What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

真诚并不总是真实的;相反,错误往往比真理更为严重。

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There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

托尔斯泰有两个人。他是一个神秘主义者,也是一个现实主义者。他沉迷于一种虔诚的做法,尽管它的真诚是模糊的和感性的;他是最敏锐和冷静的观察者,最深刻和认真的性格和情感的学生。

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

推广工作不是劝勉。也不是为了剥削人民,不是为了宣传某所大学,不是为了保护学生。这是为了满足本地区和本地区人民的需要而作出的朴素、认真和不断的努力。

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

我要像真理一样严酷,像正义一样不妥协……我是认真的,我不会含糊其辞,我不会辩解,我不会后退一英寸,我将被倾听。

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

如果有任何错误是不可原谅的,那就是电话号码不正确。复制编辑的一个基本规则是,发布的每个电话号码都必须经过检查。

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

被认为是乐观的,往往是一个智力上的错误。

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

我们应该看透一个伪君子,甚至看清他的真诚。