新概念英語經典美文第23篇《創造機會》
Make the opportunity
創造機會
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
意志脆弱優柔寡斷的人，總是以缺乏機會作為借口。
Opportunities!
機會！
Every life is full of them.
在每個人的生活當中，無處不在。
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity.
學校里的每一節課都是一次機會。
Every examination is a chance in life.
每一場考試都是人生的契機。
Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.
每一次商務往來都是一次機會--一次禮貌待人的.機會，一次果敢行事的機會，一次誠實守信的機會，一次廣交朋友的機會。
Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.
每一份對你的信任，對你都是一次莫大的機會。
Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless.
基于你的才干和聲望而寄予你的每一份責任，都是無價的。
Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
生存是奮斗賦予的特權，而當你如男子漢一般邂逅那份殊榮時，一個個發揮你聰明才智、助你獲取成功的機會便會接踵而至，令你應接不暇。
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle?
年輕人啊，為何你們整日裹足不前而虛擲光陰？
Was the land all occupied before you were born?
難道在你們出生之前，每一寸土地都已被他人所占據？
Has the earth ceased to yield its increase?
難道地球已不再繁衍生息？
Are the seats all taken?
難道所有的席位都已另有歸屬？
The positions all filled?
所有的職位都已人滿為患？
The chances all gone?
所有的機會都一去不返？
Are the resources of your country fully developed?
難道你國內的資源都已開發殆盡？
Are the secrets of nature all mastered?
難道大自然的奧秘都已了如指掌？
Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?
難道你無法抓住這些轉瞬即逝的時機來改善自我或者造福他人？
Don't wait for your opportunity.
切莫株守機會。
Make it-make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations.
去創造它，正如拿破侖在無數次"絕"境中創造自己逢生的機會一樣。
Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace have, made their chances of success.
去創造它，正如戰爭或者和平年代的領袖們創造他們取得勝利的機會那樣。
Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort.
去創造它，人人必須如此，任何人都能獲得應有的回報。
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
對于懶惰來講，天賜良機也會化為烏有；對于勤奮而言，即使是微不足道的機會，也會變得金光閃閃！
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