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As a product of Chu Dongwei's translation workshop in which he
translated the quite inspiring booklet by Orison Swett Marden to
share with his students of translation, this bilingual book can be
used for multiple purposes: as inspirational reading for English
speakers who are learning Chinese or the other way round,
translation practice material for learners of translation between
English and Chinese, or simply as reading for the general bilingual
reader. The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this
hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this booklet.
Is it not an absolute necessity to get rid of all irritants, of
everything which worries and frets, and which brings discord into
so many lives? Cheerfulness has a wonderful lubricating power. It
lengthens the life of human machinery, as lubricants lengthen the
life of inert machinery. Life's delicate bearings should not be
carelessly ground away for mere lack of oil. What is needed is a
habit of cheerfulness, to enjoy every day as we go along; not to
fret and stew all the week, and then expect to make up for it
Sunday or on some holiday. It is not a question of mirth so much as
of cheerfulness; not alone that which accompanies laughter, but
serenity, -a calm, sweet soul-contentment and inward peace. Are
there not multitudes of people who have the "blues," who yet wish
well to their neighbors? They would say kind words and make the
world happier-but they "haven't the time." To lead them to look on
the sunny side of things, and to take a little time every day to
speak pleasant words, is the message of the hour. Dr. Chu Dongwei
is associate professor of the School of Interpreting and
Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is
also the Chinese translator of Will Durant's On the Meaning of Life
(Jiangxin People's Press, 2009).
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