Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

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Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

每当文化经历了根本性的变化,就像我们的文化一样——从工业时代到信息时代——总有人会否认事情已经发生了变化;他们抗拒它,拒绝改变。

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

伟大的抱负,对真正的优越性的渴望,对领导和指导的渴望,似乎完全是人类所特有的,而演讲是实现抱负的伟大工具。

If you do not breathe through writing; if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write; our culture has no use for it.

如果你不通过写作来呼吸;如果你不在写作中哭泣,或在写作中歌唱,那么就不要写作;我们的文化对此毫无用处。

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

某些所谓的波西米亚元素在我的作品中找到了一些东西,把他们独特的“垮一代”理论挂在上面,这并不是我的错。

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

每个人都必须在美德上力争卓越;那个人活得比第一次好两次。

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

品格高于才智。伟大的灵魂不仅会思考,也会坚强地生活。

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

别丢下你的剑离开家——你的智慧。

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

有些人因罪恶而上升,有些人因美德而堕落。