The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

  • -- Anna Letitia Barbauld 安娜·莱蒂娅·巴鲍德

伟大心灵最显著的特征就是选择一个重要的目标,并终生追求。

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就,而要达到其中任何一个目标,都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标,以及勤奋。表面上做,实际上没有做。

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

我没有选择是否患有帕金森氏症。我别无选择,只能选择如何应对。在这些选择中,我可以自由地做很多事情,而这些事情是我在其他情况下不会做的。

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

一部分人以他们的罪恶为傲,追求他们的目标;在做对和做错之间摇摆不定的人要多得多。

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

我得坚持写剧本。如果我胡乱摆弄这些词,它就会打败这个物体。

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

我们想从事的职业,却没有像颜色一样,在我们的整个生命中流淌。

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

被拍成电影的戏剧的一个特点是它们可以很健谈。

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

我是个典型的懒人。这是演员的特点。

Two watermelons cannot be carried in one hand.

两只西瓜不能放在一只手里。