There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

当我回去工作的时候,总是有一种不可避免的感觉。这可能完全是一种错觉,但我需要从床上爬起来,开始我的工作。那种我无法避免的感觉。我还是继续吧。

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

从醒到起的这半小时里,我的一生都被证明对任何一项我发明的任务都是有益的……我总是在第一次睁开眼睛的时候,渴望的念头就涌上心头。

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.

说实话,我和我丈夫都倾向于忽略小报。我们每隔一段时间就会看到他们,或者我们注意到我们因为这样或那样的原因上了小报。但它总是错的。

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

发现欺诈和察觉愚蠢总是正确的;但是,揭露这两种情况往往都是错误的。做生意的人应该时刻睁大眼睛,但又必须常常闭上眼睛。

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

我从事实和推理中得出我的意见,我的意见只适合我自己。如果人们不喜欢我的观点,那也没什么区别,因为我不征求他们的意见或投票。

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

我和我丈夫在工作中都付出了很多,因为这是我们的公共生活;但在我的私人生活中,我有一种内在的权利让自己独处。

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

祷告使人有机会认识一位素不相识的绅士。我说的不是造他的主,乃是他自己。

So long, my luckless romance my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache, almost lovers always do.

这么久了,我倒霉的浪漫故事,我的背对着你。早该知道你会给我带来心痛,几乎所有的爱人都会。

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

艺术与大众娱乐和宣传,它们都可以被绘制在同一个图表上,但有区别。

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

当国会开会的时候,这个国家就会有同样的感觉,就像婴儿拿起锤子一样。

If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by.

如果你等待完美的时刻太久,完美的时刻就会从你身边溜走。

There is a difference between giving up, and knowing when you have had enough.

放弃和知道自己什么时候已经受够了是有区别的。

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

只有天堂本身比一个真正的朋友更好。

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

我和几十个年轻人约会,和所有人都玩得很开心,却没有向任何人做出承诺。

The nice thing about self-love is that it's hardly ever unrequited.

自爱的好处是它很少是没有回报的。

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

赚钱很容易。做出改变要困难得多。

There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

世界上没有比绝望更愚蠢的事了。

When you have four daughters, you learn to lose early and often.

当你有四个女儿的时候,你就学会了尽早和经常地失去。

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

任何人都可以充满激情,但只有真正的爱人才会傻。

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

名利常使作家虚荣,但很少使他骄傲。

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

像一个有行动的人一样思考,像一个有思想的人一样行动。

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

哦,几乎正确和完全正确之间的区别。

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

我拒绝加入任何愿意接纳我为会员的俱乐部。

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

不要太信任丈夫,也不要太信任单身汉。

Life is too short, to waste time hating anyone.

人生苦短,不要浪费时间去恨任何人。

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

可以说,我只不过是一个媒介。

There are two words for everything.

每件事都有两个词。

Better one house spoiled than two.

一个房子坏了总比两个好。