All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此,我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

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We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

我们已经留出数千万英亩的西北森林作为永久用地。失业率不是上升了,而是下降了。经济增长了。

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

凡为你裁剪的衣服,就是不及为不像你这样身材的人裁剪的衣服好看,也是合宜的。

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

在日常生活中,确实时不时会有一些大问题,但它帮助读者梳理出所有这些灰色的东西。

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

一个人不可能同时拥有所有的好东西,就像没有一个国家能够为自己提供所有的好东西一样。

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

忠诚度不是那么高。我可以有一个大的成功,然后推出下一个单曲,他们说,哦,是的,你是谁?再次证明这一点。

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

留给我们的最冒险的事情之一就是上床睡觉。因为没有人能阻止我们的梦想。

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

在说服方面,心与心是不匹配的;合宪性与同情心是不匹配的。

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

生活就是这样构建的:一件事不符合、不可能、也不会符合人们的期望。

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

理性主义是艺术的敌人,尽管作为建筑的基础是必要的。

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

人是高贵的动物,在灰烬中光艳夺目,在坟墓中却趾高气扬。

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

我们的幸福始终取决于智慧。

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

做不可能的事是一种乐趣。