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：梦想与现实。

英文原文

For most of my adolescence and young adulthood, I fantasized about being a musician, a rock star in particular. Any badass guitar song I heard, I would always close my eyes and envision myself up on stage, playing it to the screams of the crowd, people absolutely losing their minds to my sweet finger noodling. This fantasy could keep me occupied for hours on end. The fantasizing continued up through college, even after I dropped out of music school and stopped playing seriously. 

在我大部分的青少年时期和刚成年的时候，我幻想着成为一名音乐家，特别是摇滚明星。每当我听到酷炫的吉他曲，我总会闭上眼睛，想象自己站在舞台上，对着尖叫的人群演奏，人们为我精湛的指弹技巧而疯狂。这个幻想能让我沉浸其中数小时之久。这种幻想一直延续到我的大学时期，即使在我从音乐学校退学并停止认真练习之后也没有停止。

But even then, it was never a question of if I'd ever be up playing in front of screaming crowds, but when. I was biting my time, before I could invest the proper amount of time and effort into getting out there and making it work. First, I needed to finish school; then, I needed to make money; then, I needed to find the time. Then and then, nothing. Despite fantasizing about this for over half of my life, the reality never came. 

但即便如此，我从没怀疑过自己是否会站在尖叫的人群面前演奏，只是时间问题。我一直在等待合适的时机，在能够投入足够的时间和精力之前，让这一切成真。首先，我需要完成学业；然后，我需要赚钱；接着，我需要找到时间。然而，之后什么都没有发生。尽管我对此幻想了大半辈子，但现实从未到来。

It took me a long time and a lot of negative experiences to finally figure out why: I didn't actually want it. I was in love with the result, the image of me on stage, people cheering me, rocking out, pouring my heart into what I'm playing. But I wasn't in love with the process, and because of that, I failed at it repeatedly. Hell, I didn't even try hard enough to fail at it; I hardly tried at all.

我花了很长时间，经历了很多负面的遭遇，才终于明白原因：我其实并不想要它。我爱的是结果，是我站在舞台上，人们为我欢呼，我尽情摇滚，全身心投入演奏的画面。但我不爱这个过程，也因此，我反复失败。天哪，我甚至都没有努力到足以失败的程度；我几乎没怎么尝试过。

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