And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

  • -- Andrew Carnegie 安德鲁·卡内基

虽然竞争法则有时对个人来说很难,但对种族来说却是最好的,因为它确保了适者生存。

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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

很多业余选手都害怕和一个明显比自己优秀的选手比赛。他们从来没有发挥出最好的水平,因为他们感到不舒服。有一个确定无疑的方法可以克服这个问题,那就是问问自己,‘如果我打败了他呢?“想象一下这种可能性。

The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.

人们给自己施加的压力和两队之间的竞争更加明显。我认为这是一件好事。只要这种竞争仍然存在于竞争的精神之中,它只会激励每个人前进。

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

我总是对任何感觉像小集团的事情犹豫不决,即使这样做并不总是对我最有利。我喜欢每一个人,戴软呢帽的潮人——只是更大的格式塔让我恼火。

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

我认为灭绝是解释分离物种的最好方法。我看到,同样的原因一定使许多种类从大范围缩小到小范围,也可能使大属缩小到小属和小科。

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

排除所有可能受到死刑前景最轻微影响的陪审员,就等于剥夺被告根据法律享有的公正陪审团的权利。

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

据说,自由主义者对别人的钱很慷慨,除非涉及到国家存亡的问题,他们更愿意对别人的自由和安全慷慨。

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

然而信条的意义却很小,科斯回答黑暗之神说,仍然几乎是温和的。乐观主义者宣称我们生活在所有可能的世界中最好的世界里;悲观主义者担心这是真的。

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

我的祖父曾经告诉我,世界上有两种人:一种人做了工作,另一种人得到了荣誉。他让我试着成为第一组;竞争要少得多。

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

他们告诉我,他们不再需要我的服务了,因为他们想加入一个青年项目,作为保持俱乐部运转的一种先进方式。我再也不会犯七十岁的错误了。

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

要赢得我们的份额,这不是一个轻松的脱离和逃跑的谈话,而是一个艰难的工作,一个短距离和长距离的跳跃,一个失望和甜蜜的成功的谈话。

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

这种买入并持有的策略对个人来说是合理和明智的,但对整个市场可能产生非常危险和反常的影响。

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

友谊是多余的,像哲学,像艺术……它没有生存价值;相反,它是那些赋予生存价值的东西之一。

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

大多数人失败是因为他们缺乏坚持去制定新的计划来代替那些失败的计划。

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

我在艺术和建筑中经历的过程,我实际上想让它几乎像孩子一样。有时候我觉得这很神奇。

I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State.

我很想知道,法院竟然对国会的决议能否取代主权国家的法律产生怀疑。

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

最终,我们需要认识到,当人类继续建造城市景观时,我们与其他物种共享这些空间。

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

冠军将是第一个实现她的梦想,而不是社会的梦想,她自己的个人梦想。

Don’t try to understand everything. Because sometimes it’s not meant to be understood, but to be accepted.

不要试图理解一切。因为有时候它不是用来被理解的,而是用来被接受的。

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

如果一个人想成为一名领导者而没有争议,那就意味着他从来没有代表过任何东西。

Practically the whole human race is hypnotized because it thinks what somebody else told it to think.

实际上,整个人类都被催眠了,因为它按照别人的吩咐去思考。

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

伤疤是不情愿地接受并以伤害的语言表现出来的较苍白的生存痛苦。

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

我一生都在面对激烈的竞争。没有它,我不知道该怎么过。

If someone really loves you they wouldn't let you slip away no matter how hard the situation is.

如果有人真的爱你,无论情况多么艰难,他们都不会让你溜走。

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

自冷战结束以来发生了许多变化,这对我国的生存是一个好兆头。

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

凡灵都造自己的房屋,我们可以凭房屋猜测居民。

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

我做音乐已经有一段时间了。我可以在网上读到关于我自己的一段时间。

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

每当一个人或一个企业决定已经取得了成功,进步就会停止。

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

每个人都珍视生命;但亲爱的人把荣誉看得比生命更宝贵。

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

每次我出去比赛,我的目标就是跑得比以前更快。

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

我不能告诉你天才是不是遗传的,因为上天没有给我后代。

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

有时候,一天的辛苦工作比你在生活中遇到的许多事情都要容易。

It's really hard to watch things and then not think about anything afterwards.

看东西之后就什么都不想真的很难。

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it-every, every minute?

有没有人在活着的时候意识到生命的存在——每时每刻?

You and i should get away for a while, I just wanna be alone with your smile.

你和我应该离开一段时间,我只想和你一起微笑。

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

至亲至爱的朋友迟早会像亲戚一样无用。

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

在每一种现象中,开始总是最引人注目的时刻。

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

我不想通过惩罚性的法律,也不想利用政治作为报复。

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

有时候发现人们真正信仰什么是令人震惊的。

I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

我不谈政治问题。那不是我的部门。

The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

奥运会是竞争的最高水平。

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

一个人有道义上的责任不遵守不公正的法律。

Sometimes the one you want is not the one you need.

有时候你想要的并不是你需要的。

Coffee and love are best when they are hot.

咖啡和爱情在热天是最好的。

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

我的部门是让演员们做一些事情。

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

四十岁以上的人都是恶棍。

I'm retiring because my time is up.

我退休了,因为我的时间到了。

May books spread the world over!

愿书籍传遍世界!

Slow and steady wins the race.

稳扎稳打才能赢得比赛。