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In her speech to Harvard students in 2008, J.K. Rowling said, "...seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale." She went on to say that "by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew".
2008年，乔安妮·凯瑟琳·罗琳在对哈佛学生的演讲中说：“在我毕业七年后，我经历了巨大的失败。”她继续说：“无论从哪个方面来说，我都是个彻底的失败者。”
It might surprise some readers to know which period of her life J.K. Rowling was talking about here. She is talking about her life when she was writing the first novel of the Harry Potter books. The idea came to her during a train ride in 1990. In December that year, her mother died. The next few years were difficult for her. In 1993, her first but short marriage ended. She had no job and had to raise her daughter alone. She didn't have much money and life was not easy. As she said in that same speech, "That period of my life was a dark one and I had no idea that there was going to be... a kind of fairytale resolution."
有些读者可能会对罗琳在此谈到的经历很吃惊。她谈到了写第一本《哈利·波特》小说时她的生活状况。写这本小说的想法是在1990年出现的，当时她正在火车上。那一年的12月，她的母亲去世了。接下来的几年她过得很艰难。1993年她的第一段短暂的婚姻结束了，她没有工作而且必须独自抚养自己的女儿。她的钱不多，生活不易。正如她在那次演讲中说的那样：“我人生中的那段时光是黑暗的，我没有想到竟然通过童话解决了这个难题。”
As we all know now, the Harry Potter books went on to become extremely successful and also made J.K. Rowling very rich. So where does she think this success came from? She thinks it is a direct result of her early failures. As she went on to say, "Failure meant I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that really mattered to me...I was set free."
我们现在都知道，《哈利·波特》系列变得非常成功，这也让罗琳变得很富有。那么她认为她的成功从何而来呢？她认为她的成功直接来自早期的失败。正如她接下来说的那样：“失败意味着我不再自欺欺人，我就是我。然后开始把全部精力投入到对我来说唯一真正重要的工作中......我自由了。”
Her Harry Potter series was completed with its final book in 2007. The books have become a very successful film series and three years after the final book was published, a Harry Potter theme park opened in the United States. She has written other books related to the Harry Potter series and her first book for adults was published in 2012. She has also remarried and now has three children.
2007年，她的《哈利·波特》系列书籍全部完成。这些书籍现在已经拍成了非常成功的电影系列，在最后一本书籍出版三年之后，美国的一个哈利波特主题公园开放了。她写了其他和《哈利·波特》相关的书，她的第一本为成年人写的书籍于2012年出版。她再婚了，现在有3个孩子。
