自强不息【英】

perseverance; ceaseless/constant self-improvement

译文来源

[1] Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China [M]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2014: 42.
[2] Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping: The Governance of China [M]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 2014: 56.
[3] Full Text of Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress, 2002. via:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-11/17/content_632330.htm

定义

自强不息，字面意思是：强大自己必须要通过坚持不懈的努力；深层次的意思是：一个人的处境即使再糟糕，但是通过持之以恒的努力和付出，可以成就一个强大的自己，若想强大自己，必须坚持，不放弃努力。语出《周易·乾》：“天行健，君子以自强不息。” 著名哲学家、哲学史家、国学大师，北京大学哲学系教授张岱年先生把中华民族精神概括为“自强不息”“厚德载物”。作为“高山仰止，景行行止”的国学大师，他终生勤勉，致思学问，造福祖国的文化学术事业，堪称一代学人楷模。（自强不息.via:
http://baike.sogou.com/v21812.htm?fromTitle=%E8%87%AA%E5%BC%BA%E4%B8%8D%E6%81%AF）自强心是一种美德，是战胜困难，取得胜利的重要精神力量。中华民族素有‘自强不息’的优良传统，它激励着一代代人们不懈奋斗，从而维系着中华民族的生生不息。自强不息要通过热爱劳动，努力创造物质和精神财富来表现。在社会主义初级阶段，自强不息内涵进一步丰富，体现了社会主义道德要求，并成为艰苦奋斗创业精神的一个重要内容。毛泽东曾号召全国各族人民要“自力更生，奋发图强”，争取社会主义革命和建设的胜利。在建设社会主义现代化的进程中，进一步发扬自强不息精神，提倡艰苦奋斗的精神、勤俭的美德，对发展经济、以及提高全民族的道德水平有着极其重要的意义。自强，建立在对自己所从事的事业的正义性和自我深刻认识的基础之上，同争强好胜、爱出风头、狂妄自大、刚腹自用等不良品行相对立。（金炳华，2003：684）

定义来源

[1] 金炳华.马克思主义哲学大辞典[Z].上海辞书出版社，2003.
[2] 自强不息.via:
http://baike.sogou.com/v21812.htm?fromTitle=%E8%87%AA%E5%BC%BA%E4%B8%8D%E6%81%AF

例句

1. 爱国主义始终是把中华民族坚强团结在一起的精神力量，改革创新始终是鞭策我们在改革开放中与时俱进的精神力量。全国各族人民一定要弘扬伟大的民族精神和时代精神，不断增强团结一心的精神纽带、自强不息的精神动力，永远朝气蓬勃迈向未来。——《习近平谈治国理政》，2014: 40

1. Patriotism has always been the inner force that binds the Chinese nation together, and reform and innovation have always been the inner force that spurs us to keep abreast of the times in the course of reform and opening up. Our people of all ethnic groups must foster the great national spirit and follow the call of the times, strengthen our inner bond of unity and perseverance, and vigorously march towards the future. -Quoted from Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, 2014: 42.

2. 我们的国家，我们的民族，从积贫积弱一步一步走到今天的发展繁荣，靠的就是一代又一代人的顽强拼搏，靠的就是中华民族自强不息的奋斗精神。当前，我们既面临着重要发展机遇，也面临着前所未有的困难和挑战。梦在前方，路在脚下。自胜者强，自强者胜。——《习近平谈治国理政》，2014: 52

2. From poverty to prosperity, and from weakness to strength, China has been able to progress step by step over centuries thanks to the tenacity of one generation after another, and to the nation's spirit of constant self-improvement through hard work. Currently we are facing important opportunities for development, but we are also facing unprecedented difficulties and challenges. The dream stretches out before us and the road lies at our feet. Those who overcome their weaknesses are powerful, and those who keep improving themselves come out victors. -Quoted from Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, 2014: 56.

3. 在五千多年的发展中，中华民族形成了以爱国主义为核心的团结统一、爱好和平、勤劳勇敢、自强不息的伟大民族精神。我们党领导人民在长期实践中不断结合时代和社会的发展要求，丰富着这个民族精神。面对世界范围各种思想文化的相互激荡，必须把弘扬和培育民族精神作为文化建设极为重要的任务，纳入国民教育全过程，纳入精神文明建设全过程，使全体人民始终保持昂扬向上的精神状态。——《中国共产党第十六次全国代表大会报告》，2002

3. For more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has evolved a great national spirit centering on patriotism and featuring unity and solidarity, love of peace, industry, courage and ceaseless self-improvement. This national spirit has been enriched in light of the requirements of the times and social development by the people under the leadership of our Party over along period of practice. Confronted with interaction of different thoughts and cultures in the world, we must take it as a crucial task in our cultural development to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit and incorporate it into our national education and the entire process of building spiritual civilization so that the entire people are always filled with an enterprising spirit. -Quoted from Full Text of Jiang Zemin's Report at 16th Party Congress, 2002.

网络参考例句

例句 1：
党的十一届三中全会开启了改革开放历史新时期，中国共产党人和中国人民不断写出中华民族自强不息、顽强奋进的壮丽史诗。——“邓小平与中国特色社会主义——纪念邓小平诞辰110周年”，载于《中共党史研究》2014年第8期
The third Plenary Session of the 11th General Assembly of the CPC started the new era of Reform and Opening Up, and the CPC and Chinese people continuously created Chinese nation’s brilliant epic of ceaseless self-improvement and string with tenacity.

例句 2：
在五千多年的发展中，中华民族形成了以爱国主义为核心的团结统一、爱好和平、勤劳勇敢、自强不息的伟大民族精神。——“中华民族精神的内涵及其发展演变论略”，载于《山东青年政治学院学报》2011年第2期
In its 5000 years’ development, Chinese nation has formed the spirits of unity and solidarity, loving peace, being diligent and brave and ceaseless self-improvement, which takes patriotism as the core.

例句 3：
“自强不息，厚德载物”一语最能体现华夏民族精神。——“‘自强不息，厚德载物’阐微——关于华夏民族精神的若干思考”，载于《毛泽东邓小平理论研究》2008年第8期
“Self-discipline and social commitment”, also “Attain self-pefection through perseverance and embrace the world through cultivation”, can embody best the spirit of the Chinese nation.