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标准
Standards
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
你可以通过不断地为自己设定越来越高的标准，然后尽一切可能达到这些标准，从而成为一个更加优秀的人。
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
评判现在的标准从过去而来;标准又被当代剧作家的实践塑造为下一代更广泛的标准。
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
因此，进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣，所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准，而不是质量或卓越性。
We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.
当我们做了一些值得骄傲的事情，当我们达到了自己的标准，我们应该为我们的国家感到骄傲。但真正自豪的另一面是，我们能够意识到自己什么时候做不到，并对自己负责。
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I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.
我敦促你们坚守自己的标准。我恳求你不要动摇。
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
我的父母是纯粹的禁酒主义者。他们都是非常善良的人，有着很高的道德标准——但是非常压抑。在我的家里没有拥抱和亲吻。
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
工业革命倾向于在任何地方产生大量的城市居民，他们似乎越来越忽视道德标准。
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
如果我们要有这样的纪律，我们就必须有标准，而要在现有条件下达到我们的标准，我们就必须有批评。
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
让我们不要害怕说出一个常识:没有良好的纪律，你就不可能有高标准。
I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
我提高了我的标准。现在,去你的。