None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

  • -- Thurgood Marshall 瑟古德·马歇尔

没有一个人仅仅靠自己的努力就能取得今天的成就。我们来到这里是因为有人——一位家长,一位老师,一位常春藤盟校的密友,或者几个修女——弯下腰来帮我们捡起了靴子。

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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

我相信,我们对自己的选择完全负责,我们必须接受我们一生中每一个行为、言语和思想的后果。

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

我刚经历了这么多,把我的上衣往上拉似乎没什么大不了的。

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

我相信每一个人的灵魂几乎每一分钟都在向别人传授一些关于死亡的东西。

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

在短篇小说中,每一件事都要有分量,才能真正成为头等大事。

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

公共教师的职位是不值得羡慕和感激的。