Dream
[1] I don’t know what that dream is that you have. I don’t care how disappointing it might have been as you’ve been working toward that dream, but that dream that you’re holding in your mind, that it’s possible.
长难句分析
I don’t care how disappointing it might have been as you’ve been working toward that dream。
提取出句型：
I don't care how ... it might have been as you've been doing sth.
as
作中心连词，连接前后两个句子，相当于when/while
I don’t care how disappointing it might have been
how = to what degree, 放在形容词之前，引导状语从句
it might have been
可能已经
[2] That some of you already know, that it’s hard, it’s not easy. It’s hard changing your life. That in the process of working on your dreams, you are going to incur a lot of disappointment, a lot of failure, a lot of pain. There are moments when you’re gonna doubt yourself. And say, “God, why, why is this happening to me?” “I’m just trying to take care of my children and my mother, I’m not trying to steal or rob from anybody.Why does this have to happen to me?”
working on
正在处理某事，努力去做某事
例句：
你作业做咋样了？
I'm working on it. 我正在做呢。
你沙发底下的地扫了吗？
I‘m working on it. 我这就去扫。立刻去做
你英语发音，有些影响交流
I’m working on it. 我正在改呢，正在学美音。
[3] For those of you that have experienced some hardships, don’t give up on your dream. The rough times are gonna come, but they have not come to stay, they have come to pass.
[4] Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric,elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us.
连读辅助：
special among us -> special lamonus
all of us -> allo vus
思考题：上面是原版中出现的两个连读，但第四节可连读的地方，还有2-3处，是哪里呢？
esoteric
/esə'terɪk/
adj.秘传的，只有圈内人知道的，独门的。
esoteric knowledge, skills
秘方，esoteric recipe /'rɛsəpi/
elusive
/ɪ'lusɪv/
adj.难懂的，不可捉摸的
hard to capture
Time is an elusive and perishable commodity.
词根：elude，逃避，逃走。 变成形容词elusive，逃走了的东西，就难以抓住，难懂的，不可捉摸的。
例句：elusive character 不可捉摸的性格。
The problem remains unsolved. 问题有待解决。
The solution remains elusive. 解决方案难以找到。
[5] It’s very important for you to believe, that you are the one. Most people, they raise a family, they earn a living, and then they die. They stop growing, they stop working on themselves, they stop stretching, they stop pushing themselves. Then a lot of people like to complain, but they don’t wanna do anything about their situation.
连读辅助：
raise a family -> raisa family
earn a living -> earna living
stop pushing -> sto pushing
and then -> an then
Then a lot of -> thena lo dov
but they -> bu they
don't wanna -> don wanna
anything about their situation -> anythin nabou their situation
[6] And most people don’t work on their dreams. Why? One is because of fear, the fear of failure, “What if things don’t work out?” And the fear of success, “What If they do and I can’t handle it?” These are not risk takers.
[7] You spent so much time with other people, you spent so much time trying to get people to like you, you know other people more than you know yourself. You studied them, you know about them, you want hang out like them, you want to be just like them. And you know what? You’ve invested so much time on them, you don’t know who you are. I challenge you to spend time by yourself.
hang out
出去消遣，玩
challenge
/'tʃælɪndʒ/
vt. 邀请, （参与某个游戏，发起挑战）
[8] It’s necessary, that you get the losers out of your life, if you want to live your dream. But people who are running towards their dreams, life has a special kind of meaning.
[9] When you become the ‘right-person’, what you do is you start separating yourself from other people you begin to have a certain uniqueness, as long as you’re following other people, as long as you being a ‘copy-cat’, you will never, ever be the best ‘copy-cat’ in the world, but you will be the best you could be. I challenge you to define your value.
[10] That everybody won’t see it, that everybody won’t join you, that everybody won’t have the vision, it’s necessary to know that. That you are an uncommon breed. It’s necessary that you align yourself with people and attract people into your business, who are hungry, people who are unstoppable and unreasonable, people who are refusing to leave life just as it is, and who want more!
uncommon breed
罕见的品种, 与众不同
breed /brid/
n. 品种；种类，类型
unstoppable
/ʌnˈstɑpəbəl/
adj.无法停止的;无法阻碍的
unreasonable
/ʌn'riznəbl/
adj.不讲道理的, 非理智的
合成词：un + v + able
un+ stop + able
un + reason + able
[11] The people that are living their dreams are partying winners, to attach themselves to. The people that are living their dreams, are the people that know that if it’s gonna happen it’s up to them. If you want to be more successful, if you want have and do stuff you never done before.
It’s up to them
这取决于他们
It's up to you/him/her.
[12] Number two. I’m asking you, to invest in you, to invest in you! Someone's opinion of you, does not have to become your reality. That you don’t have to go through life, being a victim. And even though you face disappointments, you have to know within yourself, that I can do this, even if no one else sees it for me, I must see it for myself.
[13] This is what I believe and I’m willing to die for it. Period.
[14] No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it! I wanna represent an idea. I wanna represent possibilities.
[15] Some of you right now, you wanna be, you know what I'm saying. You wanna go to next level. “I want a counsel, I wanna be an engineer, I wanna be a doctor.” Listen to me: You can’t get to that level. You can’t get to that level economically where you want to be, until you start investing in your mind. You are not reading books. I challenge you all to go to the conference. I dare you to invest time! I dare you to be alone! I dare you to spend an hour getting to know yourself.
counsel
/'kaʊnsl/
n. 顾问
[16] When you become who you are, when you become the person that you are created to be, to be who you were designed to be. When you become an individual. What you do is: take yourself and you start separating yourself from other people.
separate
/'sɛprət/
vt. 使分离；使分居；使分开
[17] I’m challenging you, to get to the place where people do not like you, it does not even bother you no more. Why? Cause you are not concerned with trying to make them happy. Because you try to blow, you trying to get to the next level.
[18] I need you to invest in your mind. If you're still talking about your dream. If you're still talking about your goals. But you have not done anything. JUST TAKE THE FIRST STEP!
[19] You can make your parent proud, you can make your school proud, you can touch millions of people lives and the word will never be the same again, because you came this way.
[20] Don’t let nobody steal your dream! After we face a rejection and a “NO” or we have a meeting and no one shows up, or somebody said, you can count on me, and they don’t come through. What if we had that kind of attitude that cause repossessions, nobody believes in you, you’ve lost again, and again, and again, the lights are cut off, but you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and saying to yourself:“IT’S NOT OVER, UNTIL I WIN!”
[21] You can live your dream!
rejection
/rɪˈdʒɛkʃən/
n.拒绝
词根 reject vt. 拒绝
repossession
/'ripə'zɛʃən/
n. 恢复；取回
repossess /ˌripə'zɛs/
vt. 取回,收回
repossession 和 rejection这两个词都是以-ion结尾的名词
动词原形是repossess 和reject，意思不变
