They were always...getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

  • -- James Reston 詹姆斯·赖斯顿

他们总是……他们得到了超出他们应得的荣誉,承受了超出他们承受能力的悲伤,在他们还没有准备好之前就爬上了工作岗位,在他们成功的时候却失败了。

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If hunger forces a farmer in a particular year to eat both his yam tubers and the seed-yams, the succeeding years would still be worse because he would have no yams to eat and none to plant.

如果饥饿迫使农民在某一年既吃山药的块茎又吃山药的种子,那么接下来的几年将会更糟,因为他既没有山药吃,也没有山药种。

You always succeed in producing a result.

你总是能取得成功。