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英文原文

In the United States, on the third Sunday of June, we celebrate Father's Day.

在美国，六月的第三个周日是父亲节。

So today, we celebrate fathers with some expressions that use the word "father" and "dad".

所以今天，我们用一些包含“父亲”和“爸爸”这两个词的短语来庆祝父亲节。

Let's begin with a great father idiom: "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."

让我们从一个很棒的与父亲有关的习语开始：“成功有很多父亲，但失败是个孤儿。”

An orphan is a child whose parents have died.

孤儿是指父母双亡的孩子。

Without parents, orphans can often feel alone in the world.

没有父母，孤儿常常会感到孤独无依。

There is no adult to claim them, so to speak.

可以说，没有成年人会认领他们。

We can say the same about failures. Often, people do not want to claim them as their own.

对于失败，我们也可以这么说。通常，人们不想承认失败是自己的。

People may not want to take ownership, for example, of a project at work that is a complete bust, you know, a failure.

例如，人们可能不想承担工作中完全失败的项目，你知道的，就是失败。

On the other hand, it is not uncommon for people to fight over ownership of a big success.

另一方面，人们为了争夺巨大成功的所有权而争斗并不罕见。

They always want to be on the right side of history.

他们总是想站在历史正确的一边。

"It was my idea!" "No, it wasn't. I thought of it ages ago." "Well, I did most of the work." You get the idea.

“这是我的主意！”“不，不是。我很久以前就想到了。”“好吧，我做了大部分工作。”你明白我的意思了。

So, this idiom means that people like belonging to a successful cause, but they distance themselves from a failed one.

所以，这个习语的意思是人们喜欢归属于成功的事业，但他们会与失败的事业保持距离。

Here's how you can use it: Let's say a new business opens in your community. Everyone is excited about it. Some even invest money. It is the talk of the town. Then it fails. People who once supported it don't seem to remember supporting it. When those people say to you, "Oh, I knew it would fail. It was doomed from the very beginning," you can say, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."

你可以这样使用它：比如说，你们社区新开了一家企业。每个人都对此感到兴奋。有些人甚至投资了。这是镇上的热门话题。然后它失败了。那些曾经支持它的人似乎不记得自己支持过它。当这些人对你说，“哦，我就知道它会失败。从一开始就注定了，”你可以说，“成功有很多父亲，但失败是个孤儿。”

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