The Man and the Opportunity
人与机会
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak,vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.
缺乏机会向来都是胆小懦弱、优柔寡断者的借口。机会!每个人的一生中都充满了机会。
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.
学校的每堂课都是一个机会;每一场考试，都是人生的一个机会;每一次的商务谈判都是一次机会;一个礼貌待人的机会，一个果断决策的机会，一个真诚守信的机会，一个广交朋友的机会。每一个对你的自信度的考验也是一次极佳的机会。
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.
自身实力与荣誉所承担的每一份责任都是十分珍贵的。生存是努力者的特权;只有像男子汉那样去面对这种特权，发挥你的聪明才智，成功的机会才会纷至沓来。
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?
年轻人，你们为何整天无所事事?难道在你们来到这个世界之前，所有的土地都被占据了?难道地球上的土地已经停止生长了?难道所有的座位已坐满?难道所有的职位都无空缺?机会已一去不返?难道国家的资源已经被全部开发?难道所有的自然奥秘你已洞晓?难道你毫无办法利用这转瞬即逝的时光来提高自己，或者使他人受益?
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.
机会不会主动垂青于你。要创造机会，像拿破仑那样，在无数“不可能”中创造机会，像所有战时或和平时期的领袖一样，创造成功的机会。像每个人都必须做的那样，为值得付出之事尽心尽力。千载难逢的机会对懒惰者而言毫无意义，但是勤奋却能点石成金。
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