How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

很少有人有足够的勇气承认自己的错误,或有足够的决心改正它们。

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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

它产生了巨大的影响,以至于联合国通过了一项决议,反对捕杀这些濒临灭绝的鲸鱼。这是一部关于鲸鱼困境的纪录片。

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

我不是那么容易就能完成或找到我想知道的,或探索足够多的可能性和绘画的方法,比如说,在一幅或两幅画中。

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

只有当罪恶发展到无法避免的地步时,人们才会下定决心避免罪恶。

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

以一种令人愉快的方式,几乎没有一种个人缺点不能使人逐渐适应。

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

我不希望艺术只为少数人而存在,就像不希望教育只为少数人而存在,不希望自由只为少数人而存在。

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

做自己的勇气,就是接受自己的勇气,尽管自己不被接受。

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

一个人面临死亡,但当死亡退却时,他把它遗忘了,直到下一次。

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

对我来说,被人记住就足够了。很多人都被遗忘了。

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

就在几年前,我还没被雇来救我的命。

By others' faults wise men correct their own.

智者从别人的错误中改正自己的错误。