指专心一志。

Focusing the heart and saluting ambition

谆谆：教诲不倦的样子；告诫：规劝。恳切耐心地劝告。

caution someone earnestly not to...

形容一点一滴地积累。

save every tiny bit accumulate bit by bit

穿：凿通；引：引进。凿通墙壁，引进烛光。形容家贫读书刻苦。

pierce a hole in the wall and bring lightused figuratively for studying hard bore a hole through the wall so that light from the neighbour can be used for studying

徒：人（含贬义）。旧指做买卖的人或街道上没有受过教育的人。

philistine

没有什么可放在心上的。形容胸襟开阔，也形容无所用心。

Without thought and care

挨次序一字一句地。

word for word

旧俗对于塾师，逢端午节、中秋节、年节及孔子诞辰，塾师生日，均各加送束脩一月，称为三节两寿。亦用以泛指节日和生辰。

Three festivals, long life

指工作或学习勤奋不知疲倦。

Diligent and tireless

指人有学问，常有人登门求教。也比喻勤学好问。

studious and inquisitive

载：年。指长期苦读。

a students long years of academic studies

不苟：不苟且。连一笔都不马虎。

Every stroke executed meticulously

樽：古代盛酒器；就：凑近。端着酒杯离座到对方面前共饮，以便请教。比喻主动去向人请教。

go and ask somebody for his advice

业：学业；精：精通；于：在于；勤：勤奋。学业精深是由勤奋得来的。

excellence in work is possible only with diligence

信守本分，安于故常。

Keep One's Place, Keep the Norms

全：完备，齐全；终：结束。从头到尾都很完善。形容办事认真，有头有尾。

see stick to ... to the very end

比喻读书甚多，学识丰富精湛。二酉：指大酉山、小酉山。

Books that reach the two Yu

比喻勤学苦读。同“雪窗萤几”。

Snowy table and firefly lamp

竟到如此地步。

Up to this extent

磬：古同“罄”，空，尽；竹：竹简，用以写字；书：写。用尽竹子也难写完。形容罪行多得写不完。后泛指事实多，写不完。

Hard to record with chime and bamboo