FRANK MCCOURT: If you talk to anybody who has come out of adverse circumstances, they'll tell you that humor keeps you going.

如果你和任何一个从逆境中走出来的人交谈，他们会告诉你，幽默让你继续前行。

A man without an education, many of us believe, is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.

我们许多人都相信，一个没有受过教育的人，是逆境的牺牲品，被剥夺了20世纪的最优越的机会之一。

Yet to achieve content under sometimes adverse circumstances, requires first an adjustment within oneself, and this I had already made, and after that, a recognition that one is not unique in being obliged to toil and struggle and suffer.

然而，要在有时不利的情况下取得成就，首先需要对自己进行调整，而这我已经做过，然后，要认识到一个人并不是唯一一个被迫辛勤奋斗和受苦的人。