Unit 3 Born to Win新編大學英語第二版第二冊課文翻譯.doc

Unit3BorntoWinBorn to WinYou cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself. Galileo 1 Each human being is born as something unique , something that never existed before. Each person is born with what he needs to win at life. A normal person can see, hear, touch, taste, and think for himself. Each has his own unique potentials his capabilities and limitations. Each can be an important, thinking, aware, and creatively productive person in his own right a winner. 2 The words “winner” and “l(fā)oser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who defeats the other person by dominating and making him lose. Instead a winner is one who responds genuinely by being trustworthy and responsive , both as an individual and as a member of a society. A loser is one who fails to respond genuinely. 3 Few people are winners or losers all the time. Its a matter of degree . However, once a person has the capacity to be a winner, his chances are greater for becoming even more so 4 Achievement is not the most important thing for winners; genuineness is. The genuine person realizes his own uniqueness and appreciates the uniqueness of others. 5 A winner is not afraid to do his own thinking and to use his own knowledge. He can separate facts from opinion and doesnt pretend to have all the answers. He listens to others, evaluates what they say, but comes to his own conclusions. 6 A winner is flexible . He does not have to respond in known, rigid ways. He can change his plans when the situation calls for it. A winner has a love for life. He enjoys work, play, food, other people, and the world of nature. Without guilt he enjoys his own accomplishments. Without envy he enjoys the accomplishments of others. 7 A winner cares about the world and its people. He is not separated from the general problems of society. He tries to improve the quality of life. Even in the face of national and international difficulty, he does not see himself as helpless . He does what he can to make the world a better place. 8 Although people are born to win, they are also born totally dependent on their environment. Winners successfully make the change from dependence to independence . Losers do not. Somewhere along the line losers begin to avoid becoming independent . This usually begins in childhood. Poor nutrition , cruelty , unhappy relationships, disease, continuing disappointments, and inadequate physical care are among the many experiences that contribute to making people losers. 9 A loser is held back by his low capacity to appropriately express himself through a full range of possible behavior. He may be unaware of other choices for his life if the path he chooses goes nowhere. He is afraid to try new things. He repeats not only his own mistakes and often repeats those of his family and culture. 10 A loser has difficulty giving and receiving love. He does not enter into close, honest, direct relationships with others. Instead, he tries to manipulate them into living up to his expectations and channels his energies into living up to their expectations. 生而成功任何事都不可能由別人來教你，只能在別人的幫助下靠自己去發(fā)現(xiàn)。-伽利略1 每個人生來都是獨特的，與眾不同的。每個人天生具有要在生活中贏得成功的能力。每個正常人都能夠聽、讀、觸摸、品嘗，并且思考自己的事情。每個人都要自己特有的潛在性能力和局限性。每個人都能憑自己的本事成為舉足輕重、會思考、明事理、創(chuàng)造性成果頗多的人一個成功的人。2 “成功者”和“失敗者”這兩個詞有多種意思。當我們把一個人稱作成功者時，我們所指的并不是那種通過優(yōu)勢控制他人、令其失敗而獲得成功的人。而是一個作出真誠回應的人，無論是作為個體或是社會的成員他都值得信賴、行動迅速。失敗者是一個未能作出真誠回應的人。3 很少有人是絕對的成功者或失敗者。這（失敗）只是一個程度問題。然而，當一個人具備了成為成功者的能力時，（他）經(jīng)常獲得成功的可能性就會更大。4 對成功者來說成就不是最重要的；最重要的是真誠。真誠的人知道自己的獨特之處，也贊賞他人的這一特點。5 成功者是不怕獨立思考并運用自己的知識的。他能把客觀事實與主觀意見區(qū)分開來，而且不會裝作能解決一切問題。他傾訴他人、評價他們說的話，卻能得出自己的結論。6 成功者能靈活變通。他遇事不會采用已有的、刻板的方式行事。他能根據(jù)形勢的需要改變自己的計劃。成功者熱愛生活。他樂于工作、喜愛游玩、享受美食、欣賞他人和自然帶來的樂趣。他心安理得地從自己的成就中享受樂趣。（他）也毫無妒忌地欣賞他人的成績。7 成功者關心天下、關愛世人。他關注社會上普遍存在的問題。他努力提高生活質量。即使面對國內和國際上的難題，他也不會認為自己是無能為力的。他盡己所能，使世界變得更美好。8 即使人們生來注定會成功，但也是生來就要完全依賴于周圍環(huán)境的。成功者順利地完成從依賴到獨立的轉變。失敗者則沒有做到這一點。在這一過程中的某個時候失敗者開始回避獨立。這種情況通常始于童年時期。