英文演讲：Is-failure-a-bad-thing？.doc

Is Failure a Bad Thing?
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s my honor to have the chance to speak to you. What I’m going to talk about is my opinion on failure.
Failure often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in their exams, scientists may fail in their experiments, and athletes may fail in their competitions.
Although failure happens to everyone, attitudes towards failure vary. Some people don’t think of their failures as very important at all. They pay no attention to it. As a result, they will have the same failure again. Some people think of themselves as fools and lose heart in everything after they meet failure. Exactly, most of things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Other people are quite different from the two kinds of people mentioned above. Instead of being distressed and lost, they draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced. After hard work, they will be successful in the end. It is said that failure is the mother of success. Success will be gained after many times of failures so long as we are good at drawing lessons from our failures. You should slow down with your failures. Don’t be worried about missing your reputation, positions or money, but get the most difficult experiences from your failures.
In my opinion, failure is not a bad thing. The really bad thing is taking a failure as nothing but a failure of even to lose heart after it. Always remember that it is impossible to defeat a person who never gives up. Your destiny is in your own hands every minute of every day. Embrace the good and accept the bad each day and success will come to you. Hold on your dreams.
Thank you very much!

译文：

女生们、先生们：
有机会给你们发表演讲我感到很荣幸。我要谈论的是我对失败的看法。
失败常有发生，在我们生活中它无处不在。学生考试有可能不及格，科学家实验可能失败，运动员比赛可能失利。
虽然每个人都会遭遇失败，但是对待失败的态度却各不相同。有些人觉得他们的失败根本不重要，一点都不在乎，结果又重蹈覆辙。有些人失败后认为自己是个傻瓜，对任何事情都丧失了勇气。然而，世界上大多数值得做的事情在成功以前都被宣称是不可能完成的。
还有一些人和以上提到的两种人截然不同。他们从每次的失败中吸取教训，变得更富有经验，而不是一味的伤心难过。他们通过努力工作，最终会有所成就。都说失败是成功之母，只要我们善于从失败中吸取经验，多次失败后我们便会取得成功。你应该平心静气地对待你的失败。别担心会失去名誉、地位和金钱，而是从你的失败中得到最难获得的经验。
在我看来，失败不是件坏事。真正糟糕的事情是把失败不当回事，或者失败后一蹶不振。永远记住：要把一个绝不放弃的人打倒是不可能的。你的命运时刻掌握在你自己手中。拥抱好事，接受坏事，成功就会随你而来。坚持你的梦想吧。
非常感谢！

云南农业大学
建筑工程学院11级造价一班
学号：2011311041 李松
2012年9月28日

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