历史英雄名人演讲 第101期:萨默·雷石东演讲:去冒险吧!

 　　12.Be A Risk Taker

　　12.去冒险吧！

　　I encourage all of you to explore any and all opportunities to pass along the benefits of your experience to those who will follow. This may sound like jargon¹, but it is not-it will add to your own self-esteem and enhance the pleasure of how you work and live.

　　我鼓励你们尽可能地探索一切机会，用已有的经历所得去指导|后面的人生。这似乎很难理解，但是不然，因为它会让你更加自信，让你工作和生活地更加快乐。

　　An important part of that experience is the time you have spent here. You will find that it forms a bridge to a larger world, a bridge based on warmth, on caring, on community and, yes, on expectations. That larger world will engulf² you; you can never completely escape it.

　　在凯洛格商学院的求学时光是你们人生经历的一个重要组成部分。你将发现，这是搭向更广阔世界的一座桥梁。它不仅带给你温暖、爱和归属感，而且还让你对明天充满希望。你将淹没在更广阔的世界里，但是你却永远也无法完全按弃这几年对你的影响。

　　But you will find that the commitment to excellence--that passion to win--that this school has instilled³ in you will serve you well all the days that will follow. My early days at Boston Latin School and later at Harvard inspired in me both the ability to achieve great success and the character to withstand tremendous disappointment.

　　你会发现，这个学校灌输给你们的追求卓越的理念——或者说，赢的激情——会很好地指引你以后的人生。我早期在波士顿拉丁学校和后来在哈佛的时光不仅激发了我获得成功的能力，而且塑造了我敢于承受巨大失败的性格。

　　At Kellogg, you have learned to think analytically⁴, to organize your mind to accept and assess every possible option, very potential avenue. But more importantly, Kellogg has taught you to act on that knowledge, decisively and aggressively. While you arrived here knowing how to take a chance, you leave here knowing how to take the right one. Trust your gut⁵. Be a risk taker.

　　在凯洛格商学院，你们学会了分析性地思考，知道怎样接受和权衡每一个可能的选择、每一个可能的途径。但是，更重要的是，凯洛格商学院教给你的是要采断而又进取地奉行这个能力。当你们来到这里时，你们学会怎样抓住机会；那么，当你们离开这里，你们要知道怎样抓住正确的机会。相信你的内心，去冒险吧！

1 jargon   

n.术语，行话

参考例句：

• They will not hear critics with their horrible jargon.他们不愿意听到评论家们那些可怕的行话。
• It is important not to be overawed by the mathematical jargon.要紧的是不要被数学的术语所吓倒.

2 engulf   

vt.吞没，吞食

参考例句：

• Floodwaters engulf a housing project in the Bajo Yuna community in central Dominican Republic.洪水吞没了多米尼加中部巴杰优那社区的一处在建的住房工程项目。
• If we are not strong enough to cover all the minds up,then they will engulf us,and we are in danger.如果我们不够坚强来抵挡大众的意念，就会有被他们吞没的危险。

3 instilled   

v.逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instill的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Nature has instilled in our minds an insatiable desire to see truth. 自然给我们心灵注入了永无休止的发现真理的欲望。 来自辞典例句
• I instilled the need for kindness into my children. 我不断向孩子们灌输仁慈的必要。 来自辞典例句

4 analytically   

adv.有分析地，解析地

参考例句：

• The final requirement,'significant environmental impact", is analytically more difficult. 最后一个规定“重大的环境影响”，分析起来是比较困难的。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• The overwhelming majority of nonlinear differential equations are not soluble analytically. 绝大多数非线性微分方程是不能用解析方法求解的。

5 gut   

n.[pl.]胆量；内脏；adj.本能的；vt.取出内脏

参考例句：

• It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing.冷冻鱼之前并不总是需要先把内脏掏空。
• My immediate gut feeling was to refuse.我本能的直接反应是拒绝。