职称英语2015版课文详解第五十五课.docVIP

55. It’s never too Late for Success New 成功不分早晚 1. You and your parents can stop worrying ——Pasteur, Edison, Darwin and lots more were far from being geniuses（天才） in their teens（十几岁）. 1. 你和父母不用再忧虑了，因为巴斯德、爱迪生、达尔文以及无数的名 人在他们十几岁时都不是天才。 2. History books seldom mention（很少提到） it，but the truth is that many of our greatest figures were less than inspiring（鼓舞人心的） when they were teenagers. They were given to（沉溺于） daydreaming, indecision, hebetude (plain dullness), and they showed no promise of being great. 2. 历史书避之不谈，但毋庸置疑的事实是：许许多多的伟人在少年时期 根本没有展现出令人振奋的天赋。他们喜欢想入非非、优柔寡断、反应迟钝， 没有表现出任何伟人的潜质。 3. So, if you suffer from （忍受）the same symptoms, don’t despair. The world was built by men and women whose parents worried that they would “never amount to a hill of beans.” You don’t hear too much about their early failure because parents prefer to cite more inspiring examples. 3. 如果你也有上述困扰，并为此烦恼不己，请不要绝望。这个世界就是 由那些父母们担心会一事无成的男男女女组成的。你之所以没有听过他们曾 经的失败，是因为挂在他们父母嘴边的总是那些令人鼓舞的事例。 4. A Man They Don’t Tell You about 4. 那个他们不愿意告诉你的人 5. If you take piano lessons and your attitude toward（对…的态度） practicing is marked by（以…为特点） laziness, your parents might justly complain（抱怨） and flaunt（炫耀） before you the famous picture of little Mozart in his ruffled（有褶边的） nightshirt（男士长睡衣）, playing the piano at midnight in the attic. But the point is（问题在于）, your parents would not show you a picture of a certain party who never showed a whit of interest in music during his formative years（形成期）. In fact he never showed talent in any direction whatever. Finally put to studying law, he barely passed his final exams. It was not until he was 22 that he suddenly became fired with a great passion for（对…的强烈爱好） music, and his name was Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. 5. 如果你在学习钢琴，而且被认为疏于练习，态度懒惰，父母可能会对 你抱怨并且夸奖那张著名照片中穿着褶边睡衣在午夜的阁楼上弹琴的小莫扎 特。但问题是，你的父母绝不会给你看另一类人的照片，他在成长期内从未 展露出一点点对音乐的兴趣。事实上，无论在哪个方面都没有显示出任何天 赋。最后，送他去学法律，结业成绩也只是勉强过关。直到22岁时他才忽然 焕发出对音乐的巨大热情，他的名字就是柴可夫斯基。 6. In the sciences, there have been hundreds of geniuses（天才） who aime