關於成功的優秀英語美文

　　英語美文誦讀有利於培養學生的英語語感,提高學生表達的準確性,豐富學生的英語口頭表達內容,發展學生的英語聽、說、寫能力。本文是，希望對大家有幫助!

　　：成功的原則

　　When Henry ford decided to produce his famous v-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design in one for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.

　　Ford said, “Produce it anyway.”

　　“But,” they replied, “It's impossible!”

　　“Go ahead.” Ford commanded, “And stay on the job until you succeed, no matter how much time is required.”

　　The engineers went ahead. There was nothing else for them to do, if they were to remain on the ford staff. Six months passed and nothing happened. Another six months passed, and still nothing happened. The engineers tried every conceivable plan to carry out the orders, but the thing seemed out of the question:“impossible!”

　　亨利福特在要製作著名的v8汽缸引擎汽車時，曾指導他手下的工程師著手設計一種引擎，要把八個汽缸全放在一起。設計的紙上功課實現了，但是工程師們都異口同聲地跟福特說，“要把八個汽缸全放在一起，壓根是不可能。”

　　福特說：“無論如何都要做出來。”

　　他們又答覆：“然而，那不可能啊!”

　　“著手做。”福特一聲令下， “不管花多少時光，做到交差為止!”

　　工程師只得著手去做。假如他們還想呆在福特的公司裡討生涯，就別無他途可行，值得去做。過了半年，沒有動靜。又過了半年，一樣沒有半點進展。工程師們試過了所有想得出來的打算去履行命令，成果依然是：“不可能!”

　　At the end of the year ford checked with his engineers, and again they informed him they had found no way to carry out his orders.

　　“go right head,” said ford, “I want it, and I'll have it.”

　　They went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke of magic, the secret was discovered.

　　The ford determination had won once more!

　　This story may not be described with minute accuracy, but the sum and substance of it is correct. Deduce from it, you who wish to think and grow rich, the secret of the ford millions, if you can. You'll not have to look very far.

　　Henry ford was successful, because he understood and applied the principles of success. One of these is desire: knowing out the lines in which the secret of his stupendous achievement have been described. If you can do this, if you can lay your finger on the particular group of principles which made Henry ford rich, you can equal his achievements in almost any calling for which you are suited.

　　過了一年，福特的工程師們都不進展，他們再次告知他，他們想不出有什麼措施能夠做到的唆使。

　　“繼承做，”福特說。“我要八汽缸引擎，就必定要做到!”

　　他們持續盡力，而後好像如有神助似的，做法出籠了。

　　福特的信心又打贏了一仗。

　　這個故事興許說的不夠詳盡，但是故事的內容卻都是“如假包換”的。要想致富的你，從這個故事可以推算出福特百萬家財的機密何在。務須捨本逐末，就在面前。

　　亨利福特懂得成功的原則，也運用了這些原則，所以他勝利了。這些原則中，有一項就是盼望：曉得自己要做的是什麼。瀏覽這篇時，請牢記這則福特的故事，時時在字裡行間尋找他了不起的起因。只有你能做到，能準確無誤地指認出福特所應用的原則，就簡直可以在合適本人的任何行業裡，跟他一樣地超群絕倫。

　　：想成為職場成功人士? 你需具備6大工作習慣

　　When it comes to work, everyone has their own methods for getting tasks done. But it turns out that the most successful people tend to have similar habits.

　　對於工作，每個人都有自己完成任務的方法。但事實證明，大多數成功人士會有相似的習慣。

　　1. Mind Your Hours.

　　1.留意你的時間。

　　If you want to give your working hours a makeover, you’ve got to know how long your activities take.

　　如果你想要讓你的工作時間進行改革，你必須知道你的各項活動要花多久時間。

　　To get the same understanding of your own work or productivity, it is recommended that you keep a time log for a full week so you also capture the weekend — that’s when people tend to be less conscious of what they’re doing. There’s no one way of tracking your time, so just pick something that works for you. The goal is to be helpful, not to make you hate your life.

　　為了對你自己的工作或者生產率有同樣的瞭解，建議你記錄一整週的時間，這樣你也能清楚知道週末的時間在幹什麼——而那時候人人往往較少注意到自己做的事情。追蹤時間的方法不止一種，因此只需要選取對自己有效的。目標是為了有所幫助，而不是讓你厭惡自己的生活。

　　Time passes whether or not you make a conscious choice about how to use that time. And not being conscious of how you spend your time is also a choice. I can’t tell you how many people tell me by the second day, ‘I got so sick of saying, “checked Facebook,” for the tenth time that I stopped doing it.’

