wayside

How is it that the successful motivate themselves to keep at it when others fall by the wayside?.当其他人跌倒在路旁时，他们是如何激发自己坚持下去的？

To instance only one point: till then I had cared very little about plants and flowers, but now I found myself eagerly interested in every blossom, in every growth of the wayside..只要举个例子就看得出来了：在这之前，我很少留意于草木花卉，可是现在我发现自己对路边每朵绽开的鲜花、每根生长的小草都兴趣十足。

She beheld the minister advancing along the path, entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside..她看到牧师正沿着小径走来，他只身一人，只是手中接着一根从路边砍下的手杖。

fall by the wayside,半途而废；中途退出