The tides advance, the tides recede. Winter goes and summer comes. Summer wanes and the cold increases. The sun rises, the sun sets. The moon is full, the moon is black. The birds arrive, the birds depart. Flowers bloom, flowers fade. Seeds are sown, harvests are reaped. All nature is a circle of moods and I am a part of nature and so, like the tides, my moods will rise, my moods will fall.
It is one of nature's tricks, little understood, that each day I awaken with moods that have changed from yesterday. Yesterday's joy wilI become today's sadness, yet today's sadness will grow into tomorrow's joy. Inside me is a wheel, constantly turning from sadness to joy, from exultation（狂喜） to depression, from happiness to melancholy（忧郁）. Like the flowers, today's full bloom of joy will fade and wither into despondency（泄气）, yet I will remember that as today's dead flower carries the seed of tomorrow's bloom so, too, does today's sadness carry the seed of tomorrow's joy.
But I make my own weather, yea I transport it with me. If I bring rain and gloom and darkness and pessimism（悲观） to my customers then they will react with rain and gloom and darkness and pessimism and they will purchase naught（零，无价值）. If I bring joy and enthusiasm and brightness and laughter to my customers they will react with joy and enthusiasm and brightness and laughter and my weather will produce a harvest of sales and a granary（谷仓） of gold for me.
相关单词：recede
recede解释：vi.退(去)，渐渐远去；向后倾斜，缩进
recede例句：
The colleges would recede in
He saw that the dirty water had begun to recede.他发现那污浊的水开始往下退了。
相关单词：wanes
wanes解释：v.衰落( wane的第三人称单数 )；（月）亏；变小；变暗淡
wanes例句：
The moon waxes till it becomes full, and then wanes. 月亮渐盈，直到正圆，然后消亏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
The moon waxes and wanes every month. 月亮每个月都有圆缺。 来自《简明英汉词典》
相关单词：awaken
awaken解释：vi.醒，觉醒；vt.唤醒，使觉醒，唤起，激起
awaken例句：
Old people awaken early in the morning.老年人早晨醒得早。
Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。
相关单词：exultation
exultation解释：n.狂喜，得意
exultation例句：
It made him catch his breath, it lit his face with exultation. 听了这个名字，他屏住呼吸，乐得脸上放光。
He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name. 他一点都激动不起来。
相关单词：melancholy
melancholy解释：n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的
melancholy例句：
All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。
相关单词：wither
wither解释：vt.使凋谢，使衰退，(用眼神气势等)使畏缩；vi.枯萎，衰退，消亡
wither例句：
She grows as a flower does-she will wither without sun.她象鲜花一样成长--没有太阳就会凋谢。
In autumn the leaves wither and fall off the trees.秋天，树叶枯萎并从树上落下来。
相关单词：pessimism
pessimism解释：n.悲观者，悲观主义者，厌世者
pessimism例句：
He displayed his usual pessimism.他流露出惯有的悲观。
There is the note of pessimism in his writings.他的著作带有悲观色彩。
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