Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  • -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould 凯瑟琳·富勒顿·杰罗德

文明只是品味上的进步:总是接受更好的东西,拒绝讨厌的东西。

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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

我们需要的很多东西可以等待。孩子不能。现在是他的骨头成形,思想发展的时候了。我们不能对他说明天,他的名字是今天。

The time was out of joint, and he was only too delighted to have been born to set it right.

时间不协调了,他生下来就能把它安排好,真是太高兴了。