We undertook a trip to the west.
我们到西部作了一次旅行。
你需要进行锻炼来保持身体健康。
要学会生活在现在，学会克服过去。
学着去超越过去，在现在生活。
In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.
in a nutshell：极其简括地（简单地说）
Each time you get to the end of the sentence, you start a new one, and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it.
be related to：与……有关
人与机会
The Man and the Opportunity
奥里森·马登 / Orison Marden
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them.
Every lesson in school or college is an opportunity. Every examination is a chance in life. 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. Every proof of confidence in you is a great opportunity.
Every responsibility thrust upon your strength and your honor is priceless. 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.
Young men and women, why do you stand here all the day idle? Was the land all occupied before you were born? Has the earth ceased to yield its increase? Are the seats all taken? The positions all filled? The chances all gone? Are the resources of your country fully developed? Are the secrets of nature all mastered? Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit another?
Don't wait for your opportunity. Make it, make it as Napoleon made his in a hundred "impossible" situations. Make it, as all leaders of men, in war and in peace, have made their chances of success. Make it, as every man must, who would accomplish anything worth the effort, Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
缺乏机会，向来都是胆小懦弱和优柔寡断者的借口。机会！生活中无处不在。
无论中学还是大学里的每堂课，都是一个机会；考试是生活给予的机会；每一次的事务处理是机会。生活给予人们礼貌待人，诚实宽厚的机会，更是广交朋友的大好机会；生活对个人自信度的考验也是个极好的机会。
个人能力和诚信所负担的每一份责任都是无价的。只有奋斗不息，才有生存的空间；只有不断追求，提升能力，成功的机会才会纷至沓来。
年轻人，你们为何整天无所事事？难道在你们来到这个世界之前，所有的土地都被占据了？难道地球的产出已不再增多？难道所有的位置都坐满了？难道所有的职位都无空缺了？难道机会已消失殆尽？难道国家的资源已被全部开发完毕？难道所有的自然奥秘你已掌握？难道你毫无办法抓住这稍纵即逝的时光提高自己，或者使他人受益吗？
机会不会主动垂青于你。学习拿破仑，在“不可能”中创造机会。像所有战时或和平时期的领袖一样，为自己创造成功的机会。人人都须创造机会，为值得付出之事尽心尽力。好机会，对于懒惰之人毫无益处，而勤奋却能点石成金。
在这个世界上，获得成功的人是那些努力寻找他们想要的机会的人。如果找不到机会，他们就去创造机会。
vacillate ['v鎠ileit] v. 游移不定；踌躇；犹豫
She vacillated between hope and fear.
她时而抱有希望，时而心存恐惧。
manly ['m鎛li] adj. 像男人的；强壮的；适合男人的
They heard a manly voice shout: "Vive la France!"
他们听到一个男子的声音喊道：“法兰西万岁！”
aptitude ['鎝titju:d] n. 才能；资质
That student has an aptitude for mathematics.
那个学生有数学方面的天赋。
utilize [ju:'tilaiz] v. 利用
In a magazine you can utilize a picture of your product.
在杂志里，你可以用你的产品的照片。
缺乏机会，向来都是胆小懦弱和优柔寡断者的借口。
个人能力和诚信所负担的每一份责任都是无价的。
好机会对于懒惰之人毫无益处，而勤奋却能点石成金。
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind.
lack of：缺乏
Don't wait for your opportunity.
wait for：等候；等待
万事开头难
How Did He Begin
奥里森·马登 / Orison Marden
"Fifty years ago, " said Hezekiah Conan, the millionaire manufacturer and philanthropist of Pawtucket, R. I."I persuaded my father to let me leave my home in Dudley, Mass. and strike out for myself. So one morning in May, 1845, the old farm horse and wagon was hitched up, and, dressed in our Sunday clothes, father and I started for Worcester. Our object was to get me the situation offered by an advertisement in the Worcester County Gazette as follows:
Boy Wanted．
Wanted Immediately.At the Gazette Office, a well disposed boy, able to do heavy rolling．
Worcester, May 7．
"The financial inducements were thirty dollars the first year, thirty-five the next, and forty dollars the third year and board in the employer' s family. These conditions were accepted, and I began work the next day. The Gazette was an ordinary four-page sheet. I soon learned what heavy rolling meant for the paper was printed on a Washington hand-press, the edition of about 2000 copies requiring two laborious intervals of about ten hours each, every week. The printing of the outside was generally done Friday and kept me very busy all day．
"The inside went to press about three or four o' clock Tuesday afternoon, and it was after three o' clock on Wednesday morning before I could go to bed, tired and lame from the heavy rolling. In addition, I also had the laborious task of carrying a quantity of water from the pump behind the block around to the entrance in front, and then up two flights of stairs, usually a daily job. I was at first everybody' s servant. I was abused, called all sorts of nicknames, had to sweep out the office, build fires in winter, run errands, post bills, carry papers, wait on the editor, in fact I led the life of a genuine printer' s devil; but when I showed them at length that I had learned to set type and run the press, I got promoted, and another boy was hired to succeed to my task, with all its decorations. That was my first success, and from that day to this I have never asked anybody to get me a job or situation, and never used a letter of recommendation; but when an important job was in prospect the proposed employers were given all facilities to learn of my abilities and character. If some young men are easily discouraged，I hope they may gain encouragement and strength from my story. It is a long, rough road at first, but, like the ship on the ocean, you must lay your course for the place where you hope to land, and take advantage of all favoring circumstances."