英语诗歌:Start Over 重新开始

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One of my students asked me awhile ago what I was really good at. Half kidding, I responded, "Starting over!"

The reason I was only HALF kidding is because I am very familiar with starting over. I've started over in business. I've started over financially and in my career.

And unless you live a spectacularly¹ blissful life, at some point--usually many points--in your life, you'll need to start over, too.

We all do--in big things and in small.

A project gets delayed or terminated². We get laid off, downsized, right-sized or repurposed. We go off our diet or our exercise program. Hurricanes, tornadoes³, cancer, the flu--all sorts of catastrophes⁴ and inconveniences can thwart⁵ or stop our forward progress--sometimes sending us all the way back to the starting line.

But you can't let it stop you. To be successful you must become and remain resilient.

Hardly anything goes the way we hope or plan that it will. I'm being realistic. Setbacks, roadblocks and disappointments are just part of the natural ebb⁶ and flow of life.

Every day is a new day. And it's a good thing because it's another opportunity to start over again every day. It matters little what's happened. But it matters a LOT what we do not.

1 spectacularly   

壮观地，令人吃惊地

参考例句：

• Was he even spectacularly sick, exceptionally blind, extraordinarily degraded? 难道他真的一身病态，格外愚昧，特别堕落吗？ 来自辞典例句
• Because this fact was no recognized, the early magnetic prospecting for iron deposits was spectacularly unsuccessful. 由于不了解这个事实，因此早期为寻找铁矿进行磁法勘深，遭到了惊人的失败。 来自辞典例句

2 terminated   

terminate的过去式

参考例句：

• The agreement between us is terminated forthwith. 我们之间的协议立即终止。
• His contract was abruptly terminated. 他的合同意外地终止了。

3 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网

4 catastrophes   

n.灾祸( catastrophe的名词复数 )；灾难；不幸事件；困难

参考例句：

• Two of history's worst natural catastrophes occurred in 1970. 1970年发生了历史上最严重两次自然灾害。 来自辞典例句
• The Swiss deposits contain evidence of such catastrophes. 瑞士的遗址里还有这种灾难的证据。 来自辞典例句

5 thwart   

v.阻挠，妨碍，反对；adj.横(断的)

参考例句：

• We must thwart his malevolent schemes.我们决不能让他的恶毒阴谋得逞。
• I don't think that will thwart our purposes.我认为那不会使我们的目的受到挫折。

6 ebb   

vi.衰退，减退；n.处于低潮，处于衰退状态

参考例句：

• The flood and ebb tides alternates with each other.涨潮和落潮交替更迭。
• They swam till the tide began to ebb.他们一直游到开始退潮。