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Becoming/ 米歇尔•奥巴马自传/ (mǐxiēěràobāmǎzìzhuàn)  

1. If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.

如果你不走出来,并定义自己,你就会被其他人迅速而错误地定义。

(rúɡuǒ nǐ bù zǒuchūlái, bìnɡdìnɡyì zìjǐ, nǐjiùhuì bèi qítārén xùnsù ércuòwùde dìnɡyì.) 

2. Failure is a feeling long before it's an actual result.

失败是一种遥遥无期的感觉。

(shībài shìyīzhǒnɡ yáoyáowúqīde ɡǎnjué.)

3. Your story is what you have, what you will always have.

你的故事就是你拥有的,你将永远拥有的。

(nǐde ɡùshì jiùshì nǐyōnɡyǒude, nǐjiānɡ yǒnɡyuǎn yōnɡyǒude.)

4. Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

我父亲认为,时间是你送给其他人的礼物。

(wǒfùqīn rènwéi, shíjiān shìnǐ sònɡɡěi qítārénde lǐwù.)

5. At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.

我五十四岁了,但我仍在进步,我希望我会一直如此。

(wǒ wǔshísì suìle, dànwǒ rénɡzài jìnbù, wǒxīwànɡ wǒhuì yīzhí rúcǐ.)

6. The lesson being that in life you control what you can.

教训是生活中你控制着自己能做的。

(jiàoxùn shì shēnɡhuózhōnɡ nǐkònɡzhìzhe zìjǐ nénɡzuòde.)

7. Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses...

女人之间的友谊,正如任何女人都会告诉你的那样,是由一千种小恩惠所建立的……

(nǚrén zhījiānde yǒuyì, zhènɡrú rènhénǚrén dōuhuì ɡàosùnǐde nàyànɡ, shìyóu yīqiānzhǒnɡ xiǎoēnhuì suǒjiànlìde... )

8. It's the ugliest kind of power.

这是最丑陋的力量

(zhèshì zuìchǒulòude lìliànɡ.)  

Illustration: Liu Xidan/GT