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第六部分 PRESENTATION OF CELEBRITY
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presentation的邏輯結構：觀點要清晰明了，并放在第一位，然后詳細敘述支持這個觀點的理由和原因，最后進行總結。所有的語言都要和這個邏輯結構相配。
安德魯·卡內基（Andrew Carnegie）：美國著名的鋼鐵大王。幼時家境貧寒，靠個人努力和奮斗而發跡，是“美國夢”的典型。晚年，他捐資圖書館事業。下面是他在June 23, 1885 對柯里商學院畢業生的講話節選，題目是 The Road to Success。
The Road to Success
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon then at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and jam tresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had ever seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause,” what I should like to see her do is sweep out a room.” It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
l 他在第一段里就表明了自己的觀點：年輕人就應該從最底層，從屬的地位做起。
l 這個觀點之后，就要展開了。使用了很多例證。
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is” aim high.” I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner of the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself,” my place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, of that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere.” Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you” put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look around you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that break most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; lastly be not impatient, for, as Emerson says,” no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”
l 最后一段進行總結。
l To summarize what I said: 是一個很好的結尾方式
解 析
從這篇充滿經驗之談的演講中，我們感到了這位老人的力量。他以自己的事例向世人昭示了他實現美國夢的秘訣。來美國的人多數都抱有這樣或那樣的夢想，在如何實現夢想的問題上，卡內基先生說出了他著名的人生經驗“put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.”
