励志英语故事分享：人在迷茫的时候应该干什么？

不知从何时开始有了重拾英语的念头，工作后，我们为了自己的事业前途，甚至忘记自己的初衷，每天忙忙碌碌，时而奋发图强，时而报怨生活的不公，如果有那么一瞬间，你想放弃了，那么请你驻足欣赏以下唯美励志英文小故事，它会带给你不一样的思考。

01《The secret to success》

A young man asked Socrates the secret to success, Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning.

They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue.

Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.

Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it！”

《成功的秘密》

一个年轻人向苏格拉底询问成功的秘诀,苏格拉底让年轻人第二天早晨到河边见他。

他们见面后，苏格拉底叫年轻人和他一起走向河里，当河水淹至他们的脖子时，苏格拉底出其不意地抓住年轻人并把其压入水中，那人想要挣出水面，而强壮有力的苏格拉底将他摁在水中直到他变得无力抗争，脸色发青。

苏格拉底将他的头拖出水面，这个年轻人所做的第一件事就是大口喘息后，深吸一口气。

苏格拉底问： “当你闷在水里的时候你最想要的是什么？”年轻人回答说：“空气。”苏格拉底说：“那就是成功的秘诀。当你像渴望空气一样渴望成功，你就能够获得它！”

02《The future is in control》

We can take the mysterious, hazy future and carve out of it anything that we can imagine, just like a sculptor carves a statue from a shapeless stone.

We are all in the position of the farmer. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If our seed is poor and full of weeds, we reap a useless crop. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

I want the future to be better than the past. I don’t want it contaminated by the mistakes and errors with which history is filled. We should all be concerned about the future because that is where we will spend the reminder of our lives.

The past is gone and static. Nothing we can do will change it. The future is before us and dynamic. Everything we do will effect it.

Each day will brings with it new frontiers, in our homes and in our businesses, if we will only recognize them. We are just at the beginning of the progress in every field of human endeavor.

《未来尽在掌控》

我们可以掌握神秘而不可知的未来，从中创出我们所能想象的任何东西，一如雕刻家可以将未成型的石头刻出雕像一样。

我们每个人都是农夫。我们若种下好种子，就会有丰收。倘若种子长得不良且长满杂草，我们就会徒劳无获。如果我们什么也不种，就根本不会有什么收获。

我希望未来会比过去更好。我不希望未来会被那些充斥在历史中的错误所污染。我们应关心未来，因为往后的余生都要在未来中度过。

往昔已一去不复返而且是静止的。任凭我们怎么努力都不能改变过去。英语短文未来就在我们眼前而且是动态的。我们的所作所为都会影响未来。

只要我们体会的出来，每天都可以发现新的知识领域伴随而生，可能是在家里，也可能是在我们的事业中。我们正处在人类所努力钻研的每个领域中进步的起点。

03《如果》

If you can keep your head when all about you

如果所有人都失去理智，咒骂你，

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

你仍能保持头脑清醒；

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

如果所有人都怀疑你，

But make allowance for their doubting too;

你仍能坚信自己，让所有的怀疑动摇；

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

如果你要等待，不要因此厌烦，

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

为人所骗，不要因此骗人，

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

为人所恨，不要因此抱恨，

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

不要太乐观，不要自以为是；

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;

如果你是个追梦人——不要被梦主宰；

If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;

如果你是个爱思考的人——不要以思想者自居；

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

如果你遇到骄傲和挫折

And treat those two imposters just the same;

把两者当骗子看待；

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后，

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

然后孤注一掷再搏一次，

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

失败过后，东山再起，

And never breathe a word about your loss;

不要抱怨你的失败；

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

如果你能迫使自己，

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

在别人走后，长久坚守阵地，

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

在你心中已空荡荡无一物，

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

只有意志告诉你“坚持！”；

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

如果你与人交谈，能保持风度，

Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,

伴王同行，能保持距离；

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

如果仇敌和好友都不害你；

If all men count with you, but none too much;

如果所有人都指望你，却无人全心全意；

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

如果你花六十秒进行短程跑，

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

填满那不可饶恕的一分钟——

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

你就可以拥有一个世界，

And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

这个世界的一切都是你的，

更重要的是，孩子，你是个顶天立地的人。

【总结】每个人都想要成功，但成功的路上总是充满了各种困难，挑战和艰辛，如果你勇于面对这些挑战，敢于在失败了100次之后，还可以掸掸身上的灰，继续前行，那么你终会抵达成功的彼岸，活成你想要的样子。