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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

  • -- Thomas Gray 格雷

他太穷，不能贿赂，又太骄傲，不能强求，因此他没有发财的办法。

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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

本周，我很自豪地与我的同事们一起帮助通过了两项重要的常识性立法，这两项立法将限制审判律师和人身伤害律师的无谓诉讼，这些诉讼阻碍了我们的法庭，损害了我们的小企业。

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I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

我曾经认为有一种科学的方法来做事情。比如回答问题的正确方式之类的。就像，没有!没有方法，没有科学。

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

如果做事情就像知道该做什么一样容易，那么小教堂就是教堂，穷人的小屋就是王子的宫殿。

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I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

我宁愿为穷人的教育，甚至是为穷人的娱乐而写作，也不愿为富人的娱乐而写作。

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If you work hard on your job you can make a living, if you work hard on yourself you can make a fortune.

如果你努力工作，你就能谋生;如果你努力工作，你就能发财。

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In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

事实上，拍电影并不觉得辛苦，因为我总是觉得很开心。

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I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

如果能影响到我认识或不认识的任何人戒烟，我会感到非常自豪。

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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

联合国系统仍然是使世界不那么脆弱的最好工具。

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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

安抚老虎的一个可靠方法是让自己被吃掉。

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Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

勤勉是幸运的右手，节俭是幸运的左手。

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