It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

当一个朋友的口袋上有洞的时候,把硬币放在他的口袋里是没有帮助的。

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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

我们所能做的最好的事情就是对我们的朋友和同行的乘客友好和帮助,当我们肩并肩漂流向我们共同的命运时,他们紧紧抓住同一粒尘埃。

For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.

对我和我丈夫来说,我最大的烦恼之一就是我不能容忍一个老朋友或一个女人走进房间,然后跑到我丈夫面前跟他说话,但是他们不跟我说话。

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

然而,这种业余爱好有时有助于形成一种风格;你必须克服你的弱点。

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

我是工人的朋友,我宁愿做他的朋友,也不愿做工人的朋友。