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3Never Give In（《永不屈服》）
Winston Churchill（温斯顿·丘吉尔）
You cannot tell from appearances how things will go.
从外表无法判断事情的走向。
Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.
有时想象会把事情想得比实际糟得多；但没有想象力，也成不了大事。
Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.
富有想象力的人，会看到或许并不存在的更多危险，当然也远多于实际会发生的危险；但他们也必须祈求获得额外的勇气，去承载这份深远的想象。
But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period—I am addressing myself to the School—surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
但对所有人而言，当然，我们在这段时期所经历的一切——我是在对全校师生说——从这十个月里，我们得到的教训就是：永不屈服，永不屈服，永不，永不，永不——无论大事小事，无论宏大琐碎——永不屈服，除非是向荣誉与理智的信念低头。
Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
绝不向武力屈服，绝不向敌人看似压倒性的力量屈服。
We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished.
一年前，我们孤立无援，在许多国家看来，我们大势已去，彻底完了。
All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.
我们所有的传统、我们的校歌、我们的校史、这个国家的这段历史，似乎都将烟消云散、彻底终结。
Very different is the mood today.
如今，气氛已然截然不同。
Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate.
其他国家曾以为，英国已经彻底抹去了自己的历史，一败涂地。
But instead our country stood in the gap.
但我们的国家却坚守阵地，挺身而出。
There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it,
没有退缩，也从未想过屈服；在英伦三岛之外的人看来这近乎奇迹，尽管我们自己从未怀疑过。
we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.
如今我们所处的局面让我可以确信：只要坚持到底，我们必将胜利。
