Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

  • -- Ninette De Valois 尼特德瓦卢瓦

几乎没有一代人想要得到上一代人的全部,他们只想得到最好的部分。

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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子,也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

我的腰围越来越小,用裁缝的话来说,甚至连我自己的朋友,或我尊敬的医学顾问,都难以想象,直到我穿上以前的衣服,穿上现在的衣服,这是一个彻底令人信服的证据,证明我发生了显著的变化。

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

每一代人都比上一代人走得更远,因为它站在那一代人的肩膀上。你将拥有前所未有的机遇。

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

我们这一代人把地球弄得一团糟。