never,too,late
篇一：It’s never too late to try something different
It’s never too late to try something different
As the saying goes “No one wants to stop trying”.Recent years it has become a prevailing trend for those 75 or 80 year old man to surf the Internet .That is to say ,its never too late to try some different things,it means you are contemplating a change. Adolescence is a time when we instinctively seek lots of different expernence and try out different things.
If you were a actor ,you would not be performing without first rehearing your part .Similarly ,we have lots of “first” in our memory.Dance one day, cook another and try different part time job and so on . Its the first time for all of us ,so whether it will be more difficuly to try a new thing when we are older.
Obviously , the answer is “no” .To=hough we have the risk of failure, it is necessary for us to try some new things where we can get many advantages .Curiosity is another major cause of trying. Firstly, trying different things bring us a different world . Secondly, we may be successful n converting our curiousity into success. And it may even turn out to be our biggest turning point on our grow path .Last but not least, we don’t know when we will meet the situation we can’t control. With the help of experience , when facing an unexpected situations we can deal with them better .
For a college student, it would be a good experience such as solitude、traveling alone、doing different part timr jobs . Not only do you get to broaden your expernences of life ,you open u many doors for the future .The old are focused themselves on doing what they want ,why don’t we?
篇二：it’s_never_too_late_for_success
你和你的父母可以别在担忧了-巴斯德，爱迪生，达尔文还要许多其他人在他们年少时远非天才。
You and your parents can stop worrying ─ Pasture, Edison, Darwin and lots of more were far from being geniuses in their teens.
历史书籍很少提到这些，但事实是：我们的许多伟人在他们的青少年时代是“垮掉的一代".他们被认为爱空想，优柔寡断，迟钝（十足的愚蠢），而且他们没有显现出当医生，律师，印第安酋长的前途。
History books seldom mention it, but the truth is that many of our greatest figures were practically “beatniks” when they were teenagers. They were given to daydreaming, indecision, and they showed no promise of being doctor, lawyer, or Indian chief.
所以年前的男女们，如果你们出现了同样的状况，不用绝望。世界是由男人和女人创建的。尽管他们的双亲担心他们永远一钱不值，你们没有太多的听过这些伟人早年失败的经历，一位父母亲往往喜欢例举更鼓舞人心的事例。
So, young men and women, if you suffer from the same symptoms, don’t despair. The world was built by men and women whose parents worried that they would “never amount to a hill of beans”. You don’t hear too much about their early failure because parents prefer to cite more inspiring examples.
A Man They Don’t Tell You About他们不愿向你谈起的一个人
If you take piano lessons and your attitude towards practicing is marked by laziness, your parents might justly complain and flaunt before you the famous picture of little Mozart in his ruffled nightshirt, playing the piano at midnight in the attic. But the point is, your parents would not show you a picture of a certain party who never showed a bit of interest in music during his formative years. In fact he never showed talent in any direction whatever. Finally put to studying law, he barely passed his final exams. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music, and his name was Peter Iluitch Tschaikowsky.
In the science, there have been hundreds of geniuses who aimed straight at the goal from earliest years, and hundreds who showed no aptitude at all. There were the teen-age Mayo brothers, who actually assisted their father in his crude country operating room. On the other hand, Harvey Cushing, one of the world’s greatest brain surgeons, might have become a professional ballplayer if his father hadn’t pleaded that he gives medicine a try.
