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英语励志文章加翻译：失败是件好事
Failure Is a
Good Thing
Last week, my
granddaughter started kindergarten, and, as is
conventional,
I
wished
her
success.
I
was
lying.
What
I
actually
wish for her is
failure. I believe in the power of failure.
Success is
boring. Success is proving that you can do
something
that
you
already
know
you
can
do,
or
doing
something
correctly the
first time, which can often be a problematical
victory. First-time success is usually
a fluke. First-time
failure, by
contrast, is expected; it is the natural order of
things.
Failure is how we learn. I have been
told of an African
phrase
describing
a
good
cook
as
who
has
broken
many
pots.
If
you've
spent
enough
time
in
the
kitchen
to
have
broken
a
lot
of
pots,
probably
you know
a fair
amount
about cooking.
I
once
had a late
dinner with a group of chefs, and they spent time
comparing
knife
wounds
and
burn
scars.
They
knew
how
much
credibility their failures gave them.
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I
earn
my
living
by
writing
a
daily
newspaper
column.
Each
week
I
am
aware
that
one
column
is
going
to
be
the
worst
column
of the week. I don't
set out to write it; I try my best every
day. Still, every week, one column is
inferior to the others,
sometimes
spectacularly so.
I
have
learned
to
cherish
that
column.
A
successful
column
usually
means
that
I
am
treading
on
familiar
ground,
going
with
the
tricks that work, preaching to the choir or
dressing up
popular
sentiments
in
fancy
words.
Often
in
my
inferior
columns,
I
am trying to
pull off something I've
never done before,
something
I'm not even sure can be done.
My younger daughter is a
trapeze artist. She spent three
years
putting
together
an
act.
She
did
it
successfully
for
years
with
the
Cirque
du
Soleil.
There
was
no
reason
for
her
to
change
the
act--but
she
did
anyway.
She
said
she
was
no
longer
learning
anything
new
and
she
was
bored;
and
if
she
was
bored,
there
was
no point in subjecting
her body to all that stress. So she
changed
the
act.
She
risked
failure
and
profound
public
embarrassment
in
order
to
feed
her
soul.
And
if
she
can
do
that
15 feet
in the air, we all should be able to do it.
My
granddaughter is a perfectionist, probably too
much of
one.
She
will
feel
her
failures,
and
I
will
want
to
comfort
her.
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But I will also, I hope, remind her of
what she learned, and
how
she
can
do
whatever
it
is
better
next
time.
I
probably
won't
tell her that failure is a good thing,
because that's not a
lesson you can
learn when you're five. I hope I can tell her,
though,
that
it's
not the end
of the world.
Indeed,
with
luck,
it is the beginning.
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上周，孙女开办了一个幼儿园。按
常理，我预祝她成功。实际上
我撒了慌，我真正对她的希望是失败，因为我相信失败的力
量。
成
功是令人厌烦的。
成功只是证明你能够做你已经知道自己会做
的
事情，
或是第一次就能正确地做某件事情，
而这通常是一次有问
题
的成功。第一次的成功通常都是侥幸的成功，相反的，第一次的失败
< br>恰恰是值得期待的。这是事物的自然法则。
失败是学习的过程。我听说过一个在非洲用来形容大厨的词语，
“那个炒坏了很多锅的”。
如果你花了足够时间在厨房，
炒坏了无数
锅，
那你也就掌握了大量烹饪方面
的知识。
有次我和厨师们共进晚餐，
他们一直在比较刀伤和烫伤
疤痕的多少，
因为他们知道曾经的失败带
来了无上的信誉。
我以为日报
专栏写作谋生。
每周我都会意识到会有其中一个成为
本周最差专
栏。我并不刻意去这样写，而是每天都尽我最大的努力，
但每周都还是会有一个专栏比其
他的差，有时候差距还挺大。
<
/p>
我现在学会了去珍惜那个较差的专栏。
一个成功的专栏通常也就<
/p>
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意味着我循规蹈矩，
采用一些有效的写作技巧，
向唱诗班布道或者用
绚丽的语言修饰表达大众的观点。
而在那些较差的专栏，
我时常会去
尝试一些之前没做过的事情，
一些甚至都不确定能否完成的事情。
我小女儿是一名吊杠演员。
她用三年
的时间编排了一段表演，
跟
Cirque
du
Soleil(
太阳马戏团
)
一起多年来都非常成功。应该说没有
理由
换掉这段表演
--
但是她最终还是换了。
她说，
她没有再学到新东
西，腻烦了。既然她已经腻烦了，继
续让她的躯体承受那些压力也就
不再有任何意义。因此她更换了那段表演。为了满足自己
的灵魂，她
甘愿承受失败的风险，
甘愿承受不被观众接受的尴尬
处境。
但如果她
在
15
英尺的高空中能完成尝试的话，那我们每个人也都会有能力去
尝试新事物。
孙女是个完
美主义者，可能还会有些极端。她会遇到挫折失败，
我会想着去安慰她，
但也会提醒，
并且希望她从中所学到的东西和她
下次可
以如何更好去完成一件事情。
我可能不会直接跟她说失败是件
好
事，因为它不是一个年轻人容易吸取的教训。然而，我希望我可以
告诉她，这不是世界末
日，实际上非常幸运，这才是开端。
英语励志文章加翻译：学会生活在现实中
To
a
large
degree,
the
measure of our peace of mind is determined by how
much we
are able to live on the present
moment. Irrespective of what
happened
yesterday
or
last
year,
and
what
may
or
may
not
happen
tomorrow, the present moment is where
you are -- always!
