新概念雙語：那些戰(zhàn)勝失敗后家喻戶曉的勵(lì)志名人

Failure isn’t the end, unless you let it be. Don’t believe me? Here are 5 people who lived through failure before going on to become names known around the world:

失敗不是人生的終結(jié)，除非你向它屈服。不相信嗎?下面5個(gè)人就曾經(jīng)歷過失敗，但戰(zhàn)勝了它，并成為了家喻戶曉的名人。

Walt Disney

華特·迪士尼

Disney began his career by being fired by a newspaper for not being creative enough. Later, his Mickey Mouse cartoons were rejected because they were deemed to be “too scary for women.” If that wasn’t enough, "The Three Little Pigs" was also turned down because it only had four characters.

最初，迪士尼之所以決定創(chuàng)立自己的事業(yè)，是因?yàn)樗灰患覉?bào)社辭退了——后者認(rèn)為他缺乏創(chuàng)意。之后，他創(chuàng)造的米老鼠卡通形象又遭到拒絕，因?yàn)槊桌鲜蟊徽J(rèn)為“對女性來說太過恐怖”。更有甚者，他創(chuàng)作的動(dòng)畫《三只小豬》也被拒絕了，原因是動(dòng)畫中只有4個(gè)形象。

Thankfully, we have the Disney company today because Walt chose not to listen to any of his critics and press forward towards his dreams.

感謝上蒼，華特決意不聽從那些批評家對他的否定，而是向著夢想銳意前行，我們才有了如今的迪士尼公司。

Michael Jordan

邁克爾·喬丹

As a kid, Jordan loved basketball and knew he wanted to make a career out of it, though no coach would give him a chance because he was short. After using an inside connection to get into a basketball camp from which players for college teams were chosen, Jordan got noticed by a coach—who still chose not to invite him to the team.

喬丹在幼年時(shí)代就酷愛籃球，雖然他身材矮小，沒有教練愿意培養(yǎng)他，他卻立志要以籃球?yàn)樽约旱慕K身事業(yè)。 后來，經(jīng)熟人介紹，喬丹參加了一次籃球夏利營，參與這個(gè)夏利營的成員有望成為大學(xué)校園中籃球隊(duì)的隊(duì)員。喬丹引起了一位教練的注意，然而這位教練最終仍然沒有讓喬丹成為自己的隊(duì)員。

Jordan returned home discouraged, but decided to prove the coach wrong. Now a member of the NBA Hall of Fame, just about everyone would agree he succeeded.

喬丹滿心沮喪的回到家里，但他決定要以行動(dòng)證明那個(gè)教練看錯(cuò)了自己。如今喬丹已經(jīng)成為NBA名人堂的一員，恐怕沒有人會(huì)對飛人的成就有所質(zhì)疑。

Stephen King

史蒂芬·金

King is a best-selling writer whose work has been made into several motion pictures. However, his first work was rejected 30 times, which lead to King throwing it in the trash. Thankfully, his wife made him keep working at it, and—from that inauspicious start—Carrie was born.

身為一位暢銷書作者，史蒂芬·金有數(shù)部作品被翻拍成電影。然而，他的第一部小說卻被拒絕了足足30次，以至于金自己都將它扔進(jìn)了垃圾桶。還好，他的妻子鼓勵(lì)他不放棄——經(jīng)歷了艱辛的起步階段之后，《魔女嘉莉》誕生了。

Milton Hershey

彌爾頓·好時(shí)

The man who blessed us with the sweet milk-chocolate treat we all love wasn’t a hit the first time around. Before launching his own candy business, he had worked for a local candy factory. But when he decided to go out on his own, he failed miserably.

這位先生讓我們能享受到好時(shí)牛奶巧克力的甜美滋味，然而他在創(chuàng)業(yè)之初并不受歡迎。在他建立自己的糖果事業(yè)之前，曾在一家地方糖果工廠打工?？墒钱?dāng)他決定要自己創(chuàng)業(yè)時(shí)，他遭遇了慘敗。

Despite two more failures, he returned to the family farm and perfected the art of making delicious milk-chocolate candy, which we enjoy in the form of Hershey chocolate today.

后來他又遭遇了兩次挫敗，盡管如此，他回到了家族農(nóng)場，在那里改良了制作美味牛奶巧克力的工藝，如此才有了今天我們大愛的好時(shí)巧克力。

Theodor Giesel

西奧多·吉塞爾

This author struggled to write a novel that publishing companies would call something other than “pure rubbish” several times—27 to be exact. The man just wouldn’t quit, though.

這位作家竭力想要出版一部小說，這部小說數(shù)次被出版社拒之門外，甚至稱其“純粹是垃圾”——確切的說，它被拒絕了27次。盡管如此，這位作家并沒有放棄。

One fateful night, he ran into an old friend who had recently taken over as a children’s literature editor. The friend agreed to publish Giesel’s work. Better known today as Dr. Seuss, Giesel was never again called a failure after his first book struck it big.

在一個(gè)改變他命運(yùn)的夜晚，他遇到了一位老朋友，后者剛?cè)温殲閮和膶W(xué)編輯。這位友人許諾吉賽爾會(huì)出版他的作品。自從他的第一部作品出版之后，再也不會(huì)有人稱吉賽爾是失敗者了，如今吉賽爾以“蘇斯博士”的筆名成為家喻戶曉的作家。