The great Pasteur’s parents were in despair because teen-age Louis did nothing but draw pictures and go fishing. Pasture was 20 years old before he became even faintly interested in science.如果你把钢琴课和你的态度是懒惰为标志的练习,你的父母可能会公正地抱怨和炫耀你的著名照片,之前的小莫札特在其折边睡衣,弹钢琴午夜在阁楼上。但问题是,你的父母不会向你展示一幅某方从未显示一点对音乐的兴趣在成长的岁月。事实上他从来没有显示人才在任何方向不管。最后把学习法律,他勉强通过了期末考试。直到他22岁,他突然成为了一个伟大的对音乐的热情,他的名字叫彼得Iluitch Tschaikowsky。
在科学,已经有数百名天才的目标直指从最早的年,数百人显示没有能力在所有。有青少年的梅奥兄弟,他们实际上帮助他们的父亲在他的原油国家手术室。另一方面,哈维·库欣,世界上最伟大的脑外科医生,也许会成为一个职业棒球手如果他的父亲没有承认,他给药一试。
伟大的巴斯德的父母都是在绝望,因为青少年的路易什么也没做但画画和去钓鱼。牧场是20岁,在他成为甚至隐约对科学感兴趣。
Edison Was “Addled”爱迪生是”愚笨的“
So it goes. You have the Wright brothers, who were brilliant at engineering in their early teens, and you have Thomas Alva Edison, whose teacher tried to get him out of the class because his brain was “addled.” You have the Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi, who at 17 had read enough mathematics to qualify for a doctor’s degree. And you have the great. Albert Schweitzer, who hesitated between music and the church until he was 30. Ten he started his medical studies.它是阿。你有莱特兄弟,他们都是出色的工程在十几岁的孩子,和你有托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生的老师想把他赶出课堂,因为他的大脑是“腐坏。“你有诺贝尔奖物理学家恩里科·费米,在17岁读过足够的数学来获得一个博士学位。和你有伟大的。史怀哲,音乐和教堂之间犹豫了一下,直到他30。10他开始他的医学研究。
Darwin Hated School达尔文憎恨学校
Charles Darwin’s early life was a mess. He hated school, and his father once shouted: “You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family!” He was sent to Glasgow to study medicine, but he couldn't stand the sight of blood. He was sent to divinity school and barely managed to graduate. Whereupon he gave up the whole business and shipped to the South Seas on the famous exploring ship Beagle. On that voyage, one of history’s greatest scientists was born. It was here that he collected the material for the book that would revolutionize biological science The Origin of the Species.查尔斯·达尔文的早期生活是一个烂摊子。他讨厌学校,和他的父亲曾经喊道:“你什么都不在乎了但是射击狗和逮老鼠,你将是一个耻辱,你所有的家庭!你自己“他被派到格拉斯哥学医,但他不能忍受看到血。他被送到神学院和几乎成功的研究生。于是他放弃了整个业务和运送到南海在著名的探索船舶小猎犬。在航行中,历史上伟大的一名科学家出生。正是在这里,他收集了材料的书,将彻底改变生物科学的物种起源。
Faulkner Failed in English福克纳英语不及格
Politics offers a familiar example of contrast. Herbert Hoover must have learned administration in the cradle. When he was at school he was chosen as football manager, though he didn’t know the game, and the glee club manager, though he couldn’t sing a note. Whatever he touched went smoothly, glee club or food for a starving Europe.
But one of his successors in the White House had about as checkered a youth as can be imagined. Turned down by West Point because of poor vision, Harry Truman tried a dozen jobs, including stretches in a drugstore, a bank, a bottling works, and a railroad yard. But he got there just the same.
Great writers are supposed to be born, not made, but here again there are many fascinating exceptions. William Faulkner quit school in the fifth grade and wandered around the country as a house painter and a dishwasher.12:04 2009-5-20 ryedu.net
Once he tried attending college, but failed in freshman English and quit. He got a postmaster’s job in a small Mississippi town, and infuriated the populace by getting the mail all mixed up and closing the office when(转载于:www.smhaida.com 海 达 范 文网:never,too,late)ever he felt like it.
And just to show that girls can be as confusing as boys, take Pearl Buck, who from early youth made it a point to write at least a few lines every day of her life. Then take Edna Ferber, whose sole ambition was to be an actress; she never even thought of writing anything until she
was in her 20’s and had to take a $3-a-week job on a newspaper to help her family.
How about Those Prodigies?如何解释那些神童呢？
And added to all the aforementioned paradoxes you have a small army of child prodigies who were graduated from college when they were 15, and are now obscure clerks in accounting departments. And you have a small army of men who were too stupid or lazy to get into or finish college and who are today presidents of the firms that hire the prodigies.政治提供了一个熟悉的例子的对比。赫伯特?胡佛必须已经学会了政府在摇篮里。当他在学校时,他被选为足球经理,尽管他不知道这个游戏,合唱团的经理,尽管他不能唱一个音符。无论他感动很顺利,合唱团或食物对于一个饥饿的欧洲。
但他的继任者之一在白宫一样多变的青年是可以想象的。西点军校的拒绝,因为视力不好,杜鲁门十几个工作,包括泡在一个药店,银行,一个装瓶的作品,和一个铁路庭院。但他到那里是一样的。
伟大的作家都被认为是天生的,不是后天养成的,但又在这里有许多迷人的例外。威廉·福克纳在五年级退学,徘徊于这个国家作为一个油漆工和洗碗机。12:04 2009-5-20 ryedu.net
他曾经试着参加大学,但在新生英语和戒烟失败。他得到了一个邮政局长的工作在密西西比的一个小镇,激怒了民众通过获取邮件全搞混了和关闭办公室每当他感觉它。
和只是表明女孩和男孩一样令人困惑,采取赛珍珠,从早期的青年特意写至少几行她生活的每一天。然后把艾德娜费勃,他们唯一的雄心就是要成为一名女演员,她甚至从来没有想写什么,直到她是20多岁,不得不花美元一个星期3在报社工作来帮助她的家人。
那些天才呢?如何解释那些神童呢?
