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考研英语翻译真题及译文201046. Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them. 参考翻译：科学家急忙介入,但提出的证据显然站不住脚，其大意是，如果鸟类不能控制昆虫的数量，昆虫便会吞噬我们人类。
47. But we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right, regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.参考翻译：但是我们至少近乎承认，无论鸟类能否带给我们经济价值，它们自有生存下去的权利。
48. Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on “worthless” species.参考翻译：有证据表明：这些生物杀死体弱者来保持种群的健康，或者说它们仅仅捕食“没有价值”的物种。
曾经有段时间，生物学家或多或少滥用了这一证据。
49. In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the non-commercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.参考翻译：在林业生态更为发达的欧洲，没有商业价值的树种被合理地看成是当地森林群落的成员，并得到相应的保护。
1998年71）But even more importantꢀ it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the pastꢀ for what they were seeing were the patterns and structures that existed15billion yeays ago.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：72)The existence of the giant clouds was virtually required for the Big Bang,first put forward in the1920s,to maintain its reign as the dominant explanation of the cosmos.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：1ꢄꢅ分析：73)Astrophysicists working with ground-based detectors at the South Pole and balloon-borne instruments are closing in on such structures, and may report their findings soon.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：74)If the small hot spots look as expected,that will be a triumph for yet another scientific idea,a refinement of the Big Bang called the inflationary universe theory.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：2ꢄꢅ分析：75)Odd though it sounds,cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：31999年71)While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians,modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：72)Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：4ꢄꢅ分析：73)During this transfer,traditional historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：74)There is no agreement whether methodology refers to the concepts peculiar to historical work in general or to the research techniques appropriate to the various branches of historical inquiry.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：5ꢄꢅ分析：75)It applies equally to traditional historians who view history as only the external and internal criticism of sources,and to social science historians who equate their activity with specific techniques.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：62000年71)Under modern conditions,this requires varying measures of centralized control and hence the help of specialized scientists such as economists and operational researchexperts.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：72)Furthermore,it is obvious that the strength of a country's economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：7ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：73)Owing to the remarkable development in mass communications, people everywhere are feeling new wants and are being exposed to new customs and ideas,while governments are often forced to introduce still further innovations for the reasons given above.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：74)in the early industrialized countries of Europe the process of industrializationꢀ with all the far reaching changes in social patterns that followedꢀ was spread over nearly a century,whereas nowadays a developing nation may undergo the same process in a decade or so.ꢀ ꢀ ：8ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：75)Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movementsꢀ themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modern means of transport.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：92001年71)There will be television chat shows hosted by robotsꢀ and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offendꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：72)Children will play with dolls equipped with personality chips, computers with in-built personalities will be regarded as workmates rather than tools,relaxation will be in front of smell-television,and digital age will have arrived.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：10ꢄꢅ分析：73)Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：74)But that,Pearson points out,is only the start of man-machine integration:ꢂIt will be the beginning of the long process of integration that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of the next century.ꢃꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：11ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：75)And home appliances will also become so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of a new psychological disorderꢀ kitchen rage.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：122002年61)One difficulty is that almost all of what is called behavioral science continues to trace behavior to states of mind,feelings,traits of character,human nature,and so on.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：62)The behavioral sciences have been slow to change partly because the explanatory items often seem to be directly observed and partly because other kinds of explanations have been hard to find.