我生平最喜欢的书是《The Book of Heroic Failures》（英勇失败之书）。这是一本歌颂失败的书。在引言中，Stephen Pile 写道：成功被过分高估了。人人都渴望成功，尽管每天都有证据表明，人类真正的天赋恰恰在于完全相反的方向。无能……
My favourite book ever is "The Book of Heroic Failures". It celebrates failure. In the introduction, Stephen Pile wrote: Success is overrated. Everyone craves it despite daily proof that man's real genius lies in quite the opposite direction. Incompetence…
说到吸尘器，我最喜欢的作家 Stephen Pile 在他那本爆笑的《The Book of Heroic Failures》里写过一个人，差点就发明了吸尘器。根据合理使用原则（转换性、教育性质、非营利，而且只引用了他作品的一小部分，不会……），我在这里逐字摘抄如下：
Speaking of vacuum cleaners, Stephen Pile, my very much favourite author ever, wrote an entry in his hilarious Book of Heroic Failures about the man who almost invented the vacuum cleaner. I reproduce it here verbatim, under the principles of fair use (transformative, educational, not for profit and a tiny amount of his work that won't…
这家伙搞了个失败博物馆（Museum of Failure）。我真心希望他咨询过 Stephen Pile，那本《The Book of Heroic Failures》（很可能是有史以来最搞笑的书）就是他写的。
This guy created the museum of failure. I really hope he consulted Stephen Pile, who wrote The Book of Heroic Failures (possibly the funniest book of all time).
这个标题绝对是在向大不列颠“表现平平俱乐部”（Not Terribly Good Club）致敬。当年它的创始人 Stephen Pile 先生在《The Book of Heroic Failures》里加了一份入会申请表，结果收到了6万份申请，不得不被迫解散。真是自身成功的受害者。作为一次失败，它失败了。
That title has got to be written in homage to the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, which had to be disbanded when its founder, a Mr Stephen Pile, added an application for it in his Book of Heroic Failures and it got 60,000 applications. A true victim of its own success. As a failure, a failure.
我生平最喜欢的书是《The Book of Heroic Failures》（英勇失败之书）。这是一本歌颂失败的书。在引言中，Stephen Pile 写道：成功被过分高估了。人人都渴望成功，尽管每天都有证据表明，人类真正的天赋恰恰在于完全相反的方向。无能……
My favourite book ever is "The Book of Heroic Failures". It celebrates failure. In the introduction, Stephen Pile wrote: Success is overrated. Everyone craves it despite daily proof that man's real genius lies in quite the opposite direction. Incompetence…
说到吸尘器，我最喜欢的作家 Stephen Pile 在他那本爆笑的《The Book of Heroic Failures》里写过一个人，差点就发明了吸尘器。根据合理使用原则（转换性、教育性质、非营利，而且只引用了他作品的一小部分，不会……），我在这里逐字摘抄如下：
Speaking of vacuum cleaners, Stephen Pile, my very much favourite author ever, wrote an entry in his hilarious Book of Heroic Failures about the man who almost invented the vacuum cleaner. I reproduce it here verbatim, under the principles of fair use (transformative, educational, not for profit and a tiny amount of his work that won't…
这家伙搞了个失败博物馆（Museum of Failure）。我真心希望他咨询过 Stephen Pile，那本《The Book of Heroic Failures》（很可能是有史以来最搞笑的书）就是他写的。
This guy created the museum of failure. I really hope he consulted Stephen Pile, who wrote The Book of Heroic Failures (possibly the funniest book of all time).
稍微有点关联：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures 我有一本。这是我非常珍视的快乐源泉。
Tangentially related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures I have a copy. It is a much-beloved source of joy.
这本书在《The Book of Heroic Failures》里有提到，那本书从小就让我笑出眼泪。很开心发现这居然是真的
This book is featured in The Book of Heroic Failures, which has made me cry with laughter since I was a child. Delighted to discover that it's real
这个标题绝对是在向大不列颠“表现平平俱乐部”（Not Terribly Good Club）致敬。当年它的创始人 Stephen Pile 先生在《The Book of Heroic Failures》里加了一份入会申请表，结果收到了6万份申请，不得不被迫解散。真是自身成功的受害者。作为一次失败，它失败了。
That title has got to be written in homage to the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain, which had to be disbanded when its founder, a Mr Stephen Pile, added an application for it in his Book of Heroic Failures and it got 60,000 applications. A true victim of its own success. As a failure, a failure.