Unit 3 Born to Win新编大学英语第二版第二册课文翻译教学教材

Unit 3 Born to WinBorn to WinYou cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.— Galileo[1] Each human being is born as something unique , something that never existed before. Each person is born with what he needs to win at life. A normal person can see, hear, touch, taste, and think for himself. Each has his own unique potentials —his capabilities and limitations. Each can be an important, thinking, aware, and creatively productive person in his own right — a winner.[2] The words “winner” and “loser” have many meanings. When we refer to a person as a winner, we do not mean one who defeats the other person by dominating and making him lose. Instead a winner is one who responds genuinely by being trustworthy and responsive , both as an individual and as a member of a society. A loser is one who fails to respond genuinely.[3] Few people are winners or losers all the time. It's a matter of degree . However, once a person has the capacity to be a winner, his chances are greater for becoming even more so…[4] Achievement is not the most important thing for winners; genuineness is. The genuine person realizes his own uniqueness and appreciates the uniqueness of others.[5] A winner is not afraid to do his own thinking and to use his own knowledge. He can separate facts from opinion and doesn't pretend to have all the answers. He listens to others, evaluates what they say, but comes to his own conclusions.[6] A winner is flexible . He does not have to respond in known, rigid ways. He can change his plans when the situation calls for it. A winner has a love for life. He enjoys work, play, food, other people, and the world of nature. Without guilt he enjoys his own accomplishments. Without envy he enjoys the accomplishments of others.[7] A winner cares about the world and its people. He is not separated from the general problems of society. He tries to improve the quality of life. Even in the face of national and international difficulty, he does not see himself as helpless . He does what he can to make the world a better place.[8] Although people are born to win, they are also born totally dependent on their environment. Winners successfully make the change from dependence to independence . Losers do not. Somewhere along the line losers begin to avoid becoming independent . This usually begins in childhood. Poor nutrition , cruelty , unhappy relationships, disease, continuing disappointments, and inadequate physical care are among the manyexperiences that contribute to making people losers.[9] A loser is held back by his low capacity to appropriately express himself through a full range of possible behavior. He may be unaware of other choices for his life if the path he chooses goes nowhere. He is afraid to try new things. He repeats not only his own mistakes and often repeats those of his family and culture.[10] A loser has difficulty giving and receiving love. He does not enter into close, honest, direct relationships with others. Instead, he tries to manipulate them into living up to his expectations and channels his energies into living up to their expectations.生而成功任何事都不可能由别人来教你，只能在别人的帮助下靠自己去发现。

