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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西，我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的，我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。

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So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

所以我开始研究马铃薯的氧化系统，如果氧化系统受损，马铃薯会变成棕色。我这样做是希望通过这些研究，发现了解肾上腺功能的关键。

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I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

长期以来，我一直注意到，写作被一些人视为一种精英和超凡脱俗的行为，如果一个人没有为她所写的东西付费，那就更是如此。

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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

在外表上是那么辉煌，那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了，但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。

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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

对倒下的敌人宽宏大量是明智的。

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No hope when I knew that you could.

当我知道你能做到的时候，没有希望了。

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