Those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly.

企者不立。

Standing on tiptoe he could just reach the big wooden latch.

他踮起脚勉强可以摸到那巨大的水门闩。

I quote: Those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly.

企者不立。

Ron was now standing on tiptoe to look over at the inhabitants of the two beds.

罗恩踮着脚往那两张床上看。

While he thinks he is surpassing others, others see him merely straining, stretching, to stand on tiptoe.

虽然他认为他正在超越别人，但别人认为他只是在过度拉扯自己、踮起脚尖让自己更疲惫。

Standing on tiptoe on the footrest of the wheelchair, he can reach the bolt himself, just about.

踮起脚尖站在轮椅的脚踏板上，他自己就能够到螺栓，刚刚好。

Parents brought their children to vote, letting them stand on tiptoe to put the ballots in the boxes.

许多父母带着孩子来投票，他们让孩子踮起脚来，把选票放入投票箱中。

Standing on tiptoes occurs if we try to extend our control over things we cannot control, so argued Zhuangzi.

庄子认为，如果我们试图扩大对我们无法控制的事情的控制，这就是踮起脚尖。

If he stood on tiptoe, he could reach the shelf.

【stand】他踮起脚尖就能够到架子了。

Hiccup stood on tiptoe and tried to look like a Hero.

卡嗝踮起脚尖，努力让自己看起来像个英雄。

Standing on tiptoe, she waved the handkerchief through the upper aperture, and bent to the rift to go out.

她踮起脚尖，手帕从上口一挥，便弯腰向裂口走了出去。

Lao Tzu would describe this as standing on tiptoes, as he argues that when we stand on our tiptoes we don't stand firmly.

老子会把这描述为踮起脚尖，因为他认为当我们踮起脚尖时，我们站得不牢固。

" We should go and congratulate them! " said Hermione, standing on tiptoe to see the place where Bill and Fleur had vanished amid a crowd of well-wishers.

“我们应该过去向他们道贺，”赫敏说，她踮脚望向已被祝福者们包围的比尔和芙蓉。

People queuing outside classrooms stood on tiptoe to get a look at him, or doubled back to pass him in the corridors again, staring.

学生们在教室外边排着长队，个个踮着脚尖，想一睹他的真面目。在走廊里，他们从他身边走过去，又折回来，死死地盯着他看。

In his profound work, the Tao Te Ching, he wrote that those who stand on tiptoes do not stand firmly, and those who rush ahead don't get very far.

在他的高深著作《道德经》中写道：企者不立，跨者不行。

Drawing near it she looked up; but by reason of the height of the parapet nobody could be seen thereon who did not stand on tiptoe.

走近它，她抬起头来；但是由于护栏的高度，看不到任何人不踮起脚尖站在上面。

This one mystic branch hung down before the main entrance of the Seven Gables, so nigh the ground that any passer-by might have stood on tiptoe and plucked it off.

这一根神秘的树枝垂在七角墙的正门前，离地面很近，任何路人都可能踮起脚尖把它拔下来。

For in those days the keenest of bucolic minds felt a whispering awe at the sight of the gentry, such as of old men felt when they stood on tiptoe to watch the gods passing by in tall human shape.

因为在那些日子里，最敏锐的田园精神一看到绅士们就会发出一种低语般的敬畏，就像老人踮起脚尖看着神灵以高大的人形从身边经过时的感觉一样。