大学英语四翻译

西蒙顿说，如果事业上取得巨大成就者具有什么共性的话

If great achievers share anything, said Simonton, it is an relenting drive to succeed. “an tendency to think that they are endowed with something super-normal,” he explained. “But

what comes out of the research is that there are great people who have no amazing intellectual

a difference in degree. Greatness is built upon tremend ous amounts of study,

processes. It’s

practice and devotion.”

He cited Winston Churchill, Britain’s prime minister during World War II, as an example of a

moral was at its

risk-taker who would never give up. Thrust into his office when his country’s

lowest, Churchill rose brilliantly to lead the British people. In a speech following the Allied

evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, he inspired to nation when he said, “We should not flag or fail. W shall go on to the end… We shall never surrender.”

一些人不愿表达感激之情，因为他们觉得这不会受欢迎。

Some person refrain from expressing their gratitude because they feel it will not be welcome.

A patient of mine, a few weeks after his discharge from the hospital, came back to thank his

e bored to death with

nurse. “I don’t come sooner,” he explained, “because I imagined you must b

people thanking you.”

she replied, “I am delighted you came. Few realize how much we need

“On the contrary,”　

encouragement and how much we are helped by those who give it.”　

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks

we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.

一般西方人解决问题的方法是与之搏斗。

The normal Western approach to a problem is to fight it. The saying, “When the going gets

is typical of this aggressive attitude toward problem-solving. No

tough, the toug h get going,”　

matter what the problem is, or the techniques available for solving it, the framework produced

by our Western way of thinking is fight.Dr.de Bono calls this vertical thinking; the traditional,

sequential, Aristotelian thinking of logic, moving firmly from one step to the next, like toy blocks

being built one on top of the other. The flaw is, of course, that if at any point one of the step is

not reached, or one of the toy blocks is incorrectly placed, then the whole structure collapse.

Impasse is reached, and frustration, tension, feelings of fight take over.

Lateral thinking, Dr. de Bono says,is a new technique of thinking about things—a technique

that avoids this fight altogether,and solves the problem In an entirely unexpected fashion.

学生的成绩达不到老师的期望是常有的事

When a student's work did not measure up to the teacher's expectations, as often happened,

the student was not treated with disappointment, anger, or annoyance. Instead, the teacher

assumed that this was an exception, an accident, a bad day, a momentary slip — and the student

believed her and felt reassured. The next time around, he tried harder, determined to live up to

what the teacher knew he could to.

The exact part of communication that tells a child, "I expect the best," is difficult to pinpoint. In

part it consists of a level tone showing assurance, a lack of verbal impatience, an absence of

negative qualities such as irony, put-downs, and irritation.The teacher who expects the best asks

her questions with conviction, knowing the answers she gets will be right, and the child picks up