How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

每件事都是那么琐碎!只有一个人的思想才能使房间里充满不仅仅是家具的东西。

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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

一个有理智的人只会和他们玩些鸡毛蒜皮的事,逗他们开心,奉承他们,就像他对待一个活泼好动的孩子一样;但他既不向他们请教,也不把严肃的事情托付给他们。

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

两个人的谈话相当于四个人的谈话。这四个是一个人说了什么,他真正想说什么,他的听众听到了什么,他认为他听到了什么。

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

哲学家们最深刻的思想也有一些细微之处。很多东西为了突然出现在掌心而消失。