The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

最成功的战争很少能弥补它的损失。

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Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

一年一万三千美元不够养家。这还不够支付你的账单和为他们的未来存钱。这几乎不够满足最基本的需要。

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

一个成功的人不一定比她那些不太成功的同龄人更擅长解决问题;她的模式识别设备刚刚学会了什么问题值得解决。

Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.

然后他把我从珍妮身上拿下来,把模特米莉给了我。这对我来说是个很大的突破。它做得并不好,不知怎的,当我登上它时,它变得相当成功。

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

在一个理想的世界里,个人的制度权力与他或她的价值增值是完全相关的。实际上,这种情况很少发生。

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

每次保罗和吉恩用我的化妆品,他们都要付给我一张版税支票。我想他们换了化妆品,所以不用付钱给我。

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

这周我读了很多书,但做的很少。事情应该是这样的。那肯定是成功之路。

A year's harvest counts on spring; a man's success counts on his diligence.

一年之计在于春;一个人的成功取决于他的勤奋。

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

寡妇对情人的拒绝很少明确到排除希望的程度。

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

我们家所有的男人都蓄着胡子,大多数女人也是。

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

如果有必要,我愿意花钱去做我该做的事。