即使在他那声名显赫的家族里,丘吉尔也算得上是最最杰出的成员,可年轻时的丘吉尔却头脑迟钝,他父亲甚至担心他将来连谋生的能力都没有。他从小好动,喜欢历史和文学,但不肯学拉丁语、希腊语和数学,进入哈罗公学院时,他的成绩最差。在以后四年半的学习中,虽然成绩稍有提高,但两次投考桑赫斯特皇家军事学校都没成功,他只好离开学校,父母把他送进一个强化补习班,第三次考试总算通过。经历了如此的挫折,丘吉尔在他以后的生涯里几乎没有遇到他克服不了的困难。 Even in his prestigious family, Churchill was regarded as the most outstanding member, but as a young, Churchill was sluggish and his father even worried about his ability to earn a living in the future. He was an early age, like history and literature, but refused to learn Latin, Greek and math, he entered the Harrow Public School worst grade. In the following four and a half years of study, though the grades improved slightly, he failed to vote twice for the Royal Military School in Sandhurst. Instead, he had to leave school and his parents sent him to an intensive cram school. The third exam was finally completed by. Having experienced such setbacks, Churchill had hardly encountered the difficulties he could not overcome in his later career.