Keep hungry 求知若渴

The ability to increase and maintain your hunger is the one common denominator amongst the most successful students, those that are getting the highest grades, they're hungrier than the rest. 

在最成功的学生中，他们有一个共同点，就是能够激发和保持对知识的渴望。那些成绩最高的学生比其他学生更渴望真知。

I believe that's a single most important factor that separates the top performing students to the average performing students, it's hunger, it's not just the ability to be hungry, but it's the ability to sustain it over long periods of time.

我认为，一个最重要的因素可以将表现最好的学生与表现一般的学生区分开来，这个因素就是对知识的渴望，不单单是渴望，更重要的是要长期保持这种渴望知识的能力。

So you've got to ask yourself, how hungry are you, how bad do you want it, when you achieve the grades that you're aiming for, do you then get comfortable and relaxed. 

所以你必须问自己，你有多渴望，你的渴望有多么强烈。当你达到你的目标成绩时，你会感到舒适，并逐渐放松自己吗？

A lot of students when they achieve the grades they're aiming for, they relax, but if you can find within yourself, the part of you that wants more, you want to make a bigger difference, you want to push a bit more, you want your grades a bit higher, you should never be satisfied with the grades that you've got, because the attempt to achieve more makes you into something phenomenal. 

很多学生，当他们达到他们的目标成绩时，他们会放松，但是如果你能在自己身上找到你渴望更多的那一部分，比如你渴望做出更大的改变，你想要促成更多事情，你想要你的成绩更好，那你就永远不应该对你的成绩感到满意，因为当你你试图取得更大的成绩的时候，你就会成为一个非凡的人。

【重点词汇&表达】

1.denominator [dɪ'nɒmɪneɪtə]

  共同特征或共同性质；

2.amongst

  在…之中；（等于among）

3.the highest grades

 最好的成绩；

4.the rest

 剩余部分；其余者；

5.top performing students

 表现最佳的学生；尖子生；

6.long periods of time

 长期；

7.bad

  adv.很，非常；

8.aim for 

 瞄准；以…为目标；

9.make a difference

 有影响，有关系；起作用；

10.phenomenal [fɪ'nɒmɪn(ə)l]

  显著的；惊人的，非凡的；