To wash an ass's head is but loss of time and soap. (To reprove a fool is but lost labour.)

洗驴头只不过是浪费时间和肥皂。(责备愚人是徒劳的。)

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

即使你每次都走完全相同的路线——就像一首十四行诗一样——沿途发生的事情也不可能日复一日地一成不变,因为诗人的健康、视力、预期、情绪、恐惧和思想也不可能一成不变。

People who are always praising the past And especially the times of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

那些总是赞美过去,尤其是信仰时代的人,应该去生活在中世纪,作为女巫和圣人被烧死在火刑柱上。