和添加到所有上述悖论你有一小群神童从大学毕业的人当他们15,现在晦涩的职员在会计部门。和你有一小群人太愚蠢或懒惰的进入或完成大学学业,谁是今天的总统的公司雇佣的天才。
So who’s to say what about youth? Any young boy or girl who knows what he wants to do in life is probably the better off for it. But no teen-ager need despair of the future. He has that one special advantage over the greatest man alive ─ time! If you don’t think time counts, look at Grandma Moses. She never sold a painting till she was 80.
关于青春谁说了算？任何心中拥有人生目标的少男少女都可能处于优势地位。青少年无需为未来绝望。一位与在世的最伟大的人相比，他拥有一个特别的优势---时间！如果你认为时间不值得考虑，那请看看摩西奶奶。直到80岁她才卖出第一幅画。
篇三：泛读教程III Unit 2 It's never too late for success
It’s Never Too Late for Success
You and your parents can stop worrying ─ Pasture, Edison, Darwin and lots of more were far from being geniuses in their teens. History books seldom mention it, but the truth is that many of our greatest figures were practically “beatniks” when they were teenagers. They were given to daydreaming, indecision, and they showed no promise of being doctor, lawyer, or Indian chief.
So, young men and women, if you suffer from the same symptoms, don’t despair. The world was built by men and women whose parents worried that they would “never amount to a hill of beans”. You don’t hear too much about their early failure because parents prefer to cite more inspiring examples.
A Man They Don’t Tell You About
If you take piano lessons and your attitude towards practicing is marked by laziness, your parents might justly complain and flaunt before you the famous picture of little Mozart in his ruffled nightshirt, playing the piano at midnight in the attic. But the point is, your parents would not show you a picture of a certain party who never showed a bit of interest in music during his formative years. In fact he never showed talent in any direction whatever. Finally put to studying law, he barely passed his final exams. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for music, and his name was Peter Iluitch Tschaikowsky.
In the science, there have been hundreds of geniuses who aimed straight at the goal from earliest years, and hundreds who showed no aptitude at all. There were the teen-age Mayo brothers, who actually assisted their father [in his crude country] operating room. On the other hand, Harvey Cushing, one of the world’s greatest brain surgeons, might have become a professional ballplayer if his father hadn’t pleaded that he give medicine a try.
The great Pasteur’s parents were in despair because teen-age Louis did nothing but draw pictures and go fishing. Pasture was 20 years old before he became even faintly interested in science.
Edison Was “Addled”
So it goes. You have the Wright brothers, who were brilliant at engineering in their early teens, and you have Thomas Alva Edison, whose teacher tried to get him out of the class because his brain was “addled.” You have the Nobel Prize physicist Enrico Fermi, who at 17 had read enough mathematics to qualify for a doctor’s degree. And you have the great. Albert Schweitzer, who hesitated between music and the church until he was 30. Then he started his medical studies.
Darwin Hated School
Charles Darwin’s early life was a mess. He hated school, and his father once shouted: “You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family!” He was sent to Glasgow to study medicine, but he couldn't stand the sight of blood. He was sent to divinity school and barely managed to graduate. Whereupon he gave up the whole business and shipped to the South Seas on the famous exploring ship Beagle. On that voyage, one of history’s greatest scientists was born. It was here that he collected the material for the book that would revolutionize biological science The Origin of the Species.
Faulkner Failed in English
Politics offers a familiar example of contrast. Herbert Hoover must have learned administration in the cradle. When he was at school he was chosen as football manager, though he didn’t know the game, and the glee club manager, though he couldn’t sing a note. Whatever he touched went smoothly, glee club or food for a starving Europe.
But one of his successors in the White House had about as checkered a youth as can be imagined. Turned down by West Point because of poor vision, Harry Truman tried a dozen jobs, including stretches in a drugstore, a bank, a bottling works, and a railroad yard. But he got there just the same.
Great writers are supposed to be born, not made, but here again there are many fascinating exceptions. William Faulkner quit school in the fifth grade and wandered around the country as a house painter and a dishwasher.12:04 2009-5-20 ryedu.net
Once he tried attending college, but failed in freshman English and quit. He got a postmaster’s job in a small Mississippi town, and infuriated the populace by getting the mail all mixed up and closing the office whenever he felt like it.
