高中英语外研版 选择性必修1 Unit2 语篇1 We Regret to Inform You... 我们遗憾地通知您... “We regret to inform you..”These are the words that every writer dreads receiving,but words every writer knows well.The response from a publisher comes back and the writer eagerly opens and reads it, their hearts sinking when they reach that final sentence.You may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your life's work,yet still this is often not enough. Everyone knows that success rarely happens overnight, but perhaps not many know that a lot of highly successful writers have previously faced rejection. “我们遗憾地通知您……”这些是每位作家都害怕收到，但每位作家都十分熟悉的字眼。出版商的回复回来了，作家急切地打开并阅读它，当他们读到那最后一句话时，心沉了下来。你可能已经花费了数年时间，牺牲了周末和空闲时间来撰写你一生的工作，然而这往往还是不够的。每个人都知道成功很少一夜之间发生，但或许不是很多人都知道，许多非常成功的作家之前都曾面临过拒绝。 Take for example J.K.Rowling.When she received her first rejection letter,she decided that it meant she now had something in common with her favourite writers, and stuck it on her kitchen wall.Rowling had spent years surviving on little money, spending all her time writing.When she finally finished her first book,she received comments from publishers along the lines of“too difficult for children”,"too long”, “Children would not be interested in it".Nevertheless,she persevered."I wasn't going to give up until every single publisher turned me down,but I often feared that would happen,"she later posted. After a total of twelve rejections,one publisher eventually agreed to print 500 copies of her first book,and as we know,Harry Potter became a global success,with over 400 million books sold and translated into more than seventy different languages. 以J.K.罗琳为例。当她收到第一封拒信时，她决定这意味着她现在与她最喜欢的作家有了共同之处，并将其贴在了厨房的墙上。罗琳多年来一直生活在微薄的收入中，把所有时间都用在写作上。当她终于完成了她的第一本书时，她收到了出版商的评论，大致是“对孩子们来说太难了”，“太长了”，“孩子们不会对它感兴趣”。尽管如此，她还是坚持不懈。“除非每一个出版商都拒绝我，否则我不会放弃，”她后来写道，“但我经常担心这会发生。”在总共十二次拒绝之后，终于有一家出版商同意印刷她的第一本书的500本副本，正如我们所知，哈利·波特成为了全球性的成功，售出了超过四亿本书，并被翻译成七十多种不同的语言。 All too often writers of great works have had to face criticism along with rejection.J.D.Salinger started writing short stories in high school,but later struggled to get his works published.“We feel that we don't know the central character well enough"was the criticism he received on his manuscript for The Catcher in the Rye. Despite rejections from several publishers,J.D.Salinger refused to give up. Even when serving in the US Army during the Second World War,he carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye with him and worked on the novel throughout his war service. When it was eventually publi ... ...
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