Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
更上一层楼要比从失败中恢复更加不容易。At that point she opened the door andstood on a small platform (all that remained of that floor).
在那时她打开了楼梯间的门，并站在那一层楼仅剩的这个小平台上。Alan: Perhaps they haven't gotten to your floor yet. Let me see what I can do for you.
亚伦：或许他们还没打扫到您那一层楼。让我来看看如何帮您处理。Though he knew the lovely T'ang poem, "For a thousand li view, ascend another flight of stairs, " he did not take the elevator.
他虽然知道唐人“欲穷千里目，更上一层楼”的好诗，并没有乘电梯。It only took him another floor and a half to ask Miranda for her phone number.
搭了一层楼半他才问出米兰达的电话。About a week before we were due to graduate I found myself alone on this floor. I always got cold and anxious there.
我们毕业前一周的一天，我独自呆在这层楼里，在那我总感到寒冷焦虑。The company may introduce a sign-up, limiting the total number of dogs to the current two to three per floor.
公司也许用引入一种签订合同的方式，把狗的总数限定在目前的每层楼两到三只。Dr. Gidley is always on the up and up, with his young wife, his two little boys at the right school and his practice desirably situated.
吉德利大夫有位年青的妻子，两个孩子上了正规的学堂，自己的开业地点又十分理想，因此小日子过得一步一层楼。On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good. . . so far so good. . . so far so good.
在他每走下一层楼的时候，他一直在向本身保证：越远越好…越远越好…越远越好。