Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  • -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗费罗

如果没有雄心壮志的困扰,大多数人都能在小事上取得成功。

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

造物主认为不应该在额头上标记出那些有能力成为优秀将军的人。因此,我们首先要蒙住他们的眼睛,然后让他们以巨大的损失为代价来学习交易。

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

婚姻的结束并不理想;但是天下万物都有终结的时候,如果认为暂时性是无效的,那么就没有真正的成功。

The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade.

乌克兰的示威者要么坚持下去并取得成功,要么变得疲惫、冷漠并逐渐消失。

I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.

我当然没有离开伦敦的计划。这是一个伟大的城市。

There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.

有些人很难辨认出一团乱。

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

这么小的事情却造成这么多麻烦。