Passage 1
The First Snow
The first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! All white save the river, and the leafless trees that against the leaden sky now revealed fully the wonderful beauty. Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children.
翻译：初雪来了。多美丽的雪啊！整日整夜地静静地飘着，落在山上，落在草地上，落在人们的屋顶上，落在死者的坟墓上！在一片白茫茫之中，只有河流和那光秃秃的树木，映衬着铅灰色的天空，显得分外美丽。一切声音都变得低沉了，一切噪音都变成了柔和的音乐。唯有雪橇的铃铛，奏出和谐的乐声，那明快欢乐的节拍犹如孩子们心房的搏动。
Passage 2:
If I Were A Boy Again
If I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness.
Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. “There are only two creatures,” says a proverb, “who can surmount the pyramids---the eagle and the snail”.
If I were a boy again, I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once.
If I were a boy again, I would look on the cheerful side. Life is very much like a mirror: if you smile upon it. It smiles back upon you; but if you frown and look doubtful on it, you will get a similar look in return.
假如我又回到了童年，我要更有毅力，决不因为事情困难或麻烦而放弃。如果我们想要光明，我们必须征服黑暗。
毅力在效果上有时能和天才相比。“能登上金字塔顶端的生物，只有两种——鹰和蜗牛。”
假如我又回到了童年，做事的时候决不因任何东西分心。我要牢记:优秀的滑冰手从不试图同时滑向两个不同的方向。
假如我又回到了童年，我要事事乐观。生活就像一面镜子:你对着它微笑，它对你微笑;如果你双眉紧锁，向它投以怀疑的目光，它也会以同样的目光看你。
Passage 3
Choosing An Occupation
In my opinion a man’s first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, so as to relieve other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to do work of practical value in the world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself a very important education. The habit of doing that which you do not care about when you would rather do something else, is invaluable. It would have saved me a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth.
Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over, to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself.
选择一个职业
在我看来，一个人的首要责任是想办法养活自己，这样才能让别人不必养活自己。另外，学会用精确和谨慎的方式在世界上做有实际价值的工作，是一种非常重要的教育。宁愿做其他事情时，却做你不关心的事情的习惯是没有价值的。如果我在年轻的时候就明白这些道理的话，我就不会浪费那么多的时间了。
在任何科学事业上取得成功都需要非凡的能力，如果你拥有这些能力，你就会在日常商业工作结束后找到足够的空余时间，为自己在科学领域开辟一个新位置。
Education
Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready-made, washing can go to the laundry; food can be bought cooked, canned and preserved; bread is baked and delivered by the baker; milk arrives on the doorstep; meals can be had at the restaurant the worker’s canteen, and the school dinning-room.
It is unusual for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home, and his children rarely, if ever, see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to follow their father’s occupation, and in many towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner often earns good money, and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence.
现在的父母不必像过去那样为孩子们做太多的事情，家也不再是一个作坊了。衣服可以买现成的，洗完可以去洗衣店;可以买到煮熟的、罐装的和腌制的食物;面包是由面包师烘烤和运送的;牛奶送到门阶上;吃饭可以在餐厅、工人食堂和学校食堂。
父亲在家里从事他的职业或其他职业是不寻常的，他的孩子即使有机会，也很少能在他的工作场所见到他。因此，男孩很少被训练成跟随父亲的职业，在许多城镇，他们有相当广泛的就业选择，女孩也是如此。年轻的工薪阶层经常能挣到不少钱，很快就有了经济独立的感觉。
(第一次翻译这么长的，用了有道词典)
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