Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  • -- William Shenstone 威廉·申斯通

希望是奉承者,却是最正直的寄生虫;因为她经常出入穷人的茅屋和他上司的宫殿。

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I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.

我听到一个年轻的黑人钢琴家。他是个十几岁的孩子,我八岁,他在玩布吉-伍吉,他把我打晕了。他以为只有他一个人坐在破旧的谷仓里的立式钢琴上,但我却躲在角落里,这样他就看不见我了。

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

因为在患难中不毁谤神、乃是智慧正直人的豫兆。

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

宁可住欢乐的小屋,不愿住哭泣的宫殿。