The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

  • -- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

当我们想要相信某件事的时候,我们突然看到了所有支持它的论据,却对反对它的论据视而不见。

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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

我…不太乐意突然承担这个强加给我的公众角色。他们只是认为我是妇女运动的圣女贞德。而我根本不是。这给我带来了很多不必要的压力。

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

有时候,我们会遇到一些人,甚至是完全陌生的人,他们在我们第一眼看到他们的时候就对我们产生了兴趣,但不知怎么的,在我们还没有开口说话之前,他们就突然一下子引起了我们的兴趣。

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

当市场只是上涨,上涨,再上涨,我们都倾向于对市场的漏洞视而不见。他们都被上涨的物价淹没了。

The eyes are useless when the mind is blind.

头脑盲目时,眼睛是无用的。