英语翻译5 My father died from “the poor man’s friend”,pneumonia,

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5 My father died from “the poor man’s friend”,pneumonia,one hard winter when his lung illnesses had left him low.I doubt he had much lung left at all,after coughing for so many years.He had so little breath that,during his last years,he was always leaning on something.I remembered once,at a family reunion,when my daughter was two,that my father picked her up for a minute ¾ long enough for me to photograph them ¾ but the effort was obvious.Near the very end of his life,and largely because he had no more lungs,he quit smoking.He gained a couple of pounds,but by then he was so slim no one noticed.
6 For her first twenty-four years,she’d been known as Debbie ¾ a name that didn’t suit her good looks and elegant manner.“My name has always made me think I should be a cook,” she complained.“I just don’t feel like a Debbie.”
One day,while filling out an application form for a publishing job,the young woman impulsively substituted her middle name,Lynne,for her first name Debbie.“That was the smartest thing I ever did,” she says now.“As soon as I stopped calling myself Debbie,I felt more comfortable with myself ...and other people started to take me more seriously.” Two years after her successful job interview,the former waiter is now a successful magazine editor.Friends and associates call her Lynne.
7 For many people,the root of their stress is anger,and the trick is to find out where the anger is coming from.“Does the anger come from a feeling that everything must be perfect?” Eliot asks.
“That’s very common in professional women.They feel they have to be all things to all people and do it all perfectly.They think,‘I should,I must,I have to.’ Good enough is never good enough.Perfectionists cannot delegate.They get angry that they have to carry it all,and they blow their tops.Then they feel guilty and they start the whole cycle over again.”
8 If we’re not able to educate people for life as well as for a career,then that is a conviction against our educational system — kindergarten,elementary,secondary and higher.In a time of increasing specialization,a time when 90 percent of all the scientists who have ever lived are currently alive,more than ever,we need to know what is truly important in life.
This is where age and maturity enter.Most people,somewhere between the ages of 30 and 50,finally arrive at the inevitable conclusion that they were meant to do more than serve a corporation,a government agency,or whatever.