第12期:英語勵志美文 羊皮卷三 堅持不懈，直至成功

羊皮卷是一部很有哲理的書，今天我們就挑取一部分精華來學習吧。

The Scroll Marked Three
I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, willcomplete any undertaking.
Henceforth, I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mightyoak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from the childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today.
羊皮卷三
堅持不懈，直到成功。
從今往後，我承認每天的奮鬥就像對參天大樹的一次砍擊,頭幾刀可能了無痕跡。每一擊者似微不足道，然而，累積起來，巨樹終會倒下．這恰如我今天的努力。
I will be liken to the raindrop which washes away the mountain; the ant who devours a tiger; the star which brightens the earth; the slave who builds a pyramid. I will build my castle one brick at a time for I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
就像沖洗高山的雨滴，吞噬猛虎的螞蟻，照亮大地的星辰，建起金字塔的奴隸，我也要一磚一瓦地建造起自己的城堡，因爲我深知水滴石穿的道理，只要持之以恆，什麼都可以做到．
I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, fo r I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.
我絕不考慮失敗，我的字典裏不再有放棄，不可能、辦不到、沒法子、成問題、失敗,行不通、沒希望、退縮…這類愚蠢的字眼．我要儘量避免絕望，一旦受到它的威脅，立即想方設法向它挑戰．我要辛勤耕耘，忍受苦楚．我放眼未來，勇往直前，不再理會腳下的障礙．我堅信，沙漠盡頭必是綠洲．

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