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抱负
Ambition
I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.
我有那么多的山要爬和目标要征服。我想在这个星球上留下许多伤疤。我只是觉得我还没到那一步。我觉得我才刚刚开始。
Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.
然后,在这幻象的光辉中,我看到了那鲜红的革命之花是怎样在它的光辉中生长和滋养的,并突然绽开可怕而灿烂的花朵。
When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.
当我还是个学生的时候,我非常非常有野心,完全沉浸在我的喜剧生涯中。我从来没有过那种你在年轻时就应该摆脱的不计后果的享乐主义。
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
嗯,我不知道。它很长,比其他两本书加起来还要长,所以它更有野心。我认为我比其他书更能触及人们的内心。
I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.
我有很多我想做的概念和想法,但我也一直在发展我的制作公司,并希望在我正在指导和制作的项目之外拓展业务。
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
但作为一个年轻的孩子,我从来没有真正想过要成为一名农民。我从来没有想过,哎呀,我想种地,我想种这些庄稼。我不太清楚自己想做什么。
The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don’t smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn’t taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built upon the desert.
人们是不真实的。这些花是虚幻的,它们没有气味。这水果是假的,没有任何味道。整个地方是一个耀眼的,华而不实的,噩梦般的场景,建立在沙漠之上。
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
一个狂热者对一个民族的压迫念念不忘,直到他幻想自己受上天的委托去解放他们。他冒险尝试,结果除了自己的处决,几乎没有别的结果。
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
在我们结婚之前,我有很大的野心。我们结婚后,我开始有了孩子,然后我就觉得那才是我真正的生活。史蒂夫肯定比我更有野心。
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
我在成长的过程中有着所有通常的雄心壮志。我想成为一名作家、音乐家、曲棍球运动员。我想做一些不是朝九晚五的事情。表演是我尝试的第一件成功的事。
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel
我唯一的文学抱负就是写一部好小说,然后隐退到沙漠里的茅屋里,摆出莲花的姿势,静下心来,静下心来,沉思默想我的小说
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
我本来只是一个茶水男孩,或者类似的人,但我很快就宣布,我想成为一名外国记者,我很天真,但也很雄心勃勃。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.
我们需要问问自己,我们来这里是为了什么,我们这么努力工作是为了什么。
Know your limits but never stop trying to exceed them.
知道自己的极限,但永远不要停止超越它们。
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
如果你不让事情发生,那么事情就会发生在你身上。
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
许多人雄心勃勃地想说些大话,也就是说,想夸夸其谈。
If you want to get what you haven’t gotten yet, then you have to do more than what you were doing before.
如果你想要得到你还没有得到的东西,那么你必须做的比你以前做的更多。
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
崇高的目标造就崇高的品格,伟大的目标造就伟大的心灵。