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[00:00.85]Ambition 抱负
[00:02.93]新东方 俞敏洪 编审 王强 录音
[00:03.81]LRC歌词制作 张琦
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[00:07.99]It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition.
[00:12.36]It would probably be a kinder world:
[00:14.89]with out demands,
[00:15.98]without abrasions,  
[00:17.73] without disappointments.
[00:19.58] People would have time for reflection.
[00:21.77] Such work as they did would not be
[00:24.40] for themselves but for the collectivity.
[00:27.13]Competition would never enter in.
[00:30.08]conflict would be eliminated,
[00:32.38]tension become a thing of the past.
[00:35.55]The stress of creation would be at an end.
[00:38.94] Art would no longer be troubling,
[00:41.68]but purely celebratory in its functions.
[00:45.72]Longevity would be increased,
[00:47.92]for fewer people would die of heart attack
[00:50.32]or stroke caused by tumultuous endeavor.
[00:53.82]Anxiety would be extinct.
[00:56.33]Time would stretch on and on,
[00:58.85]with ambition long departed from the human heart.
[01:02.24]Ah, how unrelieved boring life would be!
[01:07.05]There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth,
[01:11.21]and ambition therefore a sham.
[01:14.05]Does this mean that success does not really exist?
[01:17.88]That achievement is at bottom empty?
[01:20.94]That the efforts of men and women are of
[01:22.91]no significance alongside the force of movements
[01:26.19]and events now not all success, obviously,
[01:30.57]is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth cultivating.
[01:36.36]Which are and which are not is something one
[01:39.76]soon enough learns on one’s own.
[01:42.60]But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists;
[01:47.74]that achievement counts for a great deal;
[01:50.48]and that the true myth is that the actions of men
[01:53.54]and women are useless.
[01:55.28]To believe otherwise is to take on
[01:57.69]a point of view that is likely to be deranging.
[02:00.42]It is, in its implications,
[02:03.71]to remove all motives for competence,
[02:06.44]interest in attainment, and regard for posterity.
[02:09.29]We do not choose to be born.
[02:12.35]We do not choose our parents.
[02:14.75]We do not choose our historical epoch,
[02:17.93]the country of our birth,
[02:20.00]or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.
[02:23.83]We do not, most of us,
[02:26.68]choose to die;
[02:31.38]nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death.
[02:33.13]But within all this realm of choicelessness,
[02:35.21]we do choose how we shall live:
[02:38.16]courageously or in cowardice,
[02:41.00]honorably or dishonorably,
[02:42.86]with purpose or in drift.
[02:45.17]We decide what is important and what is trivial in life.
[02:50.19]We decide that what makes us significant is either
[02:53.91]what we do or what we refuse to do.
[02:56.75]But no matter how indifferent
[02:59.06]the universe may be to our choices and decisions,
[03:02.33]these choices and decisions are ours to make.
[03:05.51]We decide. We choose.
[03:10.21]And as we decide and choose,
[03:11.85]so are our lives formed. In the end,
[03:15.57]forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
[03:19.73]祝大家学习愉快！


