Advice to Young Girls致少女

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又是一年婦女節，一眾好萊塢女明星在紅地毯上給全世界的女孩子送上節日的祝福和問候。一起來聽聽她們的人生建議吧，或許你能從中得到一點啟迪呢！

Let your work speak for yourself.

Do not live someone else’s life and someone’s…someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

Be absolutely who you are, and be stick to your1)instinctand your2)guts, and don’t try to be like other people.

Be happy with who you are and love your3)insecurities, because when you grow up, I think that’s what’s gonna make you YOU. It’s gonna4)differentiateyou from the group, so…that’s what my mom’s always told me. I followed it.

It’s so easy to spread the message of “being yourself,” but actually sort of5)implementingit in your life is incredibly difficult. I think it takes a long time to find what makes you happy and what your goals are.

Do not think in color. Don’t think in color. You can feel in color, ’cause obviously it’s beautiful and it’s the best, but not think it. That shouldn’t be the first thing you think about when you wake up, and the first thing you think about when you walk out your door. Think about yourself.

I think we have to do things to keep a balance in our lives, and not let any institution,such as Hollywood,6)definewho we are. You’ve gotta know who you are and present that.

All women—anyone—don’t ask for permission. What are you waiting for? What are you asking for?

Yes, it’s gonna be a struggle. And yes, you’re gonna hear a lot of “no”s before you hear a “yes.” But learn to enjoy the process, and7)embraceit, and have fun with it.You know, work hard—be so good they can’t ignore you, you know. Keep to your morals, keep to your8)integrity, and don’t stop fighting. Because,9)ultimately, for any dream, for any goal, it takes a lifetime. And why wouldn’t you wanna give it that? It’s not a race—it’s a journey, and enjoy the journey.

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1) instinct [??nst??kt] n. 本能，直覺

2) guts [ɡ?ts] n. <口>勇氣，膽量

3) insecurity [??ns??kj??r?t?] n. 不安全，不安全感

4) differentiate [?d?f??ren??e?t] v. 區分，區別

5) implement [??mpl?ment] v. 實現，履行

6) define [d??fa?n] v. 下定義

7) embrace [?m?bre?s] v. 采納，接受

8) integrity [?n?teɡr?t?] n. 正直，誠實

9) ultimately [??lt?m?tl?] adv. 最后，最終

口語：guts

Gut這個詞最基本的意思是“下消化道”，因而我們常用guts來指代“內臟”——引申到口語中，guts可以用來指“內部，內部結構，實質”，還可以表示“勇氣，膽量；力量；價值”的意思，如：

● His new book really exposed the guts of society. （他這本新書確實揭露了社會的本質。）

● She had the guts to admit she was wrong. （她敢于承認自己的錯誤。）

◆ 用你的工作成果為自己發聲。

◆ 過自己的生活，不要盲目認同……他人對女性的定義。做女人就是做自己，你的內在就是構成女性身份的一切。

◆ 全心做你自己，遵循直覺，鼓足勇氣，不要仿效他人。

◆ 善待自己，珍惜自己的不安感，因為當你長大后，這些才是真正塑造你這個人的特質，能讓你與眾不同……這是我媽媽一直以來對我的告誡，我從善如流。

◆ 要傳達“做你自己”的理念非常簡單，但要把這個理念真正運用到生活中，其實是極其困難的。你需要花很長時間才能找到讓你快樂的源泉，以及你的目標所在。

◆ 不要老想著膚色，別老想著膚色。你可以盡情感受膚色的魅力，因為它確實很美，是最棒的，但你不能讓它局限了自己的思維。膚色不該是你醒來時想到的第一件事，也不該是你走出家門時考慮的第一件事。多想想你自己吧。

◆ 在我看來，我們必須做些什么來保持生活的平衡，不要讓任何體系（比如好萊塢）來定義我們是誰。你必須了解自己，并將自我表現出來。

◆ 任何女性——任何人——行事做人，大可不必尋求別人的準許。你還在等什么？你想要什么樣的認同？

◆ 沒錯，這確實會很難熬。沒錯，在得到一句肯定之前，你會被人否定無數次。但你得學著去享受這個過程，接受挫折，從中找到樂趣。

◆ 瞧，你得非常努力——表現特別好，讓他們無法忽視你。堅守道德準則，正直做人，不斷奮斗。因為歸根到底，無論你有什么夢想，有什么目標，都要為之花上一生的時間。那么，何不窮盡一生，放手一搏呢？人生不是一場比賽，而是一趟旅程，好好享受旅途吧！