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Born to Win 《生而为赢》

Each human being is born as something new, something that never existed before. Each is born with the capacity to win at life. Each person has a unique way of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and thinking. Each has his or her own unique potentials - capabilities and limitations. Each can be a significant, thinking, aware, and creative being - a productive person, a winner.

人皆生而为新，为前所未有之所存在。人皆生而能赢。人皆有其特立独行之方式去审视、聆听、触摸，品味及思考，因而都具备独特潜质-能力和局限。人皆能举足轻重、思虑明达、洞察秋毫、富有创意，成就功业。

Winners do not dedicated their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence and manipulating others. They are aware that there is a difference between being loving and acting loving, between being stupid and acting stupid, between being knowledgeable and acting knowledgeable. Winners do not need to hide behind a mask.

成者行事并不拘泥于某种信条，即便是他们认为应为其奉献一生的理念；而是本色行事，所以并不把精力用来表演，保持伪装或操控他人。他们明了爱与装家，愚蠢与装傻，博学与卖弄之间迥然有别。成者无须藏于面具之后。

Winners are not afraid to do their own thinking and to use their own knowledge. They can separate facts from opinions and don’t pretend to have all the answers. They listen to others, evaluate what they say, but come to their own conclusions. Although winners can admire and respect other people, they are not totally defined, demolished, bound, or awed by them.

成者敢于利用所学，独立思考，区分事实与观点，且并不佯装通晓所有答案。他们倾听，权衡他人意见，但能得出自己的结论。尽管他们尊重，敬佩他们，但并不为他们所局限、所推翻、所束缚，也不对他人敬若神灵。

知识点总结

1.单词

capacity n. 能力；容量

unique adj.独特的

potential-potentials n.潜能

manipulate v.操作

pretence n.伪装

significant adj.重要的

demolish v.推翻

2.词组

a productive person 一个富有创意的人

be aware that 意识到...

maintain pretence 保持伪装

separate... from... 把......从......中分离

pretend to+动词原型 假装......

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