Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  • -- Quentin Crisp 昆汀·奎斯普

没有什么比讲述不幸的经历更能缩短一段愉快的旅程了。

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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

现代的假物理哲学剥夺了人的一切道德属性,或者在估计他的起源和在被创造的世界中的地位时不考虑这些属性。

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

我们将建造新的飞船载着人类进入宇宙,在月球上获得新的立足点,并为去我们自己之外的世界的新旅程做好准备。

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

我没有银行账户,因为我不知道我母亲的娘家姓。

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

我们都有足够的力量去忍受别人的不幸。

Every journey to something is a journey away from something.

每一次通往某物的旅程都是一次远离某物的旅程。

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

最难忍受的不幸是那些从未发生过的不幸。