There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

  • -- Stephen Leacock 李柯克

在日常交谈中,有两件事是普通人不喜欢的——信息和风趣。

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The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

我现在的乐队类型,我们演奏的音乐类型你要么喜欢,要么不喜欢。如果你不喜欢它,你可能不知道为什么。出于同样的原因,你甚至不能真正说出你为什么喜欢它。

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

这是一个伟人的标志,他把一切平凡的算计都付诸行动。他既崇高又感人,既孩子气又有巨人的血统。

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

只要你知道该听什么,就不会有毫无价值的谈话。问题是谈话的生命。

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

在普通的教堂里,它被体面所抑制,被一种想要表现得比我们实际更好的愿望所抑制。

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

智慧必被智慧所挫败:以牙还牙。

There is nothing more erotic than a good conversation.

没有什么比一场愉快的谈话更性感的了。

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

太多的道德家从厌恶现实开始。

The criticism of a blind man.

对盲人的批评。