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 main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

我写每日观察的主要原因是我想知道我哪里错了。很多时候,如果有人指出了一些东西,这对我很有帮助,我想对不相关的投注进行多样化的投注。

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

这是我们开始种植植物的第一天:我们很高兴收集它们,因为当地人提供了他们的帮助,并完全了解如何把它们拿起来修剪。

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

我们必须保护它,可持续地使用它。短期使用资源破坏这个国家的长期遗产不是我们可以奉行的政策。

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

如果条件合适,可能会有很大的接受度。通常只有当它们构成经济或政治威胁时,情况才会变得非常糟糕。

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

尽管有旁观者在场,我还是每天去比弗利山庄酒店的游泳池游泳。

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

我常常认为夜晚比白天更生动,色彩更丰富。

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

这样的真理,既不违背人的利益,也不违背人的快乐,是人人都欢迎的。

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

大鼻子的人认为人人都在谈论他。