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赞美是一种美德励志故事
在19世纪的初期，伦敦有位年轻人想当一名作家。他好像做什么事都不顺利。他几乎有四年的时间没有上学。他的父亲锒铛入狱，只因：无法偿还债务。而这位年轻人也时常受饥饿之苦。最后，他找到一个工作，在一个老鼠横行的货仓里贴鞋油的标签，晚上在一间阴森静谧的房子里和另外两个男孩一起睡，这两个人是从伦敦的贫民窟来的。他对他的作品毫无信心，所以他趁深夜溜出去，把他的一篇篇稿子寄了出去，免得遭人笑话。最初一篇接一篇的’稿件都被退了回来，最后他的一篇文章终于被人接受了，虽然他一先令都没拿到，但夸奖了他。
有一位承认了他的价值。他心情异常激动，漫无目的地在街上乱逛，眼泪流过他的双颊。假如不是这些夸奖，他可能一辈子都在老鼠横行的货仓做工。你也许听说过他，他的名字叫查尔斯·狄更斯。
赞美就像浇在玫瑰上的水。赞美别人并不费力，只要几秒钟，使能满足人们内心的强烈需求。看看我们所遇到的每个人，寻觅他们值得赞美的地方，然后加以赞美，并把赞美他人变成一种习惯吧！
412、英语小故事（中英对照）“查尔斯·狄更斯”
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth.
查尔斯·狄更斯于1812年2月7日出生在朴茨茅斯。
Finances were a constant concern for his family. The expenses of having a large family were too much for his father’s salary.
经济问题一直是他家的隐忧，他父亲的工资支撑不了一大家子的开销。
Charles’ education was unplanned, but he supplemented（弥补） it with constant reading, particularly of the eighteenth-century novels in his father’s small library.
查尔斯上学是有一天没一天的，但他一直以读书来弥补，经常在他父亲的小图书馆里阅读十八世纪的小说。
He was poorly clothed, ill-fed, forced to live in the cheapest place.
他衣衫褴褛，食不果腹，被迫住在最简陋的房子里。
At age 12, Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a factory to help support the family.
查尔斯十二岁时辍了学，去一家工厂打工，帮助维持家庭的生计。
Charles was deeply marked by these experiences.
查尔斯深受这些经历的影响。
This childhood poverty, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens’ later views on social reform（改革） and the world he would create through his fiction.
这种童年的贫困，虽然在他死后才为读者所知，但却对狄更斯后来的社会改革观点和他通过小说创造的世界产生了重大影响。
He knew those kinds of feelings. He was lost at that time when he worked hopelessly in the factory. That period was so bitter to the sensitive boy.
他深知那些糟糕的感受。在工厂打工的日子里，看不到前途希望，这个时期他迷茫过。当时这个敏感的孩子太痛苦了。
Luckily the situation improved within a year. Charles was released from his duties at the factory.
幸运的是，情况在一年之内有了好转，查尔斯解除了在工厂的工作。
He worked for a time as a junior clerk（初级文员） in a lawyer’s office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later in parliament（议会）, for London newspapers.
他曾在律师事务所当过一段时间的初级职员。之后，他在法院当记者，后来又在议会做伦敦报社的记者。
His career as a writer of fiction began in 1833 with short stories and essays in periodicals, and in 1837 his comic（喜剧） novel The Pickwick Papers made him the most popular author at his time in England.
他于1833年开始写小说，在期刊上发表短篇小说和散文。1837年，他发表了喜剧小说《匹克威克报》，这使他成为当时英国最受欢迎的作家。
He was an acute（敏锐的） observer of people and their places because he was attracted by life and conditions in the mid-nineteenth century London.
因为他对十九世纪中期伦敦的生活环境很感兴趣，他能敏锐地观察到人和事。
He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a realistic picture of all classes of England society, showing deep sympathy for the poor and unfortunate, exposing the injustice and inhumanity of the bourgeoisie（资产阶级）.
狄更斯一生写了十九部小说。他的许多小说都生动地刻画了英国社会的各个阶层，表达了对穷人和不幸者的深切同情，揭露了资产阶级的不公正和不人道。
Many of his novels, like Olive Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, drew attention to the unsatisfactory social conditions that existed in England over 100 years ago.
他的许多小说，比如《雾都孤儿》、《大卫·科波菲尔》、《尼古拉斯·尼克贝》、《远大前程》、《双城记》都揭露了一百多年前发生在英国社会的不平等现象。
Dickens criticized capitalist（资本主义） society and he wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor. However, he
