The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

熟悉的实物可能并不都是真实的,但它们都是令人钦佩的例子。

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

大多数人读诗是为了寻找共鸣,因为共鸣对他们来说很熟悉。他们涉水而过,就像一个男孩涉水而过,用脚趾摸索着水底:回声就是水底。

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

当海盗没什么值得钦佩的。海盗几乎没有什么功能。海盗几乎没有什么真实的东西。

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

教育是令人钦佩的,但要不时地记住:凡是值得知道的,没有一个是可以教会的。

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

作为一个妻子和母亲是非常令人满意的,但这不是一个创造性的表达,这是我需要快乐的东西。