Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

人的一切行为中,悔改是最神圣的。所有错误中最大的错误是意识不到任何错误。

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I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

我在西班牙开办了一所足球学院,招收俱乐部释放的年轻球员,在我看来,他们应该得到第二次机会。对我来说,这是一份很有意义的工作,但同时也暴露了英语比赛中的许多缺点。

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

今天,人们以青春的神圣名义做了一百件事,如果他们展现出自己的真面目,人们就会认为他们是属于老年人的权利。

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

我只有在科学阅读或思考的过程中才会感到满足,因为它最终会变成诗意的概括性和模糊性。

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

世界上最大的困难不是生产能力,而是不愿意分享。

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

在你严肃的计划中掺杂一点愚蠢。在适当的时候犯傻是件好事。

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

对于一个迷恋永恒的人来说,未来,那一半的时间,又有什么关系呢?

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

最大的奢侈是能够在下午不时地去看电影和戏剧。

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

我有一个长达一英里的缺点清单,有时会让我在自我憎恨中屈膝。

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

我们的时代是一个过度自觉的时代。我们知道的太多,感觉的太少。

A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.

自己当律师的人,会把傻瓜当作委托人。

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

除了傻瓜,没有人会为了钱而写作。

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。