遇見心想事成的自己

第15章 人在旅途中 (5)

字體:16+-

We undertook a trip to the west.

我們到西部作了一次旅行。

你需要進行鍛煉來保持身體健康。

要學會生活在現在,學會克服過去。

學著去超越過去,在現在生活。

In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.

in a nutshell:極其簡括地(簡單地說)

Each time you get to the end of the sentence, you start a new one, and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it.

be related to:與……有關

人與機會

The Man and the Opportunity

奧裏森·馬登 / Orison Marden

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.

Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity. Every examination is a chance in life. Every business transaction is an opportunity—an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends. Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.

Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless. Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle? Was the land all occupied before you were born? Has the earth ceased to yield its increase? Are the seats all taken? The positions all filled? The chances all gone? Are the resources of your country fully developed? Are the secrets of nature all mastered? Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?

Don't wait for your opportunity. Make it, make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations. Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace, have made their chances of success. Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort, Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.