第二句是I’ve beaten the odds.是说我战胜了不可能。
· I know my children are going to encounter hardship, and I’m praying they won’t be naive. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere. So I’m changing my prayer. Because life is tough, whether we want it to be or not.我们已祈祷了太多的安逸，但却少有实现。
单词提示：
encounter v. 遭遇; naive adj. 天真的
答案：Too many times we pray for ease, but that’s a prayer seldom met.本句节选自《Growing Roots》
1.前半句中祈祷某物最简练的表达就是pray for sth.
2.后一句中“少有”的表达，除了seldom，还可以用few,hardly,rarely来表达。
It took me a long time and a lot of hard work but I finally returned to the University of Texas in the fall of 1983 -- a year and a half after almost dying. The next few years were very difficult for me, but I truly believe that in order to see beauty in life you have to experience some unpleasantness. Maybe I have experienced too much unpleasantness, 但我有一个信念——充实地过每一天，尽力做到最好。
单词提示：
Texas n. 得克萨斯(美国州名) ; unpleasantness n. 不幸
答案：but I believe in living each day to the fullest, and doing the very best I can.
本句节选自《My Miraculous Life》
1.信念一词可以说成faith,belief，其中faith表达的信心更强烈一些。
2.充实地过第一天，有些沪友用fully enjoy every day，表达的比较好。
2.do the very best——尽最大努力，这是一种表达很常用。
Promises are scary things. To keep them means relinquishing some of our freedom;to break them means losing some of our integrity. Though we have to make them today, promises are all about tomorrow--and the only thing we know for sure about tomorrow is that we don't know anything for sure! And it's not just the outer world that changes in unforeseeable ways;it's you yourself. 每种新的体验--新的责任, 新的交往--都会使你的想法改变!
单词提示：
relinquishing v. 放弃 ; integrity n. 正直 ; unforeseeable 不可预见的
答案： Every new experience--new responsibilities, new contacts--changes your perspective.
本句节选自《The Power of a Promise》
总结：关于句中的几个词，对大家的回答做了以下统计。
体验，experience
责任，duty,responsibility,obligation
交往，communication,intercourse,association,contact
想法，mind,idea,perspective,opinion
（责任编辑:tysd001）
