適合背誦的文章英語版
背誦法自古以來被認為是一種高效的學習方法,是我國傳統學習的寶貴經驗之一。下面是小編帶來的，歡迎閱讀!
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The Road to Success
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and janitresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is “aim high”. I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner or the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself, “My place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here there, and everywhere. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” is all wrong. I tell you to “put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look round you and take notice, men who do that not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest; never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”
成功之路
安德魯.卡耐基
年輕人創業之初，應該從最底層幹起，這是件好事。匹茲堡有很多商業巨頭，在他們創業之初，都不情願地肩負過“重任”。他們與掃帚相伴，以打掃辦公室的方式度過了他們在商業生涯中最初的日子。我注意到我們現在辦公室裡都有工友，所以很可惜，年輕人就錯過了商業教育中這個有益的環節。如果碰巧哪天上午，專職掃地的工友沒有來，某個具有未來合夥人氣質的年輕人便會毫不猶豫地試著拿起掃帚。新來的員工在必要時，掃掃地也無妨，你並不會因此而有什麼損失。我自己就曾經掃過地......
加入你已經找到工作，並且有了一個良好的開端，我對你的建議就是：要志存高遠。一個年輕人，如果不曾把自己想象成是一家大公司未來的老闆或是合夥人，那我就會對他不屑一顧。在任何企業，不管它的規模有多大，你的內心都不要滿足於做一個首席助理、領班或者總經理。要對自己說：我要邁向頂尖!要做就做你夢想之國裡的國王。
成功的首要條件和最大祕訣就是：把你的精力、思想和資本全都集中在你正在從事的事業上。一旦開始從事某種職業，就要下定決心在那一領域闖出一片天地來：不斷提高自己，採用最優良的裝置，對專業知識熟稔於心。
過於分散自己資本的企業，註定會失敗，因為分散資本就意味著分散了他們的精力。他們向這方面投資，又向那方面投資;在這裡投資，在那裡投資，到處都投資。“不要把所有的雞蛋放在一個籃子裡”的說法其實大錯特錯。我要對你說：“把所有的雞蛋都放在一個籃子裡，然後小心地看好那個籃子。”看看你周圍，你會注意到：這麼做的人其實很少失敗。提著一個籃子並看好它，並不太難。在我們國家，想同時提很多籃子的人往往打破的雞蛋最多。提三個籃子的人，必須把一個頂在頭上，而這個籃子很可能掉下來，把他自己絆倒。美國商人的一個錯誤就是沒有集中自己的精力。
總結一下，我所說的：要志存高遠;不要出入酒吧;要滴酒不沾，要喝也只在用餐時喝少許;不要投機;不要寅吃卯糧;要把公司的利益當作你自己的利益;要專注;把所有的雞蛋放在一個籃子裡，然後小心地看好它;要量入為出;最後一點，要有耐心，就像艾默生所言：“除了你自己沒人能真正阻止你成功。
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On Achieving Success
We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be subordinate1.
I hate a thing done by halves2. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone.
The men of history were not perpetually3 looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it. They did it so well that the wondering world sees them to be great, and labeled4 them accordingly.
To live with a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes a man strong.“Eternal vigilance5,” it has been said,“is the price of liberty.” With equal truth it may be said,“Unceasing effort is the price of success.” If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip6 us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp.
Success grows less and less dependent on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.
The great and indispensable7 help to success is character. Character is a crystallized8 habit, the result of training and conviction9. Every character is influenced by heredity10, environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist11, and irresponsible creature of circumstances.
Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovel12. Bricks and mortar13 are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much. Wise men don’t care for what they can’t have.
關於獲得成功
歐內斯特.海明威
我們不可能把每條路都走一遍。必須執著於一條道路才能獲得成功。我們必須有一個終生追求的目標，其他的則從屬於這個目標。
我痛恨做事半途而廢。如果這件事是對的，就大膽勇敢地去做;如果這件事不對，就不要去做。
歷史長河中的偉人並不是靠終日瞻觀鏡中的自己來衡量自身的形象的。他們的形象來自對事業全身心的投入與追求。他們是如此的卓越超凡，於是芸芸眾生覺得他們很偉大，並因此稱他們為偉人。
為崇高的理想而活著是一種成功的生活。使人變強大的，不是這個人做了什麼，而是他努力嘗試去做什麼。有人說過，“恆久的警惕是自由的代價”，那同樣也可以說，“不懈的努力是成功的代價。”
倘若我們不盡全力工作，別人會盡全力，隨後他們將在競爭中超越我們，從我們手中奪取勝利的果實。
成功越來越不依賴於運氣和巧合。喪失自信是我們失敗的主要原因。
性格是取得成功不可或缺的重要助力。性格是一種固化成形的習慣，是不斷培養並堅信於此的結果。每個人的性格都會受到遺傳因素、環境和教育的影響。但除此之外，如果人在很大程度上不能成為自己性格的構築者，那麼他就會淪為宿命論者，從而成為環境的失敗造物。
與其說人是環境的造物，不如說人是環境的建築師更貼切些。同樣的材料，有人能用其建造出宮殿，而有人只能建成簡陋的小屋。在建築師將其變成他物之前，磚泥依然是磚泥。