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14岁时，他辍学离校，开始了流浪生活。
When he was twenty, he changed his job from electrician to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were tough for him.
20岁时，他当电工、开渡轮，后来又当铁路工人，没有一样工作顺利。
When he was thirty, he did a sales work in an insurance company. But before long, he fell out with his boss due to the bonus problems.
When he was thirty-one, he learnt law by himself and began working in law with the encouragement of his friends. But in a trial, he fought with the litigant on court.
When he was thirty-two, he was out of work and led a tough led a tough life.
When he was thirty-five, he suffered such severe injuries in an accident that he could no longer continue his job of promoting tires.
30岁时，他在保险公司从事推销工作，后因奖金问题与老板闹翻而辞职。
When he was sixty-six, he made a living by promoting his chicken-frying technics to various restaurants in different places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others. The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock shares as part of the purchasing price. But he turned down the suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
31岁时，他自学法律，并在朋友的鼓动下干起了律师行当。一次审案时，竟在法庭上与当事人大打出手。
When he was eighty-three, he opened another fast-food restaurant but fell into a lawsuit due to trademark and patent issues.
32岁时，他失业了，生活非常艰难。
When he was eighty-eight, he achieve great success and became weU-known to the whole world.
35岁时，他在一次事故中身受重伤，无法再干轮胎推销员的工作。
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha Lunde. Sandoz. He often said, “People always complain about the bad weather. Actually the weather is not bad at all. As long as you are optimist and confident all the time, you will have a good weather everyday.“
66岁时，为了维持生活，他到各地的小餐馆推销自己掌握的炸鸡技术。
75岁时，他感到力不从心，因此转让了自己创立的品牌和专利。新主人提议给他1万股，作为购买价的一部分，他拒绝了。后来公司股票大涨，他因此失去了成为亿万富翁的机会。
83岁时，他又开了一家快餐店，却因商标专利与人打起了官司。
英语名人励志小故事篇2：郑和下西洋Early in the 15th century, a huge fleet of ships set sail from Nanjing. It was the first of a series of voyages that would, for a brief period, establish China as the leading power of the age. The voyage was led by Zheng He, the most important Chinese adventurer of all time and one of the greatest sailors the world has ever known.
15世纪初，一支浩浩荡荡的船队从南京启航。这次远航揭开了其后一连串海上航行的序幕，并在短暂时间内为中国确立了大国领先的地位。郑和统帅了这次远航，他是中国历史上最重要的探险家，也是举世闻名的最伟大的航海家之一。
In 1371, Zheng He was born in what is now Yunnan Province to Muslim parents, who named him Ma Sanpao When he was 11 years old, invading Ming armies captured Ma and took him to Nanjing. There he was castrated and made to serve as a eunuch in the imperial household.
公元1371年，郑和出生在现在的云南省的一个穆斯林家庭里。他的父母给他取名为马三保。马三保11岁时，被入侵云南的明军掳至南京，被净身后入宫，选去王府做内宫太监。
Ma befriended a prince there who later became the Yong Le Emperor, one of the Ming Dynasty's most distinguished. Brave, strong, intelligent and totally loyal, Ma won the trust of the prince who, after ascending the throne, gave him a new name and made him Grand Imperial Eunuch.