May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

“平凡人高于他们的地位”这一抱怨,难道不常以“平凡人低于他们的地位”这一事实为依据吗?

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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

突然,我意识到,车夫正在一座巨大的破城堡的院子里拉马,那座破城堡的高大的黑色窗户里没有一丝光亮,破城垛在天空的映衬下显出一条锯齿状的线。

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

一个人在下议院可能说得很好,但在上议院却可能完全失败。有两种截然不同的风格是必不可少的:在我的职业生涯中,如果我有时间,我打算把这两种风格都举一个例子。

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

我不知道我能做脱口秀。我不知道我们能给白天带来变化。我不知道人们早上想看唱歌、跳舞和喜剧。

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

一些艺术家想象他们已经控制住了这个装置,而事实上这个装置已经控制住了他们。结果,他们最终支持了一个他们无法控制的文化监狱。

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

看到那些婴儿四天三天都没有吃东西,老人坐在烈日下,当你看到这些穷人时,你会情不自禁地同情或感动。

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

如果一个人自信地朝着他的梦想前进,努力过他想象中的生活,他会在平常的时间里遇到意想不到的成功。