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Read the following text carefully and thentranslate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should bewritten carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
With its theme that “Mind is the masterweaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As aMan Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea ofself-help writing.
(46) Allen’s contribution was to take anassumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control ourthoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature. Because most of us believe that mindis separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and madepowerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. However, Allenbelieved that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the consciousmind, and (47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control throughthe conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question:“Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”
Since desire and will are damaged by thepresence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We donot attract what we want, but what we are.” Achievement happens because you asa person embody the external achievement; you don’t “ get” success but become it. There is nogap between mind and matter.
\Part of the fame of Allen’s book is itscontention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” (48)This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalizationof exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority ofthose at the bottom.
This ,however, would be a knee-jerkreaction to a subtle argument. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers aunique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life andprospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fat,(49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if wefeel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a consciouseffort to escape from our situation .Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, aperson’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to anindividual.
The sobering aspect of Allen’s book is thatwe have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves. (50)The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up tous; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we becomeauthorities of what is possible.
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