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Passage Three
文章三
It's easy to spend all day searching for inspiration.
花一整天的时间寻找灵感是很容易的。
You can find incredible videos, articles and news stories about the success of others.
你可以找到很棒的视频、文章和关于他人成功的新故事。
The problem is that consuming the success and ideas of others is passive inspiration.
问题是，消费他人的成功和想法是被动的灵感。
Every time you read an article or listen to an interview, you're practicing passive inspiration.
每次你读一篇文章或听一次采访，你都在练习被动灵感。
You might learn something, but you don't actually have to do anything.
你可能会学到一些东西，但实际上你不需要做任何事情。
Hearing about other people's success isn't the same as creating your own.
听取别人的成功并不等同于创造自己的成功。
Instead, it is through the process of active inspiration
相反，正是通过主动获取灵感的过程，
the act of creating things, applying new ideas to our goals, and making mistakes, that we discover who we are and what is important to us.
创造事物、将新想法应用千我们的目标，以及不断试错，我们才发现我们是谁以及什么对我们来说是重要的。
Furthermore, active inspiration is what results in long-term passion and enthusiasm.
此外，主动的灵感才会产生长期的激情和热忱。
Watching someone else's success might leave you feeling excited for a few minutes.
看着别人的成功可能会让你有几分钟的兴奋感。
However, taking action and applying a new idea to your life will inspire you more than anything someone else can say.
然而，采取行动并将一个新的想法应用到你的生活中，将比别人说的任何话都更能激励你。
Learning and listening can help you think about things in a different way.
学习和倾听可以帮助你以不同的方式思考问题。
But creating, producing, and experimenting is what drives you forward.
但创造、产出和尝试，才是推动你前进的动力。
Passive inspiration can give you ideas, but active inspiration will give you power.
被动的灵感可以给你想法，但主动的灵感会给你力量。
Too often we spend our lives consuming the world around us instead of creating it.
我们习惯了消耗自己的生命时光来消费周遭的世界，而不是创造它。
And what matters is the power your actions have to inspire you.
而重要的是你的行动具有激励你的力量。
The best inspiration comes from the application of ideas, not the consumption of them.
最好的灵感来自于想法的应用，而不是对它们的消费。
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
请根据刚才所听文章回答22-25题。
Question 22: What does the speaker say about inspiration from consuming others' ideas and success stories?
问题22: 演讲者对从消费他人的想法和成功故事中获得的灵感有什么看法？
Question 23: What do we learn from the passage about active inspiration?
问题23: 我们从这篇关于主动灵感的文章中学到了什么？
Question 24: What does the passage say passive inspiration can do?
问题24: 文章说被动灵感可以做什么？
Question 25: Where does the best inspiration come from according to the passage?
问题25: 根据这篇文章，最好的灵感来自哪里？
