新标准大学英语综合教程3课文翻译（1-10单元30篇） - 图文(2)

2. 真可怕。 3. 我已经让你够沮丧的了，现在告诉你那条好消息吧：知道了我们都在走向坟墓，我们就不再有人生无常的感觉了。 我们已经知道故事的结局，开场白和尾声也都确定了，剩下的就是介于两者之间的那些事儿了，这些事是我们作得了主的。 我们必须挑选故事情节。 4. 所以，那些被你搁置在一边的计划，即那些―当时机成熟时‖你会用生命来完成的伟大事业 新标准大学英语综合教程3课文与翻译

know, the great things you're going to do with your life \怎么办呢？可我发现时机永远不会有成熟的时time is right\候。 时间必须提前，必须马上行动，就在这一to be brought forward and done now, this minute, pronto, in a 刻，不能拖延，必须赶紧，而且越快越好。 不

管是你想写的小说，还是你一直在筹划的去大

hurry, as quick as your little legs will carry you. The novel that

峡谷的旅行，你心仪的工作，你想导演的伦敦

you want to write, the trip to the Grand Canyon you've always

西区话剧，你都必须现在就去做。 知道吗？我

planned to take, your mind's-eye dream-job, the West End play

们都在走向死亡。 这是已经定了的。

you want to direct—you have to do them now. We're dying, see. It's official.

5 So putting your dreams on the back burner until the circumstances are right means that they'll probably never be realized. Our only regrets in life are the things we don't do. We owe it to ourselves to go out and do them now before it's too late. Tomorrow? It's all a lie; there isn't a tomorrow. There's only a promissory note that we are often not in a position to cash. It doesn't even exist. When you wake up in the morning it'll be today again and all the same rules will apply. Tomorrow is just another version of now, an empty field that will remain so unless we start planting some seeds. Your time, which is ticking away as we speak (at about 60 seconds a minute chronologically; a bit faster if you don't invest your time wisely), will be gone and you'll have nothing to show for it but regret and a rear-view mirror full of \

6 Have you ever noticed when you go to a buffet restaurant how they give you a bowl the size of a saucer and then say, \as much salad as you like but you can only go up once\like that small salad bowl. Like the hungry people waiting for their main course, we can cram as much into that tiny bowl as we can carry. I love watching people ingeniously stack the cucumber around the side of the bowl—like they're filling a skip—and then cramming it so high that they have to hire a forklift truck to get it back to the table. They're not greedy. They just know that they only have one shot at it.

5. 因此，把自己的梦想搁置起来，等到时机成熟之后才开始实现它，这就意味着梦想可能永远都不会实现。 人生的遗憾莫过于还有事情没有做，我们有必要现在就去做这些事，不然就晚了。 明天行吗？明天只是个谎言；根本就没有什么明天，只有一张我们常常无法兑现的期票。 明天甚至压根儿就不存在。 你早上醒来时又是另一个今天了，同样的规则又可以全部套用。 明天只是现在的另一种说法，是一块空地，除非我们开始在那里播种，否则它永远都是空地。 你的时间会流逝（时间就在我们说话的当下嘀嗒嘀嗒地走着，每分钟顺时针走60秒，如果你不能很好地利用它，它会走得更快些），而你没有取得任何成就来证明它的存在，唯独留下遗憾，留下一面后视镜，上面写满了―本可以做‖、―本应该做‖、―本来会做‖的事情。 6. 你是否注意过，自助餐馆里服务员会给你一个茶杯碟大小的碗，并告诉你：―你想盛多少沙拉都可以，但只能盛一次‖？生活就像那只盛沙拉的碗，我们可以和那些饥肠辘辘等着主菜的人一样在那只小碗里装上尽可能多的沙拉。 我喜欢看人们巧妙地把黄瓜片插在沙拉碗的四周——就像往废料桶里堆东西那样——把沙拉堆得老高老高，最后不得不雇个叉车把沙拉拉回餐桌。 他们不是贪婪，而是明白自己只有一次机会。

7. 把你的碗盛满吧，我们在这个世上只走一遭，既然来了就好好利用这短暂的一生，就像

7 Fill your bowl. We come this way but once so let's make the 我们牢牢抓住一年一度去佛罗里达或西班牙度

假的机会那样。 在短暂的人生中填入尽可能多

best of the short stay. Like the once-a-year holiday to Florida or

的内容吧。 确保每天回家后你都会因为干了很

Spain. Fit as much into the short time there as you can. Make sure

多事而感到精疲力尽。

that you go back home knackered because you got so much done.

8. 如果你不想当邮递员就别当邮递员，放弃这

8 If you don't want to be a postman then don't be a postman. 份工作去当个画家、作家、滑雪运动员，干什Give it up and be a painter, a writer, a tobogganist, whatever. Just 么都行。 千万不要干自己明明就不喜欢的事don't be something that you patently do not want to be. 情。 9 And now is the time, not tomorrow. There is no time like the 9. 现在就开始行动吧，不要等到明天。 没有present. If you can't have what you want this very second the least 比现在更好的时间了。 如果在这一刻你不能得

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