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。

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。

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

女孩就像钢琴。当他们不正直的时候,他们是伟大的。

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

当小屋不快乐时,宫殿就不安全了。