财富精英励志演讲25：巴菲特:决定你成功的因素(1)

 　　I'd like to just say a few words primarily and then the highlight for me will be getting your questions in a few minutes.

　　我想先讲几分钟的套话，然后我就主要来接受你们的提问。

　　I want to talk about what is on your mind.

　　我想谈的是你们的所思所想。

　　I urge you to throw a hard ball.

　　我鼓励你们给我抛一些高难度的球，

　　It’s more fun for me if you, if you feel a little speed of ambitious and pitches it and coming...

　　如果你们的投球带些速度的话，我回答起来会更有兴致.......

　　You can ask me anything except last week Texas A&M Game,

　　你们几乎可以问任何问题，除了上个礼拜的德克萨斯农工大学的橄榄球赛，

　　that’s off limit.

　　那超出我所能接受的极限。

　　We have a couple of men here from SunTrust.

　　我们这里来了几个SunTrust的人。

　　I’ve just attended a Coke meeting.

　　我刚刚参加完Coca Cola的股东大会，

　　I sat next to Jimmy Williams there who won SunTrust for many years,

　　我坐在吉米.威廉姆斯边上，吉米领导了SunTrust多年。

　　and he wanted be sure that I wear this SunTrust shirt gone here.

　　他一定让我穿上这件SunTrust的T恤到这来。

　　I tried to get sponsorship on the Senior Golf Store.

　　我一直试着让老年高尔夫联盟给我赞助，

　　I have a number of slash¹.

　　但是都无功而返。

　　Now on a bank store, I did even better than that.

　　没想到我在SunTrust这儿却做的不错。

　　Because I got a increasing proposal from gain through her.

　　吉米说，基于SunTrust存款的增长，我会得到一定比例的酬劳。

　　So I will go for SunTrust, dear old SunTrust.

　　所以我为SunTrust鼓劲。

　　I would like to talk for just one minute to the students about your future when you leave here,

　　我在这里只想对大家讲讲关于你们走出校门后的未来的事情。

　　because you've got a lot of tremendous amount about investments.

　　你们在这里已经学了很多关于投资方面的知识，

　　You've learned how to do well.

　　你们学会如何做好事情，

　　You’ve all got the IQ to do well.

　　你们有足够的IQ能做好，

　　You’ve all got the initiative and energy to do well or you wouldn’t be, you wouldn’t be here.

　　你们也有动力和精力来做好，否则你们就不会在这里了。

　　And most of you will succeed in meeting your aspirations².

　　你们中的许多人都将最终实现你们的理想。

　　But in determining whether you succeed, there is more to it than intellect and energy.

　　但是在智能和能量之外，还有更多的东西来决定你是否成功。

　　And I’d like to talk for just a second about that.

　　我想谈谈那些东西。

1 slash   

vi.大幅度削减；vt.猛砍，尖锐抨击，大幅减少；n.猛砍，斜线，长切口，衣衩

参考例句：

• The shop plans to slash fur prices after Spring Festival.该店计划在春节之后把皮货降价。
• Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.不要那样残忍地鞭打你的马。

2 aspirations   

强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 )； 志向； 发送气音； 发 h 音

参考例句：

• I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
• The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。