英语小达人 45 Step by step

 　　Step by step

　　按部就班

　　As a young woman, I believe that life would be interesting and always exciting. Then, one day I found myself in a job I didn't like and doing activities that I found very uninteresting and unexciting. Instead of making a life for me, I took what came to me.

　　身为年轻的女性， 我相信生活应该是有趣且永远刺激的。有一天，我发现我并不喜欢现在的工作，所有活动变得无趣且不刺激。我任人摆布，没有自己的生活。

　　I decided¹ I need a change, but change seemed so scary². I wasn't sure of the course of action I needed to take to make the changes I wanted, and that frightened me. I had an end goal³ in my mind, but I didn't know how to get there.

　　我决定我需要改变，可是改变似乎很可怕，我不确定需要采取哪些行动，才能得到我要的改变。这点使我很害怕。在我心中有个终极目标，可是我不知道该如何达成。

　　One day, I took the first step, and when I did, I found I asked all the right questions. Once my question were answered, the next step always appeared. When something challenging⁴ happened, I didn't procrastinate⁵. I just broke the problem down into parts.

　　有天我踏出第一步，当我这么做时，我发觉我提出了所有适当的问题，等到所有问题获得解答，下一步总是会出现。遇到挑战时，我不会拖延，我将问题分成好几部分。

　　Before I began taking steps, my ideas seemed imposssible, but it was actually very easy to make changes once I started!

　　在我开始采取行动前，我的想法似乎是不可能的，可是当我一旦开始，要改变其实是件很容易的事！

1 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。

2 scary   

a.引起惊慌的；害怕的

参考例句：

• What animal do you think is the most scary?你认为什么动物最可怕？
• Are you afraid of scary movies?你害怕恐怖电影吗？

3 goal   

n.(足球)球门；得分

参考例句：

• I shot the ball into the goal.我把球踢进球门。
• That was his best goal.那是他最好的一次得分。

4 challenging   

adj.大胆的(复杂的，有前途的，挑战的)；n.复杂(有前途，大胆，挑战)

参考例句：

• She performed the most challenging task without a mistake.她毫无差错地完成了这一最富有挑战性的任务。
• We have changed the course to make it more challenging.我们改了课程以使其更具挑战性。

5 procrastinate   

v.耽搁，拖延

参考例句：

• Most often we procrastinate when faced with something we do not want to do.面对不想做的事情，我们经常拖延。
• It's easy to procrastinate when the deadline seems infinitely far away.当最终期限总是遥遥无期时是很容易延期的。