
However, you'll be hard pressed to find success even if you have the most sunny optimism if you don't focus in with some hard work, build your knowledge, plan for what you want, and build other foundational pieces of success.
然而,如果你不急中精力努力工作,建立知識體系,做好人生規劃,儲備其他基本的成功條件,即使你有最樂觀的心態,也很難成功.
be hard-pressed to do sth:很難(做某事)
You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
找一位更好的秘書很難.
While it's useful to reflect on them a bit, it's not healthy to dwell on them.
該句式使用while it's...,it's not...表示強烈的對比效應,肯定前半句的同時否定后半句.如果在演講中使用該句式可以使演講者增強語氣,表達強烈的感情.dwell on意為"念念不忘,詳述".
So you made a mistake, but there's no need to dwell on it.
你是錯了,不過不必老是想著這事兒.
Make a list of all of your regular coworkers and contacts and list a few positive attributes about each one – their knowledge, their insight, their communication skills, their logical skills, and so on.
該句使用破折號表示舉例說明.作者并沒有使用類似such as這樣的短語來舉例,其目的是引起讀者的關注. 所以在英語寫作中,建議使用特殊的符號來起到強調作用,效果會更好.