英語美文朗讀 第320期 Don't Quit

You've probably heard this before that tough times don't last forever but tough people do. That held true when you first heard it and it still holds true today. There will come a time in your life where you may cry and feel like your soul is dying. Those days when you struggle, want to give up, and don't want to face the world. These are the days that define you. Don't quit.

 

你可能聽說過，艱難的時期總會過去，堅強的人才能笑到最后。這個道理，古今通用。在人生中，你可能會遇到艱難時期。你哭泣，你感到自己的靈魂正在死去。這種時候，你痛苦地掙扎，你想放棄，你不想面對這個世界。然而，這正是磨煉你的時候。不要放棄。

 

Difficulties come to make you strong, but that's only when you make a decision to go on, and you stand by it. Abraham Lincoln said, I'm not concerned that you have fallen and concerned that you will rise. Giving up as human nature brought about by fear, fear of, what if I fail and try, and then fail again. Wouldn't it just be easier to just quit? But here is what is wrong with that. When you give in to that fear, you sentence yourself to a lifetime of failure, a lifetime of regret, a situation where you lose faith in yourself and in humanity. Don't do that to yourself.

只有在你下定決定要堅持到底的時候，困難才能讓你更加強大。亞伯拉罕·林肯曾經(jīng)說過，我不在乎你有沒有跌倒，我在乎的是你有沒有站起來。放棄是人類的天性，它是由恐懼引起的。要是我失敗之后再次嘗試，又失敗了，怎么辦？直接放棄，這不是更簡單嗎？但是，這種想法是不對的。當你向恐懼低頭的時候，你注定了一生都要失敗，一生都要后悔，你會對自己失去信心，對人性失去信心。不要這樣對待自己。

 

You must understand that difficult times will come. There's absolutely nothing you can do about that. What you can do, however, is decide what you're going to do with the times. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it, so you must decide to make a commitment to face it and deal with it, because at the end of pain is success.

你必須明白，艱難時期總是會來的，你無法阻止它。然而，你能做的，就是決定自己要如何面對艱難時期。生活中，重要的不是發(fā)生了什么，而是你如何應對。所以，你必須決定好，下定決心去面對困難，處理困難，因為，痛苦的盡頭，就是成功。

 

Name what it is that is holding you back. It may be fear. It may be procrastination, a relationship, self-doubt, or even depression. Whatever it is, identify it. You know you can, if you think deeply about it. Now write it down. This will put into perspective what you have to deal with. The big picture of your life will begin to become clear when you start paying attention to the tiniest details. Start with identifying what is holding you back.

找出到底是什么東西拖了你的后腿，可能是恐懼，可能是拖延，可能是一段關系，可能是系我懷疑，甚至可能是抑郁。無論它是什么，首先要找到它。如果你認真思考，你就能找到它。然后，把這個東西寫下來。這會讓你清楚地看到，你到底要處理什么。當你開始注意人生中最小的細節(jié)時，你人生的大局就會變得清晰起來。找到拖你后腿的東西，從這一步做起。

 

Next, you have to let go of your anger and hate from the past. This is to help you heal yourself. You cannot be happy and productive if you hold on to old hurts. Let go of relationships and situations that are out of your control. Don't try to force it. You'll only end up hurting yourself some more. Your mental health is important, as it guides every other aspect of your life, your physical life, your spiritual life. They all become better when you maintain a healthy mental state. Let go of your past hurt.

接下來，你要放下過去的憤怒和怨恨，這能幫助你治愈自己。如果你總是沉溺于過去的傷痛，那么你不可能快樂，也不可能有所成就。放下那些你無法控制的人際關系和情況，不要勉強了。如果你放不下，你只會進一步傷害自己。你的心理健康是很重要的，因為它引導著你生活的每一個方面，你的生理健康，你的精神生活。如果你能保持健康的心理狀態(tài)，你生活的方方面面都會變得更好。放下過去的傷痛吧。