双语阅读：想要支持吗那就不要害怕提出要求

Want a Big Favor? Don't Be Afraid to Ask 想要重大支持吗？那就不要害怕提出要求。
President Obama will speak at UC Irvine's commencement ceremony this June. How
did the school score the most powerful man in the country to speak at graduation?
Simple: they asked. 奥巴马总统将会在加州大学欧文分校六月份的毕业典礼上发表演
说。这个学校是如何请到美国权力最大的人在毕业典礼上发言的呢？很简单：他们提
出了请求。
"We are thrilled that the President has accepted our invitation to deliver the keynote
address at our commencement exercises this June," says Chancellor Michael V.
Drake in a press release, which notes that the president's speech will commemorate
the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's visit to break ground on the campus,
just days after unveiling his Great Society agenda. 校长迈克尔在新闻发布会上谈到
“我们很兴奋，因为总统接受了邀请并将在六月份的毕业典礼上做主题演讲”。这表
明在奥巴马总统揭开伟大社会日程的序幕乊后，总统的演说将会成为约翰总统访问这
一校区50 周年的纪念。
What does this have to do with your career? In short, if you don't ask, you don't get.
这和你的职业有什么关系呢？简而言乊，如果你没有请求，你就不可能得到。

Fear of Owing Something, or Looking Stupid 害怕拥有戒者出丑
Our culture praises self-sufficiency, even though no one succeeds entirely on her
own. Throughout our lives, we accept help from our family, friends, and community,
often without thinking too much about it. It's harder, however, to ask a relative
stranger to do you a solid than it is to apply for a Pell grant. 尽管没人是完全靠自己
取得成功的，我们的文化还是崇尚自给自足。我们一生中会受到家庭、朊友和社会的
帮助，但是我们并未想太多。然而，向比较陌生的人请求帮助，要比申请佩尔助学金
困难得多。
It's worth it to get over your fears of asking for help at work. Ideally, a functional
unit is somewhat interdependent, relying on the combined strength of a group of
people with different talents and skills. If you make sure to only ask for help from
people you'd help yourself, you're just making the team better and your company
more successful. 在工作中克朋请求帮助的恐惧是很有意义的。从理想上来说，每个功
能单元在某种程度上都是相互关联的，并且需要依赖由具备各种技巧才能的人组成的
集体力量。如果你确信要向他人寻求帮助，那这就是对自己的帮助，并且你就能使团
队变得更好、公司成就更大。
Real Costs for Im aginary Risks 虚构风险的实际代价
Every so often, a story comes along like that of the female professor who negotiated
her salary and lost her job offer. Although much less common than tales of workers
who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their lifetime by not