Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. ( 10 points)
With its theme that "Mind is the master weaver," creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.
James Allen的《思考致富》一书以"思想是主宰的编织者"为主题,阐述了思想创造我们的内在品格和外在境遇,是对自助写作核心理念的深入探索。
Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and
Allen的贡献在于揭示了我们共同持有的一个假设的错误本质——因为我们不是机器人,所以我们能控制自己的思想。由于我们大多数人认为心智与物质是分离的,我们以为思想可以被隐藏并变得无力;这使我们能够想法是一套而行为是另一套。然而,Allen认为无意识思维产生的行动与有意识思维一样多,虽然我们可能仅通过有意识思维维持控制的假象,但实际上我们不断面临一个问题:"为什么我不能让自己做这件事或实现那个目标?"
Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded: "We do not attract what we want, but what we are." Achievement happens because you as a (46)Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share – that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts – and reveal its erroneous nature. (47)while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: "Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that?" person embody the external achievement; you don't "get" success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.
由于欲望和意志会被与欲望不一致的思想所削弱,Allen得出结论:"我们吸引的不是我们想要的,而是我们所是的。"成就之所以发生,是因为你作为一个人体现了外在的成就;你不是"获得"成功而是成为成功。思想与物质之间没有鸿沟。
Part of the fame of Allen's book is its contention that "Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him."
Allen这本书的部分声誉来自其论断:"环境不会造就一个人,而是揭示他。"这似乎为忽视有需要的人提供了正当理由,为剥削、上层者的优越性和底层者的劣等性提供了合理化解释。
This, however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fact, Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person's early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.
然而,这只是对一个微妙论点的本能反应。每一种环境,无论多么糟糕,都提供了独特的成长机会。如果环境总是决定人们的生活和前景,那么人类就永远不会进步。事实上,环境似乎是为了激发我们最好的一面而设计的,如果我们觉得自己"受到了委屈",那么我们就不太可能开始有意识地努力摆脱自己的处境。然而,正如任何传记作家都知道的那样,一个人的早年生活及其条件往往是给予个人的最大礼物。
The sobering aspect of Allen's book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.
Allen这本书令人警醒的方面在于,除了我们自己,没有人该为我们目前的状况负责。积极的一面是,知道一切都取决于我们自己所蕴含的可能性;以前我们是各种局限的专家,现在我们成为可能性的权威。
(48)This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
(49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we feel that we have been "wronged" then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.
(50)The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
(46) Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share – that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts – and reveal its erroneous nature.
参考译文:艾伦的贡献在于:他把我们所有人都共有的一个假设——即因为我们不是机器人,所以我们能够掌控自己的思想——拿出来加以审视,并揭示了这一假设的错误本质。
(47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: "Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that?"
参考译文:尽管我们或许能够仅凭意识层面的心智来维持一种「自己能掌控一切」的错觉,但事实上,我们不断面临着这样一个问题:「为什么我无法让自己做这件事或达成那件事?」
(48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.
参考译文:这种说法似乎是在为漠视那些需要帮助的人提供正当理由,又为剥削行为提供合理化的说辞——即认可上层者高人一等、下层者低人一等的等级之分。
(49) circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us, and if we feel that we have been "wronged" then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.
参考译文:境遇似乎是有意安排来激发我们身上最好的一面的;而如果我们感到自己「受了委屈」,那么我们就不大会有意识地努力去摆脱自身当前的处境。
(50) The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.
参考译文:积极的一面在于:当我们认识到一切都取决于自己时,其中所蕴含的种种可能性——以前我们是种种局限的专家,如今我们则成了一切可能之事的行家。
逐句解析 句前 (N) 即考卷划线句题号,与卷面下划线句一一对应——满分 10 分、每句约 2 分,阅卷把每句切成意群按采 分点给分(★ 为采分点意群)。 【来源】本文节选自 Tom Butler-Bowdon 所著励志读物 Fifly Self-help Classics《自助经典 50 篇》中的第一章∶James Allen(詹姆斯·艾伦)。 【主旨】心念塑造境遇的自助哲学 全文围绕詹姆斯·艾伦《As a Man Thinketh》一书展开,核心论点是Mind is the master weaver ——心念是编织内在性格与外在境遇的主匠;作者全程持肯定、推崇的态度,把这本书视为自助类 写作的核心思想之深度探索。理解划线句必须始终扣住这一基调:人的思想(mind / thoughts / unconscious mind)才是决定性力量,外部境遇(circumstances)只是显化与揭示。
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