怎样坚持梦想（坚持梦想SticktoYour）

不论做什么事，相信你自己，不要让别人的一句话将你击倒.一个没有钱，居无定所，也没有任何资源的小男孩想拥有一个广阔的牧场，他精心设计每一个马厩和跑道，用心规划自己的梦想花园，虽然被老师告诫这是一个毫无可能的幻想，但他始终坚持自己的梦想，终于让大家分享到他的梦想果实。

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I have friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth programs.

（我有一个朋友叫蒙蒂.罗伯兹，他在圣伊西德罗拥有一个牧场。他让我使用他的豪宅举办募捐活动，为青少年项目筹款。）

The last time I was there he introduced me by saying,"I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house.It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable,race track to race track,farm to farm and ranch to ranch,training horses.As a result,the boy's high school career was continually interrupted.When he was a senior,he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up."

（上一次我在他那里，他在致辞中介绍我时说道：”我想告诉大家为什么我让杰克使用我的房子。整个故事源于一个年轻人，他的父亲是一个居无定所的马术师，从一个养马场到另一个养马场，他们东奔西跑于一个个的高中生活被多次中断。在他成为高年纪学生时，被要求写一篇关于他未来规划的文章。" ）

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That night he wore a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owing a horse ranch .He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch,showing the location of all the buildings,the stables and the track.Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.

(那天晚上他写了七页的文章来描述他某一天能拥有自己的牧场目标。他极详细地描述他的梦想，甚至绘制了 一张200英亩牧场的蓝图，展示了所有的建筑，马厩呵呵跑道的位置。然后他为坐落在200亩梦想牧场上的一栋4000平方英尺的房子画了一张详细的建筑平面图。)

He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher.Two days later he received his paper back.On the front page was a large red F with a note the read:See me after class.

（他对这个规划用了大量额心血，第二天他交给了他的老师。两天后他拿回那个作业时，在第一页上被批了一个又大又红的F，还写着：下课后来见我。）

The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked,"Why did I receive an F?“

（这个带着梦想的男孩下课后去见老师时问：“我为什么会得F呢？”）

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The teacher said,"This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you.You have no money.You come from an itinerant family.You have no resources.Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money.You have to buy the land .You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to pay large stud fees.There's no way you could ever do it."Then the teacher added,"if you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal,I will reconsider your grade."

（老师说：“对你这样的小男孩，这是一个不切实际的幻想。你没有钱，居无定所，你也没有资源。拥有一个牧场需要很多的钱。你要买土地，你要买纯种马匹，之后还要花大笔的钱照料照料马场。这些你完全不可能做到。然后那个老师说：”如果你可以重新写一个比较实际的目标来完成这个作业，我会再重新考虑你的分数。“）

The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.He asked his father what he should do.His father said,"Look,son,you have to make up your own mind on this.However ,I think it is a very important decision for you."

(这个小男孩回到家努力地想了很久。他问他的爸爸他该怎么办，他的爸爸说：”你瞧，儿子，你需要自己对此做决定，而且，我觉得这对你是一个非常重要的决定。“)

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Finally,after sitting with it for a week,the boy turned in the same paper,making no changes at all.He stated,"You can keep the F and I'll keep my dream."

(最后，在认真考虑了一个星期后，这个男孩一字未改地交回了原稿，他说：”您可以保留给我不及格的分数，而我也要保留我的梦想。“)

Monty then turned to the assembled group and said,"I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch.I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace ."He added,"The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same school teacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week."When the teacher was leaving ,he said,"Look,Monty,I can tell you this now.when I was your teacher,I was something of a dream stealer， During those years I stole a lot of kid's dreams.Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours."

(蒙蒂转向众人说：”我给大家讲个故事是因为你们现在就坐在我的这栋200英亩梦想牧场上的4000平方英尺的房子里面。我任然留着那份学校的作业，还把他镶嵌框挂在壁炉上方。“他又说：”这个故事最棒的部分是，两年前的暑假，我的那位老师带着30个孩子到我的牧场举办了一个星期的露营。“当那位老师离开之前，他对我说：”听我说，蒙蒂，我现在可以告诉你，我做你的老师时，我几乎是一个梦想杀手。这些年来，我扼杀过很多孩子的梦想。庆幸的是你有很强的意志和进取心去坚持你的梦想。”)

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