　　無論你是否有意識地選擇如何利用時間，時間都會過去。而且對你如何消磨時光不加留意也是一種選擇。我無法告訴你有多少人會在第二天告訴我，‘我已經第十次受不了在記錄裡提到“看Facebook”了，我再也不要去看Facebook了’”。

　　2. Plan.

　　2. 規劃。

　　The next step to being more conscious with your work time is to plan out your hours. This might seem really obvious, but many harried workers find themselves in triage mode — only answering urgent matters and never taking a moment to strategize about how best to spend their time.

　　更加留意你的工作時間的下一步是規劃你的時間。這似乎非常顯而易見，但許多不斷受折磨的上班族發現自己處於急救模式中——只能迴應那些緊急事務，而從未騰出片刻時間為如何更好地利用時間進行戰略規劃。

　　It is recommended having a planning session at least once a week — or a big one weekly and then smaller ones as projects get finished. It is also suggested planning over different time frames. For instance, at the end of the year, you could plan your goals for the year, and then, in your weekly planning sessions, make sure you are steadily working toward those goals.

　　建議你至少一週做一次規劃——或者一週一次大規劃，而在專案結束時做一些小的。你也可以對不同的時間框架進行規劃。比如，在年終，你可以制定下一年的規劃，隨後，在你制定每週計劃時，確保自己正致力於完成這些年度計劃。

　　3. Make Success Possible.

　　3. 讓成功成為可能。

　　With a new plan, it’s easy to start getting excited about your goals, become over-ambitious … and then fail. But you are more likely to reach your dreams as long as you set discrete, doable tasks for yourself — and then make sure you’re held accountable. First, break down big projects into small steps, and try to limit yourself to tackling three to six a day.

　　在一個新計劃中，很容易在開始時對你的目標感到興奮，變得過於雄心勃勃……然後失敗了。但是你只要為自己設立一些獨立的可行任務——繼而確保自己對此負責，你就更有可能實現夢想。首先，將大的專案劃分為小步，並且試著限定自己每天處理三到六個分目標。

　　Then, make sure you get to them. Everyone has a different accountability system. I personally use an accountability partner, with whom I have weekly check-ins on Friday. Others might want a more punitive or public approach, such as making a promise on Stickk, a web site in which people can set goals and then promise to do something dreaded, such as donate to an organization they loathe, if they fail.

　　隨後，確保自己完成它們。每個人都有不同的責任追究體系。我個人使用問責夥伴，每週五到這個夥伴那裡報道。其他人可能想要一個更具懲罰性或者更公開的方法，比如在Stickk作出承諾——人們可以在這個網站上設立目標，然後許諾如果他們失敗，就要做一些可怕的事，比如向一家自己討厭的機構捐款。

　　4. Know What Is Work.

　　4. 知道什麼是工作。

　　Many of us end up spending inordinate amounts of time answering email. According to a 2012 McKinsey Global Institute report on the social economy, knowledge workers spend 28 percent of their time wading through their inboxes.

　　我們很多人每天花大量時間回覆郵件。根據2012年麥肯錫諮詢公司關於社會經濟的報告，知識型工作者將28%的時間用於費力讀完他們的收件箱。

　　But checking email is not the same thing as doing “work” — and by that, I mean the core of what you’re trying to accomplish. If you’re the kind of person who is worried about leaving your inbox unattended, it is suggested starting to wean yourself off by being on email for 20 minutes, and then using the next 40 minutes to focus on a task without interruption. Eventually, expand those times between email check-ins.

　　但查郵件不等於“工作”——所謂的工作指你正努力完成的核心內容。如果你是那種不查收件箱就會感到惴惴不安的人，那麼建議你開始拿出20分鐘處理郵件，然後剩下的40分鐘專注於另一項任務。最終，逐步拉大檢查郵箱的時間間隔。

　　Another thing that can look like work but isn’t always: meetings. The reason you have a meeting is that you want something to change in the world by the end of it. The problem is that people have meetings to check that everyone is still doing their jobs .

