma founded The Silk Road Project in 1998. 世界聞名的大提琴家馬友友于1998年創(chuàng)建了絲路工程。 來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
6 elixir
n.長(zhǎng)生不老藥，萬(wàn)能藥
參考例句：
There is no elixir of life in the world.世界上沒(méi)有長(zhǎng)生不老藥。 Keep your mind awake and active;that's the only youth elixir.保持頭腦清醒和靈活便是保持年輕的唯一靈丹妙藥。
7 abiding
adj.永久的，持久的，不變的
參考例句：
He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永遠(yuǎn)熱愛(ài)英國(guó)的鄉(xiāng)村。 He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他對(duì)這門手藝有著真摯持久的熱愛(ài)。
8 full-time
adj.滿工作日的或工作周的，全時(shí)間的
參考例句：
A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。 I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顧家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何對(duì)付的。
9 avocation
n.副業(yè)，業(yè)余愛(ài)好
參考例句：
He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.他從事印刷業(yè)，同時(shí)是個(gè)博物學(xué)愛(ài)好者。 Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.學(xué)習(xí)外語(yǔ)只不過(guò)是我的一項(xiàng)業(yè)余愛(ài)好。
10 nun
n.修女，尼姑
參考例句：
I can't believe that the famous singer has become a nun.我無(wú)法相信那個(gè)著名的歌星已做了修女。 She shaved her head and became a nun.她削發(fā)為尼。
11 bouts
n.拳擊（或摔跤）比賽( bout的名詞復(fù)數(shù) )；一段（工作）；（尤指壞事的）一通；（疾病的）發(fā)作
參考例句：
For much of his life he suffered from recurrent bouts of depression. 他的大半輩子反復(fù)發(fā)作抑郁癥。 來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》 It was one of fistiana's most famous championship bouts. 這是拳擊界最有名的冠軍賽之一。 來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
12 tempted
v.慫恿（某人）干不正當(dāng)?shù)氖?；冒…的險(xiǎn)（tempt的過(guò)去分詞）
參考例句：
I was sorely tempted to complain, but I didn't. 我極想發(fā)牢騷，但還是沒(méi)開口。 I was tempted by the dessert menu. 甜食菜單饞得我垂涎欲滴。
13 fragrance
n.芬芳，香味，香氣
參考例句：
The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.蘋果花使空氣充滿香味。 The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房間里充滿了薰衣草的香味。
14 enchanting
a.討人喜歡的
參考例句：
His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's. 他那種既迷人又有些憂郁的微笑，活脫兒象他父親。 Its interior was an enchanting place that both lured and frightened me. 它的里頭是個(gè)吸引人的地方，我又向往又害怕。
《Enthusiasm takes you further》添加時(shí)間：2024-12-14；更新時(shí)間：2025-03-09
