新视野大学英语双语课文

Being Honest and Open

My grandparents believed that you were either honest or you were not. There was no middle ground. They had a simple saying hanging on their living-room wall: "Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show." They didn't have to talk about it; they demonstrated this truth in their lifestyle.

They understood instinctively that integrity involves having a personal standard of morality and boundaries that does not sell out to convenience and that is not relative to the situation at hand. Integrity is an inner compass for judging your behavior.

Unfortunately, integrity is in short supply today—and getting scarcer. But it is the real bottom line in every area of society and a discipline we must demand of ourselves.

A good test for this value is to apply what I call the "Integrity Triangle", which consists of three key principles:

Stand firmly for your convictions when confronted with personal pressure. There's a story told about a surgical nurse's assistance during her first day on the medical team at a well-known hospital. She was responsible for ensuring that all surgical instruments and materials were accounted for during an operation. The nurse said to the surgeon, "You've only removed 11 sponges, and we used 12. We need to find the last one."

"I removed them all," the surgeon assured her. "We'll close now." "You can't do that, sir," protested the nurse. "Think of the patient."

Smiling, the surgeon lifted his foot and showed the nurse the twelfth sponge. "You'll do just fine in this or any other hospital," he assured her.

When you know you're right, you can't concede.

Always give others credit that is rightfully theirs. Don't be afraid of those who might have a better idea or who might even be more intelligent than you are.

David Ogilvy, founder of the advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, clarified this point to his newly appointed office heads by sending each of them a Russian nesting doll with five progressively smaller figures inside.

His message was contained in the smallest doll: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants. And that is precisely what O & M became—one of the largest and most respected advertising organizations in the world.

做个诚实正直的人

我祖父母认为，一个人要么诚实，要么不诚实，两者之间没有折中可言。在他们起居室的墙上挂着一句朴实无华的格言：“生活如新雪覆盖的大地，走过之处必定留下足迹。”他们没有必要去用语言作出解释, 因为他们用自己的生活方式印证了这一真理。

他们生来就认为，所谓正直，就是有自己的道德界定标准，既不贪财图利，也不因所处的环境而妥协。正直是判断自身行为的心灵标尺。

遗憾的是，正直这一品格如今已不多见，而且越来越难寻觅了。但它却是社会各领域的真正基础，也是我们必须要求自己遵循的一条原则。检验这一价值观的一个好办法就是运用本人所说的“正直三角原则”，即下列三大原则：

在面对个人压力的时候要坚定自己的信念。有这样一个故事，讲的是一位外科护士第一天到一家知名医院的医疗小组协助手术的故事。她的责任是确保将手术中的每样手术器械和手术材料都如数清点好。这位护士对主刀医生说：“您只拿出了11块止血纱布，而我们一共用了12块。我们必须找到最后那一块纱布。”

“我全拿出来了，”外科医生肯定地对她说。“现在开始缝合刀口。”“您不能这样做，先生，”护士坚决反对，“我们应该为病人着想。”

医生露出了笑容，他抬起脚，让护士看到了第12块纱布。“你在这家医院或其他任何一家医院都会干得很出色的。”他用肯定的语气对她说。

所以，当你确信自己是正确的，就决不能让步。

总是给予别人他们应得的表扬。不要害怕那些主意比你妙甚至比你聪明的人。

戴维·奥格尔维是奥美广告公司的创始人，他送给新任命的各部门主管每人一个俄罗斯套娃，每个套娃从大到小依次有五个娃娃，以此来说明这个道理。

最小的那个娃娃里面装着奥格尔维要告诉他们的话：“如果我们每个人都聘用比我们小的人，那么我们的公司就会变成一个矮子公司。但是如果我们每个人都聘用比我们大的人，那么奥美广告公司就会变成一家巨人公司。”而奥美广告公司后来真的变成了巨人——国际上规模最大、名望最高的广告公司之一。

Be honest and open about who you really are. People who lack genuine core values rely on external factors—their looks or status—in order to feel good about themselves. Inevitably they will do everything they can to preserve this false mask, but they will do very little to enhance their inner value and personal growth.

So be yourself. Don't engage in a personal cover-up of areas that are unpleasing in your life. " Tough times never last but tough people do," says Robert Schuller. In other words, face reality and be mature in your responses to life's challenges.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. Integrity means you do what you do because it's right and not just fashionable or politically correct. A life of principle, of not yielding to the tempting attractions of an easy morality, will always win the day. It will take you forward into the twenty-first century without having to check your tracks in a rear-view mirror. My grandparents taught me that.

Background Information

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2. Hamlet

Hamlet is the main hero in the famous tragedy of Hamlet written by Shakespeare. Hamlet, a Danish prince encouraged by his father's ghost, is considering getting even with his uncle and mother for his father's murder when a trick set up by his uncle leads to the death of all three of them.

3. Jane Morrison & TA

Jane Morrison is identified in the article as a Teaching

要诚实坦白地表现真正的自我。缺乏实实在在内涵的人会去依靠外部因素——如长相或地位——来保持良好的自我感觉。他们必然会不择手段地去维护自己的这种假面具，而不太会去努力提高自己的内涵和素质。

因此，要表现出真正的自我。别去设法掩盖生活中那些不尽人意的方面。正如罗伯特·舒勒所说，“艰苦的时光终将过去，坚强的人必将苦尽甘来。”换言之，要正视现实，要以成熟的心态去迎接生活的挑战。

自尊和问心无愧是正直的两个重要组成部分，也是加深你与他人关系的基础。为人正直意味着去做你应该做的事，因为那是对的，而不是因为合乎潮流或迎合了政治上的需要。在生活中如果能坚持原则，抵制住放松道德标准的种种诱惑，那你就会永远立于不败之地。这样，你在跨入21世纪的时候，就不必为自己过去的所做所为而抱憾。这就是我祖父祖母教给我的做人的道理。

Assistant (TA). A TA is a student who helps a university professor with teaching duties such as grading papers, advising students, and proctoring examinations, etc.

4. Berkeley

Berkeley in the text refers to University of California (US University), Berkeley. The university is renowned for the size and quality of its libraries (with a collection of more than 7 million volumes) and laboratories, the scope of its research and publications, and the distinction of its faculty and students.

为人正直意味着去做你应该做的事，因为那是对的，而不是因为合乎潮流或迎合了政治上的需要。