Life may give you a negative, but don't despair----it may just develop into a beautiful picture one day. This year, I realized my theory that I have on life. Life is like a 300m hurdle race. Since I run the 300m hurdles, I would know what the race is like.
生活可能给你一些否定，但是不要感到绝望——它可能会在某一天变成美丽的画面。今年，我有了一些关于人生的想法。人生就像一条300米的跨栏跑道，因为我跑过300米跨栏，所以我真的知道这是一场怎样的比赛。
The first thing to any race is worrying about whether you are going to win or not. This relates to worrying about the petty things in life. Does it really matter if you win ? Is it really going to be the end of the world ? Or will you be upset if you lose and then forget about it ? In life we worry too much and live in the moment too little.
任何比赛的第一件事是担心你是赢还是输，这和我们生活中担心那些琐碎的事情是一样的。赢是否真的对我们那么重要？输了是否世界是否就要走到尽头？还是失去后你沮丧过，然后会忘记？生活中，我们总是担心太多，而活在当下太少。
Next is the lining up in our own individual lanes. We each start at different spots, but the race is still the same distance for everyone. This relates to our lives taking us to different places and putting us in different situations, but hopefully we will end in the same place, but maybe at different times.
接下来是站到我们自己的赛道，我们从不同的点出发，但是每个人的比赛距离都是一样的。这就像我们的生活，把我们带到不同的地点，不同的处境，但是有希望的是，我们都将在同一个地方结束，只是可能在不同的时间点。
Now comes the beginning of the race. We all try to keep up with everyone and pace ourselves with other people. This symbolizes that at times in everyone's lives we worry about fitting in or being the same as other people, instead of worrying about being unique. If everyone were the same, the world would be incredibly boring.
比赛开始了，我们都试图跟上每个人的步伐，并与他人步调一致。这就像每个人在生活里不时地担心合群或是否和他人相同，而不是担心成为独一无二。如果每个人都一样，这个世界将是多么不可思议地无聊。
Now comes the first hurdle. This hurdle is the easiest to get over because you are not worn out from running. We all make it over this hurdle with ease. This symbolizes those obstacles in life that we struggle to get over, but we always manage to do so. You can look at that hurdle in two ways:"I can't make it over, I'm too tired" or "I am one more hurdle closer to finishing this race". This is an example of taking a negative situation and seeing something positive in it.
现在来到了第一个跨栏，这个栏杆是很容易跨过的，因为你开始跑，精力充沛。我们都能够很轻易地跨过这个栏杆。这就像生活中我们遇到的那些总是要去处理的阻碍。你可以用两种方式看待这个栏杆：“我太累了，我跨不过去”，或者“我多跨一个就更接近赛道的终点”。这是一个在消极情况下积极看待的例子。
The next part of the race is every hurdle between the first and last one. These hurdles get tougher and tougher and you may feel as though you can't go on. This happens a lot in life too. There may be a situation that arises where you feel as thought you can't make it and all you can think about is giving up. You may fall ever that "hurdle" or struggle getting over it, but somehow you find it in yourself to jump over it and move on with the race.
比赛的下一部分是第一个和最后一个之间的障碍，这些跨栏变得越来越难以跨越，你可能觉得困难到你无法继续。这种情况也经常发生在生活中，在这样的情况下，你觉得自己做不到甚至脑子里全部想的都是放弃，你可能把“栏杆”踢倒或者和他们斗争跨过他们，但是不知怎么，你发现你自己跨过去了，并且继续奔跑在赛道。
Next is that last 100ms of the race. You feel as though you just want to say, "No I can't do this."Again, you must find it in your self that you can do it, and you must finish the race stronger than when you had started it.
接着是赛道的最后100米，你感到曾经说过的“不，我做不到。”，再一次，你一定会发现自己能做到，并且跑完这条赛道也一定会发现自己比刚开始时更强大。
Now lastly is the last hurdle. This hurdle is the toughest out of all of them. In life we find ourselves falling and falling, and maybe getting too lost in our problems that we feel like we have been through enough and there's no hope. That last hurdle symbolizes these situations. It's one step close to the end of the race.
现在是最后一个跨栏了，这是全部栏杆里最难的一个。生活里，我们发现自己不断地跌倒，也有可能在我们的问题中迷失了自己，就像我们已经倾尽全力，仍然没有希望。最后一个跨栏就像这些情境，它也只是接近赛道终点的其中一步。
Once you finish, you look back on it and you realize that you made it not by leaping, but step by step. "Yard by yard, life is very hard. But inch by inch, life can be a cinch."
一旦你完成，往回看你将意识到你做到并不是靠飞跃，而是一步接一步。“一码接一码，生活是非常辛苦的，一寸接一寸，生活也就不是个多大的事。”
All it takes is one step at a time, one hurdle at a time.
一次迈一步，一次跨一个栏。
