1.  To fail to plan is to plan to fail. ( Robert Wubbolding )
訳：「計画を立てそこなうということは、失敗するつもりであるということだ。」
fail to～/～しそこなう、～しない
2. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. ( Mark Twain )
訳: 「明後日できることを明日に延ばすな」
英語のことわざ: Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 「今日出来ることを明日に延ばすな。」をふまえています。
put off / 延期する
3.  When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable. ( Madeleine L’Engle )
訳：「子供のころは大人になったらもう傷つきやすくはないだろうと考えたものだった。しかし、成長するとは傷つきやすさを受け入れることだ。生きるということは傷つきやすくあることなのだから。」
vulnerable/傷つきやすい
(edited by Prof. Yuko Tamaki)

Notes:
carnivorous plant 食虫植物;
nutrition 栄養;
Venus flytrap ハエトリグサ;
pitcher plant 袋葉植物;
bladderworts [植物]タヌキモ;
sip 一口飲むこと;
prey 獲物;
larva (pl. larvae) 幼虫;
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Did you know that some plants eat meat? These carnivorous plants usually grow in places where they cannot get enough nutrition from the soil. The plants look beautiful, but they can be deadly. The Venus flytrap, for example, closes on its prey, such as insects. Asian pitcher plants are sometimes large enough to hold 7.5 liters of liquid that attracts insects, but one sip, and they slide into the plant, never to be seen again. Bladderworts, a third kind of plant, are the fastest-known killers in the plant kingdom. They can suck up a mosquito larvae in 1/50 of a second. (by Prof. Carmella Lieske)
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