I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

我从未见过一部小说,尽管根据作者的政治观点进行了改编,但仍能写得很好。

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By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

通过鼓励墨西哥公民侵犯我们的边境,墨西哥正在把巨大的福利负担从自己的肩上推到我们的肩上,同时也受益于这些工人最终将寄回家的巨额美元。

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

中年是你的老同学头发灰白,满脸皱纹,秃顶,他们认不出你来的时候。

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

经常炫耀妻子和钱包的人,有被人借走的危险。

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

虽然由于一时的心血来潮、嫉妒或怨恨,他们谴责那些他们从未读过的作家。