生活英语听力文章：不要指望时间可以为你倒退
Don’t Wish You Could Rewind the Clock 不要指望时间可以为你倒退
不要奢望时间能够倒退
I often hear people say, “I wish I could do that over again.” Or “I feel so bad about what happened; I wish I had never said anything.” Or “I wish I had never made that investment.” Or “I wish I had never dated that person.” When you make these types of statements you are wishing you had done something differently.
我常常听到人们这样说，“我真希望我能重新做一次”或者“对于已经发生的事我很伤心，我希望我从来没有说过那样的话”。或者“我真希望我从来没有做过那个投资”。或者“我希望我从来没有和那人约会过”。r如果你也做过这样的陈述，那说明你对之前做过的事情有不一样的看法了。
My Wish-I-Hadn’t-Done-That List
我的清单关于我希望我从未做过的事情。
Like all of these people, I have done some stupid things. I have said irresponsible things that damaged relationships. I have handled myself inappropriately in business settings. I have thrown eggs at people’s homes and snowballs at cars. I have drunk too much. I have done drugs. I have made terrible investments and lost millions of dollars. I have lied to people. I have acted like a fool. I have been disrespectful to others. The fact is—and I am not proud to say—that just about any bad thing you have done, it’s possible that I may have done that, too.
像所有其他人那样，我做过很多愚蠢的事情。我说过不负责任的话伤害了我的人际关系。在商业领域里我没有合适的对待自己。我向人家家里扔鸡蛋，车上扔雪球。我酗酒。我吸毒。我做过可怕的投资损失了百万美元。我对其他人撒谎。我表现的像个傻子。我对他人不敬。我很不光彩的说，事实就是所有你们做过的坏事情我都可能做过。
Of all the unwise things I have done, there are some that have scarred me for life and I think about these more than others. In fact, I will likely think about them the rest of my life no matter how much I try not to think of them. While I no longer allow them to impact my emotions, I will not be able to erase them from my memory. Do you have some like this?
在所有我做过的不明智的事情里，有些在我的人生中留下了伤疤并且我比他人更可能回想起这些。事实上在我余生中我很可能会想到它们无论我多么努力不去想这些事情。虽然不能把它们从记忆中抹去，然而我不会容许它们去影响我的情感。你有像这样的事情吗?
If I Could Rewind the Clock of Time
要是我能让时间倒退多好啊
A couple weeks ago I was thinking about something I wish I had never done. I then started thinking, if I could rewind the clock and do some things differently, would I?
几周前我还在回想我希望从来没有做过的事情。然后我就开始想，是否我能让时间倒退重新去做一些事，我可以吗?
After a long walk contemplating this notion, I determined I would not want to go back and do something differently. My conclusion was that everything that has happened to me has happened for a reason. I determined that, no matter how painful something has been, the experience has taught me a lesson and contributed to making me the person I am today.
在经过一长段的边走边深思这个念头后，我觉定我不想回到过去把事情用不一样的方式再做一遍。我的结论是发生在我身上的每个事情都有要发生的原因。我确定无论已经发生的事情带来了怎样的痛苦，这个过程教会了我一课并且助我成为今天的我。
This is not to say that I am totally happy with my life and who I am. I am scarred. I have warts. I am far from perfect. I still do things I regret.
这并不是说我对我的人生和现在的我十分满意。我已经留疤了，有了瑕疵。我离完美很远。我仍旧会做我后悔的事情。
As I look at some of my most painful lessons that I will likely never forget, they are the lessons that have played a huge role in forming my beliefs. Saying something stupid to someone and hurting them has made me more careful with what I say to others. Each bad investment I have made has influenced my investment criteria and made me wiser.
I have some things on my list that may not have played a major role in the person I have become and I wish I had never done them, but they are done. The fact is, I can’t turn back the clock and neither can you. There is no such thing as a Fairy Godmother or a Genie in a Bottle who can make our wishes come true.
