A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

  • -- George MacDonald 乔治·麦克唐纳

野兽不知道自己是野兽,人越接近野兽,就越不知道自己是野兽。

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A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

街头暴徒和职业杀手都是职业杀手——如果你愿意,可以说是食肉动物,它们已经脱离了人类,现在可以像钓鳟鱼的渔民那样看待人类。

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

这只野兽去井边喝水,声音在它的肚子里,就像三十只猎狗在追逐猎物一样,但是在它喝水的时候,肚子里一点声音也没有。

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

即使在衰退期,一个有道德的人也会使他的行为更加美丽。一根燃烧着的木棍,虽然倒向地面,但它的火焰却向上引燃。

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, ’Tis woman’s whole existence.

爱情对男人不过是身外之物,对女人却是整个生命。