2025年12月六级第1套仔细阅读 Passage 1 原文翻译及答案解析

Many see friendships as a comfort blanket: a shoulder to cry on, a reliable soul to confide in. However, more often than not, in our eagerness to seek individual success, we lose friends along the way and that has become part of the process.

许多人将友谊视为安慰之毯：可以依靠哭泣的肩膀，一个可靠的倾诉对象。然而，往往在我们热切追求个人成功的过程中，我们失去了朋友，而这已经成为过程的一部分。

The chaos and never-ending turmoil that accompanies everyday life is an aggressive obstacle in the pursuit of stable friendships. As students, we use this excuse to shrug off losing people who we once thought to be loved ones.

伴随日常生活的混乱和永无休止的动荡，是追求稳定友谊的严重障碍。作为学生，我们用这个借口来推卸失去那些我们曾认为是所爱之人的责任。

Instead of viewing our lives as a race, where everyone is on their own path to some form of success, we must relearn to value the connections we make along the track. We must reevaluate the harm of radical, individual freedom.

我们不应将生活视为一场竞赛，每个人都在通往某种成功的道路上独行，而必须重新学会珍视沿途建立的联系。我们必须重新评估激进的个人自由所带来的危害。

Radical individualism elevates the freedom of the individual over the collective. It argues, for instance, that universal healthcare, an example of collectivism, threatened the dream of many Americans.

激进的个人主义将个人的自由置于集体之上。例如，它认为全民医疗保健——集体主义的一个例子——威胁了许多美国人的梦想。

Many of us have fallen victim to an individualistic culture. Society tends to celebrate personal achievement and commend it based on the assumption that winning or succeeding is a consequence of working harder than the next person.

我们许多人都成为了个人主义文化的受害者。社会倾向于庆祝个人成就，并基于这样一种假设来赞扬它：获胜或成功是比他人更努力工作的结果。

As a society, we idolize the concept of "losing friends on the road to success." I remember hearing in high school, "Don't worry about losing friendships, just focus on study and getting into college. That's all that will matter in the long run," a sentiment that is not unique to my experience. It's preached in many success stories, and it's embedded in the way we see growth. Motivational speakers will push their audience to be complacent to the inevitable end of losing friends. Spend too much time with friends? You're losing time better utilized on your achievements. Invest time in your relationships? Invest time in your work instead.

作为一个社会，我们崇拜“在成功之路上失去朋友”的概念。我记得在高中时听到过这样的说法：“别担心失去友谊，只需专注于学习和考上大学。从长远来看，这才是最重要的。”这种情绪并非我个人经历独有。它在许多成功故事中被宣扬，并深深植根于我们看待成长的方式中。励志演说家会推动他们的受众对失去朋友的必然结局安之若素。花太多时间与朋友在一起？你正在浪费本可用于成就的时间。投资于人际关系？不如投资于你的工作。

This constant need to succeed has blinded us from seeing through the whirlwind of change that accompanies our everyday lives. We are expected to tangibly succeed, earn awards, get higher positions, earn better grades. In order to succeed, we lose friends, and that has sadly become normalized.

这种不断追求成功的需要，使我们无法看透伴随日常生活的变革漩涡。我们被期望切实地取得成功，赢得奖项，获得更高的职位，取得更好的成绩。为了成功，我们失去了朋友，而可悲的是，这已经变得常态化。

We cannot be complacent with losing friendships because they are our anchors.

我们不能对失去友谊安之若素，因为它们是我们的精神支柱。

Yes, pursue success. Challenge yourself. Push limits. But contrary to all the self-proclaimed success experts, doing it alone does not make you more successful or any better than someone who achieved it with the help of others.

是的，追求成功。挑战自己。突破极限。但与所有自诩的成功专家相反，独自去做并不会让你比那些在他人帮助下取得成功的人更成功或更优秀。

Put effort into fostering healthy relationships, and maintaining them through your busy schedule that seems like it leaves no time for anyone else. Although we may be living in a society that treasures the independent pursuit of achievement, having people to support and love you on the way is far more important than any end result.

努力培养健康的人际关系，并在似乎没有时间顾及他人的繁忙日程中维持它们。尽管我们可能生活在一个珍视独立追求成就的社会中，但在过程中有人支持和爱你，远比任何最终结果都重要。