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失败
Defeat
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
一个想成为伟人的男孩,不应该仅仅下定决心去克服一千个障碍,而应该下定决心去战胜一千个挫折和失败。
And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!
所有这些努力,所有这些同志关系的丧失,所有这些理想主义和男子气概的堕落,都是为了帮助这个国家的资本家打败无产阶级!
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
即使是最成功的人,也难免会遭遇失败。人类的精神永远不会在被打败时结束……当它投降时,它就完成了。
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
这不是一片几英亩的土地,而是我们正在捍卫的事业,无论我们是在一场战斗中击败敌人,还是一步步地击败敌人,结果都是一样的。
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
我们知道,如果黄金,如果欺诈,如果武力可以打败我们,它们都会被使用。我们已经下定决心,他们不会打败我们。我们的手臂。我们将以蔑视对付欺诈和谎言,必要时将以武力对付武力。
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
勇敢地去做伟大的事情,去赢得光荣的胜利,即使会受到失败的挫折……而不是与那些既不享受也不太受苦的可怜的人为伍,因为他们生活在一个既不知道胜利也不知道失败的灰暗的黎明里。
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
当然,胜利是伟大的,但如果你真的想在生活中有所作为,秘诀就是学会如何失败。没有人能一直保持不败。如果你能从惨败中振作起来,并继续取得胜利,总有一天你会成为冠军。
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
当你和撒哈拉南部的人做生意时,做生意的方式和在伦敦完全不同。你不能以通常的方式给他们签名,因为他们最终会被敲竹杠,这就违背了设立这样一个标签的初衷。
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
我思考这些事情,男人如何战斗,输掉战斗,和他们为之战斗的东西尽管失败,但当谈到并不能证明他们是什么意思,和其他男人必须争取他们的意思在另一个名字。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Defeat your enemies with success.
用成功打败你的敌人。
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
生活是要活的,而不是要被控制;人类是通过在一定的失败面前继续游戏而获胜的。
Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.
假设等于骄傲的丧失和失败的刺痛。
The beauty of defeat is that when you fall, you fly.
失败的美妙之处在于当你跌倒时,你会飞起来。
We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
我们从胜利中学不到什么,却从失败中学到了很多。
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
我们可能会遭遇许多失败,但我们决不能被打败。