一直以来，“感恩”在我心中是“感谢恩人”的概念。“恩人”者，乃于己有大恩大德者。而在美国的一次偶遇却让我悟出了感恩的另一层意味。那是在洛杉矶的一家旅馆。早晨，我在大堂的餐厅里就餐时’发现自己的右前方有三个黑人孩子，在餐桌上埋头写着什么。在就餐的时间、就餐的地方，这三个孩子却没做与吃饭有关的事。我难以按捺心中的好奇，试探着走了过去。在这些孩子的应允下，我坐在了他们旁边。看到我这样一个肤色不同的外国人到来，他们没有一丝扭捏，而是落落大方地和我谈了起来。这三个孩子中一个约摸十二三岁戴眼镜的男孩是老大，女孩八-九岁是老二，另外一个小男孩五六岁是老三。从谈话中我了解到他们和母亲是暂时住在这家酒店里的，因为他们正在搬家，新房还未安顿好。当问他们在做什么时，老大回答说正在写感谢信。他一副理所当然的神情让我满脸疑惑。这三个小孩一大早起来写感谢信?我愣了一阵后追问道：“写给谁的?”“给妈妈。”我心中的疑团一个未解一个又生。“为什么?”我又问道。“我们每天都写，这是我们每日必做的功课。”孩子回答道。哪有每天都写感谢信的?真是不可思议!我凑过去看了一眼他们每人手下的那沓纸。老大在纸上写了八-九行字，妹妹写了五六行，小弟弟只写了两三行。再细看其中的内容，却是诸如“路边的野花开得真漂亮”、“昨天吃的比萨饼很香”、“昨天妈妈给我讲了一个很有意思的故事”之类的简单语句。我心头一震。原来他们写给妈妈的感谢信不是专门感谢妈妈给他们帮了多大的忙，而是记录下他们幼小心灵中感觉很幸福的一点一滴。他们还不知道什么叫大恩大德，只知道对于每一件美好的事物都应心存感激。他们感谢母亲辛勤的工作，感谢同伴热心的.帮助，感谢兄弟姐妹之间的相互理解……他们对许多我们认为是理所当然的事都怀有一颗“感恩的心”。其实，“感恩”不一定要感谢大恩大德，“感恩”可以是一种生活态度，一种善于发现美并欣赏美的道德情操。人生在世，不如意事十有八-九。如果我们囿于这种“不如意”之中，终日惴惴不安，那生活就会索然无趣。相反，如果我们像这些孩子一样，拥有一颗“感恩”的心，善于发现事物的美好，感受平凡中的美丽，那我们就会以坦荡的心境、开阔的胸怀来应对生活中的酸甜苦辣，让原本平淡的生活焕发出迷人的光彩! 。
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非常经典有深度的电影英文台词
1.一个人总要走陌生的路，看陌生的风景，听陌生的歌，然后在某个不经意的瞬间，你会发现，原本是费尽心机想要忘记的事情真的就那么忘记了。
One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone.
2.幸福，不是长生不老，不是大鱼大肉，不是权倾朝野。幸福是每一个微小的生活愿望达成。当你想吃的时候有得吃，想被爱的时候有人来爱你。
Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in one's hand. It’s about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someone's love when you need love.
3.爱情是灯，友情是影子，当灯灭了，你会发现你的周围都是影子。朋友，是在最后可以给你力量的人。
Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow. When the lamp is off,you will find the shadow everywhere. Friend is who can give you strength at last.
4.我爱你不是因为你是谁，而是我在你面前可以是谁。
I love you not for who you are, but for who I am before you.
5.爱情，要么让人成熟，要么让人堕落。
Love makes man grow up or sink down.
6.举得起放得下的叫举重，举得起放不下的叫负重。可惜，大多数人的爱情，都是负重的。
If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
7.我们每个人都生活在各自的过去中，人们会用一分钟的时间去认识一个人，用一小时的时间去喜欢一个人，再用一天的时间去爱上一个人，到最后呢，却要用一辈子的时间去忘记一个人。
We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone.
