英語美文朗讀 第539期 This is courage

Knowledge. Strength. Wealth. Status. Excellence. Many different words, many different meanings, but they do share one important thing, and that is that they are all OUTCOMES.

 

知識(shí)，力量，財(cái)富，地位，卓越。它們是互不相同的詞語，各自有不同的意義。但是，它們有一個(gè)很重要的共同點(diǎn)，那就是，它們都是結(jié)果。

 

They are not obtainable by themselves, just like an effect can't take shape without the cause that contributed to its materialization. They need something else. A seed, a root, a foundation.

它們自己本身都是難以獲取的，這就好比說，沒有起因，就不會(huì)產(chǎn)生結(jié)果。它們的出現(xiàn)，需要有別的事物才行，比如一粒種子，一條根，一個(gè)基礎(chǔ)。

 

If excellence were the tallest building in your city, and you ripped it apart piece by piece, until only the core existed, only that foundation. What you would see, is COURAGE. Because courage is the thing that gives you a platform to build on.

如果，卓越，是你們城市里最高的建筑，你一層層把它剝開，直到你看到它的核心，它的基礎(chǔ)。你將會(huì)看到的，就是，勇氣。因?yàn)?，勇氣，是你做任何事的基礎(chǔ)。

 

Every starting block is comprised of unknowns. Every endeavor, every journey, every time you start something new, you are by definition a rookie. You're at the bottom of some pecking order.

最開始時(shí)，一切，都是未知數(shù)。每次努力，每場(chǎng)旅途，每次你嘗試新事物的時(shí)候，你都是個(gè)新手，你就在食物鏈的最底端。

 

And I want you to never be fearful of these situations, but to be THANKFUL for them. They're the roots that allow the tree to grow, and the only thing required for you to move forward is having the courage to say YES.

我想讓你不要害怕這些，而是要對(duì)此心懷感激。它們是一棵樹生長(zhǎng)的根基。要想向前走，你只要做到一件事，那就是，勇敢地說，YES。

 

Life is opportunity. The world around you is opportunity. Some people close their eyes and ignore it. Others choose to see it. Courage is never closing your eyes. Everything around you is courage.

人生，就是機(jī)遇。你周圍的世界，就是機(jī)遇。很多人，閉上自己的眼睛，把這一切忽略掉了。而其他人，選擇看見這個(gè)事實(shí)。勇氣，就是永遠(yuǎn)不要閉上自己的眼睛。你周圍的事物，都是勇氣的產(chǎn)物。

 

That building you're walking by. Someone had the courage to start that construction company. The music you are listening to. Someone had the courage to put their art out there, into the world, to embrace the critics, the naysayers, the envious. THEY DIDN'T STOP. And now their creativity is flowing out of your headphones and into your life.

你正在經(jīng)過的那棟樓，它存在，是因?yàn)橛腥嗽鴵碛杏職?，去?chuàng)辦一家建筑公司。你正在聽的音樂，它存在，是因?yàn)橛腥嗽鴵碛杏職?，把自己?chuàng)作的藝術(shù)公開，讓全世界都聽得見這音樂，去面對(duì)所有的批評(píng)，詆毀，還有妒忌。就算如此，他們也不停止自己的腳步。如今，他們的創(chuàng)造力，正通過你的耳機(jī)，走進(jìn)你的生活。

 

Courage is the understanding that simple and easy are very different words. It is incredibly simple to work harder than the person next to you. It is simple to make sacrifices, to move out of your comfort zone. You don't need to understand Einstein's theory of relativity to be able to do those things. Oh, but side note. They're insanely difficult.

勇氣，就是明白，簡(jiǎn)單，并不意味著，容易。想比你身邊的人更努力？這非常簡(jiǎn)單。付出犧牲，走出舒適區(qū)，這些都很簡(jiǎn)單。做這些事，你不需要明白愛因斯坦的相對(duì)論。但，提醒你一句，這些事情都非常困難。

 

At first, they will kill you inside. You'll be nervous, scared, self-conscious. Courage is the understanding that FEAR becomes PROGRESS, that being nervous transforms into excitement, and that what once ate away at you will become the fire that reshapes your life.

首先，它們會(huì)摧毀你的內(nèi)心。你會(huì)感到焦慮，恐懼，尷尬。勇氣，意味著，你要明白，恐懼會(huì)變成一個(gè)過程，焦慮會(huì)變成興奮，曾經(jīng)打敗你的事情會(huì)變成你心中的火苗，重塑你的人生。

 

Allow yourself to stumble through the beginning. Let yourself fail. That guy running a 5 minute mile. At one point he ran it in 8. That woman worth a billion dollars. At one point was worth a million, 100K. Maybe she was broke.

最開始的時(shí)候，你要允許自己跌跌撞撞，允許自己失敗。你看那個(gè)人，現(xiàn)在，他跑一英里，只需要五分鐘，但，曾經(jīng)，他要花八分鐘才能做到。你看那個(gè)人，她現(xiàn)在身家十億，但，曾經(jīng)，她只有一百萬，十萬，也許她曾經(jīng)遭遇破產(chǎn)。

 

It takes no courage to run the same speed your whole life. It takes no courage to stay stagnant. Courage is saying to yourself, I am worth more than I have now. I am faster than that stopwatch is showing, I am better than this grade reflects.

一輩子都保持同樣的速度，不需要勇氣。停滯不前，不需要勇氣。勇氣，就是告訴自己，我值得擁有更好的。我可以比現(xiàn)在跑得更快，我可以取得更好的成績(jī)。

 

Courage is when your actions take on a life of their own. When they embody that winning mentality. When your friends, your peers, and the people in your life give you a hard time, because you are not the same person today that you were yesterday.

勇氣，就是你自覺地做出行動(dòng)。勇氣，就是你的行動(dòng)體現(xiàn)出勝利者的心態(tài)。勇氣，就是當(dāng)你的朋友，你的同伴，你生命中的人都來為難你，因?yàn)槟阕龀隽烁淖儯@種時(shí)候，你還能勇敢面對(duì)。

 

Courage is smiling and moving forward. It's when the first setback comes, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and you go straight through it. You adapt. You never lose sight of what you want.

勇氣，就是保持微笑，繼續(xù)前進(jìn)。勇氣，就是你遇到第一次挫折，接下來第二次，第三次，第四次，每次你都成功應(yīng)對(duì)。你逐漸適應(yīng)了一切。你一直都記得自己想要什么。

 

Courage is believing so strongly in your ability that you welcome discomfort today. Just so you can turn it into an advantage tomorrow.

勇氣，就是你堅(jiān)信自己有足夠的能力，就算今天吃點(diǎn)苦，也沒關(guān)系，因?yàn)橹挥羞@樣，你才能利用這些挫折，把它們變成將來的優(yōu)勢(shì)。

 

Courage isn't listening to this, taking your quick blast of adrenaline into the living room and streaming Netflix. No, it's thinking about what you want more than anything else and driving toward it, one courageous step at a time.

勇氣，并不意味著，聽聽現(xiàn)在這個(gè)音頻，激動(dòng)萬分，然后跑回客廳去，繼續(xù)刷劇。不，不是這樣的。勇氣，是要思考，你最想要的，是什么，然后朝著它努力。一步步地走，每一步都走得很勇敢。

 

That is courage.

這，才叫做勇氣。