卡卡英語第318期:命運一直掌握在你手中

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2018年11月25日

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如果你的新年愿望是賺到一個百萬，但又不知道如何開始，聽聽這個故事，你可能會茅塞頓開。故事的主角是著名的哲學(xué)家，教育家岡索勒斯。在他上大學(xué)的時候，發(fā)現(xiàn)一些大學(xué)教育制度的弊端。當(dāng)他給校長提出這些建議的時候，并沒有被采納。于是他決定自己辦一所大學(xué)。故事就由此開始了...

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How to Have One Million Dollars
A young man pursued studies at the University.
One day he proposed to the president some suggestions about how to improve the university
education system malpractice. His opinion was not accepted by the president. So he decided to run a university independently and eliminate these drawbacks.
To run the school would require at least one million dollars. Where would he find so much money?
Every day he was in the bedroom thinking hard how to get one million dollars. His classmates though he was crazy, dreaming the money would fall from the sky. But the young man didn't think so, firmly believing that he could raise the money.
Finally, one day he thought out a way. He called the newspaper that tomorrow he would hold a lecture titled If I Have One Million Dollars. The next day the speech attracted many business people, In presence of the audience and many successful people, he spoke out his idea. At last. after the speech, a businessman called Philip Armer stood up and said, "Young man you spoke so well. I decide to invest one million dollars as you said. "Thus, with the money the young man ran Armer Polytechnic Institute, which is now the predecessor of famous Illinois Polytechnic Institute. This young man was the philosopher and educator Gunsaulus widely loved and esteemed later.
一位年輕人在大學(xué)讀書。有一天,他向校長提出了改進(jìn)大學(xué)教育制度弊端的若干建議。他的意見沒被校長接受。于是,他決定自己辦一所大學(xué),來消除這些弊端。
辦學(xué)校至少需要100萬美元。上哪兒去找這么多錢呢?他每天都在寢室內(nèi)苦思冥想如何能有100萬美元。同學(xué)們都認(rèn)為他有神經(jīng)病,夢想天上掉錢來。但年輕人不以為然,堅信自己可以籌到這筆錢。
終于有一天,他想到了一個辦法。他打電話到報社說,他準(zhǔn)備明天舉行一個演講會,題目叫《如果我有100萬美元》。第二天的演講吸引了許多商界人士。面對臺下諸多成功人士,他在臺上全心全意發(fā)自內(nèi)心地說出了自己的構(gòu)想。最后演講完畢,一個叫菲利普·亞
默的商人站了起來,說:“小伙子,你講得非常好。我決定投資100萬,就照你說的辦。”就這樣,年輕人用這筆錢辦了亞默理工學(xué)院,也就是現(xiàn)在著名的伊利諾理工學(xué)院的前身。這個年輕人就是后來備受人們愛戴的哲學(xué)家、教育家岡索勒斯。
故事結(jié)束了，當(dāng)年如果岡索勒斯在被校長拒絕后，回到寢室慢慢接受了室友們的想法自暴自棄，也就沒有后來的伊利諾理工學(xué)院，也沒有以后的哲學(xué)家、教育家岡索勒斯。
夢想就是在你吃飯睡覺都應(yīng)為之奮斗和努力的目標(biāo)，而不應(yīng)該在一次次挫折中消磨了斗志，或許大多數(shù)人碌碌不為的原因也就在此。

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