How the Steel Was Tempered｜钢铁是怎样炼成的

原著作者｜奥斯特洛夫斯基

• In the early 20th century during the Soviet Russian Revolution
• The place is Shepetivka a small town in Ukraine
• Twelve year old Pavel had a very hard life
• His father passed away early and his mother worked as a cook
• At a young age he had already taken on the heavy burden of life
• Unable to bear the priest's bullying
• He sprinkled tobacco dust into the priest's dough and was finally expelled from school
• At that time he was full of resentment and quite confused
• After dropping out of school Pavel became a child laborer and struggled to make a living
• Until the revolutionary Zhukov appeared and lit up his path forward
• Zhukov taught him to read and told him revolutionary stories
• He also told him True courage is striving for the happiness of more people not resisting alone
• At the age of sixteen Pavel resolutely joined the army and marched to the battlefield
• Amidst the hail of bullets he charged bravely
• Even though he was injured and lost his eyesight he never flinched
• After recovering from his injuries he devoted himself to national construction
• Volunteered to participate in the most arduous railway construction work
• In the bitter cold of minus tens of degrees Celsius
• Everyone slept on the cold ground and ate hard bread
• They also had to resist wind and snow mud and bandit attacks
• Pavel was frozen and had a high fever but still took the lead in fighting
• In the end he fainted by the railway track
• With strong perseverance he defeated death once again
• After narrowly escaping death many times
• Pavel was paralyzed all over and blind in both eyes
• He once despaired and thought about giving up
• But in front of his comrades' cemetery he regained his faith
• He sighed The most precious thing for a person is life One should not regret wasting one's years nor be ashamed of doing nothing
• Physical confinement never trapped his will
• He resolved to continue fighting with words and practice his beliefs with his remaining strength
• Blind he groped to write from memory
• His wife Darya assisted in taking notes beside him
• When his manuscript was accidentally lost he gritted his teeth and rewrote it from scratch
• Even though he was plagued by illness and his fingers were calloused he never stopped writing
• In the end his novel was successfully published
• The passion and perseverance in the book moved countless readers
• This book is like a beacon illuminating people's hearts
• It made people understand perseverance and responsibility
• Everyone realized that steel is not a cold metal
• But a will tempered in hardships and upheld in despair
• Pavel proved with his life
• Even if fate is rough and the body is disabled
• As long as you hold faith in your heart you can ultimately live a wonderful life
• And become unyielding steel