The Man and the Opportunity
人與機會
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak,vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.
缺乏機會向來都是膽小懦弱、優柔寡斷者的藉口。機會!每個人的一生中都充滿了機會。
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.
學校的每堂課都是一個機會;每一場考試，都是人生的一個機會;每一次的商務談判都是一次機會;一個禮貌待人的機會，一個果斷決策的機會，一個真誠守信的機會，一個廣交朋友的機會。每一個對你的自信度的考驗也是一次極佳的機會。
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.
自身實力與榮譽所承擔的每一份責任都是十分珍貴的。生存是努力者的特權;只有像男子漢那樣去面對這種特權，發揮你的聰明才智，成功的機會才會紛至沓來。
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?
年輕人，你們為何整天無所事事?難道在你們來到這個世界之前，所有的土地都被佔據了?難道地球上的土地已經停止生長了?難道所有的座位已坐滿?難道所有的職位都無空缺?機會已一去不返?難道國家的資源已經被全部開發?難道所有的自然奧秘你已洞曉?難道你毫無辦法利用這轉瞬即逝的時光來提高自己，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.
機會不會主動垂青於你。要創造機會，像拿破崙那樣，在無數“不可能”中創造機會，像所有戰時或和平時期的領袖一樣，創造成功的機會。像每個人都必須做的那樣，為值得付出之事盡心盡力。千載難逢的機會對懶惰者而言毫無意義，但是勤奮卻能點石成金。
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