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奥里森·斯威特·马登：向前进·摘录 48
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
Young men and women, why stand ye here all the day idle? Was the land all occupied before you were born? Has the earth ceased to yield its increase? Are the seats all taken? the positions all filled? the chances all gone? Are the resources of your country fully developed? Are the secrets of nature all mastered? Is there no way in which you can utilize these passing moments to improve yourself or benefit others? Is the competition of modern existence so fierce that you must be content simply to gain an honest living? Have you received the gift of life in this progressive age, wherein all the experience of the past is garnered for your inspiration, merely that you may increase by one the sum total of purely animal existence?
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定位：Excerpt 48 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
马登一连串反问，是在敲醒那些觉得“没机会了”的年轻人：土地在你出生前就被占完了吗？地球不再产出了吗？座位都满了、职位都填了、机会都没了吗？国家的资源开发尽了吗？自然的秘密都掌握了吗？你没法用眼前这些时间提升自己或帮别人吗？难道竞争激烈到只能混口饭吃？你活在这个把过去所有经验都攒给你用的进步时代，就只为给世界多添一个纯粹吃喝拉撒的生命？核心是：机会不是没了，是你没去找。做法是停止抱怨，把当下每一刻用来学点东西或帮个人。
上下文
马登《奋力向前》中的劝勉段落，针对19世纪末美国年轻人常有的“好位置都被占完了”的沮丧情绪。
今日一问
你最近一次说“没机会了”，是真的没机会，还是没动手找？
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