在我的清单上有一些可能没有对形成今天的我起到作用并且我希望它从没发生过，但它们确实存在的事情。事实是我不可能时光倒流，你也不能。世上没有帮我们梦想成真的仙女圣母或瓶中精灵这样的事情。
My Philosophy, My Plan
我的哲学，我的计划。
Spending time wishing you hadn’t done something is spending time on something you can’t change or control. It’s OVER! All you can do is learn as much as you can from the experience, determine what if any changes you are going to make in your life as a result, and then use your self-control to move on. You cannot allow any mistake to weigh so heavily on you that you can’t move forward to live a happy and fulfilling life.
花费时间设想你没有做过某些事情就等于花费时间在你不能改变或掌控的事情上。结束吧。你所能做的就是从这些经历中学到你所能学到的，推测如果在人生中做些改变结果又会怎样，然后使用你的自控力继续前进。你不能容许任何错误沉重到阻碍你期望过幸福和满足的生活。
After going through the thought process described in this lesson, I wondered if others have felt the same way. Then yesterday this post appeared in the comments section below my post Count Your Blessings.
在经过本次课程所描述的思维方式后，我想是否有人会有同样的感觉。那么昨天出现在评论区我帖子下面的这则帖子算是你的祝福吧。
“I share these sentiments in my book, “Thank God for the Shelter – Memoirs of a homeless healer.” Being homeless taught me to count my blessings each day. I wouldn’t change those nine months for the world. I am so much more connected to what the world really needs… hope. Love is wonderful but when you have lost hope, you are in darkness, you’re blind and wouldn’t see love if it slapped you in the face. Thanks again for such great posts.” Versandra
我在我的书里“感谢上帝提供的避难所-无家的另类治疗师的回忆录”分享了这个观点。成为无家可归的人教会了我每天去祈福。我不会去改变这九个月的世界。我与世界真正需要的东西-希望有这么多的连接。爱是美好的但是当你失去希望，你在黑暗之中，如果爱给了你一个巴掌，你成了瞎子，你将看不到爱了。再次感谢有这么好的帖子。Versandra说道。
I believe we would all live happier and more fulfilling lives if we stopped wishing we could change the past. Instead be thankful for who we are and the experiences we have had—both good and bad.
我相信如果我们停止希望我们能改变过去的想法，我们将会生活的更幸福更满足。我们应该感激现在的我们和我们有过的好的与坏的经历。
I have made the decision to no longer wish I could turn back the clock and do something over. I am going to focus on learning from the mistakes of the past and concentrate on making the changes I need in the future to become a better person. I am going to draw from all my experiences to fulfill my purpose—to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life.
我决定我不再希望时间倒流，不再希望把事情重新来过。我准备把焦点放在学习以前犯的错误上和集中注意力在想未来成为一个更优秀的人我所需要做出的改变上。我要从以前的经历中得到经验来实现我的目标-过幸福，健康，满足的生活。
I challenge you to adopt my philosophy and follow my plan. Will you join me?
我邀请你采纳我的哲学跟随我的计划。你愿意吗?
Stop worrying about things you cannot change.
Stop allowing things of the past to bring you down.
Stop wishing you could turn back the clock and do something over.
Learn all you can from each experience.
Use your self-control; do not allow it to bother you.
Accept yourself for you who are—blemishes and all?
Live your life with passion and purpose.
With what you have learned from your life experiences, you have never been in a better position to achieve the things that are important to you. Don’t wish you could turn the clock back and redo something that happened. Be thankful for the knowledge you gained and how you can use that knowledge to become the person you want to be.
不要担心你无法改变的事情。不让过去的事情给你带来消沉。停止想象你能让时光倒流，使事情重新去做。学习你从每次经历中所能学到的东西。使用自控力，不要让它打扰到你。接受现在的你-----瑕疵和完美的。有激情和目标的去生活。用你从人生中学到的东西去实现对你很重要的事情。不要指望你能让时光倒流，能把以前发生的事情再做一次。感激你所获得的知识以及如何运用这些知识让自己变成你想成为的人。
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