满足现状， 不思进取是一件可悲的事情。

To be pleased with one is limits is a wretched state.

我们喜欢挑战，但假如大人对我们期望很低的话，说真的，我们就会不思进取。

We love challenges, but when expectations are low, trust me, we will sink to them.

然而他可不能沉湎于过去的荣耀而不思进取，因为尽管其仕途前景一片光明，但西班牙长期的经济繁荣却不见得是一种健康的增长方式。

Yet he cannot afford to rest on his laurels . His political future may seem promising, but Spain's long-running economic boom is not quite so healthy.