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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  • -- Phaedrus 菲得洛斯

在外表上是那么辉煌，那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

在我们现代诗歌的总体基调中，有一种对外在事物的表现力的非常亲密的感觉，这种感觉在思考、倾听、渗透，而较早的、较不发达的意识却轻易地从这种感觉中消失了。

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As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家，我意识到，不管我揭露了多少腐败，半数读者都会把它挡在门外，尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。

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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

凡为你裁剪的衣服，就是不及为不像你这样身材的人裁剪的衣服好看，也是合宜的。

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

如果我们希望得到我们不可能拥有的东西，我们的行动和思考都是徒劳的，我们使生活成为一个比实际更伟大的梦想和阴影。

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

诚实的人讲真话，虽然这可能会冒犯别人;一个虚荣的人，为了它可以。

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By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

无论如何，让我们保持开放的心态，但不要开放到让我们的大脑掉下来。

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Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

与其飞往我们不知道的地方，还不如忍受我们所拥有的疾病。

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

人是高贵的动物，在灰烬中光艳夺目，在坟墓中却趾高气扬。

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When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

当你为爱而钓鱼时，用你的心而不是你的大脑做诱饵。

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Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

作家的障碍只是自我的失败。

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