Keep the Trolls Away from your Goals 別讓小人擋了你的道

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Keep the Trolls Away from your Goals

別讓小人擋了你的道

There is a type of crab that cannot be caught—it is agile (敏捷的)and clever enough to get out of any crab trap. And yet, these crabs are caught by the thousands every day, thanks to a particular human trait (特點) they possess.

有一種螃蟹行動敏捷，還很聰明，可以從任何一種螃蟹夾子中脫身，因此很難捕獲。但是，每天仍有成千上萬隻這種螃蟹被抓住，因為他們身上的某些特點很像人類。

The trap is a wire cage with a hole at the top. Bait is placed in the cage, and the cage is lowered into the water. One crab comes along, enters the cage, and begins munching on the bait. A second crab joins him. A third...

這種螃蟹夾子是用鐵絲做成的籠子，頂部有一個洞。籠子放在水裡，裡面放著誘餌。一隻螃蟹爬了進來，開始大口地咀嚼著誘餌。第二隻螃蟹爬進來了，遂後是第三隻螃蟹——簡直成了螃蟹的感恩節。

Eventually, however, all the bait is gone. The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and through the hole, but they do not. They stay in the cage. Other crabs come along and join them—long after the bait is gone. And more.

然而，最終所有的誘餌都被吃光了。螃蟹可以很容易地從籠子的四壁網上爬，爬出洞口，但是它們沒有，它們留在了籠子里。在誘餌已經沒有了很長時間以後，依然會有越來越多的螃蟹爬進來。

Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason to stay in the trap and attempt to leave, the other crabs will gang up on him and stop him. They will repeatedly pull him off the side of the cage. If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to keep him from climbing. If he persists still, they will kill him.

如果有一隻螃蟹意識到已經沒有理由再呆在籠子里，打算離開，其他的螃蟹就會群起而攻之，阻止他爬出去。它們會不斷地把那隻想要爬出去的螃蟹從籠壁上拉下來。如果它堅持要爬出去無，其他的螃蟹就會扯下它的爪子，不讓它爬。如果它任然堅持，它們就會把它殺死。

The crabs—by force of the majority—stay together in the cage. The cage is hauled up, and it』s dinner time on the pier.

由於大多數螃蟹的阻止，這隻螃蟹只好和其他的螃蟹一起呆在籠子里。籠子被拉了上來，就在人們在碼頭上吃晚餐的時間。

The chief difference between these crabs and humans is that these crabs live in water and humans on land.

人類和這種螃蟹的主要區別就在於螃蟹生活在水裡，人類生活在岸上。

Anyone who has a dream—one that might get them out of what they perceive to be a trap— had best beware of the fellow inhabitants of the trap.

任何有夢想的人——任何想要掙脫它們眼中牢籠的人——都要當心牢籠里的同伴。

The human crabs (we call them trolls) do not usually use physical force—although they are certainly not above it. They generally don』t need it, however. They have more effective methods at hand, and in mouth—doubt, ridicule (嘲笑), sarcasm (挖苦), humiliation, and dozens of others not listed in our dictionary.

人類中螃蟹（我們稱之為小人）通常不會使用武力——當然它們的行為並不會比螃蟹好到哪兒去，只不過他們通常不需要使用武力。它們有更有效的方法，那就是用嘴巴——懷疑、嘲笑、諷刺、侮辱，還有許多沒有列出來的方式。

The point is to manage to keep the trolls away from your goals.

我要說的就是不要讓這些小人阻擋了你追求目標的道路。

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