Speaking Sparkles (2)

Speaking Sparkles¹ (2)

妙语连珠

 

1.  Well, let's say, you know, life is a constant learning process and I encourage everybody who is watching or ¹⁾participating to constantly think about lifetime learning because it is really, truly important to do that. Let me just, in a simple way, what I say, if I ever come back in a second life, I'm going to be Mick Jagger, I'm going to be a rock and roll player. So, I had those ²⁾aspirations but I couldn't, I failed, I flunked³ piano, so that didn't work. I played football, baseball, basketball; I flunked all those, so that didn't work. Then I decided⁴, "What am I going to do when I grow up?" and I decided: business.

生命是不断学习的过程，我鼓励每个观看或参与的人去不断想着终身学习，因为那的确很重要。如果我可以再活一次，我会做迈克尔·杰克逊那样的人，我会当摇滚歌手。我曾经有那些抱负，但我做不到，我钢琴弹得很差劲，我打橄榄球、棒球、篮球都很差劲，所以我做不到那些。于是我就想长大后我该做什么好呢？我做了选择--经商。

--Verizon电讯（500强）的首席执行官Charles R. Lee   接受电视台采访时透露自己是“迫于无奈”才选择经商

 

2.  How can you have ³⁾differentiation⁵ top 20, middle 70 and throw out the bottom 10 and have team work? Teams do that everyday! A 20 game winner, a 50 home run ⁴⁾hitter, they get more money than the other players on the team and the bottom ten get traded or thrown out and yet, they're still a team. That's what business is.

   为什么挑出了最出色的20人，水平一般的70人和最差的10人，然后还能让团队运作呢？团队每一天都要这样做！在比赛中，最能干的队友赚钱比其他队友多，成绩最差的队友被调职或淘汰，但仍然维持了团队。商场无情面可言。

                --通用公司前首席执行官Jack Welch讲述自己的管理之道

 

3.  You have to remember that nothing is impossible. I mean let's face it. I mean, I had no idea where I was going to be. I had no idea I'd be sitting with someone like you when I started, but it's a lesson that everything is possible for anybody. Everything is possible.

   一定要记住：没有做不到的事。我们应该直面挑战。以前我从没想过自己将来能有怎样的成就，起家的时候也没想过有朝一日会坐在这里接受采访，然而这正说明对于每个人而言一切都有可能达到，万事皆有可能。

                    --Viacom首席执行官Sumner Redstone谈自己的成功心得

 

4.  (Ben:) Jerry was into production and I was into sales and marketing⁶ and that's what we did and neither one of us was into the books and nobody did the books. (Jerry:) And I made Ben fire everybody! I couldn't do it, I couldn't stand to do it. It was, you know, and Ben didn't like to do it but he did it. (Ben:) When somebody needed to get fired, we would go around saying, "The ⁵⁾monster is hungry, the monster must eat." (Jerry:) Yeah, because I mean Ben couldn't even do it. He had to make himself into this ⁶⁾persona, this monster, in order to do it. We were not very good bosses.

   （本：）杰里负责生产，而我负责推销，我们两个人都不喜欢记账，所以没有人负责记账。（杰里：）我强迫本去负责解雇员工，我没有办法做到，我不忍心。本也不喜欢做这种事，      但他还是做了。（本：）当要辞退工人的时候，我们会说：“怪兽肚子饿了，怪兽要找吃的啦。”（杰里：）本也不忍心，所以，他要令自己进入到怪兽的角色。我们不是很好的老板。

                                --本与杰里冰淇淋企业的创办人Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield描述当老板的感受以及各自的分工

 

注释：

1) participate [pB:5tisipeit] v. 参与，参加

2) aspiration² [7AspE5reiFEn] n. 热望，渴望

3) differentiation [7difE7renFi5eiFEn] n. 区别

4) hitter [5hitE] n. 击球员，击手

5) monster [5mCnstE] n. 怪物，妖怪

6) persona [pE:5sEunE] n. 角色，人

1 sparkles   

v.发火花，闪耀( sparkle的第三人称单数 )；（饮料）发泡；生气勃勃，热情奔放，神采飞扬

参考例句：

• The diamond sparkles with brilliant light. 金刚钻闪出灿烂的光辉。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. 她一只手耷拉在一边，闪耀着珠宝的寒光。 来自英汉文学 - 盖茨比

2 aspiration   

n.志向，志趣抱负；渴望；(语)送气音；吸出

参考例句：

• Man's aspiration should be as lofty as the stars.人的志气应当象天上的星星那么高。
• Young Addison had a strong aspiration to be an inventor.年幼的爱迪生渴望成为一名发明家。

3 flunked   

v.( flunk的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）（考试、某学科的成绩等）不及格；评定（某人）不及格；（因不及格而） 退学

参考例句：

• I flunked math in second grade. 我二年级时数学不及格。
• He flunked out (of college) last year. 他去年（从大学）退学了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

5 differentiation   

n.区别，区分

参考例句：

• There can be no differentiation without contrast. 有比较才有差别。
• The operation that is the inverse of differentiation is called integration. 与微分相反的运算叫做积分。

6 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。