And just to show that girls can be as confusing as boys, take Pearl Buck, who from early youth made it a point to write at least a few lines every day of her life. Then take Edna Ferber, whose sole ambition was to be an actress; she never even thought of writing anything until she was in her 20’s and had to take a $3-a-week job on a newspaper to help her family.
How about Those Prodigies?
And added to all the aforementioned paradoxes you have a small army of child prodigies who were graduated from college when they were 15, and are now obscure clerks in accounting departments. And you have a small army of men who were too stupid or lazy to get into or finish college and who are today presidents of the firms that hire the prodigies.
So who’s to say what about youth? Any young boy or girl who knows what he wants to do in life is probably the better off for it. But no teen-ager need despair of the future. He has that one special advantage over the greatest man alive ─ time! If you don’t think time counts, look at Grandma Moses. She never sold a painting till she was 80.
Words and Expressions
Genius n.天才, 天赋, 天才人物 gift, inspiration, intelligence, master, prodigy, talent, wizard; beatnik n. A person who acts and dresses with pointed, often exaggerated disregard for what is generally thought proper and who is given to radical and extravagant social criticism or self-expression. 披头族一个行为和穿着奇装异服的，通常过分的，不在乎什么是世俗认为适当的人。这种人持激进的和偏激的社会批评主义态度或自我表现
A hill of beans: anything; valueless things e.g. I haven’t a bean. I have no money.
flaunt [ flo:nt ]:v. To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: If you flaunt your possessions,
abilities, or qualities, you display them in an obvious way in order to try to obtain other people’s attention or to shock them. Show off炫耀卖弄地或厚颜无耻地展示： flaunts his knowledge.炫耀他的知识
Ruffle v. To disturb the smoothness or regularity of; ripple. 使?起伏不平，弄皱；使起涟漪 To pleat or gather (fabric) into a ruffle. 给（织物）打褶裥，给（织物）饰褶边 formative adj 影响形成的；影响发展的 a child's formative years 孩子个性形成时期 Forming or capable of forming. 能成形的造型的或可塑造的 Susceptible to transformation by growth and development. 能随成长而变形的对成长和发展的变化敏感的
addle v. Addled: if something addles someone’s mind or brain, or if someone is addled, they are confused and unable to think properly. To muddle; confuse:使混乱；使糊涂： My brain is a bit addled by whiskey. “威士忌搞得我头晕脑胀的” See: confuse addle-brained adj. (=addleheaded, addlepated)思想糊涂的, 昏头昏脑的
checkered: chequered; has had a checkered career or history, they have had a varied past with periods of difficulty or failure as well as times when they have been successful or popular.
glee club n. Music A group of singers who perform usually short pieces of choral music. 合唱队一组演唱通常较短的合唱队的歌手
paradox n.（名词） A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true: 似是而非的评论：看起来自相矛盾但可能正确的说法： the paradox that standing is more tiring than walking. 站着比走路还累这一似非而是的说法 One exhibiting inexplicable or contradictory aspects: 有明显矛盾特征的人或事物：表现出让人费解或自相矛盾特点的人或事物： “You have the paradox of a Celt being the smooth Oxonian”(Anthony Burgess) “作为一个圆滑的牛津人，你具有凯尔特人自相矛盾的特点”(安东尼·伯吉斯) An assertion that is essentially self-contradictory, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises. 逆说，悖论：一种尽管从可接受的假设中推导出来但其核心是自相矛盾的论断 A statement contrary to received opinion. 逆论，反说：与通常的见解相反的观点
1. Be far from: have a long way to go to
2. A beatnik was a type of young person in the late 1950’s who wore strange clothes and had unconventional beliefs rather than traditional ones, sometimes used to show disapproval
3. Be given to sth: have a particular habit or tendency; addicted to
4. Indecision: uncertainty about what you should do, where you should go, how you should behave, etc.
5. Promise: a sign or indication of something, for example success, that will or may happen in the future. →cf, Show no promise of: show no indication or sign of; Hold little promise; Show considerable promise
6. Never amount to a hill of beans: never become a very important person. become somebody
7. Cite: mention; quote
8. Ruffle: make something uneven → Ruffled: something no longer smooth or neat; crumpled. cf, If someone is ruffled, they are surprised, confused or annoyed
9. Justly: reasonably; justifiably
10. Formative: a formative period of time or influence is one which has important and lasting influence on a person’s character and attitudes E.g. This person may well become the most formative influence on the young child’s developing personality.
11. become fired with a great passion for: become crazy for sth with great zeal
篇四：Never Too Late
Never Too Late
The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.
"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."
"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivatedher to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me.
We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and tolk nonstop. I was always listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliverher prepared speech, she
dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began:" We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talentor ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to
honorthe wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.
