Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗歌应该有所帮助,不仅要精炼当时的语言,而且要防止它变化太快。

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It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

我们倾向于把每一个问题都当作是双方之间的斗争来处理。我们在标题中看到它总是使用战争的隐喻。这是一种普遍的敌意和争论的气氛,已经占据了我们的公共话语。

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after.

我不知道该选哪个, 变化之美 或者影射之美 黑鸟吹口哨 或之后。

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

体育是唯一的娱乐,无论你回去多少次,你永远不知道结局。

I don't like to stop. I'm a big person who looks at where the hubs are because I hate changing planes.

我不想停下来。我是个大块头,只看枢纽在哪里,因为我讨厌换飞机。

Make some mistakes.. and learn from them. Some of life's best mistakes are learned at the worst times.

犯一些错误。并向他们学习。生活中一些最好的错误是在最糟糕的时候学到的。

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

进步的口号正在从满满一桶晚餐变成满满一车库。

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

情书的语言和遗书是一样的。

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

如果这不是一种乐趣,那就不是一首诗。