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演讲简介：
阿兰·德波顿检视我们对成功和失败的看法，质疑它们所代表的意义。成功都是配得的吗？失败呢？听他机智地解答我们对成功的迷思，帮助我们摆脱势利，重新寻回对工作的热情。
v. 分歧
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- For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set,
- 我经常对事业感到恐慌，周日下午，晚霞洒满天空，
- and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.
- 理想和现实的差距是这样残酷，令我沮丧的只想抱头痛哭。
- I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem;
- 我提出这件事是因为我认为不只有我这么感觉，
- you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises,
- 你可能不这么认为，但我感觉我们活在一个充满事业恐慌的时代，
- by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers
- 就在我们认为我们已经理解我们的人生和事业时，
- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.
- 真实便来恐吓我们。
- It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.
- 现在或许比以前更容易过上好生活。
- It's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
- 但却比以前更难保持冷静，或不为事业感到焦虑。
- I want to look now, if I may, at some of the reasons why we might be feeling anxiety about our careers.
- 今天我想要检视我们对事业感到焦虑的一些原因。
- Why we might be victims of these career crises, as we're weeping softly into our pillows.
- 为何我们会变成事业焦虑的囚徒，不时抱头痛哭。
- One of the reasons why we might be suffering is that we are surrounded by snobs.
- 折磨人的因素之一是我们身边的那些势利鬼。
- Now in a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad.
- 对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人我有一个坏消息。
- There's a real problem with snobbery,
- 这里的人都很势利，
- because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles.
- 有时候英国以外的人会想象势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。
- The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we are a global organization, this is a global phenomenon.
- 坏消息是，并不只是这样。势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题。
- What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you,
- 势利是什么？势利是以一小部分的你
- and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
- 来判别你的全部价值。那就是势利。
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| diverge | [dai'və:dʒ] | 联想记忆 | ||
| merely | ['miəli] | |||
| threatening | ['θretniŋ] | |||
| anxiety | [æŋ'zaiəti] | |||
| phenomenon | [fi'nɔminən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| snobbery | ['snɔbəri] | |||
| global | ['gləubəl] | 联想记忆 |
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