VOA常速英语，以其地道的发音、丰富的时事内容，成为提升英语听力与理解能力的关键途径。它不仅让全球听众即时了解世界动态，还促进了跨文化交流，对于英语学习者而言，是不可或缺的听力训练资源，对提升语言综合能力至关重要。让我们一起走进今天的VOA常速英语听力练习：追求生活的目标。

英文原文

What is it you want out of life?

你想要从生活中得到什么？

What is it we all want something?

我们每个人是不是都想要些什么？

What is yours?

你的目标是什么？

Visualize that thing you deeply want, and now ask yourself: How can I get it?

想象一下你内心深处渴望的东西，然后问问自己：我怎样才能得到它？

When you visualize success against your fears, your mind starts subconsciously building the will and the skills you'll need to achieve the results.

当你将成功与恐惧进行对比并想象时，你的大脑会潜意识地开始构建实现目标所需的意志和技能。

When you know and visualize what it is you want, you have to prepare for it. You have to think long term and then educate yourself. But more importantly, you have to practise. Practice and prepare for the steps that are to come in achieving your goals.

当你清楚自己想要什么并对此进行想象时，你必须为之做好准备。你必须考虑长远，然后自我教育。但更重要的是，你必须练习。为实现目标即将到来的步骤进行练习和准备。

Chances are, you're not going to be lucky or win the lottery. But if you work hard and you never give up, then you will succeed. It was Thomas Jefferson who said, "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

很可能，你不会走运也不会中彩票。但如果你努力工作，永不放弃，那么你就会成功。托马斯·杰斐逊曾说过：“我发现，我越努力工作，我好像就越幸运。”

Put in the work, and you can be guaranteed that you will have a breakthrough from that situation you're dealing with. And if ever you fail, dust yourself off and try again.

努力工作，你就能从当前所处的困境中取得突破。如果你失败了，就拍拍身上的尘土，再次尝试。

In the 1920s, when a journalist asked Thomas Edison how it felt to fail 1,000 times in his attempt to invent the incandescent light bulb, he replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times. The lightbulb was an invention with 1,000 steps." That is the strength of willpower and the desire to never quit when failing.

20世纪20年代，当一位记者问托马斯·爱迪生，在尝试发明电灯时失败了1000次是什么感觉时，他回答说：“我没有失败1000次。电灯的发明有1000个步骤。”这就是意志力的力量和面对失败时永不放弃的决心。

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