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潜在
Potential
Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
孩子们可能天生就有潜力，但如果没有鼓励——甚至是推动——我认为它永远不会实现。
In every ending, there is a beginning. In every mistake, a lesson. And so, in every moment and every one, endless potential.
每个结局都有一个开始。在每一个错误中，都有一个教训。所以，在每一个时刻，每一个人，都有无限的潜力。
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
这就是我喜欢喜剧小品的原因:一个小品只有五分钟，然后它就变黑了，还有其他可能性。
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
我不认为任何球员能发挥他的潜力，因为人们把你看得那么高，你永远不会像他们期望的那么好。
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
我亲眼看到，农业科学具有极大的潜力，可以提高小农的产量，使他们摆脱饥饿和贫困。
I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
我想说的是，如果你真的想成为社区的一名工作人员，就不要罢工，因为那样就没有工作，也没有工作的潜力。
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
你需要一个先锋组织来克服阶级斗争和阶级意识发展不平衡所带来的潜在危险。
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
一棵受了伤的树，一种有生命的东西，如此美丽，如此高贵，其潜在的寿命是如此令人钦佩，也许是仅次于人类的最令人感动的受伤的东西。
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
一旦我们理解了如何控制基因，我们就有了脊髓再生、骨再生等等的潜力。它也可能给我们带来更丰满的鸡。
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
永远不要低估梦想的力量和人类精神的影响。在这个观念上我们都是一样的:伟大的潜力存在于我们每个人的内心。
I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.
事实上，我认为有一种潜力，一种疯狂的潜力，网络电视可以成为有价值和价值的东西，仅仅因为网络方面的恐惧。
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
成功在于成功，而不在于有成功的潜力。任何一块宽阔的土地都有可能成为宫殿的所在地，但在它建成之前没有宫殿。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
萨克斯管的潜力是无限的。
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
他说，这有可能成为第一个宽带杀手应用程序，它已经成为事实，因为它显然是如此的带宽密集。我的意思是，这一直是个问题。
The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
“潜力”这个词曾经像云彩一样笼罩着我。
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
一个人唯一的竞争对手是他自己的潜力。一个人唯一的失败就是没能实现自己的可能性。从这个意义上说，每个人都可以成为国王，因此必须像国王一样被对待。
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
至于对潜在的青少年偶像的建议，没有固定的模式。
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
我会做好准备，总有一天我会有机会的。