自考英语二教材英文翻译第九课：Text A

Text A 300 Hurdles

Life may give you a negative, but don#39;t despair - it may just develop into a beautiful picture one day. This year, I realized my theory that I have on life. Life is like a 300m hurdle race. Since I run the 300m hurdles, I would know what the race is like.

300米跨栏

生活也许会充满荆棘坎坷，但不要灰心绝望--也许有一天它便会勾勒出一幅美丽的画卷。今年我懂得了生活的真谛--生活就像一个300米的跨栏比赛。因为参加300米跨栏比赛，所以我知道在这个比赛过程中应该怎么做。

The first thing to any race is worrying about whether you are going to win or not. This relates to worrying about the petty things in life. Does it really matter if you win? Is it really going to be the end of the world? Or will you be upset if you lose and then forget about it? In life we worry too much and live in the moment too little.

对于所有的比赛来说，最担心的事情莫过于输赢。这就好像在担心生活中那些无关紧要的事情一样。难道获胜真的那么重要?难道输了就意味着世界末日的来临?或者你因为输了比赛就黯然神伤然后才慢慢忘记?生活中，我们担心得太多，而活在当下太少。

Next is the lining up in our own individual lanes. We each start at different spots, but the race is still the same distance for everyone.This relates to our lives taking us to different places and putting us in different situations, but hopefully we will end up in the same place, but maybe at different times.

接下来就是在我们自己的跑道上蓄势待发。尽管在不同的地点起跑，但对我们每个人来说比赛的路程是相同的。这就好比生活将我们引领到不同的地方，放置到不同的环境中，但令人充满希望的是，尽管在不同的时间，但我们最终会在同一个地方谢幕。

Now comes the beginning of the race. We all try to keep up with everyone and pace ourselves with other people.This symbolizes that at times in everyone#39;s lives we worry, about fitting in or being the same as other people, instead of worrying about being unique. If everyone were the same, the world would be incredibly boring.现在比赛开始。我们都竭尽全力追赶别人，尽量让自己跟上他人的步伐。这表明有时在生活中我们每个人都会担心要去适应他人或者与他人一样，而不是担心成为独一无二的自己。如果人与人没有什么区别的话，这个世界是多么单调，令人生厌啊。

Now comes the first hurdle. This hurdle is the easiest to get over because you are notworn out from running. We all make it over this hurdle with ease. This symbolizes those obstacles in life that we struggle to get over, but we always manage to do so. You can look at that hurdle in two ways: “I can#39;t make it over, I#39;m too tired“ or “I am one more hurdle closer to finishing this race“. This is an example of taking a negative situation and seeing something positive in it.

现在到了第一个跨栏。由于刚开始比赛你还没有筋疲力尽，所以这个跨栏是最容易的。

我们很轻松地跨过了这个栏杆。这就好像我们奋力去克服生活中的一些障碍，无论怎样，我们总能解决它们。你可以用两种心态看待这个跨栏："我无法跨过它，我太累了”或者"我又跨过了一个栏杆，我离比赛终点又近了一步”。这是一个在消极的环境中看到积极因素的例子。

The next part of the race is every hurdle between the first and last one.These hurdles get tougher and tougher and you may feel as though you can#39;t go on. This happens a lot in life too.There may be a situation that arises where you feel as though you can#39;t make it and all you can think about is giving up. You may fall over that “hurdle“ or struggle getting over it, but somehow you find it in yourself to jump over it and move on with the race.

比赛的下一部分，就是介于第一个栏和最后一个栏中间的每一个栏。跨过这些栏难度越来越大，你似乎感觉到自己无法继续坚持了。当然这种事情在生活中也经常发生。譬如，有些时候你觉得自己无法完成某事，你满脑子想的就是想要放弃。也许你会被跨栏绊倒，也许你会很艰难地跨过它，但无论怎样你克服了这些困难，然后继续进行这场比赛。

Next is that last 100m of the race. You feel as though you just want to say, “No I can#39;t do this.“Again, you must find it in yourself that you can do it, and you must finish the race stronger than when you had started it.

接下来是整个比赛的最后100米，你也许只想说："不，我无法跑完最后100米。”但你必须要再告诫自己你一定能做到，而且必须在快结束的时候比刚开始比赛时跑得更快。

Now lastly is the last hurdle. This hurdle is the toughest out of all of them. In life we find ourselves falling and falling, and maybe getting too lost in our problems that we feel like we have been through enough and there#39;s no hope. That last hurdle symbolizes these situations.It#39;s one step close to the end of the race.

现在到了最后一个栏杆，这个跨栏是最难跨越的。生活中，我们发现自己不断跌倒，为种种问题所困扰，感觉自己历经重重磨难，仍然看不到希望，这最后一个跨栏象征了这些情况。这是靠近比赛结束的关键一步。

Once you finish, you look back on it and you realize that you made it not by leaping, butstep by step.“Yard by yard, life is very hard. But inch by inch, life can be a cinch.“

一旦你成功了，你再回过头来看，你会意识到成功不是一蹴而就的，而是靠一步一个脚印地坚持走过。"生活在遥不可及的追求下步履蹒跚，生活在一步一个脚印的指引下轻松度过。”

All it takes is one step at a time, one hurdle at a time.

成功需要的就是每次一小步，每次一个突破。