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214.The supreme surgeon of survival
第214课 勇于生存的超级外科医生
Ben James is a survivor of the streets. Overcoming insurmountable odds, he became a surgeon and now performs surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on a routine basis. Growing up, he was susceptible to the crime, drug use, and violence of his neighborhood in downtown Baltimore. He surmounted many obstacles, surpassing even his own notions of where he would end up. In an area where survival was no guarantee, how did he survive?
詹姆斯是大街上的一个幸存者。克服了难以逾越的重重困难之后，他成为一名外科医生，现在每天在约翰斯·霍普金斯医院做例行的外科手术。在成长过程中他深受巴尔的摩市中心居住区犯罪、吸毒和暴力的影响。他克服了许多障碍，甚至超越了对自己一生的归宿的考虑。在一个生存无法得到保障的地区，他是怎么生存下来的呢？
"Sure," he surmises, “there was a lot of violence around me when I was young. But there was also a surplus of love that no one could suppress. Discipline wasn't only supplementary to how my family raised me, it was primary. They encouraged responsibility. Through hard work I could surge ahead of the competition, while I was surging ahead, my survivability was always in question. Racism challenged me. I would go to a restaurant and be presented with a surcharge no whites had to pay."
“当然，”他心想，“我小时候，周围有很多暴力。但是也有更多的爱，这是没有人可以阻止的。纪律不仅是对家庭教育的补充，也是根本的。爱和纪律激发了责任。通过勤奋努力，我能够在竞争中遥遥领先。我在遥遥领先的过程中，生存的可能性总是成问题。我受到种族主义的挑战。我去餐馆，总会碰到白人不必支付的附加费用。”
It was as an undergraduate that he faced his supreme test. Though he had been a surpassingly inquisitive student in high school, his love of knowledge had experienced no supplementation. In college, the supremacy of his classmate' high school educations was apparent. he felt overwhelmed. How was he supposed to succeed when things were unequal to begin with? "I kept working under the supposition that if I failed out of college, it was death or jail for me. Supposedly, there were counselors at the college to help me, but I never knew where they were."
是在做本科生的时候，他面对了最大的考验。尽管他在上高中时是个非常好奇爱问的学生，但他对知识的热爱并未得到加强。在大学，同学们在高中时代所受教育的优势显而易见。他感到不知所措。当起点不平等的时候，怎么能指望他成功呢？“我不断地努力，假想如果我被淘汰，我就得去死或者坐牢。大概大学里有辅导员可以帮我，但我不知道他们在哪儿。”
A survey was recently taken in Ben's old neighborhood, and 90% of the respondents think of him as a hero.
最近在本以前的居住区进行了一项调查，90%的调查对象认为他是个英雄。
