Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

与其说人是环境的产物,不如说人是环境的建筑师。

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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

我的角色是一个身材矮小但很强壮的人,所以看到一般认为不强壮的人之间的战斗场面本身就是不寻常的,因此我觉得很有趣。

Character and ideals are catching. When you associate with men who aspire to the highest and best, you expose yourself to the qualities that make men great.

性格和理想很吸引人。当你和那些志存高远的人交往时,你就把自己暴露在那些使人变得伟大的品质面前。

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

不服从是美德中最罕见、最勇敢的一种,很少与忽视、最懒惰和最常见的恶习区分开来。

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

人民的冷漠足以使每一座雕像从基座上跃起,加速死者的复活。

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

只有与世界联姻,我们的理想才能结出果实;离开了它,它们仍然不能生育。

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

我们的责任是做一个有用的人,不是根据我们的愿望,而是根据我们的能力。

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.

我刚完成了缉毒任务,这是一项很重的任务,原始的,独立的。

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

我是一个商人和演员,现在还在露面。