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　　1.great perspective

　　2.tough choice

　　3.sustainable life's goal

　　4.have passion for

　　5.leadership

　　6.believe it or not

　　7.see possibility

　　8.provide tools and support

　　9.realize possibility

　　以下是美国惠普公司(Hewlett-Packard，简称HP)前总裁卡莉.菲奥丽娜 (Carly Fiorina)在世界银行介绍她的自传时的讲话节选

　　Yes，I had this wonderful， broad education. But the truth is when I graduated from Stanford University，I was a medieval history and philosophy student. And it absolutely gave me great skills in thinking and great perspective.

　　But it also made me completely unemployable.

　　And， so， I went off to law school because ;you would expect from the story I just told you my dad wanted me to be a lawyer like him.

　　I was there for about a semester and discovered I really hated it So I had to make what was for me the first tough choice as an adult，I had to decide to disappoint my parents. Because it occurred to me at that point that pleasing someone else wasn’t a sustainable life’s goal. And it also occurred to me at that point that if I didn’t really love what I was doing and have passion for what I was doing then I wouldn’t be successful，whatever I did. So I quitted law school. And now I was of course even more unemployable.

　　So I had to pay the bill， and had to pay the rents， so I went to work， doing only the thing I knew how to do to make money.

　　I became a secretary. I typed， I filed， and I answered the phones. And I didn't think the job was beneath me. I hope I learned a lot from that job. What it feels like at the bottom of the totem pole and how people who are at the bottom of the totem pole can contribute.

　　But I also learnt something important about leadership. Two men， after I had been there about 6 months， two men came to me and said， “You know we've been watching you. And we think maybe you could do something more than type and file. How would you like to help us write deals and learn a little bit about what we do everyday ?” And believe it or not， it was the first time it ever occurred to me that maybe business was a career. I didn’t even think terms of (careers at that point. I just more thought about it in terms of that， gee， maybe someday I would get an MBA， which ultimately I did. But the reason that taught me about the important lessons about leadership is because these two men saw possibilities. And they helped me see possibilities that I didn't know were there. They gave me opportunities because they saw potential and provided tools and support. I think that’s what leadership is all about.

　　Leadership is about seeing possibilities. It’s about giving opportunities to people so that they can realize those possibilities. And fundamentally I think that’s what this institution is all about， which is why I have such respect for it I think what this institution all about is giving people the opportunities and the tools they need to actually realize possibilities， and in the process perhaps to have people see some possibilities they have not seen before.

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　　【口译培训】重点词汇积累：

　　1)occur to：如果某人突然想起或意识到什么东西，可以用it occurs to someone...

　　2)sustainable“可持续的”，可形容对自然资源的开采利用，也可形容经济、社会的发展。

　　3)beneath someone：如果做某件事情让人觉得有失身份，或者某人不适合做某件事，我们常用 something is beneath someone 来表示。

　　4)MBA：“Master of Business Administration”的缩略形式，即近几年来国内很热门的“工商管理硕士”。

　　【口译培训】参考译文：

　　的确，我接受了良好的教育。但事实上，我在斯坦福大学学的是中世纪历史和哲学。我从中学到了很多优秀的思考技能和思维方法，但却让我在毕业后根本找 不到工作。

　　随后，我又去了法学院，因为我前面提到过，我爸爸希望我跟他一样成为一名律师。在那儿待了大概一个学期，我发现自己非常讨厌学法律。于是，作为一名成年人，我不得不做出第一个艰难的选择，那就是违背父母的意愿。当时我想，满足他人意愿并非人生的长远目标，而且，要是对所做的事没有热爱、没有激情，那无论做什么，我都不会成功的。所以，我放弃了法律学习，也因此更找不到工作了。

　　我还是要付账单和房租，于是不得不找工作，只干一些自己会做的活来挣钱。我成了一名秘书，每天打打字，整理文件，接听电话，倒也没觉得这样有失身份。我希望自己能从中获得收获。这似乎就像处于最低层，了解最低层的人能够做些什么。

　　我也的确学到了一些有关领导能力的重要知识。在我从事秘书工作的6个月 左右后，两位男士走到我跟前说：“我们一直在关注你。在我们看来，你能做的，也许不仅仅是打字、整理文件。你来帮我们做事怎么样?同时你也可以了解我们每 7名的工作。”你可能不相信，这是我第一次想到也许自己可以从商。当时，我根本没想过开创事业。深思熟虑之后，我想可能哪天我能成为工商管理硕士。最终我的目标实现了。但是，在那份工作中，我之所以认识到了领导能力的重要性，是因为那两位男士看到了潜力。他们帮助我发现了自己的潜力，而先前我并不知道自己有这种潜力。因为他们看到了我的潜力，给我提供了条件和支持，所以他们给了我机会。我想这就是领导能力。

　　领导能力就是能够发现潜力，能给人提供机会来发挥潜力。我认为，这才是这个机构最重要的方面，这也是我这么敬爱这个机构的原因了。我觉得，这个机构的宗旨就是给人们提供实现潜力的机会和途径，还有就是挖掘人们自己没有发现的潜力。

　　【口译培训】文章点评：

　　这是节选自美国惠普公司前总裁卡莉?菲奥丽娜(Carly Fiorina)在世界银行介绍她的自传时的讲话。她风趣幽默，大气健谈。在听这段讲话时候，要把握说话人的语气，把幽默和言外之意听出来。比如，她说在斯坦福大学学习的是中世纪历史和哲学。毫无疑问，她学到了很多优秀的思考技能和思维方法，然后话题一转说：“But it also made me completely unemployable. ”这个说法似乎不符合逻辑，如此优秀的专业学习怎么会让她完全无法就业?但却也真实地反映了髙校毕业生就业的困境，即文科，尤其是学习历史哲学等专业的毕业生很难找到合适的工作，而理科毕业生则相对比较好找工作。如果能听懂这里的幽默，就不能不感叹菲奥丽娜女士的口才。

　　(1)在处理第一段中unemployable这个词时，我们要注意它表示的不是“失业”这个概念。因为只有找到工作后辞去了工作，才有所谓的失业。准确地讲，这里表示的应该是刚从大学毕业，很难找到工作或者没有找到工作，最严重也只能用“待业”来表达。

　　(2)it occurred to me at that point...表示的是“当时我突然意识到 ”，而不是什么“想到了这一点……”。

　　(3)pleasing someone else wasn't a sustainable life’s goal 通俗地说就是指“取悦别人(满足别人的意愿)并非人生的长久之策”。从人生道路的选择上看，这句话是很精辟的。它反映了美国人的人生价值观，即人是要为自己的生活而奋斗，而努力的。

　　(4)第四段中的beneath me不是“在我之下”的意思，而是“有失身份”、“不值得去做”。斯坦福的高材生照样去做秘书这样的工作，而且还不嫌弃，这倒是很有意思。

　　(5)believe it or not看似意思模棱两可，其实却相当明确。它不是说“不管你们相不相信”，而是清楚地表达了“你们可能不相信”的意思，这点在翻译时需要注意。

　　(6)翻译要做的不仅仅是传达文字表面的意思，而是要抓住演讲者所要表达的内涵，比如see possibility表面意思很清楚，就是“看到可能性”。可是，难道这真的就是演讲者所要表达的意思吗?到底是什么“可能性”?作者并没有含糊其辞，而是我们未理解到该词“潜力、潜能”的内涵。相比之下，译作“预见某人的潜力”就更加明了地表达了演讲者真正想传达的意思。