Ambition

Ambition and Its Enemies

1.Speaking Activities: first here are some questions to discuss for students to

warm up:

1) What is ambition? Do you think it?s good or bad for a person to have a strong

ambition early in his/her life?

2) Some people believe it?s quite ok for a man, especially a young man, to be

ambitious in life. But it would not be appropriate for a woman to be much ambitious. What do you think of it? Do you have any supporting ideas?

3) What?s the difference between wild ambition and noble aspiration ? Do you

think you can perfectly distinguish them from each other?

2.Read the following passages and further your discussion with more

supporting facts and ideas.

Ambition: vice or virtue

A slave has only one master, an ambitious man as many masters

as there are people he thinks can be useful to him

LA BRUYERE There is understandable pleasure to be taken in the downfall（垮台、毁灭）of the overweening(自负)individual who has gambled with truth and integrity（正直）to thrust his way into public notice.

A Burmese proverb says: "He who takes big paces leaves big spaces", which readily fill up with trouble. This is a lesson that any number of collapsed politicians and public figures would do well to learn, but ambition is a ruthless master, and its votaries（信仰者）easily forget or ignore the insights that might otherwise save them. Some might say that it is not desire so much as impatience which unseats（使从马上摔下, 使失去资格）the ambitious person. People in a hurry to be famous, rich or both, are apt（无疑的）to cut corners（抄近路）, truth being one of the easiest to trim（修剪）. There are certain creatures which run so fast on the surface of the water that they do not sink, for a time anyway.

But although ambition for worldly success - money, power, titles - can indeed prompt impatience, and almost always does, it is only ambition that explains a person's persistence even after he has been caught out - in warping（扭曲, 变形）facts to conceal the marches he stole, the parties he gate-crashed（无票入场）, the one-way streets he drove up the wrong way, and in general the smaller and greater dishonesties by which he wormed（蠕行）his way, without a ticket, into life's front row.

It is a risky proceeding. Tacitus put his finger on it when he said: "Those who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall." He was thinking of the bloody history of Rome after Augustus, but the point is general. Ambitious people rely on others to help at crucial moments; but if they leave those others behind in their ascent（爬升）, they risk turning them into enemies.

But ambition is not a bad thing in itself. Milton called it "the last infirmity（弱点）of noble minds", and even those who think it a vice - as is taught in religious

moralities of the kind that extol（赞美）humility and "knowing one's place" - can agree that though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

Better still is the thought that ambition can be the mother of achievement, leading to scientific discovery, works of art, enhancement of the public good. A desire to be ranked with the great figures of the past can be a good emulation, if it recognises what it takes.

Worthy ambition, in short, is responsible ambition, because it is prepared to pay the costs of attainment. Mere ambition wants to leap high without effort, and looks for easy ladders.

The difference is well illustrated by the contrast - to employ a familiar example - between the person who says he "wishes to be a writer" and the person who says he "wishes to write". The former desires to be pointed out at cocktail parties, the latter is prepared for the long, solitary（孤独的）hours at a desk; the former desires a status, the latter a process; the former desires to be, the latter to do.

It remains true that most ambition is not a noble aspiration but mere "wild ambition" which, says Dryden, "loves to slide, not stand,/ And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land." It is the ambition which consumes other people, and veracity（诚实）and trust, and eventually itself. But only, of course, if it is found out; which some seem to think is the only sin it is really possible to commit.

Clinton and Female Ambition

Patrick Healy

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was pumped up（俚语：使振奋：使充满热情、力量和能量）this morning over her performance in Sunday night?s debate, trading a perfectly executed high-five with the tennis legend Billie Jean King at a “W omen for Hillary” campaign event and even taking on the “pundits”（专家、学者）who suggest she is more than a little ambitious.

“Last night I thought I might be asked the question, …Well, Senator Clinton, people say that you are ambitious, what do you say to tha t??” Mrs. Clinton told a ballroom packed with more than 1,000 women (and a few men) in midtown Manhattan. “I was going to say, …I assume you?ll ask all the men.?”