營養(yǎng)不良、非人道待遇、不愉快的人際關系、疾病、長期的失望，以及身體護理不足等經(jīng)歷都會促使人們成為失敗者。9 失敗者不善于通過一系列可能采取的作為來恰當?shù)卣宫F(xiàn)自己，這阻礙了他獲取成功。如果他所選擇的生活道路毫無前途的話，他可能不知道對自己的生活還可以有其他選擇。他不敢嘗試新食物。他不僅重復自身的錯誤而且常常重復自己家庭和文化群體的錯誤。10 一個失敗者很難去愛別人，也很難得到別人的愛。他不知道和家人建立親密、真誠、直接的關系。相反，他試圖使別人按照他的期望生活，也努力使自己按他人的期望生活。Better Late than Never1 He was lying there in the grass, hiding and thinking. 2 He had studied the little girls habits. He knew she would come outside her grandfathers house mid-afternoon to play. 3 He hated himself for this. 4 In his whole miserable life hed never considered anything so callous as kidnapping. 5 Yet here he was, lying in the grass, hidden by trees from the house, waiting for an innocent , red-haired, two-year-old girl to come within reach. 6 It was a long wait; there was time to think. 7 Maybe all his life Harlan had been in too much of a hurry . 8 He was five when his Hoosier farmer father had died. 9 At fourteen he dropped out of Greenwood School and hit the road . 10 He tried odd jobs as a farmhand, hated it. 11 Tried being a bus conductor and hated that. 12 At sixteen he lied about his age and joined the Armyand hated that, too. When his one-year enlistment was up he headed for Alabama N, tried blacksmithing and failed. 13 He became a railroad locomotive fireman with the Southern Railroad. He liked that. Figured maybe he had found himself. 14 At eighteen he got married, and within months, wouldnt you know she announced she was pregnant the day he announced hed been fired again? 15 Then, one day, while he was out job hunting , his young wife gave away all their possessions and went home to her parents. 16 Then came the depression . 17 Harlan couldnt win for losing, as they said. 18 He really tried. 19 Once, while working at a succession of railroad jobs, he tried studying law by correspondence . 20 But he dropped out of that, too. 21 He tried selling insurance , selling tires. 22 He tried running a ferryboat , running a filling station. No use. 23 Face itHarlan was a loser. 24 And now here he was hiding in the weeds outside Roanoke , Virginia , planning a kidnapping . 25 As I say, hed watched the little girls habits, and knew about her afternoon playtime . 26 But, this one day, she did not come out to play, so his chain of failures remained unbroken . 27 Late in life he became chief cook and bottle washer at a restaurant in Corbin. And did all right until the new highway bypassed the restaurant. 28 And then his expected life span ran out . 29 He was not the first man nor would he be the last to arrive at the twilight of life with nothing to show for it.30 The bluebird of happiness, or whatever, had always flown just out of reach. 31 Hed stayed honestexcept for that one time when he had attempted kidnapping. In fairness to his name it must be noted that it was his own daughter hed meant to kidnap from his runaway wife. 32 And they both returned to him, the next day, anyway. 33 But now the years had passed by and a lifetime was gone and he and they had nothing. 34 He had not really felt old until that day the postman brought his first Social Security check. That day, something within Harlan resented , resisted , and exploded. 35 The Government was feeling sorry for him. 36 It was time to give up and retire . 37 His restaurant customers in Corbin said theyd miss him, but his Government said sixty-five candles on the birthday cake is enough. They sent him a pension check and told him he was “old”. 38 He said, “Nuts.” 39 And he got so angry he took that $105 check and started a new business. 40 Today that business is still prospering . For over twenty years until his death he carried on with remarkable success. 41 For the man who failed at everything but one thing. the man who might have been a law-breaking kidnapper had he not also failed at that . the man who never got started until it was time to stop. was Harlan Sanders. 42 The new business he started with his first Social Security check was Kentucky Fried Chicken. Now you know the rest of the story.