No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

  • -- William Petty 威廉·佩蒂

没有人会为同样的东西付双倍或两倍的钱,因为除了一次什么也不能花。

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I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

在我的童年,我花了很多冬天和我的哥哥,我的堂兄弟,和朋友在附近放风筝。我们在冬天就是这么做的。学校关闭。没有什么可做的。

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

上帝在这个世界上有两个家庭的孩子,一个出生一次,一个出生两次。

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

但是,你知道,我们花了两年的时间把我们的行为放在一起。

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

一次是正统的,两次是清教徒式的。