书城英文图书青春阅读——聆听人生真谛(双语)
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第3章 事业篇(3)

If you want something done,do it yourself.

要干成什么事情就得自己干。

Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.

工作有苦的根,甜的果。

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

工作是医治人类所有顽疾和厄运的最有效的药剂。

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

充分的准备总是有益的。

There is nothing worse than being a doer with nothing to do.

世上再也没有比一个实干家无所事事更糟糕的事情了。

Many people are unwilling to start at the beginning.They want to be a star before its time. But theyre never going to make it until they pay their dues and learn from their experiences.Those who learn from their mistakes can come back stronger than ever.

许多人在做事时不愿从头做起。他们总想超前地成为明星。但是只有当他们付出了努力,从经历中学到些什么之后,梦想才会实现。那些从失误中汲取教训的人会比任何时候都坚强。

Shallow men believe in luck,confidence is first secret of success.

浮浅的人相信运气,而成功的头号秘诀是自信。

Something attempted,something done.

有所尝试,就有所作为。

The only cure for grief is action.

唯一能医治忧愁的方法就是行动。

Take your work seriously but yourself lightly.

严肃地对待你的工作,但自己要有一个轻松愉快的心境。

Take time to deliberate;but when the time for action arrives,stop thinking and go in.

做事应考虑,但时机到了,就必须行动,切莫犹豫。

You have probably failed sometime in your career.After all,the only way to avoid failure is never to strive for success,to remain fixed where you are.But you can learn from failure,figure out what went wrong and correct it.You have the power to change.

有时,你的事业或许会失败。毕竟,唯一能避免失败的方法就是不再为了成功而努力奋斗,只在原地停滞不前。但是,从失败中,你能学到一些东西,找出失败原因并改正。你有改变的权力。

Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.

时光在闲聊中慢慢流逝。

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without it.

欣赏你的工作的最佳方法是想象自己失去了它。

You can do anything if you have the faith to the vision to see it accomplished,and the courage to keep going in spite of the obstacles.

如果你拥有坚定的信念,工作的决心,预知目的能达到的远见,并有迎着困难上的勇气,那你就能做成任何事情。

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

“不可能”这个词只能在愚人的字典中查到。

He started to sing as he tackled the thing that they said could not be done,and he did it.

他开始欢唱,因为他做了别人说做不到的事情,而且他做到了。

Work wont kill,but worry will.

工作不会使人精疲力竭,但烦恼会。

Faith will not make the sun rise sooner,but it will make the night seem shorter.

信念不会让太阳升起得快些,但它会使夜看起来短些。

Winners never quit,but quitters never win.

胜利者永远不会退却,退却者永不会胜利。

Miracles sometimes occur,but one has to work terribly for them.

奇迹有时是会发生的,但你得为之而拼命地努力。

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

只工作,不玩耍,聪明孩子也变傻。

Know something of everything and everything of something.

通百艺而专一长。

A good beginning is half the battle.

好的开头等于成功了一半。

Life is for the strong.

生活属于强者。

Dreading a task can be more tiring than doing it.

畏惧一件事情比做一件事情更令人生厌。

The best plans remain only day dreams until you bring them to life through action.

不采取行动,最好的计划也只是白日梦。

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

伟大的思想既要有着陆的轮架,又要有飞翔的双翅。

God helps those who help themselves.

天助自助者。

Faith will move mountains.

精诚所至,金石为开。

You are your greatest enemy if you are a coward,but if you are brave,you are your greatest friend.

除非你亲自尝试一下,否则你永远也不知道你能做什么。

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.

没有动力,生活就会惨淡无光。

When the fight begins within himself,a mans worth something.

当斗争在一个人内心产生,他的生存就开始有了价值。

Nothing ventured,nothing gained.

没有冒险,就没有获得。

The end justifies the means.

只要目的正当,可以不择手段。

Forewarned is forearmed.

凡事预则立。

Never swap horses while crossing the stream.

危难时不宜做大变动。

If you cant do everything,do everything you can.

要是你不能做一切事情,那么就做一切你能做的。

There are at least three things you can do with your hands:you can ruin them in despair,you can fall them in anger or you can put them to some useful task.

你至少可以亲自做四件事情:你可以绝望地毁掉它们,你可以愤怒地紧握它们,你可以将它们置于一些有益的工作中去。

Anything wonderful can happen in that little margin of time when you do not give up,but keep on believing and keep on praying.

别气馁,继续相信,继续祈祷,任何精彩的事都会在一瞬间发生。

Make an advantage out of your handicap,build a bridge out of your broken dreams and set those ships as sail again.

从你的不利因素中找出些优势,在碎梦上架座桥,让那些船重新起航。

The trouble with some of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

我们中一些人的麻烦在于我们在该勇于尝试的时候却毅然放弃。

Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

每天早晨,人处在一个被考验的位置上,而每天晚上则会传来对他的评价。

The past cant be changed,but the future is still in your power. 过去无法改变,但未来仍掌握在我们手中。

What counts is not the number of hours you put in,but how much you put in to the hours.

需要计算的并非是你花费了多少个小时,而应计算在这些小时中,你投入了多少精力。

Have a happy tomorrow,to todays work today.

今日事今日毕,你便会拥有一个快乐的明天。

Our days are like suitcases,all the same size,but some people seem to be able to pack more into them than others.

我们的每一天像小提箱一样,都是同样的大小,但有些人却好像能比其他人在提箱中多装些什么。

Always attack each challenge not with why we cant,but how we can.

永远勇于迎接每一次挑战,别想为什么我们做不到,要想我们怎样去做。

These is no limit to the possibilities for a man with imagination.

一个充满想象力的人,他成功的可能性是无限的。

To be a success in your work,have faith,be daring,be first and be different.

要想在工作中取得成绩,就要有信念,有勇气,争第一并且与众不同。

He that never climbed never fail.

不敢于尝试的人永不会有失败的危险。

If at first you succeed,try something harder.

要是你旗开得胜,不妨尝试一些更难的事情。

If at first you do not succeed,try looking in the waste basket for the directions you throw away.

如果你不能在最初获得成功,就该重新看一看你所放弃的方向。

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

“成功”一词先于“工作”的唯一地方是在字典里。

The rounds of the ladder of a accomplishment are composed of difficulties overcome one by one.

成功的阶梯是通过克服一个个困难而攀登上去的。

If you want to be successful,its just this simple:know what youre doing,love what you are doing and believe in what youre doing.

要是你想成功,就是这么简单:知道你在做什么,热爱你所做的一切,并且相信你所做的一切。

Every mistake can be a stepping stone if we learn our lesson from it.

如果我们从中吸取教训,每个错误都是通向成功的阶梯。