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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

人们说，如果你发现水涨到脚踝，那就该做点什么了，而不是当水涨到脖子上的时候。

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

不公正、贫穷、奴役、无知——这些都可以通过改革或革命来解决。但是人不仅仅是靠与罪恶作斗争来生活的。他们生活在积极的目标下，个人的和集体的，各种各样的目标，很少是可以预测的，有时是不相容的。

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If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

如果你能找到一些你真正热爱的东西，无论你是男人还是女人，你都不会太在意。激情是一种中性的力量。

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Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

没有奋斗的婚姻就像一只没有烧着的瓦罐。它很容易做，但经不起时间的考验。

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Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

嗯，我喜欢认为我的疾病阻止了我上升到任何令人眩晕的高度。

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

生活在昨天的梦里，我们发现自己仍然梦想着未来不可能的征服。

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Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

没有真理，人们就会说谎。嘲笑美德，背叛就成了理所当然的事。

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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

我认为人们做手术更多的是出于心理原因，而不是外貌。

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I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

我害怕自己不能超越平庸。

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