They build their reputations tilling some minuscule academic field, and then pontificate on Charlie Rose about everything under the sun.

这仅是几位害群之马已吗？联邦法官理查德波斯纳在其《公共知识分子》（哈弗出版社）中认为，这是整个学术的风气的败坏，审视各类学者教授（不但是无良学者），波纳斯表示学士权威的影响力源于对公众的蒙蔽，他们在某狭隘的专业专业领域里打拼，一旦功成名就，便在 “ 查利罗斯访谈秀 ” 等节目上煮酒论英。

My father has succeeded in many on the highest level and on a global scale.

我父亲在很多产业中功成名就，且他的成功山登绝顶，遍及五洲。

I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star.

我知道有时候你从电视上得到这样的印象，不需要付出多大的努力就腰缠万贯，功成名就，只要长RAP 、打篮球或者参加真秀节目，就能坐享其成。

To that point, my life had been so big, so full of possibility, but now it all seemed to be spiraling down, like that fracture in my leg.

在那时点之前，我的生功成名就，充满了可能性。但现在，一切似乎都被漩涡卷下去了，和我脚部的骨折一样惨。

Sue explains, for many Asians, the cultural view of the ideal person is one who is well-educated, especially for immigrant parents wanting children to succeed.

苏解释，对许多亚言，文化上即认为理想物需受良好的教育。对那些期望子女功成名就的移民父母们尤其如此。

And, I thought this is a man whose story will end well.

我当时就想 这个一定功成名就的。

Swords cleave to hands that sought the plow, And laurels miss the soldier's brow.

刀剑在手，扶动犁铧的大手，功成名就，乃万骨筑垒铺就。

I guess the sad truth is, not everyone will accomplish something great.

事实就是这么悲哀，不是所有都能功成名就。

You can write your own ticket. Why aren't you more excited?

届时你便可以功成名就了。你怎么好像一点都不兴奋？

STEP 2 Set your own standards for success. Who cares that your sister is an accomplished black belt? You can be an accomplished pacifist.

为自己设立成功的标准。谁在乎你的姐妹是一名功成名就的黑带高手？你可以成为一名卓著的反战论者。

" Edwin James was no smarter than anybody else, though a little faster as a typist, and look where he is today, " my mother said, and said, and said again.

“埃德温? 詹姆士虽然打字速度比较快，但他并不比其他聪明，你看，他现在多么功成名就，”我母亲总是一遍又一遍地说。

Eminent and prominent are both adjectives, and they can both be used to talk about people who are very well-known and successful in their profession.

Eminent和prominent都是形容词。两者都可以用来形容功成名就的。

He then asked me what I thought was the reason for his success. I replied: " I understand you can call ten thousand people by their first names" .

于是，他反问我他功成名就的秘密所在。 我是这样回答的：" 我知道你可以叫出上万的名字。"

As with, I think, every artist, you know, they start out with that dream of getting a record deal and making it big, but you have to adjust.

我想，每个艺术家都是如此，他们一开始就有获得唱片合约和功成名就的梦想，但你必须不断地调整。

As my fortunes grew, my father’s waned, but his gifts of flowers continued until he died of a heart attack a few months before his 70th birthday.

随着我不断功成名就，父亲日渐衰老，但他依然坚持给我送花，直到他70岁生日的前几个月，因心脏病发作猝然逝去。

Not every graduate from an Ivy League school " makes the grade" in life; even a first-rate education is no guarantee of success.

并不是每一个常春藤盟校的毕业生都能在生中“出头地”，即使一流的学府也不能保证功成名就。

" It's very good of a busy and successful man like you to come all this way to see an old fogey" .

" 你这样一个功成名就的忙大老远地来看我这么一个老古董，真是太好了。"

Objectively, though, the death of a long-lived and fulfilled artist is far from the saddest item in an average day's headlines.

然，客观地讲，一位寿终正寝且功成名就的艺术家去世，这远远算不上日常头条新闻中最令悲痛的事情。

In this sense, cultivating students of tremendous promise is more important than carrying out academic research to make a name.

从这一点来说，培养学生比著书研究、功成名就更为重要。

And you're just gonna burn into nothingness in the universe eventually, you can try so hard to matter.

你最终只在宇宙中成为虚无，尽管你曾努力地想要功成名就。