使用了定语从句来修饰那些能够掌握自己生活的人。
The lives of most people are determined by their environment. They not only accept the circumstances fate has thrown them into but do so with a sense of resignation. Like streetcars running contentedly on their rails, they look askance at the sprightly flitter that dashes through traffic and speeds jauntily across the open country. I respect them; they are good citizens, good husbands, and good fathers—after all, someone must pay the taxes—but I do not find their lives exciting.
I am fascinated, however, by the rare few who take life into their own hands and seem to mould it to their own liking. It may be that free will is merely an illusion, but we live under that very illusion. At a crossroad, it seems to us that we might choose to go either right or left; yet, once the choice is made, it is difficult to see that the entire course of world history may have compelled us to take the turn we did.
大多数人的生活轨迹往往由其所处的环境所决定。他们不仅顺从命运的安排，甚至带着一种安于现状的随和，在既定的轨道上如电车般平稳行驶。面对那些在车水马龙中穿梭、在旷野中欢快奔驰的灵动身影，他们往往不屑一顾。我尊重这类人，他们是称职的市民、丈夫和父亲，是社会运转中不可或缺的力量，但他们的生活往往缺乏令人心潮澎湃的激情。
然而，我却被那些极少数能够掌控自身命运、按自我意愿塑造生活的人深深吸引。或许这世上并不存在真正的自由意志，但至少我们拥有关于它的幻象。当我们站在人生的十字路口，总觉得自己可以在左右之间做出抉择；可一旦踏上旅程，我们很难察觉，或许正是世界历史的宏大进程，早已在冥冥之中指引了我们最终的转向。