-----伽利略1每个人生来都是独特的，与众不同的。

每个人天生具有要在生活中赢得成功的能力。

每个正常人都能够听、读、触摸、品尝，并且思考自己的事情。

每个人都要自己特有的潜在性——能力和局限性。

每个人都能凭自己的本事成为举足轻重、会思考、明事理、创造性成果颇多的人——一个成功的人。

2“成功者”和“失败者”这两个词有多种意思。

当我们把一个人称作成功者时，我们所指的并不是那种通过优势控制他人、令其失败而获得成功的人。

而是一个作出真诚回应的人，无论是作为个体或是社会的成员他都值得信赖、行动迅速。

失败者是一个未能作出真诚回应的人。

3很少有人是绝对的成功者或失败者。

这（失败）只是一个程度问题。

然而，当一个人具备了成为成功者的能力时，（他）经常获得成功的可能性就会更大。

4对成功者来说成就不是最重要的；最重要的是真诚。

真诚的人知道自己的独特之处，也赞赏他人的这一特点。

5成功者是不怕独立思考并运用自己的知识的。

他能把客观事实与主观意见区分开来，而且不会装作能解决一切问题。

他倾诉他人、评价他们说的话，却能得出自己的结论。

6成功者能灵活变通。

他遇事不会采用已有的、刻板的方式行事。

他能根据形势的需要改变自己的计划。

成功者热爱生活。

他乐于工作、喜爱游玩、享受美食、欣赏他人和自然带来的乐趣。

他心安理得地从自己的成就中享受乐趣。

（他）也毫无妒忌地欣赏他人的成绩。

7成功者关心天下、关爱世人。

他关注社会上普遍存在的问题。

他努力提高生活质量。

即使面对国内和国际上的难题，他也不会认为自己是无能为力的。

他尽己所能，使世界变得更美好。

8即使人们生来注定会成功，但也是生来就要完全依赖于周围环境的。

成功者顺利地完成从依赖到独立的转变。

失败者则没有做到这一点。

在这一过程中的某个时候失败者开始回避独立。

这种情况通常始于童年时期。

营养不良、非人道待遇、不愉快的人际关系、疾病、长期的失望，以及身体护理不足等经历都会促使人们成为失败者。

9失败者不善于通过一系列可能采取的作为来恰当地展现自己，这阻碍了他获取成功。

如果他所选择的生活道路毫无前途的话，他可能不知道对自己的生活还可以有其他选择。

他不敢尝试新食物。

他不仅重复自身的错误而且常常重复自己家庭和文化群体的错误。

10一个失败者很难去爱别人，也很难得到别人的爱。

他不知道和家人建立亲密、真诚、直接的关系。

相反，他试图使别人按照他的期望生活，也努力使自己按他人的期望生活。

Better Late than Never[1] He was lying there in the grass, hiding and thinking.[2] He had studied the little girl's habits. He knew she would come outside her grandfather's house mid-afternoon to play.[3] He hated himself for this.[4] In his whole miserable life he'd never considered anything so callous as kidnapping.[5] Yet here he was, lying in the grass, hidden by trees from the house, waiting for an innocent , red-haired, two-year-old girl to come within reach.[6] It was a long wait; there was time to think.[7] Maybe all his life Harlan had been in too much of a hurry .[8] He was five when his Hoosier farmer father had died.[9] At fourteen he dropped out of Greenwood School and hit the road .[10] He tried odd jobs as a farmhand, hated it.[11] Tried being a bus conductor and hated that.12] At sixteen he lied about his age and joined the Army—and hated that, too. When his one-year enlistment was up he headed for Alabama [N], tried blacksmithing and failed.[13] He became a railroad locomotive fireman with the Southern Railroad. He liked that. Figured maybe he had found himself.[14] At eighteen he got married, and within months, wouldn't you know she announced she was pregnant the day he announced he'd been fired again?[15] Then, one day, while he was out job hunting , his young wife gave away all their possessions and went home to her parents.[16] Then came the depression .[17] Harlan couldn't win for losing, as they said.[18] He really tried.[19] Once, while working at a succession of railroad jobs, he tried studying law by correspondence .[20] But he dropped out of that, too.[21] He tried selling insurance , selling tires.[22] He tried running a ferryboat , running a filling station. No use.[23] Face it—Harlan was a loser.[24] And now here he was hiding in the weeds outside Roanoke , Virginia , planninga kidnapping .[25] As I say, he'd watched the little girl's habits, and knew about her afternoon playtime .[26] But, this one day, she did not come out to play, so his chain of failures remained unbroken .[27] Late in life he became chief cook and bottle washer at a restaurant in Corbin. And did all right until the new highway bypassed the restaurant.[28] And then his expected life span ran out .[29] He was not the first man nor would he be the last to arrive at the twilight of life with nothing to show for it.[30] The bluebird of happiness, or whatever, had always flown just out of reach.[31] He'd stayed honest—except for that one time when he had attempted kidnapping. In fairness to his name it must be noted that it was his own daughter he'd meant to kidnap from his runaway wife.[32] And they both returned to him, the next day, anyway.[33] But now the years had passed by and a lifetime was gone and he and they had nothing.[34] He had not really felt old until that day the postman brought his first Social Security check. That day, something within Harlan resented , resisted , and exploded.[35] The Government was feeling sorry for him.[36] It was time to give up and retire .[37] His restaurant customers in Corbin said they'd miss him, but his Government said sixty-five candles on the birthday cake is enough. They sent him a pension check and told him he was “old”.[38] He said, “Nuts.”[39] And he got so angry he took that $105 check and started a new business.[40] Today that business is still prospering . For over twenty years until his death hecarried on with remarkable success.[41] For the man who failed at everything but one thing... the man who might have been a law-breaking kidnapper had he not also failed at that ... the man who never got started until it was time to stop... was Harlan Sanders.[42] The new business he started with his first Social Security check was Kentucky Fried Chicken. Now you know the rest of the story.迟做总比不做好1 他躺在草丛中，躲在那儿，同时思索着。