The stream in struggling onward turns the mill-wheel; the coral insect, fashioning its tiny cell, joins continents to one another; and the ambitious man, building a pedestal for himself, leaves a monument to posterity.
溪流奋力向前,带动磨坊的水轮;珊瑚虫营造小小的居所,连接起大陆;而有抱负的人为自己筑起基座,也为后世留下纪念碑。
— Jerome K. Jerome · The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · On Getting On in the World —