2008J.K.Rowling哈佛大学演讲英文赏析.pptxVIP

J.K.Rowlings Speechat Harvard UniversityA Brief Introduction to J.K.RowlingJoanne 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 dreamsThey 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 cho