Without
question,
many
of
us
have
mastered
the
neurotic
art
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of
spending
much
of
our
lives
worrying
about
variety
of
things
-- all at once. We allow past problems
and future concerns to
dominate
your
present
moments,
so
much
so
that
we
end
up
anxious,
frustrated,
depressed,
and
hopeless.
On
the
flip
side,
we
also
postpone
our gratification, our stated priorities, and our
happiness, often convincing ourselves
that
much
better
than
today.
Unfortunately,
the
same
mental
dynamics
that
tell
us
to
look
toward
the
future
will
only
repeat
themselves
so
that
'someday'
never
actually
arrives.
John
Lennone
once
said,
is
what
is
happening
while
we
are
busy
making
other
plans.
When
we
are
busy
making
'other
plans',
our
children
are
busy
growing
up,
the
people
we
love
are
moving
away
and dying, our
bodies are getting
out
of shape,
and
our
dreams
are slipping away. In
short, we miss out on life.
Many
people
lives as
if
life
is
a
dress rehearsal
for some
later date. It
isn't. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he
or
she
will
be
here
tomorrow.
Now
is
the
only
time
we
have,
and
the
only
time
that
we
have
any
control
over.
When
our
attention
is in the present
moment, we push fear from our minds. Fear is
the concern over events that might
happen in the future -- we
won't have
enoughh money, our children will get into trouble,
we will get old and die, whatever.
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To
combat
fear,
the
best
stradegy
is
to
learn
to
bring
your
attention back to the present. Mark
Twain said,
through some terrible things
in life, some of which actually
happened.
keeping your
attention on the here and now. Your effort will
pay great dividends.
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我们内心是否平和在很大程度上是
由我们是否能生活在现实之
中所决定的
.
不管昨天或去年发生了什么，不管明天可能发生或不发
生什么，现实才是你时时刻刻所
在之处。
毫无疑问，
我们很多人掌握了一种神经兮兮的艺术，
即把生活
中
的大部分时间花在为种种事情担心忧虑上
--
而且常常是同时忧虑许
多事情
.
我们听凭过去的麻烦和未来的担心
控制我们此时此刻的生活，
以
至我们整日焦虑不安，委靡不振，
甚至沮丧绝望
.
而另一方面我们又
推迟
我们的满足感，
推迟我们应优先考虑的事情，
推迟我们的幸福感
，
常常说服自己“有朝一日”会比今天更好
.
< br>不幸的是，如此告戒我们
朝前看的大脑动力只能重复来重复去，
< br>以至“有朝一日”不会真的来
临
.
约翰
.
列侬曾经说过：
“生活就是当
我们忙于制定别的计划时发生
的事.”当我们忙于指定种种
别的计划
时，
我们
的孩子在忙于长大，
我们挚爱的人离去了甚至快去世了，
我们的
体型变样了，
而我们的梦
想也在消然溜走了
.
一句话，我们错过了生活。
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许多人的生活好象是某个未来日子的彩排，并非如此。事实上
，
没人能保证他或她肯定还活着。
现在是我们所拥有的唯一时间
，
现在
也是我们能控制的唯一的时间。
当我们将注意力放在此时此刻时，
我
们就将恐惧置于脑后。恐惧
就是我们担忧某些事情会在未来发生
--
我们不讳有足够的钱，
我们的孩子会惹上麻烦，
我们会变老，
会死去，
诸如此类。
若要克服恐惧心理，
最佳策略是学会
将你的注意力拉回此时此刻。
马克
.
吐
温说过：“我经历过生活中一些可怕的事情，有些的确发生
过。
”我想我说不出比这更具内涵的话。
经常将注意力集中于此情此
景，此时此刻，你的努力终会有丰厚的报偿。
英语励志文章加翻译：
一切刚开始<
/p>
We're
Just
Beginning
are
reading
the
first
verse
of
the
first
chapter
of
a
book
whose
pages
are infinite...
I
do
not
know
who
wrote
those
words,
but
I
have
always
liked
them as a reminder
that the future can be anything we want to
make
it.
We
can
take
the
mysterious, hazy
future
and
carve
out
of it anything that we can imagine,
just as a sculptor carves
a statue from
a shapeless stone.
We
are
all
in
the
position
of
the
farmer.
If
we
plant
a
good
seed, we
reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full
of
weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we
plant nothing at all, we
harvest
nothing at all.
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