遲做總比不做好1 他躺在草叢中，躲在那兒，同時思索著。2 他研究了這個小女孩的習慣。他知道下午3點左右她會從祖父的房子里出來玩。3 他為此痛恨自己。4 在他整個的悲傷生活中，他還出來沒有考慮過任何像綁架這樣冷漠無情的事情。5 然而此時此刻他卻躺在草叢里，被樹木遮掩著，房子里的人看不見他。他正等待著一個天真無邪、長著紅頭發(fā)、兩歲大小的小女孩走過來靠近他。6 這是一次長久的等待；有時間進行思考。7 可能在哈倫的一生中，一切都操之過急了。8 5歲的時候，他那當農民的山地人父親就去世了。9 14歲的時候，他就從格林伍德中學輟學，開始到處流浪。10 他做過農場的臨時工，但他不喜歡那工作。11 他嘗試做過公共汽車的售票員，也不喜歡那工作。12 在16歲的時候，他謊報年齡參了軍-可他也不喜歡當兵。在一年的服役期滿后，他前往阿拉巴馬州，在那兒試著做鐵匠，但沒有成功。13 （后來）他成了南方鐵路公司的鐵路機車司爐工。他喜歡那工作。以為自己找到了真正的自我。14 在18歲的時候，他結了婚。你任何想得到，沒幾個月，就在他說自己又被解雇了的那一天，他妻子說她懷孕了。15 接著，有一天，當他外出找工作的時候，他年輕的妻子散盡他們家所有的家產(chǎn)回娘家去了。16 接下來就是經(jīng)濟蕭條時期。17 正如人們所說的那樣，哈倫失去的太多，贏不回來了。18 他確實嘗試過。19 一度，當他在鐵路上不斷地打各種零工的時候，他嘗試過通過函授學習法律。20 但他也半途而廢了。21 他嘗試過賣保險，賣輪胎。22 他嘗試過開渡輪，經(jīng)營加油站。但都沒有用。23 面對現(xiàn)實吧-哈倫是一個失敗者。24 他現(xiàn)在正躲藏在弗吉尼亞州勞諾克郊外的雜草叢里，籌劃一次綁架。25 就如我所說的，他已經(jīng)觀察過這個小女孩的習慣，知道她下午的玩耍時間。26 但是，這一天，小女孩卻沒有出來玩，所以他那失敗之鏈依舊（環(huán)環(huán)相扣）沒有中斷。27 在他后來的生活中，他成了科爾賓一家餐館的主廚和刷瓶工。一切都挺好，知道有一天新的公路繞餐館而過。28 這個時候他已經(jīng)步入晚年。29 當走到人生的暮年時還沒有任何可以稱道的事情，他不是第一個，也不是最后一個。30 預報幸福的藍色知更鳥，或者其他什么，總是與他擦肩而過。31 他一直是誠實的-除了那次他曾試圖綁架外。為了對他公平起見，有一點必須指出，他是想從那離家出走的妻子那兒綁架走自己的親生女兒。32 不管怎么說，就在第二天，她們又都重新回到了他的身邊。33 但是現(xiàn)在許多年已經(jīng)過去了，一輩子就要走完，但他和家人還一無所有。34 他從未感覺到自己老了，直到有一天，郵遞員帶來了他的第一份社會經(jīng)濟金支票。那一天，哈倫感覺到自己內心在憤恨、抵觸、勃然大怒。35 政府在可憐他！36 是放棄和退休的時候了！37 科爾賓那家餐館的顧客們說他們會想念他的，但是他的政府卻說生日蛋糕上有65支蠟燭已經(jīng)夠多了。他們寄來了退休金的支票，并且說他已經(jīng)“老了”。38 他說：“呸！混蛋！”39 他感到十分憤怒，于是他用這105美元的退休金開始了一番新的生意。40 今天，這份生意仍然興隆。在他死前的20多年時間里，他一直經(jīng)營得十分成功。41 這個事事皆敗僅一事成功的人-這個要不是因為失敗就成為一個觸犯法律的綁架者-這個直到該停止的時候才開始的人-就是哈倫.桑德斯。42 這份用他第一筆社會經(jīng)濟金啟動的生意-就是肯德基炸雞。接下來的故事你都知道了。The Pursuit of ExcellenceOn the road to excellence, nothing can hold back a creative spirit. 1 When Britains late, great Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, was a young teenager, he attended a public school called Harrow. Young Winston was not a good student; as a matter of fact, he was quite a bad boy. Had he not been the son of the famous Lord Randolph Churchill, he probably would have been expelled from the school. However, he completed his work at Harrow, went on to the university, and then embarked on a great career in the British military , serving in both Africa and India. 2 At age sixty-seven, he was elected Prime Minister of the British Empire. It was he who brought great courage to the nation through his speeches and leadership during the dark days Britain faced in World War II. 3 Toward the very end of his leadership as Prime Minister, the old statesman was invited to address the young boys at his former school, Harrow. In announcing the coming of their great leader, the headmaster said, “Young gentlemen, the greatest speaker of our timeperhaps of all timeour Prime Minister, will be here in a few days to address you, and it will benefit you to listen carefully to whatever advice he may bring you at that time.” 4 The great day arrived, and the Prime Minister appeared at Harrow. Following a glowing and lengthy introduction by the headmaster, Sir Winston stood upall five feet, five inches and 235 pounds of him! After he had acknowledged the introduction, he gave this brief but moving speech: “Young men, never give up . Never give up! Never give up! Never, never, never, never!” 5 Background, education, circumstances . none of these can hold back a creative spirit. 6 Think, for example, of Abraham Lincoln, who was elected president of the United States in 1860. He grew up on an isolated farm and had only one year of formal education. In those early years, he was exposed to barely half a dozen books. In 1832 he lost his job and was defeated in the race for the Illinois legislature . In 1833 he failed in business. In 1834 he was elected to the state legislature, but in 1835 he was defeated for Speaker of the House, and in 1843 he was defeated for nomination for Congress. In 1846 he was elected to Congress but in 1848 lost the renomination . In 1849 he was rejected for a federal land officer appointment, and in 1854 he was defeated