Sometimes, a defeat can really be a victory. Let's begin with this puffer fish. Minding its own business in this calm river delta in Tanzania, Africa.

有时，失败实际上可能是胜利。让我们从这条河豚鱼开始。它在非洲坦桑尼亚这个平静的河流三角洲中做着自己的事。

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I hope you are a big calm river, not concern anything about the green hills or each bank, or the flat fields, nor good weather or bad ones, just flows on day and night.

愿你像一条静穆的大河，不管两岸的青山，平远的田野，也不管丽日和风， 雷电雨雪，只是不舍昼夜，永远向前 流去。

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The calm water ends there and the river begins a headlong plunge.

平静的河水突然中断，开始奔腾直泻而下。

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