Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

许多人以为他是在买快乐,其实他是在把自己卖给快乐。

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The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

建筑美学必须根植于对人类活动的更广泛的理解,比如散步、放松和交流。体系结构考虑如何为这些活动提供附加价值。

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

这里有一切可以抓住眼睛、耳朵和想象的东西——一切可以迷惑和迷惑无知的人的东西。我想知道路德是怎么打破这个魔咒的。

You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

你真的必须努力创造空间,至少在一段时间内,阻止政治世界涌入。重要的是保持理智。

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

如果我们没有自己的过错,我们就不会那么乐于抱怨别人。

I wonder if anyone thinks of me when they can't fall asleep at night.

不知道有没有人在晚上睡不着觉的时候想起我。

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

我不需要处理每日新闻循环的问题。

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

后现代主义是去掉了乐观主义的现代主义。

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

诸神喜悦忏悔的罪人。