People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

  • -- Katharine Whitehorn 凯瑟琳·怀特霍恩

人们得到一个不好的印象通过不断尝试的人把它看成是一个银行职员,他周二应该准时,而不是哲学上看到它作为一个画家,他们可能做任何事情只要你不要试图预测。

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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

在每个时代,“美好的往昔”都是一个神话。当时没有人认为他们是优秀的。因为每一个时代都有一些危机,在经历过这些危机的人看来是无法忍受的。

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

今天在我们国家年轻人很少领导什么。年轻一代将年长一代推向更高的标准已经有一段时间了。