Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A person should never make an important decision alone. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
你是否同意以下观点？人不应该独自做重要的决定。请用具体的理由和事例来说明。
There are some decisions you should definitely make alone: Whether or not to cut your hair or get a tattoo; whether to eat an egg fried or scrambled. Not all solitary decisions are of minor importance-one day in 1955, Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work,decided all by herself not to give up her seat on the bus to a white person and sparked the Civil Rights Movement in the US. But in general, if the decision you are pondering is important to you, and to the important people in your life, you will have a much greater chance of making the right choice if you ask for their help.
有些事情当然需要我们自己去做决定：比如是否要剪头发，是否要文身；是要吃煎鸡蛋还是要吃炒鸡蛋。但并不是所有的单独决策都是无关紧要的-1955年的某天，黑人女子罗莎·帕克斯在经过一天的劳累工作后，在公交车上决定不给一名白人让座，结果引发了美国知名的民权运动。但一般说来，如果你觉得某个决定无论是对你还是对你生命中重要的人而言都很重要，征询他们的意见，你将更有可能做出正确的选择。
“There is safety in numbers,” goes the old proverb. If the decision you are considering may have a negative impact on your company, for example, it would be wise to seek out opinions and gain “buy-in” from your fellow workers before you announce your plan,In 1980, Akio Morita, the head of Sony, decided to produce a new gadget that would allow teenagers to tote around their music-the Walkman. Should he have been nervous about this decision? No, because he had the backing of Sony's talented workers. “The public does not know what is possible,” Morita told his naysayers：“We do.”
俗语说得好：“人多势众。”例如，如果你正在考虑的决定可能会给公司带来消极影响。明智的做法是在宣布决策之前广泛征求团队的意见，寻求他们的支持。1980年，索尼总裁盛山昭夫决定生产一款能让年轻人随身携带的音乐播放器-漫步者。他应该为此决定而感到焦虑吗？不，因为他得到了本公司出色团队的支持。“大众并不知道什么是可行的，”他如此反驳反对者，“但是我们知道。”
There is another old saying, “Two heads are better than one.” If this is true, then we can assume that five or six heads will be even more powerful when it comes to making the right decision. Before any law can be passed in the US, for example, it must wend its way through committee discussion, then House and Senate consideration, and finally signing （or veto） by the President. （As much as presidential candidates love to promise that they will make BIG changes when they are elected, they soon learn that they will not be able to act alone in the office-they will need to listen to the people's representatives, both for and against any proposed change.）
还有一句古语：“三个臭皮匠顶过一个诸葛亮。”如果此言不假，我们可以假设五六个人的智慧必定更大，而这将更利于做出正确的决定。例如，在美国，任何法律终通过之前，势必要先经过委员会的讨论，然后是参众两院的审议，终由总统签署或者否决。（很多总统候选人总爱在竞选的时候许诺，一旦被选上，他们势必会做出重大改革。但是很快他们就会发现，他们根本不可能单独决策，而都需要听取议员的意见，不管是支持还是反对。）
In your personal life, you should seriously consider including others in your decision- making process whenever practical. A parent does not need to consult with a child about family rules and regulations, but a husband certainly needs to talk to his wife about what those rules and regulations should be. Are you trying to decide whether to enlist in the army or go to college? Talk to your recruiter, but more importantly, talk to your parents,brothers and sisters, friends, and high school counselors. “No man is an island,” said the poet John Donne. Our choices invariably affect the people we love, so we need to let them in on our thoughts.
生活中，在你的决策过程中，只要切实可行，你都应该慎重考虑让其他人参与其中。家长不需要跟孩子协商家庭的各项规定，但是丈夫肯定要跟妻子商量应该是什么样的规定。你正在尝试决定是参军还是去上大学吗？与征募人员谈一下，但是更重要的是，跟你的父母、兄弟姐妹、朋友或者是高中辅导员商量。英国诗人约翰·多恩曾经说过：“没有人完全孤立如小岛。”我们的选择总会影响到我们爱的人，因此我们需要考虑到他们的感受。
