阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特

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"Decide whether the goal is worth the risk. “决定目标是否值得冒险。

If it is, stop worrying." 如果值得，就别再担心了。”

Those were the words of Amelia Earhart — and she lived by them. 这些是阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特的话——她也身体力行。

Born in 1897, Amelia was raised to try things other girls weren't: baseball, fishing, climbing. 阿梅莉亚生于1897年，从小就被培养尝试其他女孩不常做的事情：棒球、钓鱼、攀爬。

She took her first airplane ride in 1920, and from that moment, she knew. 她在1920年第一次乘坐飞机，从那一刻起，她就明白了。

Flying was her destiny. 飞行是她的宿命。

She worked odd jobs to pay for lessons, 她打零工来支付课程费用，

earned her pilot's license, 获得了飞行执照，

and kept flying when almost no one believed a woman should. 并且在几乎没有人认为女性应该飞行的时候，她依然坚持飞行。

In 1932, 1932年，

she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 她成为第一位独自飞越大西洋的女性，

crossing it in under fifteen hours. 用时不到十五小时。

She became a symbol of the "new woman," 她成为了“新女性”的象征，

and she urged others on: "Women must try to do things men have 她也鼓励其他人：“女性必须尝试男性已经

tried." 尝试过的事情。”

In 1937, she set out to fly around the world. 1937年，她启程环游世界。

Somewhere over the vast Pacific, searching for a tiny island, her plane vanished. 在广阔的太平洋上空某处，寻找一个微小的岛屿时，她的飞机失踪了。

She was never found. 她从未被找到。

But Amelia Earhart was never really about the destination. 但阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特从来都不是真正为了目的地。

She was about the daring it takes to leave the ground at all. 她所追求的是那种能够起飞、离开地面的勇气。