高昌迷宫怎么进去:没有经过擦拭的生命

我想我的生意伙伴刚坐上我的三菱跑车的时候肯定非常紧张。那天我开车和他一起参加几个会议。大概开了一半的路程以后，他说对我的驾驶技术感到意外。可能因为我开的是黑色的跑车吧，他想当然的认为我是飞车党，结果却发现我从来没有加速行驶，或者是飙车。于是我跟他说起几年前我亲身经历的一场车祸，也就是那次事故彻底改变了我的驾驶习惯。

Negative Experiences That Change You For The Better

吃一堑，长一智。

I was a young man in my mid twenties just starting my career. I decided to reward myself with a new car. It was a black Toyota Supra, the first car I ever bought on my own. After seeing the black Ferrari on Miami Vice, I wanted a black sports car as well. I seem to have a thing for black sports cars as I’m currently on my fourth one now and the next one will likely be a black Mustang.

那时候我才25岁左右，事业刚刚起步。为了犒劳自己，我给自己买了第一辆车，这是一辆黑色的丰田跑车。看过电影《迈阿密风云》后，我就想要一辆和里面的黑色法拉利一样的黑色跑车。我很钟情于黑色的跑车，以至于这已经是我拥有过的第四辆了，我接下来还打算换一辆黑色的野马。

I was driving in the fast lane westbound on the QEW, which is the highway that runs around Lake Ontario from Toronto to Niagara Falls. It was a Canadian winter day but the weather was clear and so were the roads, or so I thought.

有次我开车在伊丽沙白路的快车道上向西行驶，这是一条绕着安大略湖从多伦多往尼亚加拉瀑布的高速公路。那是加拿大的冬天，但是天气晴朗，路面也非常清晰，至少我是这么认为的。

Like many other vehicles on the highway, I was doing about 120 kilometers per hour in a 100 kilometers speed limit. Everything was smooth sailing on the highway until my car started to somehow lose grip on the road. I spun around 180 degrees and actually saw the other cars coming toward me as I went across all three lanes. Fortunately, my Supra ended up off the highway on the far side shoulder.

和高速公路上行驶的许多车辆一样，我以每小时120公里的速度在限速100公里的公路上弛骋，一切都很顺利，直到我的车开始失去控制。在180度的急转弯后，我看到其它车辆向我迎面开来，这时候我的车已经横着开过三条道了，幸亏最后冲出了高速公路，停在路边。

It‚Äôs a miracle that I didn’t get hit by any of the other vehicles as I went across the lanes but the side of my car did hit a post which resulted in my side window smashing apart. I was not hurt though so I came out extremely lucky.

横穿过几条道却没有撞上任何车辆，这真是奇迹，不过我的车的旁边撞到了柱子，车窗四分五裂，人却侥幸完好无损。

What must have happened was that I hit some ‚’black ice’ on the highway. This is a term we use here in Canada that describes ice on the roads that drivers can’t see. In my case, I was driving too fast in black ice conditions I was not aware of.

肯定是我的车撞到高速公路上的“黑冰”了，这是我们在加拿大用来形容司机没有看到的路上的冰块。对于我来说，是我开的太快以至于没有意识到路面的黑冰路况。

This single negative experience on the road changed my driving habits forever. Although it didn’t change my personal taste for black sports cars, I no longer speed especially on the highways during winter months. Quite often in questionable winter days, I’m actually well under the speed limit and don’t mind almost every other vehicle on the road passing me, even if they are driven by little old ladies. I would rather make it to my destinations in one piece.

唯一的一次不良驾驶让我彻底改变了驾驶习惯。虽然我跟以前一样青睐于黑色的跑车，我再也不超速驾驶，尤其是冬天在高速公路上。在事故频繁发生的冬天，我常常是以远远低于限速的速度行驶，也不在意一辆又一辆的车从身边经过，即使开车的人是个子很小的老太太。我希望自己可以完好无损的到达目的地。

Life Without An Eraser

没有经过擦拭的生命

My real estate agent sends me regular newsletters and in one issue, I saw the following quote by John Gardner.

我的房地产经纪人定期给我发新闻简报里，有一期里是John Gardner写的下面这句话

‚’Life is the art of drawing without an eraser’.

“生命是一幅不用橡皮擦的画”

This quote pretty well sums up how to realistically live our lives. We all make mistakes and have some negative experiences in life. We don’t have giant erasers to erase the bad circumstances we all go through. However, if we learn from these negative experiences, we can live our lives better in the future much like how the developing artist learns to draw better each day.

这句话很形象的总结了应该如何现实的经营我们的生活。我们都会犯错误，会有一些不好的经历。我们没有巨大的橡皮擦，大的足于擦去经历过的所有坏的经历。然而如果我们从这些不好的经历中不断的学习，让将来的生活变得更好，就像是画家的绘画水平每天都在画画中得到提高。

In my Toyota Supra black ice accident, which I can’t erase, I quickly learned to change my driving habits. As a result, I have been accident free for the last twenty five years as a driver ever since (except for one small incident when another driver hit my car in a shopping mall parking lot).

我的丰田黑冰事故是无法擦拭的，从而我迅速的更改了驾驶习惯。结果在我接下来25年的驾驶生涯里，我再也没有发生过事故。（除了一次小的事故，我的车在一个商场的停车场被其他司机撞了一下）

Each day is a learning opportunity for us and having some bad experiences from time to time is just reality. We can’t erase these bad experiences whether they are accidents, failures or mistakes, but we can certainly learn from them.

对于我们来说，每天都是一个学习的机会，时不时的经历一些挫折是不可避免的。我们不能擦掉这些糟糕的经历，不管是事故，失败还是错误，但是我们肯定可以从中吸取教训。