2023年06月四级第1套仔细阅读 Passage 2 原文翻译及答案解析

Most of us in the entrepreneurial community are blessed—or cursed—with higher-than-average ambition. Ambitious people strongly desire accomplishments and are willing to take more risks and spend more effort to get them.

在创业社区中，我们大多数人拥有的高于平均水平的雄心壮志，既是祝福也是诅咒。雄心勃勃的人强烈渴望成就，并愿意为此承担更多风险、付出更多努力。

Overall, this is a positive quality, especially for people trying to build their own businesses. Apparently, if you're more naturally driven to set goals, you are more likely to succeed.

总的来说，这是一种积极的品质，尤其对于那些试图建立自己企业的人来说。显然，如果你天生更倾向于设定目标，你更有可能成功。

Actually, this isn't always the case. In fact, in some cases, extreme ambition may end up doing more harm than good.

实际上，情况并非总是如此。事实上，在某些情况下，极端的雄心壮志可能最终弊大于利。

One major side effect of excessive ambition is the tendency to focus too determinedly on one particular vision or end goal. This is problematic because it hinders your ability to adapt to new circumstances, which is vital if you want to be a successful entrepreneur. If a new competitor emerges to threaten your business, you may need to change direction, even if that means straying from your original vision. If you have too much ambition, you'll find this hard, if not impossible.

过度雄心壮志的一个主要副作用是倾向于过于坚定地专注于一个特定的愿景或最终目标。这是有问题的，因为它阻碍了你适应新环境的能力，而如果你想成为一个成功的企业家，适应能力至关重要。如果有新竞争对手出现威胁到你的业务，你可能需要改变方向，即使这意味着偏离你最初的愿景。如果你雄心过大，你会发现这很难，甚至不可能。

Few people are successful when they try to build their first brand. Unfortunately, for the most ambitious entrepreneurs, a failure is seen as disastrous, and impossible to recover from.

很少有人在尝试建立自己的第一个品牌时就成功。不幸的是，对于雄心勃勃的企业家来说，失败被视为灾难性的，且无法恢复。

It's a clear departure from the intended plan toward the intended goal. For people with limited ambition, however, failure is viewed as something closer to reality. Remember, failure is inevitable, and every failure you survive is a learning experience.

这是从预期计划向预期目标的一次明显偏离。然而，对于雄心有限的人来说，失败被视为更接近现实的事物。记住，失败是不可避免的，你经历的每一次失败都是一次学习经历。

Ambitious people tend to be more materialistically successful than their non-ambitious counterparts. However, they're only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts, and tend to live significantly shorter lives. This implies that even though ambitious people are more likely to achieve conventional "success," such success means nothing for their health and happiness-and if you don't have health and happiness, what else could possibly matter?

雄心勃勃的人往往在物质上比不雄心勃勃的人更成功。然而，他们只比不那么雄心勃勃的人稍微快乐一点，并且往往寿命显著更短。这意味着，尽管雄心勃勃的人更有可能取得传统的“成功”，但这种成功对他们的健康和幸福毫无意义——如果你没有健康和幸福，还有什么其他事情可能重要呢？

Clearly, some amount of ambition is good for your motivation. Without any ambition, you wouldn't start your own business, set or achieve goals and get far in life. But an excess of ambition can also be dangerous, putting you at risk of burnout, stubbornness and even a shorter life.

显然，一定程度的雄心壮志对你的动机有益。没有任何雄心，你就不会开始自己的事业、设定或实现目标并在生活中取得远大成就。但过度的雄心壮志也可能很危险，使你面临倦怠、固执甚至寿命缩短的风险。