英语美文：Don't Quit

You've probably heard this before that tough times don't last forever but tough people do. That held true when you first heard it and it still holds true today. 

你可能听说过，艰难的时期总会过去，坚强的人才能笑到最后。这个道理，古今通用。

There will come a time in your life where you may cry and feel like your soul is dying. Those days when you struggle, want to give up, and don't want to face the world. These are the days that define you. Don't quit.

在人生中，你可能会遇到艰难时期。你哭泣，你感到自己的灵魂正在死去。这种时候，你痛苦地挣扎，你想放弃，你不想面对这个世界。然而，这正是磨炼你的时候。不要放弃。

Difficulties come to make you strong, but that's only when you make a decision to go on, and you stand by it. Abraham Lincoln said, I'm not concerned that you have fallen and concerned that you will rise. 

只有在你下定决定要坚持到底的时候，困难才能让你更加强大。亚伯拉罕·林肯曾经说过，我不在乎你有没有跌倒，我在乎的是你有没有站起来。

Giving up as human nature brought about by fear, fear of, what if I fail and try, and then fail again. Wouldn't it just be easier to just quit? But here is what is wrong with that. When you give in to that fear, you sentence yourself to a lifetime of failure, a lifetime of regret, a situation where you lose faith in yourself and in humanity. Don't do that to yourself. 

放弃是人类的天性，它是由恐惧引起的。要是我失败之后再次尝试，又失败了，怎么办？直接放弃，这不是更简单吗？但是，这种想法是不对的。当你向恐惧低头的时候，你注定了一生都要失败，一生都要后悔，你会对自己失去信心，对人性失去信心。不要这样对待自己。

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