Referring to her decision to run for office, Mrs. Clinton also said that, “contrary to some p undits, it was certainly not something I thought about all my life.” She took a long pause between the words “some” and “pundits,” as if considering, for a moment, using a less gracious words than pundits.

She added, “I never shook hands with anybody when I was 16,” an apparent reference to the oft-told（经常说起的）story of her husband, as a young man, meeting and shaking hands with President Kennedy.

Rather, Mrs. Clinton said, she grew up with parents who told her that everyone was expected to work and become self-reliant. She also recalled her love of sports as a child, including playing pick-up basketball（一种篮球游戏）. (Obama（另一总统竞选人）alert! Though she has talked about playing pick-up before Friday?s Page 1 story

in the Times about Barack Obama?s basketball playing, a story that raised the ire（忿怒）of some Clintonistas for its vigorous imagery.)

She also revealed that she once won a mixed doubles tournament in Fayetteville, Ark., and received a trophy（奖品）where the cast of the male player was a good bit larger than the cast of the female player.

As for the policy discussion at this morning?s campaign event, there was one interesting moment on Iraq. When asked if it was possible to have a truly stable Iraq after American troops leave, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged, “I don?t ha ve an answer for that.” Regardless, however, she said that “having our men and women in the middle of a civil war is not a good policy,” and repeated her plan to remove many troops but keep a reduced force there to fight Al Qaeda（基地组织）and pursue other national security priorities there.

Mrs. Clinton also got off a zinger（有力的反驳）about what she saw as the Bush administration?s approach to foreign policy, describing it in a way that parents might appreciate.

“It seems to me that the Bush diplomacy is just, …go and do what I tell you to do,?” she said. “That doesn?t work with your children. That doesn?t work with the rest of the world.”

One female audience member said that when she talks up Mrs. Clinton?s candidacy to friends or at dinn er parties, she hears the same refrain: “Hillary is great and there is no way this country is ready for a woman president.” How should she respond? the audience member asked.

“Well, the first answer I give when I heard that question is, I think trying is more than half the battle,” Mrs. Clinton said.

But she also made clear that she had to convince enough voters that she was tough enough on national security.

“Ultimately the Am erican people make a judgment about candidates for president that is focused on whether these people can be commander in chief,” she said. Once that “threshold”（阈值、临限）is crossed, she said, voters will listen and respond to candidates? plans on health care, et al.

Ms. King, for her part, hailed（喝彩）Mrs. Clinton as a fellow trailblazer（开路先锋）.

“Hillary can hit the ground running（to immediately work very hard and successfully at a new activity.）; she?s already lived there for eight years! I mean, c?mon!（come on）” Ms. King said.

Leadership: Ambition--Vice or Virtue?

A pair of new books on Senator Hillary Clinton, as described by the Washington Post, draw a portrait of a woman who is smart, shrewd and very “methodical.” Both books, one by Carl Bernstein (Her Way) and the other by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr. (A Woman in Charge), describe a woman bent on achieving her aims and very ambitious. In other words, she?s a politician. But consider what would a politician be without ambition? Someone standing on the sidelines

watching others do the work!

Ambition is after all the inner drive that pushes someone to achieve. It is absolutely essential to leadership. Yet so often, as in the case of Mrs. Clinton and most other politicians, ambition is perceived as a negative. Why? Because it is how the politician channels that ambition as in putting the means to end ahead of the end. For example, Huey Long, the crusading governor of Louisiana in the Thirties, wanted to raise the standard of living in his poor state. He did improve the state?s infrastructure (roads, schools, hospitals) through public works, but he achieved his aims through ruthless means and corruption top to bottom.

The same might go for corporate executives like the Rigas family that took Adelphia from obscurity to a multi-billion status; they made plenty of money for shareholders, but also robbed those shareholders blindly by, treating the company, as one prosecutor put it, “a personal piggy bank.” Clearly ambition was misplaced for personal gain.

