? ? ? ? One of the important lessons of life is to learn how to get victory out of defeat. It takes ?courage and stamina, ?when mortified by humiliating disaster, ?to seek in the ruins?the elements of future conquest. ?Yet this measures the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. ?We cannot measure a man ?by his failure. ?We must ?know what use he makes of them. ?The man who has not fought his way upward and does not bear the scar of desperate conflict does not know the highest meaning of success

victory ['v?kt?ri]? 勝利；成功；克服

defeat [d?'fit] vt. 擊敗，戰勝；挫敗；使…失敗 ?n. 失敗的事實；擊敗的行為

courage [ 'k?r?d?] ?n. 勇氣；膽量

stamina [st?m?n?]? n. 毅力；精力；活力；持久力

mortified ['m?:tifaid] adj. 窘迫的；受辱的? v. 使受辱（mortify的過去式）

humiliating [hju:'milieiti?] adj. 丟臉的；羞辱性的 v. 使蒙恥（humiliate的ing形式）

disaster [d?'z?st?] n. 災難，災禍；不幸

ruins ['ru?n]? n. 遺跡（ruin的復數形式）；廢墟? v. 毀滅（ruin的三單形式）

elements [??l?m?nts]? n. 基礎；原理

conquest ['kɑ?kw?st]? n. 征服，戰勝；戰利品

measures [m???z] ?n. 措施；層組（measure的復數 v. 測量（measure的單三形式）

fought [f?t]? v. 戰斗（fight的過去分詞）；打架

upward ['?pw?d] ?adj. 向上的；上升的 adv. 向上

bear [b?r] vt. 結果實，開花（正式）vt. 忍受；承受；具有；支撐 n. 熊

scar [skɑr]? vt. 傷害；給留下傷痕 vi. 結疤；痊愈 n. 創傷；傷痕

desperate ['d?sp?r?t] ?adj. 不顧一切的；令人絕望的；極度渴望的

conflict ['kɑnfl?kt] n. 沖突，矛盾；斗爭；爭執 ?vi. 沖突，抵觸；爭執；戰斗