智慧背囊 浮华背后-03-再挖深一点

[00:03.78]Dig a Little Deeper再挖深一点
[00:07.66]There’s a story about the California gold rush
[00:10.83]that tells of two brothers who sold all they had
[00:13.96]and went prospecting¹ for gold.
[00:16.43]They discovered a vein² of the shining ore ,staked a claim
[00:20.85] and proceeded to get down to the serious business of getting the gold ore out of the mine.
[00:26.53]All went well at first,
[00:28.61]but then a strange thing happened.
[00:31.13] The vein of gold ore disappeared!
[00:33.86] They had come to the end of the rainbow,
[00:36.38]and the pot of gold was no longer there.
[00:39.42] The brothers continued to pick away, but without success.
[00:44.01]Finally, they gave up in disgust.
[00:47.29]They sold their equipment and claim rights for a few hundred dollars,
[00:51.63] and took the train back home.
[00:53.71]Now the man who bought the claim hired an engineer to examine the rock strata³ of the mine.
[01:00.05] The engineer advised him to continue digging in the same spot
[01:04.35]where the former owners had left off.
[01:06.87]And three feet deeper, the new owner struck gold.
[01:11.03]A little more persistence⁴ and the two brothers would have been millionaires themselves.
[01:16.28]That’s gold in you too. Do you need to dig three feet farther?

1 prospecting   

n.探矿

参考例句：

• The prospecting team ploughed their way through the snow. 探险队排雪前进。
• The prospecting team has traversed the length and breadth of the land. 勘探队踏遍了祖国的山山水水。

2 vein   

n.血管，静脉；叶脉，纹理；情绪；vt.使成脉络

参考例句：

• The girl is not in the vein for singing today.那女孩今天没有心情唱歌。
• The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein.医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。

3 strata   

n.地层（复数）；社会阶层

参考例句：

• The older strata gradually disintegrate.较老的岩层渐渐风化。
• They represent all social strata.他们代表各个社会阶层。

4 persistence   

n.坚持，持续，存留

参考例句：

• The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
• He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。