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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

如果一个男人能……做一个更好的捕鼠器，世界就会开辟一条通往自己家门口的路。

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

爱动物，爱植物，爱一切。如果你热爱一切，你就会领悟到事物的神圣奥秘。一旦你感知到它，你就会开始更好地理解它。你最终会以包容一切的爱来爱整个世界。

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If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

如果一个人写的书比他的邻居好，讲道比他的邻居讲的好，捕鼠器比他的邻居做的好，即使他把房子盖在树林里，世界也会为他开辟一条平坦的道路。

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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

我只要走到你穿过的那扇门的一码之内，那东西就会发疯。我过去常常在公文包里放一张x光片给他们看。但是我把所有的金属都取出来了。

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It is much better to promise nothing and try and give everything... Than promise everything and give nothing at all....

什么也不答应，试着付出一切，这样会好得多。总比什么都答应却什么都不给要好。

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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

我可以遇到可怕的人，最终通过他们的眼睛看到这个世界，看到他们的弱点，他们的需求。

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

做一个穷人是困难的，但是在一个金钱的国度里做一个贫穷的民族是最困难的。

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If you have never done anything evil, you should not be worrying about devils knocking at your door.

如果你从来没有做过什么坏事，你就不应该担心魔鬼来敲你的门。

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Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

没有什么比在一个人的视野中始终有一个敌人更能使他明智的了。

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A peaceful world is only the world of handsome guys and beautiful ladies.

一个和平的世界只有帅哥美女的世界。

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Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse.

不要为了除掉老鼠而烧掉你的房子。

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Either a man or a mouse.

不是人就是老鼠。

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