佚名/Anonymous
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.
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.
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-delusion.
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. Abraham Lincoln overcomes a difficult child-hood, depression, the death of two sons, and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably one of the greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.
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.
我們每天都應該讓自己做好準備，迎接可以預見的挫折和挑戰。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衝動而放棄追求。但即使你擁有堅強的意誌，能夠挺過生活和工作中的困難，有時你也會遭遇逆境，它將會在背後給你狠狠的一擊。
不管是遭受經濟損失，或是失去同輩及親人的尊敬，還是遭受生命重創，這些重大挫折都會使你對自己產生懷疑，並且懷疑情況能否好轉。
我們每個人都可能遭遇困境，而且這種情況時常發生。有些大災難不是即刻發生就是在角落裏等待時機。忽視逆境其實就是在欺騙自己。
但是你必須意識到曆史上有許多事例都講述了克服重重困難之後才獲得成功的人。那些困難，足以粉碎他們的意誌，讓他們流落塵世。亞伯拉罕·林肯戰勝了童年的困難、絕望，喪失兩個兒子的痛苦以及內戰中接踵而來的嘲笑，最終成為美國曆史上無可置疑的最偉大的總統之一。海倫·凱勒早年雙目失明，又是個聾啞人，但她還是對世界產生了巨大影響，而富蘭克林·羅斯福則患有小兒麻痹症。
類似的例子不勝枚舉。這些人不僅勇敢地麵對困難，而且從中積累了克服困難的寶貴經驗，然後勇往直前。
Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
—Nepos
要選擇行動的一生，而不是炫耀的一生。
——內波斯
obstacle[??bst?kl]n.障礙
Her father's opposition remained only their obstacle.
她父親的反對是他們唯一的障礙。
encounter[in?kaunt?]v.遇到；偶然碰到；遭遇
His encounter with the guard dog had completely unnerved him.
他遇上了警衛犬，把他嚇壞了。
ridicule[?ridikju:l]n.嘲笑；愚弄；笑柄
If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
當孩子們生活在嘲弄的現實中時，他們學會了羞怯。
circumstance[?s?:k?mst?ns]n.環境；狀況；事件
Below most circumstance, the study should be very quiet.
大多數情況下，書房應該是十分安靜的。
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我們每天都應該讓自己做好準備，迎接可以預見的挫折和挑戰。
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即使你擁有堅強的意誌，能夠挺過生活和工作中的困難，有時你也會遭遇逆境，它將會在背後給你狠狠的一擊。
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有些大災難不是即刻發生就是在角落裏等待時機。忽視逆境其實就是在欺騙自己。
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All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday.
ought to：應當
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Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age.
make an impact on：對……產生影響
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