"A holy bond between us still Makes me wish speedy end to ill: The sluggard waits till afternoon, -- At once great Magnus! grant our boon. Then we will serve with heart and hand, With thee we'll fight by sea or land: With Olaf's sword take Olaf's mind, And to thy bondes be more kind."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"Does it beseem a courtman bold Here to be dozing in the hold? The bearded knight should danger face: The leak gains on our ship apace. Here, ply this bucket! bale who can; We need the work of every man. Our sea-horse stands full to the breast, -- Sluggards and cowards must not rest."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
"`Go to the ant, thou sluggard'--and learn something," he said triumphantly. "Don't they cooperate pretty well? You can't beat it. This place is just like an enormous anthill--you know an anthill is nothing but a nursery. And how about bees? Don't they manage to cooperate and love one another? As the birds do love the Spring Or the bees their careful king,
as that precious Constable had it. Just show me a combination of male creatures, bird, bug, or beast, that works as well, will you?英文原著 · 《Herland》
Bother not about the morrow, for sufficient to the day Is the evil (rather more so). Put your trust in God and pray! Study well the ant, thou sluggard. Blessed are the meek and low. Ponder calmly on the lilies -- how they idle, how they grow. A man's a man! Obey your masters! Do not blame the proud and fat, For the poor are always with them, and they cannot alter that.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
But asked it to give vigour to thy feet;
Thus must we needs urge on the sluggards, slow
To use their wakefulness when it returns."英文原著 · 《Purgatorio》
The voyager may rest awhile, When rest invites, and yet may be Neither a sluggard nor a craven. With strength renewed he quits the isle, And putting out again to sea, Makes sail for his desired haven.英文原著 · 《R. F. Murray》