有一次,林肯要参加一个州的议员竞选,发表演说的前几天,他就做好了准备。然而,就在演说前一天,他却生病了,头晕脑胀、四肢乏力,更糟糕的是嗓音也变得沙哑。第二天,林肯仍坚持参加参议员竞选演说。由于他经验丰富,毅力顽强,还算顺利地完成了演说。不过,演讲结束后,台下有听众提出异议。原来,林肯在演说中,引用作家莎士比亚的一句话时,由于头晕,一时口误把莎士比亚说成别的作家。而且,由于嗓子沙哑,他的表述也不是那么清晰。 Once, Lincoln is going to attend a state legislature campaign, a few days before his speech, he is ready. However, just the day before his speech, he was sick, dizzy, weakness in his limbs and, worse yet, a hoarse voice. The next day, Lincoln still insisted on participating in the Senate campaign speech. Because of his experience, perseverance, fairly smoothly completed the speech. However, after the speech, audience disagreed. It turned out that in his speech, Lincoln quoted a writer Shakespeare’s words, because of dizziness, for a moment wrongly Shakespeare said to be other writers. And, because of throat hoarseness, his statement is less clear.