1、英漢雙語美文 不要販賣你的靈魂 My fellow job seekers: I am honored to be among the first to congratulate you on completing your years at North Carolina A something that takes me back to the earliest memories I have in life. One day at church, my mother gave me a small coaster with a saying on it. During my entire

2、childhood, I kept this saying in front of me on a small desk in my room. In fact, I can still show you that coaster today. It says: What you are is Gods gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God. 記得有一天，在教堂，母親給了我一個小盤子，上面有一條諺語。在我整個童年時期， 我將那條諺語擺放在房間的小書桌上，今天還可以把那個盤子拿給你們看。上面寫著： “你 是什么由上帝

3、的天賦注定，而你成為什么則是你獻給上帝的禮物。 ” Those words have had a huge impact on me to this day. What this school and I believe in very deeply is that when we think about our lives, we shouldnt be limited by other peoples stereotypes or bigotry. Instead, we should be motivated by our own sense of possibility. We sho

4、uld be motivated by our own sense of accomplishment. We should be motivated by what we believe we can become. Jesse Jackson has taught us; Ronald McNair taught us; the Greensboro Four taught us; that the people who focus on possibilities achieve much more in life than people who focus on limitations

5、. 這些話至盡仍然對我有著巨大的影響。 這個學校與我同樣深信的是， 當我們思考自己的 生命時， 不應該受到其他人的陳詞濫調(diào)或偏見好惡的限制； 相反， 我們應該堅持自己對未來 發(fā)展的判斷，堅持自己對成就大業(yè)的把握，堅持對自己能有所作為的信念。Jesse Jacks。n的 經(jīng)歷告訴我們， Ronald McNair 的經(jīng)歷告訴我們， Greensboro Four 的經(jīng)歷也告訴我們，注重 發(fā)展性的人比注重局限性的人在生活中獲得的要多得多。 The question for all of you today is: how will you define what you make of yours

6、elf? To me, what you make of yourself is actually two questions. Theres the you that people see on the outside. And thats how most people will judge you, because its all they can see ?what you become in life, whether you were made President of this, or CEO of that, the visible you. But then, theres

7、the invisible you, the you on the inside. Thats the person that only you and God can see. For 25 years, when people have asked me for career advice, what I always tell them is dont give up what you have inside. Never sell your soul? Because no one can ever pay you back. 大家現(xiàn)在面對的問題是： 如何定義自己成為什么樣的人？對我而

8、言， 這實際上是兩個問 題：一個是人們從外表上看到的 “你 ”，這是大多數(shù)人判斷你的方式，因為那是他們所能看到 的全部，例如：你在生活中是什么人，是某個國家的總統(tǒng)，還是某個企業(yè)的CEO ；但是， 還有一部分的你是看不到的，這就是內(nèi)在的 “你 ”，是只有自己和上帝才明白的人性本質(zhì)。 25 年來， 當人們向我詢問職業(yè)生涯的意見時，我常常告訴他們， 不要放棄你的內(nèi)在本性， 千萬 不要販賣你的靈魂，因為沒有人能夠支付得起。 What I mean by not selling your soul is dont be someone youre not, dont be less than you a

9、re, dont give up what you believe, because whatever the consequences that may seem scary or bad - whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself are - they are much better than the consequences of selling your soul. You have been tested mightily in your life to get to this moment. And all of

10、you know much better than I do: from the moment you leave this campus, you will be tested. You will be tested because you wont fit some peoples pre-conceived notions or stereotypes of what youre supposed to be, of who youre supposed to be. People will have stereotypes of what you can or cant do, of

11、what you will or wont do, of what you should or shouldnt do. But they only have power over you if you let them have power over you. They can only have control if you let them have control, if you give up whats inside. I speak from experience. Ive been there. Ive been there, in admittedly vastly diff

12、erent ways - and in many ways, in the fears in my heart, exactly the same places. The truth is Ive struggled to have that sense of control since the day I left college. 我所說的 “不要販賣自己的靈魂 ”，就是不要違背自己的本性，不要掩蓋你的天賦，也不 要放棄你的信念。 無論結(jié)果看起來可能多么的可怕或糟糕， 無論保持自己本性的結(jié)果是什么， 總比出賣靈魂好很多。 在到達今天之前， 大家經(jīng)歷了無數(shù)的檢驗和測試， 你們比我更清楚地知道

13、： 從你們離開 校園的這一刻起， 還要不斷接受測試。 接受這些測試的原因， 是你們或許不適合某些人對你 們應該做什么工作、 成為什么人的預想或模式化的觀念。 人們對于你們能做什么不能做什么、 應該做什么不應該做什么有著模式化的概念，但是， 只有當你們愿意讓他們影響你們時，他 們才能影響你們， 只有當你們愿意他們控制你們時， 當你們放棄自己的內(nèi)在本性時， 他們才 能控制你們。 我的這些感想來自自己的經(jīng)驗。 在畢業(yè)離校的那一天， 我曾經(jīng)很害怕， 擔心別人會怎么 想，擔心我不符合要求，擔心做出錯誤的選擇，擔心讓辛辛苦苦工作供我念大學的人失望。 I like big challenges, and t

14、he career path I chose for myself at the beginning was in one of the most male-dominated professions in America. I went to work for AT&T. It didnt take me long to realize that there were many people there who didnt have my best interests at heart. I began my career as a first level sales person with

15、in AT&Ts long lines department. Now, long lines is what we used to call the long distance business, but I used to refer to the management team at AT&T as the 42 longs ?which was their suit size, and all those suits ?and faces ?looked the same. Ill never forget the first time my boss at the time intr

16、oduced me to a client. With a straight face, he said this is Carly Fiorina, our token bimbo. I laughed, I did my best to dazzle the client, and then I went to the boss when the meeting was over and said, You will never do that to me again. In those early days, I was put in a program at the time call

17、ed the Management Development Program. It was sort of an accelerated up-or-out program, and I was thrown into the middle of a group of all male sales managers who had been there quite a long time, and they thought it was their job to show me a thing or two. A client was coming to town and we had dec

18、ided that we were getting together for lunch to introduce me to this customer who was important to one of my accounts. Now the day before this meeting was to occur, one of my male colleagues came to me and said, You know, Carly, Im really sorry. I know weve had this planned for a long time, but this customer has a favorite restaurant here in Washington, D.C., and they really want to go to that restaur