? ? ? ? One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat. It takes ?courage and stamina, ?when mortified by humiliating disaster, ?to seek in the ruins?the elements of future conquest. ?Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. ?We cannot measure a man ?by his failure. ?We must ?know what use he makes of them. ?The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict does not know the highest meaning of success
victory ['v?kt?ri]? 勝利;成功;克服
defeat [d?'fit] vt. 擊敗承边,戰(zhàn)勝德迹;挫斆;使…失敗 ?n. 失敗的事實(shí);擊敗的行為
courage [ 'k?r?d?] ?n. 勇氣肌索;膽量
stamina [st?m?n?]? n. 毅力;精力特碳;活力诚亚;持久力
mortified ['m?:tifaid] adj. 窘迫的;受辱的? v. 使受辱(mortify的過(guò)去式)
humiliating [hju:'milieiti?] adj. 丟臉的午乓;羞辱性的 v. 使蒙恥(humiliate的ing形式)
disaster [d?'z?st?] n. 災(zāi)難亡电,災(zāi)禍;不幸
ruins ['ru?n]? n. 遺跡(ruin的復(fù)數(shù)形式)硅瞧;廢墟? v. 毀滅(ruin的三單形式)
elements [??l?m?nts]? n. 基礎(chǔ)份乒;原理
conquest ['kɑ?kw?st]? n. 征服,戰(zhàn)勝腕唧;戰(zhàn)利品
measures [m???z] ?n. 措施或辖;層組(measure的復(fù)數(shù) v. 測(cè)量(measure的單三形式)
fought [f?t]? v. 戰(zhàn)斗(fight的過(guò)去分詞);打架
upward ['?pw?d] ?adj. 向上的枣接;上升的 adv. 向上
bear [b?r] vt. 結(jié)果實(shí)颂暇,開(kāi)花(正式)vt. 忍受;承受但惶;具有耳鸯;支撐 n. 熊
scar [skɑr]? vt. 傷害;給留下傷痕 vi. 結(jié)疤膀曾;痊愈 n. 創(chuàng)傷县爬;傷痕
desperate ['d?sp?r?t] ?adj. 不顧一切的;令人絕望的添谊;極度渴望的
conflict ['kɑnfl?kt] n. 沖突财喳,矛盾;斗爭(zhēng)斩狱;爭(zhēng)執(zhí) ?vi. 沖突耳高,抵觸;爭(zhēng)執(zhí)所踊;戰(zhàn)斗