别再否认了成功当然跟运气有关_BEC初级作文

别再否认了成功当然跟运气有关

但光有天赋和努力是不够的。运气也很重要。即便是最有能力、最勤勉的人，在南苏丹获得成功的机会也微乎其微。并不是说，在拥有高度发达的法律、教育体系及其他基础设施的富裕国家，理应获得成功的人就一定能成功，但他们的几率会大很多。

Being born in a good environment is one of the few dimensions of luck we can control — that is, at least we can decide how lucky our children will be. But as a nation, we’ve been doing a bad job of it for at least a generation. The luckiest are getting luckier even as their numbers shrink. The unlucky population is growing, and its luck is getting worse.

出生在一个良好的环境里，是我们所能掌控的为数不多的一项运气——也就是说，我们至少能决定让自己的孩子拥有多大的运气。不过，作为一个国家，我们在这方面做得并不好，至少在这二三十年里是如此。最幸运的人群在变得更加幸运，尽管他们的人数减少了。而不幸人群的基数却在增加，其运气也在变得更差。

These changes have stemmed in part from sharply diminished public support for education. According to a 2017 report by the nonpartisan Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, for example, state spending per student averaged about 20 percent less in 2017-15 than in the 2007-8 school year. More than 70 percent of students who graduated from four-year colleges in 2017 had student loans that averaged $35,000.