I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  • -- Clara Barton 克拉拉巴顿

我几乎完全无视先例,相信会有更好的结果。有人告诉我事情总是这样做,我很生气。我反对先例的暴政。我追求任何可以改变过去的新事物。

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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

在世界历史所无法比拟的我国人民的自愿努力之后,痛苦的老根还会象它过去所结的果实那样留在地里,在未来发芽和结果吗?

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

我写推理小说是因为我喜欢读它,并且认为我可以比一些即将出版的人做得更好。

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

我们一旦把现场拍下来,就被要求即兴发挥。

I want players who are always striving to improve.

我想要那些一直在努力提高的球员。

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

不要在意一个看不到过去暴行的世界。

Well done is better than well said.

说得好不如做得好。