佳人英语励志故事：知道自己要做的是什么.doc

2021年1月16日发(作者：刘园园)







英语励志故事：知道自己要做的是什么


When Henry ford decided to produce his famous v-8 motor,

he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders
cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a
design in one for the engine. The design was placed on paper,
but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply
impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.








Ford said,





“Produce it anyway. ”






“But,
”
they replied,


“It ’s impossible!
”


“And stay on the job until
“Go ahead. ”
Ford commanded,

”
you succeed, no ma
tter how much time is required.

The engineers went ahead. There was nothing else for
them to do, if they were to remain on the ford staff. Six months
passed and nothing happened. Another six months passed, and
still nothing happened. The engineers tried every conceivable
plan to carry out the orders, but the thing seemed out of the
question ：“ impossible! ”
At the end of the year ford checked with his engineers,
and again they informed him they had found no way to carry
out his orders.






“go right head,

it.

”
” said ford,

“I want it, and I

’ll have
They went ahead, and then, as if by a stroke of magic,
the secret was discovered.

The ford determination had won once more!