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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。

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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

如果哥本哈根是一个人，这个人应该慷慨，美丽，年老，但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向，充满想象力，对新事物充满欲望，对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

不要温和地进入那个美好的夜晚，老年应该在白天燃烧和咆哮;怒斥，怒斥光明的消逝。

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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

我是个平实的人，比较不关心也不太懂修辞。

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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

这里躺着一个名字写在水里的人。

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A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

好剑客是不会吵架的。

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