Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  • -- Philip Dormer 菲利普·多默

我们的偏见就是我们的情妇;理性充其量是我们的妻子,确实经常听到,但很少在意。

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There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.

我们的养牛者没有充分的理由进入如此有限的市场。我们的牛肉是世界上最好的,我们需要被允许进入全球市场。

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

没有什么激情比恐惧更能有效地剥夺人的行为和推理能力。

It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

在没有任何理由的情况下,仅仅扮演一个恶棍并不那么有趣。