奥里森·马登/Orison Marden

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities!Every life is full of them.

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 confdence 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.

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 allflled?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 beneft 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.

缺乏机会，向来都是胆小懦弱和优柔寡断者的借口。机会！生活中无处不在。

无论中学还是大学里的每堂课，都是一个机会；考试是生活给予的机会；每一次的事务处理是机会。生活给予人们礼貌待人，诚实宽厚的机会，更是广交朋友的大好机会；生活对个人自信度的考验也是个极好的机会。

个人能力和诚信所负担的每一份责任都是无价的。只有奋斗不息，才有生存的空间；只有不断追求，提升能力，成功的机会才会纷至沓来。

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？难道地球的产出已不再增多？难道所有的位置都坐满了？难道所有的职位都无空缺了？难道机会已消失殆尽？难道国家的资源已被全部开发完毕？难道所有的自然奥秘你已掌握？难道你毫无办法抓住这稍纵即逝的时光提高自己，或者使他人受益吗？

机会不会主动垂青于你。学习拿破仑，在“不可能”中创造机会。像所有战时或和平时期的领袖一样，为自己创造成功的机会。人人都须创造机会，为值得付出之事尽心尽力。好机会，对于懒惰之人毫无益处，而勤奋却能点石成金。

心灵小语

在这个世界上，获得成功的人是那些努力寻找机会的人。如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。

W词汇笔记

vacillate['v?sileit]v.游移不定；踌躇；犹豫

例 She vacillated between hope and fear.

她时而抱有希望，时而心存恐惧。

manly['m?nli]adj.像男人的；强壮的；适合男人的

例 They heard a manly voice shout：“Vive la France!”

他们听到一个男子的声音喊道：“法兰西万岁！”

aptitude['?ptitju:d]n.才能；资质

例 That student has an aptitude for mathematics.

那个学生有数学方面的天赋。

utilize[ju:'tilaiz]v.利用

例 In a magazine you can utilize a picture of your product.

在杂志里，你可以用你的产品的照片。

S小试身手

缺乏机会，向来都是胆小懦弱和优柔寡断者的借口。

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个人能力和诚信所负担的每一份责任都是无价的。

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好机会对于懒惰之人毫无益处，而勤奋却能点石成金。

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P短语家族

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.

lack of：缺乏

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Don't wait for your opportunity.

wait for：等候；等待

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