Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

教育,n。诗歌向智慧人显明自己无知的,向愚昧人隐藏自己无知的。

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The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

杜马斯的一生不仅是一座努力和成功的丰碑,也是一座迷宫。它充斥着假名和伪装,出现在突然和意想不到的地方,又以突然和意想不到的方式退却,出现在丑闻和谣言中,出现在各种各样的神秘事件、陷阱和埋伏中。

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

这就是为什么我一直很欣赏纪录片,因为它们打开了一扇窗户,让你更好地了解自己来自哪里,我认为这比小说好得多。

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

有些无形的现实漂浮在我们身边,没有形式,没有语言;没有人想出来的现实,因为没有翻译而被排除在外。

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

艺术产生丑陋的东西,而丑陋的东西往往随着时间的推移而变得更加美丽。另一方面,时尚产生的美丽的东西总是随着时间变得丑陋。

The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.

商业腐败的问题在于,人们对它感到愤怒,很容易忽视腐败常常掩盖的系统性问题。

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

人们期望你能理解他们,却很少努力去理解你。

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

教育的目的是使青年人作好终生自学的准备。

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

初恋就是一点点笨拙外加许许多多好奇。

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

女人总是善变的——信任她的人是愚蠢的。

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

宽恕你的敌人,但永远不要忘记他们的名字。

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

无家可归的原因是缺乏住房。