Failure doesn't mean you are a failure,
失败并不代表你是个失败者
It does mean you haven't succeeded yet.
它只表明你尚未成功
Failure doesn't mean you have accomplished nothing,
失败并不代表你一无所获
It does mean you have learned something.
它只表明你吸取了一次教训
Failure doesn't mean you have been a fool,
失败并不代表你很愚蠢
It does mean you had a lot of faith.
它只表明你信心百倍
Failure doesn't mean you've been disgraced,
失败并不代表你无脸见人
It does mean you were willing to try.
它只表明你百折不回
Failure doesn't mean you don't have it,
失败并不代表白费功夫
It does mean you have to do something in a different way.
它只表明你的方法仍待改进
Failure doesn't mean you are inferior,
失败并不代表你低人一等
It does mean you are not perfect.
它只表明你也并非完人
Failure doesn't mean you've wasted your life,
失败并不代表你浪费了生命
It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.
它只表明你有理由重新开始
Failure doesn't mean you should give up,
失败并不代表你应该放弃
It does mean you must try harder.
它只表明你要加倍努力
Failure doesn't mean you'll never make it,
失败并不代表成功永远不属于你
It does mean it will take a little longer.
它只表明你可能需要付出更多的时间
Failure doesn't mean God has abandoned you,
失败并不代表上帝已经将你抛弃
It does mean God has a better idea.
它只表明上帝还有更好的主意
作者Robert Harold Schuller是美国诗人,毕业于素有美国哈佛后花园之称的Hope College霍普学院,1950年从西方神学院获得神学硕士学位。《失败的意义》是一首励志诗,失败并不代表你就是失败者。
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Would you let your baby sleep in a box? 你愿意让自己的宝宝在盒子里睡觉吗?
It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生
Glass-bottomed bridge, cancer risk for HRT and 120-year-old man 世界最长玻璃桥开放,荷尔蒙替代疗法增患癌风险,印度教120岁僧人
Lights! Camera! English! 灯光,摄像机,英语!
Old-school 老一套,老派
In the blink of an eye 一眨眼之间
In good nick 品质好、没有损坏
Too much stuff 物质主义和简约主义
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
Pull something out of the hat 突施妙计
White / blue-collar worker 白领,蓝领
Reunion? Count me out! 重聚? 别算上我!
To make a monkey out of me 捉弄我
The university of life 生活经历
Close, but no cigar 几近成功
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
The last/final straw 忍无可忍,使人最终崩溃的一击
You're pulling my leg! 你在愚弄我!
Pain in the neck 令人讨厌的事情或人
To lie through your teeth 睁眼说瞎话
Hangry 饥饿成怒
Are you addicted to your phone? 你是不是玩手机上瘾了?
One good turn deserves another 以德报德,礼尚往来
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
Until I'm blue in the face 任凭你磨破嘴皮
Get someone's goat 火冒三丈
Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”
Clean up your act 改邪归正
To turn something upside down 把……翻个底朝天