A Boy Named Sparky 一个叫斯帕基的男孩

Most Beautiful People 最美的人们

The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

最美的人是那些经历过失败、痛苦、挣扎与失落，并能从这些磨难的深渊中找到出路的人。

These persons have an appreciation,

a sensitivity and an understanding of life

that fills them with compassion, gentleness,

and a deep loving concern.

这些人拥有感恩的心、感动的心和感性的心，知道生活赋予了他们同情、友善和深深的关爱。

A Boy Named Sparky 一个叫斯帕基的男孩

For Sparky, school was all but impossible.

对于 Sparky来说，读任何学校都是不可能的。

He failed every subject in the eighth grade.

He flunked physics in high school,

getting a grade of zero.

他在8年级中所有课程都没能及格。物理得了0分。

Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra, and English.

He didn’t do much better in sports.

Sparky的拉丁语，代数和英语也不及格，他的体育也能没好多少。

Although he did manage to make the school’s golf team,

he promptly lost the only important match of the season.

虽然他试图加入学校的高尔夫球队，但是他却输掉了赛季中唯一那场重要的比赛。

There was consolation match;

he lost that too.

那场安慰赛，他也输掉了。

Throughout his youth Sparky was awkward socially.

He was not actually disliked by the other students;

整个青年时期，Sparky都表现的非常笨拙。他其实并不被其他同学讨厌。

no one cared that much.

He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello

to him outside of school hours.

因为其他同学都不曾关心他。如果有一个同学在校外对他说句“HELLO”,他都会感到非常惊讶。

There’s no way to tell how he might have done at dating.

Sparky never once asked a girl to go out in high school.

He was too afraid of being turned down.

我们没办法知道他在约会中会做什么。Sparky高中时从来没有要求过一个女孩约会。他害怕被拒绝。

Sparky was a loser.

He, his classmates…everyone knew it.

So he rolled with it.

Sparky是一个失败者，他，他的同班同学，大家都知道，他也接受了这点。

Sparky had made up his mind early in life that

if things were meant to work out,

they would.

Sparky很早就决定了，如果事情可以解决就会被解决。

Otherwise he would content himself

with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.

否则，他就会安慰自己接受平庸。

However, one thing was important to Sparky—drawing.

但是有一件事对Sparky来说却很重要----画画。

He was proud of his artwork.

他以自己的美术作业而自豪。

Of course, no one else appreciated it.

然而，其他人都不欣赏。

In his senior year of high school,

he submitted some cartoons to the editors of the yearbook.

The cartoons were turned down.

在高中的时候，他发了一些卡通画给年刊的主编，但是被拒绝了。

Despite this particular rejection,

Sparky was so convinced of his ability

that he decided to become a professional artist.

虽然受到了拒绝，但是Sparky坚信自己的才能。他决定当一个职业画家。

After completing high school,

he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios.

高中毕业之后他写了一封信给沃特· 迪斯尼工作室。

He was told to send some samples of his artwork,

and the subject for a cartoon was suggested.

工作室回复，让他寄一些卡通画的样品。并提出了卡通画的主题。

Sparky drew the proposed cartoon.

He spent a great deal of time on it

and on all the other drawings he submitted.

Sparky画了提议的卡通画，他在这上面花了很多时间。接着他提交了他的绘画作品。

Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios.

He had been rejected once again.

最后，他得到了来自迪斯尼的回复，他又被拒绝了。

Another loss for the loser.

他再一次面临了失败。

So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons.

He described his childhood self—

a little boy loser and chronic underachiever.

然后Sparky开始把自己的故事画到了卡通画中。他开始创作他自己的童年故事-一个失败的小男孩，一个长期学习不好的人。

The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide.

很快这个卡通角色风靡全世界。

For Sparky, the boy who had such lack of success in school and whose work was rejected again and again was Charles Schulz.

Sparky设定，那个在学校就很失败，之后又一次又一次的被拒绝的男孩，是查尔斯· 舒尔茨。

He created the Peanuts comic strip and the little cartoon character

whose kite would never fly

and who never succeeded in kicking a football—Charlie Brown.

他创作了连环漫画《花生》，里面的小卡通人物，他的风筝从来就没有飞起来过，他也从来没踢好过一场足球，他就是--查理· 布朗。

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