It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

  • -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗费罗

做对一件事比解释为什么做错要花更少的时间。

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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.

一方面,生活对人格来说是无限容易的,因为它从各个方面得到了刺激、兴趣、时间和意识的利用。它们把人带在身上,就像在一条小溪里,一个人几乎不需要为自己游泳。

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

如果在众多的争辩中,你曾犹豫和怀疑;如果,当一项巨大的责任出现时,你已经逃避了,害怕向前走以免出错,那又有什么好奇怪的呢?

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

我平生第一次买塑身用品,我吓坏了。它们很厚——就像穿着运动服一样,它们的一侧都有一条腿带,从裤子里露出来。

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

也许最接近完美的是天文学家最近在太空中发现的巨大的绝对空洞。如果什么都没有,怎么会出问题呢?

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

我总觉得友谊的最大的特权、宽慰和安慰是无需解释。

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

我们巡回演出的目的是解释我们为什么要做我们所做的事情,它是如何完成的,以及我们是如何把它们组合在一起的。