A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

  • -- Ellen Glasgow 格拉斯哥

人生具有悲剧性的讽刺意味的是,我们常常在追求成功或经济独立的主要原因过去之后才获得成功或经济独立。

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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

质疑阈限实例的本质和含义必然涉及到失败,即使只是在进入普遍的成功标准几乎不适用的空间的特定技术意义上。

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

官方的独立庆典将在四五天内举行,一群来自世界各地的记者被允许乘飞机进入,否则安哥拉将被关闭。

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

你必须在这个领域和别人竞争。有时候竞争会变得非常激烈,因为你要为你的工作,财务工作,争取资金或补助金。

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

我们今天的年轻人被教导要寻找安全感,而不是独立、精力和进取心。

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

一般来说,生活中最成功的人是拥有最好信息的人。

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

在过去的十年里,我没有遇到过经济问题。