We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

我们成功的企业,需要我们所拥有的积极的品质,但我们在那些也可以利用我们的缺点。

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A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

强劲的经济导致对住房的需求增加;住房需求的增加推动了房地产价格和租金的飙升。然后经济适用房就完全无法获得。

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

新的生产性企业浪潮将提供机会,纠正经济阶层和种族和族裔社区之间环境危害的不公正分配。

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

有一种品质是一个人必须拥有的,那就是明确的目标,知道自己想要什么,以及拥有它的强烈愿望。

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

这很有趣。你成功了,但现在你要去哪里?我必须不断地证明,我可以笑或哭,更真实的每一次。

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

对所有人都要有礼貌,但对少数人要有亲密的关系,让那些少数人在你给他们信心之前得到充分的考验。

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

我宁可在知识上胜过别人,也不愿在能力和权柄上胜过别人。

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

不要交那些相处得很舒服的朋友。交那些会强迫你提升自己的朋友。

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

只有时间才能使人的名誉得到提高,而时间的结果却是使人的缺点得到尊重。

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

如果我们成功地给予爱学习,学习本身就一定会随之而来。

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

深爱的人永远不会变老;他们可能因年老而死,但却英年早逝。

Large demands on oneself and little demands on others keep resentment at bay.

对自己要求多一点,对别人要求少一点,就能抑制怨恨。

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

为什么花一美元买书签?为什么不用美元做书签呢?

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

希望我们可以建造桥梁,但我们也必须画线。

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

你可以通过你喜欢的电影来判断你是谁。

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

伟人的缺点是蠢人的安慰。

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

理智和判断是领导者的品质。

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

要做一只嫩鸡需要一个坚强的人。

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

我也喜欢西方古典音乐和爵士乐。

Our favorite holding period is forever.

我们最喜欢的等待时间是永远。

I could really use a wish right now.

我现在真的需要一个愿望。