Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

那些最不拿自己开玩笑的人,会被别人的笑话逗乐。

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

居维叶在拉马克之前就说明了变异的种类和程度,他自己的观察和对别人报告的批判性判断使他承认了这一点。

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

否则,我的整个职业生涯就是把自己扔在最迟应该做的事情上,让其他事情堆积起来。

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

我在庞塞有家人。我祖父去世了,我没能和他在一起,真是太遗憾了。

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

我当然不是那种需要被督促的人。事实上,如果说有什么区别的话,那就是我是个刺头。

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

每个人每天至少应该做两件他不喜欢做的事情,只是为了练习。

When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

当多愁善感的树枝披上花朵,未来收获的甜蜜萌芽。

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

头脑有时应该转移一下,以便能回到更好的思考中去。

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

我们常常把最值得感恩的事情视为理所当然。

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

人们总是试图找到他们自己和他们在世界上的位置。

You will never master your future if you're a slave to your past...

如果你是过去的奴隶,你将永远无法掌控你的未来。

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

最黑暗的日子,如果你活到明天,就会过去。

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

他渴望迷失,但他不能忍受不被发现。

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

剽窃者至少有保存文物的优点。

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

治愈自己与治愈他人是相联系的。

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

有时候,神给我们的,比我们能承受的更多。

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

如果你认为会下雨,就会下雨。

Jests that give pains are no jests.

给人痛苦的笑话不是笑话。

History is fables agreed upon.

历史是大家都同意的寓言。