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In this section there is a text in English .Translate it into Chinese. (15points)
“Sustainability” has become a popular word these days, but to Ted Ning, the concept will always have personal meaning. Having endured a painful period of unsustainability in his own life made it clear to him that sustainability-oriented values must be expressed through everyday action and choice.
Ning recalls spending a confusing year in the late 1990s selling insurance. He’d been through the dot-com boom and burst and, desperate for a job, signed on with a Boulder agency.
It didn’t go well. “It was a really bad move because that’s not my passion,” says Ning, whose dilemma about the job translated, predictably, into a lack of sales. “I was miserable, I had so much anxiety that I would wake up in the middle of the night and stare at the ceiling. I had no money and needed the job. Everyone said, ‘Just wait, you’ll turn the corner, give it some time.’”
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最近,“承受力”成了一个流行词,但对Ted Ning来说,他对其内涵有着自己切身的体会。在经历了一段无法承受的痛苦生活后,他清楚的认识到,旨在提高承受力的价值观只有通过每日的行为和抉择才能得到体现。
Ning回忆起九十年代后期销售保险那困惑的一年。在经历了网络泡沫的膨胀和破灭后,他急需找到一份工作,因此就与Boulder公司签了约。
但情况并不顺利。“这的确是糟糕的一步,因为它激不起我的工作热情,”Ning说。不出所料,工作上的进退维谷造成他销售业绩不佳。“我很痛苦,愁肠百结,常常在半夜惊醒,望着天花板发愣。我身无分文,需要这份工作。大家都说,‘等等看,过一段时间情况会好转的。’”