翻译练习(1)

1) I tell students that there is no one “right” way to get ahead─that each of them is a different person, starting from a different point and bound for a different destination. I tell them that change is healthy and that people don’t have to fit into prearranged slots. One of my ways of telling them is to invite men and women who have achieved success outside the academic world to come and talk informally with my students during the year. I invited heads of companies, editors of magazines, politicians, Broadway producers, artists, writers, economists, photographers, scientists, historians─a mixed bag of achievers. (From an article College Pressure by William Zinsser)

2)Winners do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as much do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others. They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask. Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinions and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.

Winners do not play “helpless”, nor do they play the blaming game. Instead, they assume responsibility for their own lives.