,J.K.Rowlings Speech,at Harvard University,A Brief Introduction to J.K.Rowling,Joanne “Jo“ Rowling, better known as J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history .Rowling has led a “rags to riches“ life story, in which she progressed from living on social security to multi-millionaire status within five years. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.,Achievable goals - the first step to self-improvement.,.,I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. * Failure is the mother of success. To some degree,failure is more important than success.Because success brings you happiness, failure brings you growth.,I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination. *extol:吹捧，赞颂,I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. 我一直深信，自己唯一想做的事情，就是写小说。不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付贷款，或者取得足够的养老金。,*lack of money &lack ofeducation *two elements which decide ones thoughts and dreams,They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor. 他们希望我去拿个职业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。最后，达成了一个双方都不甚满意的妥协：我改学现代语言。可是等到父母一走开，我立刻放弃了德语而报名学习古典文学。,*make your own choice , choose what you really love,There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. What is more, and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. 当你成长到可以控制自我方向的时候，你就要自己承担责任了。尤其是，我不会因为父母希望我不要过穷日子，而责怪他们。他们一直很贫穷，我后来也一度很穷，所以我很理解他们。贫穷并不是一种高贵的经历，它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有绝望，它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实可以引以自豪，但贫穷本身只有对傻瓜而言才是浪漫的。,I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure（从任何传统角度标准来看),a mere seven years after my graduation day,I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded(突然破裂),and I was jobless, a lone parent. Odyssey epic 史诗般的 Homers two epics Iliad short-lived marriage:After graduation,J.K.Rowling leaved for Portugal and fell in love with a local repoter named George.They get flash married. But three years later,they divorced. Then,JK returned Edinburgh with her daughter Jessica.She lived a poor life under the support of relief fund.But her love for daughter supported herself to strive for life.And in her works,we can see the always theme is that love is a great power exceed curse.(爱是一种凌驾于魔咒的伟大力量）,.,Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.（失败使我的内心产生一种安全感，这是我从考试中没有得到过的）Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way.I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.(我拥有比宝石更加珍贵的朋友） rubies：红宝石 ； sapphire 蓝宝石 ；emerald 绿宝石 In success our friends know us, and in adversity we know our friends. -Churton Collins 在成功中朋友认识我们，在逆境中我们了解朋友 -丘顿柯林斯,“So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyones total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.“,“如果给我一部时光机，我会告 诉21岁的自己，人的幸福在于知道生活不是一份漂亮的成绩单，你的资历、简历，都不是你的生活，虽然你会碰到很多与我同龄或更老一点的人今天依然还在混淆两者。生活是艰辛的，复杂的，超出任何人的控制能力，而谦恭地了解这一点，将使你历经沧桑后能够更好的 生 存。”,There in my little office I read hastily (急速地，匆忙地）scribbled（乱画，潦草的写） letters smuggled out of （走私，偷运）totalitarian regimes （极权主义政权）by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace,（无迹可寻） sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I read the testimony （证词，证据）of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings（绑架，诱拐） and rapes.,Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, peo