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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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

这场运动是由妇女们发起的,她们在很大程度上没有自己的钱,在组织方面也完全没有经验,她们在大约两代人的时间里就赢得了这场斗争,这一事实往往使故事具有戏剧性,而且总是值得保存下来。

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

个人已经成为一个巨大的事物和力量组织中的一个齿轮,这些东西和力量从他的手中夺走了一切进步、精神和价值,以便把它们从主观形式转化为纯粹客观生活的形式。

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。

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

我能想到的只有一种情况,那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河,读情书的时候。

Men who loved you when you were twenty, and who continue to see you the way you looked then are impossible to replace.

那些在你二十岁时就爱上你,并且一直以你当时的样子看你的男人是无法替代的。

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。