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：13ꢄꢅ分析：63)The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago,and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：64)They are the possessions of the autonomous(self-governing)man of traditional theoryꢀ and they are essential to practices in which a person is held responsible for his conduct and given credit for his achievements.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇法：14ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：65)Until these issues are resolved,a technology of behavior will continue to be rejectedꢀ and with it possibly the only way to solve our problems.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：152003年61)Furthermore,humans have the ability to modify the environment in which they live,thus subjecting all other life forms to their own peculiar ideas and fancies.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：62)Social science is that branch of intellectual enquiry which seeks to study humans and their endeavors in the same reasoned,orderly, systematic,and dispassioned manner that natural scientists use for the study of natural phenomena.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：16ꢄꢅ分析：63)The emphasis on data gathered first-hand,combined with a cross-cultural perspective brought to the analysis of cultures past and present, makes this study a unique and distinctly important social science.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：64)Tylor defined culture asꢂ...that complex whole which includes belief,art,morals,law,custom,and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.ꢃꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：17ꢄꢅ分析：65)Thus,the anthropological concept ofꢂcultureꢃꢀ like the concept ofꢂsetꢃin mathematics,is an abstract concept which makes possible immense amounts of concrete research and understanding.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：182004年61)The Greeks assumed that the structure of language had some connection with the process of thought,which took root in Europe long before people realized how diverse languages could be.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：62)We are obliged to them because some of these languages have since vanished,as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated and lost their native languages.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：19ꢄꢅ分析：63)The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well-studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：64)Being interested in the relationship of language and thought,Whorf developed the idea that the structure of language determines the structure of habitual thought in a society.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：20ꢄꢅ分析：65)Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which,in its strongest form,states that language imprisons the mind,and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：212005年46)Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyedꢄand perhaps never before has it served so much to connect different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：47)In Europe,as elsewhere,multi-media groups have been increasingly successful:groups which bring together television,radio,newspapers, magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：22ꢄꢅ分析：48)This alone demonstrates that the television business is not an easy world to survive in,a fact underlined by statistics that show that out of eighty European television networks,no less than50%took a loss in 1989.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：49)Creating aꢂEuropean identityꢃthat respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：23ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：50)In dealing with a challenge on such a scale,it is no exaggeration to sayꢂUnited we stand,divided we fallꢃꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：242006年46)I shall define him as an individual who has elected as his primary duty and pleasure in life the activity of thinking in Socratic(ꢅꢆꢇꢈ) way about moral problems.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：47)His function is analogous to that of a judge,who must accept the obligation of revealing in as obvious a matter as possible the course of reasoning which led him to his decision.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：25ꢄꢅ分析：48)I have excluded him because,while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems,he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：49)But his primary task is not to think about the moral code,which governs his activity,any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：26ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：50)They may teach very well,and more than earn their salaries,but most of them make little or no independent reflections on human problems which involve moral judgment.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：272007年46)Traditionally,legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers,rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：47)On the other,it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：28ꢄꢅ分析：48)But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the new media.