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竞争
Competition
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
赢得一场建筑竞赛是一张被遗忘的门票。这只是个想法。99%的项目永远不会建成。
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.
大胆无畏地生活。品味在竞争中发现的乐趣——展现出你最好的一面。
I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.
我从不讨厌与我竞争的人。我欢迎这个挑战。此外，我和每个人都相处得很好。
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
古代作家的赞美不是来自对死者的崇敬，而是来自对生者的竞争和相互嫉妒。
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
设计越来越多地赢得比赛，因为它们确实是绿色的，而且在某些地方，它们以一个小型风车为特色。
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
竞争的问题在于，它消除了设定自己的道路、发明自己的方法、寻找新方法的要求。
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
这场比赛的目的不是要对失败者刻薄，而是要找到一个胜利者。这个过程让你变得刻薄，因为你感到沮丧。
I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
我对争取一个职位没有意见。我可以打败任何人。这是一项运动，一项比赛，所以我已经习惯了。
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
你不能说比赛的结果会是什么，所以现在我准备好接受任何我遇到的结果，如果我尽我最大的努力。
I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.
我是在一项不允许你长大的运动中长大的。年轻竞争的威胁始终存在。所以你必须保持年轻的形象。
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.
当你把竞争引入公立学校体系时，大多数研究表明，当学校在争夺学生时，它们开始做得更好。
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
一名优秀的运动员总是在脑海中一遍遍地回放一场比赛，即使是在获胜的时候，他也会这样做，看看下次可以做些什么来提高自己的表现。
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The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
冠军联赛是每个人都想参加的比赛。
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
当我们让人们相信他们的想法和行为是重要的，然后在他们这么做的时候避开他们，竞争力的本质就得到了解放。
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
骄傲是承认软弱;它暗地里害怕所有的竞争，害怕所有的竞争对手。
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
只要生产和交换生活资料的竞争制度继续下去，艺术就会继续退化;如果这一体系要永远持续下去，那么艺术就注定要消亡，也必然会消亡;也就是说，文明将会消亡。
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
生活只不过是一场竞争，让我们成为罪犯，而不是受害者。
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
网球是一项艰苦的运动。全年都有很多比赛，你一个人玩。