名校勵志英語演講 第91期:如何實現你的夢想
第三，Zubatsky夫人的定律。當我還是小孩子的時候，有一天，我們在密爾沃基的房子著火了。當消防車趕到的時候，一大片的木屋正在燃燒著。消防員拿著一個很大的水管跑進后院然后開始組裝他們的金屬梯子并且靠房子固定住。
Mrs. Zubatsky was our next door neighbor and, at the time, she was standing on her upstairs porch taking in the laundry. She watched anxiously as the firemen struggled with their ladders.Suddenly she leaned over the balcony and shouted down to the professional firefighters, "Forget the ladders! Just point the hose at the fire!" The firemen, to their credit, responded immediately. They dropped their ladders, pointed the hose at the fire and extinguished the blaze in about 40 seconds.
Zubatsky 夫人是我們隔壁的一個鄰居，當時她正站在她家樓上的走廊收衣服。她焦急地看著消防員們努力地組裝梯子。突然間她在陽臺上探出身并且向那些專業(yè)的消防員大聲喊：“不要用梯子了!把水管對準火焰噴!”值得稱道的是，這些消防員立即響應了。他們扔掉了梯子，拿起消防水管對準火焰噴灑，結果只用了大概40秒就把大火給熄滅了。
There are two morals to this story. One, never assume that just because it's someone's job,they know how to do it. And two, don't let yourself be intimidated by professionals or their uniforms.
這個故事有兩個寓意。第一，據對不要認為是別人的工作，我們就肯定知道怎么做。第二，不要讓自己被別人的職業(yè)和制服嚇壞了。
Growing up in Wisconsin, I never knew anyone in the movie business. I never even knew anyone who knew anyone in the movie business. That world had a mystique that made it seem unattainable to me. But, like Mrs. Zubatsky, I sat on my porch and I watched someone else doit, and I said, "I have a better idea." And like her, I seized the moment.
在威斯康辛長大，我當時不認識任何電影行業(yè)的人。我甚至不認識一個在電影行業(yè)有熟人的人。電影世界當時對我來說似乎有一種不可企及的奧秘。但是，像 Zubatsky 夫人一樣，我坐在走廊上并且觀察者別人在做這個事情，然后說：“我有一個更好的想法。”并且，像她一樣，我把握住了機會。
