What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.

  • -- Francesco Petrarca 彼特拉克

你这美貌的处女阿,我不知道用什么名字称呼你,因为你的容貌不属乎血气,你的面貌似乎比世人更多。

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

Naming a transition team varies with the intentions of the candidate; some candidates have been careful to name a transition team as much as a year in advance.

任命过渡团队的方式因候选人的意图而异;有些候选人甚至提前一年就谨慎地选择了一个过渡团队。

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

当人们穿过这片贫瘠的土地时,有时很难意识到在它的表面下存在着什么丰富的生命。

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

小说家就像所有的凡人一样,面对现实比面对过去更自在。

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

正确的名字本身就是一个广告。