英语美文：明白太晚的10堂人生课（上）

Number 1-Time doesn't last forever. Procrastinators like to say that you have all the time in the world. When you look at all the years you have left, yeah, it's tempting to believe it, but time doesn't last forever. A life time only feels long until you've lived it, until those years have passed you by, because that's when you realize how little you actually accomplished, or how few of your goals you really achieve. 

第一，时间有限。那些有拖延症的人，他们喜欢说，还有大把时间。当你认真考虑自己还剩下多少时间的时候，好像看起来确实还有挺多的，但是，你要知道，时间终究是有限的。只有你已经度过整个人生的时候，只有你已经走过所有岁月的时候，你才会觉得人生很长，因为那时候你才会发现，你几乎没有任何成就，你实现的目标少之又少。

You spent so much time saving your dreams for later, but later never came, and your dreams fell by the wayside. In life countless people take their time for granted. They're so concentrated on money, cars, and other luxuries that they forget how valuable that every hour of their time really is. Unlike those material goods, time is something you can only experience once. When an hour of your life has passed you by, you're never gonna get it back. 

你总是想着以后再实现自己的梦想，但是，没有以后，你的梦想也随之放弃。生活中，很多人不珍惜时间。他们总是关心钱财，豪车，以及其他的奢侈品，而他们忘记了自己的实践有多宝贵。时间不像其他物质一样，它只能体验一次。每当一个小时过去，你就永远不能重拾它了。

Just think about all that time that you've spent mindlessly browsing social media. Mm-hmm. It's gone. Or the four hours that you wasted playing video games. Those are four hours that you'll never see again. So the next time you're distracted or procrastinating just remember this important lesson. No matter how you slice it, time doesn't last forever. 

想一想，你到底花了多少时间，用来无所事事地浏览社交媒体。嗯，这些时间就这样没了。或者，想一想，你打电子游戏花掉的那四个小时。这四个小时，你再也不能拥有了。所以，下次你分心的时候，或者下次你又拖延的时候，记住这个教训。无论你怎么切分时间，时间都是有限的。

Number 2-Change requires your best. Change, well, it isn't easy. It doesn't happen naturally. You can't sit around and wait for the universe to hand you the life that you've always imagined. There's only one way to make any kind of real progress. You need to take the initiative and you have to commit a hundred percent. So that means taking whatever risks that you need to take and working as long as you have to, because if you're not willing to give something you're all, then you'll never come out on top. 
第二，做出改变，需要你最大的努力。做出改变，这并不简单。这不是什么自然而然的事，你不可能坐享其成，等着这个世界把你想要的生活送给你。要想取得真正的进步，只有一条路可走，那就是，你必须主动出击，全力以赴。这意味着，你要冒所有的风险，付出所有努力，因为，如果你不愿意付出所有，那么你就无法做到最好。

Imagine, for example, that you want to be a professional athlete. You might think all you need to do is go to practice and play well during the games. But that's not enough. The more you want to achieve the more sacrifices that you need to make, the more time and effort you need to dedicate to realize your dreams. Now of course that can be scary. What happens if you invest everything you have but you don't make it? As an athlete you might spend extra time at the gym, change your entire diet, and learn all kinds of new techniques and you still might fail. 
举个例子，想象一下，如果你想成为一个专业的运动员，可能你会认为，你只需要好好训练，比赛时候表现出色，就行了。但是，这远远不够。你的梦想越大，你要付出的牺牲就越大，你要付出的实践和努力就越大。当然了，这听起来确实很吓人。要是你全力以赴了却没有成功怎么办？作为一个运动员，你可能超时训练，彻底改变自己的饮食，学了所有的新技巧，但你还是有可能输。

That's a big reason why so many people stop trying or they take the easy road. They don't want to find out that all of their hard work was for nothing. But if you ever hope to accomplish your goals, that's a risk that you have to be willing to take.
这就是很多人半途而废或者选择安逸的原因，他们不想最后才发现自己所有的努力都白费了。但是，如果你想达成自己的目标，你就要愿意冒这个险。

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