新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第23篇：创造机会

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[00:00.19]23. Make the opportunity 创造机会
[00:10.64]The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.  意志脆弱优柔寡断的人，总是以缺乏机会作为借口。
[00:17.36]Opportunities!  机会！
[00:19.37]Every life is full of them.  在每个人的生活当中，无处不在。
[00:22.60]Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity.  学校里的每一节课都是一次机会。
[00:26.20]Every examination is a chance in life.  每一场考试都是人生的契机。
[00:29.98]Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, 每一次商务往来都是一次机会--一次礼貌待人的机会，一次果敢行事的机会，
[00:38.18]an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.  一次诚实守信的机会，一次广交朋友的机会。
[00:43.31]Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.  每一份对你的信任，对你都是一次莫大的机会。
[00:48.46]Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless.  基于你的才干和声望而寄予你的每一份责任，都是无价的。
[00:56.12]Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, 生存是奋斗赋予的特权，而当你如男子汉一般邂逅那份殊荣时，
[01:01.99]opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.  一个个发挥你聪明才智、助你获取成功的机会便会接踵而至，令你应接不暇。
[01:09.12]Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle?  年轻人啊，为何你们整日裹足不前而虚掷光阴？
[01:14.97]Was the land all occupied before you were born?  难道在你们出生之前，每一寸土地都已被他人所占据？
[01:19.60]Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?  难道地球已不再繁衍生息？
[01:23.12]Are the seats all taken?  难道所有的席位都已另有归属？
[01:25.59]The positions all filled?  所有的职位都已人满为患？
[01:27.25]The chances all gone?  所有的机会都一去不返？
[01:29.10]Are the resources of your country fully developed?  难道你国内的资源都已开发殆尽？
[01:33.38]Are the secrets of nature all mastered?  难道大自然的奥秘都已了如指掌？
[01:37.70]Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?  难道你无法抓住这些转瞬即逝的时机来改善自我或者造福他人？
[01:44.97]Don't wait for your opportunity.  切莫株守机会。
[01:48.90]Make it-make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.  去创造它，正如拿破仑在无数次"绝"境中创造自己逢生的机会一样。
[01:55.18]Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace have, made their chances of success.  去创造它，正如战争或者和平年代的领袖们创造他们取得胜利的机会那样。
[02:03.58]Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort.  去创造它，人人必须如此，任何人都能获得应有的回报。
[02:10.28]Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.  对于懒惰来讲，天赐良机也会化为乌有；对于勤奋而言，即使是微不足道的机会，也会变得金光闪闪!

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新概念一生必读的英语经典美文第23篇：创造机会