How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

  • -- Horace Walpole 霍勒斯·沃波尔

当莎士比亚从旁门旁道或庸俗的历史学家那里借用小环境时,他是多么懂得如何改善和提升小环境。

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

我现在活在借来的时间里,在接待室里等待那不可避免的召唤。然后——我接着做下一件事,不管它是什么。幸运的是,人们不必为此烦恼。

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

虽然文明一直在改善我们的住房,但它并没有同样改善住在其中的人。它创造了宫殿,但创造贵族和国王并不容易。

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

一个真正的自然资源保护主义者知道这个世界不是他父亲给的,而是从他的孩子那里借来的。

We know that we can get by with a big inning, but we need to continue to improve overall and we should be all right.

我们知道我们可以通过一个大的局,但我们需要继续提高整体,我们应该是好的。