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Translate the underlined parts into Chinese.(南京大学2012研,考试科目:基础英语)
In his new book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell maps the secrets of successful people. Here is an interview about the new book:
Q:(1)
You write that talent and IQ don"t matter as much as we think they do. What do we really need to become successful?
A: An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.(2)
Bill Gates is successful largely because—he had the good fortune to attend a school that gave him the opportunity to spend an enormous amount of time programming computers—more than 10, 000 hours, in fact, before he started his own company.
He was also born at a time when that experience was extremely rare, which set him apart.
Q: What about your own life story?
A: Success is the steady accumulation of advantages.(3)
In my case, you can"t understand me without understanding my family, which means going back to 18th-century Jamaica.
I am the descendant of an African slave and a white plantation owner. Unlike in the American South, the offspring of such relationships were allowed to be free. So while my great-great-great-grandmother was a slave, her son was a preacher.(4)
That gave our family an extraordinary advantage, which persisted for generations and put my grandmother in a position to achieve great personal and professional success, which in turn helped my mother.
I am the inheritor of that legacy. This was a revelation: I hadn"t known my true story until I started researching this book. It was profoundly humbling.
Q: Is there such a thing as an overnight success?
A: No. And that"s my concern with a show like American Idol. It encourages the false belief that there"s a kind of magic, that you can be " discovered. " That may be the way television works, but it"s not the way the world works.(5)
Rising to the top of any field requires an enormous amount of dedication, focus, drive, talent and 99 factors that they don"t show on television.
It"s not simply about being picked.