Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

我的圣诞礼物!这是在大厅里点燃好客之火,在心中点燃慈善之火的季节。

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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

对于生活在文明社会的人来说,一种轻微的日常的无意识的奢侈几乎是永远不会缺少的;就像和煦的气候中温和的空气一样,它是一种永久的微小享受。

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

爱既不羞辱从爱中得益的人,也不用感谢的锁链把他捆绑,因为这恩赐不是给他的,乃是给神的。

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

真正的慈善是希望对他人有用而不考虑回报。

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

有些最聪明的人很难理解显而易见的事实。

People want incongruous, impossible things.

人们想要不协调的、不可能的事情。