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In her speech to Harvard students in 2008, J.K. Rowling said, "...seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale." She went on to say that "by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew".
2008年，喬安妮·凱瑟琳·羅琳在對(duì)哈佛學(xué)生的演講中說：“在我畢業(yè)七年后，我經(jīng)歷了巨大的失敗。”她繼續(xù)說：“無論從哪個(gè)方面來說，我都是個(gè)徹底的失敗者。”
It might surprise some readers to know which period of her life J.K. Rowling was talking about here. She is talking about her life when she was writing the first novel of the Harry Potter books. The idea came to her during a train ride in 1990. In December that year, her mother died. The next few years were difficult for her. In 1993, her first but short marriage ended. She had no job and had to raise her daughter alone. She didn't have much money and life was not easy. As she said in that same speech, "That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be... a kind of fairytale resolution."
有些讀者可能會(huì)對(duì)羅琳在此談到的經(jīng)歷很吃驚。她談到了寫第一本《哈利·波特》小說時(shí)她的生活狀況。寫這本小說的想法是在1990年出現(xiàn)的，當(dāng)時(shí)她正在火車上。那一年的12月，她的母親去世了。接下來的幾年她過得很艱難。1993年她的第一段短暫的婚姻結(jié)束了，她沒有工作而且必須獨(dú)自撫養(yǎng)自己的女兒。她的錢不多，生活不易。正如她在那次演講中說的那樣：“我人生中的那段時(shí)光是黑暗的，我沒有想到竟然通過童話解決了這個(gè)難題。”
As we all know now, the Harry Potter books went on to become extremely successful and also made J.K. Rowling very rich. So where does she think this success came from? She thinks it is a direct result of her early failures. As she went on to say, "Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that really mattered to me...I was set free."
我們現(xiàn)在都知道，《哈利·波特》系列變得非常成功，這也讓羅琳變得很富有。那么她認(rèn)為她的成功從何而來呢？她認(rèn)為她的成功直接來自早期的失敗。正如她接下來說的那樣：“失敗意味著我不再自欺欺人，我就是我。然后開始把全部精力投入到對(duì)我來說唯一真正重要的工作中......我自由了。”
Her Harry Potter series was completed with its final book in 2007. The books have become a very successful film series and three years after the final book was published, a Harry Potter theme park opened in the United States. She has written other books related to the Harry Potter series and her first book for adults was published in 2012. She has also remarried and now has three children.
2007年，她的《哈利·波特》系列書籍全部完成。這些書籍現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)拍成了非常成功的電影系列，在最后一本書籍出版三年之后，美國(guó)的一個(gè)哈利波特主題公園開放了。她寫了其他和《哈利·波特》相關(guān)的書，她的第一本為成年人寫的書籍于2012年出版。她再婚了，現(xiàn)在有3個(gè)孩子。
