Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

  • -- Bernard Baruch 巴鲁克

不再有用的旧书和不再给人带来快乐的老朋友,都不应该被抛弃。

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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

在希斯的案例中,争论的焦点是,这个病态的社会,我们称之为西方文明,在其极端情况下,是否还能培养出这样一个人,他对西方文明的信心是如此之大,以至于他会自愿放弃人们认为好的东西,包括生命,来捍卫它。

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

不像我们的旧书——蒸汽可以压印和折叠的东西;不像我们的旧书——一排排的铅字,仅此而已。

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

幻想,被理智抛弃,产生不可能的怪物;与之相结合,她是艺术之母,奇迹之源。

You either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive.

你要么原谅一个抛弃你的爱人,要么原谅上帝带走了他们——无论哪种方式,你都必须原谅。

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.

我们在短暂而忙碌的生活中读到的每一本新书,都意味着一本经典没有读。

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

弃婴的哭声是愤怒,不是恐惧。