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“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”
— Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
「別人教我要奮鬥，不是因為有任何成功的保證，而是奮鬥本身是唯一對人生維持信心的方法。」– 馬德琳‧歐布萊特（美國國務卿）
- strive (v.) 努力，奮鬥。例：We must strive for the best. (我們必需努力成為最好的。) keep faith with… 繼續支持/相信某事。例：Despite the continuing recession, the president has asked people to keep faith with his economic policies. (儘管景氣持續低迷，總統要求民眾繼續支持他的經濟政策。)
- 馬德琳‧歐布萊特（1937-）出生於捷克，在總統柯林頓時期成為美國第一位女國務卿，獲總統歐巴馬授予「總統自由勳章」，除了英語外，她還通曉法語、俄語、捷克語、波蘭語和塞爾維亞 – 克羅埃西亞語。
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