Ambition by itself is almost irrelevant; a capacity for hard work, the courage to execute and the willingness to persevere are far more important.

单有野心几乎是不可能成功的；刻苦工作的能力、付诸实践的勇气和坚持到底的意志比野心重要得多。

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That sounds funny, but in a sense, that is--we have to define the sense in which it's irrelevant.

听起来很有意思,但从某种意义上讲,我们必须说清楚不相关性的含义

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It was a seemingly irrelevant detail, whose import is suddenly clear.

这看似是不相关的细节，但它的重要突然显现出来。

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I'm saying that, unless tax considerations intervene, dividend policy is really irrelevant for a firm.

除去税收的干扰,股利政策对公司是无相关性的

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However, as the RMB becomes one of the big boys in the global forex market from being irrelevant a decade ago, investors would be wise to remember that what goes up, can come down.

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They remain locked in a desktop mentality, leaving their products and services in danger of becoming irrelevant to a new digital savvy generation.

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Additionally sometimes travel news bulletins include information about other forms of transport, these of course are completely irrelevant to a motorist.

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