Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

职业评论家在工作中读了太多的坏书,以至于他们对引人入胜的语句产生了一种不健康的渴望。

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

如果不改进个人,就不可能建设一个更美好的世界。为此目的,我们每个人都必须为自己的进步而努力,同时对全人类负有共同的责任,我们的特别责任是帮助我们认为最有用的人。

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

如果没有耐心和对这个标志着这个国家并定义了它的特征的机构的开放的研究,一个人就不能履行忠诚的义务。

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

我们非常孤立,远离男朋友和朋友,所以我们必须坚强、聪明和非常专业。

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

学习读书就是点燃一团火;每一个拼出来的音节都是火花。

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

我认为热情甚至比专业技能更重要。