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[00:00.00]The Life Pursuit 英语智慧背囊
[00:04.86]If you want to succeed,
[00:07.60]you must understand the following two points.
[00:10.66]One is that success itself will never befall on you
[00:15.47]unless you pay enough.
[00:17.33]The other is that the won success not only shines
[00:22.14]but also dazzles.
[00:24.65]Become What You Want to Be! 成就梦想
[00:33.31]Wilma was born into a very poor family in Tennessee.
[00:39.00]She was born earlier than she should have been and was very weak.
[00:44.03]When she was four years old she had pneumonia
[00:47.96]and scarlet fever that left her with a useless left leg.
[00:52.44]She had to wear an iron leg brace.
[00:55.17]Yet she was fortunate because her mother encouraged her.
[00:59.54]Wilma’s mother told her that she could do anything
[01:03.82]she wanted to do in spite of the brace and leg.
[01:07.31]She told Wilma that all she needed to do was to have confidence,
[01:12.45]persistence, courage,
[01:14.76]and an indomitable spirit.
[01:17.05]So at nine years of age,
[01:19.69]Wilma removed the leg brace and took the step
[01:23.39]that the doctors told her she would never take normally.
[01:26.56]In four years she could run,
[01:29.96]which was a medical wonder.
[01:32.25]Then Wilma began to have the unbelievable idea
[01:36.62]that she would become the world’s greatest woman runner.
[01:40.03]At 13, she entered a race.
[01:43.40]She entered every race in high school,
[01:46.46]and in every race she came in last.
[01:49.32]Everyone thought she should stop competing!
[01:52.70]However, one day she came in second to last.
[01:56.74]Later she won a race.
[01:59.16]From then on,
[02:00.48]Wilma won every race that she entered.
[02:03.64]Wilma went to Tennessee State University,
[02:06.91]where she met a coach named Ed Temple.
[02:10.10]The coach believed that she had a great talent.
[02:13.37]He trained her so well that she could go to the Olympic Games.
[02:17.96]There she competed against the greatest woman runner of the day,
[02:22.55]a German girl named Jutta Heine.
[02:25.63]Nobody had ever beaten Jutta.
[02:28.57]But in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash, Wilma won.
[02:34.48]Finally came the 400-meter relay.
[02:38.52]The first two runners on Wilma’s team
[02:41.31]made perfect handoffs with the stick.
[02:43.77]But when the third runner handed the stick to Wilma,
[02:47.00]she dropped it,
[02:48.31]and Wilma saw Jutta taking off down the track.
[02:51.37]It was impossible for anyone to catch this fast girl,
[02:56.03]but Wilma did just that!