摘要：本文为大家详细分析一篇经济学人杂志的文章，不仅有中文翻译，还总结了大量适用于雅思写作的万用经典句式和高分词汇，对于正在备考雅思写作的同学们来说是绝佳的复习资料。详情见文章。
I also realised more recently that one of the problems with getting older is that although you may technically have become a bit better at your job, there is a danger that you stop believing inyour hopelessness with the same fervour. When this happens, you get worse at your job. Your self-knowledge has gone up — but so has your complacency.You know you can do it. There is less reason to bust a gut. Anyone who no longer worries about being hopeless is rapidly on their way to becoming so.
最近我还意识到，年纪渐长的问题之一，就是哪怕你的工作技能可能有了一点提高，但危险在于你不再同样强烈地相信自己的无可救药。遇到这种时候，你的工作表现就会变差。你的自我认识提高了，但你的自满情绪也水涨船高。你知道自己办得到，因此没必要那么拼命。人们只要不再担心自己一无是处，就会很快变得一无是处。
【经典句式】
self-knowledge自我认识
complacency自满
no longer不再
rapidly迅速地
If the first step to success is to tell yourself you are useless, this raises a question. Every study on the difference between men and women shows that women are relative geniuses when it comes to thinking they are rubbish. In which case why don’t they do better? Why aren’t all the best leaders women?
如果成功的第一步是对自己说你一无是处，这就带来了一个问题。所有关于男女差异的研究都表明，女性在自我贬低方面拥有较高的天赋。既然如此，为什么女性的职场表现没有更好?为什么一流的领导者不全是女性?
【经典句式】
raise a question带来一个问题
when it comes to … 在……方面
The answer shows the main drawback of underestimating yourself — you take yourself out of the race. As fearing you will be rubbish at something is a painful sensation, the surest way of making the pain vanish is by refusing to do the thing inquestion.
这一问题的答案揭晓了低估自己的最大缺点——你自己退出了竞赛。担心自己会搞砸某事的感觉是痛苦的，而让这种痛苦感消失的最可靠的方法就是放弃。
【经典句式】
drawback缺点
underestimate低估
race竞赛
sensation感觉
vanish消失
in question上文所说的;此处提及的
【犀利观点】缺乏自信的缺点：
The main drawback of underestimating yourself is that you take yourself out of the race. As fearing you will be rubbish at something is a painful sensation,the surest way of making the pain vanish is by refusing to do the thing in question.
Looked at this way, it means all those coaches, mentors and experts who are valiantly working at building women’s self-esteem are barking up the wrong tree. All this time they have been trying to tell women (or men, or children, or anyoneat all who feels they are not upto the task) that they are not hopeless at all, but marvellous, and entirely equal to the task. Instead what theyshould have been doing was telling them that their feeling of inadequacy is a) entirely natural and b) a powerful secret weapon. The battle is not to try to make women value themselves more highly, but to convince them that doing the job in question would be sufficiently interesting/rewarding, etc. to be worth giving it a go.
从这个角度看，这就意味着所有那些勇敢地致力于建立女性自尊的教练、导师和专家都找错了目标。一直以来他们都在努力告诉女性(或者是男性、儿童，以及所有那些觉得自己完不成任务的人)，她们一点儿也不差，她们棒极了，她们绝对能胜任这项工作。但其实他们应该做的是，告诉她们这种无法胜任的感觉是：a)完全自然的，b)一件强大的秘密武器。努力方向不应是试图让女性更高地评估自己，而是说服她们相信：担任相关工作将是非常有意思/富于回报的，值得她们去试一试。
【经典句式】
coach教练
mentor导师
valiant勇敢的
self-esteem自尊
bark up the wrong tree找错了目标
up to the task胜任任务
hopeless没有希望的
marvellous棒极了
equal to sth 跟……平等
should have done 本应该……(实际上没有)
inadequacy能力不足
secret weapon秘密武器
value… highly 高度评价
convince sb that … 说服……
in question上文所说的;此处提及的
sufficiently足够地
rewarding富于回报的
give sth a go试一试
【大作文万用句式】反对：
Looked at this way, it means …are barking up the wrong tree.从这个角度看，这就意味着……找错了目标。
All this time they have been trying to … 一直以来他们都在努力……
Instead what they should have beendoing was …但其实他们应该做的是，……
The battle is not to do A, but to do B. 努力方向不应是A，而应该是B。
【犀利观点】怎样战胜自卑、建立自信：
The feeling of inadequacyis entirely natural and a powerful secret weapon.
The battle is not to try to make those who lack confidence value themselves more highly, but to convince them that doing the job in question would be sufficiently interesting/rewarding, etc. to be worth giving it a go.
Sheryl Sandberg has urged women to ignore the voice inside that says: “I’m not good enough for this.” But that voice isn’t an enemy, it’s a friend. The answer is to listen to it at all costs and remind yourself frequently that the pain of feeling useless is precisely the thing that will ensure younever are.
谢里尔•桑德伯格(Sheryl Sandberg)鼓励女性忽视自己心里那个声音：“我不配做这件事。”但这个声音不是敌人，它是一个朋友。正确的作法是，咬牙倾听这个声音，同时不断提醒自己：这种一无是处的痛苦感，正是确保自己永远不会一无是处的法宝。
【经典句式】
urge sb to do sth鼓励……
at all costs 不惜一切代价
remind sb that … 提醒
frequently频繁地
【大作文万用句式】反对：
… isn’t an enemy, it’s a friend.……不是敌人，而是一个朋友。
The answer is to …正确的作法是，……
【犀利观点】怎样战胜自卑、建立自信：全段
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