Ambition, however, can be force for the good. Here are some ways:

Use ambition to capitalize on opportunity. Sometimes opportunity is staring us in the face but we may not recognize it. Ambitious people look at the status quo and see ways to do things differently. It may be to develop a new product, a new process, or a new service. Looking to do things differently can be a force for the good. Entrepreneurs are folks who channel their ambition into looking for new opportunities.

Use ambition as a tool for change. Ambition may be the driver that challenges assumptions. Part of a leader?s responsibility is to identify the need for positive change and to usher in that change. It may provoke us to say why are we doing things this way? Asking the questions may stimulate debate and ultimately action that will cause new ideas.

Use ambition as tool for personal growth. Ambition is wanting to move to the next step. Fulfilling that dream may require more schooling, more training, and more experience. Ambition can be the spark that pushes you to achieve your dream, often when hard work is involved.

Ambition by itself is neither positive nor negative. What you do with the drive, like all human drives, is what matters. As 18th century political theorist, Edmund Burke posited, “Ambition can creep as well as soar.” If ambition causes you to cut corners ethics-wise so much so that you sacrifice integrity and values then ambition can be destructive. Conversely, if you channel your ambition into fulfilling organizational goals that build a stronger and better company and do it in ways that help employees and customers then ambition is a positive.

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公共英语课文翻译

Unit 1 A Young Boy’s Ambition 一个小男孩的梦想 马克吐温 1.我小的时候，我们那密西西比河西岸的村镇上，玩伴们都只有一个永恒的志愿。那就是当轮船上的水手。我们也有其他种种暂时的愿望，可是那都只是暂时性的。马戏团来到的时候和走了之后，总是使我们大家都燃起火热的希望，想当小丑；第一次到我们那带地方来的黑人游唱团使我们渴望着想试一试那种生活；我们不时还有一种希望，那就是，如果我们活在世上，品行挺好，上帝就会让我们当海盗。这些愿望，一个一个地都先后幻灭了；可是想当轮船上的水手这种志愿却始终保持下来了。 2. 一艘简陋而外表华丽的定班轮船从圣路易斯开上来，另一艘从奇阿库克往下游开，每天都要来到这里一次。在这些大事出现之前，这一天使人充满了期望，显得光辉灿烂：这些大事过了之后，时光就变得死气沉沉，空空洞洞了。不仅孩子们有这种感觉，整个村镇都是一样。如今事隔多年，我仍旧能在心中描绘往日的情景，完全像当时那样：夏天早晨，白色的村镇在阳光中打盹；街上是空荡荡的，几乎一个人都没有：水街的杂货铺前面坐着一两个店员，他们把那木条椅面的椅子翘起来，靠在墙上，下巴顶在胸前，帽子垂下遮着脸，打着瞌睡一他们身边有许多削木瓦的碎片，这就说明是什么事情把他们累坏了：一只母猪和一窝猪仔在人行道上闲荡着，痛痛快快地啃着西瓜皮和瓜子：两三个孤零零的小货物堆在“码头”上闲置着；石头铺的起卸码头的坡上有一堆“垫木”，镇上的流浪醉汉就在这木堆近旁酣睡着；码头上端有两三只平底木船，可是那拍打着这些船的小浪的柔和声响，却没有人倾听；伟大的密西西比河，壮丽、辉煌的密西西比河，让它那一英里宽的洪流滚滚奔腾下去，在阳光中放出闪光；河对岸的远处是茂密的森林；村镇上游的“地角”和下游的“地角”截断了河上景色的视线，把它变成了一片海面，而且这海面还是风光明媚、沉寂而幽静的。