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if you want to understand adversity, take two identical acorns from the same oak tree and plant them in two different locations. plant the first in the middle of a dense forest, and the other on a hill by itself.

如果你想理解什麼是逆境，就去摘兩顆從同一棵樹上年齡相同的橡樹果，並且把它們種到不同的地方。

第一顆種在濃密的樹林當中，另外一顆則單獨種在一座山上。

here's what will happen. the oak standing on a hillside is exposed to every storm and gale. as a result its roots plunge deep into the earth and spread in every direction, even wrapping themselves around giant boulders. at times it may seem the tree isn't growing fast enough—but the growth is happening underground. it's as if the roots know they must ported the tree from the threatening elements.

事情的結果便是這樣。那顆長在山上的橡樹經歷了大風大雨，結果它的根深深地扎進了泥土中間，並不斷向四周擴張，甚至把自己置身於巨大的石塊當中。有時它可能看起來長的不是很快，但此時它卻在地下悄悄生長着，好像它的根知道自己必須快速生長來保護樹木免受自然危害的影響。

He was 11 and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family's cabin.

他11歲那年，只要一有機會，就會到他家小屋的碼頭上釣魚。

On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening. Then he tied on a small silver lure and practiced casting. When his peapole doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully worked the fish alongside the dock.

鱸魚季節開放的前一天晚上，他和父親早早開始垂釣。他繫上魚餌，練習如何拋線。當魚杆向下彎的時候，他知道線的另一端一定釣到了一條大魚。父親看着他技巧純熟地在碼頭邊沿和魚周旋，眼神充滿讚賞。

Finally, he lifted the exhausted fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but is was a bass.

最後他將筋疲力盡的魚提出水面。這是他所見過的最大的一條，還是一條鱸魚。

The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 P.M.----two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy.

父親檫着一根火柴，看了看錶。十點了---離開禁還有兩個小時。他看了看魚，又看了看男孩。

"You'll have to put it back, son." he said.

“你得把它放回去，孩子。”父親説道。

"Dad!" cried the boy.

“爸爸!”男孩叫道。

"There will be other fish," said his father.

“還有其他的魚嘛。”父親説道。

"Not as big as this one," cried the boy.

“但沒這麼大。”男孩叫道。

He looked around the lake. No others were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he caught the fish, the boy could tell by the clarity of his father's voice that the decision was not negotiable. He slowly worked the hook out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water. The boy suspected that he would never again see such a great fish.

男孩環視了一遍湖。月光下附近沒有其他人。他又看了看他父親。從父親不可動搖的語氣中，他知道這個決定沒有商量餘地，即使沒有人看到他們，更無從得知他們何時釣到了魚。他慢慢地將魚鈎從大鱸魚的脣上取下，然後蹲下將魚放回水中。男孩想，他可能再也看不到這麼大的魚了。

That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He takes his own son and daughters fishing from the same dock.

那是34年前的事了。現在，男孩是紐約的一個成功的建築師，他帶着自己的'兒女仍然在同一個碼頭上釣魚。

And he was right. He has never again caught such a magnificent fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish---again and again---every time he comes up against a question of ethics.

他猜得沒錯。自那次以後，他再也沒有釣上過那麼大的魚了。但每次他面臨道德難題而舉棋不定的時候，他的眼前再三浮現出那條魚。

For, as his father taught him, ethics are simple matters of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is looking? Do we refuse to cut corners to get the design in on time? Or refuse to trade stocks based on information that we know we aren't supposed to have?

他父親曾告訴他，道德即是簡單的對和錯的問題，但要付諸行動卻很難。在沒人瞧見的時候，我們是否仍遵循道德準則?為了將圖紙按時完成，我們是不是也會走捷徑?或者在明知道不可以的情況下，仍將公司股份賣掉?

We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the truth. The decision to do right lives fresh and fragrant in our memory.

在我們還小的時候，如果有人教導我們把魚放回去，我們會這樣做，因為我們還在學習真理。正確的決定在我們的記憶裏變得深刻而清晰。

It is a story we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren. Not about how we had a chance to beat the system and took it， but about how we did the right thing and were forever strengthened.

這個故事我們可以驕傲地講給朋友和子孫們聽，不是關於如何攻擊和戰勝某種體制，而是如何做正確的決定，從而變得無比堅強。

But all sunshine without shade, all pleasure without pain, is not life at all.

Take a lot of the happiest ,it is a tangled avements and blessings,one following another, make us sad and blessed by turns. Even death itself makes life more loving. Men come closest to their true selves in the sober moments of life, under the shadows of sorrow and loss.

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

I have always believed that the man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simplywithout. In an age of extravagance and waste, I wish I could show to the world how few the real wants of humanity are.

To regret one's errors to the point of not repeating them is true e is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

在平靜的大海上,每個人都是領航員。

但是隻有陽光沒有陰影,只有快樂沒有痛苦,那根本不是真正的生活.就拿最幸福的人來説,他的生活也是一團纏結在一起的亂麻。痛苦與幸福交替出現,使得我們一會悲傷一會高興。甚至死亡本身都使得生命更加可愛。在人生清醒的時刻,在悲傷與失落的陰影之下,人們與真實的自我最為接近。

在生活和事業的種種事務之中，性格比才智更能指導我們，心靈比頭腦更能引導我們，而由判斷獲得的剋制、耐心和教養比天分更能讓我們受益。

我一向認為，內心生活開始更為嚴謹的人，他的外在生活也會變得更為簡樸。在物慾橫流的年代，但願我能向世人表明：人類的真正需求少得多麼可憐。

反思自己的過錯不至於重蹈覆轍才是真正的悔悟。高人一等並沒有什麼值得誇耀的。真正的高貴是優於過去的自已。