【美文-5】 如果我休息，我就会生锈-If I rest,I rust(双语)

If I Rest,I Rust Orison Marden The significant inscription found on an old key ---“If Irest, I rust”--- would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the unused key, they will soon show signs of rust and, ultimately, cannot do the work required of them. Those who would attain the heights reached and kept by great men must keep their faculties polished by constant use, so that they may unlock the door of knowledge, the gate that guard the entrances to the professions, to science, art, literature, agriculture --- every department of human endeavor. Industry keeps bright the key that opens the treasury of achievement. If Hugh Miller, after toiling all day in a quarry, had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation, he would never have become a famous geologist. The celebrated mathematician, Edmund Stone, would never have published a mathematical dictionary, never have found the key to science of mathematics, if he had given his spare moments to idleness, had the little Scotch lad, Ferguson, allowed the busy brain to go to sleep while he tended sheep on the hillside instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads, he would never have become a famous astronomer. Labor vanquishes all --- not inconstant, spasmodic, or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting, daily effort toward a well-directed purpose. Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success. 如果我休息，我会生锈 在一把古老的钥匙上发现一条有意义的刻印文字——“如果我休息，我就会生锈”，对于那些苦于些微懒散的人来说，这可能是极好的座右铭。甚至那些最为勤奋的人也可以此提醒自己：如果一个人允许自己的天赋休息，就像废弃的铁钥匙，天赋很快就会锈迹斑斑，最终无法完成工作。 有些人想达到伟人所达到并保持的高度，那他们就必须不断运用、历练自身的才能，以便开启知识的大门，打开通往各种职业、科学、艺术、文学、农业等人类努力探求的各个领域的大门。 勤奋使开启成功宝库的钥匙保持光亮。如果休.米勒在采石厂劳作一天后，把晚上的时间用来休息的娱乐，他绝对不会成为著名的地质学家。著名数学家爱德蒙.斯通如果闲暇时无所事事，绝对不会出版数学词典，也绝不会找到开启数学之门的钥匙。如果苏格兰青年非格森在山坡上放羊时，允许他那思维活跃的大脑处于睡眠状态，而不是用一串串珠子计算星星的位置，他就绝对不会成为著名的天文学家。 劳动战胜一切。但这里所指的劳动不是断断续续、间歇性或方向有错误的劳动，而是坚定的、不懈的、方向正确的每天努力。就像是想拥有自由就要时刻保持谨慎一样，要取得辉煌持久的成功就需要坚持不懈的努力。