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奋斗
Striving
For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.
在一个真正放松的时间里,你想去一个没有职业道德的地方,一个文化没有被不断奋斗的西方价值观所取代的地方。
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
通过努力去做不可能的事,人总是能完成可能的事。那些谨慎地做了他们认为不可能做的事情的人从来没有向前迈出过一步。
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
我十几岁的时候就想成为一名作家,但是我从来没有告诉过任何人。在我看来,作家就像上帝一样,如果我说我在努力成为一名作家,那就太自大了。
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
思考本身是有用的;在任何情况下,它总是向上帝奋斗。
I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.
我努力成为最强壮的男人,这让我进入了电影。它给我带来了我所拥有的一切。
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
当我们真正需要快乐的只是某个人或某件事的时候,我们却在不断地追求成功、名誉和舒适。
Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.
你高中的每一个男生都没有努力成为最好的诗人,因为那样他就能得到所有的女孩,对吧?但你可以想象这样一个社会。
I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
我觉得我已经成功了,因为我已经得到了在我成长的社区的每个角落里的人都在努力得到的东西。
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
所有你可能达到或发现的,你都将被视为真理的一个更大模式的片段,每个真正的学者都在从不同的方法中努力去发现这个模式。