From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

  • -- Giraldus Cambrensis 吉拉度

从这些微不足道的尝试中,我可能会得出这样的结论:如果命运给我一个机会,我将获得怎样的成功?

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No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

在塞纳河河谷较高的地方,还没有发现任何砾石中含有任何工具;但是这个消极的事实并不重要,因为对它们的研究还很少。

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

因此,千万不要失去一个机会,敦促一个实际的开始,无论多么小,因为在这种情况下,芥末种子发芽和生根的频率是惊人的。

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

没有任何企业,无论大小、公营或私营,能够象我们即将成为的那样,如此深地欠别人的债而保持自治,更不用说成功了。

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

因为什么是诗歌,但却是一种危险的自我理解的尝试:它是自传中最深刻的部分。

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

不要承担一个项目,除非它是明显重要的,几乎是不可能的。

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.

如果人们知道肯德基如何对待鸡,他们就不会再吃鸡腿了。

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

接受这样一个事实:我们必须把几乎所有人都当作志愿者来对待。

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

一部电影的成败完全取决于导演。

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

发生在你身上的事并不重要,重要的是你如何应对。

Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within.

幸运停在门口,问普律当丝是否在里面。

Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else.

使航行!尝试他们!没有什么别的。

God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered cow.

上帝不给脾气暴躁的牛角。