Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

哈罗德和我们其他人一样,有许多印象,这使他不必为自己的想法而烦恼。

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

经验,已经被压缩成一组印象,围绕着我们每一个人的是一堵厚厚的人格之墙,没有任何真正的声音穿过这堵墙来到我们身边,或者从我们身边传到我们只能猜测没有的地方。

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

宁静的过去的教条已不足以应付狂风暴雨的现在。困难重重,我们必须顺势而起。因为我们的情况是新的,所以我们必须重新思考,重新行动。

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

一个民族与其说是思想和理论的集合体,不如说是一种执着。

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

甚至我的曾祖母也有印象。