As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  • -- Alex Campbell 亚历克斯·坎贝尔

因此,进步仅仅意味着更大的权力、更多的利润、更高的生产率、更多的纸张繁荣,所有这些都可以转化为只与大小或规模有关的标准,而不是质量或卓越性。

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

伟大的心灵总是会遭到平庸心智的激烈反对。如果一个人不是不加思索地屈从于遗传的偏见,而是诚实而勇敢地运用他的智慧,那么后者就无法理解这一点。

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

悲剧是一种完整的、完整的、具有一定规模的行为的表现。一个整体有开始、中间和结尾。

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

我可以向你们保证,妇女们在一起工作——相互联系、相互了解、相互教育——能够给这个被遗弃的星球带来和平与繁荣。

You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

你不能再降低你的标准了。预先设定好你的要求,这样当一个男人勾引你的时候,他就会知道这是生意。

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

发行货币的全部利润提供了今天存在的巨大银行业务的资本。

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

只有当一个人的生命在繁荣中结束时,我们才敢说他幸福。

Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.

保留一些货物一千天后,你一定能卖出好货。

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

我敦促你们坚守自己的标准。我恳求你不要动摇。

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

当一个人有高飞的冲动时,他决不会同意匍匐前进。

When you play, you may break your head.

当你玩的时候,你可能会打破你的头。

The jar broke and the wine spilled.

罐子破了,酒洒了出来。