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14 The Late-Blooming George W.Bush Jr. The late-blooming1 Bush was a failure at 40. But he changed his life and is now the President of the United States. Heres how he did it. 大器晚成的小布什在40岁时还是一个失败者，但是他改变了他的生活，并且现在是美国的总统。这里讲述他是如何做到的。 (绿色为编者话，因为注释，所为保留) Since George W. Bush joined the U.S. presidential race officially in June, 1999, he has been drawing large crowds and media coverage. The world certainly knows from whence2. Bush sprang3 biologically4. Few could miss the features of George Sr. in the sons face, and his personality is frequently compared with mother Barbaras. But the trajectory5 of his political career is less familiar. When George Bush Sr. last ran for president in 1992, his eldest son had yet to hold elected office. Seven years later, after only four years as Governor of Texas, George W. is trying to become the first second-generation American president in history. The story about Bush began officially in 1973. In that year, after being rejected by the University of Texas Law School, he applied to Harvard Business School and was accepted. Masters degree in hand, he headed for6 a buddys7 ranch8 in Tacson and stopped to visit friends in Midland. There he met one old pal9 who was getting into oil. “ It occurred to me that Midland was the place I needed to go,” Bush says. “ There was excitement in the air.” He decided to be an independent oilman.Rich friends of his father backed10 his business ventures11. They also backed him when he decided to run for Congress in 1977 (after only two years in town). However, the decision of Bush to plunge into politics violated12 a basic family tenet13: First make your mark and your fortune, then run for office. Finally, Bush lost, 47％ to 53％ . Bush had also surprised friends by courting and marrying--in just 3 months--a librarian named Laura Welch, who was as reserved14 and knowing15 as he was brash16 and noisy17. 　　After he lost in the election, Bush went back into the oil. He started building his own company, Arbust