He overcame failure to make the grade as a teenage gymnast and then went on to university .
当年,他在青少年体操运动员的道路上未能取得成功,可他战胜挫折,并在此后上了大学。
Peer pressure overcame his qualms however and he not only released the surgeon but remained part of the attentive audience .
然而,来自同行的压力战胜了他的不安,他不仅松开了解剖者,还作为细心的旁观者留了下来。
He hit the american scene like a thunderclap , upended our politics , shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order .