名校勵志英語演講 第17期:失敗的額外收益和想象力的重要性

[00:02.04]You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. 你們對失敗的恐懼很可能與你們對成功的渴望一樣強烈。 [00:07.46]Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from, 實際上，你們眼中的失敗可能在常人看來就是成功， [00:12.20]the average person's idea of success, so high have you already flown. 畢竟你們在學(xué)業(yè)上已經(jīng)相當(dāng)成功了。 [00:20.01]Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, 最終，我們所有人都必須自己判斷什么事失敗， [00:25.23]but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria 但是如果你樂意的話，這個世界是非?？释o你一套標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的。 [00:28.38]if you let it. So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, 因此根據(jù)任何傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)都可以說， [00:35.14]a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. 我在畢業(yè)后短短七年里經(jīng)歷了慘痛的失?。? [00:42.11]An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, 短暫的婚姻閃電般破裂，失業(yè)，成為單身母親。 [00:47.30]a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. 在現(xiàn)代化的英國，我變得極度貧困，只是還沒有到無家可歸的地步。 [00:54.41]The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, 父母和我自己對未來的擔(dān)憂，當(dāng)年都變成了現(xiàn)實。 [00:59.27]had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew. 無論按什么標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，當(dāng)時我都是我所知道是最失敗的人。 [01:07.28]Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. 現(xiàn)在，我不打算站在這里告訴你們失敗是有趣的。 [01:11.31]That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that, 那段日子是我生命中的黑暗歲月， [01:15.33]there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. 我不知道我會寫出被新聞界成為“童話故事的革命”的作品。 [01:22.27]I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, 我也不知道自己還要在黑暗中走多久， [01:27.27]any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality. 不知道還要過多久才能看到希望的光芒而不是現(xiàn)實的黑暗。

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