在历史名人鼓舞下记单词：拿破仑篇

　　拿破仑•希尔(Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970)是一位励志大师。他的早年生活充满了艰辛和坎坷。从1908年起，希尔在钢铁大王安德鲁•卡内基的帮助下，开始了长达20多年的成功学研究，拜访了500多位在美国政治、工商、科学和金融等领域取得卓越成就的高层人士，完成了具有划时代意义的名著——《成功法则》。他的另外一部著作《思考致富》也能给你极大的鼓舞。

　　1 What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

　　成功取决于思想和信念。

　　Achieve:实现；获得

　　2 Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

　　反复思考能使任何的想法、计划或者目的驻足心中。

　　Repetition: 重复

　　3 Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

　　拿着高薪但极少承担责任的情况几乎没有。

　　Circumstance: 情况

　　4 Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

　　珍惜你的梦想就好像它们是你的灵魂之子，是你最终成就的蓝图。

　　Cherish: 珍惜

　　Vision: 远见

　　Blueprint: 蓝图

　　Ultimate: 最终的

　　5 Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

　　爱迪生失败了1万次才发明电灯。所以如果你只是失败几次，就不必灰心了。

　　Discourage: 使灰心

　　6 Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

　　只有我们拒绝放弃的时候，我们的努力才能完全得到回报。

　　Effort: 努力

　　Release: 释放

　　Reward: 回报

　　Quit: 放弃

　　7 Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat.

　　任何人要想在任何领域获得成功都必须坚持。

　　Undertaking: 事业；任务

　　Retreat: 退却

　　8 Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

　　伟大的成就大多来自于伟大的牺牲，决不是来自于自私自利。

　　Sacrifice: 牺牲

　　Selfishness: 自私

　　9 Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

　　坚持在你的内心中想象理想的自己，时间一长你就会习惯于成功的自我。

　　Steadily: 坚持地

　　10 Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

　　就像我们的眼睛需要光明才能看得见东西，我们的心灵需要要思想才能有所构想。

　　Conceive: 构想

　　11 No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

　　没有一个真正的思想家会根据一个人的敌人的所言来鉴别此人。

　　Accurate: 准确的

　　12 No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

　　没有任何人能在他不喜欢的行业取得成功。

　　Endeavor: 努力

　　13 Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

　　机会经常隐藏在不幸和暂时的失败中。

　　Disguise: 伪装

　　Misfortune: 不幸

　　14 Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

　　耐心、坚持和抱负是成功的不二法则。

　　Patience: 耐心

　　Persistence: 坚持

　　Perspiration: 抱负

　　Unbeatable: 无敌的

　　15 Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

　　拖延就是把前天就应该完成的事情放到后天去做的坏习惯。

　　Procrastination: 拖延

　　16 Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

　　一旦你把计划付诸于笔端，你就把无形的渴望转为有形。

　　Definitely: 明确地

　　Concrete: 具体的

　　Intangible: 难以捉摸的

　　17 The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

　　发展决断力的办法就是从现在做起，直面困难。

　　Decisiveness: 决断力

　　18 There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

　　唯一限制我们心灵的就是自我限制。

　　Acknowledge: 承认

　　19 War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

　　牺牲他人的利益获取先机将导致争斗。

　　Expense: 代价 at the expense of 是习惯用法

　　20 When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

　　视失败为计划不周；重建计划然后向既定目标再次扬帆启航。

　　Sound: 合理的

　　Rebuild: 再建

　　Covet: 渴求