The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

如果把这位老水手叫做“老水手”,他就不会有这么好的成绩了。

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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

在我看来,问题在于人们把古老的乡村教堂当作他们的榜样,却没有发现它们和城镇中的教堂之间应该有最明显的区别。

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

有些人非常好学古人所做的事,他们不知道如何与现代人相处。