雙語 ● Success Is a Choice　成功是一種選擇

Success Is a Choice　成功是一種選擇

◎ Jeffrey

All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.

我們每天都應(yīng)該讓自己作好準備，迎接可預(yù)見的挫折和挑戰(zhàn)。如果我們相信生活不可能是完美的，我們就能避免因一時的沖動而放棄追求。但即使你意志堅強，能夠挺過生活和工作中的困難，有時你也會遭遇逆境，它將會在背后給你狠狠一擊。

Whether it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic event in your life these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself and wondering if things can ever change for the better again.

不管是出現(xiàn)經(jīng)濟損失，還是失去同輩及親人的尊敬，或是遭受生命重創(chuàng)，這些重大挫折都會使你對自己產(chǎn)生懷疑，并且懷疑情況是否能再好轉(zhuǎn)。

Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time. Some form of major adversity is either going to be there or it’s lying in wait just around the corner. To ignore adversity is to succumb to the ultimate self decision.

我們每個人都可能遭遇各種困境，而且這些困境時常發(fā)生。有些大災(zāi)難不是即刻發(fā)生，就是靜靜待在角落等待時機。忽視逆境其實就是在欺騙自己。

But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stuttered, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln overcomes a dif-during the Civil War to become arguably our greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had polio.

但是你必須認識到歷史上有許多事例都講述了克服重重困難之后才獲得成功的人。那些困難之大，足以粉碎他們的意志，讓他們流落塵世。摩西有口吃，但他后來卻成為傳遞上帝福音的使者。亞伯拉罕·林肯戰(zhàn)勝了童年的困難、絕望、喪失兩個兒子的痛苦，及內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中接踵而來的嘲笑，最終成為美國歷史上無可置疑的最偉大的總統(tǒng)。海倫·凱勒早年雙目失明，又不能說話，但她對世界產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響，而富蘭克林·德蘭諾·羅斯福則患有小兒麻痹癥。

There are endless examples. These were people who not only looked adversity in the face but learned valuable lessons about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.

類似的例子舉不勝舉。這些人不僅大膽地面對困難，而且從中學到了克服困難的寶貴經(jīng)驗，然后一如既往，勇往直前。

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