8.一个人一生可以爱上很多的人，等你获得真正属于你的幸福之后，你就会明白一起的伤痛其实是一种财富，它让你学会更好地去把握和珍惜你爱的人。
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
9.年轻的时候会想要谈很多次恋爱，但是随着年龄的增长，终于领悟到爱一个人，就算用一辈子的时间，还是会嫌不够。慢慢地去了解这个人，体谅这个人，直到爱上为止，是需要有非常宽大的胸襟才行。
When you are young, you may want several love experiences. But as time goes on, you will realize that if you really love someone, the whole life will not be enough. You need time to know, to forgive and to love. All this needs a very big mind.
10.当明天变成了今天成为了昨天，最后成为记忆里不再重要的某一天，我们突然发现自己在不知不觉中已被时间推着向前走，这不是静止火车里，与相邻列车交错时，仿佛自己在前进的错觉，而是我们真实的在成长，在这件事里成了另一个自己。
When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we are pushed forward by time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forward when another train goes by. It is the truth that we've all grown up. And we become different.
11.离开我就别安慰我，要知道每一次缝补也会遭遇穿刺的痛。
If you leave me, please don't comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.
12.曾经拥有的，不要忘记。不能得到的，更要珍惜。属于自己的，不要放弃。已经失去的，留作回忆。
Don’t forget the things you once you owned. Treasure the things youcan’t get. Don't give up the things that belong to you and keep those lost things in memory.
13.我喜欢并习惯了对变化的东西保持着距离，这样才会知道什么是最不会被时间抛弃的准则。比如爱一个人，充满变数，我于是后退一步，静静的看着，直到看见真诚的感情。
I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. For example, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I step backward and watching it silently, then I see the true feelings.
14.男人的爱是俯视而生，而女人的爱是仰视而生。如果爱情像座山，那么男人越往上走可以俯视的女人就越多，而女人越往上走可以仰视的男人就越少。
Men love from overlooking while women love from looking up. If love is a mountain, then if men go up, more women they will see while women will see fewer men.
15.好的爱情是你通过一个人看到整个世界，坏的爱情是你为了一个人舍弃世界。
Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.
16.在自己面前，应该一直留有一个地方，独自留在那里。然后去爱。不知道是什么，不知道是谁，不知道如何去爱，也不知道可以爱多久。只是等待一次爱情，也许永远都没有人。可是，这种等待，就是爱情本身。
We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. And then begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to love or how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will come out, but this kind of waiting is the love itself.
17.有谁不曾为那暗恋而痛苦?我们总以为那份痴情很重，很重，是世上最重的重量。有一天，暮然回首，我们才发现，它一直都是很轻，很轻的。我们以为爱的很深，很深，来日岁月，会让你知道，它不过很浅，很浅。最深和最重的爱，必须和时日一起成长。
Is there anyone who hasn't suffered for the secret love? We always think that love is very heavy, heavy and could be the heaviest thing in the world. But one day, when you look back, you suddenly realize that it's always light, light. We all thought love was very deep, but in fact it's very thin. The deepest and heaviest love must grow up withthe time.
18.在这个世界上，只有真正快乐的男人，才能带给女人真正的快乐。
In this world, only those men who really feel happy can give women happiness
19.女人如果不性感，就要感性;如果没有感性，就要理性;如果没有理性，就要有自知之明;如果连这个都没有了，她只有不幸。
If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if she is not emotional, she needs reason; if she is not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly. coz only she has is misfortune.
20.一段不被接受的爱情，需要的不是伤心，而是时间，一段可以用来遗忘的时间。一颗被深深伤了的心，需要的不是同情，而是理解。
An unacceptable love needs no sorrow but time- sometime for forgetting.A badly-hurt heart needs no sympathy but understanding.
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