I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

  • -- Ezra Cornell 埃兹拉·康奈尔

我很高兴听到这个决定,因为我讨厌堂兄弟姐妹结婚,讨厌任何可以追溯到最遥远关系的人结婚。我追求进步而不是我们种族的堕落。

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I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

我很高兴谢泼德没有像这个系列花那么长的时间离开地面。在史密斯耳语节目播出之前,我就开始认为刚果会在太空竞赛中领先于我们。

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

在一段糟糕的婚姻中,朋友是无形的粘合剂。如果我们有足够的朋友,我们可能会继续生活很多年,打算离开,谈论离开——而不是真正地起床离开。

I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.

我必须承认,有一段时间,我不喜欢做一名牧师,还有一些星期天,当我在为上帝说话的重压下瑟瑟发抖。

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

在你选择做的每件事中找到快乐。每一份工作、每一段感情、每一个家庭……你有责任去爱它,或者改变它。

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

但在日语中,音乐和文字之间并没有太多的联系。

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

生活改善缓慢,出错迅速,只有灾难清晰可见。

The night's too short to warrant marrying poor.

夜太短了,不值得嫁给穷人。

Improvement begins with I.

改善始于我。