that read wasting your time.

時間の無駄だ

She's too shy to put her best foot forward.

恥ずかしがり屋すぎて足を前に出せない。

Turned down by the Decca recording company

デッカの録音会社に断られた

who said we don't like the sound

音が気に食わないと言った人はいない

and guitar music is on the way out.

とギター音楽が出てきています。

A failed soldier, farmer and real estate agent,

失敗した軍人、農家、不動産屋。

at 38 years old he went to work for his father as a handyman.

38歳で父のもとに便利屋として働きに出た。

Cut from the high school basketball team, he went home,

高校のバスケ部からカットされて家に帰った。

locked himself in his room and cried.

部屋に閉じこもって泣いていました。

Teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything

先生に「頭が悪すぎて何も学べない」と言われた

and he should go into a field where he might succeed by virtue

功を奏して出世する

of his pleasant personality.

愉快な人柄の

Fired from a newspaper because he lacked imagination

想像力の欠如を理由に新聞社をクビになった

and had no original ideas.

と独自の発想がなかった。

His fiance died.

彼の婚約者は死んだ

He failed in business twice.

彼は二度も事業に失敗した。

He had a nervous breakdown

彼は神経衰弱に陥っていた

and he was defeated in eight elections.

で、8回の選挙で敗北した。

If you've never failed, you've never lived.

失敗したことがなければ、生きたことがない。

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