The Power of a Good Name     好名声的力量
        One summer day my father sent me to buy wire and fencing for our farm in Marion County, South Carolina. At 16, I liked nothing better than getting behind the wheel of our Chevy pickup, but this time there was a damper on my spirits. My father had told me I'd have to ask for credit at the store.
     夏日的一天，父亲让我去为我们在南卡罗来州的的马里恩县的农场买点金属丝和建栅栏用的材料。16岁时，我最喜欢的事莫过于驾驶我们的雪佛兰皮卡车。但是这次我却打不起精神，父亲告诉我，我必须向商店赊购。

       A good name, and the responsibility that came with it, forced us children to be better than we otherwise might be. We wanted to be thought of as good people, and by acting like good people for long enough, we became pretty decent citizens.
     好的声誉和随之而带来的责任感，迫使我们这些孩子只能向好的方向发展。我们从思想上和行为上以好公民的标准严格要求自己，最终成为好公民。
        The desire to keep the respect of a good name propelled me to become the first in our family to go to university. Eventually, it gave me the initiative to start my own successful public relations firm in Washington, D.C..
     这种想要保持因美好声誉而受人尊重的欲望促使我成为家里第一个大学生。最终，它促使我在首都华盛顿成功地开创我自己的公关公司。
        I thought about the power of a good name when I heard General Colin Powell say that America needs to restore a sense of shame in its neighborhoods. He's right. If pride in a good name keeps families and neighborhoods straight,a sense of shame is the reverse side of that coin.
     当我听到科林·鲍威尔上将说“美国需要邻国间恢复羞愧感时”，我想到了好声誉的力量。他说得对。如果好声誉的自豪感能使家庭和邻里和睦相处，那么羞愧感从反面产生了同样的效果。
        Doing drugs, abusing alcohol, stealing, getting a young woman pregnant out of wedlock -- today, none of these behaviors is the deep embarrasSΜent it should be. Nearly one out of three births in America is to an unwed mother. Many of these children will grow up without the security and guidance of a caring father and mother committed to each other.
     吸毒、酗酒，偷窃，未婚先孕——今天，所用的这些行为都没有象原来那样使人深深感到羞愧。在美国，几乎三分之一的婴儿都是未婚妈妈所生，这些孩子大都是在没有安全感、没有父母的正确引导的环境下成长的。

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