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：痛苦的抉择。

英文原文

Sometimes, I ask people, "How do you choose to suffer?" These people tilt their heads and look at me like I have twelve noses, but I ask because that tells me far more about you than your desires and fantasies.

有时候，我问人们：“你愿意选择什么样的痛苦？”人们歪歪头，看着我，好像我是个怪物一样，但我这么问是因为比起问你愿望和梦想，这个问题的答案能告诉我更多信息。

Because you have to choose something. You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns. And ultimately, that's the hard question that matters: Pleasure is an easy question, and pretty much all of us have similar answers. The more interesting question is the pain—what is the pain that you want to sustain? That answer will actually get you somewhere; it's the question that can change your life. It's what makes me and you, you. It's what defines us and separates us, and ultimately brings us together.

因为你必须做出选择。人生中，痛苦是无法避免的。你不可能总是很安逸，到头来，最重要的事情，往往是最难的事情。安逸这件事，太简单了，大多数人都喜欢安逸。然而，更有意思的问题，是和痛苦有关的——你想承受什么样的痛苦？你的答案，决定了你人生将去往何方；这个问题，能改变你的人生。它决定了我是谁，你是谁，它决定了我们的人生，让我们与众不同，并且，让志同道合的人聚到一起。

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