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Surabhi Gautam从一个传统村庄的女孩成长为印度公务员，分享她的奋斗历程和成长感悟。适合练习励志类演讲和人生经历描述。
Reviewer: Zsuzsa Viola
审稿人：Zsuzsa Viola
Namaste!
Namaste！（印度问候语，意为“愿您平安”或“向您致敬”）
Today, as you see me as a
今天，当你们看到我的时候……
package of success, when my bio says that I have cleared all the top prestigious exams and interviews of India.
我的个人简介中提到，我通过了印度所有顶尖、最具声望的考试，并通过了所有相关的面试环节；这无疑是一份“成功的证明”。
My friends, let me tell you not more about my successes but more about my rejections, my failures,
我的朋友们，我不想再过多地谈论我的成功，而是想更多地谈谈那些被拒绝的经历、我的失败。
and my determination, my willpower that made me get those successes.
正是我的决心和意志力，让我取得了那些成功。
So my story starts from a small sleepy village of Madhya Pradesh with a population of barely a thousand people.
我的故事始于中央邦的一个宁静小村庄，那里的人口仅有大约一千人。
On the month of a rainy August,
在一个多雨的八月里，
a small girl was born in an orthodox Brahmin family - a family that was giant and joint with 30 plus members -
一个小女孩出生在一个正统的婆罗门家庭中。这个家庭非常庞大，共有30多名成员。
it was not an event for them.
对他们来说，那根本算不上什么重要的事情（或者说：那并不是一场值得他们关注或重视的事件）。
There was nothing that worth celebrating happened that day when I was born, only two souls on Earth were happy,
在我出生的那天，并没有发生任何值得庆祝的事情；地球上只有两个人感到幸福。
obviously, they were my parents, for the rest of them, it was a normal affair.
显然，他们就是我的父母；而对于其他人来说，这只是一件再平常不过的事情罢了。
25 years down the line, same girl, same village, and the whole family was welcoming her with garlands,
25年过去了，还是那个女孩，还是那个村庄。全家人都用花环来欢迎她。
bang bang slogans like, "What should a girl look like?
诸如“一个女孩应该长什么样？”之类的口号被反复宣扬……
Like Surabhi Gautam!
就像苏拉比·高塔姆（Surabhi Gautam）一样！
Why not?"
为什么不呢？
What made things to become so different for her?
是什么让她的处境发生了如此巨大的变化呢？
My dear friends, let me tell you how things changed not only for me but also for my parents,
我亲爱的朋友们，让我告诉你们，事情不仅对我产生了变化，也对我的父母产生了影响。
how all the perspectives got changed slowly, slowly, steadily, steadily.
所有的观点是如何逐渐、稳步地发生改变的……
I was in a joint family.
我生活在一个大家庭中。
In a joint family, you know, no child gets separate attention.
在大家庭中，每个孩子都不会得到特别的关注或特别的照顾。
So we all were treated equally.
因此，我们所有人都受到了平等的对待。
Life was OK.
生活还算不错。
We were happy.
我们很开心。
I got admission in my village school.
我被村里的小学录取了。
That was Hindi medium: Madhya Pradesh Board School.
那是用印地语授课的学校——属于中央邦教育委员会管辖下的公立中学。
In 5th class, something good happened with me that I remember till date.
在五年级的时候，发生了一件让我至今仍记忆犹新、非常美好的事情。
I got 100 out of 100 in my mathematics paper.
我的数学试卷得了满分（100分）。
5th class was a board class.
五年级属于会考年级（即需要参加相关考试的年级）。
So my teacher called me, and she said, "See, I have never seen anybody scoring full marks, that in mathematics,
我的老师叫了我过来，然后她说：“你知道吗？我从来没见过有人在数学考试中取得满分。
that in board exam.
就是在那次董事会考试中。
You have done this, so I think you are going to do something good in your studies."
你已经做到了这一点，因此我相信你在学习上一定会取得优异的成绩。
That was the day when I felt appreciated and recognized, and I had given this clear message to the Universe that in future,
就在那天，我感受到了自己的价值与被认可；同时我也向宇宙传递了一个明确的信息：在未来，
all I'm going to do is to be a studious girl because with studies comes recognition, with studies will come appreciation for me.
我唯一要做的就是成为一个勤奋好学的女孩——因为通过学习，我会获得他人的认可和尊重。
Otherwise, in this family, I'm not going to get this at all.
否则，在这个家里，我根本就得不到我想要的东西。
So I started to focus more on studies.
于是，我开始更加专注于学习。
But my heart - it always wanted to diversify.
但我的心啊……它总是渴望去尝试不同的东西（或者说，渴望寻求多样化的体验）。
I wanted to do everything.
我想尝试做所有的事情。
I started to try my hand at painting, sketching, drawing.
我开始尝试绘画、素描和手绘。
I started to do embroidery also.
我也开始学习刺绣了。