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Ambition
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
我希望把我平时用来做研究的所有业余时间，我的暑假，以及我能集中的每一分力量来推进这个项目。
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.
我是一个有野心的孩子，而且我的头脑比较分散。如果我在学校，看到窗外有一只鸟，我就想跟着它走。我是冒险的。
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
我喜欢坏人，因为一个忠诚的人有一些吸引人的地方——他们有一个计划，一种意识形态，无论多么扭曲。他们的动机。
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
企业家就像幻想家。他们前进的方式之一就是把他们正在做的事情看作是整个世界。
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
哈克尼在某些时代给自己增添了郊区的风雅，然后又一次被打倒，扔进了野心破灭的垃圾箱。
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen.
乐队很难坚持下去，因为人都长大了，而且永远不会有真正的回报。如果你想要得到某种回报，那是不可能的。
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
我们读的书越多，就越清楚地认识到，作家的真正职责是创作一部杰作，没有其他任何任务是重要的。
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
我的目标是一天两页，一周五天。我从来没有想过要写作，但我总是很高兴我做到了。写完之后，我去书店工作。
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
然而，我觉得我们建筑师有一个特殊的责任和使命…为建筑和城市规划的社会文化发展做出贡献。
I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether you peaked at all - and then you're finished and it's too late.
我不想太早达到顶峰。令人担心的是，你永远不知道，直到一切都结束了，你是否达到了顶峰，然后你结束了，一切都太晚了。
I've been a hip hop head forever. So when it turned out that we were gonna start getting celebrity guests for every show, I wanted rap guys from the get-go.
我一直是个嘻哈迷。所以当我们要开始为每一场演出邀请名人嘉宾时，我从一开始就想要说唱歌手。
My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.
我对这项运动的热情来自马赛这个城市本身。不幸的是，我不能像我想的那样回到那里，因为我在这里和国外打了很多比赛。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
在一个男孩的职业生涯中，首要的是找到他适合做什么，他最擅长做什么，并乐在其中。
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试，每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想，都被贴上乌托邦的标签。
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
要了解一个人的内心和思想，不是看他已经取得了什么，而是看他渴望什么。
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
想要得到果实，就必须爬上树。
All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.
我们所希望的是，有一天，当我们都走了的时候，人们会说，这个人已经尝试过了，他的家人也尝试过了。这就是我们在这个世界上所追求的一切。
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
通往自由的道路必须是上坡路，即使它是艰难和令人沮丧的。