人生必学课程-有勇气才能走少有人走的路(4)

Life lessons

 

人生必学的课程

 

In a world where everyone is trying to be like someone else, it takes great amount of courage to take the road less traveled.

 

在一个大家都想成为别人的世界中，需要很大勇气才能走少有人走的路。

 

In our whole life, we are always asking ten people before taking any step.

 

We always want to validate¹ that we are sure and do not make any mistake.

 

We are too scared to fail hence, we follow the same path that everyone suggests, do the same thing everyone does, take the same career path everyone takes, wear the same clothes everyone wears, and hang out with the same people we work with. Why? Because we are scared.

 

But when you get bored of life, you realize that you are not meant to do what everyone does and that your destiny is different than anyone else's out there in the world.

 

But the price we pay to realize this is high because it takes a tremendous amount of guts² to follow your own trail by listening to your heart.

 

 

1 validate   

vt.（法律）使有效，使生效

参考例句：

• You need an official signature to validate the order.你要有正式的签字，这张汇票才能生效。
• In order to validate the agreement,both parties sign it.为使协议有效，双方在上面签了字。

2 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》