儘管困難依舊成功的英語故事

　　每一次成功的背後，肯定都是困難重重，但是隻要堅持下來，一定是會成功的。小編精心為大家蒐集整理了，大家一起來看看吧。

　　篇1：成功的人生不設限

　　My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally — but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him walk .

　　我的兒子瓊尼降生時，他的雙腳向上彎彎著，醫生向我們保證說經過治療，小瓊尼可以像常人一樣走路，但像常人一樣跑步的可能性則微乎其微。瓊尼3歲之前一直在接受治療，和支架、石膏模子打交道。七八歲的時候，他走路的樣子已讓人看不出他的腿有過毛病。

　　The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn't know.

　　鄰居的小孩子們做遊戲的時候總是跑過來跑過去。毫無疑問小瓊尼看到他們玩就會馬上加進去跑啊鬧的。我們從不告訴他不能像別的孩子那樣跑，我們從不說他和別的孩子不一樣。因為我們不對他說，所以他不知道。

　　In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross—country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others — perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

　　七年級的時候，瓊尼決定參加跑步橫穿全美的比賽。每天他和大夥一塊訓練。也許是意識到自己先天不如別人，他訓練得比任何人都刻苦。訓練隊的前7名選手可以參加最後比賽，為學校拿分。我們沒有告訴瓊尼;也許會落空，所以他不知道。

　　He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day — even the day he had a 103—degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103—degree fever. So he didn't know.

　　他堅持每天跑4~5英里。我永遠不會忘記有一次，他發著高燒，但仍堅持訓練。我為他擔心，於是去學校看他，發現他正在一個人沿著長長的林蔭道跑步呢。我問他感覺怎麼樣，"很好。"他說。還剩下最後兩英里。他滿臉是汗，眼睛因為發燒失去了光彩。然而他目不斜視，堅持著跑下來。我們從沒有告訴他不能發著高燒去跑4英里的路，我們從沒有這樣對他說，所以他不知道。

　　Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth—graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.

　　兩個星期後，在決賽前的3天，長跑隊的名次被確定下來。瓊尼是第六名，他成功了。他才是個七年級生，而其餘的人都是八年級生。我們從沒有告訴他不要去期望入選，我們從沒有對他說他不會成功。是的，從沒說起過……所以他不知道，但他卻做到了!

　　篇2：人生有一次成功就夠了

　　There was a man who had undergone numerous failures in his life. But he said, “One success is enough for me!”

　　有一個人，一生中經歷了1009次失敗。但他卻說：“一次成功就夠了。”

　　When he was five years old, his father died of illness without leaving him any property. Since then, his mother worked outside while he had to stay at home and take care of his siblings. He learnt cooking since then.

　　5歲時，他的父親突然病逝，沒有留下任何財產。母親外出做工。年幼的他在家照顧弟妹，並學會自己做飯。

　　When he was twelve, his mother married another man. His step-father treated me strictly and often beat him when his mother was away.

　　12歲時，母親改嫁，繼父對他十分嚴厲，常在母親外出時痛打他。

　　When he was fourteen, he dropped out from school and began his life of roving.

　　14歲時，他輟學離校，開始了流浪生活。

　　When he was sixteen, he lied about his age to participate in the expedition. During the voyage, he was terribly seasick and deported back to his home ahead of time.

　　16歲時，他謊報年齡參加了遠征軍。因航行途中暈船厲害，被提前遣送回鄉。

　　When he was eighteen, he married a girl, who, however, sold out all his properties and went back to her home several months after their marriage.

　　18歲時，他娶了個媳婦。但只過了幾個月，媳婦就變賣了他所有的財產逃回孃家。

　　When he was twenty, he changed his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were tough for him.

　　20歲時，他當電工、開輪渡，後來又當鐵路工人，沒有一樣工作順利。

　　When he was thirty, he did a sales work in an insurance company. But before long, he fell out with his boss due to the bonus problems.

　　30歲時，他在保險公司從事推銷工作，後因獎金問題與老闆鬧翻而辭職。

　　When he was thirty-one, he learnt law by himself and began working in law with the encouragement of his friends. But in a trial, he fight with the litigant on court.

　　31歲時，他自學法律，並在朋友的鼓動下幹起了律師行當。一次審案時，竟在法庭上與當事人大打出手。

　　When he was thirty-two, he was out of work and led a tough life.

　　32歲時，他失業了，生活非常艱難。

　　When he was thirty-five, misfortune again befell on him. When he was driving across a hugebridge, the steel ropes along the edge of the bridge were broken and he fell into the river withhis car. He suffered such severe injuries that he could no longer continue his job of promotingtires.

　　35歲時，不幸又一次降臨到他的頭上。當他開車路過一座大橋時，大橋鋼繩斷裂。他連人帶車跌到河中，身受重傷，無法再幹輪胎推銷員工作。

　　When he was forty, he opened a gas station in a town. However, he came into dispute becausehe beat his rivalries due to the billboard hanging problems.

