里昂夜讀英語美文[103]:創(chuàng)造機(jī)會(huì)
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
意志脆弱優(yōu)柔寡斷的人，總是以缺乏機(jī)會(huì)作為借口。
Opportunities!
機(jī)會(huì)！
Every life is full of them.
在每個(gè)人的生活當(dāng)中，無處不在。
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity.
學(xué)校里的每一節(jié)課都是一次機(jī)會(huì)。
Every examination is a chance in life.
每一場考試都是人生的契機(jī)。
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.
每一次商務(wù)往來都是一次機(jī)會(huì)：一次禮貌待人的機(jī)會(huì)，一次果敢行事的機(jī)會(huì)，一次誠實(shí)守信的機(jī)會(huì)，一次廣交朋友的機(jī)會(huì)。
Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.
每一份對你的信任，對你都是一次莫大的機(jī)會(huì)。
Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless.
基于你的才干和聲望而寄予你的每一份責(zé)任，都是無價(jià)的。
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.
生存是奮斗賦予的特權(quán)，而當(dāng)你如男子漢一般邂逅那份殊榮時(shí)，一個(gè)個(gè)發(fā)揮你聰明才智、助你獲取成功的機(jī)會(huì)便會(huì)接踵而至，令你應(yīng)接不暇。
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle?
年輕人啊，為何你們整日裹足不前而虛擲光陰？
Was the land all occupied before you were born?
難道在你們出生之前，每一寸土地都已被他人所占據(jù)？
Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?
難道地球已不再繁衍生息？
Are the seats all taken?
難道所有的席位都已另有歸屬？
The positions all filled?
所有的職位都已人滿為患？
The chances all gone?
所有的機(jī)會(huì)都一去不返？
Are the resources of your country fully developed?
難道你國內(nèi)的資源都已開發(fā)殆盡？
Are the secrets of nature all mastered?
難道大自然的奧秘都已了如指掌？
Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?
難道你無法抓住這些轉(zhuǎn)瞬即逝的時(shí)機(jī)來改善自我或者造福他人？
Don't wait for your opportunity.
切莫株守機(jī)會(huì)。
Make it, make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.
去創(chuàng)造它，正如拿破侖在無數(shù)次"絕"境中創(chuàng)造自己逢生的機(jī)會(huì)一樣。
Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace have, made their chances of success.
去創(chuàng)造它，正如戰(zhàn)爭或者和平年代的領(lǐng)袖們創(chuàng)造他們?nèi)〉脛倮臋C(jī)會(huì)那樣。
Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort.
去創(chuàng)造它，人人必須如此，任何人都能獲得應(yīng)有的回報(bào)。
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
對于懶惰來講，天賜良機(jī)也會(huì)化為烏有；對于勤奮而言，即使是微不足道的機(jī)會(huì)，也會(huì)變得金光閃閃!
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