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The Power of Thought 念力：心想事成的秘密

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Close your eyes and picture the one thing in the world that you want the most. Focus your thoughts on that single thing with enthusiasm and gratitude, and be open to receiving it. If you can do this passionately, you are on your way to understanding the Law of Attraction.

闭上眼睛，想着世界上你最想要的一样东西。心怀热情及感激，专注地想着这样东西，并且准备迎接它的到来。如果你能全心全意这样做，那么你正开始了解何谓吸引力法则。

The Law of Attraction is a spiritual ideology rather than a scientific principle. Advocates of this ideology believe that thoughts have a special energy. This energy can control certain positive or negative results. Therefore, if someone wants something good to happen, thinking about it happening will make it happen.

吸引力法则是心灵上的意识型态，而非科学定律。这种意识型态的拥护者相信，思想具有能够控制正面或负面结果的独特能量。因此如果某人希望有好事发生，那么想着这件事就会使它发生。

The three major steps in The Law of Attraction are ask, believe, and receive. The ask step requires someone to truly know what they want. The next step, believe, is about believing that what you want will become yours. The last step, receive, requires a person to take advantage of opportunities when the universe presents them.

吸引力法则的三个主要步骤为许愿、相信及接受。在许愿的步骤，人们必须了解他们真正想要的东西。下一步骤，相信，则是相信你要的东西终究会变成你的。最后一个步骤，接受，人们必须善加利用宇宙提供的种种机会。

Of course, not everyone believes that our thoughts can really control the universe. Nevertheless, knowing what you want can push you forward in life and believing in yourself can help you build confidence. While thinking about something might not necessarily make it happen, it may help us imagine new ways to achieve happiness.

当然，并非所有人都相信，我们的想法真能操控宇宙。但了解自己的需求可使你在生活中有进展，而相信自己则有助于建立自信。虽然单凭想象不见得会使事情真的发生，但这么做有助于我们想出得到幸福的新方法。

−by Mark Mitchell

Vocabulary

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enthusiasm [ɪnˋθjuzɪ͵æzəm] n. 热情

gratitude [ˋgrætə͵tjud] n. 感谢

ideology [͵aɪdɪˋɑlədʒɪ] n. 意识形态

advocate [ˋædvəkɪt] n. 提倡者；拥护者

take advantage of 利用, 善用 to put to good use

necessarily [nɛsəˋsɛrəlɪ] adv. 必定

Reading Questions

1.   What is true about the Law of Attraction?

A.  The first step requires people to make good use of the chances that are given to them.

B.  People need to believe what they want will become theirs before they ask for it.

C.  The Law of Attraction is a scientific principle that has a lot of studies to support it.

D.  It is believed that thoughts can produce an energy that controls what may happen.

2.   According to the article, knowing what you want can help you ______.

A.  figure out what kind of person you are

B.  get more job opportunities

C.  move forward in your life

D.  influence others to do what you want

3.   Which of the following proverbs best suits the theme of this article?

A.  You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.

B.  Where there is a will, there is a way.

C.  Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.

D.  A word spoken is an arrow left fly.

a word spoken is an arrow left fly 一言既出驷马难追

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