　　40歲時，他在一個鎮上開了一家加油站，因掛廣告牌把競爭對手打傷，引來一場糾紛。

　　When he was forty-seven, he divorced his second wife, which had deeply stricken his threechildren.

　　47歲時，他與第二任妻子離婚，三個孩子深受打擊。

　　When he was sixty-one, he campaigned for a senator but failed at last.

　　61歲時，他競選參議員，但最後落敗。

　　When he was sixty-five, his on-growth restaurant was dismantled by the government due toroad renovating. He was compelled to sell out all his facilities at a very low price.

　　65歲時，政府修路拆了他剛剛紅火的快餐館，他不得不低價出售了所有裝置。

　　When he was sixty-six, he made a living by promoting his chicken-frying technics to variousrestaurants in different places.

　　66歲時，為了維持生活，他到各地的小餐館推銷自己掌握的炸雞技術。

　　When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain his company, so he transferred hisbrand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock sharesas part of the purchasing price. But he turned down the suggestion. Later the price of thestocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.

　　75歲時，他感到力不從心，因此轉讓了自己創立的品牌和專利。新主人提議給他1萬股，作為購買價的一部分，他拒絕了。後來公司股票大漲，他因此失去了成為億萬富翁的機會。

　　When he was eighty-three, he opened another fast-food restaurant but fell into a lawsuit dueto trademark and patent issues.

　　83歲時，他又開了一家快餐店，卻因商標專利與人打起了官司。

　　When he was eighty-eight, he achieve great success and became well-known to the wholeworld.

　　88歲時，他終於大獲成功，全世界都知道了他的名字。

　　He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde • Sandoz. He often said, “People always complain about the bad weather. Actually the weather is not bad at all. As longas you are optimist and confident all the time, you will have a good weather everyday.”他，就是肯德基的創始人——哈倫德•山德士。他說：“人們經常抱怨天氣不好，實際上並不是天氣不好。只要自己有樂觀自信的心情，天天都是好天氣。”

　　篇3：馬雲成功背後的故事

　　Jack Ma became the richest man in China, when the company he founded floated on the stock market last year with a value of around £140billion - the largest public offering in history.

　　去年阿里巴巴公司上市以後，市直達到1400億英鎊，這讓馬雲成了中國最富有的人。

　　Alibaba, often referred to as China's answer to eBay and Amazon, now has 100 million visitors every day, said Ma at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos.

　　阿里巴巴，相當於美國的易趣和亞馬遜。在今年的世界達沃斯經濟論壇上，馬雲稱阿里巴巴現在的日訪問量可達1億人次。

　　Ma was interviewed by Charlie Rose, and revealed a unique insight into the story behind his success...

　　馬雲接受了著名主持人查理·羅斯的採訪，為大家講述了成功背後的一些趣事以及他個人的一些獨到見解。

　　1."Beer" was the first word that Jack Ma searched for on the internet

　　“啤酒”是馬雲使用網際網路搜尋的第一個詞彙

　　Back in 1995 Ma made his first trip to the US and used the internet for the first time. After searching for "beer", he saw that no results came up relating to China. When he then searched for "China" and still saw no results, he decided to set up a Chinese website - the seed for Alibaba had been sown.1995年馬雲第一次去美國並第一次使用了網際網路。當時他用網路搜尋了“啤酒”，沒有看到跟中國有關的東西。之後他又搜尋了“中國”，沒看到任何結果。那時候他就下決心要建立一箇中文網站，這也許就是創立阿里巴巴的初衷。

　　2. Jack Ma applied to study at Harvard 10 times and was rejected each time

　　馬雲十次申請哈佛，次次都被拒絕。

　　Ma said he has had to deal with rejection many times in his life: He failed the entry exams for colleges in China three times and was also rejected for many jobs in China, including one at KFC.馬雲說他一生中經歷過各種拒絕：高考考大學時考了三次，找工作時多次被肯德基等多家公司拒絕。

　　The billionaire said he was turned down by the prestigious Harvard 10 times after applying, in reply Charlie Rose quipped "they're sorry now".現在已經是億萬富翁的馬雲說他曾經十次次申請哈佛，可每次都被拒絕了。主持人查理說“哈佛現在肯定會覺得遺憾的”。

　　3. Forest Gump is Jack Ma's hero

　　阿甘是馬雲心目中的英雄。

　　Forest Gump "never gives up" and believes in what he is doing, said Ma. He also quoted the phrase "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you're going to get", adding that he could never have foreseen that he would end up at Davos talking about his success.

