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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

虽然智力无法改变性格，但它是为自己的弱点寻找委婉语的能手。

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

对全体民众来说，变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事，低声诉说隐藏的渴望，揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查，以免受到国家的惩罚。

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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

她有一种女性的本能，认为衣服对许多人的影响比性格的价值或风度的魅力更大。

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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

我们往往因为软弱而狡诈，而不是因为算计。

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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

不真诚永远是弱点;真诚即使在错误中也是力量。

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Public radio has always been so powerless.

公共广播一向如此无能为力。

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