温斯顿·邱吉尔简介

温斯顿·伦纳德·斯宾塞·丘吉尔，政治家、画家、演说家、作家、记者，1953年诺贝尔文学奖得主（获奖作品《不需要的战争》），曾于1940－1945年及1951－1955年期间两度任英国首相，被认为是20世纪最重要的政治领袖之一，带领英国获得第二次世界大战的胜利。据传为历史上掌握英语单词词汇量最多的人之一（十二万多）。被美国杂志《展示》列为近百年来世界最有说服力的八大演说家之一。2002年，BBC举行了一个名为“最伟大的100名英国人”的调查，结果丘吉尔获选为有史以来最伟大的英国人。

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister in history to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Churchill was born into an aristocratic family as the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, The Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.

丘吉尔名言：

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
民主是最坏的政府形式——除了其他所有不断地被试验过的政府形式之外。

Ingratitude towards great men is the mark of a strong people.
对他们的伟大人物忘恩负义，是伟大民族的标志。

Young gentlemen, Never give up! Never give up! Never! Never! Never! Never!
少年人哪，永不要放弃！永不要放弃！永不！永不！永不！永远都不要放弃！

The price of greatness is responsibility.
伟大的代价就是责任。

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
一个人绝对不可在遇到危险的威胁时，背过身去试图逃避。若是这样做，只会使危险加倍。但是如果立即面对它毫不退缩，危险便会减半。

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
勇气是人类最重要的一种特质，倘若有了勇气，人类其他的特质自然也就具备了。

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.

成功并不是终点，失败并不是终结，只有勇气才是永恒。

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《铁血风暴》主要讲述二战前邱吉尔夫妇的生活，邱吉尔从三十年代中期陷入政治生涯最低谷到再次崛起成为二十世纪最伟大的偶像。扮演邱吉尔的Albert Finney是英国著名的电视、电影和舞台剧演员，曾在76年的《东方快车谋杀案》中扮演大侦探波洛，在蒂姆波顿的《大鱼》中扮演父亲。

铁血风暴 The Gathering Storm 2002

导演：德里克·雅各比

主演：阿尔伯特·芬尼 凡妮莎·雷德格雷夫

The first volume of Churchill's Noble-Prize winning six-part chronicle of World War II. 'The Gathering Storm' depicts the rise of Hitler and the indifference of the leaders of the European democracies to the clouds of the gathering storm. Churchill incorporate contemporary documentation and his own reminiscence in this opening memoir.

本片以英国首相邱吉尔二次大战堀起前后的事迹改编。邱吉尔的政途于三十年代中期起下滑，加上又被个人的财政及婚姻问题困扰，生命陷入低潮。幸好他准确预测德国的野心侵略，卒令他东山再起，成为战时的英国首相，攀上生命新高峰。