　　馬雲說他最敬佩的是阿甘那種決不放棄的精神以及對自己正在做的事情所持有的那種信心。馬雲還引用了電影中那句臺詞“生活就像一盒巧克力，你永遠不知道下一塊兒會是什麼味道”，並說他根本沒有想到他會在達沃斯論壇這裡講述自己的成功故事。

　　4. Jack Ma learnt English by giving tourists free guides - every day for nine years

　　為學英語每天給外國遊客做義務導遊，堅持九年。

　　Limited resources meant it was difficult to learn English when Ma was younger. However, he found that he could learn the language by giving tourists free tours around his hometown of Hangzhou- something that he did during his teenage years every morning for nine years. Ma said that the tourists "opened my mind" because everything they said and did was so different to what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

　　馬雲小的時候，因為各種資源有限所以學英語比較困難。但是當時十幾歲的他發現，在他的家鄉杭州通過給外國遊客當導遊可以學習英語，於是他堅持了九年每天早上給外國遊客做義務導遊。馬雲說那些遊客開闊了他的眼界，因為他們所說所做的一切都不同於他從學校和父母那裡學到的東西。

　　5. A tourist gave Jack Ma his English name

　　馬雲的英文名字是一位遊客給他取的。

　　Jack Ma's Chinese name is Ma Yun; he was given the name Jack by a tourist who later became a pen-friend. She struggled with his Chinese name and asked if she could call him Jack, because both her husband and father were also called Jack.

　　馬雲的英文名字是“Jack”，這個名字是一位外國遊客給他取的，兩人之後還成為了筆友。那位外國遊客因為覺得“馬雲”這個詞挺難讀的，就問能不能喊他“Jack”，因為這位遊客的父親和丈夫的名字都是“Jack”。

　　6. Jack Ma wants to make movies

　　想做電影。

　　After being seen in Hollywood, Ma admitted that he's interested in making movies for Chinese young people.在去過好萊塢之後，馬雲表示他確實有興趣為中國的年輕人做電影。

　　He said that Hollywood has inspired him because in American films the heroes always start off down on their luck before reaching success, but in Chinese films all the heroes end up dead - Ma joked that this is why Chinese people don't aspire to be heroes. Ma also said that he enjoys reading and writing Kung Fu novels.

　　馬雲說好萊塢讓他有做電影的想法，因為在美國電影中，很多英雄因為一點運氣而走向成功，而中國電影裡大部分英雄人物最後都死掉了，馬雲開玩笑說這也許是為什麼中國人不願意做英雄的原因。他還說他很喜歡看功夫小說，也喜歡自己寫。

　　7. "Be in love with the Government... but don't marry them," said Jack Ma.

　　“跟政府談戀愛，但不要跟政府結婚。”

　　Ma described his relationship with the Chinese government as "very interesting" and said that at the beginning of starting Alibaba he told employees to be "in love with the Government, but don't marry them".

　　馬雲形容他和中國政府的關係“非常有趣”，在阿里巴巴建立之初，他就跟員工講“跟政府談戀愛，但不要跟政府結婚”。

　　He said that he has never taken any money from the Chinese Government or Chinese banks.

　　馬雲說他從來沒跟中國政府或銀行那裡拿過一分錢。

　　8. Jack Ma loves Tai Chi

　　喜歡打太極

　　Ma said that Tai Chi is a philosophy about how you balance and he applies it to his professional and business life, using it to draw inspiration about how to compete in the market.

　　馬雲說太極是一種關於如何保持平衡的哲學，他將這種哲學智慧運用在生活及市場競爭中。

　　9. Jack Ma named his company Alibaba because it's a globally known story

　　馬雲給公司取名“阿里巴巴”是因為它的故事聞名全世界。

　　Ma simply wanted his company to have a global and interesting name, and realised that Alibaba is a story known across the world. As an added bonus, Ma said that because it begins with A, it also appears top of lists.

　　馬雲只是想讓公司的名字既有趣又全球化，他發現阿里巴巴的故事幾乎全世界的人都知道。而且，阿里巴巴以字母A開頭，這樣無論何時阿里巴巴總是排在前面。

　　The company was founded in 1999 and since then has grown from 15 employees to more than 30,000.

　　阿里巴巴公司創建於1999年，員工數量從最初的15個人發展到現在的3萬多人。

　　Ma said that Alibaba has directly and indirectly created 40million jobs for China. It floated on the New York Stock Market in September 2014 for $25billion ***£17billion***, the largest IPO in the world.

　　馬雲說阿里巴巴直接或間接的為中國創造了4000萬個工作崗位。公司於2014年9月在紐約證券交易所上市，融資規模達250億美元，是世界上最大的IPO。

　　Ma said he hopes to keep expanding Alibaba outside of China ***the company is already big in Russia and Brazil*** and is aiming for 2billion consumers and 10million small businesses to use the company outside of China.

　　馬雲說他希望阿里巴巴能繼續開拓海外市場***目前已經進入俄羅斯和巴西市場***，目標是在中國之外消費者人數能達到20億，小商店能達到1000萬。