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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。
n. 财产，命运，运气
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- You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate"
- 你知道，在中世纪的英国，当你遇见一个非常穷苦的人，你会认为他“不走运”，
- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.
- 直接地说，那些不被幸运之神眷顾的人，不幸的人。
- Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society,
- 现如今，尤其在美国，如果人们遇见一些社会底层的人，
- they may unkindly be described as a "loser."
- 他们被刻薄地形容成“失败者”。
- There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser,
- “不走运”和“失败者”中间有很大的差别，
- and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives.
- 这表现了四百年的社会演变，我们对谁该为人生负责看法的改变。
- It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.
- 神不再掌握我们的命运，我们掌握自己的人生。
- That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not.
- 如果你做的很好，这是件令人愉快的事。相反的情况，就很令人沮丧。
- It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim
- 社会学家Emil Durkheim分析发现，
- it leads to increased rates of suicide.
- 这提高了自杀率。
- There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world.
- 追求个人主义的发达国家的自杀率高过于世界上其它地方。
- And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally
- 原因是人们把发生在自己身上的事情全当作自己的责任，
- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
- 人们拥有成功，也拥有失败。
- Is there any relief from some of these pressures that I've been outlining? I think there is.
- 有什么方法可以解决刚才提到的这些焦虑呢？是有的。
- I just want to turn to a few of them. Let's take meritocracy.
- 我想提出几项。先说“功绩主义”。
- This idea that everybody deserves to get where they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy.
- 也就是相信每个人的地位忠实呈现他的能力，我认为这种想法太疯狂了。
- I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense.
- 我可以支持所有相信这个想法的，无论是左倾还是右倾的政治家，我同样相信功绩主义。
- But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
- 但我认为一个完全彻底以能力取决地位的社会是个不可能的梦想。
- The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded,
- 这种我们能创造一个每个人的能力都忠实地被分级的想法，
- the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible.
- 好的就到顶端，坏的就到底部，而且保证过程毫无差错，这是不可能的。
- There are simply too many random factors:
- 这世上有太多偶然的契机：
- accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc.
- 不同的机运，出身，疾病，从天而降的意外等等。
- We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.
- 我们却无法将这些因素分级，无法完全忠实的将人分级。
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