If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

  • -- C. Everett Koop 库普

如果你有个孩子上幼儿园,却不知道圆是什么,不知道红和绿是什么,也不知道左和右是什么,当他学会这些东西的时候,班里的其他人已经远远超过他了。

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I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

我从幼儿园回家——他们告诉我那是幼儿园。后来我发现我在一家工厂工作了十年。让孩子知道如何做手套是件好事。

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

在集体生活的过程中,或者在假定其身份的过程中,每一阶层都像一家旅馆或一辆公共汽车,总是客满,但总是由不同的人组成。

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

不过,在我讲过的故事中,有一个共同的主题,那就是人物或家庭之间的联系,通常是在一个家庭圈子之外形成的。

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

一个人通过观察和模仿其他画家来学习绘画。

Better to blush once than pale a hundred times.

宁可脸红一次,不要苍白一百次。

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

能挠的地方就会痒。

The wheel is come full circle.

轮子转了一圈。