A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

一个人生来就有眼睛和耳朵的欲望,喜欢美丽的风景和声音。如果他给他们让路,他们将导致他的不道德和缺乏约束,任何仪式的原则和礼仪将被抛弃。

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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

在西方,占据着这个国家的部落非常繁荣,这鼓励了他们早期文明的希望。在很大程度上,他们放弃了狩猎的状态,把注意力转向了农业。

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

当然,也有一些时候,我自己的日常生活似乎在退缩,所以故事的生活可以接管我。这就是为什么作家经常需要空间和时间,这样他或她就可以放弃平凡的生活,与角色“生活”在一起。

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

对和平与进步的追求不可能在几年内以胜利或失败告终。对和平与进步的追求,连同它的考验和错误、成功和挫折,绝不能放松和放弃。

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

由于这样或那样的原因,有必要对许多商品的使用加以限制,包括不少生活必需品。

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

在分娩的那一刻,每个女人都有一种被孤立的感觉,就好像她被遗弃了一样。

Love me without restriction, trust me without fear, want me without demand, accept me for who I am.

无条件地爱我,无所畏惧地信任我,无所求地需要我,接受真实的我。

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

按照自己的意愿去死,这是任何人能给予凡人的最好礼物。

Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

纯洁与不朽不可相提并论。