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Competent
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
我们似乎有能力，但到下个世纪末，将会有新的沙漠，新的废墟。
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
希望在不远的将来，我们能够理解像星星这样简单的东西，这是明智的判断。
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
一个能干而自信的人是不会妒忌任何事情的。嫉妒总是一种神经质的不安全感的症状。
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
有能力的程序员充分意识到自己头骨的有限大小。因此，他以充分的谦卑来完成他的任务，并避免像瘟疫一样的聪明的诡计。
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
我真正上瘾的是让人们明白，如果他们的孩子没有能力从中学毕业就阅读，那么他们在高中就会很困难。
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
由于摩尔定律的本质，一个极其聪明的图形程序员在某一时刻所能做的任何事情，都可以在若干年后被一个仅仅有能力的程序员所复制。
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢，同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错，那他是很难找到的。