英文美句D171：重要的是继续前行的勇气

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

成功不是终结，失败也不是，重要的是继续前行的勇气。

——Winston Churchill（温斯顿·丘吉尔）

【相关单词短语讲解】

1. fatal

英 [fetl] 美 [fetl]

adj.

(1) 致命的：causing or ending in death

a fatal accident/blow/illness

致命的事故 / 一击 / 疾病

If she gets ill again it could prove fatal .

如果她再患病，就会有性命之忧。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

This type of allergy can very occasionally be fatal.

这类过敏症在极个别情况下有可能是致命的。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(2) 灾难性的；毁灭性的；导致失败的：causing disaster or failure

a fatal error/mistake

灾难性的错误

There was a fatal flaw in the plan.

计划中有一个致命的缺陷。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

It would deal a fatal blow to his fading chances of success.

这将给他日渐渺茫的成功机会带来致命的一击。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

Tom succeeded in his efforts to overcome his fatal weakness.

汤姆努力克服了自己致命的弱点。

——《外研社英语同义词辨析词典》

【拓展·派生词】fatally

adv. 致命地

fatally injured/wounded

受致命伤

The dead soldier is reported to have been fatally wounded in the chest.

据报道，死去的那位士兵是胸部受了致命伤。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

The plan was fatally flawed from the start.

这个计划一开始就有致命的缺陷。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Failure now could fatally damage his chances in the future.

现在失败会彻底毁掉他未来的机会。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

2. count

看到这个单词很多人想到的是它”总数“、”数数“等意思，今天来看看它作为”熟词”时的“生义“——重要，有价值（动词）

(not used in the progressive tenses 不用于进行时) 重要：to be important

同义词： matter

(1) Every point in this game counts.

这场比赛每一分都很重要。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(2) It"s the thought that counts.

(= used about a small but kind action or gift)

贵在心意。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(3) "It"s the journey, not the arrival, that counts."

"重要的是旅程，而不是抵达。"

——高考真题- 2015 天津 阅读表达

(4) Surely it doesn"t matter where charities get their money from: what counts is what they do with it.

慈善机构从哪里筹得捐款的确无关紧要：关键是钱是怎么花的。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

(5) Benny thought the president was sincere and sensitive, but, in the end, that"s not what counts.

本尼认为总统很诚恳，会体谅人，但归根结底那些都没有用。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

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