Level: upper-intermediate

Q&A Round 2
The story of this book is not complicated, but why do you think it's life changing? 故事并不复杂，为什么你觉得它有改变生活的作用呢？

This book is written in a way that reflects our real life so it can be considered as an analogy, which means it's basically like a comparison.

这本书其实是反应现实生活的，所以我们不妨把它【这种写作手法】理解为类推，也就是基本上相当于比照【现实生活】。

Analogy 类推，类似

We should not give up on our dreams, we should try, we should persevere, we should keep on fighting and in the end, just like Santiago got his treasure, we all can achieve our dreams.

Give up on sth. / doing sth. 放弃
Persevere 坚持不懈 vi.
Achieve our dreams 实现梦想

Q&A Round 3
Do you think if we stick to our dream, we can realize it?

Julie在这里故意没有赞同Adam的观点，和他展开了一点辩论，目的是帮助大家看到真正的观点碰撞和如何进行表达应对，但悄悄说一下，Adam是不知道Julie要埋这个梗的哈哈哈~

If the path you chose to step on is the right one for you, of course you need perseverance.
如果你选择的【人生】道路对你是一条正确的路，你当然是需要有坚韧不拔精神的。

Perseverance 坚韧不拔，坚持不懈

We need a bit of inspiration but we need something else. We need to be in possession of good judgment too... 我们需要被鼓励激发，但是我们也需要一些别的东西，比如我们需要拥有好的判断力。

Be in possession of 拥有
Judgment 判断能力

这是Julie对于人生道路要怎么选的个人观点，你觉得呢？

Adam终于按捺不住要反对啦，这正是Julie要的效果~ 他说：

Well, Julie, I'm not too sure about that.

对这一点，我不太确定。【对这一点，我不太敢苟同你的意见哦~】

Adam开始搬出一个强大的论据，支撑他的观点——Steve Job's的演讲：

If you look at life, when you look ahead, nothing makes sense. It's like I don't know what I'm doing and my life is going nowhere, but then when you reach a certain point and you look back, ... you are gonna connect the dots. You'll see no matter what you do, where you have gone, every action you take, all of them, connect together to make your life the way it is.

面对生活，往前看可能觉得没什么奔头或指望，好像说'我不知道我在做什么，我的生活没有希望'。但是当你到达一个时期【当你获得了一些成就等】，回过头来看，你会把那些经历像点一样连接起来。你会发现，无论做什么，去到过哪里，你的所有一切行动，都是使你过上现在生活的助力和原因。

这是一段比较长且逻辑性比较强的话，所以给大家写出文本是必须的~

虽然Julie觉得这些话颇有道理，但还是提出了自己的反对意见哦~ 她说：

I do believe Steve Jobs and great, great people like him have good vision and ambition, and good judgment, maybe from when they were really young so that's why they can connect the dots when they reflect or recall the past.

我确实还是认为，乔布斯和像他那样伟大的人，都有很高的愿景和雄心，以及很好的判断力，可能从他们还年轻的时候就如此，这才是他们为什么能够在回顾过去的时候连接起那些【有价值的】点【人生经历】。

Vision: 这个词解释起来也比较复杂，不光指视力所及范围，还指人的愿景和雄心，所以给出大家权威的朗文英英词典解释如下：

An idea of what you think something should be like
比如：
He had a clear vision of how he hoped the company would develop.
他对公司的发展有着自己清晰的愿景。

Adam和Julie的辩论到此结束，Adam说：
It's our differences and that's what make us humans. 这是我们的不同，但人就是不同的。