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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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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?

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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

满怀希望，拥抱一个又一个的可能性，这无疑是最基本的本能——呼喊:高潮!是时候搬到辉煌的废墟中去了。是时候接受现实了!

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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

很明显，持续不断的虚假广告对人类心智的损害并不是一件小事。征服一个国家的方法不止一种。

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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

强烈的期待本身就能把可能性变成现实;我们的欲望往往只是我们能够完成的事情的前驱。

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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

但是，最基本的困难仍然存在:那就是扩大联邦权力，对此我谨表示警告。我们多么容易接受这样的业务。

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Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

书。人们不知道书有多漂亮。它们在你手指上的味道。当你用语言点亮一切时，它是多么明亮。

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The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

强者把克服困难当作自己的首要兴趣;成功只会来得更晚。

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Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

书有一种独特的方式，能在特定的时刻停下时间，并说:“我们不要忘记这一点。”

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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

文学是一种职业，你必须不断向没有才华的人证明你的才华。

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Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure.

成熟的女人不是在她的年龄或身材，因为年龄只是一个数字，而身材就是身材。

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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

如果将正交特征组合在一起，就会变得非常复杂。

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Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

我们人类的角色是认识到他人的复杂性。

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

财富和匮乏同样使人的心变硬。

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Read and deliver yourself in every page!

阅读并传递你自己的每一页!

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