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AmbitionPerri KlassLead in 1 In college, my friend Beth was very ambitious, not only for herself but for her friends. She was interested in foreign relations, in travel, in going to law school. “I plan to be Secretary of State someday,” she would say matter-of-factly. One mutual friend was studying literature, planning to go to graduate school; he would be the Chairman of the Yale English department. Another friend was interested in political journalism and would someday editTimemagazine. I was a biology major. And I was interested in writing fiction. we were all smart-ass (自作聰明的滑頭) college freshmen, pretending the world was ours. We were smart college freshmen, and why should we limit our ambitions?在大學, 我的朋友貝絲是非常有野心的, 不僅為自己, 也為她的朋友。她對外交關系、旅行、去法學院感興趣。我計劃有朝一日成為國務卿, 她說得很實事求是。我們一個共同的朋友在學習文學, 計劃去研究生院;他將成為耶魯大學英語系的系主任。另一位朋友對政治新聞感興趣, 有朝一日會編輯時代雜志。我是主修生物學的我對寫小說感興趣。我們都是自作聰明的滑頭大學新生, 假裝世界是我們的。我們是聰明的大學新生, 我們?yōu)槭裁匆拗莆覀兊囊靶模?3 Ive always liked ambitious people, and many of my closest friends have had grandiose (宏大的) dreams. I like such people, not because I am desperate to be buddies with a future Secretary of State but because I find ambitious people entertaining, interesting to talk to, fun to watch. And, of course, I like such people because I am ambitious myself, and I would rather not feel apologetic about it.我一直喜歡雄心勃勃的人, 我的許多最親密的朋友都有宏大的。我喜歡這樣的人, 不是因為我渴望和未來的國務卿做朋友, 而是因為我發(fā)現(xiàn)和有野心的人談話很愉快很有趣, , 只是看著也很有樂趣。當然, 我喜歡這樣的人, 因為我也是個有野心的人, 我不想對此感到愧疚。4 Ambition has gotten bad press. Back in the seventeenth century, Spinoza thought ambition and lust were “nothing but species of madness, although they are not enumeratedamong diseases.” Especially in women, ambition has often been seen as a profoundly dislikable quality; the word “ambitious” linked to a “career woman” suggested that she was ruthless, hard as nails, clawing her way to success on top of the bleeding bodies of her friends.野心已經(jīng)有了負面報道。早在第十七世紀, 斯賓諾莎認為野心和欲望 只是一種瘋狂的物種, 雖然它們沒有在疾病中被列舉出來。特別是在女性中, 野心往往被視為一種十分不討人喜歡的品質(zhì); 野心 一詞與 職業(yè)女性 聯(lián)系在一起, 表明她是無情的, 像釘子一樣堅硬, 她是在朋友們的流血的身體之上謀取成功的。5 Then, in the late seventies and the eighties, ambition became desirable, as books with titles likeHow to Stomp Your Way to Successbecame bestsellers. It was still a nasty sort of attribute, but nasty attributes were good because they helped you look out for number one.然后, 在七十年代末和八十年代, 隨著帶著“如何踏著沉重的步子走向成功”標題的書籍成為暢銷書，野心變得可取了。但它仍然是一個惡劣的屬性, 但惡劣的屬性是好的, 因為它們幫助你多替自己著想。6 But what I mean by ambition is dreaming big dreams, putting no limits on your expectations and your hopes. I dont really like very specific, attainableambitions, the kind you learn to set in the career-strategy course taught by the author ofHow to Stomp Your Way to Success. I like big ambitions that suggest that the world could open up at any time, with work and luck and determination. The next book could hit it big. The next research project could lead to something fantastic. The next bright idea could change history.但我所指的野心是有遠大的夢想, 不去限制你的期望和希望。我真的不喜歡非常具體的, 可實現(xiàn)的 (可實現(xiàn)的) 的野心，就是你在職業(yè)戰(zhàn)略課程中學到的，由“如何踏著沉重的步子走向成功” 的作者所教那種野心。我喜歡大的野心, 這意味著，世界可以在任何時候開放, 工作, 運氣和決心。下一本書會取得巨大成就。下一個研究項目可能會帶來意想不到的東西。下一個靈光一現(xiàn)的想法可能會改變歷史。