Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
别自寻烦恼的只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。
Don n't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ——William Faulkner.
威廉姆斯覻·福克纳（美国作家）：别自寻烦恼的只想比你同时代的人或是先辈们出色，试着比你自己更出色吧。
They may be humble, but they are not awed by peers or predecessors. They have personal faith in the value of their own contributions to academic learning.
他们可能为人谦逊，但不会畏惧同侪或前辈，他们相信自己的贡献对学术知识有价值。
This problem ripples across all of the other teams as well, as teams wait for successors to finish their work for the iteration, or for predecessors to give them artifacts to work on.
该问题也波及到所有其他的团队，因为各团队要等待后继者为他们完成迭代的工作，或者等待前驱者给予他们工件进行工作。
Mr Obama's team must recognise this or they, like their predecessors, will come to be seen as part of the problem, not the solution.
奥巴马先生的团队必须意识到这些，否则，他们就会像其前任将被视为问题而非解决方案的一部分。
That so huge a crisis might be resolved at such a low price suggests three things: policymakers have been smarter than their predecessors; their numbers are incomplete; or they are too optimistic.
用如此低的代价能够解决如此巨大的危机，这说明了三件事：决策者比前任更聪明；他们的数据还不完全；或者他们太乐观了。
In software, contributions by competitors and predecessors are not widely acknowledged, appreciated, or even understood.
在软件领域，竞争对手和前辈的贡献往往得不到广泛的认同，赞赏，甚至理解。
Otherwise, you'll stay a step behind. You won't find your own breakthrough if you don't know how your predecessors (or competition!) had theirs.
否则，你只能退步，即只有在知己知彼的情况下，你才能百战百胜，找到突破点。
“But I am a little worried, ” says the 39-year-old abbot, who is considered to be a reincarnation—or living Buddha—of one of his enlightened predecessors.
“不过，我有点担心,”这位39岁的主持说。他被看成一位智慧先祖的化身，或称活菩萨。
"But I am a little worried," says the 39-year-old abbot, who is considered to be a reincarnation-or living buddha-of one of his enlightened predecessors.
“不过，我有点担心，”这位39岁的主持说。他被看成一位智慧先祖的化身，或称活菩萨。
It was less than 100, 000 years ago that our human predecessors first made meaningful marks on surfaces, notating the phases of the moon or drawing animals on cave walls.
从古至今，这种改变在读写形式的进化中早已屡见不鲜。 在不到十万年前，人类先民才第一次把有意义的符号刻画出，比如在洞壁上记录下月相或画上动物。
Actually it will have been handed down to us, mostly, by our predecessors; we may just changed a hypothesis, or added one.
实际上，它的大部分是别人和我们的前辈传给我们的，我们也许仅仅改变了一个假设，或增加了一个假设。
Each Parliament is supreme in its power and can undo or alter the work of its predecessors.
每一届议会都拥有至高无上的权力，能够撤销或者修改前任的法令。
Visually, the experience of this new altitude feels different in kind from its predecessors, the peak uplifts of previous booms that topped out at 400, 500 or 600 feet.
在这个新的海拔，视觉体验与之前最高点在400、500或600英尺的高层空间完全不同。 在这座城市，步行道上总是熙熙攘攘，充满各种气息；
As investment bankers begin hiring again this summer, will we see MBA graduates eschewing these jobs, or will they take the banker's shilling just like their predecessors?
今年夏天，投资银行将再度开始招聘人手。届时，MBA毕业生会回避这些工作，还是会像他们的学长一样替银行家打工？
Be that predecessors or the experiment infering, or passing after mathematical analysis verifies, summarizes and sums up out because of many theory, theorem and formula of electron technology.
因为电子技术的许多理论、定理和公式都是前辈们或经数学分析推导，或通过实验验证、概括和总结出来的。
Our predecessors founded our singular newspaper for just this moment - to serve as a watchdog to the powerful; and to hold mighty institutions accountable, without fear or favor.
我们的前辈们创办了这张非凡的新闻纸，为的就是这样的时刻：担当看门狗，监督权势人物和强大的机构，不惧怕，不讨好。
It is necessary, therefore, in a history of philosophic thought, to treat Plato, and to a lesser degree Aristotle, more fully than any of their predecessors or successors.
因此在一部哲学思想史里就有必要对于柏拉图，以及在较少的程度上对于亚里士多德，处理得要比他们的任何一个先行者或后继者都更为详尽。
His father Teo Zhang Liang (Bird's Nest predecessors) worked hard for three or four years before the establishment of the father is around for many years to teach.
在未成立之前跟随父亲张长良(燕行前辈)打拼了三四年，父亲在于身边多年来的教导。
His father Teo Zhang Liang (Bird's Nest predecessors) worked hard for three or four years before the establishment of the father is around for many years to teach.
在未成立之前跟随父亲张长良(燕行前辈)打拼了三四年，父亲在于身边多年来的教导。
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