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[00:00.00]If I Rest,I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈
[00:01.43] 新东方 俞敏洪 编审 王强 录音  LRC歌词制作 张琦
[00:03.66]If I Rest, I Rust
[00:07.19]The significant inscription found on an old key---
[00:11.63]“If I rest, I rust”---
[00:13.36]would be an excellent motto for those
[00:15.62]who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness.
[00:18.45] Even the most industrious person
[00:21.10]might adopt it with advantage to serve
[00:24.11]as a reminder that,
[00:25.60]if one allows his faculties to rest,
[00:28.02]like the iron in the unused key,
[00:30.43]they will soon show signs of rust and,
[00:32.99]ultimately,
[00:34.23] cannot do the work required of them.
[00:36.33]Those who would attain the heights reached
[00:39.73]and kept by great men
[00:41.15]must keep their faculties polished by constant use,
[00:44.59]so that they may unlock the doors of knowledge,
[00:47.41] the gate that guard the entrances to the professions,
[00:51.06]to science, art, literature, agriculture---
[00:54.68]every department of human endeavor.
[00:57.38]Industry keeps bright the key
[00:59.92]that opens the treasury of achievement.
[01:01.97]If Hugh Miller,
[01:03.65]after toiling all day in a quarry,
[01:06.32] had devoted his evenings to rest and recreation,
[01:09.73] he would never have become a famous geologist.
[01:13.34]The celebrated mathematician,
[01:16.24]Edmund Stone,
[01:18.03]would never have published a mathematical dictionary,
[01:21.26] never have found the key to science of mathematics,
[01:24.51] if he had given his spare moments to idleness,
[01:27.82]had the little Scotch lad,
[01:29.96]Ferguson,
[01:30.76]allowed the busy brain to go to sleep
[01:32.77]while he tended sheep on the hillside
[01:35.07]instead of calculating the position of the stars by a string of beads,
[01:39.57] he would never have become a famous astronomer.
[01:43.30]Labor vanquishes all---not inconstant, spasmodic,
[01:49.86]or ill-directed labor; but faithful, unremitting,
[01:53.89]daily effort toward a well-directed purpose.
[01:57.48]Just as truly as eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,
[02:02.49]so is eternal industry the price of noble and enduring success.