7 Of course, eventually you have to stop being a freshman in college. You limit your ambitions and become more realistic, wiser about your potential, your abilities, and the number of things your life can hold. Sometimes you get close to something you wanted to do, only to find it looks better from far away. Back when I was a freshman, to tell the truth, I wanted to be Jane Goodall（珍妮古道爾）, go into the jungle to study monkeys and learn things no one had ever dreamed of. This ambition was based on an interest in biology and severalNational Geographictelevision specials; it turned out that wasnt enough of a basis for a life. There were a number of other early ambitions that didnt *pan out（成功）either. I was not fated（命中注定的）to live a wild, adventurous life, to travel alone to all the most exotic（異國的）parts of the world, to leave behind a string of broken hearts. Oh well, you have to grow up, at least a little.當然, 最終你必須停止成為大學新生。你限制了你的野心, 變得更現(xiàn)實, 更明智, 你的潛能, 你的能力, 和你的生活能容納多少東西。有時你會接近你想做的事情, 但卻發(fā)現(xiàn)從遠處看它看起來更好。當我還是大一的時候, 說實話, 我想成為簡古德 (珍妮古道爾), 去叢林里學習猴子, 學習沒有人夢想過的東西。這一雄心的基礎是對生物學的興趣和幾個國家地理電視特輯;結果是生活的基礎不夠。還有許多其他早期的野心也沒有成功。我不是命中注定 (命中注定的) 過著狂野、冒險的生活, 獨自前往世界上最奇異的 (異國的) 的地方, 留下一串顆破碎的心。哦, 你必須長大, 至少有一點。 11 The world is full of disappointed people. Some of them probably never had much ambition to start with; they sat back and waited for something good and feel cheated because it never happened. Some of them had very set, specific ambitions and, for one reason or another, never got what they wanted. Others got what they wanted but found it wasnt exactly what theyd expected it to be.這個世界充滿了失望的人們。他們中的一些人可能從開始就沒有什么野心;他們不采取行動, 坐等好事出現(xiàn), 然后感覺被欺騙了, 因為它從未發(fā)生過。他們中的一些人有固定的特別的的野心, 然而因為某種原因, 他們從來沒有得到他們想要的東西。其他人得到了他們想要的, 但發(fā)現(xiàn)它并不完全是他們所期望的那樣。 12 The world is also full of people so ambitious, so consumed by drive and overdrive that nothing they pass on the way to success has any value at all. Life becomes one long exercise in delayed gratification（滿意）; everything you do, youre doing only because it will one day get you where you want to be.世界上也充滿了如此雄心勃勃，被欲望驅(qū)動和超負荷消費的人，他們在成功路上經(jīng)歷的所有事情一點價值都沒有。生活成為了一個長期的關于延遲滿足的訓練;你所做的一切, 只是因為有一天它會帶你去到你想去的地方。 Medical training is an excellent example of delayed gratification. You spend years in medical school doing things with no obvious relationship to your future as a doctor, and then you spend years in residency, living life on a miserable schedule, staying up all night and slogging 苦干 through the day, telling yourself that one day all this will be over. Its what you have to do to become a doctor, but its a lousy 非常痛苦的或不愉快的 model for life in general. Theres nothing wrong with a little delayed gratification every now and then, but a job you do only because of where it will get youand not because you like itmeans a life of muttering to yourself, “Someday this will be over.” This is bad for the disposition.醫(yī)學訓練是一個很好的延遲滿足的例子。你花了數(shù)年的時間在醫(yī)學院做和你的未來作為一個醫(yī)生沒有明顯的關系的事兒, , 然后你花了數(shù)年實習, 按照一個悲慘的時間表生活, 晚上熬夜和白天苦干, 告訴自己, 總有一天所有這一切都會結束。要成為一名醫(yī)生，這是你必須做的。 但對于一般生活，它是一個非常痛苦的生活模式。時不時地有一點延遲滿足是沒有什么錯的, 但是你做的工作僅僅是因為它能讓你得到什么 -而不是因為你喜歡它-意味著你過著一種生活，你對自己喃喃自語的, 總有一天這會結束的。”這樣做是對性情不好的。 15 Of course, I try to be mature about it all. I dont assign my friends Nobel Prizes or top government posts. I dont pretend that there is room in my life for any and every kind of ambi