　　還有一個看起來像工作但並非總是工作的事項：開會。召開一場會議的原因是你希望世上有件事能在會議結束時得到改變。問題是人們開會往往是為了確認大家仍在做各自的活兒。

　　I recommend shying away from recurring meetings. Everything you do with an hour should be a conscious decision.

　　建議避免經常開會。因為所有要花費一小時去做的事情都應當是一個合理的決定。

　　5. Practice.

　　5. 練習。

　　While professional musicians or athletes spend time practicing their craft or sport, many people with other jobs don’t. Yet, if you think about it, your job is likely a performance of sorts, too. And that means that you can also consciously practice your job skills with the goal of improving, though you’ll need to ask someone to give you feedback.

　　當專業音樂家或職業運動員花時間練習演奏技藝或運動時，許多從事其他工作的人卻無法做到這樣。然而，如果你好好想想，你的工作可能是某種形式的表演。而這意味著你同樣可以有意識地以提升為目標來練習工作技巧，儘管你需要讓別人給你反饋。

　　That’s the chunk that’s missing for a lot of people in their work. We don’t have as much feedback as we need. If you don’t get regular feedback, then after you, say, complete a task or give a presentation, ask your supervisor what you can do to improve next time. Or, have a friend in the same profession either look over your work before you send it to your boss or watch you practice giving your presentation before the real thing.

　　這是許多人工作中缺少的部分，我們得到的反饋不如我們需要的那樣多。如果你沒有定期得到反饋，那麼在你完成了一項任務或做完一次展示後，問問你的上司你下次可以如何提高。或者，找一個同行朋友，把任務發給老闆前找他審查一下，或者在演示開始前在他面前彩排一下。

　　6. Pay in.

　　6. 積累。

　　Let’s say, God forbid, that you lost your job today. In order to find a new one, you’d have to draw on your career capital, which is the sum total of your experiences, your knowledge, your skills, your relationships — and all these things enable you to get a new job if you need one, create new situations for yourself or other people, or even let you take a break without having it ruin your career. Successful people tend to pay in to their career capital account regularly.

　　假設今天你丟了工作***但願不會***。為了找到一份新工作，你不得不動用自己的事業資本，也就是你的經驗、知識、技巧和人脈之和——所有這一切能使你在需要時得到一份新工作，為你和其他人開闢新局面，或甚至讓你稍作休息而不會破壞你的事業。”成功人士傾向於定期積累事業資本。

　　There are three main ways to create career capital. One is to simply improve your skills and adopt new ones important in your line of work. Take professional development classes, or have a mentor help you figure out what you’ll need to learn in order to succeed five, ten or 20 years from now.

　　有三個積累事業資本的方法。一個是簡單的提高技能，並且採納你所在工作領域中重要的新技能。參加技能提升課程，或者讓一個導師幫助你弄清楚為了在今後五年、十年或二十年的成功，你需要學什麼。

　　Another type of career capital deposit is developing a portfolio of your work. The good thing about writing or illustrating books is that they are then out there in the market, speaking for you and your ideas even when you’re not around. And that explains why experts in many fields from medicine to business take up the pen. But writing or publishing isn’t the only way to create this portfolio. Doing work that has any kind of visible, tangible outcome will have the same effect.

　　另一種是發展自己的作品集。寫作或者做插畫家的一個好處是你的作品會面市，甚至在你不在了的時候代表你和你的想法。而且這解釋了為什麼從醫學到商業的許多領域的專家都提筆著書的原因。但寫作或出版並不是創造作品集的唯一方法。從事任何可以創造出結果的工作都會有相同的效果。

　　The third and final way to build your career capital is to build up a network of people loyal to you. You can do this by introducing colleagues to others you know who could be helpful to them, providing references for people, and also standing by associates when they’re down. Anyone can have lunch with someone who is successful. Real career capital comes from having lunch with someone who just lost the job she loves.

　　積累事業資本的第三種也是終極方法是建立起一個忠於你的人脈網路。你可以通過將同事引薦給你認識的、可能會對其有幫助的、會給他們提供參考人來實現這一點，並且當他們情緒低落的時候陪在他們身邊。任何人都能和成功人士共進午餐。真正的事業資本來自於與剛剛丟失一份心愛工作的人共進午餐。

　　：活到老學到老才是王道

　　The most successful entrepreneurs and executives are savvy business people first, and expertsin their field second. This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an erawhen technology seems to be driving the world. Yet the sad truth is that a technology notfocused on a real problem is not a business, and will probably fail in the marketplace.

