Directions:

　　Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written carefully on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

　　With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver,” creating our inner character and outer circumstances, the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

　　(46) Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.

　　我们每个人都认同这样的看法：我们自己不是机器人，因此能够控制我们的思想;爱伦的贡献在于他研究了这一假说，并揭示其错误的本质。

　　解析：

　　操作技法：分译法加代词指代确定主干: Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption and reveal its erroneous nature分清层次，整理语序。

　　Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter, we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless; this allows us to think one way and act another. However, Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind, and (47) while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone, in reality we are continually faced with a question: “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that? ”

　　虽然我们或许只需要通过意识就能持续的控制这种幻觉，但事实上，我们却要一直面临一个问题：我们为什么不能让自己去做这件事情或去实现那个目标呢?

　　解析：对与while的处理，很多次了都是考while 做转折讲。

　　Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire, Allen concluded : “ We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t “ get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.

　　Part of the fame of Allen’s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.” (48) This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.

　　这种说法似乎使我们可以很正当的去忽视那些需要帮助的人，去使剥削合理化，使上层人的变得更优越，而底层人变得更加弱势。

　　This ,however, would be a knee-jerk reaction to a subtle argument. Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth. If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people, then humanity would never have progressed. In fat, (49)circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation .

　　环境似乎就是为了去唤起我们内心的力量，并且如果我们总感觉到不公平，那么我们不太可能可以用自觉的力量去改变境遇。

　　Nevertheless, as any biographer knows, a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

　　The sobering aspect of Allen’s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves. (50) The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the array of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible. 可喜的一面在于，既然知道我们可以主宰一切事情，那么就有无限的可能。以前，我们能够熟练应对种种局限;现在，我们也能完全的把握可能。