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：49)In fact,it is difficult to see how journalists who do not have a clear grasp of the basic features of the Canadian Constitution can do a competent job on political stories.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：29ꢄꢅ分析：50)While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories,it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significanceand make their own judgments.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：302008年46)He believes that this very difficult may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence,and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：47)He asserted,also,that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited,for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with metaphysics or mathematics.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：31ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：48)On the other hand,he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that,while he was a good observer,he had no power of reasoning.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：49)He adds humbly that perhaps he was"superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention,and in observing them carefully.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：32ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：50)Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness,but might possibly be injurious to the intellect,and more probably to the moral character.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：332009年46)It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience;but this effect is not a part of its original motive.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：47)Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted,and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：34ꢄꢅ分析：48)While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition,it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：49)Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or not we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：35ꢄꢅ分析：50)We are thus led to distinguish,within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering,a more formal kind of educationꢀ that of direct tuition or schooling.ꢀ ꢀ ：ꢂ汇ꢃ法：ꢀ 二：ꢄꢅ分析：36。
历年考研英语二级翻译真题汉译英历年考研英语二级翻译真题汉译英1Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly where I was , what happened in the news and even the day of the week. I’ve been able to do this since I was four.I never feel overwhelmed with the amount of information my brain absorbs my mind seems to be able to cope and the information is stored away reatly. When I think of a sad memory, I do what everyone does- try to put it to one side. I don’t think it’s harder for me just because my memory is clearer. Powerful memory doesn’t make my emotion s any more acture or vivid. I can recall the day my grandfather died and the sadness I felt when we went to the hosptibal the day before. I also remember that the musical paly Hamopened on the Broadway on the same day- they both just pop into my mind in the same way.历年考研英语二级翻译真题汉译英2Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)Think about driving a route that's very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it's easy tolose concentration on the driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don't have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can't remember the journey well because we didn't pay much attention to it. So we assume it wasshorter.历年考研英语二级翻译真题汉译英3Translate the following text from English into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET 2. (15 points)Most people would define optimism as endlessly happy, with a glass that’s perpetually half fall. But that’s exactly the kind of false deerfulness that positive ps ychologists wouldn’t recommend. “Healthy optimists means being in touch with reality.” says Tal Ben-Shahar, a Harvard professor, According to Ben- Shalar,realistic optimists are these who make the best of things that happen, but not those who believe everything happens for the best.Ben-Shalar uses three optimistic exercisers. When he feels down-sag, after giving a bad lecture-he grants himself permission to be human. He reminds himself that mot every lecture can be a Nobel winner; some will be less effective than others. Next is reconstruction, He analyzes the weak lecture, leaning lessons, for the future about what works and what doesn’t. Finally, there is perspective, which involves acknowledging that in the ground scheme of life, one lecture really doesn’t matter.历年考研英语二级翻译真题汉译英4Translate the following text into Chinese. Write your translation neatly on the ANSWER SHEET. (15 points)A fifth grader gets a homework assignment to select hisfuture career path from a list of occupations. He ticks “astronaut” , but quickly adds “scientist” to the list and selects it as well. The boy is convinced that if he reads enough, he can explore as many career paths as he likes. And so he reads everything from encyclopedias to science fiction novels. He reads so passion ately that his parents have to institute a “no reading policy” at the dinner table.That boy was Bill Gates, and he hasn’t stopped reading yet--not even after becoming one of the most successful people on the planet. Nowadays, his reading material has changed from science fiction and reference books recently, he revealed that he reads at least 50 nonfiction books a year. Gates chooses nonfiction titles because they explain how the world works. “Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge,” Gates says.。
