Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

只有学识渊博或有才能的人,才会容忍杂乱无章和缺乏条理。这些人往往吃得太饱,说不出话来。

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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

司法应在人与人之间进行,有必要指控事实的证词;证人应该理解,他们有很大的责任,根据他们的良心,在黑暗和可疑的案件中发现真相。

I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.

我从来没有负责过任何事情。我一直为别人工作。我在一家家具仓库工作。我做了砌筑。我总是有个老板对我大吼大叫。所以我从来没有管理过一个组织。

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

谁知道人类的思想,他们如何推理,他们的方法论是什么?但我不打算从大会上收回我的书并把它作为一个个人问题来推断。

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

当我在演戏的时候,就好像我就是那个角色——没有人能和我说话。可是,我可不愿意卖掉我的房子,到街上去当一个流浪汉。

I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

我将永远铭记于心。总会有问题。我给金莺队带来了新的球迷,这很好。

One of the chiefs of this nation, with his young men, escorted us to the Lake of the Illinois.

这个国家的一位首领,带着他的年轻人,护送我们到伊利诺斯湖。

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

在潜到快乐的水底时,我们带上来的沙砾比珍珠还多。

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

即使是珍珠在他洁白的牙齿面前也是黑的。