I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

  • -- Robert Fitzgerald 罗伯特·菲茨杰拉德

我想接着说,荷马,正如我们现在所知,是在他们所谓的口头传统中工作的。

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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

称之为虚荣,称之为傲慢的推定,无论你称它什么愿望,但我想摸索最近的敞开的坟墓如果我没有报纸工作,不需要寻找,有时候他们会觉得只适合有翼的词,不希望奇迹在每一天的展开,可能会带来什么。

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.

现在,如果有人认为我们可以让经济向前发展,只需要少数顶层的人做得很好,希望它会慢慢惠及那些跑得越来越快的工薪阶层,只是为了跟上经济的步伐,你永远也看不到这种情况。

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

我们征服的每一个国家都养活了我们。这些只是战争结束后我们会拥有的一些美好事物。奴隶们到处为我们干活,而我们却坐着,手里拿着叉子,膝盖上放着鞭子。

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

历史或多或少是胡扯。这是传统。我们不想要传统。我们想活在当下,唯一值得修补的历史就是我们今天创造的历史。

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

我对教会内部的冲突睁大了眼睛,但我认为你不能称之为分裂。

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

我们的道德传统是随着我们的理性而发展的,而不是作为理性的产物。