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值此除夕跨年之际，与大家分享我们十年级两位同学的 “收获”主题演讲。2020你的收获有哪些？2021你想有怎样的收获？
On this Chinese New Year Eve, we would like to share with you two speeches on harvest by our 10th graders. What have you harvested in 2020? What do you plan to harvest in 2021?
“收获的真相”是程一菲同学的作品；“勇敢面对失败的收获”是俞尚廷同学的作品。
"The Truth About Harvest" is by Hannah Cheng； “The Harvest of Braving Your Failures" is by Ting Yu.
The Harvest of Braving Your Failures
勇敢面对失败的收获
When I was seven years old, our primary school held a sports event. I had always been confident in my long jump ability, because when I was a child, I liked to imitate frogs. However, when the competition really started, I found that all the other kids jumped farther than I did. At that moment, I felt so useless that I disgraced the class. Finally, when the results came out, I found that I was the last place. I failed. And from then on, I never tried anything again for a long time. Because I was afraid of failures.
七岁那年上小学，我们学校开了一次运动会。我对跳远一直很有信心，因为我小时候喜欢模仿青蛙。但是当比赛真正开始时，我发现我周围的孩子都比我跳得更远。在那一刻，我觉得自己是如此的无用，以至于我让全班蒙羞。最后，当比赛成绩出来的时候，我发现我是记分卡上的最后一个。我失败了。从那以后，我再也没有尝试过任何东西。因为我害怕失败。
Seven years later, i happened to know a book named The Pursuit of Happiness. When I finished reading the book, I had an idea. I would create the biggest company in the world, and that company would buy Tencent. That sounded crazy, right? I totally embraced this idea of conquering the world? This might sound paradoxical. I felt the constant battle between the fourteen-year-old and the seven-year-old. One wanted to conquer the world, making a difference, while the other was afraid of failure. And every time that seven-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my senior high school. When I was in junior high school, I was presented with a variety of performance opportunities, and I failed all of them. Those failures hurt me. They hurt me so bad that I wanted to quit right here. But then I thought, hey, would Chris, the author of book, give up simply because he failed? Would any successful people quit like that? No way. And this is where it clicked for me. I could not let that seven-year-old keep dictating my life anymore. I had to put him back in his place.
7年后，我找到了一本书:《追求幸福》。当我读完这本书的时候，我有了一个想法。我会建立世界上最大的公司，然后这家公司会收购腾讯。这听起来很疯狂，对吧?我完全接受了征服世界的想法，对吧?这听起来可能有点矛盾。我感觉在14岁和7岁的孩子之间有一场持续不断的战斗。一个想征服世界，改变世界，另一个害怕失败。每次那个七岁的孩子都会赢。这种恐惧甚至在我开始高中生涯后还在继续。在我初中的时候，我有过各种各样的表演机会，我却都搞砸了。这些失败让我很受伤。失败的感觉太让我受伤了，以至于我随时随地都想放弃了。但后来我想，嘿，《追求幸福》的作者克里斯会因为失败而放弃吗?成功的人会这样放弃吗?不会的。这就是那触动我的一点所在。我不能再让那个七岁的孩子支配我的生活了。我得让他回到原来的地方。
The moment I entered high school, the school held an election for the student union. Everyone interested could sign up for it. I could have run away from it, but I didn’t. I ran in the election. It would be a fancy dream for me to be successful in this election, because i was quite weak academically. But in the end, I won the election. I used to believed that, to run for the membership of the student union, one needed to have good grades and know a lot of things. But no. I was trying and I succeeded.
我进入高中的那一刻，学校举行了学生会的选举。这是一场志愿运动。我本可以侥幸逃脱，但我没有。我参加了选举。以我的能力，我去竞选公职是很有希望的，你知道，因为我的成绩在班上一直是垫底的。但最后，我赢得了选举。我原本以为要竞选学生会成员，需要有很好的成绩和见识，但事实并非如此。这次我勇敢尝试了，就成功了！
Finally, I realized why Chris was able to rise from a poor man to a person of high social standard. He did not let failure define him. He let his own reactions after failure define himself. And he embraced failure. He used failure to improve rather than to give up. We should learn from our failures or even turn our failures into opportunities. When you fail in life, when you are facing the next obstacle, consider the possibilities and brave them. If you just embrace them, they might become your gifts as well. Thank you.
最后，我明白了为什么克里斯能够从一个穷人成长为一个社会地位很高的人。他没有让失败定义他。他让自己失败后的反应来定义自己。他欣然接受失败。他利用失败来改进，而不是放弃。我们要从失败中学习，甚至是将失败转化为机遇。当你在生活中失败时，当你面对下一个障碍时，考虑一下可能性，直面失败。如果你拥抱它们，它们也可能成为你的礼物。
谢谢！