2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）试题答案与解析Section I Use of English一、文章题材结构分析本文是取材于新闻报道，叙述了猪流感的爆发，产生的严重影响以及政府采取的针对性措施。
首段和第二段简述了猪流感的爆发引起世界各国的重视。
第三段引用专家的观点，认为瘟疫并不严重。
第四段和第五段以墨西哥及美国的情况为例，说明了猪流感的严重性和致命性。
第六段叙述了联邦政府针对猪流感的具体措施。
二、试题解析1.【答案】D【解析】上文提到“…was declared a global epidemic…”，根据declare 的逻辑（“宣布为”），可知应该选D 项designated“命名，制定”，而不是C 项commented“评论”，这是典型的近义词复现题目。
2．【答案】C【解析】本题目可依据“句意”找到意思线索，选出答案，难度在于出处句是个长难句。
本句的理解应该抓住alert、meeting 和a sharp rise 三者的关系，根据after a sharp rise 可知是rise（“病例数的增加”）是meeting（“日内瓦专家会议”）的原因，由此可推导出alert 并非是meeting 的原因，而是结果，即meeting 使得alert 升级。
根据上述分析可以排除B、D 选项，B 项activated“激活，激起”，D 项“促使，引起”，此两项的选择都在讲alert 导致了meeting的召开。
而C 项followed 意思是“紧随，跟在……之后”，体现出after 的逻辑，完全满足本句rise 之后是meeting，meeting 之后是alert 的逻辑，所以是正确项。
而A 项proceeded“继续”，属不及物动词，不可接宾语，用法和逻辑用在此处都不合适。
3．【答案】B【解析】本题目应该关注并列连词and，从并列呼应来看：空格后的表达in Britain…对应前面的in Australia，所以空格处rising _____ 应该对应a sharp rise in cases（“病例数的剧增”），因此空格处是“数量”的逻辑才对。
考研英语二历年真题手译本（正文开始）Introduction考研英语二手译本历年真题内容详尽记录了过去几年来的英语二考试试题，本手译本的目的在于提供考生对于历年试题的熟悉和练习，以帮助他们更好地了解考试内容和提高翻译水平。
本文将按照真题的时间顺序，逐一介绍和讨论每一年的真题内容。
Year 20172017年度的考研英语二手译本真题内容主要包含了两篇文章，分别是《未来的职业和你的职业选择》和《互动媒体时代》。
文章以专业的语言和内容，从职业发展和媒体交流的角度出发，为考生提供了思考和翻译的材料。
Year 20162016年的考研英语二手译本真题内容包括了两篇文章，《互联网对传统媒体的影响》和《职业教育的未来发展方向》。
这两篇文章涉及到了当代社会中最新的热点话题，对于考生来说是很好的练习材料。
Year 20152015年度的考研英语二手译本真题内容包括了两篇文章，一篇是关于《电子商务的兴起与发展》的，另一篇是关于《人工智能的前景和挑战》。
这两篇文章分别从商业和科技的角度出发，为考生提供了丰富的翻译素材和思考。
Year 20142014年的考研英语二手译本真题内容主要包括了两篇文章，一篇是关于《全球化的经济发展趋势》的，另一篇是关于《文化多样性的重要性和挑战》的。
这两篇文章涉及到了全球化和文化多样性等当代重要议题，适合考生练习翻译和思考。
Year 20132013年度的考研英语二手译本真题内容包括了两篇文章，分别是《城市化进程的影响与挑战》和《绿色能源和可持续发展》。
这两篇文章涉及了现代社会中的城市化和环境问题，是考生备考和翻译练习的好素材。
Conclusion考研英语二历年真题手译本提供了多年来考研英语二试题的真实内容，可以帮助考生熟悉考试要求和提高翻译水平。
通过对真题的分析和练习，考生可以更好地了解考试的内容和要点，为备考做好准备。
希望考生能够善用手译本，不断提升自己的英语翻译能力，取得优异的考试成绩。
Section Ⅲ Translation46.Directions:In this section there is a text in English .Translate it into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET2.(15points)“Su s tainability” has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed though everyday action and choice。
Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He’d been though the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency。
It did n’t go well. “It was a really had move because that’s not my passion,” says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predi ctably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable, I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll trun the corner, give it some time.’”翻译参考“坚持不懈”如今已成一个流行词汇，但对TedNing而言，这个概念一直有个人含义，经历了一段痛苦松懈的个人生活，使他清楚面向以坚持不懈为导向的价值观，必须贯彻到每天的行动和选择中。
考研英语二翻译题汇总（2010-2021年）2021年We tend to think that friends and family members are our biggest source of connection,laughter and warmth.While that may well be true,researchers have also recently found that interacting with strangers actually brings a boost in mood and feelings of belonging that we didn’t expect.In one series of studies,researchers instructed that Chicago-area commuters using public transportation to strike up a conversation with one near them.On average,participants who followed this instruction felt better than those who had been told to stand or sit in silence.The researches also argued that when we shy away from casual interactions with strangers,it is often due to a misplaced anxiety that they might not want to talk to us.Much of the time, however,this belief is false.As it turns out,many people are actually perfectly willing to talk—and may even be flattered to receive your attention.It’s almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.But,the wonderful thing about failure is that it’s entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.We can choose to see failure as“the end of the world”.Or,we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is.Every time we fail at something,we can choose to look for the lesson we’re meant to learn. These lessons are very important;they’re how we grow,and how we keep from making that same mistake again.Failures stop us only if we let them.Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise.For instance,failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends, or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.It is easy to underestimate English writer James Herriot.He had such a pleasant,readable style that one might think that anyone could imitate it.How many times have I heard people say“I could write a book.I just haven’t the time.”Easily said.Not so easily done.James Herriot,contrary to popular opinion,did not find it easy in his early days of,as he put it,“having a go at the writing game”。
