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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

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Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

失业对个人的影响比你想象的还要大。除了明显的危害——贫困、难以偿还债务——它似乎直接影响人们的健康，尤其是老年工人的健康。

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

伟大的文学作品应该对读者有一些好处:它必须使读者的感知速度加快，使他们的辨别能力增强，使他们的个人见解更加成熟。

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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

困难告诉人们他们是什么。如果遇到任何困难，请记住，上帝让你与一个粗暴的对手对抗，让你成为一个征服者，这是不可能不经过艰苦努力的。

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We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

我们被电脑和科技深深吸引，我们的孩子整天都在电脑前。人与人之间的关系因此而受到削弱。

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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

你不必总是在所谓的白盒子里展示艺术;你可以在一个展览中有一种复杂性，实际上也尊重艺术。

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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

我唯一喜欢的社会是艰苦的社会，越艰苦越好。在那里，你可以深入到基岩，遇见人类。

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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

在任何情况下，文学都是由与人类接触的良知对法律机构提出的挑战。

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You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.

你不能以貌取人，但如果你有一本好书，你肯定能卖出很多书。

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Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

不管是书还是电视，或者其他什么，我所做的主要是我的餐馆。

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Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

除非你准备好让自己看起来很傻，否则你永远不可能变得伟大。

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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

在某种程度上，了解一个人的藏书室，就是了解一个人的思想。

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Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

复杂性是环境设计中的一个重要问题。

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

他爱书;书是冷漠而安全的朋友。

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