英汉双语美文不要贩卖你的灵魂

1、英汉双语美文 不要贩卖你的灵魂 My fellow job seekers: I am honored to be among the first to congratulate you on completing your years at North Carolina A something that takes me back to the earliest memories I have in life. One day at church, my mother gave me a small coaster with a saying on it. During my entire

2、childhood, I kept this saying in front of me on a small desk in my room. In fact, I can still show you that coaster today. It says: What you are is Gods gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God. 记得有一天，在教堂，母亲给了我一个小盘子，上面有一条谚语。在我整个童年时期， 我将那条谚语摆放在房间的小书桌上，今天还可以把那个盘子拿给你们看。上面写着： “你 是什么由上帝

3、的天赋注定，而你成为什么则是你献给上帝的礼物。 ” Those words have had a huge impact on me to this day. What this school and I believe in very deeply is that when we think about our lives, we shouldnt be limited by other peoples stereotypes or bigotry. Instead, we should be motivated by our own sense of possibility. We sho

4、uld be motivated by our own sense of accomplishment. We should be motivated by what we believe we can become. Jesse Jackson has taught us; Ronald McNair taught us; the Greensboro Four taught us; that the people who focus on possibilities achieve much more in life than people who focus on limitations

5、. 这些话至尽仍然对我有着巨大的影响。 这个学校与我同样深信的是， 当我们思考自己的 生命时， 不应该受到其他人的陈词滥调或偏见好恶的限制； 相反， 我们应该坚持自己对未来 发展的判断，坚持自己对成就大业的把握，坚持对自己能有所作为的信念。Jesse Jacks。n的 经历告诉我们， Ronald McNair 的经历告诉我们， Greensboro Four 的经历也告诉我们，注重 发展性的人比注重局限性的人在生活中获得的要多得多。 The question for all of you today is: how will you define what you make of yours

6、elf? To me, what you make of yourself is actually two questions. Theres the you that people see on the outside. And thats how most people will judge you, because its all they can see ?what you become in life, whether you were made President of this, or CEO of that, the visible you. But then, theres

7、the invisible you, the you on the inside. Thats the person that only you and God can see. For 25 years, when people have asked me for career advice, what I always tell them is dont give up what you have inside. Never sell your soul? Because no one can ever pay you back. 大家现在面对的问题是： 如何定义自己成为什么样的人？对我而

8、言， 这实际上是两个问 题：一个是人们从外表上看到的 “你 ”，这是大多数人判断你的方式，因为那是他们所能看到 的全部，例如：你在生活中是什么人，是某个国家的总统，还是某个企业的CEO ；但是， 还有一部分的你是看不到的，这就是内在的 “你 ”，是只有自己和上帝才明白的人性本质。 25 年来， 当人们向我询问职业生涯的意见时，我常常告诉他们， 不要放弃你的内在本性， 千万 不要贩卖你的灵魂，因为没有人能够支付得起。 What I mean by not selling your soul is dont be someone youre not, dont be less than you a

9、re, dont give up what you believe, because whatever the consequences that may seem scary or bad - whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself are - they are much better than the consequences of selling your soul. You have been tested mightily in your life to get to this moment. And all of

10、you know much better than I do: from the moment you leave this campus, you will be tested. You will be tested because you wont fit some peoples pre-conceived notions or stereotypes of what youre supposed to be, of who youre supposed to be. People will have stereotypes of what you can or cant do, of

11、what you will or wont do, of what you should or shouldnt do. But they only have power over you if you let them have power over you. They can only have control if you let them have control, if you give up whats inside. I speak from experience. Ive been there. Ive been there, in admittedly vastly diff

12、erent ways - and in many ways, in the fears in my heart, exactly the same places. The truth is Ive struggled to have that sense of control since the day I left college. 我所说的 “不要贩卖自己的灵魂 ”，就是不要违背自己的本性，不要掩盖你的天赋，也不 要放弃你的信念。 无论结果看起来可能多么的可怕或糟糕， 无论保持自己本性的结果是什么， 总比出卖灵魂好很多。 在到达今天之前， 大家经历了无数的检验和测试， 你们比我更清楚地知道

13、： 从你们离开 校园的这一刻起， 还要不断接受测试。 接受这些测试的原因， 是你们或许不适合某些人对你 们应该做什么工作、 成为什么人的预想或模式化的观念。 人们对于你们能做什么不能做什么、 应该做什么不应该做什么有着模式化的概念，但是， 只有当你们愿意让他们影响你们时，他 们才能影响你们， 只有当你们愿意他们控制你们时， 当你们放弃自己的内在本性时， 他们才 能控制你们。 我的这些感想来自自己的经验。 在毕业离校的那一天， 我曾经很害怕， 担心别人会怎么 想，担心我不符合要求，担心做出错误的选择，担心让辛辛苦苦工作供我念大学的人失望。 I like big challenges, and t

14、he career path I chose for myself at the beginning was in one of the most male-dominated professions in America. I went to work for AT&T. It didnt take me long to realize that there were many people there who didnt have my best interests at heart. I began my career as a first level sales person with

15、in AT&Ts long lines department. Now, long lines is what we used to call the long distance business, but I used to refer to the management team at AT&T as the 42 longs ?which was their suit size, and all those suits ?and faces ?looked the same. Ill never forget the first time my boss at the time intr

16、oduced me to a client. With a straight face, he said this is Carly Fiorina, our token bimbo. I laughed, I did my best to dazzle the client, and then I went to the boss when the meeting was over and said, You will never do that to me again. In those early days, I was put in a program at the time call

17、ed the Management Development Program. It was sort of an accelerated up-or-out program, and I was thrown into the middle of a group of all male sales managers who had been there quite a long time, and they thought it was their job to show me a thing or two. A client was coming to town and we had dec

18、ided that we were getting together for lunch to introduce me to this customer who was important to one of my accounts. Now the day before this meeting was to occur, one of my male colleagues came to me and said, You know, Carly, Im really sorry. I know weve had this planned for a long time, but this customer has a favorite restaurant here in Washington, D.C., and they really want to go to that restaur