Behind every great achievement in anyone's life lies perseverance. We see this in every human endeavor. Outstanding sportsmen spend all their time practising. Their endurance is beyond imagination.

每个人的生活中的每一个伟大的成就背后都要有毅力。在每个努力的人中我们都可以看到这一点。优秀运动员把所有时间都花在练习上。他们的耐力是超乎想象的。

　　The same is true of businessmen who build up fortunes. What we usually see are their achievements, but once we go behind the scenes we will find that they have put in a lot of continual steady efforts. We all have read of great musicians, writers and inventors who have created or discovered breakthroughs in human achievement. Invariably they have said that they owe all their success to perseverance. As to college students, quite a big number of then, have become successful language learners through perseverance, however, a certain group of them, just stop half way and their previous efforts turn out to be fruitless.

对于获取财富的商人也是相同的。我们通常看到的是他们的成就，但是，一旦我们走进幕后我们会发现他们已经付出了大量持续稳定的努力。我们都读过关于伟大的音乐家，作家和发明家的成就，他们都已经创建或发现突破。他们总是说他们所有的成功都归功于坚持坚持。相当大数量的大学生通过毅力已成为成功的语言学习者，然而，他们中的一些特定的人只是半途而废而他们之前的努力也就变成徒劳的。

　　Of all the countless examples the saga of Colonel Saunders is perhaps one of the most outstanding. The 65-year-old man from Kentucky had a dream to start a chain of fried chicken restaurants all over the world. To realize his dream, he knew that he needed a restaurant owner to go into partnership with him to open the first restaurant and to fry chicken according to the secret recipe he had. Colonel Saunders had knocked on 1008 doors before he finally found his partner. It is doubtful whether many of us would have had the perseverance to knock even a hundred doors.

无数的例子中，桑德斯上校的传奇例子也许是最优秀的。来自肯塔基州的这位65岁老人做了一个在世界各地开连锁炸鸡餐厅的梦。为了实现他的梦传，他知道他需要一个餐馆老板与他合作开第一家餐馆并且根据他的炸鸡秘方制作。在桑德斯上校终于找到他的合作伙伴时，他已经敲了1008次门了。毫无疑问的是我们中的许多人未必有毅力敲一百次门

　　From the above discussion we can draw a conclusion that success comes to anyone who keeps working perseveringly and lack of perseverance can only result in frustration and failure.

从上面的讨论中我们可以得出一个结论，成功只给那些一直坚定地工作的人而缺乏毅力只能导致挫折和失败。