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THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY
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、優柔寡斷者的藉口。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。每一份強加在你才幹和榮譽之上的責任都是無價的。生存是奮鬥的特權，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.
年輕的小夥子和姑娘們啊，為什麼整日滯足不前，虛度光陰?難道在你們出生之前，每一寸土地都已為他人所佔？難道地球已不再繁衍生息？難道所有座位都已佔滿? 難道所有職位都有人填補? 難道所有機會都一去不復返？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，正如拿破崙在無數次“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穫的人都必領這麼做。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！
詞彙講解
1. is full of 充滿
His remark is full of contradictions and flaws.
他的話前後矛盾, 破綻百出。
2. thrust upon 強加於
After he invented the new drilling machine, honors were thrust upon him.
他發明了新的鑽機之後，許多榮耀都加在他的身上了。
3. cease to 停止；不再出現某種情況
The people did not cease to resist even after the fall of the capital.
即使在首都失陷以後人民也沒有停止抵抗。
4. wait for 等待
The shipper does not have to wait for the bills of loding to arrive.
承運人不必等待提單到達。
後語：堅持是一種信仰，專注是一種態度！每一次您的轉發，就是對我們的認同和鼓勵！親們，喜歡就積極轉發吧，您的每一次轉發，都是我們持續的原創動力。原創的路上感恩有您一路同行！！！
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