To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

人也会犯错,因为动物很少或从不犯错,或者至少只有最聪明的动物才会犯错。

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I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

我指的是要求对另一个国家的事务进行人道主义干预的呼吁- -这是一种新的想法- -即使是在以捍卫人权和自由为借口的情况下。

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

皮草与其他由动物制成的材料,如皮革,在道德上没有区别,而皮革也是众生受苦和死亡的结果。

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

在我们对人类交易的判断中,光学定律被颠倒了;我们最模糊地看到周围的物体。

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

只要人们认为我们能为他们服务,我们就很少发现人们忘恩负义。

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

女人在买结婚礼服之前很少征求意见。

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

真正欣赏动物的人总是问它们的名字。