2019年翻譯資格筆譯初級考試模擬試題：失敗乃成功之母

　　英譯漢

　　Failure Is the Mother of Success

　　The proverb “Sometimes you have to fall before you can fly” conveys such a moral that failure comes first, followed by success, namely, failure is the mother of success. This rule holds true for many cases in our life.

　　When someone does something, he often fails before he can overcome obstacles and then move forward. Just think of the story of the great inventor Thomas Edison. He failed 10,000 times before he invented the electric light. The voluminous personal papers of Edison revealed that his inventions typically did not spring to life in a flash of inspiration but evolved slowly from previous works. It is believed that sometimes a series of apparent failures are really followed by successes.

　　In the long journey of life，we will inevitably encounter all kinds of difficulties and obstacles.

　　We should have a doom unbeatable faith and determined will and be not afraid of falling in order to climb to the peak. Please remember if we want to fly freely in the sky of success, we have to fall first.

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　　失敗乃成功之母

　　有句諺語說，“有時候，你得先跌下去，才能飛起來”，它傳達(dá)了這樣一個寓意：先經(jīng)歷失敗，緊隨其后的就是成功，即失敗乃成功之母。這條準(zhǔn)則適用于我們生活中的很多情況。當(dāng)有人在做一些事情的時候，在克服障礙向前邁進(jìn)之前，他總是經(jīng)歷一些失敗。想一想偉大的發(fā)明家托馬斯·愛迪生的故事。他失敗了一萬次才發(fā)明了電燈。大量有關(guān)愛迪生的私人文件顯示，他的發(fā)明通常并不是源于瞬間迸發(fā)的靈感，而是之前大量工作的逐步積累。

　　人們相信，一系列明顯的失敗之后，緊接著就是成功。在人生的途中，我們不可避免地會遇到各種各樣的困難和障礙。為了攀登高峰，我們應(yīng)該有無與倫比的信心和堅(jiān)定的意志。請記住，如果我們想在成功的天空中自由飛翔，我們必須先跌下去。