初學者愛上英語經典美文07：人與機遇（中英）
The Man and the Opportunity
人與機遇
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.
缺乏機遇總是意志薄弱、優柔寡斷者的借口。機遇!每個人的生命中都充滿著機遇！
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity. Every examination is a chance in life. 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.Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity. Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless. 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.
學校或大學的每一堂課都是一次機遇。每一場考試都是人生的一次契機。每一次商業交易都是一次機會—一次禮貌待人的機會，一次果敢行事的機會，一次誠實守信的機會，一次廣交朋友的機會。每一份他人對你的信任就是一個莫大的機會。每一份強加在你才干和榮譽之上的責任都是無價的。生存是奮斗的特權，當你如勇者般通過努力邂逅的那份生存特權時，成功的機遇將隨著你的能力接踵而至，甚至會讓你應接不暇。
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle? Was the land all occupied before you were born? Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?Are the seats all taken? The positions all filled? The chances all gone? Are the resources of your country fully developed? Are the secrets of nature all mastered?Is there no way in which you can
utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another? Don't wait for your opportunity. Make it, make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace, have made their chances of success.Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort. Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
年輕的小伙子和姑娘們啊，為什么整日滯足不前，虛度光陰?難道在你們出生之前，每一寸土地都已為他人所占？難道地球已不再繁衍生息？難道所有座位都已占滿?難道所有職位都有人填補?難道所有機會都一去不返？難道你們國家的資源都已開發殆盡?難道大自然的奧秘都已完全通曉?難道你們無法抓住轉瞬即逝的時機來提高自我、造福他人?切莫等待機遇。創造機遇，正如拿破侖在無數次“絕”境中創造機遇那樣。創造機遇，正如戰爭及和平年代所有領袖創造成功機遇那樣。創造機遇，任何付出努力都想有所收獲的人都必領這么做。對懶漢來說，即使天賜
良機，也會化為烏有，而勤奮卻能讓最微小的機遇變得燦爛輝煌！
課堂筆記：
1.排比(parallelism)是由三個或三個以上結構相同或相似、內容相關的短語或句子排列在一起，用來加強語勢強調內容，加重感情的修辭方式。此部分四個不定式分別用作名詞“opportunity”的定語，構成一個排比結構.
2.排比句式是本文的一大亮，第二段和第三段中均運用了大量排比句，讀起來鏗鏘有力，韻律無窮.值捍我們慢慢品味。
3.這是由關系代詞“which”引導的定語從句，修飾先行詞“way”.英語常用搭配“in this /that way”表示“以這種/那種方式”。
4.拿破侖·波拿巴(Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821).人稱奇跡創造者，是法國近代著名軍事家、政治家，法蘭西第一帝國皇帝。他一生指揮過十多次重大戰役，曾經征服和占領過西歐和中歐的廣大領土，經歷過數次政治變革，身陷險境，但都勇往直前，不向困難低頭。
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