随后有一股黑烟在远处的一个“地角”上空升腾起来；立刻就有一个以眼睛特别快、嗓子特别响出名的黑人运货马车夫高声喊道：“火——轮——船——来了!”于是情况就变了!镇上那个醉汉翻身起来，那几个店员也醒了，随后就是运货马车的一阵狂暴的响声，每户人家和每个铺子里都涌出一股人流，转瞬之间，这个死气沉沉的村镇就热闹起来了、活动起来了。 3.运货马车和大车，男子汉和孩子，都从四面八方连忙赶到一个大家聚集的中心地点——码头上去。大家在那里集合之后，就把眼睛盯住那条开来的船，好像是注视他们第一次看到的一个稀奇东西一般。那条船也的确是相当美观。它又长又尖，收拾得又整洁、又漂亮。船上有两个高高的烟囱，顶上有些别致的花样——两个烟囱之间挂着一个金色的东西：还有一间别致的驾驶室，全是玻璃的，外表挺好看，其实并不值钱，驾凌后面的上层甲板之上；明轮罩也华丽非凡，那上面绘着图画，还在船名之上绘了一些金色的光带：锅炉甲板、顶层甲板和上层甲板周围都配置着干净的白栏杆；船头旗杆上神奇十足地飘着一面旗子：火炉的门是开着的，里面的火放射出熊熊的光来；上面的两层甲板黑压压地挤满了乘客；船长站在大钟旁边，神态镇静，挺有气派，他是大家羡慕的人物；大股大股的极黑的浓烟从烟囱里滚滚升腾起来一这是快到村镇之前，在火炉里添了一点多脂，特意造成的一种所费无几的威严气派；全体水手聚集在船头甲板上；宽阔的踏板在船头的舱门上面伸出船边很艮远，有一个令人羡慕的水手神气十足地站在它的尽头，手里拿着一卷绳子：憋住的蒸汽从活嘴里进出尖叫的声音；船长举起手来，一口钟发出响声，机轮就停住了：然后机轮又向后转动，搅得河水冒出许多泡沫，于是轮船就不动了。接着是乱得一团糟，大家争先恐后，有的抢着上船，有的抢着上岸，有的要上货，有的要卸货，都在这同一时刻里抢着干。大副们为了催大家赶快，拼命地嚷，拼命地骂，那一阵叫骂声真是凶得要命!十分钟之后，轮船又开走了，船头旗杆上再也没有旗子，烟囱里再也不冒黑烟了。再过10分钟，这个小镇上又是死气沉沉，镇上那个醉汉又回到那堆垫木旁边去睡着了。 4.我父亲是个治安法官，我以为他对一切的人都操着生杀之权，无论谁得罪了他，他都可以处以绞刑。一般来说，这么大的威风原是足以使我满意的；然而想到轮船上当水手的愿望却是仍旧不断地闯进我脑子里来。起初我想当一个船舱里的茶房，为的是能够系着白色的腰围出来，在船边上抖一抖餐桌布，好让我所有的老玩伴们看得见；后来我又想到，还不如做那个子里拿着一卷绳子、站在踏板尽头的水手，因为他是特别惹人注目的。但是这些念头都只是白日梦而已——要想把它们当成真有可能的事情来作打算，那却未免太高不可攀了。过了不久，我们那些孩子当中有一个跑掉了。他走了很久还没有；肖息。后来他终于

Ambition(抱负,有翻译)

Ambition It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably be a kinder world: without demands, without abrasions, without disappointments. Competition would never enter in. Conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unrelievedly boring life would be? There is a view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That efforts of people are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events? Now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, not all ambition worth cultivating. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of people are useless. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. But within all this realm of choiceless, we do choose how we shall live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition about. 抱负 一个缺乏抱负的世界将会怎样，这不难想象。或许，这将是一个更为友善的世界：没有渴求，没有磨擦，没有失望。竞争永远不会介入；冲突将被消除。焦虑将会消失。时光流逝，抱负却早已远离人心。 啊，长此以往人生将变得多么乏味无聊！ 有一种的观点认为，成功是一种神话，因此抱负亦属虚幻。这是不是说实际上并不丰在成功？成就本身就是一场空？与诸多运动和事件的力量相比，人们的努力显得微不足？显然，并非所有的成功都值得景仰，也并非所有的抱负都值得追求。但即使是最为愤世嫉俗的人暗地里也承认，成功确实存在，成就的意义举足轻重，而把世上人们的所作所为说成是徒劳无功才是真正的无稽之谈。

What Is Ambition

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