　　最成功的企業家和高管，首先都是頭腦靈活的商業人士，其次是各自領域的專家。但是在這個看起來由技術推動世界發展的新紀元裡，技術專家的看法可能與此正好相反。不過事實是如果技術不是旨在解決實際問題的話，它就無法在市場上立足。

　　1.Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology.

　　像鑽研技術一樣，每天都要花時間去做市場調查。

　　Learning is a never-ending requirement for every entrepreneur. At best, all they teach you inschool is how to learn. In these days of rapid change, most experts believe that the factscollege students learn as a sophomore are obsolete before they exit their senior year.

　　每一個企業家都必須要永不停息地學習。在學校，老師教你的最多就是怎麼去學習。在瞬息變幻的社會裡，很多專家都認為大學生在大學二年級學到的東西，在他們畢業之前就已經過時了。

　　2. Build relationships with key experts in your business domain.

　　2. 和你所在的商業領域的專家建立良好關係。

　　Talk regularly with peers and advisors who have been there before you. Your focus should beon listening and asking questions, rather than defensively arguing that your situation issomehow different from all the others.

　　定期的和在你之前獲得成功的同事和顧問們交流。你應該專注在聽取和提問上，而不是防禦性的爭論說明你的情況就是和其他人的不一樣。

　　3. Be proactive in contributing business ideas and follow through.

　　3. 商業理念要有前瞻性，並堅持去執行該理念。

　　Talk is cheap when it comes to innovative ideas in business. You don’t really understand anew idea, until you try to write it down and succinctly communicate it to peers and critics.

　　光靠說，是說不出真正好的新點子的。如果你不把你的想法寫下來，告訴你的同僚，告訴那些批評家，你就無法真正理解一個新的理念。

　　4. Network in the industry as well as outside.

　　4. 建立圈內圈外的關係網。

　　The best entrepreneurs have the best “little black book”of expert contacts. Through personaloutreach, as well as industry organizations, they are constantly on the lookout for peoplesmarter and more experienced in their domain.

　　最成功的企業家都有本“小本本”，裡面裝著所有業內專家的***。不管是通過個人能力還是機構組織，他們從不間斷地去尋找在自己領域裡更聰明更有經驗的人。

　　5. Even the best have mentors they really use.

　　5. 就算是最成功的人也需要導師來助自己一臂之力。

　　A mentor is someone who will tell you what you need to hear, while friends and associatesoften tell you what you want to hear. Of course, it’s good to have both, but don’t confuse thetwo. Above all, be accountable to yourself in your efforts to keep the big picture inperspective.

　　當你的朋友和夥伴告訴你“你想聽的話”時，你的導師會告訴你“你需要聽的話”。當然，既有導師又有朋友是最好的，但不要將兩者混淆了。最重要的是，對自己負責，自己努力去規劃未來。

　　6. Understand the business, then add value.

　　6. 瞭解商業，為其增值。

　　The more business acumen you accumulate, the more likely you will be to bring realinnovation and survive the deadly challenges. Ultimately, every business decision is a questfor maximum return on investment ***ROI***, utilizing cash, technology, and human resources.

　　你招攬的商業能手越多，那麼在面臨巨大挑戰時，就有可能真正地創新並由此而渡過難關。歸根結底，每一個商業決策都是為了投資利益的最大化，最大限度地利用資金，技術和人才。

　　You don’t have to have an MBA to understand that even the most complex multinationalbusinesses are made up of five key drivers – cash, profit, assets, growth, and people. Whileeach driver is unique, it is also completely dependent on all the other drivers. Experts intechnology might thus only understand twenty percent of what they need to succeed inbusiness.

　　你不一定非得有一個MBA文憑才能理解這些，即使是最複雜的跨國貿易都是由以下五個核心部分組成的——資金，利潤，資產，發展和人才。每一個驅動力都是獨一無二的，但又是互相依賴，相輔相成的。而技術專家可能只懂得商業成功所需的五分之一的內容而已。

　　The best entrepreneurs never lose sight of the big picture, and they never stop learning untilthey die.

　　最成功的企業家永遠不會忘記他的巨集大願景，活到老，學到老。