每日英语：On Achieving Success(下)

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　　On Achieving Success(下)
        　　想得到的多就永远不要奢望太多。
        　　智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。
        　　On Achieving Success(3)
        　　Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovel12). Bricks and mortar13) are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.
        　　与其说人是环境的造物，不如说人是环境的建筑师更贴切些。同样的材料，有人能用其建造出宫殿，而有人只能建成简陋的小屋。在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依然是砖泥。
        　　The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
        　　想得到的多就永远不要奢望太多。
        　　Wise men don’t care for what they can’t have.
        　　智者不会在意他们得不到的东西。
        　　12) hovel n. 茅舍，小屋
        　　13) mortar n. 灰泥