what has been your biggest disappointment on the job?
在工作中最令你感到沮喪的事是什麼?
i still remember the disappointment that i had about eight years ago.
我至今還記得八年前一件令人沮喪的事。
when i first participated in bidding for a client‘s work.
那是我第一次參與爭取某客户的投標工作。
we were one of the last two bidders that the client considered among a handful that applied，but we lost the job to our main competitor.
我們是眾多投標公司中僅存的最後兩家之一，但是最後我們卻輸給了最大的競爭對手。
our project team spent many late nights working on the bid.
我們的項目組為了準備那次投標，好多天都工作到深夜。
our competitor had an advantage because they had worked with that client before.
我們的競爭對手之前曾承攬過那家客户的業務，所以在這點上佔了優勢。
it was a new client for us and i must say our competitor understood the needs of the client better.
對我們公司而言，這家客户是新客户，而且我不得不説，還是我們的對手更瞭解客户的需求。
we were so disappointed and determined that we would get this account，
我們非常沮喪，並且決定一定要爭取到這家客户，
so we analyzed what went wrong and the client’s mission，market and needs，as well as looked at what our competitor did right.
於是我們針對到底哪裏出了問題，對手做的好的地方，甚至對客户的宗旨，市場，需求全部做了分析。
about six months later，we had another opportunity to bid for the same client‘s job，and we got it.
大約半年過後，又有一次可以爭取這家客户的投標機會，我們中標了。
we were very proud of it.
我們為此感到非常自豪。
詞語解釋：
account 顧客，客户
what went wrong 發生問題之處
go wrong 表示“出現問題，遇到困難”
答疑解惑：
要具體舉例説明感到沮喪的事，但是最後還是要強調從該事情中學到了什麼，如何重新站起來了等積極的方面。
職場必背：
have you ever had any failures?
你有過失敗的經歷嗎?
what have been the biggest failures in your career?
在你的職業生涯中，最大的失敗是什麼?
what have you learned from your mistakes?
你從錯誤中學到了什麼?