考研英語(yǔ)作文：Success Is a Choice

Success Is a Choice

    All of us ought to be able to prepare for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid an impelling force to quit. But even if you are strong enough to persist through the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an harmful 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 yield to the ultimate self-delusion.

    But you must recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achieved greatness despite facing difficulties so steep that they easily could have crushed their spirit and left them lying in the dust. Moses was a stutterer, yet he was called on to be the voice of God. Abraham Lincoln over- came a difficult childhood, depression, the death of two sons,and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably our 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.

成功是一種選擇

    我們每個(gè)人都應(yīng)做好準(zhǔn)備迎接每天的挫折和挑戰(zhàn)。如果我們相信生活并非十全十美，我們就能避免一時(shí)沖動(dòng)放棄追求。但即使你意志堅(jiān)強(qiáng)，能夠挺過(guò)生活、工作中的困難，有時(shí)你也會(huì)遇到逆境，它會(huì)讓你大吃一驚。

    無(wú)論你出現(xiàn)了經(jīng)濟(jì)損失，還是失去同輩及親人的尊敬，或是遭受生命重創(chuàng)，這些大挫折都會(huì)使你對(duì)自己產(chǎn)生懷疑，并懷疑情況是否會(huì)再好轉(zhuǎn)。

    每個(gè)人都會(huì)遇到困境，且困境時(shí)常發(fā)生。有些大災(zāi)難不是立即發(fā)生就是待在角落等待時(shí)機(jī)。忽視逆境就是自我欺騙。

    但你必須認(rèn)識(shí)到歷史上有許多例子講述在克服重重困難之后才獲得成功的人，那些困難之大足以使他們變得意志消沉，浮于塵世。摩西有口吃，但他后來(lái)卻成為上帝的福音使者。阿伯拉罕·林肯克服了童年的困難、情緒低落時(shí)期，也克服了喪失兩個(gè)兒子的痛苦及內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中接踵而來(lái)的嘲笑，最終成為美國(guó)歷史上無(wú)可置疑的最偉大的總統(tǒng)。盡管海倫·凱勒早年雙目失明，雙耳失聰，又是個(gè)啞巴，但她還是對(duì)世界產(chǎn)生了影響。而富蘭克林·羅斯福則患過(guò)小兒麻痹癥。

    這樣的例子不勝枚舉。這些人不僅大膽地面對(duì)困難，而且學(xué)到了克服困難的寶貴經(jīng)驗(yàn)，然后勇往直前。