Keep your goals in sight

Keep your goals in sight
明确你的目标

FLORENCE Chadwick was a great swimmer. However, not all of her efforts worked out. In addition to working hard, she had a secret for success. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. At age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
FLORENCE Chadwick是名出色的游泳选手，但是并不是她所有努力的付出都有成功的回报。除了努力之外，她还有另一个成功的秘诀。她是第一位从各个方向游向English Channel的女性。34岁的时候，她的目标是成为第一位从卡达利娜岛游向加利福尼亚海岸的女性。

However, in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support boats. When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly 16 hours. Sharks swam towards her lone figure, only to be driven away by the sound of gunshots. Against the frigid grip of the sea, she struggled on — hour after hour — while millions watched on national television.
然而，在1952年，海水的温度就想冰水浴场一样，整个海面被烟雾笼罩着，她几乎看不到她的辅助船。当Florence Chadwick抬头向前看的时候她却什么看不到，只看到一堵厚厚的雾墙。她的身体已经麻木，因为她已经持续游了16个小时了。当鲨鱼向她孤身游去的时候她并没有退缩，只用枪声驱散他们。她拼命的抵抗寒冷的冰水，坚持不屑的努力着，时间一小时一小时的过去，但数百万观众仍在国家电视台前守候着。

Alongside Florence, in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to quit. She never had… until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.
与Florence并排的一条船上，她的妈妈和教练不断的鼓励她，告诉她离岸并不远了，但是她所看到的除了雾没有别的，他们劝告她不要放弃。她始终不曾放弃，直到......在距离目的地只有半英里的地方，她示意同伴将它拉上船。

Still thawing her chilled body several hours later, she told a reporter, "Look, I''m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land, I might have made it." It was not fatigue or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was unable to see her goal.
几小时后，她冻僵的身体有所缓和了，她告诉记者：“听着，我不想为自己找任何推辞的借口，如果我能看的到陆地的话，我可能会成功。”并不是疲劳或是刺骨的冰水打败了她，而是雾，她不能清晰的看见自己的目标。

Two months later, she tried again. This time, despite the same dense fog, she swam with her faith intact and h

er goal clearly pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land, and this time she made it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, and even beat the men's record by two hours!
两个月后，她又重新尝试了一次，这次尽管也有同样的大雾，但她坚持游下去的信念并没有受到任何影响，她的目标就像图画一样清晰的呈现在她的脑海中，她清楚的知道在大雾后的某个地方就是陆地。因此，这次她成功了，Florence Chadwick成为第一位成功穿越卡达利娜海峡的女性，甚至以两小时的时间打败了男子的记录。