In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

在时尚方面,随波逐流;在原则问题上,要像石头一样坚定。

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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

行星从来没有两次是相同的,它们总是不同的,所以他们可以把我画的标记和他们现在的照片进行比较,他们知道我画的是我真正看到的,而不是从哪里复制来的。

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

所有语言中词源学的普遍原则:词是从身体和身体的性质中继承下来的,用来表达思想和精神的东西。思想的秩序必须遵循事物的秩序。

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

教会作为一个神圣的社会,拥有一种内在的生活原则,它能够吸收最多样化的材料,并将自己的形象印在这些材料上。

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

一心扑在琐事上的人,往往做不成大事。

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

发生在你身上的事并不重要,重要的是你如何应对。

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

我喜欢奇巧,除非我和四个或更多的人在一起。

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

当前的事态发展是以信誉为基础的。

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

莱娅像一股模糊的气味跟着我。