篇五：Never too late
Never too late
Valentine’s Day was around the corner.
For my daughter, Becky Hallstrom, that meant a party for
the kindergarten class she taught.
“They’re really looking forward to it,” she told me over the
phone one evening. “Especially the valentines exchange. The kids are filling their cards out all by themselves.”
“That’s a lot of writing,” I said.
“Yep. One card for every student in the class. Guaranteed.”
Becky’s words might have sounded casual, but she knew they were important for me to hear. She knew the story all too well. The story of another Valentine exchange long ago. My mind drifted back. I was a student not much older then Becky’s kindergartners. In the 1940s at a public school in Chicago, Illinois, my teacher announced a party.
“On Valentine’s Day we give cards to those we care about.” She placed a big wooden box on the corner of her desk.
My friends and I sat up in our chairs for a better look. The
box was decorated with paper hearts and lace, and there
was a narrow slit in the top, kind of like a mailbox.
“You can put valentines for your friends in the box,” the
teacher said. “As many as you want. I knew we’d have lots
so I got a big box to hold them. At the party we’ll open up the
box and deliver the cards. Doesn’t that sound fun?”
We all nodded. Some of the girls giggled and whispered to each other. I was more interested in the party. Cookies!
All week the box took up space on the teacher’s desk, a reminder of its importance. Students dropped envelopes inside here and there. The girls liked to make a big deal of it when they dropped in a fat pile, one card at a time to make sure the event was noticed by the whole class. I dropped a couple in for my friends. Why not? It was Valentine’s Day. heart-shaped cookies. I was feeling pretty good about this Valentines’ Day stuff as I sat at my desk and enjoyed the snacks.
At her desk, our teacher opened the box and started inside. I waited at my desk, wondering who had sent one to me.
The girls oohed and aahed as they received theirs. The boys mostly played it cool, with a friendly elbow jab of thanks. I played it cool too, waiting at my desk. Maybe mine are at the bottom, I thought as the girl across the aisle from me added yet another card to her pile.
The teacher moved toward me, her hands full of envelopes. I sat up straight, ready to punch, hoping no one had noticed.
As I chatted with friends, I kept one eye on the teacher, checking on her progress. The
box was now empty, and there were only a couple cards left in her hand. Just let me get at
least one, I thought. The teacher went back to her desk. She put the box away for next year.
I hadn’t gotten a single valentine. Nobody wanted to give me a card? I thought. Not one person?
“Hey, Ken didn’t get any!” one of my friends called out.
I waved him away. “A good thing too. Nobody better be giving me some lacy heart card! Valentines are strictly for girls.”
My friends laughed as I crunched into my cookies. What did I need with a card, after all? I had friends. I didn’t need a valentine to tell me so. It didn’t matter.else could I do? I wasn’t’ about to cry at school. But years later memories of that party did bring tears to my eyes.
“You know, Becky,” I said, “I’ve had over sixty Valentine’s Days since then, and that’s still probably the one I remember most.”
No matter how many years went by, that tiny wound in my heart always stung a little. I guess part of me would always be waiting for that valentine. Just let me get at least one. “I always tell my class that story, Dad,” Becky said. “They’re surprised that someone your age can still feel hurt about something that happened when he was a kid.”
“I wouldn’t have believed it either, back then,” I said. “I knew nobody was trying to hurt my feelings, especially my friends. I just got overlooked. Maybe they thought a boy like me didn’t want a valentine. After all, even I didn’t seem to know just how much I wanted one!”
“That’s what I explained to them, Dad.
I hung up the phone, more proud of Becky than ever. Maybe that awful Valentine’s Day party was worth it if she could use it to teach so many children about kindness and keep other kids from feeling the way I did that day so many years ago.
On the fourteenth Becky called me when she got home from school. “The party was a great success,” she reported. “I got some good cards this year. And I even put a surprise in the mail for you.”
“For me?” I said. “Becky, you didn’t have to send me a valentine.”
“I didn’t,” she said. “When I told your story to the class, I wanted them to think about their classmates’ feelings. I won’t say any more right now, Dad. I don’t want to . Just keep an eye on your mailbox.”
A couple days later a tiny envelope arrived me. Inside was a funny little card, the kind kids give to each
other these days. Not the homemade kind we used to pass out.
This one was clearly store-bought. But the careful child’s own hand made the card unique. This card was meant for
one person and one person only, to make him feel special. “To
Mrs. Hallstorm’s Dad. Love, Olivia.”
Now this would be the Valentine’s Day I’d remember forever. Thanks, Olivia, for the best valentine ever.
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