Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  • -- Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特

当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

一个真正的评论家应该专注于优点而不是缺点,去发现一个作家隐藏的美,并向世界传达那些值得他们观察的东西。

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

我们知道我们的感官会衰退,从中年开始,它们就一直在衰退;但令人高兴的是,我们似乎不知道,也不相信。

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

技术为我们提供了减少时间和距离障碍的设施——电报和电缆、电话、收音机等等。

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

让简单变得复杂是司空见惯的;让复杂变得简单,非常简单,这就是创造力。

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

我们每个人都根据自己的个人情感来解释各种刺激。

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.

只有他是一个敏锐的观察者,他能在不被观察的情况下仔细观察。

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

首先,我对我的个人生活很保密。

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

我能用简单的和弦写几百首歌。